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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



27 



First Arrivals of Nearby 



Gladioli 



May, Augusta, America, 

 Brenchleyensis, etc. 



Splendid, well flowered spikes, nothing 

 more decorative and useful at this time 

 of the year. $4.00 to $6.00 per 100. 



Store closes at 5 p. m. during July and August. 



S. S. Pennock=Meehan Co. 



THE WHOLESALE FLORISTS OF PHILADELPHIA 



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PHILADELPHIA 

 1608-1620 Ludl«w Street 



NBW YORK 

 109 West 28th Street 



WASHINQTON 

 1212 New York Aveme 



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For Summer Funeral Work 



yon will find our Uliee very useful. We have them 

 on hand at all times. Of course, we have a full line 

 of OTHER FLOWERS AND GREENS. Try a 

 shipment of KILWAUKEE FLOWERS. 



HOLTON & HUNKEL CO., 462 Nihr..kee St., MILWAUKEE, WIS. 



/ Without doubt the best equipped Wholesale House !■ the Country 



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product of his nineteen greenhouses the 

 standard of quality in palms all over 

 the country. His stock is known and 

 valued by one or more florists in many 

 cities outside of Philadelphia, who feel 

 that season after season they can de- 

 pend upon him for their best palms. 



An hour spent with Mr. Ball in his 

 greenhouses brought out even more 

 strongly than usual the strength of the 

 kentia; it seemed that nine out of 

 every ten plants grown here belonged to 

 that family. In numbers Kentia Fors- 

 teriana is increasing at the expense of 

 Kentia Belmoreana, because it is be- 

 lieved to produce better made-up plants 

 in the small size — that is, the 6-inch 

 size — and in the extra large decorative 

 size, while Kentia Belmoreana is bet- 

 ter in the medium sizes. Great care is 

 exercised to keep up the proper number 

 of each size in both these varieties of 

 kentias, not only for this year but for 

 next year and for the year after that. 



Areca lutescens, grown in the cool 

 kentia temperature, has a grace and 

 finish that seems to assure its future 

 popularity for many years to come. 

 Cocos Weddelliana germinates better 

 sown in pots under the table than on 

 the table, a labor-saving device that 

 speaks well for care in watering. 



Phoenix Boebelenii is pretty, but Mr. 

 Ball doubts whether it will rival the 

 leaders in popularity, as it grows slow- 

 ly. Pandanus Yeitchii, from own stock, 

 holds its place. There was a pretty 

 batch of Dracaena terminalis, and a 

 smaller one of Dracsena Sanderiana. 

 The ferns are represented by Nephro- 

 lepis Scottii and Scholzeli and tbe 

 fernery sorts are mostly of pteris blood. 

 Latania Borbonica from Brazilian seetl 

 promises finer stock a year hence than 

 can be obtained from the old Cuban 

 seed. Livistona rotundifolia was ab- 

 sent; there is something better in sight 

 for some day. 



Mr. Ball nodded when asked whether 

 his son was taking an interest; pres- 

 ently Charles D. Ball, Jr., was encoun- 

 tered hard at work on a lot of splen- 

 didly finished palms that would do 

 credit to anyone. Fred Vith, who has 

 been with Mr. Ball for ever so many 

 years, stopped long enough from work 

 to give a pleasant greeting. 



A new Lord & Burnham house, 

 26x100, has this spring replaced one of 

 the three houses built thirty-two years 

 ago. It is in marked contrast with the 

 six by eight glass and heavy sashbars 

 of the two remaining old-timers. A 



g Budlong's 



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gutter on the outside of this house 

 admits of a new propagating house fill- 

 ing the intervening space. 



Various Notes. 



The S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co. has 

 purchased the property at 1216 H street 

 N. W., in "Washington. It is approxi- 

 mately 24x100 feet and the company 

 probably will build on this ground next 

 summer, carrying on its "Washington 

 business in the present New York ave- 

 nue store until the lease expires, Sep- 

 tember 1, 1912. The new building wHl 

 have every modern facility for the 

 wholesale cut flower business. 



Herbert Q. TuU, treasurer of Henry 

 A. Dreer, Inc., left July 31 with his 

 family for a vacation in Canada. 



Charles E. Lehman, of Stokes Bros. 

 Co., reports an active demand for cy- 



