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The Florists^ Review 



OOTOBEB 5, 1916. 



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Orchids 



The Best, doz., $6.00 



Dendrobiums 



White, doz., $6.00 



THE LEO NIESSEN CO. 



WHOLISALI FLORISTS . 



12th and Race Sts., nDLADELriIIA,rA. 



BALTIMORE, MD. WASHINGTON. D. C. 



Mums 



are more plentiful. 



White - Yellow. 



$2.00-$3.00 per doz. 



The Quality of Our Beauties 



ROSES 



For quality we recommend to 

 you 



Russell - Prima Donna 



Shawyer - Sunburst • Ophelia 



Brilliant - Thora 



If you want good roses send 

 your orders to us. Our supply 

 is ample, the quality is the best 

 and our prices are reasonable. 



will satisfy the most particular 

 buyer. We have plenty of all sizes, 

 mostly medium and long. Place your 

 order for Beauties at headquarters, 

 and you have the assurance your 

 order will be filled with carefully 

 selected stock. 



VALLEY 



$6.00 per 100 



Our growers are prepared for 

 a good supply, and if you place 

 your order with us, you can de- 

 pend on its being filled. 



HIGH-GRADE DAHLIAS 



are becoming more popular every day. Put them on display and you 

 will find good sale for them. 



Dahlias are at their best now. We have a large selection of varie- 

 ties in white, pink, yellow and many autumn shades. 



PHTLADEUPHIA. 



The Market. 



October has come, bringing with it 

 the raising of the quarantine, the open- 

 ing of the schools and an increased 

 amount of business in the cut flower 

 stores. 



The dahlias have had rather a funny 

 time of it. A refreshing rain Septem- 

 ber 29 did them a lot of good; a frost 

 on the morning of October 1 did them 

 no good, but, on the other hand, it did 

 them only little harm. The receipts of 

 dahlias are probably as heavy now as 

 any time during the season; but, on 

 the other hand, they bear no compari- 

 son with receipts of last season. Good 

 judges assert that this is a much better 

 condition of things, as it makes the 

 dahlia seem more desirable and brings 

 better prices. 



Valley is coming in more heavily in 

 anticipation of weddings and coming- 

 out teas. So far the anticipation is de- 

 cidedly ahead of the demand, for there 

 is as yet no especial activity. Gen- 

 erally speaking, really fine flowers are 

 quite scarce, but it would not take a 

 great many of them to satisfy the de- 

 mand, which is largely for the medium, 

 and low-priced stock — and this stock 

 must be free from blemish. 



Chrysanthemums have arrived in suf- 

 ficient quantities to be felt. Golden 

 Glow, October Frost and a few Smith's 

 Advance are the varieties so far. Sev- 

 eral others are promised daily. Cosmos 

 is quite an important flower just now, 

 in a modest way. 



Something Worth Knowing. 



There was a dahlia and vegetable and 

 outdoor flower show at the Henry P. 

 Michell Co. store September 26 to 28. 

 Instead of giving you a list of the 

 classes and prize-winners, as is the cus- 

 tom nowadays, I am, through the cour- 

 tesy of W. F. Eadon, going to tell you 

 an important fact about the prize- 



Mentlon The Review when yon write. 



BERGER BROS 



New Crop Carnations 



FINE FLOWERS OF THE BEST VARIETIES 

 BORNE ON STEMS THAT ARE QROWINQ LONGER 



MARYLAND 

 SUNBURST 

 KILLARNEY 

 RUSSELL 



EASTER LILIES 

 GLADIOLI 

 DAHLIAS 

 ASPARAGUS 



WHEN IN TOWN WE WILL WELCOME YOU AT 



1225 RACE ST. PHILADELPHIA 



Mention The Bgrlew when jaa write. 



winning dahlias at the show. They 

 were grown by W. Robertson, gardener 

 for John W. Pepper, of Jenkintown, Pa. 

 The flowers were just as fine as you 

 could wish to see — wonderfully fine, 

 considering the severe drought. Mr. 

 Robertson said that the prize-winning 

 dahlias had never been watered by 

 hand — they had just been cultivated 

 with a hand cultivator, three or four 

 times a week. Other dahlias that had 

 been watered by hand, Mr. Robertson 

 did not consider nearly so good. Among 

 his winning varieties were Glory of 

 Lyonnaise, Helvetia, W. W. Rawson, 

 Henry F. Michell, orange-red, and 

 Delice, the great commercial pink. 



John Little, gardener for E. T. Stotes- 

 bury, Chestnut Hill, exhibited forty 

 varieties of vegetables that excelled 

 anything seen here in the past. The 

 attendance was large. 



A New Salvia. 



This is the season of the year when 

 true plant lovers rave over scarlet sage. 

 For many years it was Salvia splendens. 

 Then came Salvia Clara Bedman, some- 

 times styled Salvia Bonfire. Now we 

 have a new claimant for popular favor 

 in Salvia Fire Globe. 



It 80 chanced over at (Locust Farm 

 the other day that J. D. Eisele, vice- 

 president of Henry A. Dreer, Inc., spoke 



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