August 17, 1907 



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WE extend a cordial invitation to 

 all out of town florists and others 

 in the trade visiting Philadelphia 

 and will be pleased to have them make our 

 central location their headquarters during 

 their stay. 



BERGER BR05. 



WKolesale Florists 



1305 Filbert St.. PhiladelpKia 



PENNOCK BROS. 



Retail Orders Filled and 

 Promptly Delivered 



1514 CHESTNUT ST 



Philadelphia, Pa. 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



The extreme heat of Sun- 

 BOSTON day and Monday last had 



a very enervating effect 

 on all cut flower stock. Much of it 

 collapsed completely on the way to 

 market and all had to be carefully 

 handled and packed away to harden 

 up .after being received, otherwise it 

 was useless. There are practically no 

 carnations of the new crop and the 

 few of the old crop being received are 

 of very inferior quality. Asters are 

 very abundant, so also are sweet peas 

 which are coming in from every quar- 

 ter of the compass. Sweet pears are 

 of extra good quality. A few dahlias 

 are in sight this week. Gladiolus 

 Shakespeai-e is the finest thing offered 

 in the gladiolus line; nothing else can 

 touch it in price, although, as received 

 in this market, it is worth much more 

 than it brings. 



The retailers all 

 INDIANAPOLIS report business far 



better this past 

 July than in previous years. Astere 

 are coming in from all directions. The 

 quality, as a rule, is only fair. Most 

 of the growers have thrown out their 

 carnations and blooms are hard to 

 find. The supply of good Beauties is 

 not large and excellent prices are be- 

 ing realized. There are large supplies 

 of all kinds of lilies. The better 

 grades of gladioli are selling well 

 while the iioorer grades are a total 

 loss. Quantities of garden flowers aro 

 received but are not readily salable. 

 Tomlinson Hall market trade is re- 

 ported very quiet. 



The supply of all ma- 

 NEW YORK terial usually avail- 

 able in August is 

 abundant — too much so for the present 

 or any possible imminent demand. 

 Quality run.s rather low on most lines 

 the recent scorching weather being in 

 part responsible. Asters are now ac- 

 cumulating fast with values ■ falling. 



Dahlias have commenced to come in 

 regularly. The man with a roll can 

 buy the general run of all kinds of 

 material in original lots at figures that 

 are unquotable. 



There is nothing 

 PHILADELPHIA new to report as 



to the market sit- 

 uation. Midsummer dullness contin- 

 ues. Asters and gladioli are very plen- 

 tiful. Poor aster stock more than 

 usually abundant. There is also a 

 very large supply of roses of poor 

 quality. What few carnations come 

 in are fair. Lily of the valley is good 

 and finds ready takers. Other staples 

 unchanged. 



The dull season 

 WASHINGTON still continues. The 



latter part of last 

 week was a little more promising, but 

 the improvement was only temporary. 

 The greater part of the District of Co- 

 lumbia has been benefitted by fine 

 rains. 



OBITUARY. 



George J. Reuter, born in Maiuze, 

 Germany, in 1830, died in Pittsfield, 

 Mass., on August 3. Mr. Reuter came 

 to Pittsfield in 1.S54 and has carried on 



BUSINESS CHANGES. 



C. S. Fouse, of Aitch. Pa., has moved 

 his greenhouse to Mt. Union, Pa. 



Fred. O, Richards has purchased the 

 greenhouse on the Davis estate, Gard- 

 ner, Mass., and will continue the busi- 

 ness. 



The partnership existing between 

 Messrs. Schroeder & Meyer, Chicago, 

 has been dissolved, but both will con- 

 tinue in business independently. 



J. L. Cooper has disposed of his in- 

 terest in the Wirfield Nursery Co., of 

 Winfield, Kan., to J. Moncrief. The 

 name will n^roain unchanged. 



"The creation of a thousand forests 

 is in one .acorn," and the "big stores" 

 of ten years hence are probably the 

 "little shops" of today. But the little 

 shops of today whose owners are not 

 good advertisers will still be the little 

 shops ten years tr^m now. — Exchange. 



The Late (;k<ii;i;i: J. Keuter 



the florist business until within a few 

 years when he disposed of his green- 

 houses to R. Engelmann. He is sur- 

 vived by seven children. 



Charles H. Wilson, who had con- 

 ducted a florist's establishment at 

 Gladwyne for 20 years and a stand on 

 Market street, Philadelphia, for many 

 years, died on August 5, aged 80. Three 

 children survive him. 



Thomas Campbell, for many years in 

 charge of the Pomeroy estate, Pitts- 

 field Mass., died at his home in that 

 place on August 9, at the age of 73. 

 Three sons survive him. , 



Mrs. .Tulia S., wife of W. A. Herbert, 

 of Wellsville, O., died on July 26, at 

 the age of 56. 



George F. Brehmer. of Chillioothe, 

 O., passed away with heart disease. 



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