July 2, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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ieiiDjis in Super Floweis 



CROCKER CARNATIONS, new crop per JOO, $1.50 



M- KAISERINS, new crop per JOO, $4.00, $6.00, $8.00 

 / BEAUTIES, new crop —per JOO, $J2.50, $J5.00, $20.00, $25.00 

 J VALLEY, No. X per JOO, $3.00. Valley, Special per JOO, $4.00 



PLUMOSUS (exceptional values) in strings.— usual price, $75.00 



$40.00 per JOO. 



QUALITY DURING JULY and AUGUST close at 6 p. m. ClosedJaly 4tli. 



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to secure yellow cypripediums and rat- 

 tlesnake skins. The route lay over the 

 Pennsylvania Eailroad to Jersey City, 

 thence over the Delaware, Lackawanna 

 & Western to Branchville, near Culver's 

 Lake. The trio enjoyed a glorious 

 tramp over the mountains, with a mag- 

 nificent view from the top, and many 

 snake stories, but nary a cyp or a rat- 

 tler did they see. It was near indeed 

 to leaving time when a countryman, 

 learning of their quest, told them that 

 his chum had mowed a whole row of yel- 

 low cyps off that morning to make 

 room for a water-pipe, leaving just one. 

 A special expedition was at once ar- 

 ranged to find that one yellow cyp, and 

 I rejoice to relate the countryman 

 proved conclusively that he was not a 

 member of the Ananias and Sapphira 

 Club, of Memphis, Tenn. (whose badge, 

 you know, is a lyre), for there was the 

 yellow cyp in its prime. I wish I 

 could tell you that a rattler crept out 

 from behind the water-pipe and that his 

 skin was triumphantly carried home, 

 but, though a newspaper writer, I am 

 not yet on the waiting list of the A. & 

 S. C, and I am obliged to confess that 

 it took a specified number of pennies, it 

 may be 250, to induce that countryman 

 to part with his rattler skin, which was 

 borne triumphantly home and exhibited 

 to many admiring friends. 



Wedding Decoration. 



J. J. Habermehl's Sons had an ex- 

 tremely handsome wedding decoration 

 at Torresdale June 27, which Edward 

 Habermehl was kind enough to describe . 

 for the benefit of Review readers. The 

 mansion was so large that the Messrs. 

 Habermehl deemed it best to use Hy- 

 drangea Otaksa with the palms and 

 ferns, there being no fear of dwarfing 

 the proportions of the rooms. The color 

 scheme was in pink and blue. Pink 

 hydrangeas and blue hydrangeas were 

 used in masses in the rooms on the 

 ground floor, open to the wedding 

 guests. Long strings of Asparagus plu- 

 mosus were freely used. The brides- 

 maids' bouquets were of pink hydrangeas 

 and cibotium ferns. The maid of honor 

 had a combination bunch of pink and 

 blue hydrangeas, something rarely seen. 

 The mantels were banked with Killarney 



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roses of exceptional quality for this sea- 

 son of the year, the flowers being large, 

 well colored, and borne on long stems. 

 The bridal breakfast table, which was 

 circular and laid for twenty-seven guests, 

 was decorated with Kaiserin Augusta 

 Victoria roses, lily of the valley, and 

 Adiantum Farleyense. The guests ' ta- 

 ble*., "eating five or six hundred persons, 

 on the lawn outside, were decorated 

 with pink sweet peas. Mr. Habermehl 

 said that tht effect was fine. 



Japanese Iris. 



Automobiles, carriages, saddle horses 

 and even four-ia-hands were gathered 

 at the Andorra Nurseries last week to 

 bring guests invited by William Warner 

 Harper to view the Japanese iris show. 

 The show was one of the prettiest bits 

 ot" scenery, surrounded by nature's set- 

 ting, that it has ever been my good for- 

 tune to see. It is difiicult to describe 

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