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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



APRIL 2S, 1898. 



the results of his analysis. The palest 

 daffodils, having a sulphur-yellow 

 color, were grown on the poorest soil, 

 and the deepest colored were grown on 

 the richest of the three soils, but it did 

 not appear that the differences of 

 color were due to the abundance or 

 otherwise of any one constituent of 

 the soil. — Gardeners' Chronicle. 



busy getting their stock in shape for 

 summer growth. 



Penn. Hort. Society. 

 The Pennsylvania Horticulural So- 

 ciety meeting was held on Tuesday 

 evening. The Dreer prize for pansies 

 went to Wm. Robertson, gardener to 

 J. W. Pepper, of Jenkintown. The 



Lilies, Heath, Azaleas and Hydrangeas in basket, trimmed with white ribbon. 

 By J. H. Small & Sons, New York. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Supply and Demand. 



The Easter season of festivities is 

 practically over; the market for cut 

 flowers has consequently fallen away, 

 and prices are much lower than one 

 week ago. The quantity of stock is 

 enormous; much of it remains unsold. 

 It is unlikely that conditions will im- 

 prove for the next six weeks, until the 

 final busy days in June, when any 

 really good stock usually finds ready 

 sale. To have it really good then is 

 the rub. 



Fine Beauties are more plentiful, 

 probably, than ever before. The best 

 are extra fine, and are quoted at $4 

 to $5 a dozen. One can, however, by 

 jingling two shiny half dollars to- 

 gether, get a dozen pretty good blooms 

 every now and then. Brides and Maids, 

 when nice, bring $3 to $4. occasionally 

 more; Meteors about the same; car- 

 nations, .?! to $1.50; sweet peas 50 

 cents to $1.50; valley, $:5 to $4; mig- 

 nonette, .$1 to $-, generally small; 

 pansies, 2y^ cents a bunch of about a 

 dozen blooms. Von Sion in small 

 quantities is coming in from out-doors 

 and brings $2 and $3; Emperor, ?4. 

 Arbutus is plentiful and has fallen in 

 price. 



Quite a lot of palms were sold dur- 

 ing the past week. The growers are 



Michell prize, for hyacinths, was 

 awarded to Jno. McCIeary, gardener to 

 Wm, Weightman, of Germantown: 

 second, to Jos. Hurley, gardener to 

 Jas. M. Rhodes, of Merlon. There were 

 also exhibits of vegetables. H. T. 

 Clinkaberry, gardener to C. G. Roeb- 

 ling, of Trenton, N. J., showed a new 

 hybrid laelia, wliich received a silver 

 medal, and a certificate of merit for 

 Laelia elegans was awarded to Al- 

 phonse Perical. gardener to Mrs. Geo. 

 B. Wilson, of West Philadelphia. 

 Notes. 



The Florists' Club team has made a 

 great record in the Bowlers' League, 

 and now has a chance for first place. 



The club is to have a benefit at the 

 Walnut Street Theater next month. 

 The play is "The Telephone Girl." 

 There is also to be a shad dinner 

 at Wissinoming in May. with other 

 festivities besides to fill out the day. 



It is not true that any of the com- 

 mission houses are to become bureaus 

 of immigration. 



H. C. Faust is sending in some well 

 flowered yellow daisies. 



M. B. Bunker, of Boston, and Will- 

 iam Edgar, of Waverly, Mass., were in 

 town last week. 



The growers of bedding plants are 

 very busy getting everything in shape 

 for the fateful May 10. 



A rose grower came home a bit dis- 



couraged from his morning in town. 

 His foreman urged him to see the pro- 

 prietor of a certain store he had 

 passed one evening and noticed an un- 

 usually fine display of Jacks and Brun- 

 ners. The rose grower went to the 

 spot indicated and found everything 

 as described, excepting in one impor- 

 tant particular — the roses in that win- 

 dow were the kind that don't fade! 



J. W. Y. 



A VISIT TO THOMAS CARTLEDGE. 



Come with me in fancy, this bright 

 Sunday afternoon, the third in April, 

 out over the wondrously straight line 

 of the Pennsylvania to Holmesburg 

 Junction. There waits a solitary trol- 

 ley which plies back and forth be- 

 tween the railroad and the Bristol 

 pike, where the Frankford trolley line 

 runs still further out of town, passing 

 Academy road. 



At the corner of this road and the 

 pike, on one side of the street, is the 

 old Brown estate; on the other is the 

 property of ex-Senator Porter; on th? 

 right and on the left a picturesque, old- 

 fashioned house with tall pillars and 

 broad veranda; a pretty stretch of 

 lawn in front, with trees just showing 

 signs of life, and seated on the porch 

 a family party. One of the group 

 rises and comes forward to the gate. 

 It is Thomas Cartledge. the man who 

 has brought the firm of Pennock Bros, 

 to their present high position, and 

 better still, has won the respect and 

 admiration of all who know him, by 

 his uprightness and kindliness. 



Azalea trimmed witn ribbon, covered with 

 Nun's Veiling. By Stumpp, New York. 



Mr. Cartledge had a number of vis- 

 itors this sunny afternoon. He chat- 

 ted about the unusually pleasant 

 month just passed (there was but little 

 of the lion about this March), about 

 the old Macalester place recently 

 bought by Mr. Porter, who is erecting 



