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The Florists' Revfcw 



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PHILADELPHIA NEW YORK BALTIIVIORB WASHINGTON 



1608-1620 Ludlow St. 117 W. 28tli St. Franklin and St. Paul Sts. 1216 H St., N. W. 



Mention The BaTlcw when yon write. 



Offers for 

 the holidays 



Edward Reid, 



BEAUTIES— The finest grown. 



V ALLEY — Advance orders are advisable. 



ORCHIDS— One of my specialties. 



ROSES— All the choice sorts. 

 EVERYTHING SEASONABLE IN CUT FLOWERS 



1619-1621 Ranstead Street, 



PHIUDELPHIN, PJI. 



Mention The Rerlew when Ton write. 



cuted, and that no effort will be spared 

 to make it attractive. With a rose gar- 

 den assured, a guarantee fund raised and 

 a band of earnest workers interested, 

 the prospects for the success of the show 

 are bright. 



The Originator of Milady. 



I wonder if those western rose grow- 

 ers who are doing so well with the red 

 rose, Milady, ever met "Teddy" Towill, 

 of Roslyn. If they didn't they have 

 something pleasant ahead, for a jollier, 

 more enthusiastic rosarian than "Ted- 

 dy" Towill never used the camel 's-hair 

 brush. 



It happened at the rose meeting to 

 start the rose show that a reproachful 

 look and a peep at a box of seedlings 

 prompted a visit to Roslyn. It is an un- 

 derstood thing that the visitor to Roslyn, 

 Ik' who is familiar with floral etiquette, 

 c-lls on Mr. Farenwald, Mr. Groshens 

 aii 1 Mr. Towill, all three in one after- 

 noon. An S. O. S. call and divers duties 

 ^'■'ide it so late on that eventful after- 

 iioon that it was possible to make only 

 oie call. So an hour was given over to 

 t)ie delight of "Teddy" Towill's seed- 

 li'ijjs and his talk about them, beginning 

 ^ith his description of the choice of the 

 ^''me, Milady, "a rose that a man can 

 S'Tid to someone who is not his wife" — 

 ^'hat a chance for the sisters, the cousins 

 ■''id the aunts, to say nothing of the best 

 S '1! — down to his new yellow, the Gem. 

 ^' was all delightful. 



There were pots of seedlings just com- 

 ing up; crosses of Kaiserin and White 

 Killarney and Joseph Hill, a favorite of 

 Mr. Towill, and Richmond and Ophelia 

 and many more. The prime factor in 

 success, Mr. Towill thinks, is to select as 

 pod parents varieties of which the seeds 

 mature rapidly. There is a great differ- 

 ence in the time required to mature 

 seed; the slow varieties he considers too 

 slow for practical purposes. Of course, 

 this is only one point of many necessary 

 to form a good cross. 



The bed of seedlings was a treat. 

 There were three or four of unusual 

 merit. A white of immense size, two 

 pinks and one salmon-pink were espe- 

 cially charming. There were several 

 promising yellows. The Gem has passed 

 into a more advanced stage; three beds 

 of it are blooming freely in a way to 

 interest Mrs. Aaron Ward, could she but 

 see. A mere list of the crosses and the 

 impressions they made would prove 

 futile. Instead, fancy a whole-souled, 

 cheerful man tramping up and down the 

 walk just ahead, pointing out the merit 

 of this or that seedling, giving its his- 

 tory and many a little bit of informa- 

 tion besides; then you will see "Teddy" 

 Towill, of Roslyn, displaying his many- 

 colored bed of seedling roses. 



Various Notes. 



J. Otto Thilow delivered an illustrated 

 lecture December 19 before the Pennsyl- 

 vania society in Horticultural hall. His 



subject was "Our Trees, Planting and 

 Care." 



Clarence J. Watson has returned to 

 this city from a two weeks' western trip. 

 Mr. Watson was interested in the fine 

 vase of Mrs. Russell roses exhibited by 

 French & Salm before the Chicago Flo- 

 rists' Club. 



Herbert W. Johnson, a well known 

 seedsman of this city, died at his home 

 at Haddonfield, N. J., last week. It is a 

 curious and sad coincidence that the 

 deaths of Herbert W. Johnson and Wal- 

 ter P. Stokes, for twenty-five years part- 

 ners in the firm of Johnson & Stokes, 

 should have occurred within a few short 

 months. 



J. J. Jackson now is with the Philadel- 

 phia Cut Flower Co. 



H. T. Dumont, formerly well known in 

 florists' circles, is with D. B. Martin & 

 Co. 



Paul Berkowitz has recovered from his 

 illness and is back at work again. I. M. 

 Bayersdorfer returned from the west 

 December 13. 



John Berger, of Berger Bros., reports 

 a good demand for boxwoods. There was 

 some trouble with delayed lycopodium 

 shipments. 



Alvan R. Jones, of the S. S. Pennock- 

 Meehan Co., has returned to this city 

 a few days ahead of the Christmas rush. 



Robert Q. Shoch greets visitors at the 

 M. Rice Co. establishment. 



George Cook will commence work with 



