June 30, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



25 



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1608-20 Ludlow Street 



1212 New York Ave., WASHINQTON, D. C. 



2 KILLARNEYS 

 and Maryland 



->y Splendid quality, unusually 



fine, good heavy buds, in any 

 quantity, all lengths. 



Special, 24 to 30 Inches $12.00 First, 12 to 15 Inches $C.OO 



Extra, 18 to 20 Inches 8.00 Seconds, 8 to 10 Inches 4.00 



BEAUTIK8, special, $3.00; fancy, $2.r)0; extra, $2.00; firsts, $1.50 per doz. 



VALUBT, special. $4.00; extra, $3.00 per 100. 



CATTLETA8. $6.00 per doz. 



PBOMIKS. Still have some choice Peonies to offer, mostly Whites and 

 Pinks (the lighter shades), a few Crimson too, $40.00 per 1000. 



Supplies of all kinds . Catalogue on request. 



A price list of all cut flowers Is Issued every Saturday. If you are not on the 

 list, let us have your name. 



CI-08EI) AI.L, DAY JULY 4th. 



Open 7 a. m. to 6 p. m. Not open for business on Sundays. 



Not responsible for flowers after delivery to Express Company. 



S. S. PENNOCK=MEEflAN CO. 



THE WHOLESALE FLORISTS OP 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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5. Mr. Manda 's subject will be ' ' Should 

 We Consider Our Calling a Trade or a 

 Profession?" The essay committee 

 hopes that you will come and help 

 settle this once for all. It is a difficult 

 question; the authorities are evenly 

 divided. Charles E. Meehan positively 

 states that it is a trade. W. E. Mc- 

 Kissick concurs. It is rumored that 

 H. H. Battles feels that this is but a 

 limited view of the situation, while 

 David Feurstenberg, Adolph Farenwald 

 and Phil have all come out strongly on 

 the other side. Be sure to come and give 

 your views. 



Mr. Edmunds' Bemarks. 



Henry E. Edmunds, president of the 

 board of education, made some re- 

 marks from the stage of the Academy 

 of Music during the commencement ex- 

 ercises that stirred quite a little breeze. 

 Mr. Edmunds is reported to have said 

 that he was told the florists had form- 

 ed a flower trust in order to charge 

 the girls excessive prices for their flow- 

 ers, some of them having even paid, Mr. 

 Edmunds said, $2 apiece for the Beauty 

 roses. He concluded by assuring his 

 hearers that this would be investigated. 

 A reporter for the evening paper that 

 published this statement then called 

 at the Sign of the Rose, where he in- 

 terviewed a representative of Charles 

 Henry Fox; also at the office of Pen- 

 nock Bros., where he saw a member of 

 the firm, and at Robert Kift's. At all 

 three places the idea of a flower trust 

 was ridiculed. The figures, too, were 

 contradicted, Pennock Bros, asserting 

 that $2 apiece was a Christmas price only 

 for the finest Beauties, while all agreed 



that $5 to $7.50 a dozen was the price 

 for the best Beauties, with many selling 

 at $1.50 to $3 a dozen. 



The absurdity of the report is far 

 more apparent to the initiated than to 

 the general public, who are, alas, too 

 apt to believe that flowers are ex- 

 pensive when they want them. 



The selection of the regal American 

 Beauty rose by the graduating class of 

 the high school is really responsible 

 for the commotion. Had they chosen 

 1 .0 modest daisy and gathered the 

 flowers in the fields with their own 

 fair hands, Mr. Edmunds would have 

 had no occasion to criticise us. It was 

 their ambition for the best, and the 

 sine;leness of purpose with which they 

 and their friends carried out this ambi- 

 tion, that made a flutter in the Ameri- 

 can Beauty market such as we rarely 

 see except at Christmas and in the pre- 

 Lenten rush. 



A Day at Fordhook. 



The members of the American Seed 

 Trade Association and their friends, 

 returning from the Atlantic City con- 

 vention, weru royally entertained by 

 W. Atlee Burpee, at Fordhook, June 24. 

 A special train of seven cars left the 

 Reading terminal at 10:50 a. m., carry- 

 ing the party to the siding at the foot 

 of Mr. Burpee's place, just beyond 

 Farm School Station. They were re- 

 ceived by Mr. Burpee and Mr. Earl, 

 who left nothing undone that could add 

 to their pleasure. The day was per- 

 fect, one of those glorious, sunshiny, 

 breezy summer days, contrasting de- 

 lightfully with the tropical heat of the 

 four days preceding. 



The farm at Fordhook consists of 

 200 acres, devoted to trial grounds and 

 to the growing of flower and vegetable 

 seed crops. The farm is beautifully 

 laid out. A well-made road winds 

 through the fields, affording many pic- 

 turesque views over hill and valley. 

 The grounds were in excellent condi- 

 tion, clean, well cultivated; the crops 

 were thrifty and planted in a system- 

 atic way that made examination and 

 comparison easy. Something over one- 

 half of the farm is in flower seed; a 

 large proportion of the balance is in 

 .tomatoes. 



The central point of interest to many 

 of the visitors naturally lay in the 

 sweet pea patch, where were growing 

 side by side the finest varieties of the 

 (lay and, it may be, the finest varieties 

 of the morrow. The average standard 

 of excellence was higher than I have 

 ever seen before. The colors were 

 simply superb, the flowers large and 

 borne on heavy stems. To see a flower 

 that was not worth careful scanning 

 was a rarity; to see a stem that had 

 not four flowers was also rare. 



There were many things of interest, 

 including a fine field of wheat and an 

 even finer kennel of Scotch collies, that 

 barked their cheery welcome. 



The day was one of great pleasure, 

 the visit an inspiration, showing the 

 result of genius, work and energy. 



Various Notes. 



Victor Groshens, of Glenside, Pa., has 

 completed his new house, 42x500, and 

 planted it with American Beauties. 



Mrs. Julius Wolff and Mrs. Julius 



