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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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Apbil 2, 1008. 







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Our Prize =Wiooiog Beauties 



The vase of fifty American Beauty roses exhibited by Messrs. Myers & Samtman at the Annual 

 Exhibition of the American Rose Society, held at Chicago, March 25th, 26th and 27th, won first 

 prize from a strong field of competitors. We handle the product of Messrs. Myers & Samtman, and 

 therefore feel justified in claiming that our Beauties are superior to any in the country. 



LILY PLANTS FOR EASTER 



Order now so that they can be shipped in bud, 

 thus avoiding possibility of damage in transit. 



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colored blooms are in fair demand, but 

 white carnations are hard to sell, except- 

 ing in the cheaper grades for funeral 

 work. Eoses are also plentiful, though 

 it is noticed that really good stock is 

 seldom wasted. The rose list has been 

 strengthened by Gen. Jacqueminot. 

 Kaiserins have also made their appear- 

 ance. The quality is excellent. 



The vast quantity of southern daffo- 

 dils finds sale somehow. They tend to 

 depreciate the value of the home-grown 

 stock. Single violets from greenhouse 

 and coldframe are pretty well over, the 

 stock now coming in being largely from 

 the open ground. It is doubtful whether 

 these will last until Easter. Sweet peas 

 are fine and so plentiful as to bring 

 even the finest within the reach of the 

 lower-priced buyers. Gardenias are be- 

 coming more plentiful. Only the finest 

 stock brings listed quotations. Some 

 choice smilax is coming into the market. 

 The price on this grade has advanced. 

 Atlantic City is becoming a factor in 

 thi^ shipping business as Easter ap- 

 proaches. 



Sharon Hill* 



It was intimated to Phil that "the 

 great Sam" would be pleased were he 

 to visit Robert Scott & Son and see 

 their Easter plants. So to Sharon Hill 

 Phil repaired straightway, arranging one 

 of those flying connections that make it 

 possible for the poor newspaper corre- 

 spondent to get anything done at all. 

 Unfortunately Alexander B. Scott was 

 away, but Miss Gloster secured one of 

 his representatives, who die' everything 

 in his power to enable the visitor to see 

 all that could be seen in the brief space 

 at his command. 



T^e principal Easter piants grown at 

 Sharon Hill are lilies and ramblers. Car- 

 rying out Mr. Scott's idea of making an 

 impression on the market, lilies and ram- 

 blers are grown in quantity and grown 

 well. Lilies are being cut now and will 

 be cut and sold in pots in immense quan- 

 tities at Easter. The stock premises 

 well, the giganteum variety being espe- 

 cially fine. It is with Crimson Ramblers 

 especially that Mr. Scott is seen in his 

 best form. The plants of this grand 

 rose were in magnificent condition, set 

 more heavily with buds than I can re- 



ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS NANUS.^ ,^ 



Choice grreenhouse-grown seed $0.60 $4.50 



Southern-grown seed, under slats 50 3.25 



Asparagus Sprengeri 



Choice greenhouse-grown seed 



Imported seed 



1.25 



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Vegetable Asparagus Seed 



The demand for Asparaaria Roots is growing by leaps 

 and bounds. The demand Is greater than the supply and 

 will be for some time to come. I have a splendid stock of 

 seed of all varieties. jj, ^^.^y^ jot^ 



Per lb. Per lb. 

 Early Giant ArBrenteuU. Genuine French Grown seed, saved from beds free 



of rust. This is the famous Paris AsparaKus and grows to immense size $0.75 $0.55 



Karly French Giant. American grown. Fine French stock 65 .50 



Donald's Blmira. A Mew York State Asparagus of good reputation. Good 



rust resister 50 .35 



Bonvallet's Giant. Popular in parts of the west. A fine, robust growing 



Asparagus 65 .60 



Barr's Philadelphia Mammoth. Very popular around Phila. and N. T 40 .30 



Palmetto. Of Southern origin. Very green 40 .30 



Conover's Colossal. The old standard sort 35 .25 



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member having seen them in previous 

 years. Well spaced in all sizes from 

 6-inch to 10-inch, the house devoted to 

 this variety was a splendid sight. 



The S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co. handle 

 the Sharon Hill stock and believe that 

 when its fine quality is known it will be 

 in great demand. 



The Barons of Rotlyn. 



There are three barons of Roslyn whose 

 fair lands lie side by side, to the east 

 of Glenside. Unlike the barons of old, 

 their domain is not on the hill-top from 

 whence they can see an enemy from afar, 

 but halfway down in the valley, pro- 

 tected from the biting winds of the north 

 by hill and woods and open on the south 

 to the full force of the winter sun. 

 Neither do they quarrel nor commit petty 

 depredations on each other, as did the 

 barons of old, but they live side by side 

 in peace and harmony, each striving to 

 outdo the other in the quality of the prod- 

 ucts of his place. 



When Victor Groshens, the last of the 

 barons to reach Roslyn, had experimented 

 with the soil in the greenhouses for a 

 few months, he sententiously remarked 

 that the soil suited red roses. It cer- 

 tainly does, though I have always be- 

 lieved that the growers do a great, great 

 deal in assisting the soil and I probably 

 shall continue to believe this in spite of 

 all the skeptics. The soil or the grower 

 produces magnificent Richmond, Liberty 

 and Beauty at Roslyn, as a visit to the 

 places there will show. Adolph Faren- 

 wald has, in addition to these varieties, 

 Killamey, Miss Kate Moulton, Aurora — 

 now called Mrs. Somebody, I can't re- 

 call who — and possibly another variety, 

 all in splendid condition. Miss Kate 

 impressed me particularly by its vig- 

 orous growth and sturdy stem, the weak- 

 ness sometimes noticed under the bud 

 being absent, except, possibly, in a few 

 of the short-stemmed flowers. Killamey 

 was excellent, the grafted plants seem- 

 ingly more vigorous than the own-root, 



