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The Florists^ Review 



March 22. 1917. 



CHRYSANTHENUN 

 CUTTINGS 



Complete List. See our 

 Classified ad. 



THE LEO NIESSEN CO. 



WHOLISALI FLORISTS 



12th and Race Sts., nDLADELPfllirA. 



BALTIMORE, MD. WASHINGTON, D. C. 



Place Your Ordar Early 

 for 



EASTER 



Our Price List is ready 

 now. 



CUT FLOWERS •'O" EASTER 



Order Your 



GREENS 



Today. 



Fancy Ferns 1000, $2.50 



Dagger Ferns 1000, 2.00 



Leucothoe 1000, 6.50 



Galax case, 8.00 



Plumosus, Smilax, 



Adiantum, Farleyense, 



Wild Smilax. 



BEAUTIES 



An ample supply, mostly specials. We call special attention to 

 the high grade of our Beaubies. Place your order early for them. 



ROSES 



If you depend on us to supply you 

 with Roses, you are getting the best the 

 market offers. Prices are reasonable. 



CARNATIONS 



You will find them the kind you are 

 looking for. Our Carnations will give 

 satisfaction to you and your customers. 



SPENCER PEAS 



On account of the big demand it would be well that you arrange 

 for your supply at once. We expect to have enough of them in all 

 colors. They will be the best we have ever had for Easter. 



MIQrPI I ANPnilC ^TOrK* other items that we can recommend to you are Snapdragon, Lilac. Pansies, Yellow and 

 niJl/liLLHnijUUJ JlUtn. ^rj^^^ Daisies. Stocks, Daffodils, Tulips, Lilies, Valley and Double Violets. 



Offer your customers a larger selection of flowers. It will help to make your Easter more profllable. 



Mention Tlw B«t1«w when yon write. 



Louis J. Keuter, of S. J. Reutor & Son, 

 Inc., of Westerly, has been appointed a 

 committee on behalf of the American 

 Rose Society to perfect arrangements 

 for an outdoor rose show at Newport, 

 July 4. 



Neil Ward, of Lonsdale, has been serv- 

 ing as a petit juror in the Superior 

 court. 



Joseph E. Koppolman, who has been in 

 the Capitol Hill hospital for a couple 

 of weeks for reatment of his eyes, has 

 returned to his home. W. H. M. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



An uiioxpcctediy strong tone prevails 

 in the cut flower market. Business is 

 active, at fair prices. There is a moder- 

 ate supply of flowers that generally sell 

 readily. Easter lilies have been some- 

 what dull. The poorer tulips are neg- 

 lected. Daffodils sell cheaply, but they 

 sell, often in thousand lots, to many 

 usually modcratf buyers. Violets are 

 cheap. Beauties liave declined in price, 

 a sure sign of an oncoming crop. Other 

 roses are holding their own in price. 

 Sweet ])eas continue fine; they realize 

 prices that are moderate considering the 

 extra gooil quality. White carnations 

 advanced under the influence of St. 

 Patrick 's day demand to $4 and $5, a 

 few even to $G per hundred. 



Really good Asi)aragus plumosus 

 sprays have been selling at a premium. 



Easter Plants. 



The following description was gath- 

 ered during a half-day spent at three 

 places devoted to raising p]aster plants 

 for use all over tlic country. The staple 

 varieties of plants, such as lilies, hydran- 

 geas and spira-as, predominated on all 



BERGER BROS. 



Offer special inducements to out-of-town 

 customers. Fine flowers, fresh daily — care- 

 ful packing, prompt service. 



Emperor Daffodils, Spencer Sweet Peas, 



Calla Lilies, Fancy Violets, Freesia, Tulips, 



Daisies, Snapdragon, Greens 



All the Leading Varieties of 



ROSES AND CARNATIONS 



ORDER YOUR EASTER LILIES HERE 



1225 RACE ST. PHIUDELPHIA 



three places. For that reason the nov- 

 elties and specialties are mentioned first 

 in the description of each, less attention 

 being given to the mainstays of the busi- 

 ness. The condition of the stock on all 

 these i)laccs, three weeks before Easter, 

 leads to the belief that the quality of 

 that of former years will he equaled, 

 and probably excelled. 



The Robert Craig Houses. 



It seemed hardly possible that the 

 large range of the Robert Craig Co., at 



Norwood, had been through a period of 

 extremely unfavorable weather condi- 

 tions, so smiling was the stock in the 

 greenhouses. The all-the-year-around 

 specialties, crotons and draca^nas, were 

 in extra fine form. The crotons showed 

 surjjrisingly bright colors on the young 

 plants, while the draca;nas made it evi- 

 dent that roping off must be rigidly en- 

 forced in order to reserve enough plants 

 for the larger sizes. 



The striking Easter novelty at Nor- 

 wood is the polyanthus primrose in 



