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Hie Weekly Hotists' RcvieW: 



Febrcary 16, 1905.' 



All the artists were frequently encored. 

 Professor Cameron, the bagpipe king, 

 played his pipes skillfully and was in 

 Highland costume, as were Jessie Cam-, 

 eron and Annie and Jennie Birnie. Their 

 sword and fancy dances were one of the 

 greatest hits of th^ evening. J. B. Nu- 

 gent sang some of the old songa sweetly 

 and his fellow memb^trs voted him the 

 star performer of the occasion. The car- 

 nations were distributed among the la- 

 dies at the close of the entertainment. 



The exhibitors of the evening were J. 

 E. Haines, of Bethlehem, Pa., a vase of 

 John E. Haines; J, L. Dillon, Crisis; 

 Wm. Duckham, Enchantress; Guttman & 

 Weber, Victory; M. Ai Patten, Mikado; 

 John Reimels, pink seedling No. 31 

 and Variegated Lawson; Sea Cliff 

 Nursery, pink seedling Long Island 

 Beauty; H. Weber & Sons, variegated 

 seedling No. b3 and My Maryland; F. 

 R. Pierson Co., Winsor, Variegated 

 Lawson, Daheim, Patten, White Lawson, 

 Flamingo and Enchantress; The Cottage 

 Gardens, Lieut. Peary, Robert Craig, 

 The President and a vase of seventy-five 

 mixed seedlings; Mix Wirman, red seed- 

 ling Max Wirman ; Young & Nugent, 

 ▼ase of cape jasmines; Peter Bisset, 

 new pink seedling rose; Palmer & Son, 

 Bed Lawson; Robert C. Pye, No. 31, 

 a «port of Enchantress; John N. May, 

 Phyllis. , 



The Daheim and Victory on exhibi- 

 tion formed a part of the table decora- 

 tions at the dinner of the Hungaariaa 

 Republican Club on Tuesday evening, 

 President Roosevelt being a guest of the 

 organization. The whole exhibit was 

 most creditable to' all' cbneemed and in 

 beauty, value, variety and novelty has 

 never been excelled at any club meeting 

 in this country. 



Mr. Webery of Oakland, Md., the essay- 

 ist of the evening, read a very interest- 

 ing and exhaustive paper on "Carnation 

 Diseases." Mr. O'Mara followed the 

 easayist with an interesting and amusing 

 criticism elaborating on the subjects of 

 the origin of disease, immunity and san- 

 itation. F. R Pierson gave an interest- 

 ing address on similar lines, citing his 

 «wm experiences. Mr. Haines, of Beth- 

 lehem, wa« called upon for partic- 

 olarB concerning his fine red, John E. 

 Haines and A. J. Guttman spoke on 

 Victory, the great scarlet that is to be 

 disseminated in 1906 through the F. R. 

 Pierson Co. Mr. Weber spoke- lovingly 

 of his child. My Marylaind, whose par- 

 entage is Lawson and Norway and which 

 he characterizes as "an invigorated Law- 

 son." 



Mr. O'Mara, for the committee on 

 awards, reported at length the new rules 

 governing the committee's work in the 

 future and the consideration of the same 

 was deferred until March. Five new 

 members were elected and six nomina- 

 tions were read. The question box con- 

 tained an inquiry as to the relative merits 

 of the rose, the chrysanthemum, the car- 

 nation and the fern and the president 

 appointed, to lead the discussion at the 

 next meeting, Haa-ry May, Wm. Duck- 

 liam, John Birnie and John Scott. 



The Bowling Club met at 3 p. m. on 

 Monday. Arrangements were made to 

 fcecept the challenge on the Hoboken alleys 

 on March 4, to begin promptly at 7 

 'clock. John Birnie promises a ' stren- 

 monfi time. For the deciding game with* 

 Madison, the rival captains are author- 

 ijsed to determine the alleys and the 



date. ■ Several visitors enjoyed the after- 

 noon bowling. It was also determined 

 to change the hours of bowling to 4 

 '.clock on Monday aitei^noons, the new 

 departure to comihence on Monday, Feb- 

 ruary 20. J. Austin Shaw. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



February, the . month of carnations 

 that are for us and holidays that are 

 not for us, is proving a month of snow 

 and intense cold, interfering with the 

 natural flow of business. Conditions 

 and prices are very much the same as a 

 week ago. There is a good deal of 

 shipping business, but an irregular local 

 demand, and a good supply of stock 

 except in choice roses. Spring flowers 

 are more and more in evidence, with 

 prices easier. Carnations are not always 

 sellers. An enterprising fakir opened a 

 store at Twelfth and Market streets to 

 work off a surplus of divine flowers last 

 Saturday with a bell, att^actipn; St. 

 Valentine's created a fair demand, es- 

 pecially for pdnsie^, violets, etc., but the 

 weather was very unfavorable. 



Camatioh Night. ' ; '' 



The February meeting of the Florists ' 

 Club was exceedingly well attended. A 

 very interesting display of new and high 

 grade carnations was the attraction. H. 

 Weber & Sons, Oakland, Md., sent My 

 Maryland, a superb white of great size 

 and substance that won universal admira- 

 tion. Alexander J. Guttmaii, t)f Weber 

 & Guttmauj New York, brought Victory, 

 a very fine red. The vase of fifty blooms 

 was stl-ikingly handsome. John £'. Haines, 

 Bethlehem, Pa., brought a bunch of his 

 new red seedling, John E. Haines, a large 

 full flower, borne erect on strong stems, 

 which seemed to please the critics, also 

 a number of promising seedlings, among 

 them Star of Bethlehem, a very free 

 blooming yellow. Davis Bros., of Blooms- 

 burg, Pa,, sent their new scarlet. Crisis, 

 which looked well; Mary Albert, a 

 pleasing white, and an unnamed pink. 



Joseph Black's Son & Co., of Hights- 

 town, N. J., sent four flowers and buds of 

 a white seedling of which they have only 

 two plants as yet. This seedling has blue 



I blood and is worth watching. John Kuhn 

 brought four pretty seedlings. A pink 

 No. 13 was very attractive. There was 

 also another light pink of promise. No. 

 16, a deeper pink and a red. 



Last but by no means least, the Straf- 

 ford Flower Farm brought seven standard 

 varieties of fine quality. Enchantress, 

 Prosperity, Judge Hinsdale Mrs. Lawson, 

 Harry Fenn, Flamingo and Mrs. Patten. 

 They were arranged by a floral artist, 

 George Faulkner, and were greatly ad- 

 mired. 



John Westcott called the meeting to 



' order, G. C. Watson acting as secretary. 



! After the minutes of two previous meet- 

 ings were read, Robert Kift's committee 

 report on the exhibits adopted and sev- 

 eral new members elected, Edward A. 

 Stroud read a very clever paper on * * New 

 Ideas in Carnations." The paper was 



' clear and forceful and full of thought. 



( Mr. Stroud, who received a hearty vote 



• of thanks, had mastered an attack of 

 grippe in order to be present. The re- 



I marks that followed were very interest- 



I ing. Horace T. Dumont dosed the meet- 

 ing by singing two songs, which were 



heartily applauded. William Swayne, of 

 Kennett Square, Pa., was present. 



The Amateur Rose Growers. 



Ask any well informed city florist who 

 had the most American Beauty roses at 

 Christmas. The answer will be Myers 

 & Samtman. Go out to their place at 

 Wyndmoor and you will be 'convinced. 

 Philadelphia has a great reputation for 

 Beauties, but it is doubtful if any of 

 her famous places ever cut as many 

 long-stemmed flower? for the holidays 

 as did this firm during the last days of 

 1904. Their plants have proved doers, 

 sun or no sun, and the way they stand 

 by their customers, support the Flower 

 Market and fill any stray orders during 

 the busy season is quite wonderful. 

 Good as are the figures of the cut, they 

 are not so impressive as the appearance 

 of the plants', bearing evidence of heavy 

 cutting, yet with quantities of long, 

 straight shoots everywhere, mostly topped 

 with bud or "bloom. .,.. „, _ 



The stock is all bench gyown, an in- 

 teresting point in these d&j^s of solid 

 beds. The . f orepian, Marty, i would like 

 to try solid fc|eds,, but h6' says the firm 

 won't hqflxof it wliil^ thje plants bloom 

 so. Suffifise h^s done exceptionally weli 

 in the narrow propagating house. The 

 first batjh of Beauty cuttings is nicely 

 rooted, ready for potting. 'Much of the 

 firmi's success is due to the advanced 

 ideas of Frank P. Myert, who had the 

 courage to specialize at a- time when 

 general collections of varieties were the 

 rule, and the work of George Samtman, 

 who has become a past-master in the 

 art of distributing his product. 



The Germantown Society. 



The February meeting of the German- 

 town Horticultural Society was held last 

 Monday evening in Association hall. S. 

 Mendelson Meehan had arranged an elab- 

 orate program entitled "Our Horticulr 

 tural Indebtedness to Japan." John T. 

 Morris, president of the Chestnut Hill 

 Horticultural Society, opened the subject 

 with a very polished lecture, describing 

 his trip to Japan and the places he had 

 seen there. The lecture was illustrated 

 by a set of stereopticon views coUected 

 by Mr. Morris while in Japan. They 

 were charmingly colored and very inter- 

 esting, showing tea and rice growing, va- 

 rious trees, water views, etc. The slides 

 were handled by Dr. Norman H. Keyser. 



George D. Clark, of Henry A. Dreer, 

 followed with a practical paper on Jap- 

 anese bulbs. Mr. Clark dwelt chiefly on 

 lilies, describing varieties, their merits 

 and their culture, a tnost valuable pa- 

 per. The evening was closed with a pa- 

 per from the pen of Joseph Meehan on 

 "Trees and Shrubs of Japan" read by 

 George Redles. This paper was clear, 

 bright and full of interest. Two other 

 papers were held over for want of time. 



Various Notes. 



Robert Crawford, Jr., now owns the 

 greenhouses at Secane and H. T. Dumont 

 is out of the Philadelphia Carnation Co. 



The Philadelphia Cut Flower Co. has 

 sent out a neat little St. Valentine's 

 blotter. 



John Savage, of Mt. Airy, has rented 

 Thomas Foulds' place at Gwynedd for 

 five years. He took possession last Tues- 

 day. The cut of the place, which is 

 planted with Brides and Maids, will go 

 to the Flower Market. 



H. H. Battles is getting some very 



