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Skptember 17, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



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QUALITY 



Dahlias 



The most popular Cut Flower for the 

 next few weeks will be the Dahlia. 

 Our stock is in fine condition, and we 

 offer many new and fancy varieties— 

 along with the well-known Standards, 

 such as Kriemhilde, Lyndhurst, Clif- 

 ford W. Bruton, Catherine Duer, Jack 

 Rose, and others. 



Our stock of this flower is so large 

 that we are in a position to furnish 

 quantities of any one variety or shade 

 of color on short notice. 



CHOICE CUT BLOOM 



$8.00 to $6.00 per 100 



S. S. Penoock=Meehaa Co 



THE WHOLESALE FLORISTS OF 



•^ 1608-20 Ludlow St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Co., is hard at work perfecting the de- 

 tails of a wonderful lawn of real grass 

 12x20 feet, such a lawn as can be pro- 

 duced from their choicest grass seed. The 

 center of this lawn will be ornamented by 

 a bed of hyacinths, red, white and blue, 

 in honor of the nation's colors, while at 

 the four corners there will be pillars, 

 draped with the city's colors, blue and 

 yellow, surmounted by Boston ferns, and 

 surrounded by blue hyacinths and yellow 

 tulips. Four handsome horses will draw 

 this miniature garden, which Mr. Freud 

 asserts will be well worth coming miles to 



CIAA 



Hardy Phloxes. 



George A. Strohlein, Riverton, N. J., 

 honored Phil with an invitation a few 

 days ago. The invitation ran something 

 like this: "Will you come down to 

 Eiverton to see our hardy phloxes? Mr. 

 Sim and I will be glad to meet you at 

 the station and drive you over to Locust 

 Farm." A chance like this was certainly 

 not to be missed and the invitation 

 promptly was accepted. On the day ap- 

 pointed Mr. Strohlein, accompanied by 

 Mr. Sim, met the Philadelphia train at 

 Riverton early in the afternoon with a 

 trap. There were some joking allusions 

 on the part of the hosts to a .lonah, ow- 

 ing to the fact that it had rained con- 

 tinually during the preceding night, and 

 as everybody knows, it is not conducive 

 to bringing out the colors of hardy 

 phlox or, in fact, any other colors. The 

 weather clearefl, however, soon after, and 

 by the time the fields of phloxes were 

 reached the sun was shining, bringing 

 out the colors nicely. 



These fields of phloxes arc certainly 

 worth going a long way to see. Fancy 



row after row of plants covered with 

 bloom, each variety filling one or more 

 rows of 1,000 plants to a row. Then 

 fancy 300 or more rows ablaze with 

 color, and you have the phlox fields of 

 Henry A. Dreer's Locust Farm, near 

 Riverton. 



Two hours were spent going back and 

 forth through the rows — hours that 

 passed so quickly under the guidance of 

 Harry C. Sim, who has charge of these 

 fields, that the time seemed too short. 

 Mr. Strohlein commended highly the 

 work of the German hybridizers, who 

 have given us some surprisingly fine 

 varieties of hardy phlox. The novelties 

 under trial this year show a more decided 

 step in advance than for several years. 

 Nearly all appeared to be self colors, 

 bright and clear. The colors were more 

 like those seen in Azalea Indica, or in 

 well grown hydrangeas, than are usually 

 seen in plants of this class. 



The most striking novelty Mr. Sim 

 pointed out was the new variety George 

 A. Strohlein, an orange-scarlet with large 

 flowers somewhat resembling the ordinary 

 variety t'oquelicot, although not of that 

 strain. The naming of this variety was 

 interesting. Mr. Strohlein Vas in Ger- 

 many a few years ago, when the grower 

 on whom he called asked him to pick out 

 the handsomest of his seedlings. The 

 visitor pointed out the variety in ques- 

 tion, whereupon his host at once named 

 it George A. Strohlein; the appearance 

 of this variety fully justifies Mr. Stroh- 

 lein 's belief in its merit. 



At the other end of the field from 

 George A. Strohlein was Sieboldi, a va- 

 riety strongly resembling it, the flowers 

 ' being so t-losely alike that a comparison 



is necessary to all but the practiced eye. 

 Unlike George A. Strohlein, Sieboldi is 

 of Coquelicot strain. While the indi- 

 vidual trusses are not so large, it is of 

 stronger habit and freer blooming. 



Among the whites, Mrs. Jenkins still 

 holds first place; it is large flowered, 

 free blooming, improving in both qual- 

 ities the second year. F. C. Von Las- 

 burg, the purest white, is a close second, 

 but, unlike Mrs. Jenkins, the flowers at- 

 tain full size the first year. Jeanne d' 

 Arc is a beautiful white, dwarf and com- 

 pact, an important Riverton strain of 

 this variety, unlike the original blooms 

 the first year. 



Mauve is a leading color in phloxes. 

 An important German acquisition to this 

 class, with a ferocious sounding name, is 

 Gruppenkonigin, translated Queen of the 

 Bedders. This variety bids fair to be- 

 come the standard in its class. La Vague 

 is also mauve of attractive shade. 



In soft ])ink Elizabeth Campbell is 

 pretty. Vesuvius, bright red, a Dreer 

 introduction, is strong, vigorous and full 

 of promise. 



The completo list of standard and 

 novel sorts grown in quantity would cover 

 perhaps sixty or more varieties, the 

 cream of the European and American 

 sorts, all meritorious. Their season in 

 this latitude lasts for perhaps eight 

 weeks, from mid-July until early in Sep- 

 tember. The majority of the varieties 

 are classed as mid-season, coming into 

 bloom hereabouts during the first week 

 in August. A few are earlier, a few 

 later. 



The interest in phloxes has reached the 

 point where nearly all buyers want va- 

 rieties that will bloom at the same time 



