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SEPTISMBKE 17, 1914. 



The Florists' Review 



31 



s. s. 



Dahlia Season Is Here 



and for an early fall flower there is nothing that will get you more 

 business than a good collection of Dahlias. We have them packed 

 at the Dahlia farms for direct shipments. 



Best varieties $3.00 per 100 



Good grades $1.60 and 2.00 per 100 



Cattlejas. A nice crop now coming in. $6.00 »nd $7.50 a dozen. 



Tritoma, or Red-Hot Poker. Very ieflfective for window display. $400 per 100. 



Extra fine Fiel^i^rown Carnation Plants. See our Clasfeilied adver- 

 tisements. Write for complete Plant Oatalog^ue. 



■▼erytliing in Ribbons and Florists* Supplies. Send for our catalogue. 



PENNOXK-MEEHAN COMPANY 



PHILADELPHIA 

 1608-1620 Ludlow Street 



THE WHOLESALE FLORISTS OF PHILADELPHIA 



NEW YORK 

 \\T West 28tb Street 



BALTIMORE 

 PrankliB and St. Paul Streets 



WASHINQTON 

 1216 H Street. N. W. 



Mention The RcTlew when yon write. 



Fancy Dahlias 



Carnations - Gladioli - Roses 



EVERYTHING IN CUT FLOWERS 



Wl CLOU AT e p. M. 



THE riDLADELrillii CUT FLOWER CO., 



1817 

 Sansom St., 



riiiLADELrinA,rA. 



Mention The Berlew when yoa write. 



He found many Americans there and 

 intended spending four or five days be- 

 fore leaving. When the war broke out 

 Switzerland was practically isolated, 

 jreneh outpost on one side and Gferman 

 outpost on the other declined to allow 

 ^e Americans to go back or forward. 

 -No news came except an occasional 

 meager dispatch from Berne. Papers 

 and letters there were none; a single 

 <_ablegram from his father came through. 

 f'mally^ after three weeks, a committee 

 of two Americans permitted to pass the 

 outpost secured the consent of the four 

 governments necessary — Austria, Ger- 

 ^>\ Holland and the Swiss republic— 

 jw a train to run froni Lucerne to Rot- 

 iPrdam to carry the Americans to the 

 •^acoast. It was the ofily train de luxe 

 ^- It consisted of sixteen cars, in- 

 ♦■ujliMu two baggage cars, and carried 

 -J" Aniericans. It was decorated with 

 - "'encan flags and the:|*ks8engers were 

 ^'"J^^'d to alight at German stations 

 J*"' were treated with great courtesv. 

 lai I "''*''^ crossing the border into Hol- 

 ' "' was there danger; the car windows 

 tak^* "'■^'^red closed and precaution 

 «'" to prevent accidentally springing 

 ^ ''itch mines intended to blow up 



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*^ ''^»'es and flood Holland should the 

 "s attempt to enter. Double fare 

 "i>rged to take the train back to 



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v.^u'X'^ attempt to enter. Double fare 

 so^,|[f''^|an<i^when empty, and a hand- 



Hod 



'•ntribution was made to aid the 



fit iV'^"*"' "^ Germany and also of Aus- 



"•' Miingarv. 



Various Notes. 



Our visitors include Samuel McClem- 

 ents, of Randolph & McClements, and 

 Harvey Sheaf, with Mrs. E. A. Will- 

 iams, both of Pittsburgh; George E. M. 

 Stumpp, Fred P^leischman, Mrs. Fleisch- 

 man and the Malandre Virothers, of New 

 York; Leo Engel, of the Shepard Co., 

 Providence, R. I.; (^harles F. Edgar, 

 with B. F. Barr, Lancaster, Pa., and the 

 proprietor of the Greensboro lioral Co., 

 Greensboro, N. C, accompanied by his 

 wife and son, whose names I have un- 

 happily mislaid. 



John P. Hal)ermehl says that seventy- 

 five debit+«ntes will make their bows 

 this season. 



Charles Henry Fox and Mrs. Fox re- 

 turned on the steamer Finland Septem- 

 ber 13. They went to Ocean Citj', 

 where they spent two days, arriving 

 here September 16. 



William P. Craig was recalled from 

 the west by a death in his family Sep- 

 tember 12. He left to resume his trip 

 September 14. 



Mrs. Drew-Bear, manager of the Lon- 

 don Flower Shop, is ill. Her many 

 friends hope for a speedy recovery. 



The Germantown Horticultural Soci- 

 ety opened the fall season at the 

 Friends' library in Vernon Park Sep- 

 tember 14. Prof. Stewardson Brown 

 spoke on "Our Vanishing Wild Flow- 

 ers." Among the liberal premiums of- 

 fered was the Sarah Taggart .Tellett 



prize for the best collection of wild 

 flowers. 



Walter Davis has returned from his 

 vacation in the pink of condition for 

 the coming season. 



Herbert W. Johnson, .Tr., is motoring 

 through New York state. 



Lewis Ker, 19 years of age, an em- 

 ployee of Pennock Bros., died in the 

 University hospital last week of lock- 

 jaw, believed to be the result of using 

 rusty violet wire for a toothpick. 



Stuart H. Miller is away on his va- 

 cation. 



Paul F. Kichter reports tliat the 

 Henry F. Michell Co. is busily engaged 

 in filling bulb orders. 



Harry C. Cook, a well-known South 

 Broad street florist who was suflFering 

 from ill health, took his life last week. 

 He was about oO years of age and 

 leaves a wife and two children. Among 

 his pallbearers September 14 were 

 Charles H. Grakelow and Edward Dorn- 

 heim. 



The outdoor flower and vegetable 

 show of the Pennsylvania Horticultural 

 Society was held in Horticultural hall 

 on the afternoon and evening of Sep- 

 tember 15. The extremely dry weather 

 was a disadvantage. 



William C. Harry has returned from 

 the south. 



The statement contained in this col- 

 umn last week that Clarence J. Watson 

 had accepted a ]>osition in Washington, 



