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The Florists' Review 



March 16, 1016. 



RUBRUM 



100 .... $8.00 



SHORT STEMS 

 100 $5.00 



THE LEO HIESSEN CO. 



WNOLISALI FLORISTS 



12th and Race Sts., niILiU)ELriIIA,rA. 



BALTIMORE, MD. WASHINGTON. O. C. 



Mexican Ivy 



1000, $6.50 



Bronze and Qreen 

 Qalax, $7.50 per case 



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We are HEADQUARTERS in rhihdelphia fir BEAUTIES 



Our growers assure us of a better supply from now on, especially of the better grades. If you 

 place your order with us, you can depend on us for the best stock, and also that they will be 

 billed to you at the lowest market price. We have quantities to select from, and every flower 

 we send out will be a good one. Let us quote you prices. 



GARDENIAS 



$15.00 and $85.00 per 100 



You can derend on us for absolutely fresh 

 stock at all times. 



DAISIES 



White and TeUow, $1.50-$2.00 per 100 



We can furnish them in quantity now. 

 They are inexpensive and you can use them 

 to advantage. 



PANSIES 



$8.00 per 100 bunches 



Put up ;n bunches in assorted colors. All 

 cheerful colors and a little better than the 

 ordinary stock. 



SNAPDRAGON 



$1.50 per dozen 



Several shades in pink, also white and 

 yellow. 



SPENCER PEAS 



Now is the time to push the sale of Peas. Some of our growers are cutting the finest 

 Spencer Peas we ever handled and expect to have them in large quantity from now on. 

 There is nothing in the cut-flower line that offers you or your customers better value. 

 When in the market, let us supply you. You will find our prices very interesting. 



Mention The B«Tlew when yon writ*. 



Henry Seymour has been cutting 

 large quantities of carnations and finds 

 a good sale for them. 



The Florists' Club met at Louis 

 Fritsch 's residence March 8 and enjoyed 

 a pleasant evening. C. E. Gysemans, 

 the city plant grower, gave a fine talk 

 on roses. E. L. F. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



Lent has not nearly so much effect as 

 the weather on the flower market. That 

 is the way one wholesaler put it, and 

 all the others said that was true. So 

 while the Lenten market opened a little 

 uncertainly, production was so much 

 curtailed by the severe weather that 

 when business came the small accumu- 

 lation of flowers was rapidly taken at 

 excellent prices. Carnations have been 

 particularly shy, with the added call 

 for Ireland's patron saint's day. 

 Whites have advanced in price from $1 

 to $2 per hundred over colored carna- 

 tions of the same quality. Through an 

 error in last week's report, it was made 

 to appear that fancy carnations brought 

 more than select, whereas it should have 

 read that the funny thing was they did 

 not, the buyers then being unwilling to 

 pay more than $4 per hundred for any- 

 thing, no matter how good. Now they 

 are paying from $5 to $6 for white, with 

 a probable intention, alas, of dyeing 

 them. The colored carnations remain 

 at $3 to $4. Sweet peas are becoming 

 more abundant. They have developed 

 a slight weakness in price, due prob- 

 ably to the expectation that a vast num- 

 ber will come in after the first warm 

 day. The market has been helped, or, 

 perhaps it would be better to say, 

 steadied, by lighter receipts of bulbous 

 flowers, induced by accurate Lenten 

 timing. Asparagus plumosus has become 

 plentiful; really fine stock is in fair de- 

 mand, but the odds and ends of weak 

 and imperfect sprays bunched together 

 do not go well. 



BERGER BROS. 



Spring Flowers are in fine form. We offer attractive stock 



at very moderate prices. 



Daffodils Tulips Violets 



in large or small quantities. 



Our other specialties for March are 

 Orchid Peas — Carnations — Roses — Lilies 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS 



Rooted Cuttings of Crane, Crimson $3.00 per 100 



1225 RACE ST. PHILADELPHIA 



Mention The RcTlew when yon write. 



Corrent Events. 



The Robert Craig Co. has completed 

 a large real estate deal, or, it would 

 be more accurate to say, two transac- 

 tions — one a sale, the other a purchase. 

 The sale was of a 250-foot front on 

 Chestnut street, at an advantageous 

 price. The ground is to be used for a 

 high school. This means that the Rob- 

 ert Craig Co. has sold the remaining 

 half of its frontage on Chestnut street. 

 The purchase made by the company was 

 of a small piece of ground required to 

 square off their Market street front. 

 Some of the greenhouses near Chestnut 

 street will have to be torn down, but 



most of the place will remain na it 

 now stands, until the company disposes 

 of its Market street front, extending 

 from Forty-ninth street to Fiftieth 

 street. It is probable that when the 

 time comes for this sale the business 

 will be transferred to Norwood, where 

 the large range of greenhouses is lo- 

 cated on an extensive property. 



Frederick A. Steinhoff has given up 

 the flower store in the Snellenburg de- 

 partment store, at Twelfth and Girard 

 streets. This is bad news for the floral 

 world, as Mr. Steinhoff 's ability to move 

 large quantities of plants and flowers 

 has been received with much favor in 



