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TIk Weekly Florists' Review. 



Jamuabt 26, 1911. 



"YOU HAVE THE 



FINEST CiNNAS IN THE WORLD 



.1 CONGRATULATE YOU " 



IWECENTLY remarkwl the late Mr. Geo. H. Brown, landscape gardener in charge of the 

 luSI grounds around tli_i.t' United States public; buildings of Washington, D. C. He planted 

 our Cannas exclusively ariid witti them decorated the grounds about the nation's capitol and 

 the White House. Thoumsands of people from all parts of the United States visit these grounds 

 eacth year, therefore they dare not plant anything except the best. We wish to introduce 



These "FINE Sr CANNAS IN THE WORLD" 



to the florists of eveir'y 8ta4i« in the Union. After seventeen years of the most painstak- 

 ing work, our vice-presmdent, IMr. Antoine Wintzer, has introduced practically a new race of 

 the gladiolus type of Camna. All the experts who have seen them unhesitatingly pronounce 

 our improved varieti«! fi^r superior to those generally known and grown. 



AV^e are confident tlit=at you oan {^row these varieties well under exactly the same treatment 

 given ordinary sorts. AV^eare also confident that your customers will invariably take them in 

 preference to the older \— arietiets. 



Send for Lisst and Information and watch this space 



The Conard & Jones Company 



WEST GROVE, PA. 



AAention Ttie Heview wDen you wnte. 



the women have a rest and reading 

 room for use during lunch hour. 



The third floor is devoted to sundries. 

 Sundries are specialties of the house of 

 Michell. Briefly expressed, sundries 

 mean that when a customer gets his 

 seeds he can get everything else of 

 every kind that he may require to make 

 the seeds, plants and bulbs produce 

 what he has a right to expect of them. 

 It may be insecticides, tools, fertilizers, 

 or anything not covered by these 

 classes. It means an immense conveni- 

 ence to the customers and is no small 

 item in the business of the house. The 

 fundamental principle in this depart- 

 ment is that only the best of every- 

 thing is carried and sold; not a fancy 

 article, but a sterling article. The suc- 

 cess of this system is shown in the 

 fact that a year ago the house claims 

 to have sold more high grade steel 

 rakes, forks and hoes than any other 

 jobbing house in the city. 



The arrangement in the third floor is 

 practically that of the second — a place 

 I or everything and everything in its 

 place — the only difference being that 

 sundries are not classified alphabeti- 

 cally, as are flower and vegetable seeds, 

 but they are classified "common- 

 sensibly," so to speak, each class of 

 articles by itself. When a bin is 

 empty, or nearly so, the stock clerk 

 sends in a requisition to the purchasing 

 agent for more stock, which he ap- 

 proves and orders, unless the season is 

 over. The house prides itself on carry- 

 ing little or no dead stock. 



The fourth floor is devoted to grass 

 seed. The seed is largely grown in 

 this country; some in Europe. The 

 stock purchased on contract is all deliv- 



Bridgeman's Seed Warehouse 



EstabUslied 1824. 



RICKARDS BROS., Props. 



Importers and Growers of Hich'Krade 



SEEDS, BULBS, PLANTS, Etc 



87 East 19th Street, Telephone 4235 Gramercy, NEW TORK CTTT 



Mention The Review when you write. 



NEW CROP FlOitlSTS' FLOWER SEEDS 



Vlnca, separate colors and mixed, oz., 50c. 



Ver"ben8, mammoth, in eolora or mixed, oz., 



60c. Salvia spleiulens, oz., Sl.25; bonfire, oz., 



12.00. Cobaea scandens. Stocks, Lobelia, etc. 



Write for Wholesale CaUvlogrue 



W'EEBER & DON *Vi'2^^:!'e'rr 



X. 14 Chajnbere St., New York City 



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ered now. The floor was filled with 

 sack-s of all staple varieties. This is a 

 department where values mount sur- 

 prisingly: it was remarked that $40,000 

 would not cover the cost of the stock 

 on -this fl^oor. One space of perhaps 

 twenty feet square piled high with 

 saelcs of one variety is worth $4,000. 

 Light, order and cleanliness are note- 

 worthy here as elsewhere. One corner 

 by a side -window, partitioned off from 

 the main floor, is the mixing room, 

 where the various mixtures adapted to 

 special purposes are carefully made, 

 with the proportion of each seed used 

 recorded. At the rear is the cleaning 

 maeliine, -worked by an electric motor, 

 use<i for separating the seed from the 

 chaff. 



Tlie fifth floor is devoted to stock, 

 usually the surplus of that which is 

 carried in carloads, such as tobacco 



Flower Seeds ZiS;^'^. 



Tr. Pkt. Oz. 



AlysBiim Little Oem |0.10 tO.36 



Candytuft, Giant Hyacinth 10 .26 



Cobaea Scandens. blue 10 .30 



Dracaena Indlvisa 10 .30 



Forffet-Me-Not Victoria 16 1.00 



Lobelia Specloea. tralllnsr 10 .60 



Lobelia Crystal Palace Compacta 16 1.00 



Mignonette Giant Machet 10 .60 



Mignonette Allen's Defiance 10 .30 



Petunia Oi^nta of California 26 



Salvia Splendens J6 1.00 



Salvia Clara Bedman 26 2.26 



Smilax. new crop 10 .26 



Stocks, Ten Weeks K 2.00 



Verbena, MammoMi 16 1.00 



Complete catalogue Free. Ask for it. 



G. H. HUNKEL CO., Seedsmen, 



MILWAUKEE, WIS. 



Hention The Review w*'*"" you write. 



stems, sheep manure, and fertilizers, the 

 odor of which makes them undesirable 

 on the other floors. 



A passenger elevator at the front of 

 the building communicates with every 

 floor; a freight elevator at the rear 

 does duty for all merchandise. A 

 pneumatic tube between the bookkeep- 

 ing department and the cashier's desk 

 saves many steps and valuable minutes. 



The basement is devoted, in the front, 

 to the bulb department in charge of 



