MAY 13, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



29 



BEAUTIES 



Specials, $2.25 per doz.; $12.50 per 100. We 



are handling the choicest coming to the Philadelphia 

 Market. Try a couple of dozen and be convinced* 



S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co. 



THE WHOLBSALB FLORISTS OP 



1608-20 LUDLOW ST., 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



1212 New York Avenue, WASHINQTON 



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MICHELL'S PrimulaSeed 



Primula Chmensis Fimbriata 



H tr. pkt. tr. pkt. 



Alba Magnifica $0.60 $1.00 



Chiawick Red 60 1.00 



Holborn Blue 60 1.00 



KermesinaSplendens.. .60 1.00 



Rosy Morn 60 1.00 



Michell's Prize Mixture, beanti- 

 fully fringed varieties.. .60 1.00 



Primula Obconka Grandiflora 



'^ Tr. pkt. 



Compacta .W $0.50 



Fimbriata (1-16 oz., $1.25) 50 



Gig^antea ( Arendei). 50 



Kermesina ( 1-16 oz. , $1.50) .. . .40 



Rosea (1-16 oz., $1.00) 30 



White (1-16 oz.. $1.25) 30 



Mixed (>^oz., $1.00) 30 



CYCAS REVOLUTA 



strong, healthy trunks. 25 lbs.. $2.25; 100 lbs., $8.50; 300 lbs., $24.00. 



HEADQUARTERS FOR ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS SEED 



ORKBMHODSK GROWN 



lOOseeds 9060 j 5,000 seeds.. $17.60 



1000 seeds 3.75 I 10.000 seeds.. 82.60 



LATH HOUBK GROWN 



100 seeds 10.40 I 5,000 seeds.. $12.50 



1000 seeds 2.75 | 10,000 seeds.. 23.00 



Write for our Wholesale Catalogue. 



HENRY F. MICBELL CO., "^rHKK^pi' 



Street, 



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good supply and of excellent quality. 

 Sweet peas are becoming more plentiful; 

 the price is falling. Violets are over. 

 The stragglers of the Easter lily crop 

 are over, and the new crop stock is now 

 in. Japanese iris from the south is plen- 

 tiful; the yellow is not popular. The 

 white and purple are in fair demand. 

 German iris, locally grown, is also here. 

 Greens are selling fairly. 



The Largest Order. 



The observance of Mothers' day in 

 the churches, in the hospitals, in the 

 prisons, and in the home, was general, 

 a white carnation, occasionally a pale 

 pink carnation or a white rose, being the 

 sign of the observance. The largest order 

 on record was placed by the Philadel- 

 phia Rapid Transit Co., with Frank L. 

 Polites, a Chestnut street florist. This 

 order was for 7,350 white carnations, to 

 be distributed as directed among the 



twenty car barns of the company. Each 

 carnation had a neatly printed linen 

 paper tag attached to it by white rib- 

 bon. On the tag was this inscription: 



All I am or hope to be, 



I owe to my sainted mother. 



— Abraham Lincoln. 



The order was satisfactorily filled, on 

 time, but Mr. Polites said he had some 

 diflSculty in procuring enough white car- 

 nations, 9,000 in all being required. 



Variotis Notes. 



Casper and George L. Pennock sent 

 two wagonloads of American Beauty 

 roses to their wholesalers, the S. S. Pen- 

 nock-Meehan Co., May 10. One-half the 

 specials in this consignment were re- 

 quired for one order. 



Henry L. Blind, of BUnd Bros., Pitts- 

 burg, was here a few days ago. 



Charles Mawby and W. Faust, lately 

 with C. W. Keegan, propose opening a 



new retail store of their own on Thir- 

 teenth street, above Sansom street. 



Mrs. J. M. Gasser and two attractive 

 nieces, of Cleveland, were here this week. 



Walter P. Stokes gave an interesting 

 illustrated talk on ' ' How to Grow 

 Seeds, ' ' before the employees and friends 

 of the J. Horace McFarland Co., Har- 

 risburg. Pa., May 11. 



Pittsburg is always called the Smoky 

 City, but Israel Rosnosky says that just 

 now the Pittsburgers say it is not smoky 

 enough. Surely this cannot include the 

 florists, 



Arthur Zirkman, with M. Rice & Co., 

 has just returned from a successful trip 

 through New England. Mr. Zirkman says 

 that the observance of Mothers' day was 

 general, and that there will be a heavy 

 demand for Memorial day, judging by 

 the confidence the buyers display in his 

 firm's new style designs, which closely 

 copy nature. 



The Robert Craig Co. has been enjoy- 

 ing an excellent demand for foliage 

 plants for outdoors and for growing on 

 under glass. 



Robert A. Craig sold 1,100 Pandanus 

 Veitchii in forty-eight hours. 



George Redles gave an entertaining 

 talk on "Wild Flowers," before the 

 Germantown Horticultural Society May 

 10. It is doubtful whether anybody, here 

 or elsewhere on the eastern seaboard, 

 can talk about wild flowers as delight- 

 fully as Mr. Redles. 



John Thompson, lately with Poehl- 

 mann Bros. Co., Morton Grove, 111., has 

 returned to this city. 



Work on the new greenhouses of the 

 Florex Gardens, at North Wales, is pro- 

 gressing rapidly. 



William J. Young, Jr., Germantown, 

 has a well grown lot of bedding plants 

 in all the standard varieties. 



H. Bayersdorfer & Co. have their store 

 full of Memorial day designs on the way 

 from the factory to the shipping room. 



Many of the growers are investing in 

 glass to hold for a year or more, believ- 

 ing it a profitable investment at present 

 prices. 



Duncan Macaw, right-hand man to 

 Robert A. Craig, has won himself many 

 friends by his cordiality and cheerful- 

 ness. 



Strawbridge & Clothier distributed 400 



