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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



OCTOBBB 8, 1007. 



CATTLEYAS 



We are receiving fine flowers in quantity. Price, $50 to $6.0 per 100. 

 DAHLIAS — A complete assortment of Fancy and Standard varieties received daily. 



WILD SMIL AX — We can supply decorators with this indispensable green in lots 



of one or more cases as desired. 



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gret and George Craig was noininated 

 treasurei" pro tem. 



The annual election resulted as fol- 

 lows: President, Fred Hahman; vice- 

 president, William Graham; secretary, 

 David Eust. 



W. E. McKissick read an excellent 

 paper on the advances of the middleman. 



Two Official Letters. 



Philadelphians will be interested in 

 two official letters recently received at 

 Riverton, N. J. One is from the Pitts- 

 burg and Allegheny Gardeners' and Flo- 

 rists' Club, expressing thanks for the 

 liospitality extended to its members who 

 were present at the entertainment ten- 

 dered to the S. A. F. at Riverton August 

 21. The letter continued by requesting 

 the company to send specimen fronds of 

 each variety of nephrolepis on the place 

 to the October meeting of the club, held 

 October 1. The letter was signed by the 

 president, J. W. Jones. 



The other letter was from the Detroit 

 Florists' Club, couched in terms of 

 hearty commendation for the courtesies 

 exteijded by the company to those of its 

 members Avho were present at the outing 

 tendered the convention in August at 

 Riverton, and highly commending the ex- 

 cellent culture everywhere in evidence on 

 the farm. This letter was signed by J. F. 

 Sullivan, secretary. 



These letters will give all plant lovers 

 pleasure, as the Dreer place is recognized 

 ;is being our leading horticultural estab- 

 lishment, both in size and in variety of 

 plants grown. 



Westerly. 



L. J. Reuter, who made many friends 

 wiiilc in this city, gave Phil a cordial in- 

 vitation to visit his father's place at 

 Westerly, R. 1., during the summer or 

 early fall. This invitation, highly prized, 

 was not intended to share the fate of all 

 invitations where time is not set. It so 

 happened, however, that the tide of 

 iiuman events landed Phil at Westerly in 

 the wee small hours, with but limited 

 time at his disposal. This time was util- 

 ized and Mr. Renter's place discovered 

 iTe long: A beautiful place, with grass 

 and terraces and neatness everywhere, a 

 place that would serve admirably for an 

 (ih.iect lesson to S. S. Skidelsky's talk on 



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what each of us ought to do to educate 

 the public. Mr. Skidelsky intended to 

 tell, and probably has told, the Council 

 of Horticulture that the true advance- 

 ment of public interests in beautifying 

 the home lay in the hands of the florists 

 themselves, who should make their places 

 object lessons to their customers. 



Phil believes that it is not the right 

 thing to look over a man's place when 

 that man is absent, or it may be in bed, 

 no matter how early a riser he be, so a 

 glance only was given to the houses, re- 

 vealing the fact that Mr. Reuter believes 

 in producing everything that his cus- 

 tomers need, and in doing everything 

 that he attempts thoroughly. But time 

 flies, and Phil was obliged to go just as 

 the first employee was seen riding in on 

 his wheel to begin the day's work. 



European Notes. 



George A. Strohlein, who returned 

 from abroad in the middle of September, 

 kindly consented to give Review readers 

 a few impressions of his trip abroad. He 

 says that the azaleas are later this year 

 than usual, fears having been entertained 

 during August as to the buds setting 

 properly. Warm weather in September, 



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 require, the kind of cut flowers yon wish to use 

 the refrigerator for, and whether for display or 

 only for storage. 



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however, has ripened the wood nicely, 

 and the buds are now in good condition. 

 Azalea shipments will probably be later 

 this year than usual, but it is believed 

 the plants will be up to the standard. 



The demand for palms in Europe is 

 excellent. The cold weather in the south 

 of France, where large crops of Phoenix 

 Canariensis were frosted in the open 

 ground, has quickened the demand for 

 kentias and other palms to fill their place. 



Horticulturists, in Germany especially, 

 are prosperous, Mr. Strohlein says, and 

 they are enjoying labor and socialistic 

 strikes. Mr. Strohlein thought that there 

 were comparatively few novelties of 

 merit in sight at present. He commented 

 with i)leasure on the keen interest shown 

 by all classes of people in Germany in 

 their gardens, the cottagers vying with 



