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The Weekly Florists' ReviewV 



August 31, 1906. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market 



The cut flowfer market shows bxH little 

 ohange this week. Sales are fair, at 

 figures ranging lower than the listed 

 prices. Pink and white roses of medium 

 and lower grade are particularly hard to 

 sell. Beauties are in fair demand and 

 quite plentiful. Asters and gladioli 

 form the bulk of the stock of showier 

 flowers, with dahlias increasing and not 

 yet very popular. Good lily of the val- 

 ley is in demand, but there is a good 

 deal of rather poor stock just now. 

 Hydrangeas are very plentiful. There is 

 a fair demand for the restricted quantity 

 of "green'-' that is coming into the 

 market. 



Various Notes. 



Through an unfortunate error in 

 transmission the new ' ' toneware ' ' men- 

 tioned in this column last week was 

 totally changed in appearance by the 

 prefixing of an " s. " 



Charles H. Fox will move The Rosery, 

 formerly located at Broad and Bansom 

 streets, to Broad street, just below Wal- 

 nut. Mr. Fox will have a new two-story 

 building 23x41 feet designed in old 

 English style. John N. Gill & Co. have 

 commenced work on the new structure. 



A ripple of excitement was created by 

 the announcement last week, made ex- 

 clusively in the Review, that W. E. Mc- 

 Kissick would open a new commission 

 house next Monday. A visit to his place 

 of business found preparations actively 

 going on under charge of Howard Mc- 

 Kissick. The ice-box is already installed 

 in what will be, when complete, a very 

 light, cheerful place of business. 



B. Starkey, bookkeeper for Pennock 

 Bros., will be married next Tuesday. His 

 many friends wish him happiness. 



M. Rice & Co. were kept very busy 

 waiting on convention visitors who did 

 not get time to place their orders while 

 in Washington. Some days they had all 

 they could handle. They received a ship- 

 ment of eighty cases of new goods of 

 high class novelties from abroad last 

 week, which they were busy opening. 



Eugene Bernheimer has just returned 

 from a week spent among the growers 

 at Kennett and Oxford. -^ 



Edward Reid sailed on the Allegheny 

 last Tuesday for Savannah, Ga. 



M. F. La Roche, formerly wholesale 

 commission florist and grower, is now in 

 the automobile business. 



Berger Bros, are installed in their 

 roomy quarters at 1235 and 1237 Filbert 

 street. 



The Review is indebted to B. Eschner, 

 of M. Rice & Co., for the following names 

 of some of the visitors who were in 

 Philadelphia: Mr. and Mrs. Kalisch, 

 St. Louis; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Coles, 

 Kokomo, Ind.; Mr. and Mrs. Fred G«ar, 

 Cincinnati; Mrs. D. A. Gorman, Wil- 

 liamsport. Pa. 



It is said that should all the copies of 

 the Blue Book be destroyed, Charles W. 

 Kahlert could readily rewrite that 

 volume. 



The H. F. Michell Co. has been very 

 busy, chiefly with French bulbs. Their 

 orders for Paper Whites are excep- 

 tionally heavy. H. F. Michell has just 

 returned from a brief respite at the 

 shore. 



John Mclntyre has been rusticating at 

 Newtown Square. 



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 on the Ideal Employer has proved a popu- 

 lar one. 



Edward Keid was high score man with 

 twenty-four out of a possible twenty-five 

 day pigeons in a shooting contest at 

 Tjansdale a few days ago. 



George Anderson won a handsome 

 trophy in the shooting contest at Wash- 

 ington. 



The new stores of Frank Polites and 

 R. A. Stewart are scheduled to open this 

 week. 



Clarence J. Watson and Edward J. 

 Fancourt are actively caring for S. S. 

 Pennock 's interests during the latter 's 

 vacation. Phil. 



BUFFALO. 



Various Jottioes. 



The convention seems scarcely over, for 

 the stragglers are still passing north. 

 George Asmus is in. town after a week 

 at Saratoga. President-elect Kasting 

 reached home Saturday. He spent a week 

 at Atlantic City to cool off after his 

 successful campaign. We have had a 

 good many callers the past week. One 

 of the Messrs. Schloss Bros., of New 

 York; Mr. Henry, a Siebrecht represen- 

 tative; H. G. Berning, of St. Ijouis; and 

 Fred Holznagle, of Detroit, returning 

 from a trip through the Thousand Isl- 

 ands, which he describes as sublime. 



The principal flowers of the day are 

 gladioli and asters, but the new crop of 

 carnations and roses is seen in small 

 quantities. Maids, MacArthur and Mor- 

 gan of fair quality are coming from 

 Corfu, but the principal demand is for 

 moderate-priced Beauties. 



"Wtan. F. Holmes has resigned his posi- 

 tion with Miss R. Bebstock and accepted 

 a position in the store of the William 

 Donaldson Co., of Minneapolis. 



There has been, after all, considerable 

 building in this locality. The Werick 

 Bros., of Pine Ridge, have had the King 

 Construction Co. erect six carnation 

 houses, each 26x125. C. F. Christenson 

 has finished two rose houses, 20x150. 



W. J. Palmer has added to his already 

 big place a house 40x240 and Byrne 

 Bros, have erected two more fine houses 

 adapted to carnations, so there is faith 

 generally that there is room for more. 



Charles Sandiford has returned from 

 his short trip to England and now is 

 likely to begin the erection of a block 

 of hbuses for the pleasure of his liberal 

 employer, J. J. Albright. 



At Philadelphia. 



On a visit to Philadelphia on Satur- 

 day after the convention, we visited some 

 old friends. We called on Edwin Lons- 

 dale, at Girard College, but missed Ed- 

 win. We saw what an immense institu- 

 tion this is and what an extent of ground 

 the college covers, noticed the excellent 

 condition of the grounds and some fine 

 flower gardening and particularly grand 

 croton beds. That we cannot do in the 

 north. 



It was a great pleasure to call at 

 Forty-ninth and Market, where we found 

 the veteran, Mr. Craig, in his shirt- 

 sleeves and hustling. Now, it would take 

 too" lonig to mention all the well-grown 

 and useful crops to be seen there. Prin- 

 cipal among them we noticed thousands 

 of wonderful cyclamens in 6-inch pots, 

 houses of Begonia Lorraine of all sizes, 

 houses of gardenias planted out for cut- 

 ting, several houses of Nephrolepis Scot- 

 tii, a house of well colored Dracaena 

 terminalis, the usual wonderful lot of 

 crotons and a house of Fieus pandurata. 

 This is a very striking plant with leaves 

 of sheet iron and there is many a place 

 where it will be wanted. Oiitside in 

 frames nothing struck me as more well 

 done than a big lot of Bougainvillea 

 Sanderiana, dwarf and compact and as 

 round as a parasol. There were several 

 thousand hydrangeas in 6-inch pots with 

 strong growths. Of course there is the 

 usual stock of kentias and arecas, but 

 the whole place has a business look which 

 shows that some old-time vim has been 

 injected into the work and I was rejoiced 

 to see it. The only trouble was, I wished 

 all my boys could see these houses and 

 their contents. W. S. 



