August 12, 1911 



HORTICULTURE 



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Are essentials which you seldom 

 receive together. Usually one or 

 the other is sacrificed at the cost 

 of the third. We have com- 

 bined the THREE, so you are 

 getting the Quality and Service 

 without paying the Premium. 



EDWARD REID 



Wholesale Florist 



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1619-21 Ranstead St., 

 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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BUYER 



AS WELL AS 



SELLER 



Much is beard of Mow to sell goods— the buyer 

 Beema to be taken tor On the con- 



txary, we think the buyer entitled to equal 

 w ell bought is half sold. We 

 aim to l»- the faithful servant of both buyer and 



Beller, Equal justice to both Is our motto. Send 

 your • i or consignments to us and judge. 



BBRGBR BKOS., 



Whotetale FloriMtt 

 1305 Filbert St., PHILADELPHIA 



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PENNOCK BROS. 



Retail Orders Filled and 

 Promptly Delivered 



1514 CHESTNUT STREET 



Philadelphia, Pa. 



H. BAYERSDORFEf. & CO. 



i like to Bee the drummer Hit 

 As Hits the panting 1 1 



1 in his Lit 



And bus : in. 



• b little i 

 Pursues the buying 



in wiihiw iini words i 



nut again. 



win n lie is mi the j'>h In f" 



a creature to begu 

 He takes the lltt le tow a bj • torm 



And holds It with hi 



To thi 

 \vhnt can the gentlemen In trade 

 Do h b ami buy? 



a- busy us a bumblebee, 



As happy as a lark. 

 Be works the town from \ to z. 



Prom morning until dark. 

 An. I everyone is tilled with joy 



ii he gets off the train, 

 mhI when he goes they say, "Old boy. 

 Be sure to come again.'' 



When it comes to Baltimore and 

 Baltimore florists nobody is more at 

 home or more welcome than Hatty Bay- 

 ersdorfcr for. "lo, these many years" 

 ever since the good old days of "John- 

 nie" Feast, "Boh" Halliday and "Jim" 

 Pentland. In Mr. Harry or any one of 

 the genial representatives of The 

 Florists' Supply House of Philadelphia 

 is exemplified the ideal type of persua- 

 Bive sali sman. They say that tb< 

 no florists' supply house of any extent 

 taltimore. Why should there be 

 so long as H. Ba & Co. 



wave? And this is true of many other 

 places as well. Nine bundn 

 feet of floor space has been sei 

 for the his Bayersdorfer display at 

 the Fifth Regt Armory Don't miss 

 seeing it and having a talk with one 

 of the merchant princes in attendance. 

 You'll get an idea of the florists' sup- 



AN INTERESTING RIBBON EXHIBIT. 



The Illustration shows an intere 

 exhibit "i florists' ribbons, a branch of 

 the business which in recent years has 



assumed large Importance. To ti s- 



perts in this line each flower has sug- 

 gested some beautiful ribbon produc- 

 tion, each one more beautiful than the 

 las' Perseverance, taste and applica- 



■ alarged the selection great- 

 er retailer can now find 

 Ol materials in 



ming shadi s of color. The 



,i glimpse of part of the 



lay of the Pennock-Meehan Co., of 

 Philadelphia, at the National Flower 

 Show last March. 



ply business and how essential it is to 

 your trade in these hustling tin 



EDWARD REID. 



We have often bad occasion to 

 a good word about this old 



lission florist and we bavi 

 said half enough. Mr. Reid is one of 

 the shrewdi s( aft, and has 



been an Important factor in the florist 

 trade of Philadelphia all his lifi 



training was in the growing end 

 of the business. Tl a period 



of commercial training on the road for 

 the then great seed house of Z. De 



Forest Ely & Co. In addition to this 

 comprehensive fundamental training, 



nl management, ample capital 

 and up-to-date methods > Mr. 



>iit. Mr. Reid has 

 friends and ens . hut 



a!l\ do< Stige shine in 



the sunny south, is univer- 



sally known and personally beli 



slogan is "Quality and Sei 

 i that he 

 "Prici ming that while you get 



ty and service you pay no more 

 than you would wh( lack- 



ing. Is it any wonder his business 

 grow 



