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APRIL 4, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



i539 



Choice Flowers ^Spring Weddings 



VALLEY, the finest in America, $3.00 and $4.00 per 100. 

 We offer tiie finest SWEET PEAS, $K00 to $L50 per )00; ASPARAGUS 

 PLUMOSUS, long strings, 50c to 75c each; WHITE LILAC, 50c to $L00 

 per bunch; GARDENIAS, $3.00 to $4.00 per doz,t and all other varieties of flowers. 



We can furnisii RIBBON of any Sliade desired 

 to matcli any or all of our flowers. 



THE FINEST VALLEY IN AMERICA 

 S. S. PENNOCK-MEEHAN CO. 



THE Wholesale Florists of PHILADELPHIA, 1608-1618 Ludlow St. 



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CANNA ROOTS 



Special Bargain to clear out, $2.50 per 100; $20.00 per 1000. 



Strone, dormant roots, t^vo to three eyes to every root, ALL TRUS TO]NAME. 



Alice Roosevelt, crimeon \ 



A. Bouvler, velvety red 



Alsace, creamy white 



Alemannia, salmon, yellow border 



Austria, yellow 



Beaute Poitevlne, crimson scarlet 



Cbas. Henderson, crimson 



Cbicaero, vermilion 



EKandale, cherry red 



F. R. Pierson, scarlet, streaked yellow 



n. Vauffban, yellow, spotted red 



Flamingo, crimson 



Italia, golden yellow, SDotted red 



J. D. Eisele, ciimson, yellow throat 



Longford, scarlet, bordered yellow 



Mme. Crozy, vermilion, bordered yellow 



Pres. McKinley , crimson . 



Queen Cliarlotte, scarlet, gold border ' 



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Special Barg^ain 



to Clear 



Out, 



$2.50 per 100; 



$20.00 per 1000. 



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 and Price List of Seeds, Bnlbs, etc. 



HENRY F. MICHELL GO. 



1018 Market St. 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



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Beauties were in lieavy supply and 

 proved a most satisfactory shipping 

 flower. The demand was barely suffi- 

 cient to absorb all the stock offered, the 

 difficulty being that there were hardly 

 any grades between the fancy specials 

 and the shorts; many more extras and 

 mediums could have been sold. 



Sweet peas sold splendidly when of 

 fair quality. The retailers positively 

 refused to touch the poor grades, which 

 are plentiful. Cattleyas were scarce. 

 Gardenias about equaled the demand. 

 Valley sold in immense quantities, but 

 the supply exceeded the demand. Some 

 magnificent but held-over stock proved 

 a total loss, the bells falling when it 

 reached the market. White lilac sold 

 exceptionally well when of good quality. 

 Pansies were in strong supply, one large 

 wholesale house alone marketing 12,000 

 bunches. 



Greens, especially plumosus, sold well. 



The supply came in rather late, and 

 toward the end of the week there was 

 a surplus. 



Business this week has opened well, 

 the demand being fairly good, with 

 prices a shade lower than at Easter, 

 There are many shipping orders and a 

 number of weddings that will consume 

 much choice stock. 



The organizing of the new city gov- 

 ernment on Monday brought many 

 floral offerings for mayor and council- 

 men, not so many as in former years, 

 when desks were decorated. The cold 

 weather of Monday and Tuesday has 

 checked production, thus helping the 

 market. 



Easter Plants. 



It is universally conceded to have 

 been the greatest plant Easter ever ex- 

 perienced, both by the wholesalers and 

 by the retailers. The Eobert Craig 



Co., which is the largest grower of 

 Easter plants in this city, states that 

 on Friday it had passed the high-water 

 mark of one year ago, and that many 

 plants were sold since. The difficulty 

 experienced in shipping was that the 

 work was crowded into two weeks in- 

 stead of spreading out over a month, 

 as is usual when Easter comes a fort- 

 night later. The retailers agree that it 

 was the greatest plant Easter in their 

 experience. They attribute this largely 

 to the warm weather of last week, which 

 enabled the buyers to shop when they 

 pleased, and encouraged them in the 

 belief that plants could be delivered 

 safely. Many of the retailers believe 

 that this heavy demand for plants 

 affected their sales of cut flowers, which 

 they think were smaller than would have 

 been the case had cooler weather pre- 

 vailed. Little more can be said regard- 

 ing plants than is generally known, ex- 

 cepting that hydrangeas were rather 

 scarce, that rambler roses were less in 

 evidence than in former years, that there 

 was an immense quantity of azaleas 

 marketed, and some of the poorer stock 

 left over, and that there was a heavy 

 demand, especially in the smaller shops,, 

 for tulips, hyacinths, etc., in small pots. 



The Spring; Exhibition. 



The spring show of the Pennsylvania 

 Horticultural Society was held, as stated 

 last week, in Horticultural hall, on the 

 Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday pre- 

 ceding Easter. The show was well sup- 

 plied, by the gardeners, with exhibits of 

 high quality, in all the classes for flow- 

 ering plants and bulbs and in some 

 classes for the foliage plants. 



The tulips and hyacinths were prob- 

 ably the best ever seen here, the judges, 

 A. B. Cartledge, Chester Davis, C. Eisele 

 and John Hobson, having a most diffi- 

 cult task to decide the winners. 



A hurried trip through the hall, under 

 the kindly guidance of John S. Hay, en- 

 abled me to see a few plants and flowers 

 of special interest to florists. A large 

 narcissus, exhibited for the Waterer 

 prizes, is called Glory of Leyden. It 

 somewhat resembles an improved Hors- 

 fieldii. Ehododendron Pink Pearl, flow- 

 ered last year by Jacob Becker, is a va- 

 riety of great merit. Flowers are large^ 



