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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



June 20, 1912. 



GROW SSIt giant PANSIES 



Johnson's Famous Prize-winners The strain that stands for the hlgheet quality obtain- 

 , "Alii *'^^®- "^® °^®'" farelully grown seeds from eminent 



specialists as follows: 1000 seeda« 30c; StMSo liledii, 60c; 6000 aeeda, $1.00; per ci., 96.C0. Book 

 your order now for FRSNCH AND DUTCH BULBS at special advance prices. 



Kindly write us your Bulb wants 



JOHNSON SEED CO., 217 Nirket Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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Seed Trade News. 



AKEBICAK SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. 



Pres., Leonard H. VauKban, Chicago; First 

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

 and Treas., C. E. Kendel, CleTeland, O. 



Thirtieth annual convention, Chicago, Jane 25 

 to 27, 1912. 



The radish crops in Holland are said 

 to have made a good recovery after the 

 poor start due to late spring frosts. 



Visited Lompoc, Cal., June 12: W. 

 Atlee Burpee, Philadelphia; E. E. Brug- 

 gerhof, New York; Hugh Dickson, Bel- 

 fast, Ireland. 



The seed trade will be interested in 

 the illustration and note on A. C. Zvol- 

 anek's winter-flowering Countess Spencer 

 sweet peas on page 17 of this issue. 



J. M. Clark, of the Leonard Seed Co., 

 Chicago, has returned from a fort- 

 night's trip through the pea country. 

 He says everything is late — weeks be- 

 hind. 



The Havana Seed Co., Havana, HI., is 

 the name under which L. S. Turner and 

 J. M. Shilling will do business. They 

 have rented the Otto cribs and warehouse 

 at Main and Plum streets and will put in 

 an equipment for cleaning seed. Next 

 season they will go into the growing end. 



Fred E. Deatherage, Waverly, HI., 

 who has made a specialty of breeding 

 seed corn, is building a drying house 

 33x60 feet, basement and two stories. 

 The first floor will contain 2,511 wire 

 hangers, each hanger holding forty-eight 

 ears of corn, a total of 120,528 ears, or 

 about 1,500 bushels. The upper floor will 

 contain ventilated storage cribs. 



S. F. Leonard, chairman of the local 

 entertainment committee for next 

 week 's Chicago convention of the Amer- 

 ican Seed Trade Association, states that 

 arrangements have been made for an 

 automobile ride through the parks on 

 the afternoon of Wednesday, June 

 26, with a banquet at the Sherman 

 House that same evening. A large 

 attendance is expected. 



It is said that with the recent purchase 

 by Cooper, Taber & Co., London, of the 

 wholesale seed business of Howcroft & 

 Watkins, with which was incorporated 

 the old firm of Jacob Wrench & Son, no 

 less than ten wholesale seed firms will be 

 incorporated in the business of Cooper, 

 Taber & Co., viz.: Minier & Co., Field 

 & Child, Wrench & Son, Clark & Son, 

 Beck, Henderson & Co., Robert Cooper, 

 Geo. Taber, Rutley & Silverlock, J. G. 

 Waite and Howcroft & Watkins, the lat- 

 ter a continuation of the old house of 

 Cbarlwood & Cimimins. 



LEST YOU FORGET 



we wish to remind you that we can supply you with an extra fine 

 strain of Pansy Seed, home-grown, $5.00 per oz. 



Cyclamen Seed, the celebrated English strain, $9.00 per ICOO. 



Poinsettias, 2X-inch, strong, $5.00 per 100; $45.00 per 1000. 



Bouvardlas, 2>^-inch, white, pink and red, $3.50 per 100. 



Fern Plats, 10 best varieties, $2.00 per flat; 20 flats at $1.75 each. 



For Rosea, Primulas, Snapdragon, Asp. Plumosus 

 Nanus and Sprengeri plants, etc., 



SEE OUR ADS IN THE CLASSIFIED COLUMNS 



S. S. SKIDELSKY & CO.,.<Xriniadelphia, Pa. 



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ULY OF THE VALLEY FROM COLD STORAGE 



S2.00 par lOO $18.00 p«r lOOO 

 IF YOU GROW 



BRUNS' CHICAGO MARKET 



YOU GROW THE BEST VALLEY 



fl. N. BRMS, 



Flnast Cut Valley cenatantly on hand 



3032-42 

 WEST MADISON STREET 



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CHICAGO 



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If You Are Looking for Quality 



in Dutch Bulbs, we want your busi- 

 ness — if not, we ask you to kindly 

 ignore this advertisement. 



Gt. van Waver^n & Kruijff 



American Branch Houbk 

 140 N. 13th Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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J. BOLGIANO & SON 



WHOLESALE FIELD 

 and GARDEN SEEDS 



Established 1818. Write for our low prices. 



Utht, Pratt and Ellicott Sts.. Baltimore. Md. 



VICK'S QUALITY 



Seeds -Plants -Bulbs 



Ask for Wholesale Catalogue 



James Viok's Sons 



Seedsmen 

 ROCHESTER. N. Y. 



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