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The Weekly Rorists' Review* 



January 31, 1907. 



Our FEBRUARY SPECIALTIES-- 



AMERICAN BEAUTIES, the finest in Piiiiadelpliia 



CATTLEYAS and WHITE CATTLEYAS, very clioice 

 SINGLE DAFFODILS, in quantity 

 WHITE LILAC 



TULIPS, SINGLE, PINK and YELLOW 



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PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising; Eastern Market. 



The increase in the quantity of spring 

 flowers is the feature of the market this 

 week. Treesias are more plentiful, the 

 finer grades having arrived in quantity. 

 Pink tulips can now be had, in addi- 

 tion to yellow and white. Daffodils are 

 rather less plentiful, but there are a few 

 good Golden Spurs. The bright, cold 

 weather is putting more life into the 

 roses and carnations, but there is no 

 particular increase in the quantity. The 

 demand is especially for pink and white, 

 with the supply far below the require- 

 ments. Beauties have advanced, the spe- 

 cials bringing higher prices than at any 

 time since Christmas. There are few 

 medium grades, but shorts are fairly 

 plentiful, the average quality being poor. 

 Violets are selling better than for some 

 time past. Prices are low for midwin- 

 ter. A comparison with last season 

 shows that ordinary grades of carna- 

 tions are bringing from 50 cents to $1 

 per hundred more -now than then, but 

 the supply is far below what we gen- 

 erally have in the end of January. Cat- 

 tleyas are quite plentiful and of fine 

 quality. Gardenias are selling well, but 

 the supply has fallen off a little. A nov- 

 elty is Acacia pubescens. Mignonette 

 is fine. 



Edward Towill, of Roslyn. 



Everybody knows Edward Towill, of 

 Eoslyn, and will rejoice with me in the 

 prosperity which is so evidently his this 

 season. The street believes that this 

 prosperity is due, first, to his acumen, 

 or shall we say nerve, in taking up Eich- 

 mond before the plain, everyday growers 

 thought of it, and carefully distributing 

 his stock among them. Next, to his 

 foresight in selecting a certain rose 

 which every one said had been unloaded 

 on him, and growing it so well that one 

 of our best buyers took his entire clip 

 ^uring the winter months. The street 

 «ven believes that the mighty Farenwald 

 will grow two houses of this same rose, 

 Towill stock, next season. The street 

 further asserts that whereas any ordi- 

 nary carnation grower, like Ward or 

 Dailledouze, has to grow a thousand or 



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Fancy Grecian Toneware 



This beautiful novelty is a distinct tjrpe of oar popular antique 

 Toneware. The vases of the Grecian style are slender, with 

 curved lines and soft, rich coloring. The whole effect is pleas- 

 ing and highly artistic. May we send you some ? 



TRY OUR GRASS HEADS 



In general assortment. They are quick sellers. 



OUR EASTER STOCK IS NOW ARRIVING 



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more seedling carnations selected from 

 the best plants in two or three houses 

 before he can get anything worth see- 

 ing, Edward Towill simply picks out a 

 few plants and grows them, nobody 

 knows where, in a corner of one of his 

 houses, probably, then cross fertilizes 

 one or two flowers, and, presto I he has 

 a seedling which a discriminating judge 

 decides is worth so many pennies per 

 plant and orders everything that can be 

 produced. Should you meet Edward 

 Towill, of Eoslyn, and chance to tell 

 him that he looks prosperous, he will 

 assure you, artlessly, that any man may 

 look so who lives near home, where he 

 can run for a bite of lunch whenever he 

 so pleases. 



A Letter from Brooklyn. 



John Scott, of Brooklyn, states in a 

 letter to Phil that the quotation ascribed 



to him regarding Nephrolepis Amerpohlii 

 published in this column January 10, 

 "It is the best one yet," is too sweep- 

 ing. Mr. Scott thinks Nephrolepis Amer- 

 pohlii a beautiful thing, but he does not 

 wish to be understood to say that it will 

 outsell Nephrolepis Scottii or displace 

 Nephrolepis "Whitmani until he has be- 

 come more familiar with the promising 

 newcomer. 



Riverton. 



George A. Strohlein, major general in 

 command of the Dreer army at Eiverton 

 during the brief absence of J. D. Eisele, 

 pointed with pride to the fine color of 

 the kentias. They do not by any means 

 grow kentias to the exclusion of the 

 other palms, but there are enough ken- 

 tias alone to fill a medium sized place. 

 The larger sizes, so prominent in the fall, 

 were reduced in numbers, suggesting the 



