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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Afbil 15, 1909. 



Onion Seed 



Wc offer a fine stock of home saved 

 seed of Southport 'White, Red and 

 Yellow Globe at $1.50 per lb. 



Yuess Gardens Co. 



NEWBURGH, N. Y. 



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Seed Trade News. 



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AHEBICil^ SBBD TBADE ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., Watson S. Woodruff, Orange, Conn.; 

 First Vlce-pres., J. G. Robinson, Waterloo, Neb.; 

 Sec'y and Treas., C. E. Eendel, Gleveland. 

 Twenty-seventh annual convention, Niagara 

 FaUs, Ont.. June 22 to 24, 1909. 



The Aldrieh tariff bill is brim full of 

 interest for seedsmen. Turn to page 38. 



NoTWiTHSTANDiN^G the fact that ex- 

 pected shortages of many of the biennial 

 seed crops ar^ heralded from the princi- 

 pal sources of supply, many seedsmen 

 are offering surplus stocks of these at 

 close to contract prices. 



Growers are finding it hard to get out 

 enough cucumber seed. The farmers are 

 asking more than the growers feel they 

 can pay. It is thought that a general 

 advance in the price of this article must 

 be secured from those who place advance 

 orders, or else such orders will have to 

 be refused and the prospective purchasers 

 pushed off until the crop is made before 

 orders can be taken. 



General dissatisfaction seems to be 

 one feature of the week. No one is sat- 

 isfied with the weather, the free distribu- 

 tion of seeds by the government, the way 

 the seed tariff is going to be adjusted, 

 or the quantity of money that is com- 

 ing over the counters. It is not likely 

 that this condition will last, however, so 

 preparations for a good seedsmen's con- 

 vention in June may be pushed along as 

 usual. 



It is stated in a dispatch from Hollis- 

 ter, Cal., that Charles P. Braslan, of San 

 •lose, has commenced an action in the 

 Superior Court of San Francisco against 

 A. J. Pieters, Hattie M. Pieters, George 

 W. Jean, A. J. Pieters Seed Co., W. H. 

 Metson, Edgar T. Zook, Rudolph Herold, 

 Jr., et al., asking for an accounting and 

 the appointment of a receiver. Judge 

 Van Nostrand will hear the argument 

 April 2.3 why a receiver should not be 

 appointed. 



The wholesalers report good business, 

 although trade is curtailed somewhat by 

 the general unfavorable conditions of 

 weather. In common with the general 

 mail order seed house, the wholesalers 

 have the whole country to look to for 

 trade; consequently local conditions do 

 not affect this trade to any great extent. 

 When the season is on there is a demand 

 somewhere for what they have to offer. 

 The season has been good from their 

 standpoint and it ought to show good all 

 jiround by the time all returns are in. 



LEONARD SEED €2: 



CONTRACT 6BOWKRS AMD WHOLXSAUE DKALXRB 



BEANS, PEAS, SWEET CORN, ONION, GARDEN SEEDS 



OmOM 8XT8 

 FLOWKR 8KKDB 



Get Our Prices 



79 and 81 

 ■. KINZIB 8TBXKT, 



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CHICAGO 



YOU will be satisfied with the products of 



Burpee's "Seeds that Grow'' 



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THE EVERETT B.aARK SEED CO. 



BEANS, PEAS, SWIeT CORN, ONION, BEET, TURNIP, ETC 



Ifllford, Conn. 

 Kast Jordan, Mlob* 

 Sister Bay t Wla« 



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PEAS ^ BEANS 



ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO. 



GrowerB for the Wholesale Trade 



GRAND RAPIDS, 



. MICH. 



Waldo Rohneii 



GILROT, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce. Onion, Sweet Peas, i^stei 

 OoBmoB. Mignonette, Verbena, in variet*. Oor 

 respondence noUcited. 



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JAY J. UTTER, g^^.° 



dontract grower of Beans, Peas. Sweet Com, 

 Squash, Cucumber, Watermelon and Muskmelon. 

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G. S. Crego will grow his aster seed at 

 McMinnville, Ore., not far from Port- 

 land, this season. 



The weather for almost the whole of 

 last week has been unfavorable for the 

 seedsmen doing a counter trade. In the 

 west it has been much too cold and wet. 



Grass seed goes out regardless of the 

 weather, and from the volume of busi- 

 ness in this branch of the trade it looks 

 as though all of the golf grounds, tennis 

 courts and lawns everywhere are needing 

 a great amount of renovation. 



Very cold weather is reported from 

 the pea growing section of Wisconsin. 

 The growers, however, have all the acre- 

 age they need and the farmers feel that 

 the weather will come around all right 

 in time enough to get the seed in. Early 

 planting best suits all concerned, but if 

 not too late things usually come out all 

 right. 



At Chicago unfavorable weather has 

 shut off the sowing of seed for onion 

 sets. In some sections goodly bits of 

 land were sown before the turn of the 

 weather, but reports have it that not 

 more than a fourth of the acreage has 

 had anything done to it as yet. Expe- 

 rience has shown that early April is the 

 best time to sow for sets in the Chicago 

 viciijity; any time during April will an- 

 swer, however, but after May 1 it soon 

 gets too late to sow and have a satisfac- 



S.M.ISBELL&CO. 



JACKSON, MICH. 



Ckintraot Seed Growers 



BEAN, CUCUIMBER. TOMATO 



Radish, Pei|, Muskmelon 

 Squash, 'Watermelon, Sweet Com 



Correspondence Solicited 

 ■^^^Wrlte for jnloes on Surplus Stooka 

 ^^V for Immediate Shipment 



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Routzahn Seed Co. 



ARROYO GRANDE. CAL. 



SWEET PEA .nd NASTURTIUM 



SPECIALISTS 



Wholesale growers of full lists of FLOWER 

 and GARDEN Seeds. 



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Onion Seed i,"" 



We are extensive growers and dealers. 

 Write for prices. 



SCHILDER BROS., Chillicothc, 0. 



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SEAir^liE, WASH. 



Growers of 



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S. D. Woodruff & Sons 



SPKCIALTIKSi 



Garden Seeds in Variety 



Maine seed potatoes, onion pets, etc. 



COEEESPONDENCK SOLICITED. 



HaiD Office and Seed Farms, ORANGE, CONN. 

 New lork City Store, 82-84 Dey Street 

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MontpeDer, Ohio 



