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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



May 6, 1909. 



Seed Trade News. 



AHBBIClir raSD TBASK ASSOCIATION. 



Prei., WaUoB 8. Woodruff, Orange, Oonn.; 

 Flnt Vice-pres., 9. 9. Bobinaon, Waterloo, Neb.; 

 Seo'y and Treaa., 9. E. Kendel, Oleyeland. 

 TwentT-Beventb annual convention, Niagara 

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



It appears there will be enough sweet 

 corn. 



Nothing but talk has come out on the 

 tariflE this week. 



The plebeian potato is putting on as 

 many airs as any member of the family. 



Visited Chicago: J. W. Jung, aster 

 and salvia seed grower at Bandolph, Wis. 



The ground is still so cold and wet 

 that the peas are only just beginning to 

 go out of the warehouse. 



There was an all- day snow storm at 

 Chicago May 1. Counter trade was held 

 in check, but has been on the boom this 

 week. 



Hjalmar Haetmann & Co., Copenha- 

 gen, have removed their store and offices 

 from 12 Stormgade to the new building 

 at 20 Longangsstrsede. 



If the Harrisii lily has fallen into dis- 

 repute, the Bermuda bulb industry is not 

 wholly lost. One boat last week brought 

 9,642 cases of onion bulbs. 



The growers of onion sets at Chicago 

 have had only a day or two at a time 

 that they could plant and are making 

 strenuous efforts this week to get their 

 seed in the ground. 



M. • B. Gray, formerly treasurer and 

 manager of the McMorran-Gray Co., seed 

 growers at Port Huron, Mich., announces 

 that he has sold his interest in that firm 

 and severed his connection with it. 



H. Frank Darrow reports that Philippe 

 de Vilmorin, of Vilmorin, Andrieux & 

 Co., Paris, France, has been recently ap- 

 pointed by the French government a 

 councilor of the foreign commerce of 

 France. 



It is reported that Robert Sydenham, 

 Ltd., the Birmingham, England, seed 

 house, sold enough sweet peas in packets 

 in twelve consecutive weeks this season 

 to make the average sales for the period 

 8,000 packets per day. 



The action of Braslan vs. Pieters came 

 up in the Superior Court at San Fran- 

 cisco April 23, on a motion for a change 

 of venue from San Francisco to the court 

 at Hollister, which was not decided. 

 Both parties are preparing briefs. 



From London come reiterated reports 

 of "a very considerable shortage in the 

 crop of kentia palm seed this seaaon, 

 mor£ especially in Forsteriana. The con- 

 sequence is a smart rise in price, the later 

 prices showing an advance of nearly one- 

 third over previous offerings." 



At the end of last week heavy storms 

 occurred over almost the whole country, 

 from the Rocky mountains to the Atlan- 

 tic seaboard, doing a large amount of 

 damage to crops already planted and put- 

 ting spring work still farther behind, not 

 only by reason of the interruption, but 

 by making it impossible to get on the 

 ground for some time after the storms 

 ceased. This week summer temperature 

 followed the storm over a large part of 

 the country. 



LEONARD SEED C9: 



COMTRACT GROWBRS AND WHOLKSAUB DBALKR8 



BEANS, PEAS, SWEET CORN, ONION, GARDEN SEEDS 



ONION SBTS 

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CHICAGO 



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Burpee's "Seeds that Grow" 



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mu ord. Conn* 

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THE EVEREn B. CLARK SEED CO. 



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PEAS >J BEANS 



ALFRED J. BROWN SEED GO. 



Growers for the Wholesale Trade 

 GRAND RAPIDS, - - MICH. 



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Waldo Rohnert 



OILROY, CAIi. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce, ODion, Sweet Peas, Aster, 

 Cosmos, MiKDonette, Verbena, in variety. 

 Correspondence Bolicited. 



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JAY J. UHER, ^S!"' 



Contract grower of Beans, Peas, Sweet Com, 

 Squash, Cucumber, Watermelon and Muskmelon. 



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J. BOLGIANO & Son, Baltimore, have 

 been established for ninety-one years, 

 their seed business having been founded 

 in 1818. 



The United States Department of Ag- 

 riculture has just issued Farmers' Bul- 

 letin No. 356, "Peanuts," by W. R. 

 Beattie, assistant horticulturist. Bureau 

 of Plant Industry. 



The government seed laboratory will 

 doubtless find little Poa compressa in 

 the samples of Poa pratensis, this year, 

 for at current prices there is not much 

 more reason for mixing Canada blue grasj 

 with the Kentucky blue grass seed than 

 there is in the corn belt for adulterat- 

 ing pumpkin pies. Last year was a 

 different year. 



The amount of stock carried over in 

 the hands of cucumber salters is lighter 

 than for years, not that sales of the 

 finished product have been heavy, be- 

 cause they have not, but stocks are pretty 

 well cleaned up, especially in the east 

 and south. The call for seed of the 

 pickling varieties of cucumbers has been 

 good, but some buyers have held off be- 

 cause they felt that prices would come 

 down. There is, however, little prospect 

 of this, and as planting time approaches 

 there is likely to be a scramble for seed 

 with the right reputation. 



8.M.ISBELL&CO. 



JACKSON, MICH. 



Contrmot Seed Growam 



BEAN, CUCUMBER. TOMATO 



Radish, Pea, Muskmelon 

 Squaaht Watermelon, Sweet Com 



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 m^^^wntm for prloea on Burplna Stoeka 

 ^^v tor Inunadlate Slil p ment 



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Routzahn Seed Co. 



ARROYO GRANDE. CAL. 



SWEET PEA .x NASTURTIUM 



SPECIALISTS 



ale growers of (all lists of I 

 DEN Seeds. 



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Wholesale growers of full lists of FLOWER 

 and GARDEN Seeds. 



SEATTLE, WASH. 

 Growers of 



PUGET SOUND CABBAGE SEED 



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S.D. Woodruff & Sons 



SPXCIALTDESt 



Garden Seeds in Variety 



Maine seed potatoes, onion sets, etc. 



COBBXSPONDKNOK SOUCITXD. 



HalB Office and S««d Farms, OBANGI, COHH. 

 Hew York City Store. 88-84 Dey Street 

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The congressional free seed distribu- 

 tion now includes bulbs for fall plant- 

 ing. Last year these consisted of hya- 

 cinth, tulip and narcissus bulbs, pro- 

 cured from Holland and put up in boxes 

 containing twenty bulbs of assorted va- 

 rieties. Some American-grown narcis- 



