OCTOBKR 31, 1912. 



The Floifets^ Review 



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Orchids 



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In wedding and debutante work what is choicer and more beautiful, giv- 

 ing an air of refinement and culture, than Orchids with their delicate colorings? 

 CATTLEYA8:— Splendid, dark flowers. $8.00 per doz.; $40.00 per 100. 

 DENDROBIUM FORMOSUM (white). $6.00 per doz.; $40.00 per 100. 

 DENDROBIUM PHALAENOPSIS:-Magnificent sprays; $8.00 to $10.00 per 



100 flowers. 



VALLEY;-Special, $t.00 per 100; Extra, $3.00 per 100. 

 CHRYSANTHEMUMS:— $1.00, $1.50. $2.00, $2.50 and $3.00 per dozen. 



POMPONS:— All colors, $1.50 to $3.00 per doz.. bunches, according to size of 

 bunches. 



HEADQUARTERS FOR OREENS 



WILD SMILAX, $5.00 per case. 



Green Galax, tl.50 per 1000; |7.50 per 10.000. 



Bronze Galax. $1.00 per 1000; $6.00 per 10,000. 



Leucothoe Sprays (green). $1.00 per 100; $7.50 per 1000. 



Green Sheet Moss, $3.50 per bag. 



Sphagnum Moss. 10-bbl. bales, nicely burlapped, each, 



$4.00 ; 5-bale lots, $3.75 each ; lO-bale lots, $3.50 each ; 



25-bale lots, $3.25 each. 

 MEXICAN IVY, $1.00 per 100; $7.50 per 1000. 



RIBBONS AND SUPPLIES:-Many n«w pattam* In axclualva Ribbons. Writ 



S. S. PENNOCK=MEEHAN COMPANY 



PHILADELPHIA 

 1608-1620 Ludlow Street 



THE WHOLBSALB FLORISTS OP PHILADELPHIA 



NEW YORK 

 • 117 West 28th Street 



WASHINGTON 

 1212 New York Avenue 



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AH Varieties CHi^YSANTHEIVILIIVIS p'^^** <2"«'"y 

 Pompons.. Daisies.. Carnations.. Roses 



and Everything Else in Season. 

 Philadelphia Cut Flower Co., 



1517 Sansom Street, 



Philadelphia, Pi 



OPEN UNTIL 6 P. M. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



successful sale, too, judging by the 

 number of plants that have moved in 

 and out of that spacious building. Its 

 eflfect will be to broaden the field for 

 well grown stock. 



Various Notes. 



The Pennsylvania Horticultural So- 

 ciety will resume classes for commer- 

 cially grown roses and carnations at 

 the fall show, November 5 to 8. En- 

 tries should be made at once to David 

 Rust, secretary. Horticultural hall, 

 Broad and Locust streets. They are to 

 be staged in the hall by noon, Novem- 

 ber 6. 



The prodigal has returned. 



A select party, consisting of John 

 Burton, Alfred Burton, George Burton, 

 Edwin J. Fancourt, Charles E. Meehan, 

 Stephen Mortensen, Samuel S. Pennock 

 and Alexander B. Scott, motored out 

 to Eoelofs in two cars to see the model 



rose growing plant of the Joseph Hea- 

 cock Co. They also visited the new 

 rose house of Malcolm Franklin, at 

 Yardley. 



Recent visitors include "William F. 

 Kasting and J. Benson Stafford, of 

 Buffalo, N. Y.; John L. Ratcliffe, Rich- 

 mond, Va.; R. G. Wilson, Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., and A. Primrose, of the Loudon 

 Park Cemetery, Baltimore, Md. 



Christie Mathewson is the name of 

 the new white chrysanthemum sent by 

 William Swayne to W. J. Baker. No 

 baseball lover need know more. 



Cornelius Vanderbreggen had a nar- 

 row escape October 28, when a cut 

 flower delivery wagon of the Robert 

 Craig Co. was smashed by a runaway 

 team belonging to the Pennsylvania 

 Laundry Co., at Eighteenth and Chest- 

 nut streets. One of the laundry horses 

 was killed, while the Craig horse was 

 so badly injured it had to be taken 



home in an ambulance. Luckily, Mr. 

 Vanderbreggen was in the London 

 Flower Shop at the moment the accident 

 occurred. 



B. Eschner reports a great run of 

 business for October for M. Rice & Co. 

 Unaffected by the election, florists are 

 working hard. 



The leading chrysanthemums of the 

 day are Charles Razer, Alice Byron, 

 Ivory, Appleton, Bonnaffon, Halliday 

 and a few Chadwick and Roman Gold. 



William Duckham as sent in by 

 Zieger & Son, to the Leo Niessen Co., 

 is thought to be the best pink mum in 

 town. 



The Philadelphia Cut Flower Co. is 

 receiving fine pompons. 



The removal of the scaffolding from 

 the IS-story addition to the Bellevue- 

 Stratford after six months of shadow 

 brings out in full sunshine t"he golden 

 chrysanthemum window of the Habftr- 



