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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



AuoLST 22, HM)7. 



J. D. Eisele. 

 (Vice-President H. A. Dreer Co.) 



oration. It would be diflScult to find a 

 sturdier lot of kentias anywhere. Ameri- 

 can Beauties are to this company in 

 roses what kentias are in palms, filling 

 the bulk of the houses in that depart- 

 ment. 



Charles D. Ball had a score of houses 

 filled with well grown foliage plants, at 

 Holmesburg. His stock is well balanced, 

 all the leading varieties of palms and 

 ferns being found here, as well as sev- 

 eral varieties not usually met with. The 

 entire place impresses one as being busi- 

 nesslike, with a good grower and a good 

 business man in charge. 



Visitors to William K. Harris found 

 a fine range of glass at Fifty-fifth and 

 Springfield avenue, in West Philadel- 

 phia. His specialty is flowering plants, 

 for Christmas, Easter and other times. 

 The most advertised feature of his place 

 is a house built entirely of plate glass, 

 considered to be the most economical 

 house there. It is easily heated and will 

 fruit oranges or perfect the foliage of 

 Pandanus Veitchii without burning with 

 equal facility. An immense shed down 

 the center of the place, into which the 

 houses open from each side, will accom- 

 modate teams for loading plants. 



Myers & Samtman, at Wyndmoor, 

 Chestnut Hill, have become Beauty spe- 

 cialists of the first rank. Their houses 

 are all, save one, devoted to this rose, and 

 their stock is as well known in Pittsburg 

 as in Philadelphia. All the plants are 

 bench grown and in fine condition. Their 

 new rose, as yet unnamed, a seedling 

 from American Beauty and Safrano, is 



very promising and many went out to 

 look at it. This seedling is the only 

 rival to the Beauty on the place. 



Kobert Scott & Sons have an immense 

 range of glass at Sharon Hill, on the 

 B. & O., nine miles south of Philadel- 

 phia. Their specialties are grafted Kil- 

 larney, Eichmond, and Kaiserin, all 

 grown in solid beds. They are agents 

 for Alexander Dickson & Sons, New- 

 towards, near Belfast, Ireland, and try 

 out their best seedling roses for the 

 American market. Mrs. Jardine, a soft 

 pink, is being grown in quantity for dis- 

 tribution next spring. The visitors all 

 spoke highly of its appearance. 



The Andorra Nurseries have nearly 

 600 acres in three patches just north 

 of Chestnut Hill. The nursery is beau- 

 tifully laid out, having a variety of soil 

 and situation. Rhododendrons, ever- 

 greens, flowering shrubs and rare trees 

 are specialties. William Warner Har- 

 per, the proprietor, prides himself on be- 

 ing able to supply everything required 

 for a country place whose wants are 

 most exacting and they had many vis- 

 itors this week. 



John Burton has an immense range of 

 glass, much of it built of Lord & Burn- 

 ham material, at Chestnut Hill. With his 

 sons, Alfred Burton and George Burton, 

 he is a most important factor in the 

 Beauty market of his city and of the 

 eastern seaboard. Ground beds are evi- 

 dently more in favor at all three places 

 than benches. Visitors found the stock 

 all thrifty and in fine growing condi- 

 tion. 



Visitors to A. Farenwald found a fine 

 range of glass devoted to roses. His 

 Liberties were for years a little 

 better than anything seen elsewhere, vis- 

 itors coming from all parts of the coun- 

 try to see them. He now grows that rose 

 less extensively, having increased plant- 

 ing of American Beauty and added Kil- 

 larney and Richmond. Edward Towill, 

 his neighbor, has made a hit with Lib- 

 erty and also with Richmond, which he 

 grows exceptionally well. He also grows 

 Beauties in fine shape, and dabbles suc- 

 cessfully in novelties. Both these grow- 

 ers favor ground beds. Victor Groshens 

 has just built two immense houses 

 29x500, on the truss plan. King Con- 

 struction Co. material, which are ideal. 

 Brides, Maids and Richmond are the va- 

 rieties grown. They are planted on 

 benches and are in a most promising con- 

 dition. 



The Florex Gardens have just complet- 

 ed an immense structure 156x575 feet 

 at North Wales. Tliey have used King 

 plans and iron work, and Moninger roof- 

 ing material, with concrete sides. Their 

 house is thirty-two feet high at the 

 ridge and supported by six rows of posts. 

 It is entirely filled with American Beauty 

 roses, 45,000 plants being used. Half 

 of these are in benches and half are in 

 beds. Growers are much interested in 

 this house and many visited it. 



Godfrey Aschmann has a compact 

 place devoted to pot plants at 1012 On- 

 tario street. His stock is chiefly in me- 

 dium sizes of the best commercial varie- 

 ties; araucarias and nephrolepis are at 

 present leaders. It is evident that a good 

 shipping business is being done and 

 that no effort is spared to produce what 

 the market requires. 



Edward A. Stroud has some superb 

 modern houses, built by Hitchings & Co., 

 at Stratford. Carnations are his special- 

 ty. All the leading varieties were found 

 here. 



The Hugh Graham Co. has 100,000 feet 

 of glass, at Logan, devoted to growing 

 stock needed in the William Graham Co. 

 retail business in Philadelphia. This 

 company also does a large business with 

 the department stores, as well as a gen- 

 eral jobbing business, and visitors found 

 much of interest there. 



Those who visited Casper and George 

 L. Pennock found a large place at Lans- 

 downe. About half their place is de- 

 voted to American Beauties, the balance 

 to teas and hybrid teas, all in good shape. 



Judges' Report. 



The judges on novelties in the trade 

 exhibit, C. H. Vick, F. E. Palmer and 

 Adolphus Gude, reported the following 

 awards : 



Conard & Jones Co., West Grove, Pa., 

 Cannas Wm. Saunders and New York, 

 honorable mention; W. A. Manda, South 

 Orange, N. J., Dracaena Mandaiana, cer- 

 tificate of merit; Charles Eble, New Or- 

 leans,- unnamed nephrolepis, honorable 

 mention; F. R. Pierson Co., Tarrytown, 

 N. Y., Nephrolepis superbissima, hon- 

 orable mention ; John Lewis Childs, Flo- 

 ral park, N. Y., white Gladiolus No. 27, 

 certificate of merit; D. B. Long, BuflFalo, 

 N. Y., printed matter, highly commended ; 

 George B. Hart, Rochester, N. Y., wire 

 pot handle, certificate of merit; Wilson 

 & Hoight, Summit, N. J., concrete bench, 

 honorable mention; M. Rice & Co., Phil- 

 adelphia, willow stump, highly commend- 

 ed; Dayton Paper Novelty Co., Dayton, 

 O., paper boxes, highly commended. 



Nominatioa of Officers. 



When it came to nomination of oflS- 



