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The Florists^ Review 



July 25, 1912. 



Seed Trade News. 



AJKEBICAN SEED TKASE ASSOCIATION. 

 President, Cbarles N. Page, Des Moines, la.; 

 Secretary-Treasurer. 0. E. Kendel, CleTelaao. 0. 



The proposition to increase the post- 

 age on catalogues is dead. July 23 the 

 postoffice appropriation bill was re- 

 ported to the Senate with the para- 

 graph eliminated that would have com- 

 bined the third and fourth classes of 

 matter and to which the seedsmen doing 

 a catalogue business were so strongly 

 opposed. The parcels post law will 

 apply only to fourth class matter. 



Chakles N. Page, of Des Moines, la., 

 president of the American Seed Trade 

 Association, is on a vacation trip among 

 the Minnesota lakes, accompanied by Mrs. 

 Page. 



The latest word from Holland is that 

 the tulips have turned out no better than 

 a fair average, some of the early Van 

 ThoU varieties being a poor crop with 

 a part of the growers. 



The condition of Wisconsin peas is 

 reported as having improved in the last 

 several days; reports of damage by heat 

 and drought were exaggerated, for there 

 was considerable recovery when the 

 drought was broken. 



It is reported that the Texas Seed & 

 Floral Co., Dallas, Tex., will dispose of 

 its retail mail order business, in order 

 to devote the entire attention of the 

 management to the wholesale seed busi- 

 ness, which has grown with great rapid- 

 ity in the last few years. 



S. G. Courteen, the seedsman of Mil- 

 waukee, Wis., has secured a permit for 

 the erection of a warehouse which, it is 

 said, will be one of the largest build- 

 ings for its purpose in the United States. 

 It will be located at the corner of Lake 

 and Hanover streets, will be eight stories 

 high and will cost about $182,000. 



DENOUNCED BOUBNE BILL. 



Bitter denunciation of the Bourne 

 zone parcels post bill, as a "business- 

 destruction measure" aimed at the ad- 

 vertising, publishing and catalogue 

 shipping interests of the United States, 

 characterized a meeting of the Commit- 

 tee on Postal Laws of the American 

 Seed Trade Association, in the Burpee 

 building, Philadelphia, July 16. A let- 

 ter to the trade interests of the country 

 was drafted, urging that every parcels 

 shipper, whether his business is with 

 seeds or books, every printer and every 

 business man who, as in the case of de- 

 partment store advertising, has occa- 

 sion to use the mails in the shipment of 

 catalogues, make a personal appeal to 

 his representatives in the United States 

 Senate to defeat the Bourne measure. 



In attendance at the meeting were 

 W. Atlee Burpee, chairman of the 

 American Seed Trade Association com- 

 mittee; J. C. Vaughan, of Chicago; 

 E. C. Duncan, of Philadelphia; W. F. 

 Therkildson, of Painesville, O., and 

 C. C. Massie, of Minneapolis, all mem- 

 bers of the committee; also Walter P. 

 Stokes, of Philadelphia. 



STILL COLLECTINO SAMPLES. 



The U. S. Treasury Department has 

 instructed the customs collectors that 

 at the request of the Secretary of Agri- 



Fancy KentilftKy Blue Grass 



Aiib Mixed Lawn Grass Seed. Ask fMQddMci^^'Pkb^ prtiM aad f oture ddhrery 



J. OLIVER JOHNSON ""SaMvr* 



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Burpee's "Sfeds that Grow* 



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BEANS, PEAS, RADISK 



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ONION SETS 



GROWERS rOR THE TRADE 



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The Everett B. Clark Seed Co., oo»i. 



Oruif lu g Btatloiui at Ssst Jordan, IfOeli., Graan Brty. Wis., Uatar Bay, Wla. 



BEANS, PEASp SWEET CORN, ONION, BEET, TURNIP, TOMATO, ETC. 



Henry Fish Seed Co. 



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CAL. 



Waldo Rohnert 



GILROY, CAL. 



Wholesale Seed Grower 



Specialties: Lettuce, Onion. Sweet Peas, A^tei; 

 Cosmos, Migrnonette, Verbena, in variet7. 

 Correspondence solicited. 



Western Seed & Irrigation Co. 



S.«d Grower, and Dealor. 



Specialties: 



Cucumber, Musk and Watermelon, 



Pumpkin, Squash, Sweet and Field GcNrn. 



FREMONT^WEB. 



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CONTRACT SEED GROWER 



SPECIALTIES: Pepper, Ejf Plant, 

 Tomato, Vine Seed uA nekf Cora 



OMAR F. HURFF, "SSi'^ASli^- 



Correspondence Solicited. 



The C. Herbert Coy Seed Co. 



VALLEY, DoufirUa County, NEB. 



WMcnle Growers tf Hifh Gndc Seeds. 



Gicumber, Mtsskmelon, Squash and Pumj^ 

 kin. Sweet. Flint and Dent Seed Gmv. 



Bridgeman's Seed Warehouse 



■■t. 18M. RICKARDS BB08., Props. 



Importera and ffrowers of hlffh-grade 



SEEDS, BULBS, PLANTS, Be 



87 East 19th St., NEW YORK CITY 



Telephone 4235 Grsmercy 

 Mention The Bevlew when jroa write 



J. BOLBIANO & SON 



WHOLESALE FIELD 

 and GARDEN SEEDS 



Established 1818. Write for our low prices. 



Ufht, Pratt and Blicott Sts., BaUimore, Md. 



TOMATO SEED 



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The Haven Seed Go. 



Growers for wholesale trade 011I7. Santa Ana , Oal. 



S. M. Isbell & Co. 



JACKSON. mCH. 



Contract Seed Growers 



Bean, Cucumber, Tomato, Radish, Squash 

 Muskmelon, Watermelon, Sweet Com. 



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Contract Seed Growers 



opcOUlWi. vine 8e«4 an« n«I« Con; 



Correspondence solicited. 



George R. Pedrick A SoB 



PBDBICKTOWir, H. 3, 



Oklahoma Seed Growers' Co. 



Contract Growers of 



Watermelon and Huskmelon Seeds 



(or ttae wholesale trade only 



ENID, OKLAHOMA 



r. W. O. SCHMITZ 



PBINCB BAT, K. T. 



Wholesale Grower, Exporter and Im- 

 porter of all plants, roots and bulbs in 

 season. 



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