APBIL 14, 1921 



The Florists^ Review 



49 



P hiladelphia Quality Beauties AD 



Philadelphia grown Beauties are noted for their \^^^m 



quality, and our growers are in with excellent ^^ v54i 



crops at present. We offer for this week: ^^^m tg^ 



Doz. 



Special $6.00 ' doz. 



Fancy 5.00 First $3.00 



Extra 4.00 Second 2.00 



We are also strong on 

 Rusself, Premier, Columbia, Pilgrim, and all the leading varieties. 



Everything in CutFlawera, Plants, Creen; RibbonM and Supplies. 



BUSINESS HOURS: 7 a. m. to 5 p. m. 



S. S. PENNOCK COMPANY 



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117 W. 28th Street 1608-1620 Lodlow Street Franklin and St. Paul Sit. 1216 HSt., N. W. 



Delphinium Belladadonna, 



Quality Snapdragon, 



Ataorted Varimtiee 



WM. J. BAKER 



Wholesale Florist 

 12 South Mole Street. PhiUdelpbia, Pa. 



Mention The Rerlew when yon write. 



JERRY BROOKINS & SON 



Grower of Buffalo's finest 

 Cut Flowers 



Orchard Park, N. Y. 



side him a tiny table with diminutive 

 legs, on which his sliare of the repast 

 was placed. 



There were many courses. One of 

 them required that the food be cooked 

 in a brazier placed on the table beside 

 the guest. This took time; so the host 

 proposed that each guest tell a story. 

 He commenced the tale-telling himself. 

 When it came to the turn of an Ameri- 

 can, he told the story of Queen Victoria's 

 Christmas roses from America and the 

 pleasure that they gave and how gra- 

 ciously the queen acknowledged it. You 

 don't know the story? Well, here it is: 



In December, 1900, David Fuersten- 

 berg and Henry C. Geiger conceived the 

 ambitious plan of presenting Her Maj- 

 esty, Queen Victoria, with a bunch of 

 Queen of Edgely roses as a Christmas 

 present. Just think of it — American 

 roses to go to England! They consulted 

 Wilfrid Powell, British consul in Phila- 

 delphia, about the plan. Mr. Powell 

 cabled to the queen's chamberlain, Lord 

 Lansdowne, who encouraged the plan. 

 Then the enterprising Americans selected 

 and carefully packed two dozen of the 

 finest blooms of the new rose, Queen of 

 Edgely. Each stem was encased in one 

 of Eobert Kift's famous water-filled 

 tubes. Just the right amount of ice was 

 used, and December 14 the precious box 

 of roses was entrusted to the salesman 

 of a great English orchid house who was 

 sailing for home. Lord Lansdowne had 

 a messenger at the pier December 24 to 

 meet the roses on their arrival in Eng- 



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Everything Seasonable in Cut Flowers 



Choice Roses Orchids 



Snapdragons Valley Carnations 



When They're Reid's They're Riffht. 



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In Large Quantities We Can Fill Regular Orders For 



Snapdragons, Carnations, Roses and Peas 



PHILADELPI^A CUT FLOWER CO. 



Ptaonea: Wholesale Florists 



E.%lfRi^ml-iii8 ISnSansom St, PhiUdelphia, Pa. 



GEORGE AEU6LE 

 Proprietor 



Ctrnttions 



Sweet Peas 

 Snipdri^on 



CHARLES E. MEEHAN 



5 South Mole Street. 

 PHILADELPHIA. PA. 



ASPARAGUS 

 PLUNOSUS 

 Stringi and 



Bunches, and 

 Greens if all kinds 



land. The roses reached the queen on 

 Christmas eve in such good condition 

 that six of them lasted over New Year's. 

 Queen Victoria wrote a beautiful letter 

 of appreciation for the handsome roses 

 that she had enjoyed so much. The 

 letter she directed Lord Lansdowne to 

 send to the British ambassador with in- 

 structions that he forward it to the 

 British consul in Philadelphia with 

 instructions that he send for Messrs. 

 Fuerstenbcrg and Geiger, read to them 

 Her Majesty's letter and then present 

 it to them in token of her esteem, all 

 of which was duly performed as here 

 stated. 



That is the story. When it was fin- 

 ished a strange thing happened. One 

 of the guests at that dinner in far-away 

 Japan leaped to his feet (he was prob- 



ably dreadfully cramped), crying, "I 

 know that all that Mr. Geiger has said 

 is true, for my father was equerry to 

 Queen Victoria then. He carried those 

 American roses to Her Majesty that 

 Christmas eve." 



Wasn 't it funny that Henry C. Geiger 

 should have told that story while travel- 

 ing in the far east and that probably the 

 only man who could have verified it 

 should have done so? 



The Campbell Cup. 



President Alfred M. Campbell has ap- 

 pointed a committee on sports to arrange 

 for a series of baseball games this sum- 

 mer. The committee consists of George 

 Aeugle, Walter Davis, Harry C. Eisele 

 and Frank B. Michell. The idea is to 

 invite entries from cut flower, plant, 



