The Florists^ Review 



Sbptembbr 19, 1912. 



$1.50 to $3.00 

 per 100 



DAHLIAS 



$1.60 tQ $3.00 

 per 100"*' ' 



Dahlias in great variety, of splendid quality and at reasonable prices. There seems to be a larger demand for high- 

 grade flowers each season, and you cannot afford to omit them from your daily display. Let us send you a sample ship- 

 meat. We can furnish the following : 



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PINK 



Dorothy Peacock 

 Sylvia 

 Kriemhilde 

 McCuUough 



RED 



Lyndhurst 



WHITE 



Swan 

 Flora 

 H. Patrick - 



CRIMSON 



Jack Rose 



YELLOW 



Golden West 

 Duke J, , 

 Bruton 



Princess Victoria 

 Arabella 



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NEW GREEN LEUCOTHOE SPRAYS, 7fic per 100. 



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VARIETIES 



Golden Century 



Fringed Century 



Eckford Century 



Alva Century ■ 



Wildfire 



WILD SMILAX, $6.00 per case. 



Look for our classified Carnation Plant advertisement. We are closing them out— special prices. 



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PHILADELPHIA. 



The Bising Eastern Market. 



The cut flower market shows unex- 

 pected strength this week. Conditions 

 are better than usual at this season of 

 the year. The receipts of really good 

 flowers are light. The demand has im- 

 proved. The market has cleaned up 

 nicely each day. The hot weather of 

 last week has reduced the supply of 

 good flowers. The return home of the 

 sojourners by the sea and in the moun- 

 tains, and the tourists from abroad, has 

 improved the demand. 



Asters are nearly over. Only a few 

 come into town now. They are mostly 

 from New York state. Dahlias are not 

 at their best yet. The hot weather has 

 been against them. Eoses, too, have felt 

 the heat and are a bit off crop besides. 

 Carnations are more plentiful, but not 

 enough are cut to make them an im- 

 portant factor. Valley is a trifle shy 

 so far as good stock is concerned. Cat- 

 tleyas are increasing in number. The 

 price is lower. Golden Glow chrysan- 

 themums can be had in quantity. Easter 

 lilies are fairly good stock. Greens are 

 more in demand, a sure sign that the 

 season is approaching. Single violets 

 have come. 



An Oyster Bay Incident. 



It so chanced that J. Austin Shaw, 

 that extraordinarily alert and able hor- 

 ticultural writer, was not present at 

 the first meeting of the Oyster Bay 

 Horticultural Society, held last month, 

 80 it has fallen to my lot to chronicle 

 this meeting. It was a purely amateur 

 affair, quite sociable, with just a sprin- 

 kling of gardeners, like the yeast that 

 leavens the bread. There were some 

 nice exhibits, which reflected credit on 

 the skill of the men and women who 

 pass time in gardening and who love 

 it dearly, both for its own sake and as 

 a relief from the cares of business and 

 of housekeeping. 



The meeting would perhaps hardly 

 be of especial interest to Keview read- 

 ers were it not for an incident that oc- 

 curred there. George Bedles, probably 

 the ablest field botanist in Philadelphia 

 today, was on Long Island at the time. 



BERGER BROS. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



140-142 N. 13th St - - Philadelphia, Pa. 



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A friend urged him to attend, saying 

 that the people of Oyster Bay were nice 

 and would be glad to have him. So, on 

 the appointed evening Mr., Mrs. and 

 Master Bedles presented themselves at 

 the door of the meeting room and were 

 welcomed by a jovial looking gentle- 

 man, seated in an armchair just inside. 

 Master Bedles remarked that "our 

 shows in Germantown are better," but 

 his father said it was a nice show, espe- 

 cially for the first one. Then Mrs. 

 Bedles, who noticed that the jovial gen- 

 tleman had greeted everybody, thought 

 it was high time that her husband 

 should make himself known. After 

 some urging, Mr. Bedles was prevailed 

 upon to step forward. "Are you the 

 secretary of this association?" Mr. 

 Bedles inquired of the jovial looking 

 gentleman. "No, I am president," the 

 other replied. "My name is Bedles. I 

 have been secretary of the Germantown 



Horticultural Society for nearly twenty 

 years," was Mr. Bedles' modest self- 

 introduction. "I never heard of the 

 place," the president answered, as he 

 turned to resume his conversation with 

 a friend. ^^^^^ ^^^^^ 



Alvah B. Jones, captain of the Pen- 

 nock-Meehan forces, returned from his 

 vacation last week, a sure sign of the 

 opening of the campaign. 



Hemroy Bauer and Carmen Dengler 

 have been brightening the growers by 

 calls recently. The comradeship of fiori- 

 culture, rightly understood, is a pleas- 

 ant thing. 



The Joseph Heacock Co. is installing 

 a new battery of boilers at Wyncote. 



The September meeting of the Ger- 

 mantown Horticultural Society brought 

 out a large attendance. There were ex- 

 cellent plants, flowers and vegetables. 

 The feature of the evening was the 



