OCTOBEE 2, 1902. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



605 



About twelve years ago Mr. Meehan 

 started in business for himself, building 

 two greenhouses at Slocum and Musgrove 

 streets, Germantown. He was success- 

 ful from the start, his roses doing phe- 

 nomenally well the first year. He now 

 has ten greenhouses, containing prob- 

 ably 25,000 feet of glass, devoted to roses 

 and a variety of plants and flowers. Mr. 

 Meehan has always sold his own flowers, 

 believing this end of the business to be 

 of the greatest importance. He is fortu- 

 nate in having the aid of a good fore- 

 man, Joseph Slaughter, who with the aid 

 of several capable young men, always 

 keeps the place in good trim and full of 

 thrifty stock. 



Reply to a Critic. 



"K.," in his Philadelphia letter to a con- 

 temporary weekly, which appeared Sept. 

 20, criticises the taste and want of judg- 

 ment shown in the selection of a location 

 for the flower market in this city. I am a 

 great admirer of Mr. "K.," believing that 

 liis bright weekly letters have done much 

 to cement the feeling of comradeship so 

 strong among our florists. It will there- 

 fore be seen that it is in no unfriendly 

 spirit that I answer his criticism. Two 

 distinct committees went carefully over 

 the entire field, seeing all the available 

 buildings in the district which they con- 

 sidered suflSciently central. All the tem- 

 porary directors, after going over the 

 report of the second] committee, agreed 

 that the place selected was superior to 

 any other. Despite this fact, they cheer- 

 fully went to see a place selected by Mr. 

 "K." before finally committing thenir 

 selves, but coidd see no reason for chang- 

 ing their minds. 



With regard to the criticism that the 

 ])laoe chosen should have been near Six- 

 teenth and Chestnut streets, it must be 

 remembered that the growers and the 

 conunission men do not require the same 

 surroundings. The former want, first. 

 to be within easy reach of both railroad 

 terminals, and second, to be as near the 

 local business center as possible — a little 

 north of Market street — in order to at- 

 tract the uptown buyers. The commis- 

 sion men, on the contrary, consider prox- 

 imity to the offices of the express com- 

 panies as of paramount importance. I 

 dk) not believe that any of the gi'owers. 



Installing a Pair of New Boilers at the Establishment of Poehlmann Bros. Co., 

 Morton Grove, 111. 



or of the uptown buyers, consider Six- 

 teenth and Chestnut streets as a central 

 location. 



Notes, 



Bernheiraer is getting some very good 

 Queen of Edgely from the Floral Ex- 

 change place at Tuilytown, also the Helen 

 Gould, or Balduin rose. These, when 

 good, bring 6 cents. 



8. S. Pennock is handling a great 

 quantity of dahlias. Last Saturday he 

 sold more than two wagon loads. They 

 came from Peacock, and are there grow- 

 ing bj- the acre. 



The first chrysanthemums of the sea- 

 son were received from De Witt on Sep- 

 tember '24th by S. S. Pennock, and he had 

 some from Weber & Sons a few days 

 later. He reports the shipping end as 

 keeping up very well, having had an 

 order last week for 200 cattleyas and a 

 quantity of valley. His first shipments 



Piping a Propagating House at the Establishment of Poehlmann Bros. Co., Morton Grove, 111. 



of double violets came in on the 29th. 

 Tlie price asked was 50 cents per 100. 



Charles H. Fox has closed his Atlantic 

 City hotel for the season and is now at 

 work at his Columbia avenue store paint- 

 ing and getting ready for winter. He 

 says that lie had a very prosperous sea- 

 son at the shore. 



John Leach, who has been in the west 

 for the past twelve years, has returned 

 to this city. He says the people in the 

 west are hustlers. 



Charles H. Miller, the well known, 

 landscape engineer at Fairmount Park, 

 in getting out of bed last week broke his 

 hip. Mr. Miller has been in poor health 

 for some time, but was recovering, and 

 it is feared this will be a set-back. 



George Faulkner, who has been with 

 Joseph Kift & Son, will in a few days 

 open a store at Fifteenth and Walnut 

 streets. 



Charles E. Meehan has -withdrawn his 

 interest from the Plender Co., and John 

 C. Gracey will now be sole owner. A 

 number of improvements have been made 

 on this property, including a boiler which 

 heats house, store and greenhouse. Mr. 

 Gracey has also added a new member 

 to his family, and the little lady is re- 

 ceiving bunches of flowers from her ad- 

 mirers alreadv. Phil. 



BOSTON. 



New Co-Operative Markets. 



This feature of floral troubles became 

 even more distorted the past week by an 

 organization being formed by dissatisfied 

 stall-holders at the old market, and 

 others, whose strongest movement was 

 the occupancy of N. F. McCarthy's huge 

 basement. His co-operation made this 

 plan very belligerent indeed to the old 

 market people, who had been simply 

 winking and smiling, so when a commit- 

 tee of dissatisfaction waited upon them 

 they came out much more in detail witli 

 their plans, and promised so many re- 

 forms for the future so far as space was 

 concerned, that all movements are de- 

 clared olT until January 1st, but the or- 

 ganization is still held in force, perhaps 



