. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igo3. The American Florist. 313 Robt. Scott & Son. of Sharon Hill, have a block of 7,000 pots of lilies which run very even; they are a fine looking lot and well flowered. The stock ot Ramblers is not (|uite as large as last season, there being about 700 fine plants, which look as if timed exactly right. There will be some choice gardenias in pots, also alotofazaleasand hydrangeas and some spir,-pas. Yates, of Chestnut Hill, has 7,000 lilies, 500 azaleas, Acacia paradoxa, a lot of deutzias and Spira'a Gladston
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igo3. The American Florist. 313 Robt. Scott & Son. of Sharon Hill, have a block of 7,000 pots of lilies which run very even; they are a fine looking lot and well flowered. The stock ot Ramblers is not (|uite as large as last season, there being about 700 fine plants, which look as if timed exactly right. There will be some choice gardenias in pots, also alotofazaleasand hydrangeas and some spir,-pas. Yates, of Chestnut Hill, has 7,000 lilies, 500 azaleas, Acacia paradoxa, a lot of deutzias and Spira'a Gladstone. His stock is in good shape. Koehler & Son, of Frankford, have 3,000 choice lilies, some nice azaleas, a house of medium-size'l hydrangeas that are hard to beat, a lot of soira^as and a large assortment of what they call pan good:;, tulips and hyacinths. A house of Clothilde Soupert iti pots is fine. Griffin Brothers, also of Frankford, keep up their reputation as careful growers and their stock of lilies, azaleas and bulbous flowers is fine. The azaleas are particu- larly well-budded plants and a large per centage are Mme. Vander Cruyssen. They have also two houses of roses in pots that are looking well. At W'estcott's, at Laurel Hill, there are 2,000 lilies, a house of spinxa, cinerarias and some choice rhododendrons. Win. Leonard, of the Model Farm, has a house of about 3,000 lilies that is pushing hard for first place, the stock all through being first class. The Faust Nurseries, at Merion, show a house of medium azaleas, very neat plants which run largely to Vander Cruyssen. The stock of lilies consists of 3,000, nicely grown and well budded. Some very large spira;as are to be seen here, also a lot of pots and pans of bulb- ous stock. The H. A. Dreer Company has an, immense stock of azaleas in all sizes, which are well in hand and look exactly risht in point of time. Jacob Becker has some choice lilies, about 3,000, and an immense stock of pot roses, which latter are
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