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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Mat 23, 1912. 



in this country. That seal cannot be 

 broken and those seeds most be sold by 

 the package. With peas and beans they 

 give thirty-four quarts to the bushel; 

 the new wrinkled pea will take more 

 space and is sold at the rate of fifty- 

 six pounds to the bushel. The seeds- 

 men don't want litigation, but they do 

 want a law that will allow them to sell 

 seeds on a proper basis. 



John Fottler, a seedsman for fifty- 

 three years in Boston, showed the im- 

 possibility of breaking packages to 

 weigh seeds; last Saturday he said his 

 clerks averaged two hundred customers 

 apiece and if they had to weigh each 

 order for seeds the people would have 

 walked out of the store. 



IMPORTED FORAGE-PLANT SEEDS. 



The Secretary of Agriculture, in call- 

 ing attention to the seed laboratory, 

 which has examined a considerable num- 

 ber of lots of forage-plant seeds im- 

 ported into the United States during 

 1911 and found that many of them con- 

 sisted of seed of low vitality and high 

 weed-seed content, said: 



"The analyses of eighteen lots of 

 seed of alsike clover, red clover, white 

 clover, and hairy vetch, amounting to 

 225,780 pounds, showed that the pure 

 seed consisted of only 44.9, 64.2, 51.2, 

 and 23 per cent, respectively, of the con- 

 signment, while the germination was 

 as follows: 38.8, 37.0, 30.5, and 77 

 per cent, respectively. Consequently, 

 though this seed was imported at a 

 cost of $7.47, $7.97, $17, and $3.82 per 

 100 pounds, respectively, the actual 

 cost of 100 pounds of seed that ger- 

 minated was $44.35 for alsike clover, 

 $34,66 for red clover, $111.86 for white 

 clover, and $23.29 for hairy vetch, or 

 from two to four times the market price 

 of seed of the best quality. 



"A special examination of seed of 

 alsike clover and red clover imported 

 from Canada during 1911 showed that 

 approximately one-half was unsalable 

 for seeding purposes in that country, 

 the seed-control act there prohibiting 

 sale when more than a prescribed num- 

 ber of noxious seeds are found to the 

 pound. One lot of seed of alsike con- 

 tained less than fifty per cent of pure 

 seed, germinating only fifteen per cent, 

 or seven and one-half per cent of the 

 entire bulk. This particular lot con- 

 tained approximately 135,000 weed 

 seeds in each pound." 



THE SEED SEASON TO DATE. 



A Peculiar Year. 



Letters reaching The Review con- 

 tinue to speak of a generally satisfac- 

 tory seed selling season, but nearly 

 every letter points out some peculiar- 

 ity of the trade, due to an abnormally 

 severe winter, a late spring, floods, 

 seed shortages or other features that 

 have not been noted in recent seasons. 

 On the whole, however, it is apparent 

 that the seed trade has had a satis- 

 factory business, with more stirring 

 now than is usual in May, and with the 

 prospect that the business will con- 

 tinue active much later in the season 

 than usual. 



Following are extracts from letters 

 received in The Review office since the 

 last issue went to press: 



Wood, Stubbs & Co., Louisville, Ky. 



Our business has been considerably 

 better than last year, both for mail 



LAWN GRASS 

 IN BULK 

 AND 

 PACKAGES 



BLUE GRASS 

 RED TOP 

 WHITE CLOVER 

 For Lawns, Parka and Cemeteriea ETC., ETC. 



BlinneapoUs THE ALBERT DICKINSON CO. Chicago 



BEANS, PEAS, RADISH 



and all Garden Seada _ 



UEONftBB 



SEED CO 



GROWERS fOR THE TRADE 



ONION SETS Writ* for rrloaa 



YOU will be satisfied with the products of 



Burpee's "Seeds that Grow" 



Better write to Burpee, Philadelphia,— for new Complete Catalogue. 



The Everett B. Clark Seed Co., "^^r 



OrowlnK Statlona at Saat Jordan, mob.. Oraan Bay. Wla.. Blatar Bay* Wlae 



BEARS, PEAS, SWEET CORN, ORIOR, REET, TURRIP, TOMATO, m 



LAWN GRASS SEED 



WHOLKSALX ONLY 



J. OLIVER JOHNSON 



1870 MUwanke* Avenuo, CHICAGO 



Mention The Review wben you write. 



Henry Fish Seed Co. 



BEAN GROWERS 



For the Wholesale Seed Trade 

 CARPINTERIA, -:- CAL. 



Waldo Rohnert 



GILROT, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



SDeclalties: Lettuce, Onion, Sweet Peas, Aster, 

 Closmos, Mifrnonette, Verbena, in variety. 

 Correspondence solicited. 



Western Seed & Irrigation Co. 



Seed Grower* and Dealer* 



Specialties: 



Cucumber, Musk and Watermelon, 



Pumpkin, Squash, Sweet and Field Com. 



FREMONT, NEB. 



MentioD The Review when you write. 



CONTRACT SEED GROWER 



SPECIALTIES: Pepper, Egg Plant. 

 Tomato, Vine Seed uA Field Corn 



EDGAR F HURff "55^' jtoS?* 



Corre8pondenc« Solicited. 



The C. Herbert Coy Seed Co. 



VALLEY. DougULM County, NEB. 



WMcsalc Grawcn t f Higfc Grade Setds. 



Otcumber, Mtttkmelon, Sqisash and Pun^ 

 kin. Sweet. Flint and Dent Seed Cool 



-THE- 



J. C. Robinson Seed Co. 



WATERLOO, NEB. 

 ROCKY FORD. COLO. 



Contract growers of Cucumber, Cantaloupe. 

 Watermelon, Squash and l^unpkin Seed; Sugar, 

 Flint and Field Seed Corns. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Braslui Seed Growers' Co. 



Lettuce, Onion, Sweet Peas 



Growers for the Wholesale Trade only 



San Jose, California 



TOMATO SEED 



BBST STOCKS. AI.I. TARIBTIES. 



The Havon Seed Co. 



Grower* for wholesale trade only. Santa Ana, Oal. 



S. M. ISBELL « CO. 



JACKSON, MICH. 



Contract Seed Growers 



Bean. Cucumber, Tomato, Radish, Pea, Squash, 

 Muskmelon, Watermelon, Sweet Com. 



Correapondanoe Bolloltad. 



Contract Seed Growers 



5!nedalti»f • ^^VVtr, En Plant. Tomat*, 

 OpeCIUlWi. Viae Sm4 and Field Cora. 



Correspondence solicited. 



George R. Pedrick A Son 



rXDRICKTOWir, N. J. 



Oklahoma Seed Growers' Co. 



Contract Growers of 



Watermelon and Muskmelon Seeds 



for the wholesale trade only 



ENID, OKLAHOMA 



