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APBIL 11, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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Choice Flowers^Spring Weddings 



THE FINEST VSLLEY IN AMERICA 



$3.00 and 54.00 per 100. 



We offer the finest SWEET PEAS, $K00 to $1.50 per JOO; ASPARAGUS 

 PLUMIOSUS, long strings, 50c to 75c each; GARDENIAS, $2.00 to $2.50 

 per doz,f and all other varieties of flowers. 



We can furnish RIBBON of any shade desired to match any or ail of our flowers. 



WILD SMILAX FOR DECORATIONS. 



S. S. PENNOCK-MEEHAN CO. 



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



Mention The Review when you write. 



Sommer=Floweriflg BULBS 



CANNAS 



strong: roots with two and three eyes 

 at a special price to clear. 

 Alpbonse Bouvier, 

 Alsace, 



Alemannia, 

 Austria, 



Clias. Henderson, 

 Cbloasro, 

 Esundale, 



F. Vauelian, 

 Italia, 



Mme. Crozy, 



Phlladelplxla, 

 and otber sorts, any of tlie above, 

 $2.50 per 100; $20.00 per 1000. 



DAHLIAS 



We have a larfre assortment of choice 

 named sorts in Double, Cactus, Sinele 

 and Fancy vaiieties. Strong clumps, 

 $1.00 per doz.; $8.00 per 100. 



GLADIOLUS 



strong bulbs which will bloom 

 season. 100 



Scarlet and Crimson 11.00 



Pink and Varieeated 1.25 



Striped 2.00 



Wblte and Liebt 176 



Yellow 2.60 



Cbildsli, mixed 2.00 



Groff's Hybrids, mixed 1.50 



Cboicest, mixed 1.25 



Fine mixed 1.00 



this 

 1000 

 $9.00 

 12.00 

 19,00 

 15.00 

 24 00 

 18.00 

 14.00 

 10.00 

 800 



Write for a copy of our Wholesale Price List, 

 also General Seed CataloKue. 



HENRY F. MIGHELL CO. 



1018 Market St. 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



ilentlon Tlie Berlew when yoa write. 



version was confirmed, and Phil hastened 

 to rectify his error and selected the first 

 available afternoon for the pleasant ex- 

 cursion. Lunch was eaten neither in 

 Pennsylvania nor in New Jersey (guess 

 where) and, luck being on Phil's side, he 

 met a quartette of the men who have 

 made Dreer's place famous. There were 

 J. D. Eisele, lately returned from his 

 European trip; George A. Strohlein, 

 James T. Clark and John A. Ruppert, 

 who is at Biverton occasionally, although 

 nobody would think so, as he seems to be 

 everywhere else. Taking the houses in 

 order of interest, rather than in sequence, 

 the range that will interest Review 

 readers most at this season was that 

 formerly devoted to azaleas, now com- 

 pletely filled with hardy roses in 5 and 

 6-inch pots. The houses in this range 

 are open between, the plants being set 

 on the floor. The effect is of a great 

 field of roses just starting into active 



growth. It is diflBcult to give an idea of 

 numbers or of varieties, there are so 

 many. Perhaps the best way would be 

 to mention an order for 2,500 plants to 

 be used in the rose garden on a large 

 place in the west. Such orders can be 

 readily filled, although the vast majority 

 are for twenty-fives, twelves and sixes. 

 The plants are all budded. Each is 

 labeled with heavy manila paper, found 

 to outlast wood, the name being neatly 

 printed. To any ordinary house the dis- 

 posal of such a vast stock of roses in 

 one season would be an impossibility, 

 but the records show that it has been 

 done nicely each year. 



The next range in point of interest 

 was devoted chiefly to Cocos Weddel- 

 liana, a large block being lately shifted 

 from 3-inch into 5-inch pots. Review 

 readers may recall that this batch of 

 Cocos described three months ago was 

 an exceptionally fine lot of plants. When 



Mr. Eisele -returned from Europe one of 

 his first questions to Mr. Strohlein was, 

 "How are the Cocos?" to which Mr. 

 Strohlein replied, with a smile, "Yel- 

 low," meaning it, of course, in a Pick- 

 wickian sense, or possibly he saw visions 

 of the yellow stream that these Cocos 

 would draw to Biverton. They are as 

 fine a lot of plants as one could wish 

 to see, and when finished in 5-inch pots 

 should be well worth seeing. A point 

 of interest with regard to these Cocos is 

 that the soil, which it has always been 

 supposed should be rather loosely packed, 

 has been made as firm as the pots them- 

 selves, and in it the roots appear entirely 

 at home. 



Phoenix Boebelenii has done so well 

 that blocks of it are being grown to 

 succeed the present shapely plants in the 

 salable sizes. There is one nice lot in 

 thumb pots and another just showing 

 above the seed bed. 



Variotit Notes. 



Dr. Naaman H. Keyser delivered an 

 illustrated lecture on "A Trip Through 

 the Southwest" before the Germantown 

 Horticultural Society last Monday even- 

 ing. The slides were collected during 

 Dr. Keyser 's visit to Colorado and south- 

 ern California in May, 1905. 



M. Bice & Co. invite each and every 

 florist attending the Elks' and S. A. F. 

 conventions, that will be held in Philadel- 

 phia this year, to make their establish- 

 ment headquarters, assuring them of a 

 hearty welcome and open house the en- 

 tire week. 



In describing the spring show of the 

 Pennsylvania Horticultural Society last 

 week, this paragraph apj^eared: "Bose 

 Anny Muller is a pretty plant in bloom. 

 It is of the type of Baby Eambler, only 

 better." It should have read "only 

 taller. ' ' Anny Muller is a pink cluster 

 rose, in height perhaps one-half taller 

 than Baby Bambler as seen here. 



Eugene Bernheimer has been handling 

 some fine snapdragon. 



H. Baycrsdorfer and Mrs. Bayers- 

 dorfer sail on the steamer Blucher 

 Thursday, April 11. Mr. Bayersdorfer 

 goes on his annual trip to Europe in 

 search of staple and novel supplies for 

 the coming season. He promises to bring 



