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Title: Florists' review (microform)
Identifier: 5205536_27_2 (find matches)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: Chicago : Florists' Pub. Co
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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50 The Weekly Florists' Review. Mauch 2, 1911. ASPARAGUS SEED TRUE PLUMOSUS NANUS Wisconsin Qreenhouse Grown. Not to be compared with tho Inferior CaUfornla and Florida outdoor grown seed. ^„ „ „„ 1000 seeds, $4.00; 5000. $18.16; U.000, $36.00 C. H. HUNKEL CO. •/ SEEDSMEN MILWAUKEE, WIS. Mention The Review when you write. people again. Now, does it not appeal to your sense of commerce that it is better for us to sell these people, as we have for three generations, what the goods are represented to be, than to find a new set of suckers every year— if you will excuse that word; I forgot myself. It is a fact that it is to our commercial interest, laying aside all matters of honor, to satisfy these peo- ple with what they get. In practice, the only time that I know of in any seedsman's business that the purchaser does not get exactly what is repre- sented as to the variety is when, by some error, a wrong bag gets in; that is, when a packet of some other variety eets into the packet of the variety which is being filled; and we prevent that, as far as possible, and no amount of legislation could make us any more careful than we are. "This brings me down to the third point, and the thing on which I think you are probably most insistent, and that is, that the seeds which a man buys shall be alive and not dead. It would seem this was a matter which meant the most careful protection to the buyer. As a matter of fact, it is not true that the purchaser of garden seed needs any federal protection, or any state protection, as to the via- bilitv of the seeds he buys. As a mat- ter of fact, ninety-eight per cent of all the garden seeds sold are represented by the association which is here repre- sented; ninety-eight per cent of all the garden seeds sold in this country are represented here. In our business we have practically no complaint of the viability of the seeds we sell. As a matter of fact the seeds grow, but the value of seeds does not depend upon the viability; it depends more upon the quality of the product. It is just the same as it is with cows. A thorough- bred cow is no more alive than a runt. But the amount of butter fat that that cow will produce may be three times as great. The value is not in the viability so much as in whether or not it is thoroughbred seed, and frequently thor- oughbred seed does not test as much as seed of poorer quality and much higher viability. The highest viability comes in the wild stuff. That is a point in biology that you can not get around. "I should like to adduce, as evidence that a purchaser needs no protection, not onlv the fact that we, as seedsmen, have very little complaint of viability, but a circular published by the Depart- ment of Agriculture, Bulletin No. 131, part 1, on the germination of vegetable seed. That bulletin was published in March, 1908, so it is comparatively re- cent. In that bulletin there are tabu- lated twenty-seven diflferent kinds of seed—the ordinary kinds of seed—and that represents the viability tests of the Department of Agriculture on twen- ty-seven different packeting houses, rep- resenting practically all the seeds that are sold in packets, and I think no one will claim that the viability of seeds sold by the pound or ounce is less than the viability of seeds sold by the packet.
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Dreer's Superb Strains of the Best Asters Our stoclcs of the following Asters are grown under our own 8ut>ervislon and we are quite sure that nothing finer in quality can be had at any price from any source. Our yearly increasing gales are the best evidence that they give complete satisfaction. DREER'S ♦♦PEERLESS PINK" A magnificent new variety which m»y briefly be deicribcd as an improved late-branching shell-pink. Flowers of largest size, of rich shell- pink, borne on long, strong stems, making them one of the finest for cutting. 'lO cents per trade l>acket: $4.00 per ounce. DREER'S SUPERB LATE=BRANCHINQ The finest of all September-blooming Asters. Our stock has been re-selected for a number of years and is now as perfect as the most pains- taking care can make it. We offer the following eight distinct colors: Azure Blue or deep lavender Deep Purple Pale lavender Roae-plnk Deep Crimson Shell-pink Deep Rose Pure Wblte Any of the above. i'> cents per trade packet; $1.00 per ounce. Finest mixed, all colors. 2.5 cents per trade packet; 75 cents per ounce. CREQO'S QIANT COMET . The perfection of Comet Asters, Immense fluffy flowers, five Inches and over acroxs. borne on long, strong stems, coming into bloom in August, continuing through Septemtwr. We offer pure white and shell-pink, 40 cents per trade packet; $2.00 per ounce. DAYBREAK A tine mid-season Aster of symmetrical growth, 18 Inches high, with good--ized. densely double soft pink fiowers. 'lO cents per trade packet; ^^.50 per ounce. VIOLET KINO A fine late-branching variety of exceptionally free growth, bearing very large double flowers of a pleasing shade of soft violet. 30 cents per trade packet; ;l.-')0 per ounce. EARLY WONDER The earliest of all Afters, blooming at the end of .Tune; flowers of good size on good stems and valuable where early flowers are desired. We offer pure white and pink, 40 cents per trade packet; ;2.00 per oiince. QUEEN OP THE MARKET An early-flowering, first-class Alter, coming into bloom in July, lasting well through August; flowers of large size on long, strong stems. A good variety for growing under glass. We can supply in the following six defirab e colors: Pink BrlKht Rose Purple Crimson Wlilte Lavender Any of the above, 20 c*nts per trade packet; 60 cents per ounce. Finest mixed, all colors, 15 cents per trade packet; 50 cents per ounce. The above are but a few of the many Asters which we offer. For a complete list see pages 2 and 3 of our current wholesale price list. If you do not have a copy we will be pleased to send one to any Florist on application. New crop seeds of almost all kinds are now in stock, and early orders from the trade are solicited. Henry A. Dreer,chl!.tst Philadelphia, Pa.

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