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BuFTBllBliB 16, 1915. 



The Horists' Review 



41 



Beauties 



Fine big flowers of good color from the new plants. 

 All sizes, from $8.00 to $20.00 per 100. 



WHITE ORCHIDS— For fall weddings, $7.50 per dozen. 



DAHLIAS — Let us have your regular orders for direct shipment from 

 the farm. We can please you as to price and quality. 



Our stock of Ribbons and Supplies is complete. 



S. S. PENNOCK-MEEHAN CO. 



THK WHOIXBALK FLORISTS OF PHTLAPEI.PHIA 



PHILADELPHIA NEW YORK BALTIMORE WASHINQTON 



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



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AND ALL SEASONABLE FLOWERS | 



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phia office also closed contracts for the 

 erection of five greenhouses, each 18x 

 86, for Charles H. Fischer, of Atlantic 

 City, N. J.; one house 12x70, for Harry 

 Crawford, Secane, Pa., and two houses 

 for Henry K. Lewis, of Dorothy, N. J. 

 This company also secured eighteen 

 contracts with its southern customers 

 during the last six weeks. 



Out on the Coast. 



Bernard Eschner describes entertain- 

 ingly his delightful trip to the coast, 

 the north and the west. The Canadian 

 Bockies were more beautiful than many 

 foreign mountains of note. Lake Louise, 

 Banflf Field and other famous spots were 

 fully enjoyed. Then came Seattle with 

 its promise of future greatness and 

 eleven days in Alaska, once known as 

 Seward's Folly, but now a source of 

 pride and profit to Uncle Sam. The 

 totem poles fascinated Mr. Eschner. 

 His skill on shipboard won a prize 

 totem pole in miniature. With this as 

 an introduction he studied, learned, ad- 

 mired and finally bought a totem pole, 

 with its classic symbolic carvings in 

 cedar that take days, months and years 

 to perfect. This totem pole, some fif- 

 teen feet in height, is planned to stag- 

 ger Mr. Eschner 's neighbors at Elkins 

 Park, Pa., where it will appear in due 

 time. Back to Seattle, then to Port- 

 land, then to the City of Roses, then 

 to Frisco. 



At San Francisco a dreadful thing 



happened, which I grieve to relate. 

 Albert O. Stein sent a basket of fruit 

 and flowers to Mrs. Eschner, which was 

 so beautiful that it shook Mr. Esch- 

 ner 's loyalty to his floral artist at home. 

 It was a blue-handled basket filled with 

 blue snapdragons, and a few American 

 Beauties to set it off. Under the snap- 

 dragons there was fruit, lots of it, 

 enough to last a week. There were 

 cantaloupe cut zigzag, strawberries in 

 one half, raspberries in the other, and, 

 to top all, two fine bunches of seed- 

 less green grapes on the handle. Did 

 you ever hear of such a thing! It 

 sounds awfully nice. 



After San Francisco came cities of 

 note, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Catalina 

 island, with its glass-bottom boats and 

 the Hotel Del Monte with 125 acres 

 of well kept grounds, Santa Barbara, 

 the San Diego exposition, with a Mexi- 

 can bull fight by way of sporting va- 

 riety. Salt Lake City and the wonder- 

 ful, wonderful Yellowstone park, with 

 its never-to-be-forgotten sights. 



The Michell Outing. 



The report of the second annual out- 

 ing of the Henry F. Michell Co., given 

 to its horticultural friends, at Anda- 

 lusia, September 8, appeared in The 

 Eeview last week. The list of winners 

 in the sporting events follows: 



Three-legffed race — P. W. Auman and George 

 Williams, first; W. Pearl and A. Watton, sec- 

 ond. 



Pat men's race — W. Williamson, first; Clyde 

 Bolston, second. 



Thin men's race — L. S. Pottelger, first; Nelson 

 Arti, second. 



Wheelbarrow race — Edward Dornhelm, first; 

 L. S. Pottelger, second. 



Potato race — Roy Lapler, first; D. Enborn, 

 second. 



Ladies' race — Miss Leona Coolce, first; Miss 

 Jean Burton, second. 



Broad Jump— J. B. Ward, first; George Dren- 

 nen, second. 



Hop, skip and Jump — James Kenney, first; 

 James Casey, second. 



Ple-eatlng contest— W. H. WhlttaJter, first; 

 J. Downing, second. 



The starter of the events was F. 

 Cowperthwaite. A. Eadon,. L. W. 

 Jourdet and H. J. Lowell served as 

 judges. W. H. Neville was referee and 

 I. Rosnosky was official announcer. 



Some Crotons and Some Ferns. 



The word some has become so Amer- 

 icanized that it means a good deal 

 more than Noah Webster intended. For 

 instance, if a youth of today speaks of 

 his opponent in a fistic fight as ' * some 

 boy," you may know that that boy 

 was huge with bulging muscles, and 

 had an uncanny reach sure to give 

 trouble. The use of the word some 

 twice in this headline is in the vernacu- 

 lar, so that you will understand that 

 the crotons and ferns were extremely 

 fine. 



Both are on view at the Robert Craig 

 Co. place. Crotons that for beauty of 

 coloring have never been equaled. It 

 may be the cool nights and the hot days 

 of last month, it may be culture, or 



