Fbbbuary 1, 1017. 



The Florists' Review 



45 



ACACIA 



With its beautiful long sprays of soft, yellow flowers, and 

 delicate green foliage, artistic and beautiful, attracting the 

 buyer looking for something unusual. $2^0 per bunch. 



9oai.%<* 



25c, 50c and 75c per 

 bunch of 12 sprays 



PUSSY WILLOW 

 S. S. Pennock - Meehan Company 



THB WHOUCSAIJ: florists of PHILADELPHIA 



PHILADELPHIA NEW YORK BALTIMORE WASHINGTON 



1608-1620 Ludlow Street 117 W. 28tli Street Frinklin and St. Paul Streets 12IB H Street, N. W. 



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Edward Reid 



Recommends 



these flowers 



CARNATIONS 



Now at their best. 



SWEET PEAS DAFFODILS 



Just coming into crop. Single Golden Spur. 



NEW CROP ORCHIDS, $6.00 per doz. 



VALLEY, ROSES, VIOLETS 



ARE NY STEADIES RIGHT ALONG. 



1619-21 Ranstead Street, 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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ji wood's. It seemed really a shame to 

 }^ discourage such cordiality, but the 

 ;* greenhouses of William Craythorn 

 '^ri. proved as attractive in reality as their 

 ">; product had promised. 

 ^- William Craythorn has a range of 

 well built greenhouses devoted to a few 

 staple crops. Just now his Purity 

 freesias are in full bloom. For years 

 he has grown his own bulbs, dried oflE 

 and thoroughly ripened and replanted 

 again year after year. The little bulb- 

 lets he grew on to flowering size in a 

 table by themselves. Now he has tried 

 California flowering bulbs of Freesia 

 Purity. He earnestly asserts that he 

 will grow no other kind of freesia, 

 never no more. The Purity freesias were 

 in 6-inch pots, perhaps a dozen bulbs 

 ,, to the pot. They stood over two feet 

 ^ in height, each stem bearing a cluster 

 ■• of large flowers of waxy whiteness. The 

 . ; crop started outdoors in the frame at 

 |: the end of July, and followed chrysan- 

 ■i, themums in the greenhouse. 

 2 Carnations appeared to be the main 

 ;; crop They all looked well. Beacon is 

 -|i the leading red; White Wonder, White 

 ^•i Perfection and White Enchantress are 

 #the whites. The second will be dis- 

 ,^ carded, the third increased. Alice and 

 ^±.nchantress are the pinks; both do well. 



I A Curious Case. 



There is considerable interest shown 

 famong our florists over a law suit pend- 

 ing in this city. It appears that a cus- 

 \n^^^ purchased a cyclamen from 

 *9??®' f- P<":yzee8, for which he paid 

 reft \^^ Christmas. He claims that 

 ithe salesman assured him that the plant 



would live a year. He asserts that in 

 two days it wilted and, on being trans- 

 ferred to a larger pot, died. 



The customer took the plant back to 

 Mr. Poryzees and asked for a refund of 

 his money, on the ground that the plant 

 had not lived as promised. Mr. Pory- 

 zees said that, while he had no book 

 record of this cash sale, he did not 

 question the customer's word. He 

 thought there had been negligence on 

 the customer's part and offered him a 

 credit of $2.75. This the customer de- 

 clined, claiming his money; hence a suit. 



The Shop Window. 



The window described this week is 

 open to the criticism of emptiness; yet 

 if you could have seen it, it would not 

 have appeared empty. Bather let me say 

 it seemed like an elegant drawing room 

 in which richness and effect were studied 

 rather than display. There was no mass- 

 ing, no crowding. The show window of 

 J. J. Habermehl's Sons, in the Bellevue- 

 Stratford hotel, is of great size. Ex- 

 perts will tell you that the glare from 

 the Manufacturers' Club opposite spoils 

 its appearance in certain lights. That 

 may be true, but it is a trifling disadvan- 

 tage and one that is often absent. On 

 this occasion there was no glare. It 

 was dark and dismal outside. The win- 

 dow looked warm and inviting. The 

 floor and sides were covered with a 

 loosely laid carpet of pale green, which 

 appeared more like a scarf of some soft 

 texture. It harmonized wonderfully 

 with the Cibotium Schiedei in the back- 

 ground at one side. In front of the 

 fern was a vase or wall pocket that 



seemed overflowing with spring flow- 

 ers. The flowers looked like the daffo- 

 dils sometimes described as butter and 

 eggs. The opposite side of the window 

 was filled by one of the Boston sisters, 

 while the center was occupied by a low 

 arrangement of scarlet and white 

 blooms, rising from a mirror pool in a 

 way that challenges description. Be- 

 hind the window, in the store beyond, 

 an artist was arranging a bunch of flow- 

 ers formed of calla lilies at the top 

 and Kose Canadian Queen below, in a 

 way that made it appear just as though 

 the rosebud was showing out of the 

 cornucopias of the callas. 



The Valentine Kids. 



It is encouraging to know that there 

 is just as much, nay a little more, op- 

 portunity for inventive ingenuity to- 

 day as during any time in the history 

 of floral arrangement. A simple little 

 novelty consisting of a droll-looking 

 youthful figure, with an indescribable 

 humorous look, and with a heart in one 

 hand attached to a small flower vase. 

 The figure is neatly dressed in warm 

 garments suitable for the season. The 

 vase is attached firmly in an inconspicu- 

 ous place. There are a dozen styles. 

 The whole is serviceable, neat and most 

 appealing. 



Sydney H. Bayersdorfer tells me that 

 these Valentine kids are having an ex- 

 traordinary run of popularity. While 

 his modesty forbade the admission that 

 he knew in whose brain the kids had 

 originated, it was gathered that the hit 

 the kids were making for his house 



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