August 13, 1910 



HORTICULTURE 



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AND 



QUALITY 



An important feature in all out of town 

 shipments is 



PACKING 



We Know How, and can supply every- 

 thing seasonable in 



CUT FLOWERS 



This feature and 



QUALITY 



Accounts for our success in the wholesale 

 cut flower business. 



EDWARD REID 



1526 Ranstead St.. 

 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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BUYER 



AS WELL AS 



SELLER 



Much is heard of how to sell goods — the buyer 

 seems to be taken for granted. On the con- 

 trary, we think the buyer entitled to equal 

 consideration. Well bought is half sold. We 

 aim to be the faithful servant of both buyer and 

 seller. Equal justice to both is our motto. Send 

 your orders or consignments to us and judge. 



Wholesale Florists 

 130S Filbert St., PHILADELPHIA 



DUNN, STEER & CO. 



CDStoms Brokers and 

 Forwarders of Plants and Bulbs 



TO ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY 



4th &ChestnutSt., PHILADELPHIA 



no good! execept in big sizes — sevens 

 and eights — ttien all right. Yes, put 

 that down, Harrissi is all right in a 

 big plant. 



Bye and bye we come to more houses 

 of crotons, and find many shifted from 

 fours into six-inch half-pots — a com- 

 promise between a pot and a pan. Gen- 

 istas and araucarias and regular stock 

 like that pass in rapid review, like 

 fields of wheat. Necessary propositions 

 but not inspiring. Even the ginger 

 jar is unable to start up a new thought 

 on these. And Pandurata rubbers! 

 Acres of this, the greatest find Craig 

 ever made and the biggest money- 

 maker. 



Two or three houses of Areca lutes- 

 cens. We thought Kentia had Areca 

 wiped up and swept into oblivion with 

 Latania borbonica years ago. But ap- 

 parently there is a good call for it — es- 

 pecially south, where it does well. 



Do you know anything about Dra- 

 caena Massangeana? You all know fra- 

 grans, of course. One of the toughest 

 things ever, as a house plant. Massan- 

 geana is simply fragrans with a creamy 

 band through the center of the leaf, 

 and Lindeni is similarly variegated but 

 the stripes are more distributed over 

 the leaf and on the edge. 



Forty thousand cyclamens under 

 slats, and a few houses of them fur- 

 ther advanced. Christmas and Easter 

 come-on's. We were unable to pick 

 any flaws, which grieved us! 



By this time, we were all "het up'" 

 as they say in Kokomo, and impatient 

 to get to the next place. So you will 

 excuse us for the brevity of this pass- 

 ing glimpse. Put Craig's down as one 

 of the good places — "where and why 

 you should buy in Philadelphia." 



PENNOCK-MEEHAN CO. — This 

 wholesale commission house had its 

 initial start in 1S81, by Charles E. Pen- 

 nock, now deceased, at 30 South 16th 

 street. In 1S89 the firm became C. E. 

 and S. S. Pennock. Charles E. Pen- 



Samuel S. Pennock 



nock died in 1S91, and the firm became 

 Samuel S. Pennock. In 1892 the store 

 was located at rear of 42 South 16th 

 street. In 1S95, were bought the two 

 dwelling houses, 1612 and 1614 Ludlow 

 street, the nucleus of the present Pen- 



nock Building in which the Pennock- 

 Meehan Co. is located. Other pur- 

 chases were made in 1898, 1899 and 

 1900. In 1906, consolidated with Charles 

 E. Meehan (who controlled and prac- 

 tically owned the Philadelphia Whole- 

 sale Flower Market Co.) under the title 

 of the S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co. The 

 present officers of the companv are: 

 Samuel S. Pennock, president; Charles 

 E. Meehan, vice-president; Percy B. 

 Rigby, treasurer, and E. .J. Fancourt, 

 secretary. Mr. Pennock installed a 

 cold storage plant in 1901, being the 

 first wholesale house to do thi.?. In 

 1903, a .-ibbon and supply denartm^'.it 

 was started, in charge of E. J. Fan- 

 court, and through his energy and 

 ability has grown until it is now rec- 

 ognized as headquarters for florists' 

 ribbons the country over. Tlie Pen- 

 nock Building was designed and buiit 

 specially with a view of conducting a- 

 wholesale cut-flower and supply busi- 

 ness. The ice-making machinery is 

 operated by electric power and is capa- 

 ble of producing six tons of ice daily. 

 Owing to the new methods of stotiug. 

 the cold air, the machinery can be shut 

 down for six hours or more at a time 

 and still retain the required tempera- 

 ture. The plant is divided off into sec- 

 tions so that the expansion and con- 

 li action of business can be Jiandled 

 without waste; 19,000 cubio feet of cool 

 natural storage in the basement is a.i 

 adjunct to the regular cold storage fa- 

 cilities. This latter is dust-proof and 

 some flowers are often better here than 

 under regular cold storage conditions. 

 The main floor has an area of over 

 6,000 sq. ft., and here the receiving.. 

 grading, selling and shipping of flow- 



