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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



OCTOBEB 20, 1904. 



where he can put his hand on it at a 

 moment's notire. 



Gus Lange says business is opening in 

 good shape. He is buying heavily. His 

 out-of-town trade seems to keep him busy 

 on days when local business is quiet. 



To the sign on the window of the P. 

 E. Butler Floral Co. has been added "R. 

 Jahn, Mgr." 



J. A. ^ Budlong is cutting some very 

 nice Mrs. Robinson mums. 



John Thorpe returned Tuesday .from 

 La Crosse, where he has been engaged 

 for some time. 



The Ernst Wienboeber Co. has issued 

 its annual edition of "Engagements," 

 very tastefully gotten up. 



Among the week's visitors were Presi- 

 dent Philip Breitmeyer, of the S. A. F., 

 Detroit; E. G. Hill, Richmond, Ind.; 

 Elmer D. Smith, Adrian, Mich.; Fred 

 I>orner, Jr., Lafayette, Ind. ; H. W. Buck- 

 bee, John T. Buckbee and C. W. Johnson, 

 Rockford, 111.; Harry May and Miss An- 

 na May, Summit, N. J.; Eli Cross, 

 Grand Rapids; Mrs. Wm. Dittman, New 

 Castle. 



Bowlincf. 



There was an especially large attend- 

 ance at Thompson's alleys October 18, 

 when the following scores were made: 



Player. Ist 2d 3d T'l 



George Scott 127 113 170 410 



Haague 139 168 103 410 



Degnan 166 86 167 398 



B. P. Wlnterson 142 131 109 382 



Pruner 146 161 143 449 



BaUuff 169 139 117 415 



H. Klonder 118 109 114 364 



B. J. Hauswlrth 131 119 113 363 



V. Kreitliog 100 160 114 361 



P. J. Hauswlrth 123 167 149 429 



Callas 167 177 137 481 



Huebner 142 116 166 413 



VenBon 144 166 183 493 



Kyle 120 116 112 347 



I/ambroa 125 120 142 387 



Beaman 141 107 148 390 



Zappe 153 141 118 4li 



Maiihelm 108 127 133 368 



C. Klunder 92 103 90 286 



AsmuB 161 206 173 630 



Mesdames. 1st 2d 3d 4tb At. 



KreltUng 113 167 134 134 137 



Asmus 143 111 77 96 107 



P. J. Hauswlrth 97 92 110 108 102 



Wlnterson 81 98 84 109 93 



Lambros 61 43 60 61 66 



Cochran 58 72 83 67 68 



B. J. Hauswlrth 56 63 67 60 57 



Scott 116 116 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



The debutantes, so dear to the heart of 

 our Thorley, have come, commanding our 

 choicest products for their coming-out 

 teas. With them are the October wed- 

 dings of their elder sisters, and some 

 elaborate dinners, making quite a show- 

 ing in business for mid-fall. The same 

 accelerating influences have quickened 

 the out-of-town demand, especially for 

 Beauty, valley and chrysanthemums. The 

 same flowers are favorites locally and 

 in addition orchids and cosmos. In 

 chrysanthemums yellow is more plentiful 

 and probably the best seller. The varie- 

 ties of the Pacific type are fast waning. 



S. S. Pennock has two fine new sorts, 

 Lager, an incurved yellow, and Mrs. 

 S. T. Wright, a huge bronze, that 

 brought the record price, $5 a dozen. 

 The Leo Niessen Co. is handling some 

 fine mums, in pink, white and yellow, 

 the latter such sorts as Mrs. Parr, Rob- 

 ert Halliday and Lager, all very hand- 

 some. Beauties are in excellent form, 

 while in fair supply. They have been 

 scarce on several days. Carnations have 

 fallen off in price owing to increased re- 

 ceipts and the quantity of other flow- 

 ers. . Valley has been in good supply. 



Two Handsome Decorations. 



Last Saturday Elihue Boot, eX-Secre- 

 tary of War, and Henry Cabot Lodge, 

 senator from Massachusetts, spoke before 

 a large audience in the Academy of 

 Music. The building was apprbpriately 

 decorated with bunting, electric lights, 

 greenery and an immense eagle over the 

 stage, the effect being carried out in the 

 national colors. Before the meeting a 

 dinner was given in honor of the dis- 

 tinguished visitors at the Union League. 

 For this dinner the decorations were un- 

 usually choice. The circular table nine 

 and one-half feet in diameter was set for 

 eighteen persons. In the middle was 

 a magnificent star in red, white and 

 blue, the center being American Beauty 

 roses, the five points' of violets edging 

 lilies of the valley, finished with ferils. 

 Above, the chandelier was tastefully fes- 

 tooned with orchids. The sides of the 

 room were banked with plants. These 

 decorations were arranged by the Wm. 

 Graham Co. 



The Flower Market* 



The second atinual meeting of the 

 stockholders of the Philadelphia Whole- 

 sale Flower Market was held in the sec- 

 retary 's room in Horticultural Hall last 

 Monday morning. There was a good 

 attendance, Wm. K. Harris presiding. 

 The reports of the secretary and treas- 

 urer were read and adopted. The three 

 retiring directors, Alfred Burton, David 

 Rust and Herbert G. TuU, were unani- 

 mously re-elected. After the meeting a 

 choice of stalls was sold at auction in 

 the market, 1235-1237 Filbert street. Wm. 

 K. Harris was auctioneer. So well did 

 he do his work that the sale realized 

 more than double the amount obtained 

 last year. John Burton secured first 

 choice. 



A New Store. 

 F. & H. Merganthaler, wholesale grow- 

 ers of Bride, Bridesmaid and Kaiserin 

 roses, will open a store on Germantown 

 avenue, just below Chelten avenue, on or 

 about November 1. The store, with 

 greenhouse attached, is now in course of 

 erection and promises to be neat and 

 well equipped. It is directly opposite 

 William Berger, whose success has prob- 

 ably inspired the new enterprise. It is 

 to be hoped that healthy competition 

 will attract plenty of business for both 

 florists in this Germantown center. 



The Work of John P. Qeary. 



The two days' auction sale of plants 

 held last week at Robert Craig & Son's 

 realized fair prices, averaging, it was 

 said, about ten per cent lower than last 

 year. Buyers were not so plentiful, many 

 of those who bought freely a year ago 

 being stocked up. Bidding was at times 

 discouraging, it being impossible to se- 

 cure good figures from a crowd who did 

 not care whether they got the stock or 

 not. Under these circumstances the work 

 of the auctioneer, John P. Cleary, shone 

 out brightly. On the first afternoon, 

 when the crowd increased to fair pro- 

 portions and began bidding up a desir- 

 able lot of plants to full wholesale 

 prices, he adroitly shifted them to the 

 large palms for an hour, obtaining there- 

 by fair value for the most valuable 

 items on the list. A large amount of 

 stock was sold at what, considering the 

 bad weather and moderate attendance, 

 may be termed fair prices on an aver- 

 age. 



Various Notes. 



I Hugh Graham had an elaborate wed- 



ding at Bala last Saturday, including 

 house and church. A feature was the 

 bridesmaid's bouquets of pink chrysan- 

 themums trimmed with paper in the old- 

 fashioned way. A wedding anniversary 

 at Oak Lane on Monday and a wedding 

 at Chestnut Hill on Wednesday have 

 kept him busy. 



Robert Scott & Son, of Sharon Hill, 

 are sending a few nice Florence Pem- 

 berton and Killarney rose* to Samuel 

 S. Pennock. 



Thff Flower Market is r'dCBiving some 

 nice chrysanthemums in thred colors, also 

 Ebchantr€88 carnations. 



H. H. Battles has been busy with 

 weddings and debutantes' teas, the lat- 

 ter chiefly out of town, so far. 



Eugene Weiss is contemplating a new 

 propagating house at his place at Hat- 

 boro. 



Joseph Heacock has experienced a 

 strong demand for large kentias. 



Pennock Bros, have been doing a lot 

 of decorating for weddings and debu- 

 tantes ' teas. 



Samuel J. Bunting, though ehgaged in 

 other fields, is still operating his green- 

 houses at Fifty-eighth and Elmwood ave- 

 nues. 



George Craig has his Eleventh street 

 store and windows very attractively dec- 

 orated. 



Edward Reid, the fortunate possessor 

 of fine Flora Hill carnation plants, can 

 carefully pack a nice shipping order, 

 recite "Robin Hood," exhibit his extra 

 select valley and "josh" Phil, all at 

 one and the same time. 



The Philadelphia Cut Flower Com- 

 pany reports a steady increase in ship- 

 ping orders. 



Robert Crawford, Jr., was busily en- 

 gaged in making up old-fashioned bou- 

 quets with paper edging last Saturday. 



Charles Meckey, of Tioga, is sending 

 in some nicely grown chrysanthemums 

 in pots. 



Henry Weiss, of Hatboro, has re- 

 turned ■ from Seattle and the Klondike. 

 He talks of going west again in the 

 winter. 



Charles E. Meehan spent a pleasant 

 afternoon lately with Jasper Lorimer on 

 his farm at Croydon. 



George Anderson reports his stuff in 

 good shape for the winter. 



Stephen B. Green is representing M. 

 Rice & Co. throughout Philadelphia and 

 district. 



The Henry F. Michell Co. has solved 

 the problem of how to utilize air space. 

 They are putting two rooms, each six 

 feet high, in place of one room twelve 

 feet high, for their packing and shipping 

 department at the back of the store. 



Walter C. Baumann, one of the very 

 few florists who has prospered in Rox- 

 borough, reports business just opening 

 in that suburb. 



Miss Burrell was married to J. Liddon 

 Pennock, junior member of the firm of 

 Pennock Bros., on Tuesday evening at 

 the West Walnut Street Presbyterian 

 church. Many prominent florists were 

 present. 



John G. Gardiner gave his ideas about 

 hardy phlox at the meeting of the Penn- 

 sylvania Horticultural Society Tuesday 

 evening. Phil. 



Painesville, 0. — Carl Hagenburger, 

 of West Mentor, is building a store and 

 greenhouse here and will be ready to 

 open for business in a few days. He 

 already has a branch store at Madison. 



