October 25, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



361 



FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY 



GLADIOLI 

 For Forcing 



Lilium Giganteum 



Pulverized Sheep Manure 

 Fertilizers for the Greenhouse 



JOSEPH BRECK & SONS 



(CORP.) 



SEEDS BULBS PLANTS 



51 North Market Street Boston, Mass. 



George Watson's 

 Corner 



You in your small corner and me 

 in mine." 



C. H. Grakelow reports that the 

 Flower Week Campaign was a big 

 success and begs to extend his thanks 

 to all who helped in making this drive 

 for the general good of the business. 

 The big hotels who got flowers were 

 especially tickled and many of them 

 have put in regular orders at market 

 prices for the balance of the season. 

 The benefits to the trade cannot help 

 but be beneficial and this will be espe- 

 cially noticeable among the more con- 

 servative concerns in the outlying sec- 

 tions of the city, although those in the 

 central parts who were already active 

 advertisers, also benefit along with the 

 rest. 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 

 gives such a show in the armory at 

 Broad and Callowhill, week of No- 

 vember 5th next, and while it is not a 

 trade exhibition there is nothing to 

 hinder the trades making themselves a 

 part of it for exhibition purposes even 

 if the prizes offered are mostly for 

 amateurs and gardeners. 



Ed. Fancourt reports that the florists 

 passed an appropriation of twenty-five 

 thousand for billboards at the Buffalo 

 meeting. J. Horace McFarland's let- 

 ter was read, but they persisted in 

 staying in the hog-pen. Wow! Won't 

 Harrisburg Howl ! ! 



their front window at 518 Market 

 street, under the artistic eye of Philip 

 Frend — one of the past masters at this 

 kind of work — and proved a very at- 

 tractive show with the slogan card of 

 the florists displayed in half a dozen 

 places. One variety especially at- 

 tracted attention. This was Dr. 

 Taevis, a pink and white decorative, 

 about as big as your hat. If it was 

 not quite as big as some hats the 

 ladies wear at least they all had to 

 take their hats off to it — metaphori- 

 cally speaking. 



In this connection the florists 

 should make it their business to re- 

 member that the old-fashioned flower 

 show is another good way of stimulat- 

 ing public interest, and deserves their 

 active support and participation. The 



Frank M. Ress, superintended the 

 delivery of flowers to all the hospitals 

 in Philadelphia. Mr. Ross is to be 

 congratulated for the efficiency with 

 which he handled his part, with the 

 able assistance of the rest of the com- 

 mittee. Every hospital, public and 

 private — not forgetting the Sisters of 

 Mercy, Kirkbride's, or even the Poor- 

 house — they all got their share and 

 were cheered by this burst of floral 

 sunshine in a gloomy world. 



A fine exhibit of named dahlias was 

 a feature of the Michell display for 

 flower week. These were staged in 



PHILADELPHIA. 

 Philadelphia visitors: Harry A 

 Bunyard, New York City; Einar Knut 

 son, rep. Hjalmar Hartmann & Co., Co 

 penhagen, Denmark; John F. Horn, Al 

 lentown, Pa.; Paul Klingsporn, Clar 

 ence Ellsworth, rep. J. F. Kidwell Co. 

 Chicago, 111.; F. J. Moreau, Freehold 

 N. J.j John A. Brown, Capitola, Cal. 

 M. J. Brinton, Christiana, Pa.; E. A 

 Harvey, Brandywine Summit, Pa.; J 

 A. Patterson, Baltimore, Md.; Karl P 

 Baum, Knoxville, Tenn.; John Walker, 

 Youngstown, O.; W. G. Mathews, Day- 

 ton, O.; Thomas H. Joy, Nashville, 

 Tenn.; A. Yeager, Allentown, Pa 



