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NOVEMBEK 17, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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Timely Sowings Mean 



Better germination, tiiriftier plants and more money in your pocicets. 



Watch Our Advs. and You Will 

 Know What to Sow. 



Tinea BoBea Trade pkt. Oz. 

 Only early sowing will 

 Rrow this perfect. 



Alba, white, pinkeye |0.15 |0.50 



Alba Pora, pure white 15 .50 



Rosea, pink 15 .50 



Mixed colors 15 .40 



Petunia hi trade pkt. Pkt. 



These are exclusive strains. 

 Single California Giants . . . .|0.30 f0.50 



Single Baffled Giants HO .50 



Donbled Hybridlied and Fringed, 500 



seeds, 75c; 1000 seeds, $1.50. 



Stocli Miciiell's Flower Market 



The tinest cutting stock for MidwinU'r, Easter or Decoration Day. For Easter sow 



from now until December 15th. 

 In colors: Pure white, flesh pink, rose pink, light blue, dark blue and blood 



red, ^ trade pkt., 30c: trade pkt.. SOc; H oz., $1.00; oz., |^.50. 

 All colors mixed, ^s trade pkt.. 30c; trade pkt.. '')0c: H oz., fl.OO; oz., $3.50. 



.Tust issued, Michell's Preliminary Offer Flower Seeds, Crop 1910. 

 One copy is for you, but you must ask for it. 



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Michell's Mammoth Fancy Verbenai. 



Henry F. NicheD 



Now at 



S18 Market St., 

 Piiiladelphia, Pa. 



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Samples you can have by just addressing us a postal bearing your name 

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length. Killarney and White Killar- 

 ney are fine and selling well. Bride 

 and Maid move slowly. Mrs. Aaron 

 Ward is popular and in active demand, 

 tarnations are recovering somewhat 

 from the doldrums, in which they have 

 been while mums were king, but are 

 now higher and selling better. Violets 

 are quite scarce and much higher in 

 price. All good flowers, especially of 

 singles, have been making $1 per hun- 

 dred. The quality is greatly improved. 

 Paper White narcissi are not yet plen- 

 tiful. A few Roman hyacinths have 

 appeared, also callas in small lots. Val- 

 ley is better in quality than for some 

 time. Some nice pink antirrhinums 

 are coming in and some nice mignon- 

 ette is seen. Liliiim longiflorum is of 



good quality. Some of the Formosa 

 type is already arriving. Cattleyas 

 are becoming much scarcer and have 

 advanced in price. Cypripediums are 

 quite plentiful. Quite an assortment 

 of other orchids are seen. Gardenias 

 are now obtainable the year around. 

 Some good flowers are arriving daily. 

 The demand for both Asparagus plu- 

 mosus and Sprengeri is improving. 

 Adiantum is coming of superior qual- 

 ity, the fronds being well ripened. 



Club Meeting. 



There were 150 present at the club 

 meeting November 15. M, W. Barrett, 

 of Hyde Park, Mass., was the lecturer. 

 He is a nurseryman and florist as well 

 as a beekeeper, and his subject, "Bees 



in Relation to Fruits, Flowers and Vege- 

 tables, " was ably and interestingly 

 handled. 



Andrew Christensen gave an inter- 

 esting talk on his European visit. 

 Major Burton, of London, England, a 

 large commercial grower, was present 

 and spoke on American flowers. He 

 considered chrysanthemums and carna- 

 tions superb, but he said we were much 

 behind Europe' in the culture of valley 

 and mushrooms. 



The following nominations were 

 made: President, P. M. Miller; vice- 

 president, Thomas Pegler; treasurer, 

 Peter Fisher; secretary, W. N. Craig; 

 executive committee, Albert Batley, 

 Thomas Roland, J. M. Gleason, Robert 

 Cameron, Eber Holmes, William Downs, 

 A. E. Thatcher, W. J. Kennedy, W. E, 

 Fischer, J. P. A. Guerineau and J. F. 

 Flood. 



There was the usual good display on 

 the tables, including Vitis Henryana 

 from R. & J. Farquhar & Co.; specimen 

 chrysanthemums from Duncan Finlay- 

 son; fine collection of single seedliiig 

 mums from Otto Strassenburg, a white 

 and yellow being awarded report of 

 merit; mignonette and azaleas from 

 W. W. Edgar Co.; Mignonette Fottler's 

 Eclipse from T. J. Grey Co., which 

 received a report of merit; vase of roses 

 from Eber Holmes; Carnation Gorgeous, 

 bright cerise, from Peter Fisher, which 

 were magnificent and awarded a report 

 of superior merit. Mr, Fisher has 1,000 

 plants of Carnation Gorgeous and the 

 variety is now in its fourth year. 



The membership list was again aug- 

 mented, there being eight new names 

 added. The S. A. F. meeting in March 



