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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



April 29, 1909. 



Seed Trade News. 



AHEBICAN 8BED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 



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

 First Vice-pres., J. 0. Robinson, Waterloo, Neb.; 

 Sec'y and Treas., 0. E. Kendel, Cleveland. 

 Twenty-seventh annual convention, Niagara 

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



The seedsmen 's committee may now 

 exert its influence to have the weather 

 bureau do the right thing. 



The pea growers say it is time to 

 plant, but the farmer says the frost is 

 not out of the ground up Wisconsin way 

 yet. 



Louisville reports onion seed for sets 

 all planted, the yellow coming up well, 

 the white coming slowly and in many 

 cases not sprouting at all. 



Thebe is little wonder that the bean 

 grower finds it hard to get the farmer 

 interested in a bean contract. It is pretty 

 cold for beans when oats freeze off. 



The optimistic farmer says : * ' There is 

 a time to sow and a time to reap, and 

 there is always sufficient time betwixt 

 the two to make the crop. ' ' Let us hope 



80. 



This present month has hardly been 

 what an average April ought to be, looked 

 at from any standpoint of the seedsman. 

 It is possible, though, that offhand re- 

 ports may class it as the -best April in 

 years. 



Adolph Kruhm, who has had a wide 

 experience in the seed trade, west and 

 east, has recently entered the employ of 

 the Livingston Seed Co., Columbus, 0., to 

 take charge of the catalogues and adver- 

 tising. 



Two weeks ago the Review reported 

 that the planting of onion set seed at 

 Chicago was discontinued owing to wet 

 weather and that only a small part of 

 the acreage had been sown. Last week 

 we reported conditions still unfavorable, 

 with no chance to add anything to the 

 plantings. The present week came in 

 with conditions much improved and each 

 day of it has added many acres to the 

 planted area. If the week holds good to 

 its end a good proportion of the Chicago 

 acreage will have been seeded. If the 

 seed can all be sown within the next ten 

 days a good crop may be expected. Seed 

 sown after that may or may not make a 

 good crop, with the chances in favor of 

 its not doing so. 



The market gardeners of the central 

 , west have not been so far behind with 

 their spring work for many years. Things 

 at present do not look bright for them. 

 The early crops, such as radish, spinach 

 and green onions, which they usually de- 

 pend on to bring in money soon after 

 the middle of May, are not in evidence 

 at all. The plantings that were made for 

 these crops, where there was any chance 

 at all to get them in, have had no weather 

 to bring them along. Radish has been 

 drowned out or frozen off. Spinach, 

 where it shows above ground, is at a 

 standstill. Lettuce that has been trans- 

 planted to outdoor beds from the frames 

 is not doing a thing. Onion sets planted 

 for green onions show above ground, but 

 are weeks behind. It will be well into June 

 before the average gardener will get any 

 money returns from outdoor crops, and 

 this is bound to have its effect on the 

 seedsman 's month of May. 



LEONARD SEED C9i 



CONTRACT GROWKRS AMD WHOLK8ALK DKALKRS 



BEAIfS, PEAS, SWEET CORN, ONION, GARDEN SEEDS 



OinOM BETS 

 rLOWKR BKKDS 



Get Our Prices 



79 and 81 

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CHICAGO 



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Burpee's "Seeds that Grow" 



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



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miford. Conn, 

 ■ast Jordan, Mlob* 

 Slater Bay* Wlm, 



THE EVERGH B. CLARK SEED CO. 



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



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PEAS M BEANS 



ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO. 



Growers for the Wholesale Trade 

 GRAND RAPIDS, - - MICH. 



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Waldo Rohnert 



OILROY, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce. Onion, Sweet Peas, Aster, 

 Coemos, Mignonette, Verbena, in variety. 

 Correspondence solicited. 



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JAY J. UTTER, ^H''- 



Contract grower of Beans, Peas. Sweet Com, 

 Squash, Cucumber, Watermelon and Muskmelon. 

 Mention The Review when you write. 



The weather seems to be causing more 

 uneasiness now than the new tariff did 

 some few weeks ago. 



Visited Chicago: John Bodger, of 

 Gardena, Cal. ; A. Lehman, of the Lom- 

 poc Produce Co., Lompoc, Cal. 



To most of the trade, 10 cents a pound 

 duty on parsley is no more out of the 

 way than $1 a pound would be for cauli- 

 ' flower. 



C. E. Boot, manager of the Barteldes 

 Seed Co., Denver, has been elected presi- 

 dent of the Colorado National Apple 

 Exposition. 



Eeports from California are to the 

 effect that seed crops are doing as well 

 as could be expected with moisture con- 

 ditions what they were early in the sea- 

 son. 



J. BoLGiANO & Son, Baltimore, Md., 

 do an enormous business in tomato seeds 

 and tomato plants with the canning trade 

 in Maryland, their state putting up more 

 than half the entire tomato pack of the 

 United States. 



Not within the memory of the oldest 

 operator on "the busiest street in the 

 world" have prices of many vegetables 

 been as high on South Water street as 

 within the last fortnight. It helps the 

 seedsmen who cater to the market gar- 

 deners. 



8.M.ISBELL&CO. 



JACKSON, MICH. 



Contract Seed Growers 



BEAN, CUCUMBER. TOMATO 



Radish, Pea, Muskmelon 

 Squash, Watermelon, Sweet Com 



Correspondence Solicited 

 ■^■^WMte for prices on Surplus Stocks 

 i^^r for Immediate Sblpment 



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Routzahn Seed Co. 



ARROYO GRANDE, CAL. 



SWEET PEA «< NASTURTIUM 



SPECIALISTS 



Wholesale growers of full lists of FLOWER 

 and GARDEN Seeds. 



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S.D. Woodruff & Sons 



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Garden Seeds in Variety 



Maine seed potatoes, onion sets, etc. 



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lain Otflee and Seed Farms, ORANGE, CONH. 

 New York City Store, 88*84 Dtj Street 

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Hknry H. Poole, for twenty years of- 

 fice manager of the Albert Dickinson 

 Seed Co. in Chicago, died April 19, at 

 Kewanee, 111., of pneumonia. He had 

 been office manager of the Boss Manu- 

 facturer Co., at Bloomington, 111., for 

 the last three years. 



