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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



April 6, 1006. 



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new claimant for popular favor and be- 

 lieves that it is beyond doubt the most 

 beautiful rhododendron in this country 

 today. It is said to be perfectly hardy. 



A New Departure. 



The committee in charge of the April 

 meeting of the Germantown Horticul- 

 tural Society has arranged a program 

 which may be of interest to other socie- 

 ties which find it dif&cult to sustain an 

 animated discussion on a given topic. 

 The plan as originally mapped out is 

 given below for what it is worth. 



Subject: Flowering Shrubs. Intro- 

 ductory talk, S. Mendelson Meehan (5 

 minutes) ; Old Fashioned Garden Shrubs, 

 N. Dubois Miller (15 minutes) ; Attract- 

 ive Arrangement of Shrubs, Leonard 

 Morse (8 minutes) ; Evergreen Shrubs, 

 Wm. Warner Harper (5 minutes) ; Win- 

 ter Effects from Berried Shrubs and Col- 

 ored Barks, E. B. Cridland (5 minutes) ; 

 Planting, Care and Pruning, J. Howes 

 Humphreys (8 minutes) ; Forcing 

 Shrubs, John Welsh Young (5 minutes). 



Various Notes. 



The Leo Niessen Co, will be especially 

 strong on Kaiserins for Easter. Their 

 orders for Easter plants exceed those of 

 last year at this time. 



Samuel S. Pennock has his samples of 

 Easter plants on exhibition in his new 

 annex. 



Paul Berkowitz, of 3. Bayersdorfer & 

 Co., has returned from a most successful 

 pre-Easter trip. 



Mr. and Mrs. William Blacker, of 

 Clearfield, Pa., were in this city a few 

 days ago, loolung up Easter stock. 



Miss Dundore, buyer for H. Shroyer, 

 Lancaster, Pa., was in town looking up 

 Easter supplies. 



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Charles Diedeman, of Baltimore, Md., 

 was also a visitor at M. Bice & Co. 's. 



Walter P. Stokes has a fine collection 

 of Easter plants at Moorestown, N. J. 



John Stone, of Lebanon, Pa., was a 

 visitor in this city last week. 



Godfrey Aschmann is in the midst of 

 his Easter rush. The demand for plants 

 bids fair to exceed that of last year. 



Eobert A. Craig is agent for Van 

 Den, Abeele & Co., of Ghent, Belgium. 



The Hugh Graham Co., of Logan, Pa., 

 is sending fine single daffodils to W. J. 

 Baker. 



The April meeting of the Florists' 

 Club was held on Tuesday evening. 

 Robt. Craig read a paper on flowering 

 plants, which was listened to with great 

 interest and brought out considerable 

 discussion. 



Business in the seed stores is opening 

 with great activity. Phil. 



Ennis, Tex.— C. M. Hall lost both 

 his father and mother within the past 

 few months. His mother died March 

 27. For nineteen years she was asso- 

 ciated with her son in the greenhouse 

 business. 



Winnipeg, Man. — Gardener H. D. 

 England, of the city greenhouses, has a 

 large collection of lilies in full bloom. 

 Mr. England says they are a little ahead 

 of any he has yet seen. They were 

 grown from specially selected bulbs. 



Lowell, Mass. — Morse & Beals are 

 successors to George W. Patten, of 

 Merrimack square, and they are doing a 

 nice business. 



