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August 4, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



471 



ALWAYS 



AT YOUR 



SERVICE 



With supplies of the best stock the market 

 affords at this season of the year. Your 

 orders will receive as careful attention as ever. 



All Cut Flowers in Season. 



SEND US 

 TOUR ORDERS. 



E. C. ANLIING, 



The Jta,xg*mt, Best Sanlpped and Moat Cmitrally Kooatad 

 Wliol«s«le Cut nowar Bonse In Obiomgo. 



32-34-36 RandolphlSt., Phir^Aiin III 



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AMBBXCAV BBAUTT, Per doz. 



30-36-lnch Btem W.OO 



24-inch stem 2.50 



20-lnch stem 2.00 



16-lnch stem 1.60 



12-inch stem 1.00 



Sbortatem 50to .7b 



Per 100 



Brides and Maids $3.00to $6.00 



Meteors and Gates S.OOto 6.00 



Liberty 4.00to 8.00 



Kaiserin 4.00to 8.00 



Oamations l.OOto 1.50 



large and fancy 2.00 



Asters V5to 1.50 



Valley 2.00to 4.00 



Gladioli per doz., 86c to 75c 



SweetPeas 26to .40 



Auratum lilies doz.. $1.60 



LonKiflorums. doz., $1.60 



Asparagus, per string, 35 to 60c. 



Asparacus Sprengeri 2.00 to 4.00 



Perns per 1000. $1.00 .16 



Galax per 1000, $1.26 .16 



Adiantum 60to .76 



Smilax per doz., $1.26 8.00 



SiljMt t* efeaage wttkoat aetlee. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



Asters, carnations and valley are the 

 principal cut flowers of the week, outside 

 of roses. There are a good many sales 

 of these flowers, chiefly in small lots. 

 None of them are really plentiful. This 

 is particularly true of valley, which is 

 scarce at times. Carnations have been 

 re-enforced by Mrs. Fisher from the field, 

 very short in stem, as a rule, but very 

 welcome. Gladioli are plentiful but they 

 are not easy to sell in any quantity. It 

 is getting too hot for sweet peas. 



The Florists' Qub. 



David Bust presided over a well at- 

 tended meeting of the Florists' Club on 

 Tuesday evening. The Conard & Jones 

 Co., West Grove, Pa., showed seven va- 

 rieties of improved cannas, and Antoine 

 Wintzer, who has made a special study of 

 canna hybridization for the past decade, 

 gave an interesting address on what has 

 been accomplished, showing that America 

 is outstripping France in this work. 

 John A. Shellem exhibited four vases of 

 beautiful hardy phlox. 



After a lively debate the club reversed 

 its action of last May and decided to put 

 a representative bowling team in the field 

 at St. Louis. A new series of games will 

 be started at once. 



The committee on transportation has 

 arranged that the members take the 8:25 

 p. m, train from Broad street station on 

 Sunday, August 14, reaching St. Louis 

 at 9:40 p. m. Monday. The excursion 

 ticket costs $24.75, sleeping car berths 

 extra. Kefreshments will be served in 

 the train under the supervision of John 

 "Westcott. You know what that means. 

 Members who have not already sent in 

 their names to President John Westcott, 

 Eidge and Lehigh avenues, should do so 

 at once to enable the committee to ar- 

 range for all who are going. 



Flow^er Market. 

 The following notice has been sent out : 

 To the stockholders of the Philadelphia 

 Wholesale Flower Market: By the au- 

 thority vested ip me by the constitution 

 and by-laws of the Philadelphia Whole- 

 sale Flower Market, I deem it my duty 

 to call a special meeting of the stock- 

 holders of above company for Friday, 

 August 12, 1904, at 2 p. m.. to take ac- 

 tion concerning the future of the Flower 



Market and consider the advisability of 

 changing quarters, as we have an oppor- 

 tunity of disposing of our lease, which 

 does not expire until July, 1906. 



Wm. K. Harris, President. 

 This meeting is important and every 

 stockholder is urged to be present. 



A Visitor. 



Last Saturday Arthur Cowee, of Mead- 

 owvale Farm, Berlin, N. Y., visited 

 Philadelphia. Mr. Cowee has made a 

 specialty of gladioli. Some of his fig- 

 ures show what wonderful progress he 

 has made with his specialty. This year 

 he has 100 acres planted in gladioli and 

 expects to increase last year's harvest of 

 10,000 bushels of bulbs to 16,000 bushels. 

 He is now cutting from his early planted 

 bulbs. When in full crop 40,000 spikes 

 of flowers daily will, he thinks, be a 

 fair estimate of the cut. Mr. Cowee 

 has a large number of gladioli planted 

 out at the St. Louis Fair. This planting 

 furnishes the flowers for a show table, 

 which is kept in good condition by re- 

 placing the faded flowers with fresh 

 ones. 



Various Notes. 



Godfrey Aschmann is rebuilding two 

 greenhouses on his place at 1012 Ontario 

 street. 



The Henry F. Michell Co. are greatly 

 pleased with the high quality of their 

 Lilium Harrisii now arriving. The bulbs 

 are plump, sound and of the deep rich 

 yellow color so dear to the heart of the 

 expert bulb grower. Of 100 cases re- 

 ceived in one shipment, eighty-eight went 

 out the next day. 



Herbert G. Tull, of the firm of Henry 

 A. Dreer, is spending his vacation at his 

 boyhood's home in North Carolina. 



W. J. Sherry, with Johnson & Stokes, 

 is spending ten days of his vacation 

 among the seed growers near Toronto, 

 Canada. 



Henry C. Geiger, of the Floral Ex- 

 change, is at Mt. Pocono. 



Frank S. Jackson, manager of the 

 Thornhedge Greenhouses, has a fine lot 

 of Adiantum Farleyense. 



Carl Jurgens, of Newport, E. I., con- 

 tinues sending good shipments of fine 

 Kaiserins and Beauties to Leo Niessen. 

 Over one-third of the latter have stems of 

 thirty inches in length. 



Charles E. Meehan has just brought 

 his family home from Ocean City, N. J. 



Fred J. Michell is going to the St. 

 Louis convention. 



Samuel S. Pennock paid a flying visit 

 to Westerly, R. L, home of the carnation^ 

 this week. 



The corporations find that Edward 

 Eeid, with all his geniality and humor, 

 is not a man to be trifled with. He 

 knows his rights and cannot be jollied 

 out of them. 



Theodore Edwards, of Bridgeton, N. J., 

 is sending fine valley to William J. 

 Baker. 



John Burton is sending some fine Lib- 

 erties from second-year plants tc the 

 Flower Market. 



Frank Hastings, of F. & H. Mergen- 

 thaler, is carrying nice Kaiserins and 

 Maids. 



M. Eice & Co. have put a fine new 

 wagon on the street; this makes two. 



Wm. Muth, with C. F. Edgar & Co., 

 is back from his vacation, tull of life 

 and spirits, ready for the coming cam- 

 paign. 



Berger Bros, are laying plans to be 

 pushed with a will next fall. 



Edward Towill, of Eoslyn, should be 

 heard from with Liberties next season. 



H. Bayersdorfer returned last Tues- 

 day, well and hearty. He promises some 

 grand novelties for the convention. 



Eobert H. Class and wife have re- 

 turned from Atlantic City. 



Rural Notes. 



The boss was away and the truck 

 patch hot, so Phil McLean and Willie 

 Knox went to the phone. Phil called 

 up his girl at the store and introduced 

 Willie to her and then to her sister, and 

 they all agreed to get "I scream" that 

 evening. The boys were for soda. They 

 knew it was less expensive and said it 

 was more refined, but the girls wouldn't 

 agree. A pretty girl does look prettier 

 sucking soda through a straw than lick- 

 ing "I scream" off a paper. 



Willie Eobinson got another job and 

 lost it same day. It was so hot pulling 

 weeds in the rose house that he told 

 the boss he felt sick and wanted to go 

 to the doctor. The boss looked thought- 

 fully at the little bottle of earth worms 

 that was bulging out of Willie's pocket 

 and said to go by way of the creek and 

 not to hurrj'. Phil. 



The Eeview has been of great benefit 

 to us. — W. H. Newman, Akron, N. Y. 



