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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



ACQDST 27. 1908. 



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PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market* 



There seems reason for indulging in 

 the hope that the lowest ebb of midsum- 

 mer dullness is past. Business in cut 

 flowers was so dull during the convention 

 that it seemed impossible for things to 

 be worse. Friday and Saturday saw a 

 slight improvement, which was continued 

 on Monday. The demand was chiefly for 

 fancy asters and for Beauties, but this 

 demand had a perceptible effect on sev- 

 eral other varieties of flowers. 



The market conditions vary from last 

 week in that there are more really fine 

 asters coming in. The quality of many 

 of Semple's Branching and of Vick's 

 leaves little to be desired. The flowers 

 are large, firm, and well colored, the 

 stems long, the foliage good. Beauties 

 are also improving, the cooler weather of 

 the last few days having a perceptible 

 eflfect on the color of the really nice new 

 crop blooms now coming in from local 

 growers. The eastern stock continues 

 superior in body and in color, but the 

 difference is not so marked as a fortnight 

 ago. America continues the most pop- 

 uuir gladiolus, good spikes of this va- 

 riety bringing excellent prices. Carna- 

 tions have made their appearance from 

 indoor-g^rown plants, Afterglow, Beacon, 

 Enchantress, Lieut. Peary and Guardian 

 Angel being most prominent so far. They 

 are beautifully colored, of fair size and 

 substance, but with stems far below mar- 

 ket requirements. Ethel Crocker, I think 

 from field-grown plants, is fine. White 

 are apt to bring 50 cents a hundred more 

 than colored carnations in the market. 

 Dahlias have made their appearance. A. 

 D. Livoni, a show pink, is prominent. 



Of the other flowers it is only neces- 

 sary to say that there has been a dread- 

 ful slaughter of Kaiserin, especially in 

 the poorer grades, that Brides and Maids 

 are improving in quality, that asters that 

 cannot be classed as choice are bad stock 

 indeed, and that the outdoor flowers do 

 not, as a rule, sell at satisfactory prices. 



A London Letter. 



The following extract from a letter 

 recently received in this city is of more 

 than usual interest to horticulturists: 



"This afternoon we all went to a flower 

 show, the finest I have ever seen. It was 

 held by the Royal Horticultural Society 

 in the grounds of Holland House; they 

 had numbers of large tents and a band. 

 Some ^ the roses were fully twice as 

 large as any rose I have seen (among 



Sweet Peas 



Zfolauk's Winter Fiowsring 



Chrlttmaa Pink— Pink and v^hite. 

 Florence Denzer— Pure white. 

 Mrs. Eddie Wild— Carmine red. 

 Mixed— Winter flowering. 

 Price, per oz., 25c; 75c per ^4 lb.; per lb., 12.00. 



Newer Varieties 



L.e Marquia— Dark blue. 



Mrs. Alex. Wallace- Lavender. 



Mrs. F. J. Dolansky— Daybreak pink. 



Mrs. Wm. Sim- Salmon pink. 



Price, per oz., 50c; $1.50 per h lb.; $5.00 per lb. 



Pansy Seed 



AUcheirs Giant Exhibition 

 Mixture 



A (riant strain which we have secured from 

 the leading pansy specialistB in Germany, 

 England and France. For length of stems, 

 size of bloom, heavy texture and varied 

 shades and colors, with their distinct mark- 

 ings, this strain cannot be excelled. 



Trade pkt., 50c; 75c per ^ oz.: per oz., $5.00. 



Finest English Mixed 



Trade pkt. , 25c; 75c per oz. 



Bend for Wliolesale Cataloanie 



HENRY F. MIGHELL CO., Market St. akova lOth St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



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them Frau K&t\ Druschki and Mildred 

 Grant), but they were grown on standard 

 bushes. We saw some Harry Kirks 

 which father was rather disappointed 

 in; they are a deeper yellow than our 

 own, and larger, but not as fine as some 

 of the other yellow roses. The Killarney 

 was no better than at home. Dickson 

 had an exhibit there." 



A Seed Warehouse. 



Through the courtesy of J. Otto Thilow, 

 secretary of the Henry A. Dreer corpora- 

 tion, J was enabled a few days ago to 

 see the company's seedhouse at 714 Chest- 

 nut street and the warehouse at Seventh 

 and Locust streets under particularly fa- 

 vorable circumstances. We began by 

 ascending to the roof at 714, where a new 

 greenhouse 9x20 is nearly completed. 

 Just think of it, a greenhouse on the 

 roof of a four-story Chestnut street 

 building. It seems decidedly modern. 

 This greenhouse is built of cypress roof- 

 ing material, with sides of corrugated 

 iron, and heated by hot water. It is in- 

 tended for testing the seeds, especially 

 vegetable, before they are sent out. A 

 few seeds from each bag wUl be tried 

 immediately after their arrival, under as 

 nearly natural conditions as possible, and 

 the result carefully noted. When the soil 

 has been once used for germinating a 

 crop of seeds it is purified by air and 

 hydrated lime before it is used a 

 second time. The value of such test to 

 a seedhouse priding itself on reliability 

 cannot be overestimated. 



The interesting features of the third 

 and fourth floors are the changes recently 

 made. Flower seeds and bulbs are pre- 



sided over by George D. Clarke; the 

 vegetable seeds are looked after by 

 Charles H. McKubbin. These two kinds 

 of seeds have heretofore been associated, 

 but the growth of the business in each 

 has rendered more room imperatively 

 necessary. System is the watchword of 

 both departments. On one side you see 

 drawers containing smaller quantities of 

 each variety of seeds, on the other side 

 larger quantities of the same seeds. The 

 difficulty encountered in filling orders is 

 the great variety of seeds called for in 

 one order. This difficulty has been met 

 here by the introduction of a large num- 

 ber of small movable drawers in which 

 the oruer can be placed and the seeds 

 thrown in and checked off as the order 

 passes from department to department, 

 the danger of error thus being reduced 

 to a minimum. Another feature is the 

 printing machine used for labels, tags, 

 etc. The second floor is devoted to the 

 office, the department presided over by 

 Herbert G. TuU. The ground floor, as is 

 well known, is the general salesroom, 

 where samples of better stock in th« 

 upper floors and in the warehouse are 

 carried and sold. 



The Vacuum System. 



The Keller Pottery Co. closed down its 

 plant for three weeks during July in 

 order to install the vacuum system, and 

 also to get the place in general running 

 order for the coming season. Charles 

 Keller, president of the company, showed 

 a representative of the Review through 

 the extensive workshop a short time ago. 

 Two suction pumps have been installed 

 to bring back the water from the return 



