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Apbii. 7, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



25 



AN, OP PORTUNITY 



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For this and ncxMv6«k a box of 200" or more No. \ Roses, our selection as to 

 color, splendid quality —$3.00 pet (00— or a box of 200 or more special Roses, our selec- 

 tion as to color. This is a very exceptional offer and are the very finest long-stemmed MA-RYLAND, 

 RICHMDND, 2 KILLARNEYS, KAISERINS and BR DES that we receive $6.00 per JOO for. 



Gardenias perdoz., special, |3. 00; fancy, $2.00; first, fl.OO 



Valley. special, $4.00; extra. $3.00: No. 1. $2.00 



Carnations special, $1.00: fancy. 13.00; first, |1. 50 



Carnations, our selection, in lots of 500 or more, good quality, f2.00 

 per 100. 



Sweet Peas, extra long $1.00 per 100 



Sweet Peas, long and medium 50c and 75c per 100 



White Lilac $1.25 and $1.50 per bunch 



Cut Lilies very choice, $12.60 per 100; good, $10.00 per 100 



Daisies (whlteli ;. $1.50 per 100 



Daisies (yellow) $2.00 per 100 



Mignonette, splendid spikes $4.00 per 100 



Cattleyas _....$7.50 perdoz. 



Double Violets (Lady Campbell) ..4. VocperlOO 



Beauties, per doz., special, $1.00; Fancy, $3.50; Extra, $3.00; 1st, 



$2.50; 2nd, $1.25. 

 Richmonds and Jardlnes, per 100, special, $15.00; extra, $10.00; 



1st. $().00: 2iui,$4.00. 

 Maryland, 2 Killamevs, Kalserlns and Brides, special. $10.00; 



extra. $8.00; 1st, $6.00; 2nd, $3.00. 

 Ribbons. Some of the choicest novelties, exclusive patterns, an 



endless variety to choose from. 



Supplies of aU kinds. Catalosue on request. 



Open 7 I. m., dose 6 p. ■. Not open for business on Sondiys Not responsible for flowers after delivery to express company 



S. S. PENNOCK-MEEHAN CO. 



THE WHOLESALE FLORISTS OF 



1608-20 Ludlow Street :: :: PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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



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been too mucE' Stepben Girard business 

 in these roses this season to suit me." 

 Neither Mr. Strohlein nor Mr. Clark made 

 any comment on this assertion and Phil 

 did not know exactly what it meant. A 

 little later Mr. Eisele again referred to 

 that Stephen Girard business, this time 

 when looking at a lot of perennials iW 

 pots that had been moved out of the 

 frame to make room for the roses. Then 

 the Stephen Girard story came back to 

 Phil, at first hazily, after many years of 

 oblivion, but gradually it became clear 

 as day. ' 



The story of Stephen Girard: A man 

 came to Stephen Girard one day to ask 

 for work. A pile of bricks was pointed 

 out. ' ' Carry all those bricks over 

 there," Mr. Girard said, "and pile them 

 in that place as exactly as they now 

 stand," The next morning the man 

 again reported for work. "Take those 

 bricks back where they were piled yes- 

 terday, putting them exactly as you 

 found them," was Mr. Girard 's order. 

 The man appeared on the third morning. 

 ' * You ' are just the man I am looking 

 for," Mr. Girard said. "You have done 

 what you were told and asked no ques- 

 tions; I h've a steady position for you." 



The application: The tea and hybrid 

 tea roses, when first potted, were stood 

 three deep in the rose range. Later, as 

 the season opened, the perennials, -with- 

 ered in the frame wer« removed to the 

 open lot, the frames were raised and the 

 two upper layers of roses now started 

 into growth were placed there . One of 

 the ingenius expedients adopted in an 

 emergency by a man of resources. 



The Roses at Rivertoo. 



Since the wonderful improvement 

 made in the varieties of hybrid tea 

 roses suitable for outdoor planting in 

 the various climates of this vast coun- 

 try, Eiverton has become a hotbed of 

 roses. It is pretty hard for the average 

 florist to realize what this means. He is 

 accustomed to thinking of Dreer's seeds 

 and of the Eiverton palms and peren- 

 nials, with the various side lines of ferns 

 and annuals. Perhaps three-quarters of 

 the florists, if closely questioned, would 

 admit that you might be able to get 

 some H. P. 's at Dreer's. By H. P.'s 

 would be meant hybrid perpetuals, not 

 high-priced roses, as a prospective ros- 

 arian once suggested. They have some 



H. P. 's there, though, in both senses ; 

 there are still some hybrid perpetual 

 Jacqueminot, Magna Charta and so - 

 forth, for those who wish thenf, and 

 there are some high-priced novelties 

 brought from the Marne, the Seine and 

 the Thames to the banks of the Dela- 

 ware for trial, as Dreer's must always 

 be a leader in every branch of horti- 

 cultural industry. 



Mr. Eisele is enthusiastic over hybrid 

 tea roses. This is shown by the increase 

 in the number of novelties, in the num- 

 ber of standard . varieties, and in the 

 number of plants in the houses and 

 frames at Eiverton. Some idea of the 

 magnitude of the Dreer interest in roses 

 may be obtained from the following 

 rough figures : The number of plants, 

 including teas, hybrid teas, hybrid per- 

 petuals, climbers, etc., is fully one-third 

 greater than last year, running up, ap- 

 proximately, to somewhere between 125,- 

 000 and 150,000 plants. 



The number of varieties has been so 

 much increased that novelties such as the 

 peerless Lyon rose are now offered' in 

 quantity sufficient to warrant the belief 

 that many of those desiring this and 



