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The Florists' Review 



MiBCH 20, 1913. 



Seed Trade News. 



AXEBIOAN SEED TRADE ASSOOIATIOK. 



President, Charles N. Page, Dea Molnea, la.; 

 Secretary-Treasurer, C. E. Kendel, Cleveland, O. 

 Thirty-first annual convention at Cleveland, June 

 24 to 26. 1918. 



Field peas are reported short, some- 

 thing not usual. 



Visited Chicago: Ralph M. Ward, of 

 Ward & Oo., New York. 



: Seasonable weather from now on will 

 cheer the hearts of the counter trade 

 people. 



Some short varieties of beans,, that 

 were to come out in decent force, have 

 failed to arrive. 



Jobbers of the navy bean report a 

 depressed market, but their guess is that 

 it will not last long. 



Good rains in southern California have 

 brightened the seed crop prospects there, 

 especially on sweet peas. 



We hear no complaint from Rockford 

 as to lack of orders. R. H. Shumway 

 reports that his people are about snowed 

 under with them. 



There is no longer a chance for cheap 

 onion sets until this year's crop comes in. 

 The market at all points is up and this 

 spring's prices are likely to be as high 

 as last year. 



The Northern Seed Co., which was or- 

 ganized last fall at Cass Lake, Minn., is 

 greatly pleased with the volume of trade 

 already secured and is planning to go 

 into the business on a much larger scale. 



Many of the onion growers of the 

 central west are intending to plant a 

 good proportion of bulbs for seed this 

 season. Last season's good prices for 

 market onions cut the seed acreage down 

 considerably; as a consequence, seed of 

 the Globe varieties, especially of the Red 

 Globe, is in shorter supply than usual 

 this spring. 



The waste in the 1912 onion set crop 

 has completely reversed the early indica- 

 tions. Instead of there being a surplus, 

 with low prices, the loss has been such 

 that there is no oversupply and strictly 

 first-class sets are held at steadily stiffen- 

 ing prices. Cars that do not grade up to 

 the requirements of the best trade may 

 still be had, however, at prices that look 

 cheap until the stock is inspected. 



Alexander Forbes, for twenty-six 

 years vice-president and general manager 

 of Peter Henderson & Co., having pur- 

 chased the controlling interest in the firm 

 of J. F. Noll & Co., Newark, N. J., has 

 opened a stand in the Cortlandt street 

 terminal, New York, and will make a 

 special feature of the filling of orders for 

 commuters. Orders left in the morning 

 will be ready for the suburbanites to 

 pick up on their way home at night. 



It is beginning to be questioned if the 

 trade is not in wrong on the parcel post. 

 When the law was forming it was the 

 general opinion that the zone system 

 would prove cumbersome and that the 

 trade would be better off under the old 

 arrangement. The Regulations for pack- 

 age mail do not, however, give the seeds- 

 men the advantages they expected to re- 

 tain and, in the middle west at least, the 

 idea is gaining ground that seeds and 

 plants should come under the parcel post. 



-TO 



TBADB- 



HENRY IVIEHE, aaedlinbm^ Germany 



^^^■^^^■^^ (E8TABLI8BXD IN 1787) 



Growar and ■zportor on th« ▼•ry lars^at soal* of all 



CHOICE VEGETABLE, FLOWER and FARM SEEDS 



■p«olaltl«at H— n«. Beets. Cabbaces, Canots, Eobl-Babl, Leeks. Lettuces. Onlona, 

 Pmm* Radlslies, Spinach. Turnips. Swedes, Aetan, Balsams, Besonias. Camationi, 

 Cinerarias. Gloxinias. Larkspurs, Nasturtltuns, Panalaa. Fetonlaa.Ptalux. Primulas. Scablooa. 

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



HKNRS' MXTTK'S TBIDMPH OF THK GL4HT TAtlBJEB (mixed), the most per- 

 fect and most beautiful in the world. 16.00 per oz. : 11.75 per ^4 oz. ; $1.00 per ^e oz Postage 

 paid. Cash with order. . . _a. ^ 



All seedi offered are grown under my personal soperrislon on my own vast cropnda, 

 and are warranted true to name, of strongest growth, finest stocks and best quaUtj. I also 

 grow largaly soads on contract. - 



Mention The Beriew when yea wrtte. 



VAN GRIEKEN'S BULBS 



SOUND AND 

 WELL SELECTED 



Nlgrh-srada Hyacinths, Tulips, Narcissus* 

 Writa for Catalosua. 



Crocua, ate 



LEO VAN GRIEKEN, line, Hdland 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



Moitlon The Reyiew when you write. 



Ask for Prices of Seeds (Garden, Farm 

 or Flower) from 



KELWAY'S 



for present delivery or on contract. 

 Special prices now ready. 



LANGPORT, ENGLAND 



Mention The Review when you write. 



If You Are Looking for Quality 



in Dutch Bulbs, we want your busi- 

 ness—if not, we ask you to kind^ 

 ignore this advertisement 



Gt. van Waveren & Kruifff 



American Branch House 

 140 N. 13th Straat, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention Tbe BeTlew when yon write. 



O. & Th. De Raeve 



Chaussee d'Anvers 313-462 

 Moat St. Amand, Qhent, Beleluin 



Orowen and Exporters of 

 Amalew Indlcaand Mollis, Rhododendrons, 

 Bay:Trees, Araacarla, Kentia, Bearonla, etc 



Special prices npon request. 

 Mention The Reylew when yon write. 



Everyone seems to be satisfied with 

 the business of the year so far. 



Is the California climate changing, 

 especially with respect to rainfall, or is it 

 merely the common experience that sea- 

 sons run in cycles, several dry being 

 followed by several wet, and vice versat 

 At any rate, the San Juan and Santa 

 Clara valleys again are considerably be- 

 hind in necessary precipitation this sea- 

 son. 



While the peas grown for seed last 

 season in Montana and Idaho did not 

 turn out in every respect as well as had 

 been hoped, unusual weather conditions 

 are held largely responsible and the acre- 

 age will be materially increased for the 

 1913 cropv^ Practically all the large grow- 

 ers have been active in the new territory 

 j almost all winter. 



H. FRANK DARROW 



p. O. Box ISM 

 86 BareUj St., NKW YORK 



ViDif fna ciU rtmft br iuiitiite ikipMil 



Importar ot 



Azaleas, Palms, Bay Trass 



and all other Belgian Plants. Lily of the Yallay 

 of tbe finest Berlin and Hambort brands. 



Japaaese, HoHaid and French Baai 



FRENCH and BNQLISH 

 PRUIT and ORNAMENTAL STOCKS 



Mention The BeTJew when yon write. 



German Stock Seeds 



A GRAND SPECIALTY 



Price list on application 



PAULTEICHER, Striegau, Germany 



Oldest Special House 

 Mention The BeTlew when yon write. 



Angust Rolker & Sons 



import for the trade only: Azaleas, 



Palms, Rhododendrons, Bay Trees. Roses, 



Lilacs, Holland and Japan Bulbs, 



Lily of the Valley, etc. 



P. 0. Box 752, or 31 Barday Street, NEW YORK 



Mention The Review when yoa write. 



NEW AND RARE SEEDS 



Uniaue collection. Hundreds of yarieties 

 adapted for American use. Perennial 

 and perfectly hardy. Own saTlng. 

 Catalogue free. 



PERRY'S HARDY PLANT FARM 

 CnfleM, Mlddles«x, Knsland] 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



Yokohama Nursery Co. 



IMPORTERS 



Japanese Bulbs, Plants, Seeds 

 and Bamboo Stakes 



New York, N. Y. London, England 

 Yokohama, Japan 



Mention The Review when you write. 



A. C. ZvOLANEK is on his way from 

 Lompoc, Cal., to Bound Brook, N. J. 



Peter Henderson & Co., New York, 

 are shaving off six inches of their Cort- 

 landt street front in compliance with the 



