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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



October 3, 1907. 



PHILADELPHIA LACE FERN 



We 



We have filled all orders to date and have a fine stock on hand 

 can make delivery at once* Strong stock from pots : 



2%-liicli, $3.50 per doz.; $25.00 per 100; $20O.OO per 1000. 



4-lncli, $10.00 per doz.; $75.00 per lOO. 



Specimens In pans, $2,009 $3.00 and $5.00 each. 



Amerpohlii has been awarded the highest honors wherever shown, and all the 

 critics, growers and retailers are enthusiastic about its beauty as a pot plant and its 

 usefulness as a cut frond. At all exhibitions where we have shown it the opinion is 

 never divided. You, too, will like it. 



WM. P. CRAIG, 1305 Filbert St., Philadelphia 



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each other to produce the finest fuchsias 

 or dahlias, or cannas, or whatever plants 

 they might be growing. He thought that 

 the long twilight evenings, giving oppor- 

 tunity for work in the garden after the 

 business of the day was over, had some- 

 thing to do with the general interest 

 manifested. 



Various Notes. 



The Robert Craig Co. has been experi- 

 encing a gratifyingly heavy demand for 

 its specialties in decorative and flowering 

 plants. The stock is exceptionally fine 

 this year. 



William C. Smith is making a spe- 

 cialty of Nephrolepis Scottii and Whit- 

 man i. He propagates Ficus elastica 

 very cleverly. 



The Leo Niessen Co. is experiencing a 

 lively demand for wild smilax, a good 

 sign that the decorative season is be- 

 ginning. 



Edward Doniheim, of the S. S. Pen- 

 nock-Meehan Co., says that Kriemhilde is 

 the best selling dahlia on the market 

 today. 



William Kiefaber and Charles K. 

 Pease, of the Miami Floral Co., Dayton, 

 O., are in town this week. They visited 

 Stephen Mortesen, of Southampton, Pa., 

 and the Florcx Gardens, at North Wales, 

 Pa. 



William Palmer, of Buflfalo, was in 

 the city last week. 



The Florex Gardens has just completed 

 planting the smaller house, 30x130, which 

 was used early in the season for young 

 Beauty plants, with, carnations. The va- 

 rieties jtlanted in this house are En- 

 chantress, White Enchantress, Beacon, 

 Winsor, White Perfection, Lieut. Peary 

 and Queen. 



.Tolin Mclntyre completed his first year 

 in business September 30. 



William P. Craig has been highly com- 

 plimented on the quality of the stock of 

 Xephrolepis Amerpohlii that he is send- 

 ing out. Mr. Craig says that all his or- 

 ders have been filled and he has some fine 

 ]>lants on hand. 



William J, Baker received the first 

 white chrysanthemums, Mrs. Kalb, Octo- 

 ber 1. They were from William Swayne, 

 of Kennett Square. Glory of the Pacific 

 and.Cremo followed a few days later. 



J. D. Eisele and J. Otto Thilow are 

 making a flying trip to England, Ger- 



Altimo Cnltnre Co.'s Asters 



are all contracted for. We have no more to offer for this 

 season. Your name sent now — in time — will insure to 

 you some of our Asters next year. 



White Gladioli 



$3.00 per 100. 



ALTIMO CULTURE CO. 



CANFIELD, OHIO 



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many, Holland and Belgium. They will 

 visit Erfurt, in Germany, to call on some 

 of Mr. Thilow 's relatives. 



The Joseph Heacock Co., Wyncote, Pa., 

 has been busy shipping kentias. 



David Herbert & Son, Atco, N. .T., 

 reached high water mark this week with 

 dahlia shipments. The stock is in splen- 

 did condition. 



Stern & Co. have just received fifty 

 cases of moss wreaths and fancy novel- 

 ties in baskets. 



M. Eice & Co. report their best fall 

 business, running far ahead of previous 

 seasons. 



Eugene Bernheimer is receiving large 

 quantities of cosmos. Tuberoses are 

 seen here in quantity. 



John C. Gracey reports that the Blen- 

 der Co. has had a most satisfactory sum- 

 mer business. 



The S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co. is re- 

 ceiving early pink, white and yellow 

 chrysanthemums. 



Edward Reid is receiving the first gar- 

 denias of the season. 



The Philadelphia Cut Flower Co. is re- 

 ceiving fine dahlias from the Peacock 

 dahlia farm. A'irginia Maule, white, and 



Big Chief, scarlet, Twentieth Century 

 type, are striking novelties. 



Bayersdorfer & Co. have just issued 

 their new 72-page catalogue. It is the 

 finest they ever have sent out. 



Answers ,to Gxrespondents. 



Review readers nre invited to send any ques- 

 tlnnR relntint; to culture or marketing of plants 

 and flowerH In Plilladelpliln, to Phil, In care of 

 any of the leadinK seed or commission bonaes. 

 Each queKtlon will be submitted to a competent 

 perwiii nnd answered under number. Correct 

 name and address must always accompany In- 

 quiry, but will not be published. 



84. In tlie Review for August 22 was 

 an article on Inillis. It read in part as 

 follows: "Incarvillea is a coming plant, 

 particularly as a garden flower, and un- 

 doubtedly can be forced. If you plant 

 500 strong roots, the flowers will abso- 

 lutely come in bloom the same day." I 

 cannot understand why, if one plants 

 500 strong roots, the flowers will ap- 

 pear the same day. Does the number of 

 roots planted conduce to the speedy 

 blooming? And how can a bulb bloom 

 before it is rooted? 



A. It is ])robablp that E. V. Hallock, 

 who made this address, did not mean 

 that the bulbs would flower on the same 



