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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



FEBBUABt 0. 1911. 



Some men do business on 

 the principle that the world 

 owes them a living. That's a 

 mistake. The world owes you 

 nothing. If you have health, 

 you are lucky, and that's all 

 you deserve without working 

 for it. Some growers work 

 on about the same principle 

 in handling lily bulbs. They 

 buy good bulbs, stick them 

 in the dirt and expect good 

 results. You have to take 

 care of good lily bulbs just as 

 you do everything for the best 

 results. Give them as good 

 attention as you would a pet 

 horse, anyway. Don't drown 

 them with water when they 

 don't need it, and don't blame 

 bulbs for rotting when poor 

 soil and drainage is the cause. 

 Take care of your bulbs, keep 

 them free from green fly, feed 

 them manure water and give 

 them careful attention — 

 that's the way to produce the 

 best average. 



There are no better lily 

 bulbs imported than Horse- 

 shoe Brand — from the finest 

 fields of Japan. 



Write for prices. 



RALPH N. WARD 

 &C0. 



12 West Broadway 



Rot How Cheap ly ■- ««# "V i^ D If 

 tat^How Good N C W T U K l\ 



Cold Storage Giganteums 

 on hand ready for delivery 

 now or any time during 1911. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMEBICAN SEED TBADE ASSOCIATION. 



Pres , E.L. Page.ureene.N.Y.; First Vice-pres.. 

 L. H Vaughan, Chicago; Sec'y and Treas.. C. E. 

 Kendel, Cleveland. O. Twenty-ninth annual 

 meeting. Milwaukee, Wis.. June 20 to 22, 1911. 



The mail order houses have had a big 

 rush of seed orders from the southwest 

 as a result of the hot wave that passed 

 over that section last week. 



The Meier-Shoemaker Seed Co., of Cin- 

 cinnati, C, has been incorporated, with 

 a capital stock of $50,000, by Andrew 

 J. Shoemaker and others. 



Visited Chicago: L. W. Wheeler, of 

 the Pieters-Wheeler Seed Co., Hollister, 

 Cal. ; C. B. Coe, representing D. M. Ferry 

 & Co., Detroit, Mich.; C. W. Scott, of 

 the Yokohama Nursery Co., New York. 



The California growers have had a suf- 

 ficiency of moisture since the belated 

 rains began and consider the prospect 

 satisfactory, in view of all the circum- 

 stances. 



The increasing flood of mail orders has 

 been held in check this week by the 

 biggest snow storm of the winter, 

 which has swept over a large part of 

 the country. 



Chaeles a. Heath, of the Albert 

 Dickinson Co., Chicago, who inciden- 

 tally looks upon the lowly bean as the 

 great American vegetable, was one of 

 the speakers at the recent convention 

 of the Michigan Bean Growers' Asso- 

 ciation at Detroit. 



The explosion of dynamite in Jersey 

 City February 1 did a great deal of dam- 

 age to the seed houses along Cortlandt 

 street in New York city. Three of the 

 windows of Peter Henderson & Co. were 

 blown into the street, the entire front of 

 Stumpp & Walter Co., and the windows 

 of Burnett Bros, also going out. 



Sweet peas are the most important 

 item on the list of flower seeds. There 

 seems to be no shortage this year. Peo- 

 ple are learning that they cannot get 

 something for nothing in sweet peas 

 any more than in other articles; conse- 

 quently there is increased call for the 

 better grades. Florists are buying 

 seed of the Spencer varieties in larger 

 quantities each year. 



When the representatives of the Amer- 

 ican Seed Trade Association, the Whole- 

 sale Seedsmen's League and the Grass 

 Seed Dealers' Association appeared be- 

 fore the Committee of Interstate and 

 Foreign Commerce, at Washington, 

 February 2, Congressman Mann stated 

 that he was not disposed, in view of 

 the united protest, to press his pure 

 seed bill for passage at this session. 



Seedsmen will be interested to note 

 that two of the important topics on the 

 program of the canners' convention at 

 Milwaukee this week concern legisla- 

 tion and seeds; the canners are har- 

 assed by conflicting state laws no less 

 than are the seedsmen. Papers relating 

 to seed supply are to be read as fol- 

 lows: "Pedigreeing and Saving Seed 

 Corn," by Richard Dickson; "Seed 

 Propagation," by J. J. Nairn, Hamil- 

 ton, Ont.; "How to Grow Seed Corn," 

 by C. H. Smith, Faribault, Minn.; 

 "Soil for Pea Raising; Its Cultiva- 

 tion," by D. J. Fitzgerald, West Du 

 Pere, Wis. 



PMsn-WliNlir Said Company 



Hollister, 



California 



Growers of High Grade Seeds 



Onion, Radish, Lettuce. 

 Sweet Peas, etc. : : : 



GorreBj>ondeiice Solicited. 



BRASUN SEED 6R0WERS' CO. 



Lettuce, Onkm, Sweet Peas 



Growers for the Wholesale Trade Only 



§•11 JoBOf California 



Waldo Rohnert 



GILROT, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce. Onion, Sweet Peas. Aster. 

 Cosmos, Mijrnonette, Verbena, in variety. 

 Correspondence solicited. 



SEATTLE, WASH. 



Growers of 



PDGET SOUND CABBA6E SEED 



BEECHWOOD SEED FARMS 



Contract Growers 



Okra, Pearl Millet, Seven Top and 



Frost King; Turnip. 



Correspondence invited. 



H. H. ARRINGTON, Prop., Rome, Ga. 



Mention The Review when tou >yrlf . 



Wllbert E. Ashcraft 



8WEDSSBORO, N. J. 



WHOLESALE SEED GROWER 



Specialties: Temite, Pepper and Eg^piait 

 Any kind of seed g^rown by contract 



THE EBBERT SEED CO. 



ROCKY FORD, COL 



Contract growers of Tine Seeds. 



8PKCIAL.TIX8: Rocky Ford Cantaloup* 

 and Cucumber Seed. Place jrour orders 

 early. Correspondence solicited. 



The C. Herbert Coy Seed Co. 



VALLET, Douglas C!ounty, NEB. 



WiMiesile Growers of High Grade Seeds. 



Cucumber, Muskmelon, Squash and Pump- 

 kin, Sweet, Flint and Dent Seed Cora. 



Mpntlon The Review •when you write 



Henry Fish Seed Co. 



BEAN GROWERS 



For the Wholesale Seed Trade 

 CARPINTBRIA, - CAL. 



"BUDS" 



70 Barclay Street. 

 NKW YORK CZTT 

 Niaii Brate ScMlt nJ Mis 

 GABI. B. OLOEOKNEB, Blanacer. 



