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March 20, 1913. 



The Florists' Review 



25 



GARDENIAS 



What is more beautiful than a Gardenia with its 

 rich glossy green foliage, and purity and fragrance? 

 As a Special for week of March 29th, we offer them 

 In lots of fifty or over at $10.00 per hundred, 

 some long and some medium stems, all good flowers. 



VALLEY:— Extra, $3.00 per 100; Special, $4.00 per 

 CATTLEYAS:— $6.00 per doaen; $40.00 per 100. 

 SWEET PEAS:— $1.C0 to $1.60 per 100. 



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100. 



HKAOQUARTERS FOR ORUCNS 



WILD SMILAX. 16.00 per case. 



Qreen or Broiue Galax, $1.60 per 1000; $7.50 per 10,000. 



Leuootboe Sprays (green and bronze), $1.00 per 100; $7.60 per 1000. 



Qreen Sheet Moss, $1.60 per bag. 



Sphagnam Moss, 10-bbl. bales, nicely borlapped, $4.00 bale; 6-bale 



lota, $3.75 each ; 10-bale lots. $8.60 each; 26-bale lots, $8.26 each. 

 Mexican Ivy. $1.00 per 100: $7.50 per 1000. 

 Dagger and Fancy Ferns, $2.00 per 1000. 

 Boxwood, fiO-lb. cases, $7.60 each. 



RIBBONS AND SUPPLIES: Many new patterns in exclaslve Ribbons. Write us 

 for prices on tttese and on Supplies. 



Small shipments can be sent by parcel post at purchaser's risk. 



S. S. PENNOCK-MEEHAN COMPANY 



PHILADELPHIA 

 1608-1620 Ludlow Street 



THX WUOIXUALR FLOBXSTB OF PHII4ADELPHIA 



NEW YORK 

 117 West 28tta Street 



WASHINGTON 

 1216 H Street. N. W. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 





Lilies and String Plumosus 



and everything else in Cut Flowers 



Rose Plants— Grafted Stock 

 Richmond, Pink Killarney, Wiiite Killarney, Ward, Hiliingdon, Double 



White Killarney, Killarney Queen 



PHILADELPHIA CUT FLOWER CO., 



1817 

 Sansom St. 



OPEN UNTIL 6 P. M. 



Philadelphia, Pa. 



Horticultural hall March 18 to 20. The 

 exhibits were confined to the private 

 gardeners, the time beji^ > inopportune 

 for the florists.^ 



Charles Berger has returned from his 

 first western trip, taken in the inter- 

 est of his brother, Louis Berger. 



Martin Beukauf has r«tiK|^ 



Zirkman is again in our 



to the 

 city. 



Arthur 

 midst. 



The Florex 'tiardens will ertct one 

 gree nhou se 40x250 feet for carnations 

 and snapdragon on its place at North 

 Wales, Pa. It is believed that the 

 house will be erected by the King Con- 

 struction Co. 



Cornelius Vanderbreggen has the 

 proud record of not missing a single 

 pot of lilies in his first season in charge 

 of the Norwood plant of the Eobert 

 Craig Co. 



Visitors from nearly all the principal 

 cities and towns within reach of Phila- 

 delphia have been here within the last 

 fortnight. 



Eugene Bernheimer said that Carna- 

 tion Buth is gaining in popularity with 



Mfotton.^h;^ R^Tiew wh»D yon wrlt>. 



those who know it best. It has good 

 keeping qualities and a fine stem. 



St. Patrick's day in th* jveek before 

 Easter is a novelty. Mtlifh shamrock 

 was distributed. 



Clarence Upton will build one green- 

 house 35x300 feet at Enfield, Pa., also 

 adding thirty-five feet to his Borridor 

 house. Mr. Upton Ubm placed ai^ order 

 with the King Construction Co. 



"Mr. Francis' tJyrie" is the name 

 given the newly built room that over- 

 looks the store from the landing at 

 Walter P. Stokes' seed house. 



The retail flower shop windows are a 

 blaze of color this week. 



William J. Baker makes a specialty 

 of callas. 



The estate of Lemuel Ball finds the 

 newly modeled heating plant satisfac- 

 tory. The place is in excellent shape. 



Eichard Lang has a Ford car. 



The Johnson Seed Co. reports that 

 the season has opened in earnest. 



Eobert Q. Shoch and Mrs. Shochhave 

 returned from their wedding trip. 



M. C. Wright, manager of the Phila- 

 delphia office of Lord & Burnham Co., 



reports the following list of contracts 

 recently received at his office: 



Dr. E. W. Brown, Orange, Tex., material for 

 range of iron frame greentiouses. 



Samuel F. Nixon, Atlantic City, N. J., com- 

 plete erection of pipe frame greenhouse 18x37. 



Maurice J. Brinton, Christiana, Pa., material 

 for pipe frame greenhouse 40x200. 



D. B. Kronlnger, Emaus, Pa., material for pipe 

 frame greenhouse 10x200. 



Stephen Stagg, Richmond. Va., material for 

 pipe frame greenhouse 14x100. 



William J. Newton, Norfolk, Va., material for 

 pipe frame greenhouse 28x150 



0. Akehurst A Sons, White Marsh, Md., ma- 

 terial for pipe frame greenhouse 35x165. 



Henry Fischer, Raspeburg, Md., material for 

 pipe frame greenhouse 25x100. 



William Munro, Garrettford, Pa., material for 

 pipe frame greenhouse 36x200. 



Geo. W. Renard, Avondale, Pa., material for 

 pipe frame greenhouse 36x86. 



J. C. Wright, Roanoke, Ala., material for two 

 iron frame greenhouses. 



Newton Floral Co., Norfolk, Va., material for 

 pipe frame greenhouse 25x150. 



Walter R. Fumess, Rose Tree, Pa., complete 

 erection of Iron frame greenhouse. 



Also material for pipe frame greenhouses for 

 John Gutman, Congress Heights, D. C. ; John 

 Curwen. Berwyn, Pa., and Thomas J. Thorn, 

 Ocean City, N. J. 



Phil. 



Madison, Conn. — Plans have been 

 drawn for a $5,000 greenhouse for Miss 

 Marie Hotchkiss, of Stony Croft. 



