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The Florists^ Review 



July 5, 1917. 



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was held in Foreman 's hall, Bryn Mawr, 

 July 2, from 2 to 10 p. m. 



John Burton has safely undergone the 

 appendicitis operation at St. Timothy's 

 hospital at Eoxborough. He is improv- 

 ing steadily. Mr. Burton's sister, Mrs. 

 Lonsdale, is also under the doctor's care 

 at St. Timothy's. 



The Florists' Club, July 3, grappled 

 with the question of the club 's home for 

 the future. It is understood that this 

 will be the last regular meeting of the 

 club to be held in Horticultural hall. 



Mrs. Emil H. Geschick was in an auto- 

 mobile accident last week. She escaped 

 injury, but her car was damaged by the 

 error of the driver of the other car. 



Despite the quantity of poor flowers, 

 Edward Reid manages to get together 

 some fine stock for his customers. 



Zieger & Sons plan an addition to 

 their place in Germantown. 



The London Flower Shop is fortunate 

 in having some good summer business. 



The street is indulging in much spec- 

 ulation over the future business plans 

 of Charles E. Meehan. 



B. Eschner reports that all the Rice 

 men will start out this week with a 

 wonderful lot of stock that will make 

 past efforts seem pale by comparison. 



Adolph Mueller, of Norristown, and 

 Robert Pyle,- of West Grove, were ac- 

 tive participants in the nurserymen's 

 convention last week. 



Paul Van Lindley, of Greensborough, 

 N. C, visited the cut flower center while 

 here for the nurserymen's convention 

 last week. Phil unfortunately missed 

 him and failed to learn why the peach 

 stone exhibit and the hammer to crack 

 those peach stones. 



A. M. Lawson is planning an exten- 

 sion to the show house at St. Martin's. 



George S. Hampton is in the citv 



Phil. 



This week's obituary column con- 

 tains a sketch of the life of Abraham 

 L. Pennock, founder of the house of 

 Pennock Bros., who passed away June 

 29, in his ninetieth year. 



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 tell something of one which, while not 

 so old, has played an important part 

 in the progress of the florists' business 

 of our city. There were just four 

 stores in the city, those of Halliday, 

 Feast, Cook and Pentland, when the 

 business now conducted by Mary John- 

 ston was founded by her father, the 

 late Robert Paterson. 



A boy of 18, Robert Paterson arrived 

 in this country in 1857 from Scotland, 

 where he had received a thorough train- 

 ing in the greenhouses on the estate of 

 the Earl of Minta. His first position 

 in this country was with his uncle, who 

 at that time was gardener for Johns 

 Hopkins, on what is today Clifton park. 

 In 1859 he secured his first private 

 l)lace, that of General Tyson, of How- 

 ard countv. There he met and married 



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