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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



February 2, 1911. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMEBICAN SEED TBADE ASSOCIATION. 



Pres , E.L. Pasre.Hreene.N.Y.; First Vice-pre8.. 

 L. H Vaughan. Chicago; Peo'y and Troas.. C. E. 

 Kendel, Cleveland, O. Twenty-ninth annual 

 meeting. Milwaukee, Wis.. June 20 to 2'2, 19U. 



Customs brokers at New York have 

 started an agitation for an advance in 

 their charges. 



The Holland bulb growing district has 

 had no real winter; at date of last report 

 spring conditions prevailed. 



The California growers, while profit- 

 ing greatly by the recent rains, still are 

 weeks behind in crop planting and 

 growth. 



Hjalmar Hartmann & Co., Copen- 

 hagen, say that seed supplies are as 

 closely cleaned up in Denmark as in 

 other parts of the country. 



The packers of peas, corn, tomatoes,' 

 etc., are reported to have sold, at this 

 early date, all the 1911 pack they care 

 to pledge in advance of the pack. 



A recent fire in the Eiverside Power 

 building, in Detroit, Mich., is said to 

 have raused a loss of several thousand 

 dollars to the Jerome B. Bice Seed Co. 



It will pay to push for business these 

 four weeks; after the shortest month the 

 next two will not be long enough for all 

 the seed selling that must be crowded into 

 them. 



The south has bought seeds early and 

 liberally. The southern and especially the 

 southwestern seed houses are growing as 

 fast as they can find capable men to han- 

 dle the business. 



The contract pea growers have, on the 

 whole, met with less diflQculty than was 

 expected in getting growing contracts 

 placed with farmers. The principal diffi- 

 culty concerns stock seed. 



The reports from France prove to 

 have been, as usual, much exaggerated, 

 especially those that have come via Eng- 

 land. The floods have unquestionably 

 caused much loss to seed growers, but 

 the French are a people of wonderful 

 resource. 



The annual gathering of the canning 

 trades will take place at Milwaukee 

 next week. There will be no machinery 

 display. Some of the seedsmen who 

 have been regular attendants will pass 

 it up this year, having no peas and little 

 else for sale. 



Two representatives of the Bras! an 

 Seed Growers' Co., San Jose, Cal., met 

 at Chicago January 28: Carl S. Eltz- 

 holz, en route east, and Miss M. W. 

 Williams, secretary and treasurer of 

 the company, en route home from Wash- 

 ington. Miss Williams was reported to 

 have had $50,000 worth of the govern- 

 ment seed contract in her handbag. 



The seed trade will be strongly rep- 

 resented at Washington today, Febru- 

 ary 2, when the hearing on pure seed 

 bills is called in. the Committee on In- 

 terstate and Foreign Commerce. The 

 American Seed Trade Association, the 

 Wholesale Grass Seed Dealers' Associa- 

 tion and the Wholesale Seedsmen's 

 league will be represented, and several 

 seedsmen will be present to present their 

 individual views. 



^.^lll Peter Pan 



Height, I 'A Feet 



PETER PAN is witliout doubt the finest and earliest Dwarf Pea yet introduced. 

 '—^^^^—^—— Tremendous cropper, large pods tilled with Peas of exciuislte flavor. 

 Robust habit. Trial ^-plnt packet, 5Sc, niailed free. 



WATKINS & SIMPSON, Ltd. 



12 TaviSitock St., Covent Garden, London, England 



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-TO THB TRADK- 



HENRY IVIETTE, Quedlinbm^, Gennany 



^■^^^^^^^^■^ (Established in 1787) 



Grower and Exporter on the very largrest scale of all 



CHOICE VEGETABLE, FLOWER and FARM SEEDS 



Specialties: Beans, Beets. Cabbages, Carrots, Kohl-Rabi, Leeks, Lettuces, Onions, 

 Peas, Radlsbes, Spinach, Turnips. Swedes, Asters, Balsams, Begonias. Carnations, 

 Cinerarias. Gloxinias. Larkspurs. Nasturtiums, Pansies, Petunias, Phlox. Primulas, Scabious, 

 Sto cks, Verb enas. Zi nnias, etc. Catalog ue fre e on application. 



HENRY MXTTE'S TRIUMPH OF THE GIANT PANSIES (mixed), the most per. 

 feet and most beautiful In the world, t5.00 per oz. ; $1.50 per ■'4 oz.; 75o per 1-16 oz Postage 

 paid. Cash with order. 



All seeds offered are grown under my personal supervision on my own vast erounds, 

 and are warranted true to name, of strongest growth, linest stocks and best quality. I also 

 gro-w largely seeds on contract. 



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VAN GRIEKEN S BULBSy well selected 



HiKb-Krade Hyacinths, Tulips, Narcissus, \Vn VAN GRIEKEN I ISSfi Hollflllll 



Crocus, etc. Write for Catalo sue. "^^ ■'«' UIUIiHEII, UMC, UUiiaOU 



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The S. D. van der Goot & Co. 



Nurseries, .*. Boskoop, HoUand. 



ESTABLISHED 1883 



Khododondrons, Azaleas, Magnolias, Conifers, 

 Climbing Plant*. Fruit Trees, Dwarf and Stand- 

 ard Roses. Ornamental Plants, Peonies, Etc. 



Write for Wholeeale Catalogue 

 to onr reprcgentative 



B. J. DYKSMA, 



P.O.Box No. 9, Muskegon Heights, Mich. 



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Nothing is too good for those Holland 

 bulb salesmen these days. The largest 

 delegation of the season arrived at New 

 York on the Lusitania's last trip. 



The seed business for the month of 

 .January has been good, possibly a little 

 better than in other years, for the plant- 

 ers are learning the advantage of order- 

 ing early and the number of seed dealers 

 is constantly increasing; but not many 

 of the catalogue houses have anything out 

 of the ordinary to report. January was a 

 fairly mild month and the number of 

 orders has increased steadily ever since 



Palms, Araucarias, Bay Trees^ 

 Azaleas ^^^'' Belgian Plants. 



LILY OF THE VALLEY 



Extra selected pips for Import: also 



COLD STORAGE VALLEY 



for Immediate use. 



Roses, Peonies, Rhododendrons, Box Trees and 



all Other Holland Plants. 



JAPANESE, HOLUND AND FRENCH PUL^S. 



—Import only.— 



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SEED GROWER 



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has' issued his Seed Cata- 

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 flrst-class Flower and 

 Garden Seeds. 



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AUGUST ROLKER & SONS 



Importers of Azaleas, Rhododendrons, 

 Palms, Araucai'ias, Bays, Bos, Roses, 

 Camellias, florists' Bulbs, nurserymen's 

 Trees and Shrubs, etc. For lists, address 



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Largest Importers, Exporters, Growers 

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