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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



May 11, 1911. 



W. van Kleef & Sons, Boskoop, Holland 



*» Wholesale Growers and Exporters ef all kinds of Nursery Stock 



beg to announce that their W. van KLEEF, JR., is again in America, calling on the trade. Before placing your import 

 orders elsewhere, please ask our prices— they will certainly interest you. Specialties: Japanese Maples, Ajtaleaa, 

 Rhododendrons, Clematis, Roses, Conifers, Peonies, Shrubs, Youn^f Trees, etc., etc. Catalogue for the asking. 



ADDRESS ALL CORRESPONDENCE. UNTIL JUNE 1st, 



Care of Messrs. Maltus & Ware, 14 Stone Street, New York 





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the United States, California and Can- 

 ada, also the sweet pea show of the Na- 

 tional Sweet Pea Society in Philadelphia, 

 and the Seed Trade Convention at Mar- 

 blehead. 



E. F. KowE, who has been in the cat- 

 alogue department of James Vick 's Sons, 

 leaves Rochester about May 15 to join 

 the forces of McFarland's Publicity 

 Service, Harrisburg, Pa. 



The oflBcers of the American Seed 

 Trade Association have arranged for a 

 new and important feature of the pro- 

 gram for the next annual meeting, at 

 Marblehead, Mass., June 20 to 22. This 

 will be telegraphic reports from most 

 of the growing sections of the United 

 States. These reports will be given 

 when the association is in executive ses- 

 sion and will be strictly private and 

 confidential to members of the associa- 

 tion only. Undoubtedly these reports 

 will be of great interest to all the 

 seedsmen, and these reports will not be 

 published. 



CLABK'S CALM VIEW. 



Arthur B. Clark, president of the 

 Everett B. Clark Seed Co., finds satis- 

 faction in the present situation and 

 takes a calm view of the prospects, in 

 Connecticut, where the company's head- 

 quarters is, but also in Michigan and 

 Wisconsin, where peas and beans are 

 largely grown. At the opening of the 

 month Mr. Clark summarised the situa- 

 tion in these words: 



"There is little in the way of crop 

 news at this early date. Roots, of 

 course, have only just been put in the 

 ground. Most roots wintered over pretty 

 well and we have a good acreage, a 

 larger acreage than usual of some items, 

 particularly turnip and beet. In a few 

 days now we will be planting corn and 

 we have reason to look for favorable 

 crop conditions, not alone because the 

 weather clerk out of his sense of fair- 

 ness will appreciate the obligation rest- 

 ing upon him to square himself for the 

 indignities served up to us during the 

 last two or three years, during which 

 we have almost become accustomed to 

 cold, unfavorable springs continuing 

 well into summer, but also because we 

 have had it so steadily cold during 

 March and April that from now on the 

 weather is likely to be more seasonable 

 than it was a year ago, when our May 

 came in March and our March spread 

 over May and June. 



"Out in Michigan and Wisconsin our 

 seed peas are all out in farmers' hands 

 and going into the ground every day. 

 By dint of persevering effort and the 

 development of some new territories, 

 we secured acreage for all of our stock 

 seed and are putting into the ground I 



F. J. GROOTENDORST & SONS 



BOSKOOP. HOLLAND 



^iS^':^6c"' °' Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Evergreens and Bulbs 



Specialties: Acer, Aesculus, Ampelopsis, Aristolochia, Azalea, Buxus, Clematis, 

 Dielytra, Funkia, Hydrangea, Kalmia, Magnolia, Paeonia, Phlox, Rhododendron, 

 Roses, Standard Roses, Conifers, Tulips, Hyacinths, Narcissus, Crocus, Palms, Bay 

 Trees. Catalogue on application to our MR. C. QROOTENDORST, care MESSRS. 

 P. C. KUYPER & CO., 10-12 Broadway, NEW YORK. 

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VAN GRIEKEN S BULBSy well selected 



SSuf:^?.^^""^^lio^^&?^"e^"""- LEO VAN GRIEKEN, Lisse, HoDand 



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TURNIP SEEDS 



For Present Delivery. 



We can offer Early Purple Top Strapleaved, 

 Early Purple Top Globe, Green Top and Purple 

 Top Yellow Aberdeen, Amber Globe, Sweet Ger- 

 man, Purple Top Mammoth, Lines. Red Globe, 

 Greystone, Imperial Green Globe, Red Milan and 

 American Purple Top Rutabaga. Ask for prices. 



W. W. Johnson & Son, Ltd. 



BOSTON. KNGLAND 

 FOR STRONG 



DUTCH ROSES 



of all kinds, apply to 



VAN DER WILLIK & CO. 



BOSKOOP. HOLLAND 

 Also Exporters of All Dutch Plants. 



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suflBcient seed to well protect our con- 

 tracts, and the pea proposition is, there- 

 fore, now up to the elements, over 

 which we have not the slightest control. 



"The bean acreage is secured, but, 

 of course, it will be some few days be- 

 fore we shall distribute many of our 

 seed beans among the growers. 



"As to 1910 stocks, everything grown 

 here in the east is cleaned out nicely. 

 There will be no appreciable surplus 

 of any important item of our production 

 here in Connecticut; and in Michigan 

 and Wisconsin we are absolutely clean, 

 of course, of peas, and have cleaned 

 up on beans much better than we ex- 

 pected; in fact, in excellent shape on 

 all but three varieties, and surplus of 

 these is only such as will probably be 

 required by summer trade." 



BRECK CREDITS SMITH. 



In The Review for May 4, page 52, 

 there appeared the first news the trade 

 had received of the judgment of the 

 U. S. Court of Customs Appeals, estab- 

 lishing the duty on hyacinth bulbs at 



Palms, Araucarias, Bay Trees, 

 Azaleas ^Sef Belgian Plants. 



LILY OF THE VALLEY 



Extra selected pips for import; also 



COLD STORAGE VALLEY 



for immediate use. 



Roses, Peonies, Rhododeadroas, Box Trees and 



all Otber Hollaad Pteats. 



JAPANESE, HOLLAND AND FRENCH BULBS. 



—Import only.— 



H. FRANK DARROW 



p. 0. B«( 125* 26 Barclay SL, NEW YORK 



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DANISH SEEDS 



If you talce interest in Cabbare, Cavllflower, 

 Carrot, Hangrel, Swede and Tarnip, of selected 

 strains (state controlled), please apply to 



CHR. OLSEN, Odense, Denmark 



Wholesale Seed Grower ^Established 1862), In order 



to hnve 70ur name placed on my malllo(r list. 



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ASPARAGUS SEED 



TRUE PLUMOSUS NANUS 

 Wisconsin Greenhouse Grown. 



Not to be compared with tho Inferior California and 



Florida outdoor (frown seed. 

 1000 seeds. $4.00; 5000, $18.75: 10,000. $36.00 



G. H. HUNKEL CO. .* SEEDSMEN 



MILWAUKEE, WIS. 



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50 cents per thousand under the present 

 tariff law, and giving a history of the 

 important litigation. Charles H. Breck, 

 president of Joseph Breck & Sons Cor- 

 poration, which brought the test case, 

 writes under date of May 8: 



"Your article seems to us a very fair 

 statement of the case. We are inclined 

 to think, however, that it would only 

 be right that our counsel, Curtis Nye 

 Smith, of this city, who by the way is 



