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February 23, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



29 



Begonias and Gloxinias 



• BEGONIAS 



Choicest Large-flowering. Mammoth Bulbs. 



Single BoKoniaa— Doz. lOO loro 



Orange $U.40 $2.75 $22.50 



Scarlet 40 2.75 22.50 



Pink 40 2.75 22.50 



White 40 2.75 22.50 



Yellow.. 40 2.75 22.50 



Mixed 35 2.50 21.00 

 Double Begonias— 



Crimson 65 4.75 37.50 



Scarlet 65 4.75 37.50 



Pink 65 4. 75 37.50 



White 65 4.75 37.50 



Yellow ()5 4.75 37.50 



Mixed .50 3.75 33.00 

 6LOXINIAS- 



Red and Scarlet .60 3.75 32.00 



Blue .60 3.75 32.00 



Bordered Scarlet 60 3.75 32.00 



Bordered Blue 60 3.75 .32.00 



Spotted .60 3.75 32.00 



White 60 3.75 32.00 



Choicest Mixed 50 3.50 31.50 



NOW IS THE TIME TO START THEM 



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Henry F. Michell Co., ^^JhS^LT 



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TO-DAY we ask you to send a postal to us 

 for samples of Ribbons. The samples will 

 cost you nothing, and you will see why we say 



Pine Tree Ribbons Have no Superior 



All grades, all colors, all widths, and prices 

 low, because you cut out the commission house 

 and the jobber, and therefore SAVE ALL 

 BETWEEN PROFITS. 



The Pine Tree Silk Mills Company 



PHILADELPHIA 



Office and Salesrooms: 806-808-810 Arch Street, 52-64 X. Eighth Street 



If you cannot send that postal for samples today, write 

 tomorrow or tde following day. Only, be sure to write 



Mention The Review when vou write 



^ Budlong's 



E Blue Ribbon Valley 



containing Rhode Island Reds, Plym- 

 outh Rocks and White Leghorns, proved 

 that those who know must have the 

 best breeds. 



The view on the farm was inspiring. 

 Here was the tract of ground set apart 

 for Mr. Fancourt's nursery next spring; 

 there the wood where boys were cut- 

 ting down the older trees for boards 

 and firewood; then the peach and apple 

 orchards, with promise of the first yield 

 next summer; last the beautiful rolling 

 country of Farm No. 3, comprising 160 

 acres, the last addition to Farm School, 

 where great crops are grown with nat 

 ural and commercial fertilizers, all aid- 

 ed by student labor. The boys do 

 everything, Dr. Washburn said, and, 

 when you come to think of that, it is 



remarkable how much is done and you 

 feel that here is a good work, whioh is 

 doing its part to solve the problems of 

 the day. 



Various Ndtes. 



Smith, Lineaweaver & Co. report that 

 market conditions on anthracite coal, 

 so far as they apply to the steam sizes, 

 arq extremely active, and prices strong, 

 with an extraordinary demand. Owing 

 to the mild weather, the domestic sizes 

 of anthracite coal have not been mov- 

 ing as rapidly as is customary at this 

 time of the year which has made con- 

 siderable of a shortage on the steam 

 sizes. 



John F. Horn & Bros., Allentown, 

 Pa., will build three houses, each 21x 



Mention The Revjpw whe n you write. 



200 feet. The order has been placed 

 with the King Construction Co. 



M. Rice & Co. report the arrival of 

 sixty-five cases of butterflies, mats, rib- 

 bons and other specialties. 



Ira H. Landis purchased the W. B. 

 Girvin place, Paradise, Pa., at public 

 sale February 11 for $8,500. 



H, Bayersdorfer & Co. have filled 

 from their own factory an order for 

 wood baskets in five styles. The refer- 

 ence to these baskets, as described by 

 Mr. Bayersdorfer in the issue of Febm- 

 ary 9, should have read, "Half gypsy 

 baskets, the mirrors giving them a 

 double eflFect." 



Dr. L. H. Bailey, of the Department 

 of Horticulture at Cornell University, 

 Ithaca, N, Y., will deliver a lecture on 

 "The- Country Life Situation" in the 

 Harrison Laboratory of Chemistry, 

 Thirty-fourth and Spruce streets, Mon- 

 day evening, February 27, at 8 o'clock. 

 The lecture will be under the auspices 

 of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the So- 

 ciety of Sigma XI. 



I. C. Townsend, Merchantville, N, J.. 

 will deliver a lecture on "Old-Fash- 

 ioned Flowers, Especially Hardy Peren- 

 nials," in the Henry F. Michell Co. 

 building, 518 Market street, Monday, 

 February 27, at 11 a. m. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Pennsylvania Horticultural Society was 

 held in Horticultural hall. Broad street 

 below Locust, Tuesday evening, Febru- 

 ary 21. Prizes were offered for einer- 



