July 12, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



465 



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Block of Peony Festiva Maxima at the Peterson Nursery, Chicago. 



BEST CUT FLOWER PEONIES. 



I am planning to plant a few peonies 

 this fall for cut flower purposes. Will 

 you kindly name the best for this use, 

 the best early double pink and white, the 

 best mid-season and late sorts. 



D. W. W. 



E. E. Pieser, secretary of Kennicott 

 Bros. Co., Chicago, who has sold as 

 many peonies as any man in this coun- 

 try, says that for the florist who is 

 planting 100 peonies for his own use, re- 

 tailing the flowers as they develop, the 

 varieties and proportions should be as 

 follows: • Officinalis, pink, six plants; 

 officinalis, red, twelve plants; Early 

 Bose, twelve plants; Queen Victoria, or 

 "Whitleyi, forty plants; Late Eose, twen- 

 ty plants; Richardson's Rubra Superba, 

 true, ten plants. For larger quantities 

 the proportions would continue the same. 



Mr. Pieser says that where peonies 

 are grown for cut flowers for wholesal- 

 ing, especially for the Chicago market, 

 more depends on knowing how to cut 

 and handle the flowers than on the va- 

 riety. However, he finds Queen Victoria, 

 formerly called Whitieyi and first known 

 in the Chicago market as Von Bom- 

 bach 's White, so much the best keeper 

 in cold storage that it is by all odds 

 the best sort for the purpose. A variety 

 grown by Klehm 's Nursery and sold 

 only as "light pink," is giving such 

 satisfaction that Mr. Pieser says it 

 promises to become a <()nii)anion sort to 

 Queen Victoria. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market 



Business is dull, with the quantity of 

 flowers at lowest ebb. The features are 

 the arrival of auratum lilies, which are 

 very fine, and the increase in the supply 

 of Rhode Island Beauties, finer than 

 those grown near here at this season, as 

 the buds can remain longer on the 

 plants. There are a few good carna- 

 tions, some nice roses, chiefly eastern 



stock, and lilies of the valley. Sweet 

 peas are on the decline. Business is 

 quiet. 



Protective- Association. 



It has been generally known about 

 town for the last six weeks that the 

 wholesalers were growing restive under 

 existing business conditions. With their 

 business increasing and the necessity for 

 prompt monthly payments in order to 

 meet the wishes of their growers, long 

 credits have become an impossibility, a 

 burden that could no longer be borne. 

 After a number of meetings, at which 

 the situation was thoroughly discussed, 

 it was decided that all those interested 

 in the selling of cut flowers should be 

 invited to join some kind of an organiza- 

 tion, formed with the object of secur- 

 ing prompt payments from the buyers, 

 and preventing an abuse of credit. 



At the meeting held in Horticultural 

 hall on Monday, July 9, ten of the whole- 

 sale houses signed the by-laws of the 

 Philadelphia Florists' Protective Asso- 

 ciation, binding themselves to require 

 payment for all cut flowers on the fif- 

 teenth of the month following delivery. 

 When such payment is not made within 

 five days, a list of delinquents is to be 

 furnished to the secretary of the asso- 

 ciation. The secretary will make up a 

 complete list of delinquents, furnishing 

 the same to each member, the latter 

 agreeing to sell only for cash to such 

 delinquents. 



This agreement was signed by Wm. 

 J. Baker, Berger Bros., Eugene Bern- 

 hoi mer, Dumont & Co., W. E. McKis- 

 sick, the Leo Niessen Co., the Philadel- 

 phia Cut Flower Co., the Philadelphia 

 Wholesale Flower Market, Samuel S. 

 Pennock, Fred Ehret Co. and Edward 

 R«d. The officers of the association 

 are: President, Samuel S. Pennock; 

 ••cretary and treasurer, David Rust. 

 The initiation fee is $10. September 1 

 is named as the date when the plan will 

 become onorative, and it will anplv to 

 Philadelphia and Camden and Philadel- 

 phia counties. 



Reception at Dooner's. 



The Florists' Club tendered a recep- 

 tion and banquet to Hugh Dickson, of 

 Newtownards, Ireland, Friday, July 6, 

 at Dooner's Hotel, Tenth street, above 

 Chestnut, which was well attended and 

 greatly enjoyed by all those present. 

 Alexander B. Scott acted as master of 

 ceremonies, presenting Mr. Dickson to 

 all those with whom he was not ac- 

 (piaiiited. After a half hour's chat dinner 

 was announced, the following members 

 sitting down to the tables: Thomas B. 

 Meehan, presiding; Hugh Dickson on his 

 right, on his left Edwin Lonsdale; Alex- 

 ander B. Scott, Edward Reid and C. E. 

 Larzelere were also at the president's 

 table. At the other tables were W. F. 

 Cnide, of Washington, D. C. ; P. Joseph 

 Lynch and Antoine Wintzer, both of 

 West Grove; George Burton, of 

 Wyndmoor; Edward A. Flood, of Atco, 

 N. J. ; W. P. Brinton, of Christiana ; W. 

 A. Leonard, of Lansdowne; Adolph 

 Farenwald, of Roslyn ; Joseph Heacock. 

 nf Wyncote; Thomas W. Logan, of Jen- 

 kintown; W. H. Vance, of Wilmington, 

 Del.; John H. Dodds, of Jenkintown ; 

 Fred Hahman, of Frankford ; and Dr. 

 Robert A. Huev, Dr. Montrose Graham 

 Tull, Henry F. Michell, William K. Har- 

 ris, William P. Craig, Robert A. Craig, 

 Robert Craig, D. T. Connor, George C. 

 Watson, George Craig. Robert Kift, S. 

 S. Pennock, John Westcott, John A. 

 Ihinham and J. W. Young, all of this 

 city. 



The dinner was well appointed and 

 greatly enjoyed. President Meehan in- 

 troduced Robert Craig, who acted as 

 toast-master, calling on Hugh Dickson, 

 who responded in well chosen words. 

 Among the many excellent speeches that 

 of Alexander B. Scott, which appears 

 elsewhere in this paper, is of more than 

 usual interest. Mr. Dickson evidently 

 has a keen sense of humor, for when Mr. 

 Scott described the new Ir'-ih rose that 

 appeared to be better thav. Beauty and 

 with a finer color tha>. Liberty, he 

 watched with merry eyes the faces of 

 the rose growers who were leaning for- 



