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The Florists^ Review mat n. loie. 



Rooted 



Chrysanthemum 



Cuttings 



See our Classified ad or send 

 for complete list and prices 



THE LEO NIESSEN CO. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



12th and Race Sts., niILADELPinA,rA. 



BALTIMORE. MD. WASHINGTON. D. C. 



Rose Plants 



Own Root— 2Hj-in. Pots 



Per 1000 



Thora 150.00 



Ophelia 75.00 



Wiiite Killarney 50.00 



Hoosier Beauty 60.00 



250 at the 1000 rate 



LET US KNOW YOUR REQUIREMENTS FOR 



Cut Flowers for Decoration Day 



Booking Orders Now for 

 New Nearby 



DAGSER FERNS 



The best Ferns you ever used, 

 not only in aaality, but also in 

 size. You will need Ferns in 

 large quantities this month, and 

 you should place your order 

 where prices are most reason- 

 able. 



and we will be pleased to quote you prices. We look 

 for a good supply of ROSES, CARNATIONS, PEO- 

 NIES, and a large list of MISCECLANEOUS STOCK, 

 suitable for bouquet work. 



Our stock will be of a quality as good as can be ex- 

 pected at this time of the year. 



1 

 For quotations on cut flowers and everything in sea- 

 son, send for our Price List. 



Beauties 



The Best .... $3.00 per dozen 



On a quantity we will quote 

 you special prices. No better 

 Beauties are coming to this 

 market than we are offering 

 you. 



For shipment this week we sugfgfest to you : 



White and Yellow Daisies— 



Per 100 $1.00-$1.50 



Snapdragon— Pink, White, Yellow— 



Per 100 $5.00-110.00 



Single and Double Stocks per 100, $4.00-$6.00 



Baby Gladiolus per 100, $5.00 



Cornflowers per 100, $2.00 



VALLEY-CATTLEYAS-EASTER LILIES-SPENCER PEAS 



Mention The BeTlew when yon write. 



PHUiADELFHIA. 



The Market 



There was no market during the week 

 ending May 10. The growers will agree 

 with this statement when they read 

 their returns. They will say Phil be- 

 lieves in calling a spade a spade and 

 they will kick or grin and bear it as 

 seems best to each and every one. The 

 retailers most likely will object to such 

 a sweeping statement, calling attention 

 to the stock purchased during the week. 

 But when these orders were picked out 

 they made such a little, such a very 

 little impression on the avalanche that 

 swept down on the wholesalers, filling 

 their iceboxes and piling their counters 

 mountain high with flowers, that it 

 seemed there was no business. But 

 what became of those flowersf People 

 want to know — they ought to know. 

 They are not salted away, kept for a 

 season of demand, as the daily papers 

 so frequently assert. They are gotten 

 out of the way at some price, no matter 

 what, as quickly as possible. When 

 this is not possible they are lost. The 

 wholesalers work like beavers to pre- 

 vent waste. That is their sole aim at 

 such a time, when, with a full crop on, 

 the bottom drops out of the market, as 

 it did during this terrible week. 



With the regular channels closed or 

 partly closed, new channels became 

 necessary. These are made by a class 

 of buyers who come into the market 

 only on such extreme occasions. They 

 will use hundreds, nay thousands, of 

 bunches of sweet peas or carnations 

 and unheard-of numbers of roses, pro- 

 vided the price is right. They load their 

 purchases on wagons chartered for the 

 occasion, usually a Friday or a Satur- 

 day, and haul them to certain favored 

 districts, thickly populated, where they 



BERGER BROS. 



WHITE CARNATIONS 



A Specialty, also 

 DAFFODILS, fine Northern grown outdoor 

 LILAC, Southern and Jersey 



CALLAS, extra fine flowers, long stems 

 ORCHID SWEET PEAS, the very best 



ROSES COLORED CARNATIONS 



EASTER LILIES 

 We will have Peonies for Memorial Day. 



1225 RACE ST. PHILADELPHIA 



Mention The Rerlew when yon write. 



are distributed right from the wagon. 

 Kensington, Ridge avenue, in front of 

 Baldwin's on pay afternoon, these are 

 some of the favored spots where the 

 street men have been known to unload 

 so large a number of flowers in a 

 couple of hours, that, were I to name 

 the number, you would undoubtedly 

 consider me a full-fledged member of 

 the Ananias and Sapphira Club. The 

 prices that the street men pay for this 

 stock depends, as Robert Kift once 



aptly expressed it, on the abilities of 

 buyer and seller, but the seller is fear- 

 fully handicapped by the mountain of 

 flowers behind him and the open door 

 in front, through which the buyer may 

 at any moment vanish and drive off. 

 So the price is low and the work is 

 hard. 



This is a true picture of the worst 

 week that the cut flower market in this 

 city has experienced this season. 

 George Aeugle assures me that it is the 



