Mabcb 6, 1913. 



The Florists' Review 



67 



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Ask for Prices of Seeds (Garden, Farm 

 or Flower) from 



KELWAY'S 



for present delivery or on contract. 

 Special prices now ready. 



LANGPORT, ENGLAND 



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declared. He denied that he opposed 

 the distribution in the interest of the 

 seed trade, saying he had never had 

 any correspondence with anybody con- 

 nected with that trade. "The only peo- 

 ple to whom any motive personal to 

 themselves might be imputed are the 

 editors of agricultural papers," Mr. 

 Page continued. "I can see that they 

 might have a personal interest in the 

 opposition because of the fact that they 

 have a certain income from the adver- 

 tising of seed producers. They almost 

 as a whole oppose this appropriation. 

 Most of them editorially have com- 

 mended the effort I have made to dis- 

 continue the appropriation. 



"And personal observation — one of 

 the reasons for my opposition is the 

 worthlessness, practically, of these 

 seeds, which I think can be demon- 

 strated to any gentleman who will take 

 the trouble to make a little inquiry. 

 Personal observation, or, rather, con- 

 currence, was brought to my attention 

 within the last few months by a gen- 

 tleman who happens to live in my own 

 district. A large industry is carried on 

 in certain sections of this country in 

 the cultivation and sale of the Rocky 

 Ford cantaloupe. It is a native of the 

 high altitudes of Colorado and grows to 

 greater perfection there than elsewhere. 



"I happened to have an enterprising 

 constituent who owns a farm in Colo- 

 rado, on which he raises the Rocky 

 Ford seed. He is an authority in this 

 country on the cultivation and the rais- 

 ing of this particular fruit. I have his 

 word that the government contract let 

 for the Rocky Ford seed which the De- 

 partment of Agriculture was going to 

 distribute was given to a firm of Jews 

 in the state of Colorado, whose name I 

 do not recall at the present time, on a 

 competitive-bid price. That he himself 

 saw the employees of these people, who 

 had been the successful bidders to the 

 government, going into the cantaloupe 

 fields of Colorado from which the 

 salable, perfect fruit had been gathered 

 and sold, taking the refuse that the 

 farmer had left, to secure the seed that 

 they sold the government under the 

 contract that they took; and this hap- 

 pened last year. He says they are abso- 

 lutely worthless, and I believe he knows 

 what he is talking about. 



"Personally and in the interest of 

 the people of the country, I do not 

 think we are warranted, that the com- 

 mittee is warranted, or that Congress 

 is warranted, in appropriating a dollar 

 of money for a useless purpose; and my 

 thorough conviction is that this sum, 

 amounting practically to $300,000, that 



-TO 



TBAOB- 



HENRY MEHE, ODedlmbm^ Gennany 



"■^■^^■""■■"""^ (E8TABU8HED IN 1787) 



Growar and ■zportar on th« vary larsoat ■oala of all 



CHOICE VEGETABLE, FLOWER and FARM SEEDS 



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 Cinerarias, Gloxinias, Larkspurs. Nasturtiums. Panslos. Petnnlas.Fhluz. Primulas. Scabious. 

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All seeds offered are grown under my personal supervision on my o^^n vsMt cronnda, 

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H. FRANK DARROW 



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86 BareUy St.. NBW YORK 

 VaUiy IriB caM itiri|e tw iuMdiate skqpMt 



Importor of 



Azaleas, Palms, Bay Trass 



and all other Belgian Plants, Lily of the Valley 

 of the finest Berlin and Hamburg brands. 



Japanese, HoUaad and French Bofti 



FRENCH and BNQLISH 

 FRUIT aad ORNAMENTAL STOCKS 



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German Stock Seeds 



A GRAND SPECIALTY 



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PAULTEICHER, Striegau, Germany 



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Aognst Rolker & Sons 



import lor the trade only: Azaleas, 



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Lilacs, Holland and Japan Bulbs, 



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is expended for the purchase and distri- 

 bution of ordinary garden seeds, is a 

 waste of that much of the tax money 

 of the people; and I do not think this 

 committee or the House of Representa- 

 tives is warranted in spending that 

 money; and I wanted merely to make 

 my protest here and say to the gentle- 

 men that I felt that the people that 

 are to be consulted — the people who 

 are supposed to use these seeds — do 

 not want them." 



CATALOGUES BECIEVED. 



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 S. Harrison's Select Nursery Co., York. 

 Neb., general nursery stock; T. Lee 

 Adams Seed Co., Kansas City, Mo., 

 seeds, implements and supplies; Kel- 

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 list of vegetable and farm seeds; Wm. 



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