Januabt 11, 1917. 



The Florists^ Review 



37 



Daffodils 



9^Avt<^ 



Splendid stock, well grown, crisp and hard, $6.00 per 100 



Very attractive as a week-end special. 

 In lots of 200 or over, at $5.00 per lOO 



S. S. PENNOCK-MEEHAN CO. 



THS WHOUBSAUE FLORISTS OF FHILADXLFHIA 



PHILADELPHIA 

 1608-1620 Ludlow St. 



NEW YORK 

 117 W. 28th St. 



BALTIMORE WASHINGTON 



Franklin and St. Paul St8. 1216 H St., N. W. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



Edward Reid 



WHOLESALE FLORIST 



- 1619-1621 

 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia 



The market promises a better supply of fine stock, weather permitting. 



ROSES 



CARNATIONS 



will be extra fine for the rest of the winter. 

 You ca,n depend on them. 



ORCHIDS VALLEY PEAS DAFFODILS 



EVERYTHING SEASONABLE IN CUT FLOWERS 



Fine blooms of the best new and old sorts in 

 medium and short lengths. 



Mention The Rerlew when yon write. 



The balconies were simply garlanded 

 with wild smilax. The southern smilax 

 formed the bold outline that hung in 

 curves from pillar to pillar. The more 

 delicate greenhouse-grown smilax was 

 used to soften these lines with finer 

 tracery. Handsome baskets of tiger 

 lilies, Lilium splendcns, and of deep 

 pink carnations — Mrs. C. W. Ward — 

 ornamented the pillars. Specimen pink 

 azaleas relieved the deep green of the 

 hemlock and the spruce. 



The Clover room, which adjoined the 

 liallrooni, was turned into a garden. 

 There were grassy mat walks, arbors, 

 rustic seats and plants and flowers. The 

 effect was extremely beautiful. Per- 

 haps the most striking features were a 

 group of handsome Cibotium Schiedei 

 plants; a fountain of colored water sur- 

 rounded by tropical plants; some speci- 

 men boxwoods; a pergola and prettily 

 arranged sprays of Bignonia venusta. 

 This lovely yellow flower, which is rare- 

 ly or never seen in commerce, was 

 grown expressly for the decorators. It 

 is easily bruised, so that great care is 

 necessary in placing it safely in posi- 

 tion. "When placed, with a background 

 of green, on trellis or arbor, it holds up 

 ■well and is lovely in its rich simplicity. 



There were three dinners of xinusual 

 size, seventy covers each, on the roof 

 garden of tlie Bellevuc Stratford, before 

 the Assembly, not to mention a number 

 of smaller dinners in other rooms of the 



hostelry. One of these dinners was un- 

 usually elaborate. The table was oval 

 in shape, hollow in the center, the guests 

 sitting around the outside. The hollow 

 space in the center was filled by a col- 

 ored electric fountain, rising from a 

 pool of water; around the pool were 

 flowers and plants. About 500 cut 

 Easter lilies were used in this hollow, 

 together with a number of pink azaleas 

 and ferns. Snapdragons and sweet peas 

 were used on the table. The men's 

 boutonnieres were single gardenias. 



The supper room for the Assembly 

 ball was laid in the Palm room and ad- 

 jacent rooms. There were perhaps 200 

 small tables for four persons each, and 

 one large table for the patronesses. The 

 small tables were each decorated with 

 a single vase or a basket of flowers. 

 One-third of the tables each had a tall 

 vase of Beauties or lilies. Two-thirds 

 of the tables each had a low basket of 

 pink roses. The patronesses were 

 adorned with Beauties and pink roses. 

 There were between 800 and 1,000 

 guests. 



If this picture of floral loveliness is 

 clear, the credit for it is due the broth- 

 ers Habermehl, who personally arranged 

 it in every detail and courteously ex- 

 plained their work. 



Various Notes. 



The executive committee of the Amer- 

 ican Kose Society met in the Bellevue- 



Stratford hotel January 4. Progress was 

 made. The most important detail is 

 that the American Rose Society will 

 probably put up a rose garden at the 

 forthcoming show in March. If this is 

 done it will insure at least two and 

 probably three rose gardens. 



The January meeting of the German- 

 town Horticultural Society was held in 

 the library at Vernon park January 11. 

 Edwin Matthews spoke on "Oriental 

 and Occidental Gardens." 



The exhibits at the January meeting 

 of the Florists' Club were: Edward 

 Towill, of Roslyn, Pa., pink seedling 

 rose, cross between Maryland and Shaw- 

 yer; Baur & Steinkamp, of Indianapolis, 

 Ind., Carnation Merry Christmas; S. J. 

 Goddard, of Framingham, Mass., Carna- 

 tions Doris and Rosalia; Littlefield & 

 Wyman, of North Abington, Mass., Car- 

 nation Abington; C. F. Gucnther, of 

 Hamburg, N. Y., Chrysanthemum Ham- 

 burg Late White. The out-of-town ex- 

 hibits were staged by the S. S. Pcnnock- 

 ^loehan Co. 



A fire of unknown origin broke out 

 in the boiler room of the Robert Craig 

 Co. range at Norwood, T*a., about p. m. 

 January 6. Despite heroic efforts of 

 the night fireman, the flames spread 

 to the first-built section of the shed, 

 burning out the props that supported 

 the line of 10-inch feed pipes. Tliis cut 

 off the heat from the greenhouses. 

 ' Thanks to oil stoves loaned bv friends 



