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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Mabch 23, 1911. 



Orders Booked 



Now 



and Delivered as Desired. 



LUIDN GIGANTEUN 



(OUR OWN DISTINCTIVE QUALITY) 



In the following sizes: 



6to8; 7 to 8; 7 to 9; 9 to 10 



Wrife for Prices 



HENRY F. HICHELL CO., uft'L., Phfladelphia 



banquet that evening, but were back here 

 March 19 for a visit to the Henry A. 

 Dreer nurseries at Eiverton and at Eiver- 

 view, where they spent the afternoon with 

 J. D. Eisele and his lieutenants looking 

 over the large plant factories. The vis- 

 itors left March 20 for White Marsh, 

 Md., to see the establishment of E. Vin- 

 cent, Jr., & Sons. 



Baster Plants at Craig's. 



The Eobert Craig Co. is the largest 

 grower of Easter plants in the neigh- 

 borhood of Philadelphia. Many at a 

 distance, besides the principal florists 

 of the city, depend upon Craig for their 

 supply of blooming plants. More than 

 usual interest centers in the selection 

 of varieties, based, as it is, on a wide 

 experience of market requirements. An 

 appointment was made with Eobert A. 

 Craig last week to go over the houses 

 and see what is being grown for Eas- 

 ter. The point most strongly brought 

 out in the walk through the range of 

 houses was the clever timing that is 

 being done to have the stock in condi- 

 tion at Easter. Mr. Craig emphasized 

 the importance this year of the stock 

 being ripe, but not overripe. "Easter 

 is so late," he said, "that the three 

 weeks just before it will probably be 

 equal to five weeks earlier in the sea- 

 son. It is important to have the stock 

 hard and not too far advanced; conse- 

 quently all our stock is being grown 

 cool, with plenty of air." 



The lilies are all giganteum, some 

 18,000 pots in number, ranging in 

 height from eighteen to thirty inches, 

 averaging four or five flowers to a 

 plant. They look well, especially so 

 when compared with the short gigan- 

 teum lilies 80 common this season. The 



ORCHIDS ! 



flVisit us at National Flower Show, Mechanics 

 Building, Boston, Mass., March 25th to April 

 Ist, 1911. We will have an exhibit there of 

 Orchids that may interest you. 



€LWe have on hand a few hundred bulbs of 

 Calanthe Veitchii for immediate deliv- 

 ery. Write for prices. ^ 



LAGER & HURRELL, 



SUMMIT. 

 NEW JERSEY 



llentlOD The Keview wh*>n vou write. 



buds are developed just enough to show 

 that they will be perfect as the foliage 

 beneath. Tkere are three houses 

 of Hydrangea Otaksa, chiefly in me- 

 dium sizes, timed for early, midseason 

 and late orders. These hydrangeas 

 promise well; they are thickly set with 

 heads of good size, are short and stocky 

 and even throughout. 



The roses are a feature of the dis- 

 play. Crimson Eambler has resumed its 

 place in the front rank. American 

 Pillar, with splendid foliage, makes its 

 first appearance this season as an Eas- 

 ter rose. Lady Gay, Dorothy Perkins 

 and Hiawatha have a large house to 



themselves. Foremost among the rose 

 novelties are the plants trained in bas- 

 ket shape. Fancy a long-handled bas- 

 ket of growing roses, with room to 

 drop a blooming plant of, let us fancy, 

 golden genista, to contrast with its 

 scarlet clusters. Then there are Taus- 

 endschon, a magnificent bench of Magna 

 Charta and an assortment of the best 

 hybrid teas. Baby Eambler, with its 

 pink cousins, not forgetting Phyllis, 

 completes the list. 



The spiraeas present a vast scene of 

 glossy foliage with flower spikes push- 

 ing well through, all Gladstone and in 

 superb condition. The azaleas looked 



