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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Apbil 4, 1012. 



RARE SEEDS 

 Of BORDER PLANTS 



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Seed Trade News. 



AMUBTOnf SEED TKASB A880OIATX0H. 



Pres., Leonard H. Vau(rhan, Chicago; First Vlce- 

 Pres., M. H. Duryea, New York City; Sec'y and 

 Treas., C. E. Kendel. Cleveland. O. 



Thirtieth annual convention, Chlcagro, June 2S to 

 27, 1912. 



The Gregory Farm Seed Co., Bay 

 City, Mich., has increased its capital 

 stock from $6,000 to $12,000. 



J. W. Eatekin, of Ratekin's Seed 

 House, Shenandoah, la., has purchased 

 a farm of eighty acres just outside that 

 town, to be used as trial grounds. 



The government seed distribution for 

 1912 is being closed up rapidly. Every- 

 thing will be out before the end of April. 

 Of radish seed 142,000 pounds has been 

 packeted. 



The U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 intends to distribute free next season at 

 least 75,000 tulip and hyacinth bulbs 

 grown at the government station at Bel- 

 lingham. Wash. 



Gladioli of the larger sizes on some 

 of the varieties most in demand are sold 

 out of first hands and a good many of 

 the growers are all contracted up for 

 the 1912 crop of the big sellers. 



The first three months of the year 

 have been record ones for the wholesale 

 seedsmen, so far as orders go, and only 

 limited as to sales by the size of the 

 supply. Of course the heaviest demand 

 has been for the scarcest items. 



Counter trade is active in the cities 

 along the Atlantic coast, for even as far 

 north as Boston the present week sees the 

 ground sufficiently open and dry for the 

 beginning of gardening operations. Far- 

 ther west conditions are not so forward, 

 or, rather, are more backward. 



Eetar, mail orders for March have not, 

 with most of the catalogue houses, been 

 up to previous years. With the aver- 

 age run of small buyer the scarcity of 

 seeds did not seem to lead to early or- 

 dering in sufficient volume to counter- 

 balance the handicap imposed by the 

 severe cold, deep snows and late spring. 

 April starts with the mail order seed 

 trade on the jump. 



The trade press on the other side of 

 the Atlantic comments favorably on a 

 recent circular issued by John Lewis 

 Childs in which it is explained that as 

 the cost of labor has gone up thirty per 

 cent it is necessary to make a corre- 

 sponding advance in the prices of gladi- 

 olus bulbs. The editors welcome this as 

 a pleasing change from the usual custom 

 in the horticultural trades, which is 

 stated to be to lower prices as expenses 

 increase. 



ADULTERATED SEED BILL. 



In a statement before the House 

 Committee on Interstate Coinmerce 

 March 26, Representative James R. 



.. XO TH« TRADX 



HENRY MEHE, Quedlinbui^, Germany 



^^^^"^■~"^" (ESTABUSHED IN 1787) 



GrowMT and Kxport«r on the T«ry larsast aoale of all 



CHOICE VEGETABLE, FLOWER and FARM SEEDS 



BpeolaltiaBt Beans, Beets, Cabbages, Carrots, Kobl-Rabi. Leeks, Lettuces. Onions, 

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

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

 Btooks, Verbenas, Zinnias, etc. Catalogue free on application, 



HBNRT MBTTK'S TRniMPH OF THK GIANT PANSIKS (mixed), the most per- 

 fect and most beautiful in the world. |5.00 per oz. ; |1.50 per ^4 oz. ; 76c per 1/16 oz. Postage 

 paid. Cash with order. 



All seeds offered are grown under my personal snperrision on my o^rn vast grounds, 



snd are warranted true to name, of strongest growth, finest stocks and best auality. X also 



arrow largely seeds on eontraot . 



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VAN GRIEKEN'S BULBS, S^^s^^^ 



gSSK:S;.="^^-.2«S5K:?"- Uro van GHEKEII, hat, Mui 



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H. FRANK DARROW 



p. O. Box 1250 

 86 Barclay St.. NEW YORK 



Valley from cold storage for immediate shipment 



Importer of 



Azaleas, Palms/ Bay Trees 



and all other Belgian Plants, Lily of the Valley 

 of the finest Berlin and Hamburg brands. 



Japanese, Hollaad and French Bulbs 



FRENCH and ENGLISH 

 FRUIT and ORNAMENTAL STOCKS 



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RAFFIA 



NATURAL :. Red Star and 3 other 

 brands. Bale lots or less. 



COLORED : 



24 standard colors. 



Write for 



Minimum orders 25 lbs 

 prices, stating quantity. 



l^cHUTCHISON Sl CO. 



THE IMPORT HOOTE 



17 Murray St., NEW YORK 



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WE IMPORT 



to order for the Trade only, PLANTS and 

 BUIiBS from Europe and Japan. Spring 

 or Fall Delivery. Address with bnslneas card. 



AUGUST ROLKER & SONS 

 P. a. Bti 752, ir 31 Barclay Stntt, NEW TOM 



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Mann, of Illinois, strongly urged the 

 committee to take favorable action 

 with regard to a bill which he has 

 framed for the purpose of regulating 

 foreign commerce in adulterated seeds. 

 The committee expressed strong inter- 

 est in the bill and various members 

 made suggestions and criticisms, which 

 Mr. Mann undertook to meet. He 

 proposes to reintroduce the bill with 

 these modifications embodied in it. The 

 principal changes will relate to the 

 time when the bill is to take effect, 

 which will be regulated in such a way 

 as to exempt this year 's crop from 

 the operation of the measure. 





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SEEDS 



of an kinds apply to 

 W. W. JOHNSON & SON, Ltd. 



BOSTON, BNOLAND 



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Azaleas 



Give us a 

 trial on 



75.000 fine shaped Azalea Indica, grown ex- 

 clusively for American trade. Special prices 

 upon request. > 



O. TH. De RAEVE 



Chaussee d'Anvers 313-468, 



Blont St. Amand, Ghent. Belrlnm 



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Gennan Stock Seeds 



A GRAND SPECIALTY 



Price list on api>lic»tloii 



PAUL TQCHBt, Striegau, Genrany 



Oldest 8o«olal Hona* 



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Ask for "Real Price" CataloKue and 

 Contract Offers. 



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 TIES OF... 



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 LANGPOBT, ENe. 



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The probabilities are that the bill 

 will be reported and adopted before 

 tlie close of this Congress, although 



