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Pennsylvania Horticultural Society - Philadelphia Flower Show

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Location Covered = Philadelphia, Pa.

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This collection consists of documentation related to the Philadelphia Flower Show from 1829 to the present including tickets, advertisements, posters and high-quality photographs to exhibits and promotional events. Some of the images include buildings that no longer exist, such as Philadelphia's Commercial Museum and Civic Center.

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Flower shows -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia (2)
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (2)
Calla Lilies (1)
Community gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia (1)
Fertilizers (1)
Flower shows (1)
Hall, Deborah (1)
Philadelphia Flower Show (1929 : Philadelphia, Pa.) (1)
Philadelphia Flower Show (1991 : Philadelphia, Pa.) (1)
Philadelphia Green (Program) (1)

Plant Products Co. (Baltimore, Md.) (1)
Plantabbs Products (1)
W. Atlee Burpee Company (1)
Women (1)

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Commercial Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.) (2)
Philadelphia Civic Center (1)

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Photographs (1)

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1929 (2)
1991 (1)

Language

eng (1)

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Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (3)

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1929 Philadelphia Flower Show. Burpee Garden Exhibit

Women, W. Atlee Burpee Company, Flower shows -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Philadelphia Flower Show (1929 : Philadelphia, Pa.), Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

A woman stands in the middle of the Burpee garden, an exhibit of the 1929 show. The exhibit consists of an upper and lower level, with a mansion at one end and steps leading down to an elaborately planted garden. The low banisters are entwined with climbing roses; along the rear are azaleas and other shrubs in flower. Spring-flowering bulbs are in the front border. A complete text description is in The Florists Exchange and Horticultural Trade World, March 16, 1929, p. 13. Show photographer: Grafton Foto Service, Phila Pa.

1929 Philadelphia Flower Show. Fulton's Plantabbs

Flower shows, Fertilizers, Calla Lilies, Plant Products Co. (Baltimore, Md.), Plantabbs Products

Plant Products Company, Biddle & Morton Sts., Baltimore Maryland features Fulton's Plantabbs, odorless plant food tablets for making liquid fertilizer. Plantabbs Products, founded in 1921 by David H. Fulton and his brother T. R. Fulton, an avid gardener and a pharmacist, introduced the concept of using tablets to fertilize house plants.

1991 Philadelphia Flower Show. Philadelphia Green Exhibit

Philadelphia Flower Show (1991 : Philadelphia, Pa.), Philadelphia Green (Program), Hall, Deborah, Flower shows -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Community gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

PHS staffer Deborah Hall is helping to plant out the 1991 Philadelphia Green (PHS) exhibit "Planting the Future, Inheriting the Harvest."

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