October 18, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 





George C. Watson extends his 

 thanks to "William Jennings Bryan" 

 for cordial greetings on his 58th birth- 

 day which occurred October 6th last. 

 The silver souvenir which accom- 

 panied these greetings— one round, 

 sixteen-to-one cartwheel, tor every 

 year — was also greatly appreciated 

 and conveyed the sentiments of the 

 donor in most appropriate fashion. 

 When one wants to "say it with silver" 

 a 100 per cent standard American dol- 

 lar has a silver loving-cup skinned a 

 mile. When the recipient was open- 

 ing the package from "Lincoln, Neb." 

 he thought from the weight of it that 

 it was either a small jug of the light 

 wine of Scotland or a gold brick. He 

 was agreeably surprised and became 

 at once converted from the gold to the 

 silver standard. If old Bill Harris 

 were alive he would chortle with glee. 



The S. S. Pennock Company had on 

 exhibition on the 8th inst. an exhibit 

 of the new dahlia Jean Kerr. This is 

 the variety so higly thought of as a 

 commercial white mentioned in our 

 last week's issue. The flowers were 

 sent in by George W. Kerr, the raiser, 

 from the parent stocks on the Burpee 

 Farms at Doylestown and created 

 quite a lot of favorable comment from 

 hoth growers and buyers. This is an 

 excellent way of telling the story to 

 those interested, as there are hun- 

 dreds who visit this big commercial 

 cut flower market every day, and are 

 always anxious to keep in touch with 

 anything new and good. The Pen- 

 nock market is really better than a 

 flower show in some ways, for exhibi- 

 tion purposes. 



1 be chief feature of the cut flower 

 market here this week so far as 

 a listener can make out is that the 

 men with glass are praying for a frost 

 and the men with outside stuff like 

 dahlias are praying for mild weather. 

 If both prayers are equally sincere, 

 and they seem to be, how is the Al- 

 mighty going to grant the wishes of 

 both parties. That is the question. 

 Reminds one of the old story about 

 the parish clergyman praying on Sun- 

 day for the success of Wellington 

 against Napoleon. Wasn't that a fine 

 prayer, said one old lady to another, 

 discussing the service on the way 

 home. Aye, said the other but what if 

 the French were putting up the same 

 prayer for Napoleon? Hoot, says the 

 first one there's nothing to that. The 

 Lord would never understand them 

 jabbering buddies. According to that 

 theory it will make a difference what 

 kind of language the glass folk or the 

 outdoor folk use in their prayers. 



Lord & Burnham Co., have com- 

 pleted a new house 150 x 36 feet for 

 Macaw Bros., Norwood, Pa., in their 

 latest up-to-date style. It is now full 

 of Cyclamen plants for the Christmas 

 market and after that will be used for 

 Rambler Roses in pots for the Easter 

 trade. Messrs. Macaw have earned a 

 splendid reputation as expert growers 

 of these plants and their products are 

 generally about the best going. Their 

 new fern Nephrolepis Macawi has 

 taken a firm hold on public esteem, 

 and increased area will be devoted to 

 it next season. 



I ran across Howard M. Earl in 

 Broad Street Station this morning. 

 Last I heard of him he was in Frisco 

 about a week ago. Asked him wheth- 

 er he was coming or going. He said 

 both. That so. How could it be both 

 ways at once. Well, said he, I'm just 

 in from Frisco and I'm just off for 

 New York. Would you call that a 

 "transitory state," or would it be 

 rapid-transitory like Niagara Falls or 

 the street cars in Fast Filadelphia? 

 Anyway Howard is some traveler. 

 Within the past eight months he has 

 been in Frisco, Paree, Rome, Buenos 

 Ayres, Detroit, Stockholm, London,- 

 Doylestown, Froghollow, Swampoodle 

 and Fishtown, not to mention a few 

 minor places like New York, Washing- 

 ton and Boston. I think he avoided 

 Chicago for fear he'd meet Mayor 

 Thompson or some other hot stofn- 

 ached Bolshevist liable to eat him up. 

 Anyway he is some traveler and one 

 may form from this bald and uninter- 

 esting paragraph some faint notion of 

 the wide extending interests of the 

 great seed firm he represents, Jerome 

 B. Rice & Co. of Cambridge, N. Y.. 

 U. S. A. 



PEONY BARGAIN 



3000 Festiva maxima 

 3000 Duchess de Nemours 

 900 Madame Ducel 



The three finest cut flower \arieticN; 



divided roots ; Pennsylvania!! frown ; 

 Immediate delivery. The rcjjular trade 



prices on these run from $'£0.00 to $35.00 

 per 100, hut to move them quickly we 

 offer for prompt order and if unsold, 

 in lots of 250 or over at 



$15.00 per 100 



If you can use 1000 or more will make 



the price 



$13.50 per 100 



S. S. PENNOCK COMPANY 



1614 Ludlow Street, Philadelphia 



this society and is popularly known to 

 outsiders as "The Philadelphia Show". 

 The list of prizes for roses, carnations 

 and other flowers are extensive; and 

 plants and vegetables are also well 

 taken care of. 



The Dreer windows at 716 Chestnut 

 street were very handsomely decor- 

 ated for Flower Week, Oct. 13, 1919. 

 The center of each was a large bas- 

 ket of dahlias surrounded by crotons, 

 ferns and other foliage plants artis- 

 tically arranged. The Say It sign had 

 a prominent place in the background 



We tried to stagger Bart Cartledge 

 the other day by asking him twenty 

 dollars a hundred for valley sprays, 

 but it did not seem to phase him any. 

 All he said was lets see them! An 

 old timer who was standing by got in- 

 terested and began telling about hav^ 

 ing made a New Year basket once, 

 back in the seventies with a hundred 

 sprays of valley in it and he got a 

 dollar a spray for them. Sounds like 

 an orchid tale for valley, but even at 

 twenty they are pretty near in the 

 orchid class again. 



The annual Chrysanthemum Show of 

 the Pennsylvania Horticultural So- 

 ciety will be held in the First Regi- 

 ment Armory at Broad and Callowhill 

 Streets, commencing on Wednesday, 

 November 5th and continuing for four 

 days. Intending exhibitors and those 

 desiring premium lists or other in- 

 formation should address the secre- 

 tary, David Rust, 606 Finance Build- 

 ing, South Penn Square, Philadelphia 

 This is the big event of the year for 



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