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The Florists^ Review 



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July 27, 1916. 



Cattleyas 



$5.00-$6.00 per doz. 



The varieties we can fur- 

 nish are all good-sized flow- 

 ers. 



THE LEO RIESSEN CO. 



WHOLKSALI FLORISTS 



12th and Race Sts., nniJU)ELrinA,rA. 



BALTIMORE, MD. WASHINGTON. O. C. 



Carnation 

 Plants 



To our southern customers 

 we suggest early planting. 



Place your order now. 



EARLY CLOSING-Every day at 5 p. m. 



ASTERS 



White— Pink— Purple— Lavender 

 $1.00-$3.00 per lOO 



We can report an increased supply of Asters and a better grade of 

 flowers. Although not as plentiful as other seasons, we have an excellent 

 supply of them. 



With a still larger supply to select from, we can surely please you 

 when in need of Asters. 



GOOD ROSES 



that we can recommend to you during 

 the summer months. 



Russell-PrimaDonna-Ophdia-Hadley-Maryland 



These roses we can furnish in quan- 

 tity and the best of them are exceed- 

 ingly fine. 



EASTER LILIES 



$10.00 per 100 



When all stock shows the effect of 

 summer weather. Lilies are as good as 

 ever. Here is something that will give 

 satisfaction. We have plenty of them 

 every day. 



y nation Th* IUt1»w wh^n yon writ*. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The lilarket. 



The extreme heat makes it difficult 

 to get enough good flowers for the or- 

 ders when they come. This does not 

 mean that all good flowers bring full 

 price, for they don't; but then, when a 

 ripple of business ruffles the calm of 

 the summer sea it is often difficult to 

 get together the stock of good grade. 

 Asters are coming in more freely; they 

 are much in demand when good, but 

 the average quality is not up to the 

 mark. Gladioli are late — extremely late, 

 fully three weeks behind time. The 

 quantity is increasing, augmented, curi- 

 ously enough, by some greenhouse- 

 grown stock, with the probability that 

 high tide will not be reached until 

 August. 



Easter lilies continue An important 

 factor. There are lots of them and 

 they sell about as well as anything else. 

 Kaiserin and My Maryland are the 

 mainstays in roses; some good flowers 

 of both are offered. Valley has been 

 disappointing. The quality of some of 

 the stock fully merits this brief com- 

 ment, though some of it is all right. 

 The rest of the market will be passed 

 without further description, excepting 

 to say that quite a little business is 

 done with the other flowers in the list, 

 but no one of them is as important as 

 those mentioned. 



A Complete Change. 



For the busy man — The sunken gar- 

 den in Fairmount park has been turned 

 into a lily pond. 



For the commuter — A prominent 

 seedsman is authority for the story that 

 the position of landscape gardener at 

 Fairmount park, so well filled by the 

 late Ogilsby B. Paul, had been accepted 

 by a man wbotijg 't^^e ijs paore closely 

 identified with polo than with p lanta. 

 This story gained ground when our 

 brightest, though perhaps not most re- 

 sponsible, horticultural writer came out 



BERGER BROS. 



When you want the best Midsummer Flowers, order our 



Easter Lilies 

 Asters and Gladioli 



We also offer the best of everything in the market, including 



ROSES ^ CARNATIONS - ORCHIDS 

 ASSORTED WHITE FLOWERS 



We doae daily at 6 o'clock 



1225 RACE ST. PHILADELPHIA 



Mention The B«t1«w wbcn yoa write. 



in an article to the effect that you 

 could not be a landscape gardener in 

 Fairmount park unless your grandpapa 

 was a somebody, and that after all it 

 was not your fault who your grandpapa 

 might have been. 



The oflice of the commissioners of 

 Fairmount park was tried without com- 

 plete success, so to Horticultural hall 

 itself the inquh-er went. There was an 

 atmosphere of work about the office of 

 the landscape gardener in Horticultural 

 hall, Fairmount park — work and cordi- 

 «lit^ andy pardon my saying it, ceti- 

 cence. It seemed perfectly clear, how- 

 ever, that Samuel N. Baxter Tree, com- 

 missioner of the city, is chief of the 



department of horticulture pro tempore 

 and that the position of landscape gar- 

 dener has not been filled and possibly 

 may not be filled. Through the cour- 

 tesy of Mr. Baxter and of Xavier Esch- 

 mitt, under whose direction the work 

 was done, I am able to give the follow- 

 ing details. To them Mr. Eschmitt 

 would have added a full list of the 

 water lilies, had that been desired. 



The sunken garden stretching from 

 Horticultural hall to Belmont avenue, 

 a distance of over 800 feet, for many 

 years has been planted with tropical 

 and soft-wooded plants in various de- 

 signs of striking color combinations. 

 Today it is a pool of water, thirty-four 



