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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Mabch 26, 1908. 



Smilax 



Long, heavy strings 



Leucothoe 



Design makers need it 



BOXWOOD 



Case lots our specialty, $7.00 a case 



Sprengeri 



In liberal bunches 



Ferns 



Best in the market 



Asparagus 



Good strings, fine bunches 



Galax 



Green and Bronze 



All Cut Flowers In Large Supply 



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and repair others. Mr. Ball makes a 

 point of keeping his place in the best of 

 condition. 



William Lyman, of Lambertville, N. J., 

 was in this city March 23. 



Edward J. Fancourt, secretary of the 

 S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co., will attend the 

 national rose show in Chicago this week. 



D. E. Gorman and Mrs. Gorman, Wil- 

 liamsport, Pa., were in this city a few 

 days ago. They report an excellent de- 

 mand for green carnations on St. Pat- 

 rick's day. xvlas, alas I 



Edward Eeid says that he started out 

 to help the carnation market last week, 

 and he helped it. 



The Philadelphia Cut Flower Co. has 

 been handling some nice, long-stemmed 

 Easter lilies. 



Edward Towill, of Eoslyn, will add one 

 house, 35x150 feet, for Richmond roses. 

 The King Construction Co. will furnish 

 the roofing material. 



M. Rice & Co. have a rule that the day 

 an order is received it must be shipped, 

 unless otherwise specified, a rule they 

 spare no effort to live up to. 



R. G. Palmer, who has been ill, is look- 

 ing forward to going to the country near 

 his old home in Doylestown next week. 



Charles Krueger, of the Reading Ter- 

 minal Flower Shop, who has been quite 

 ill, is recuperating at Atlantic City. 



H. Bayersdorfer & Co. received fifteen 

 cases of sea moss, the Japanese air 

 plants, on Saturday. All these plants 

 were shipped away the same day. 



William P. Craig left March 24 with 

 an exhibit of Robert Scott & Son's fine 

 new rose, Mrs. Jardine, for the national 

 rose show at Chicago. 



The Florex Gardens will, it was 

 learned at Eugene Bernlieimer 's, make 

 an exhibit of their fine Beauties at the 

 show at Chicago. 



Myers & Samtman, of Wyndmoor, and 



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Adolph Farenwald, of Roslyn, went to 

 Chicago on the sixteen-hour flyer March 

 24. Both had exhibits of fine roses, in- 

 cluding Wyndmoor, the first named grow- 

 er's coming debutante. 



The Pennsylvania Horticultural Socie- 

 ty's spring show will open Tuesday, 

 March 31. Phil. 



THE DEATH ROLL. 



William H. Spooner. 



In the death of William H. Spooner 

 on March 21, Jamaica Plain lost one of 

 its oldest and most esteemed citizens, and 

 horticulture in Massachusetts one of its 

 most enthusiastic champions. The de- 

 ceased gentleman was taken ill March 14 

 with an intestinal trouble which necessi- 

 tated an operation, for which he was re- 

 moved to the Emerson hospital, Forest 

 Hills. The operation was performed 

 early in the afternoon, but Mr. Spooner 

 failed to come out of the influence of the 

 ether. 



William H. Spooner was bom in Ja- 

 maica Plain, Mass., April 2, 1823, and, 

 with the exception of three years spent 

 in New York, had spent his whole life 

 there. He was the son of William Heath 

 Spooner and Harriet Curtis Spooner. His 

 mother belonged to an old revolutionary 

 family. 



During his whole life he was an ardent 

 lover of horticulture, hardy roses being 

 always his specialty. For many years he 



grew roses commercially, at one time 

 being associated with W. C. Strong. He 

 imported all the best new varieties from 

 England and France and his exhibits at 

 Horticultural hall carried off a number 

 of the leading prizes for many years. 



The deceased gentleman was one of the 

 oldest members of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society, joining it when 

 quite a young man. He had filled about 

 every office in the gift of the society, in- 

 cluding that of president for two years. 

 He was a member of the first board of 

 trustees under the new management at 

 the present hall and at the time of his 

 death was a delegate to the State Board 

 of Agriculture. There were few exhibi- 

 tions which Mr. Spooner failed to attend, 

 the summer weekly exhibitions being his 

 special favorites. He had presided at all 

 the lectures given during the winter 

 course just ended and his genial presence 

 and familiar figure will be greatly missed 

 at Horticultural hall. 



Mr. Spooner, as a member of the State 

 Board of Agriculture, took a keen in- 

 terest in the management of the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural College at Amherst, 

 was a strong advocate of increased plant- 

 ing of fruit and forest trees and was a 

 consistent champion of every measure for 

 promoting the advancement of agricul- 

 ture and horticulture. He had served 

 West Roxbury in the state legislature in 

 1884 and 1885. 



W. N. Craig. 



