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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



August 11, 1904. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market 



There is more business in the cut flower 

 centers of late. Flowers are more plenti- 

 ful. Funeral orders form the bulk of the 

 work. Some of these have been quite 

 large. Carnations continue scarce. As- 

 ters are more plentiful but very poor in 

 quality, as a rule. Boses are improv- 

 ing, especially American Beauties. The 

 street had it that Charles E. Meehan 

 told Leo Niessen he had better make 

 hay while the sun shone, by which he 

 was understood to mean that the Chest- 

 nut Hill Beauties would soon compete 

 with those from Newport. John Burton 

 and Meyers & Samtman are both cut- 

 ting again. Robert Scott & Son are 

 sending in some splendid, long-stemmed 

 blooms to S. S. Pennock and Edw. Eeid. 

 Gladioli are very plentiful. There is a 

 fair supply of fine valley and there are 

 a few cattleyas. 



Kentias at Wyncote. 



Joseph Heacock has as pretty a lot 

 of kentias at his place at Wyncote as 

 one could wish to see. Eumors of their 

 number and quality had been flying about 

 for some time. When John Savage and 

 Phil saw them early this week, they pre- 

 sented a truly magnificent sight. Five 

 immense houses, besides several smaller 

 ones, were almost entirely filled with ken- 

 tias, all in superb condition, looking 

 strong enough to stand anything. Mr. 

 Heacock believes in giving his kentias 

 plenty of air and plenty of room. That 

 they like this treatment their rich green 

 foliage and perfect shape abundantly 

 prove. 



All sizes are here in force, from the 

 little fellows in seed boxes and benches 

 to the made-up specimens in 12-inch pots 

 that are as fine as skillful culture can 

 make them. The medium sizes are very 

 fine. K. Belmoreana exceeds K. Forster- 

 iana in numbers. A block of the latter 

 variety in 8-inch pots are being reserved 

 for making up in 12-inch pots, three 

 smaller plants being used around each 8- 

 inch. The kentias all appeared perfectly 

 clean. No washing has ever been neces- 

 sary, just the hose scientifically used. 

 Besides kentias, Mr. Heacock has some 

 Areca lutoscens, Cocos Weddeliana, 

 Cibotium Schiedei and Nephrolepis exal- 

 tata Bostoniensis, 



The Beauty houses were in excellent 

 condition. One house in solid beds in 

 its third year, cut back hard, was full 

 of heavy shoots soon likely to tempt the 

 cutting knife. The most forward of the 

 houses of young stock was nearly as far 

 advanced and all were full of breaks from 

 the lower eyes. There was a house each 

 of Brides and Maids in good shape and 

 one of Liberty, lifted plants just getting 

 away. 



The carnations were brought in from 

 the field and planted in the houses, still 

 shaded last week. The varieties grown 

 are "White Cloud, Joost, Melba, Mrs. 

 Lawson and Enchantress, all nice stocky 

 stuff. 



Gtmp Hill. 



G. C. Watson piloted some twenty- 

 five gardeners and florists out to Camp 

 Hill last Saturday in response to the 

 invitation of Thomas B. Meehan to visit 

 his nursery at Dreshertown. Mr. Meehan 

 received his guests at the railway sta- 

 tion with a cordial welcome. Two 

 large four-horse wagons took the party 



through some pretty country to the 

 nursery, about three miles away. 



Here an excellent lunch of sandwiches, 

 salad and cream, well irrigated, received 

 due, attention. Then the party again 

 mounted the seats on the wagons and 

 drove around the great nursery, which 

 lies in the beautiful White Marsh valley. 

 The whole place was in splendid condi- 

 tion, the quality and variety of the stock 

 and the neatness of the grounds eliciting 

 many words of praise. 



Next came the serious business of the 

 afternoon, a cricket match between John 

 Gardiner's Montgomery county eleven 

 and an eleven selected from the gardeners 

 and florists of P. F. C. The wicket was 

 not in favor of run getting, Montgomery 

 county, who had scored a clever victory 

 over an eleven of the M. C. C. the day 

 before, winning by a score of 50 to 27. 

 After a little more irrigation, made nec- 

 essary by their exertions, the two elevens 

 were driven back to Camp Hill station 

 after a delightful afternoon. 



Mr. Meehan 's guests were: S. Adel- 

 berger, Samuel Batchelor, John Burton, 

 George Burton, Edward Campbell. Wm. 

 Carey, Edward Clang, C. W. Cox, George 

 Craig, C. E. Dodds, Frank Ewing, John 

 Fowler, John C. Gardiner, George Gard- 

 iner, Neil Gardiner, J. Hallowell, Alfred 

 Hardy, Eobert Kift, Wm. Lord, Edwin 

 Lonsdale, Thomas Eoberts, Wm. Bobert- 

 son, David Bust, W. J. Stewart, John 

 Thatcher, G. C. Watson, John Westcott 

 and Phil. 



The Dreshertown Nursery was started 

 ten years ago, when the firm of Thomas 

 Meehan & Sons bought fifty odd acres 

 of ground as a wholesale department for 

 their Germantown nursery. Farms have 

 been added during the past five years 

 until today they have 216 acres, all 

 planted. They do a wholesale business 

 with growers, landscape gardeners, parks 

 and cemeteries. The regular force con- 

 sists of thirty-five men, but in the busy 

 season an additional force of seventy-five 

 men is added. These are kept on until 

 all orders are filled, then some are re- 

 leased, the rest staying for the planting 

 and first ground cleaning. After that 

 is done the force is reduced to its regular 

 size. Ten horses are kept at work plow- 

 ing and cultivating the rows alternately. 

 There is a big packing shed through 

 which the big teams can drive. The ship- 

 ping station, Dresher, on the Trenton cut 

 off, is only three minutes distant. 



Bowling;. 



The new competition for places on the 

 team to represent our champion club at 

 St. Louis, was begun on the alleys in 

 Horticultural Hall last Thursday even- 

 ing. Ten players, S. Adelberger, George 

 Anderson, Wm. J. Baker, D. T. Connor, 

 George Craig, Samuel Dunlap, Fred 

 Ehret, W. E. Gibson. Eobt. Kift and 

 Wm. Bobertson, competed. They will 

 roll fifteen games each, finishing scarcely 

 two days before they are scheduled to 

 start for Missouri. 



Various Notes. 



Edward Eeid sailed on Thursday for 

 Savannah, ' ' to look at the cotton crop. ' ' 



Bobert Craig is going to St. Louis to 

 judge the horticultural exhibits. 



David Rust has been elected a Flower 

 Market director to fill the unexpired 

 term of Edwin Lonsdale. 



Charles D. Ball and W. H. Taplin have 

 left for the convention. 



Henry Engler has a pretty lot of 

 Chrysanthemum Lavender Queen in the 

 bench. 



Edward J. Fancourt will represent 

 Samuel S. Pennock at the St. Louis con- 

 vention. 



Leo Niessen is going to St. Louis. 



Richard Umphned, of the Flower Mar- 

 ket, has returned from his vacation. 



J. Lidden Pennock has been recuperat- 

 ing at Eaglesmere. 



Eugene Bernheimer is receiving some 

 nice field-grown blooms oif a scarlet 

 seedling carnation. 



The employes of H. H. Battles de- 

 feated a picked team at base ball last 

 Saturday at Newtown Square. 



Hugh Graham will visit the St. Louis 

 Fair next week. 



W, E. McKissick, vice president of the 

 Leo Niessen Co., has returned from his 

 vacation. 



Those who have tried it speak highly of 

 the Golden privet. 



H. Bayersdorfer & Co. are receiving 

 heavy importations this week. 



J. L. MauU, of Whitford, Pa., is send- 

 ing in nice Ideal roses to S. S. Pennock. 



B. Eschner, of M. Rice & Co., is on his 

 way to St. Louis. 



Jacob Becker has completed his fine 

 new show house. The walls are of brick, 

 with side glass, very neat and effective. 



Samuel 8. Pennock will leave for the 

 Adirondacks on Monday. 



Walter N, Yates is at Atlantic City. 



Alfred Burton is already cutting nice 

 Beauties from the new place purchased 

 last spring. 



The Learning Home at Mt. Airy pos- 

 sesses a fine English garden. 



C. F. Edgar & Co. are increasing their 

 ice box facilities. 



Edward Eeid is receiving some nice 

 valley. 



Rural Notes. 



Martin Bichardson has an addition to 

 -his family. It is a baby boy, weighs 

 nine and a quarter pounds with not a 

 hair on its head. Martin is very pleased. 

 So are we. There have been awfully few 

 babies hereabouts in these hard times 

 and you can't make much out of rural 

 notes without babies to talk about. 



George Howard and Frank White had 

 a full holiday on the Fourth, so in honor 

 of the day they sent up a big balloon 

 and on it fastened a post card addressed 

 to the Boss asking the finder to give 

 place and time balloon came down. The 

 balloon set fire to a fellow's chicken 

 house and frightened his cow so it won't 

 milk. The fellow has been to see the 

 Boss three times about it and wants $25 

 damages. 



The boss had given Sambo a holiday.. 

 The plants were all delivered, the wagon 

 had gone to the shop, the gray mare to 

 the pasture, and Sambo was on his way 

 to see his folks in Maryland. As the 

 train entered his native state. Sambo 

 was surprised to see the conductor post 

 the sign "Colored" in his ear and order 

 all the fine white folks out into the next 

 car, which was old and dirty, where they 

 were crowded together like sheep, while 

 he, poor Sambo, had a brand new car all 

 to himself like a railroad president or 

 an orchid grower. Such are the beau- 

 ties of the "Jim Crow Act." 



Phil. 



Peoria, III. — Glen Oak Park is to 

 have a new propagating house and boiler 

 plant. 



Warren, O. — Adgate & Son are build- 

 ing another greenhouse 24x100. A new 

 steam heating plant is also being in- 

 stalled. 



