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The Wcddy Florists^ Review* 



August 24. 1905. 



SAMUEL S. PENNOCK, 



BEAUTIES, DAHLIAS, The Wholesale Florist 



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Open 7:30 a. m. to 6 p. m. 



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PITTSBUHG. 



The Market 



Pleasant weather for a week and the 

 improved condition of trade have caused 

 the store people to look more pleasant, 

 and they are much more companionable. 



White asters have been scarce, but col- 

 ored are in abundance and much im- 

 proved in quality. Everything else ex- 

 cept carnations is in good supply and 

 improAed quality. 



Various Notes. 



J. M. Gasser stopped en route from the 

 convention, and spoke a good word for 

 the "Washington, D. C, people. 



C. W. Hendicks, secretary of the 

 Templiu Co., Calla, Ohio, was another 

 visitor. 



We also had Mr. Dike, the repre- 

 sentative of Jansen & Co., with us this 

 week. 



Ed. McGrath spent a very pleasant va- 

 cation with some variety about it; one 

 week in New York and Coney Island, 

 the othei' with some friends in a canoe 

 trip of about one hundred miles on the 

 Allegheny river. 



Waller Breitenstcin with a party of 

 friends has taken canoes and gone 

 to Salamanca, N. Y., and will come 

 down the Allegheny river home, camping 

 at night and enjoying the beauties of na- 

 tur.e id a leisurely way. 



Jas. Dell has jasc returned from his 

 annual summer trip to the east, 



T, r. Langhans, secretary of the Pitts- 

 burg Cut Flower Co., is back at his desk, 

 looking much improved after his vaca- 

 tion. 



Eddie McCollum, of the Pittsburg 

 Florists' Exchange, spent a couple of 

 weeks up about Williamsport, Pa. He 

 had his camera with him and some of 

 the pictures indicate that his lines were 

 cast in pleasant places. 



Miss McKinley, of Randolph & Mc- 

 Clements, spent :i pleasant week at Ni- 

 agara Falls. 



The S. A. F. 



A query among a little group of 

 craftsmen was: Does the S. A. F. ful- 

 fill its mission, or i^ it simply an out- 

 ing at a season when florists can best 

 get away? There is no doubt of the 



W. E. McKlSSlCK, 



New Wholesale Commission House, 1221 Filberf Street, 



PHILADELPHIA, will open for business September 4, 1905. . ; 



CONSIGNMENTS OF CHOICE OUT FLOWERS SOLICITED. 



necessity of such an organization, or of 

 the good it could do, but does it ac- 

 complisih its purpose? I fear not, after 

 making diligent inquiry. 



The society has just retired a man of 

 great executive ability, who is above the 

 average in business ability, who, no 

 doubt, knew what would be necessary to 

 make the society the real benefit to the 

 craft it should be, but like all who had 

 preceded him, he knew his office was 

 conferred on him as an honor for one 

 year and that little could be accom- 

 plished in that time. 



But, would it not be wise now for our 

 new president to take up the matter of 

 the 8. A. F. as an educator for the mem- 

 bers whi) travel great distances to be in 

 the convention city and instead have 

 them tiavel to attend the convention, 

 and then let him be re-elected from yeai 

 to year, or as long as he did good work, 

 or was willing to accept the position? 

 There are many things which could be 

 done along the lines adopted by our Wm. 

 Falconer, who took a corpse and made 

 one of the most lively clubs in the coyn 

 try out of the Pittsburg and Allegheny 

 Florists' and Gardeners' Club. At 

 every meeting he had something of im- 

 portance to growers, either in plants, 

 flowers, building material, or something 

 pertaining to the business, and then an 

 open fiifrcussion on their merits, methods 

 of growing, etc., always having some one 

 in sight who was posted on the particular 

 point he wished to bring out. While 

 this club has been made a success in this 

 way, with these smaller things, they, 

 with many other things, if discussed 

 openly by the many intelligent men of 

 the trade, would make a convention 

 worth travelling miles to attend. Then 

 let it be understood that you were going 

 to keep the man at the helm who makes 

 the S. A. F. a real live educator, and not 

 throw away his year's work to honor a 

 new man each year, Hoo-Hoo. 



SHADY BENCHES. 



I have two houses. The south bench 

 in each one does not receive any direct 

 sun during the short days in winter. I 

 wish to know what will grow best in 

 them. I desire to put violets in one of 

 the beds. Would you advise me to do sot 

 Would lily of the valley grow in such 

 a bench? E. C. E. 



Some ten years ago we grew on just 

 such a bench as you describe a fine lot 

 of violets and picked fine flowers, and 

 lots of them, from November to April. 

 The other benches in the house were used 

 for carnations and the night tempera- 

 ture was 47 and 48 degrees. The varie- 

 ties we then grew, Scott, Daybreak and 

 Silver Spray, did not need higher. Val- 

 ley is a very different crop, if you had 

 enough hot water or steam pipes boxed 

 to keep the sand at 80 degrees and the 

 top heat at 50 or 55 degrees you could 

 force the valley all right. 



We find in such benches, which are a 

 mistake and should not exist in a modem 

 horticultural IhiUding, that there is al- 

 ways something to occupy them. We 

 propagate carnations or keep young 

 plants of carnations and roses there. 

 You can also plant out a lot of young 

 nephrolepis at any time of the year, I 

 presume this bench is only shaded by the 

 partition wall that divides it from an- 

 other house attached on the south. Where 

 you are growing a mixture of bedding 

 plants you can, with some discretion, 

 find any amount of things that will do 

 very well on such a bench. Azaleas would 

 winter there finely if not too warm, 



W, S, 



Zanesville, O, — .John D, Imlay will 

 at once erect a modern three-story brick 

 building on the site of his present store. 

 The lower floor will be occupied by his 

 retail business as soon as ready. The 

 greenhouses are in the rear. 



