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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Mauch 2, 1911. 



ASPARAGUS SEED 



TRUE PLUMOSUS NANUS 

 Wisconsin Qreenhouse Grown. 



Not to be compared with tho Inferior CaUfornla and 



Florida outdoor grown seed. ^„ „ „„ 



1000 seeds, $4.00; 5000. $18.16; U. 000, $36.00 



C. H. HUNKEL CO. •/ SEEDSMEN 



MILWAUKEE, WIS. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



people again. Now, does it not appeal 

 to your sense of commerce that it is 

 better for us to sell these people, as we 

 have for three generations, what the 

 goods are represented to be, than to 

 find a new set of suckers every year— 

 if you will excuse that word; I forgot 

 myself. It is a fact that it is to our 

 commercial interest, laying aside all 

 matters of honor, to satisfy these peo- 

 ple with what they get. In practice, 

 the only time that I know of in any 

 seedsman's business that the purchaser 

 does not get exactly what is repre- 

 sented as to the variety is when, by 

 some error, a wrong bag gets in; that 

 is, when a packet of some other variety 

 eets into the packet of the variety 

 which is being filled; and we prevent 

 that, as far as possible, and no amount 

 of legislation could make us any more 

 careful than we are. 



"This brings me down to the third 

 point, and the thing on which I think 

 you are probably most insistent, and 

 that is, that the seeds which a man 

 buys shall be alive and not dead. It 

 would seem this was a matter which 

 meant the most careful protection to 

 the buyer. As a matter of fact, it is 

 not true that the purchaser of garden 

 seed needs any federal protection, or 

 any state protection, as to the via- 

 bilitv of the seeds he buys. As a mat- 

 ter of fact, ninety-eight per cent of all 

 the garden seeds sold are represented 

 by the association which is here repre- 

 sented; ninety-eight per cent of all the 

 garden seeds sold in this country are 

 represented here. In our business we 

 have practically no complaint of the 

 viability of the seeds we sell. As a 

 matter of fact the seeds grow, but the 

 value of seeds does not depend upon 

 the viability; it depends more upon the 

 quality of the product. It is just the 

 same as it is with cows. A thorough- 

 bred cow is no more alive than a runt. 

 But the amount of butter fat that that 

 cow will produce may be three times as 

 great. The value is not in the viability 

 so much as in whether or not it is 

 thoroughbred seed, and frequently thor- 

 oughbred seed does not test as much as 

 seed of poorer quality and much higher 

 viability. The highest viability comes 

 in the wild stuff. That is a point in 

 biology that you can not get around. 



"I should like to adduce, as evidence 

 that a purchaser needs no protection, 

 not onlv the fact that we, as seedsmen, 

 have very little complaint of viability, 

 but a circular published by the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Bulletin No. 131, 

 part 1, on the germination of vegetable 

 seed. That bulletin was published in 

 March, 1908, so it is comparatively re- 

 cent. In that bulletin there are tabu- 

 lated twenty-seven diflferent kinds of 

 seed — the ordinary kinds of seed — and 

 that represents the viability tests of 

 the Department of Agriculture on twen- 

 ty-seven different packeting houses, rep- 

 resenting practically all the seeds that 

 are sold in packets, and I think no one 

 will claim that the viability of seeds sold 

 by the pound or ounce is less than the 

 viability of seeds sold by the packet. 



Dreer's Superb Strains of the Best Asters 



Our stoclcs of the following Asters are grown under our own 8ut>ervislon and we are quite sure 

 that nothing finer in quality can be had at any price from any source. Our yearly increasing gales 

 are the best evidence that they give complete satisfaction. 



DREER'S ♦♦PEERLESS PINK" 



A magnificent new variety which m»y briefly 

 be deicribcd as an improved late- branching 

 shell-pink. Flowers of largest size, of rich shell- 

 pink, borne on long, strong stems, making them 

 one of the finest for cutting. 'lO cents per trade 

 l>acket: $4.00 per ounce. 



DREER'S SUPERB 

 LATE=BRANCHINQ 



The finest of all September-blooming Asters. 

 Our stock has been re-selected for a number of 

 years and is now as perfect as the most pains- 

 taking care can make it. We offer the following 

 eight distinct colors : 



Azure Blue or deep lavender Deep Purple 

 Pale lavender Roae-plnk 



Deep Crimson Shell-pink 



Deep Rose Pure Wblte 



Any of the above. i'> cents per trade packet ; 

 $1.00 per ounce. Finest mixed, all colors. 2.5 

 cents per trade packet; 75 cents per ounce. 



CREQO'S QIANT COMET . 



The perfection of Comet Asters, Immense fluffy 

 flowers, five Inches and over acroxs. borne on 

 long, strong stems, coming into bloom in August, 

 continuing through Septemtwr. We offer pure 

 white and shell-pink, 40 cents per trade packet; 

 $2.00 per ounce. 



DAYBREAK 



A tine mid-season Aster of symmetrical growth, 

 18 Inches high, with good--ized. densely double 

 soft pink fiowers. 'lO cents per trade packet; ^^.50 

 per ounce. 



VIOLET KINO 



A fine late-branching variety of exceptionally 

 free growth, bearing very large double flowers of 

 a pleasing shade of soft violet. 30 cents per trade 

 packet; |l.-')0 per ounce. 



EARLY WONDER 



The earliest of all Afters, blooming at the end 

 of .Tune ; flowers of good size on good stems and 

 valuable where early flowers are desired. We 

 offer pure white and pink, 40 cents per trade 

 packet; |2.00 per oiince. 



QUEEN OP THE MARKET 



An early-flowering, first-class Alter, coming 

 into bloom in July, lasting well through August; 

 flowers of large size on long, strong stems. A 

 good variety for growing under glass. We can 

 supply in the following six defirab e colors: 

 Pink BrlKht Rose 



Purple Crimson 



Wlilte Lavender 



Any of the above, 20 c*nts per trade packet; 60 

 cents per ounce. Finest mixed, all colors, 15 

 cents per trade packet; 50 cents per ounce. 



The above are but a few of the many Asters which we offer. For a complete list see pages 2 and 3 

 of our current wholesale price list. If you do not have a copy we will be pleased to send one to any 

 Florist on application. New crop seeds of almost all kinds are now in stock, and early orders from 

 the trade are solicited. 



Henry A. Dreer,chl!.tst Philadelphia, Pa. 



