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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Apbil 22, 1909. 



Seed Trade News. 



AHBBICill SIBD TBADB ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., Wstaoa S. Woodruff, Orange, Oonn.; 

 First Vice-pres., J. 9. RobinBon, Waterloo, Neb.; 

 Sec'y and Treas., O. £. Kendel, Cleveland. 

 Twenty-seventh annual convention, Nlasara 

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



The trade approves the Aldrich bill 

 schedule on seeds. See page 40. 



Visited CHicAGO: Kirby H. White, 

 of D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, Mich. ; H. 

 A. Johns, of Sioux City Seed & Nursery 

 Co., Sioux City, la. 



The bulbs are backward in Holland 

 this season. The tulips will not be at 

 their best until close to the end of April. 

 Little winter damage has been done. 



The European gardening papers de- 

 vote considerable space to Luther Bur- 

 bank 's latest "marvel," the Wonder- 

 berry, and their comments are not gener- 

 ally complimentary. 



The country merchants are in many 

 instances doing a better seed business 

 this year than ever before, and it is ap- 

 parent in the number of hurry-up fill- 

 in orders received by the wholesalers. 



Fire caused a loss of $2,000, covered 

 by insurance, in the seed store of Eoss 

 Bros. Co., Worcester, Mass., April 13. 

 The flames were confined to the base- 

 ment, where little else than fertilizer was 

 stored. 



J. W. Jung, Kandolph, Wis., says that 

 his catalogue mail trade has been almost 

 three times as great as last season. The 

 demand for seed oats has been particu- 

 larly heavy. He will put in quite an 

 acreage of flower and garden seeds at 

 Fairfield this season. Asters for seeds 

 are one of his specialties. 



Since the Bureau of Plant Industry 

 has moved into the west wing of the 

 new building of the Department of Ag- 

 riculture at Washington, the work of 

 the Vegetable Testing Gardens, in charge 

 of W. W. Tracy, Sr., formerly conducted 

 in connection with the seed distribu- 

 tion, has been transferred to the oflSce 

 of the Horticulturist of the bureau and 

 closely afiiliated with the other work of 

 the bureau on truck crops. 



O. S. Jones & Co. will remove from 

 Madison, S. D., to Sioux Falls, a site 

 having been purchased upon which a 

 seed warehouse 44x150 feet, three stories 

 and basement in height, will be erected 

 this summer. The concern is incorpo- 

 rated with an authorized capital of $100,- 

 000 and has been in business six years. 

 An edition of 50,000 catalogues is 

 mailed, and it is the intention to largely 

 extend the business. It is stated that 

 contracts are out for the growing of 

 3,000 acres of peas this season. 



Conditions in the Chicago territory 

 have gone from bad to worse in the last 

 week. The ground is so wet little in the 

 way of planting tan be done, and it is 

 affecting both, copnter, mail and whole- 

 sale trade. Business lost now is hard to 

 secover. The wet weather is alarming 

 the onion set growers. They had planned 

 a large acreage, that should all be in 

 within a few days now. Up to this time 

 there has been little chance to plant, and 

 the condition of the ground now is such 

 that it will be several days before opera- 

 tions can go ahead at full speed, even if 

 it stops raining. 



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CONTRACT GROWKRS AND WHOLXSALB DXAIJEB8 



BEANS, PEAS, SWEET CORN, ONION, GARDEN SEEDS 



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Get Our Prices 



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CHICAGO 



YOU will be satisfied with the products of 



Burpee's "Seeds that Grow" 



Better write to Burpee, Philadelphia, — for new Complete Catalog 



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BUUord, Conn. 

 East Jordan, Mlob* 

 Sister Bay* Wl«« 



THE EVEREH B. CLARK SEED CO. 



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



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PEAS M BEANS 



ALFRED J. BROWN SEED GO. 



Growers for the Wholesale Trade 

 GRAND RAPIDS, ■ • MICH. 



Waldo Rohnert 



GIUtOT, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Growet 



Specialties: Lettnce, Onion, Sweet Peas, Astet 

 Cosmos. Mignonette, Verbena, in varletv. Oor 

 respondence solicited. 



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JAY J. UTTER, Sl^" 



Contract grower of Beans, Peas, Sweet Com, 

 Squash, Cucumber, Watermelon and Muskmelon. 

 Mention The Review when you write. 



The Maryland canners are contracting 

 for tomatoes at from $8 to $10 per ton. 



Graham Bros., Ottawa, Ont., are pre- 

 paring to put up a new seed warehouse. 



Senator Aldrich is evidently in full 

 sympathy with one branch of the trade. 

 See illustration on page 9. 



Lem W. Bowen, of Ferry & Co., De- 

 troit, spent the first part of the month 

 in Washington. 



The price at which Cole & Westwood, 

 Fredonia, N. Y., did the packeting of 

 the congressional free seeds last year 

 was $1,181/^ per thousand packets. They 

 put up a total of 38,087,880 packets. 



The week's installment of the press 

 service of the National Council of Horti- 

 culture consists of articles on ' ' How to 

 Sow Seeds," "How to Make a Lily 

 Pond," "Cannas" and "House Ferns." 



The annual report of the Board of 

 Park Commissioners of the City of Minne- 

 apolis for the year 1908 is a beautifully 

 printed volume, which has as its frontis- 

 piece a handsome portrait of the Honor- 

 able .Jesse E. Northrup, president of the 

 board. 



CALIFORNIA CROPS. 



At this season of the year the various 

 seed dealers throughout the United States 

 and Canada are naturally anxious to get 



8.M.ISBELL&CO. 



JACKSON. MICH. 



Ck>ntnuJt 8eed Growers 



BEAN, CUCUMBER. TOMATO 



Radish, Pea, Muskmelon 

 Squash, Watermelon, Sweet Com 



Correspondence Solicited 



■^^^WHte tor prices on Surplus Stooka 

 ^^V tor Ininiedlste Shipment 



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Routzahn Seed Co. 



ARROYO GRANDE, CAL. 



SWEET PEA .«> NASTURTIUM 



SPECIALISTS 



Wholesale grrowers of full lista of FLOWER 

 and GARDEN Seeds. 



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SEATiXE, WASH. 

 Growers of 



PUGET SOUND CABBAGE SEED 



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S.D. Woodruff & Sons 



SFXCIALTIKSt 



Garden Seeds in Variety 



Maine seed potatoes, onion sets, etc. 



OOERBSPONDENCK SOLICITED. 



HalB Office and Seed Farms, OBANGE, CONN. 

 New York City Store. 88-84 Dey Street 

 Mention The Review when vou write. 



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some idea as to the crop prospects here 

 in California. The writer begs to state 

 that we have had a severe winter, with 

 more rain than we have had here for 

 fifty years past. The result has been 

 that on low lands many seed crops have 

 suffered and in various instances total 

 acreages of various seeds have been de- 



