Max 7, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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special Offer for Week Beginning May 11th: 



. VALLEY, special - - - - $4.00 per 100; $30.00 per 1000 

 VALLEY, No. 1 - - - - $3.00 per 100; $25.00 per 1000 

 CATTLEYA MOSSIAE - - $7.50 per doz.; $50.00 per 100 



CEDAR BARK, for covering window boxes - - $1.00 per bundle 



S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co. 



THE WHOLESALE FLORISTS OP 



1608-20 LUDLOW ST., 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



one plant of a compact type entirely 

 different from any of the types with 

 which growers of this plant are familiar. 

 The seed of this compact plant was care- 

 fully saved and sown. Now Mr. Lons- 

 dale has twenty-five plants, all true to 

 the new t3rpe, with flowers varying from 

 white to delicate pink and lavender. The 

 appearance of the new type was so strik- 

 ing that Mr. Lonsdale invited the nov- 

 elty committee of the Florists' Club to 

 examine it and they visited the college 

 and reported favorably at the May meet- 

 ing. Mr. Lonsdale i,s to be congratulated 

 on securing what promises to be an 

 acquisition to this family. 



Arthur A. Niessen will read a paper 

 at the June meeting of the Florists' 

 Club, on the subject of cooperation be- 

 tween retailer and wholesaler in times of 

 overproduction. A general discussion, 

 following the paper, is invited. 



Various Notes. 



H. Bayersdorfer will said for Europe 

 Thursday, May 7, on the S. S. Grosser 

 Kurfuerst, to secure novelties for the 

 coming season. 



George Auegle, with the Philadelphia 

 Cut Flower Co., says that a sour face 

 never helps to sell flowers. This asser- 

 tion stamps Mr. Auegle as a true philoso- 

 pher. 



Robert Kift's public statement that 

 the grower has more responsibility at 

 Easter than either the wholesaler or the 

 retailer is an extremely handsome utter- 

 ance when you consider that he is on the 

 other side of the fence. 



Daniel D. L. Farson, pf Ardmore, Pa., 

 is seriously considering offering a calen- 

 dar or some suitable prize to every pur- 

 chaser of plants who carries the purchase 

 away. 



Among the novelties at the Overbrook 

 Nurseries are some well grown Lilium 

 candidum; perhaps not strictly a nov- 

 elty, but certainly a rarity today. 



M. Eice & Co. are showing the Acme 

 cemetery vase and bouquet holder, which 

 looks like a good thing. 



William J. Baker was so much pleased 

 with the quality of the sweet peas he 

 handled that he put a few on his supper- 

 table on Saturday night, leaving them 

 shut up Saturday and Sunday nights. 



SPRING FLOWERING BULBS 



HARDY JAPANESE LILIES 



Per doz. 100 1000 

 Ulium Auratum (Golden 



Banded Lily), 8 to 9 inches.. $0.75 $5.00 $45.00 

 T.lllum MaKnUiouin ( Rich 



crimson), 8 to 9 inches 1.00 7.00 65.00 



Lilium Melpomene 



(crimson), 8 to y inches 1.00 6.75 65.00 



LiHum Rubnim or Rose* 



um, 8 to 9 inches 85 6.00 67.50 



Lilium TlBxinum Splen- 



dens. Single Tiger Lily 80 6.00 52.50 



T.llhim TiKiinum Flore 



Plena. Double Tiger Lily. 

 Large imported bulbs 1.00 6.50 60.00 



GLOXINIAS 



Bllzed, choicest varieties. . . .t 

 Separate colors ( 



3.75 

 4.00 



.S4.00 

 35.00 



PEONIES 



EXTRA LARGE CLUMPS, with 4 or more eyes 



Each Doz. 100 



Double White $0.16 $1.50 $10.00 



Double Pink 15 1.50 10.00 



Double Red 15 1.60 10.00 



Festtva Maxima, double 

 white, streaked red in cen- 

 ter, very early, fine for cut- 

 ting 30 3.25 25.00 



TUBEROSES 



Mammotb Pearl. Pure white. 



Per doz. 100 '1000 



$0.20 $1.25 $10.00 



15 « .75^6.50 



CYCAS REVOLUTA 



25 lbs, $2.25; $8.50 per.lOO.lbs; 300 lbs for'$2«.00 



First size bulbs 



Second size . bulbs 



HENRY F. MICHELL COMPANY 



Market Street, above 10th Street, • • • PH TT.AngT.piTT a , p^ 



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On Monday morning they appeared as 

 firm and brightly colored as one could 

 wish. 



Edward Beid received an order for 

 25,000 carnations April 29. Mr. Eeid 

 believes that this is the largest single 

 order for carnations that has ever been 

 shipped out of Philadelphia. 



William Languth is the name of a 

 dwarf variegated geranium with double 

 scarlet flowers that was tried last season 

 and will be planted more extensively 

 this season at Girard College. It is said 

 to be one of Peter Henderson's intro- 

 ductions. 



Thomas J. OberUn, of Sinking Spring, 

 Pa., has begun his shipments of choice 

 outdoor flowers to the S. S. Pennock- 

 Meehan Co. 



The hardy blue phlox mentioned last 

 week in "Out in Pairmount" is Phlox 

 divaricata. 



A competent judge estimates that one- 



fifth of the carnations coming into the 

 market today are consumed by the stores, 

 three-fifths go to the street, and one- 

 fifth is wasted. This may seem like an 

 extreme view*, but it indicates clearly 

 the weak condition of the market. 



The planting out season is about to 

 open in earnest. Beds of early tulips 

 are being cleaned up for the cannas, 

 geraniums, sage and the sturdier soft- 

 wooded plants. Phil. 



The Floral Exchange has removed its 

 Philadelphia office to North Wales, Pa. 



Harry L. Miles, alias Frank Snyder, 

 aged 25 years, who gave his address as 

 1916 Ashbourne street when he was 

 held April 23 in $1,800 bail for court 

 by Magistrate Wagner on a charge of 

 victimizing boarding house keepers and 

 receiving money under false pretense, 

 was brought from Moyamensing April 

 28 for a hearing in another case against 

 him. On that day Miles faced Magis- 



