NOVEMBEK 16, 1916. 



The Florists' Review 



49 



BEAUTIES 



Some wonderfully choice stock, large, h6avy,well ^SaiA^ 

 colored buds. In quantity, all lengths. 



Doz. 100 



Special f4.00 $30.00 



Faflcy 3.50 25.00 



Extra 3.00 20.00 



Doz. 100 



First $2.00 $15.00 



Second 1.50 12.00 



Short 1.00 8.00 



VALLEY 



Special, per 100 $6.00 Extra, per 100 $5.00 



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PHILADELPHIA 

 1608-1620 Ludlow Street 



THE WHOLICSALE FLORISTS OF PHILADELPHIA 



NEW YORK BALTIMORE 



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WASHINGTON 

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Edward Reid 



WHOLESALE FLORIST 



1619 Ranstead Street 

 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Offers to the trade select stock of 



THE BEST LATE CHRYSANTHEMUMS 



Call on me for three specialties: 



BEAUTIES— ORCHIDS— VALLEY 



A large stock of good Pompons* all colors. CarnationSy usual stock, usual quality. They are very fine 



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the carnation experts came to Phila- 

 delphia from Chester and Lancaster 

 counties they went out to Straflford, 

 fifteen miles out on the Main Line of 

 the Pennsylvania railroad, to see 

 whether that stock was up to the high- 

 est standard in every particular. Later 

 Strafford also became famous for its 

 chrysanthemums. First the .Japanese 

 varieties were grown, and then the 

 anemoneflowered, singles and semi- 

 doubles, including some rare seedlings, 

 were even more successfully cultivated. 

 There was another feature of Straf- 

 ford that added interest to the place in 

 the ej'es of every grower who visited it. 

 Here were the ideas of a bright mind 

 carried into execution, untrammeled by 

 lack of means. Nearly all of us know 

 what it means to be poor. It may be 

 good for us, it may make better busi- 

 ness men. of us in the long run, but 

 how bitterly hard it is to have cheaply 

 constructed greenhouses, or to grow old, 

 inferior varieties or what not, for lack 

 of capital! Well, at Strafford, through 

 Mr. Stroud's courtesy, every grower 

 was welcome. He could study for him- 



self what the best varieties would do 

 in the best houses under skillful culture, 

 lie could then determine what he must 

 have and what he could do wijthout, for 

 a while at least. 



All this is recapitulated merely to 

 show why the floral world attaches so 

 much importance to the change at Straf- 

 ford this season. On the first day of 

 last July Alfred M. Campbell succeeded 

 Edward A. Stroud as owner and mana 

 ger of the Strafford Flower Farm. After 

 four months of active work this place 

 is beginning to produce in earnest. Mr. 

 Campbell has made few changes, con- 

 tinuing with pretty much the same force 

 and the same stock a-s his predecessor. 

 He has moved his family out to the 

 homelike-looking farm house on this 

 place. 



The finest sight at Strafford today is 

 that half of one of the large Hitchings 

 houses planted to the orange-colored 

 chrysanthemum seedling, Strafford. It 

 is a commercial cut flower variety of 

 merit that has been thoroughly tested. 

 You climb on an elevation and look 

 over some 20,000 blooms, which form 



a sheet of orange — a sight so striking 

 that you are certain to remember it 

 with pleasure for a long time after- 

 ward. 



Next to Strafford are the spray chry- 

 santhemums. These are absorbingly in- 

 teresting. They cover a wide range of 

 types and nationalities. They are all 

 good; there is not a poor variety among 

 them. They were Mr. Stroud's especial 

 pride. Here is Fairy Queen, now so 

 popular; Buckingham, favored by the 

 leading retailers; Souvenir d'Or, with 

 its promise of a golden Thanksgiving; 

 Garza and Mary CoUaday; Como, named 

 by Mr. Stroud after the next station 

 to his summer cottage; Cavalier, so gay 

 and dashing, and many more. The 

 Japanese varieties were represented by 

 a number of the best sorts, all well 

 grown. The smaller house of pot-grown 

 specialties, next to the office, was al- 

 most as hard to leave as Strafford and 

 the spray chrysanthemums. These lit- 

 tle specialties were nicely grown. There 

 was Geranium Alphonse Ricard, looking 

 as it does in May, not in November; 

 pans of Begonia luminosa, richly col- 



