

October 5, 1916. 



The Florists^ Review 



37 



OCTOBER 

 WEDDINGS 



For the extra demand this month we will be able to 

 take care of our customers in fine shape, with a splendid 

 grade of Valley in quantity, at $5.00 and $6.00 per 100. 



CATTLEYAS— $6.00 per dozen 

 DAHLIAS— $3.00 and $4.00 per 100 



In originiil boxes The choicer varieties 



S. S. PENNOCK-MEEHAN CO. 



THX WHOLK8AI.K FLORISTS OF PHILADKLPHIA 



PHILADELPHIA NEW YORK BALTIMORE WASHINQTCN 



1608-1620 Ludlow St. 117 W. aSth St. Franklin and St. Paul Sts. 1216 H St.. N. W. 



Mentlen The Review when yow write. 



Offers all 

 his Regular 

 Customers 



Edward Reid 



HIGH-GRADE VALLEY AND ORCHIDS FOR THE OCTOBER WEDDINGS 



ALSO A SELECTION OF THE BEST VARIETIES OF 



R^\ O B O including BEAUTIES, FRANCIS SCOTT KEY^ 

 W W El W OPHELIA, SUNBURST and others. 



This is only a selection of a large and varied stock of the finest flowers. 



1621 Ranstead St., 



Philadelphia, Pa. 



Mention The B«Tlew wb»n yon write. 



of the new dwarf salvia. He said, 

 "There is a new salvia I want you to 

 gee;" that was all. When the salvia 

 was reached it would have warranted 

 a much longer trip. Despite the 

 drought, it was a compact mass of 

 green foliage, surmounted by a daz- 

 zlingly brilliant sea of scarlet spikes. 

 It suggested landscape gardening possi- 

 bilities. Fancy the great lawns at 

 Newport, with their long, waving back- 

 grounds of green, bordered by a double 

 row of some oije of our modern vari- 

 eties of c annas, edged with a double 

 row of this new dwarf salvia, while in 

 front a, vast expanse of velvety green 

 turf stretches away to the clifEs, and 

 the blue sea beyond. Over at River- 

 view there was another bed of this 

 dwarf salvia that heightened the im- 

 pression made at Locust Farm and 

 justified still further Mr. Eisele 's pleas- 

 ure in this promising plant acquisition. 



Florists' Club Election. 



A contest, when waged on friendly 

 lines, is a benefit to a club. That was 

 the feeling October 3, when about 150 

 club members turned out to vote for 

 their officers and to hear William Sa- 

 ville's paper on "Some October Glories 

 in Hardy Flowers." 



The election resulted as follows: 



President, A. Farenwald; vice-presi- 

 dent, David E. Colflesh; treasurer, 

 George Craig; secretary, David Bust. 



Various Notes. 



L. P. Bankin disappeared from the 

 Biverside Greenhouses, Westerly, B. I., 

 September 12 and has not been heard 

 from since. Mr. Bankin is well known 

 in this city. He was for many years 

 foreman for William A. Leonard, at 

 Lansdowne, Pa., where he was success- 

 ful with his roses. Mr. Bankin leased 

 the Biverside Greenhouses from the 

 late W. W. Foster, about a year and a 

 half ago. Two months ago he opened 

 a store in Westerly. The Biverside 

 Greenhouses now are for sale or rent. 



H. Lodder and Mrs. Lodder, of Ham- 

 ilton, O., were here recently. 



Alexander B. Scott has a red rose. 

 No. 315, that produces a fine crop of 

 flowers in five weeks. Mr. Scott may 

 decide to distribute this variety from 

 his Sharon Hill place shortly. 



The Pennsylvania Horticultural So- 

 ciety held its dahlia show in the Chest- 

 nut Hill library September 28 and 29. 

 This is the third of the society's sub- 

 urban shows this season. The absence 

 of rain before distressed the flowers, and 

 its presence during the show discour- 



aged the visitors, but these were only 

 slight drawbacks. 



The Bobert Craig Co. has commenced 

 work on the great shed that is to con- 

 nect its new range of houses with the 

 present shed. All the houses are fin- 

 ished and filled save one. 



Edgar W. Bayley, with S. J. Eeuter 

 & Son, Westerly, E. L, has been visit- 

 ing friends in this city. 



Martin Gannon, who has made such 

 an excellent record as a cut flower sales- 

 man in this city, now is in charge at 

 Alfred M. Campbell's wholesale com- 

 mission house. 



Benedict Gibbs, right-hand man to 

 Eugene Bernheimer, has been down for 

 two weeks with pleurisy. Mr. Gibbs 

 had not been absent from his post for 

 sixteen years; he is rapidly improving. 



Mrs. A. H. Pike, formerly of the 

 Bryn Mawr Flower Shop, will, it is un- 

 derstood, be with Charles Henry Fox. 



One of our bright salesmen, after dis- 

 posing of all his good gladioli, put the 

 remainder — they were culls — in a jar, 

 looked at them disapprovingly and re- 

 marked that he would have to label 

 them sold. 



Samuel S. Pennock has returned from 

 Bhode Island. 



H. H. Battles has completed the im- 



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