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PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



P. N. Reed, late with the Florists' 

 Exchange, has taken a position with 

 the Pennock-Meehan Co., as one of 

 their outside men. 



The subject of the paper by E. A. 

 Stroud at the December meeting of the 

 Florists' Club will be: "How can we 

 make our Flower Shows more interest- 

 ing?" 



Thos. P. Hunter and family (of 

 Wynnewood) will spend the winter in 

 Europe. This has curtailed to a large 

 extent the operations on this splendid 

 new estate on the main line — of which 

 Joseph Hurley is superintendent — and 

 many orders for nursery stock, green- 

 house materials, etc., have been sus- 

 pended for the present. 



Prank L. Polites and Eurania Lou- 

 zion were married at Musical Fund 

 Hall on Tuesday, November 27th, at 3 

 p. m. Cupid has been having a busy 

 time these past ten days among our 

 distinguished florists. First it was Pat- 

 rick .Joseph Lynch, then Parker Thayer 

 Barnes — now it's Frank L. Polites. 

 Sing, hey, the merry maidens! Away 

 with the old bachelors. Let them cease 

 being tin cans on the dump of life. 



E. G. Hill will exhibit his three new 

 roses at the Florists' Club the first 

 Tuesday in December. This is the 

 first time in the East, aud we are 

 looking forward with pleasant antici- 

 pations. Mr. Hill usually has some- 

 thing of intrinsic merit to offer but, 

 above all, we like his persuasive and 

 inimitable manner of presenting the 

 merits. That alone is a rare treat and 

 seldom fails in booking a good order. 



Among the visitors in Philadelphia 

 this week were E. S. Miller, Wading 

 River, N. Y., and Cy. Warman, Mon- 

 treal, Canada — both guests of W. Ai- 

 lee Burpee. Mr. Warman is a cele- 

 brated wit, poet, philosopher and schol- 

 ar, and gave a delightful illustratea 

 "Travelogue" on Cai.ada on Tuesday 

 evening, the 29th inst., at Withorspoon 

 Hall, under the auspices of the Cana- 

 dian Society, of which Mr. Burpee has 

 the high honor of being president this 



year. A distinguished audience greet- 

 ed Mr. Warman, among whom were a 

 large sprinkling of the elite in the hor- 

 ticultural world of this and other 

 metropolitan centers — a red letter oc- 

 casion which none of the participants 

 will ever forget. Enlightening, enjoy- 

 able, effervescing, entrancing! Come 

 again, Mr. Warman. 



We got a glimpse of the new yellow 

 rose Lady Hillingdon at the Pennock- 

 Meehan establishment the other day. 

 This is a charming variety and seems 

 to be phenomenal as a keeper. The 

 flowers were in good shape after ten 

 days — with rough travel incidental. It 

 has that lovely, rich buff iiuge, in the 

 yellow, which adds liveliness to the 

 golden. The form and substance seem 

 to be good also: but we must wait to 

 see it at its best before forming or 

 expressing an opinion on this. The 

 exhibit came from the Waban Rose 

 Conservatories, Natick, Mass., and the 

 flowers were cut from plants brought 

 from England only ten weeks pre\i- 

 ously. Mr. Montgomery thinks well 



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of this newcomer, so far, and we will 

 be glad to hear from him further as 

 to her behavior. Looks promising. 



This clipping is from the "North 

 American" of recent date: 



What lias become of all of the small 

 flowep dealers near the Reading Railway 

 Terminal anil elsewhere who used to seU 

 posies to poor people at very moderate 

 prices? They have all vanished, driven 

 oEf the streets in order to make a monop- 

 oly for the favored ones on city hall pave- 

 ment, who charge very much higher prices. 

 It is whispered that this means dollars to 

 petty grafters Inside the building and fre- 

 quent contributions of free flowers at the 

 homes of those higher up. Can this be 

 true? INQUIRER. 



Chestnut Hill. Nov. 22. 



Inquirer should not get peevish 

 about a little thing like that. The 

 stand holders are probably paying the 

 full site value to the city; and there 

 are lots of doorways and empty stores 

 for rent on the streets mentioned. 



Visitors: Martin C. Ribsam, Ti en- 

 ton, N. J.; Winfield S. Harry, Consho- 

 hocken, Pa.; Mr. Stratmyer of Z. D. 

 Blackistone & Co., Washington, D. C, 

 (accompanied by Mre. Stratmyer); 

 George Dunn, superintendent for Mrs. 

 Sturgis, Lenox, Mass.; R. Renison, of 

 Wadley & Smythe, New York City; 

 Mr. Ratclyffe, of Ratclyffe & Tanner. 

 Richmond, Va.; Parker Thayer Barnes 

 and Mrs. Barnes, Harrisburg, Pa.; P. 

 J. Lynch and Mrs. Lynch, New Castle, 



Ind. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Batavia, N. Y.— Thomas A. Webb 

 is now employed by Gustavo Noack. 



Denver, Colo. — Fred C. Schumann 

 has purchased the N. S. Kime place. 

 He intends to devote it to violet grow- 

 ing. 



Troy, N. Y. — The Tenendaho Green- 

 houses have been purchased by Har- 

 vey Collins who took possession Nov. 

 16th. 



Port Arthur, Tex. — The Port Arthur 

 Greenhouse property has been pur- 

 chased by E. H. Pearsons and im- 

 provements and additions will be 

 made. 



