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Mat 8, 1918. 



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The Florists' Review 



33 



PEONIES 



So far the season is about two weeks ahead 

 of last year and if it continues so, it will mean 

 plenty of Peonies for Memorial Day, not the 

 poor quality early ones but the choicest varieties 

 — Festiva Maxima and that kind. Order now. 

 The probable price will be $8.00 to $10.00 per 100. Some of 

 the choice novelties are coming now from our Southern growers— 

 $10.00 and $12.00 per 100. 



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BOXWOOD: 



started. 



In splendid shape; cold storage stock 

 tbat was gathered before the young growth 

 Good, dean stock, no surplus wood, $7.50 per oa«e. 



QARDENIASj Special, per doz.. $2 50; per 100, $17.50. Fancr, per doz., $2.00; 



per 100, $12 50 First, per doz., $1.00: per 100, $6.00. 

 VALLEY: Special, $4.00 per 100. Kxtra, $3 00 per 100. 

 CATTLCYAS: $6 00 and $7.50 per doz. 



Cedar Bark for window boxes and plant tubs. $1.00 per bundle. 



HEADQUAimRS FOR aRBENS 



Bronze Oalaz, $1.50 per 1000; $8.60 per 10,000. 



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



Green Sheet Moss, $3.50 per bag. 



Green Lump Moss, $1.50 per bag. 



Sphagnum Moss, 10-bbl. bales, nicely borlapped, each $4.00; 5-bale 



lots, each |3.75; lO-bale lots, each $3.60. 

 Dagger and Fancy Ferns ( storage stock for Immediate delivery), $2.00 



per 1000. 

 Boston Fern Fronds. 27 inches long, extra fine, $1.00 per 100. 

 Boxwood, $7.50 per case. 

 Asp.aragus strings, 50c each. 

 Asparagus and Sprengeri bunches, 50c each. 



RIBBONS AND SUPPLIES: Many new patterns in exclusive Bibbons. Write us for prices on these and on Supplies. 



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



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PENNOCK-MEEHAN 



Th» Wholesale FlorUts off Philadelphia 



CO. 



PHILADELPHIA 

 1608-1620 Ludlow Street 



NEW YORK 

 117 West 28th Street 



WASHINGTON 

 1216 H Street. N.W- 



Mention The Review when you write. 



THE PHILADELPHIA CUT FLOWER CO.,>..^'^VPHILADELPHIA,PA. 



OFFERS A GOOD ASSORTMENT OF WELL GROWN 



VALLEY ORCHIDS PEAS 

 ROSES and CARNATIONS 



at fair prices. We asic a trial order. 



OPEN UNTIL 6 P. M. 



Mention Th> R.Tlew when yon writ*. 



Fox praised the National Flower Show 

 at New York. Mr. Pierson asked if 

 Philadelphia members would support a 

 show here and Mr. Fox said he thought 

 they would. The meeting favored the 

 proposition to hold the next National 

 Flower Show in this city. A commit- 

 tee was appointed to ask the park com- 

 mission to install a rose garden in Fair- 

 mount park. 



The Use of the Pansy. 



I am indebted to Paul Berkowitz for 

 a little bit of information that may be 

 «f interest. Mr. Berkowitz says that 

 Henry Penn, the well known Boston 

 florist, makes up beautiful baskets of 

 cut flowers, using pansies in combina- 

 tion with other flowers. The difliculty 



with the pansy has been that it is frail 

 and easily wilts, rendering it unsafe to 

 use in this way. Mr. Penn solves the 

 problem by putting little glass tubes in 

 the moss with which the baskets are 

 filled. These tubes, placed at different 

 heights to give variety, are filled with 

 water, then paper-covered, and a pansy 

 is slipped into each. The other flowers 

 and greens are inserted in the moss in 

 the usual way. Some beautiful effects 

 are obtained by these pansy combina- 

 tions. 



The Demonstrating Boom. 



John P. Habermehl led the way to 

 a second story room immediately over 

 the flower shop in the Bellevue-Strat- 

 ford hotel. The room was well lighted 



and cheerful, commanding a view of 

 "Walnut street from its bay-window. It 

 was handsomely furnished, contained 

 large portfolios, an easel, pictures, a 

 handsome center table and a few, not 

 too many, chairs. This room is an ab- 

 solute necessity to J. J. Habermehl 's 

 Sons. Here the many wonderful — ^1 

 use the word advisedly — decorations are 

 first planned and then sketched, of ttimes 

 in color, before they are put into ex- 

 ecution. The host of a ball or any 

 other form of entertainment can tell 

 exactly how every detail will be car- 

 ried out beforehand, nothing being left 

 to chance. The business-like precision 

 that marks all the dealings of the firm 

 is carried into the field of decoration to 

 the no small satisfaction of the pros- 



