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Apbil 13, 1905. 



The Weekly Rorists^ Review. 



J235 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market 



The conditions in the cut flower market 

 are improving a little, with good pros- 

 pects for the last fortnight of the month. 

 Boses are plentiful and prices low but 

 averaging a trifle better than a week 

 ago. A^ut the same conditions appear 

 in the carnation centers. The expected 

 advance is not liksly to come before next 

 week and then it is not likely to be as 

 pronounced as usual. Single violets are 

 about over. Doubles are expected to 

 hold out until Easter, but it depends on 

 the weather and in any event they will 

 not be plentiful. 



A goodly quantity of tulips and daffo- 

 dils is sold, but at awfully low prices. 

 The warm ^feather has brought lilies in 

 that were intended for later. Call as are 

 also too numerous at present. The nov- 

 elties are some superb Dendrobium 

 Jamesonii sent by Alphonse Pericat, the 

 well known orchid specialist, to S. S. 

 Pennock, and lavender sweet peas at E. 

 Bernheimer 's. The first cornflowers, blue 

 and white, were at the Bellevue-Strat- 

 ford, J. J. Habermehl's Sons. They 

 came from S. S. Pennock. 



Sharon Hill. 



Competent judges believe that the 

 largest stock of Easter lilies in or near 

 Philadelphia this season is to be found 

 at Robert Scott & Son's. Their stock 

 of Japan-grown longiflorums is in fine 

 condition, of good height, clean, with 

 good foliage. The plants are graded 

 and in different temperatures to secure 

 uniformity in flowering for next week. 

 Their stock of Crimson Ramblers is as 

 handsome as could oe desired, both in 

 the large and medium sizes. The third 

 section of the Easter division is com- 

 posed of the hybrid roses in pots, Ulrieh 

 Brunner, Magna Charta and American 

 Beauty. The latter is something of a 

 novelty at this time. The plants are 

 two years old, forced until the holidays, 

 cut back, dug up and potted. They 

 are now full of buds. Mr. Scott sold 

 one firm 1,500 of these plants some time 

 ago for spring sales. His attention had 

 been drawn to the possibilities of the 

 Beauty outdoors two years ago by a 

 large bed at Willow Grove in full bloom 

 in August. 



The gardenia constitutes the fourth 

 section, a fine lot of plants full of buds 

 showing to advantage. Mr. Scott's am- 

 bition to be able to cut gardenias in 

 quantity from Thanksgiving day until 

 the end of the season seems rapidly Hear- 

 ing realization. Adiantum Croweanum 

 is planted in two long narrow houses 

 and is prized as a "doer." Beside it 

 are some plants of its graceful taller 

 growing sister, robust and vigorous. 



Kaiserin Augusta Victoria is most 

 prominent today among the forcing 

 roses. There is a house for today full 

 of bloom, a house for next week and a 

 house for the week after, all in good 

 shape. The one-year-old Kaiserins are 

 staked but not so the two-year-olds. The 

 old plan of using the space for some 

 other crop in winter has been aban- 

 doned, the plants being rested where 

 they are to flower. Liberty is being 

 grown right along, instead of cropped 

 for Easter as before. Beauty has done 

 well. Grafted Brides and Maids are 

 full of vigor. One large house is de- 

 voted to a fine lot of young roses and a 

 number of smaller ones to miscellaneous 

 plants, geraniums, chrysanthemums, etc. 



Win.F.Gtjde. 



(PreBldent Washington Florists' Club.) 



A new house mentioned in the Review 

 some weeks ago is well under way and 

 it is expected will be completed in June. 

 It is designed on the Briarcliff-Edgely 

 ideas, at a carefully considered angle, 

 180x154 feet, of Lord & Burnham ma- 

 terial, and will be planted with 5,000 

 Beauties. Most of the stock of this 

 place is distributed by Samuel S. Pen- 

 nock and Edward Reid. 



Bowling. 



Two teams of three players each re- 

 cently contested a spirited series of the 

 best three in five games for bowling 

 supremacy. One team was composed of 

 three brothers, Leo, Arthur A. and Frank 

 Niessen. The players opposing them 

 were Clarence J. "Watson, Ralph G. Slieig- 

 ley and John Wilson. The hand of vic- 

 tory on the compass score sheet turned 

 from N. and pointed directly at W. S. W. 

 Messrs. Watson, Sheigley and Wilson will 

 be happy to bowl any trio of florists in 

 the city. 



Various Notes. 



George Burton has sent the Leo Nies- 

 sen Co. nearly 50,000 Meteors from a 

 single house about 25x150 so far this 

 season. 



The Floral Exchange received first 

 prizes for Queen of Edgely, Golden 

 Gate and Ivory at the rose show. 



Edward A. Stroud has a system of 

 bookkeeping at the Strafford Flower 

 Farm by which he can tell at any time 

 just how each variety of carnation pays. 



A prominent salesman on being asked 

 who was the largest buyer of cut flow- 

 ers in this city today, instantly replied, 

 ' ' Davis. ' ' 



A well known wholesaler, on opening 

 a consignment during the glut, found a 

 slip- marked : ' ' These carnations must 

 bring $3 a hundred straight." He re- 

 plied: "Would not consider an offer 

 below $5 a hundred." 



Reading G. Palmer, the well known 

 grower of Brides and Maids, has given 

 up his place at Doylestown and retired 

 from the ranks. 



A. Farenwald, of Hillside, has two of 

 the prettiest houses of Beauties one 

 could wish to see. The plants have been 

 cut back and are now a sheet of buds. 

 The average is at least ten buds to each 

 plant, borne on stout stems of medium 

 length. The Liberties, which comprise 

 five-sixths of the place, have maintained 

 their owner's high standard throughout 

 the season. They are still in good con- 

 dition, producing a goodly number of 

 "specials." 



Hugh Graham has probably the finest 

 lot of hyacinths offered for the Easter 

 market. 



William Warner Harper is making 



