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The Florists^ Review 



NOVEMBEK 9, 1916. 



Boxwood 



$ 7.50 per 59-lb. crate 

 14.00 per 100 lbs. 



BookiDg orders now for de- 

 livery December 1st. 



THE LEO NIESSER CO. 



WHOLISALI PLOmSTS 



12tli and Race Sts., rinLADELrinA,rA. 



BALTIMORE. MD. WASHINGTON. D. C. 



New Bronze Galax 



Ready about November 20th. 



$7.50 per case 



Place your order now. 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS 



CARNATIONS 



They have much improved in 

 quality. More and better Car- 

 nations are coming in. We 

 guarantee our stock to be al- 

 ways fresh, regardless of the 

 price you pay for them. At 

 $3.C0 per 100 we will give you 

 a grade of stock that will com- 

 pare favorably with any offered 

 in this market. 



$1 .50-$3.00 per dozen 

 $10.00-$20.00per 100 



In yellow we will have plenty of 

 Bonnaffon, one of the best for ship- 

 ping, also many others of the best 

 commercial varieties. The best var- 

 ieties of the season will be on the 

 market and we will have plenty of 

 them for the remainder of the season. 

 You will find the best value in the 

 grades selling at $12.00 to $15.00 

 per 100. 



POlWIPrtWQ Our supply consists mostly 

 ar \Jl¥ir\Jl^iJ of the newer varieties, that 

 will find ready sale if you put them on display 

 in your store. Try a dozen bunches. 



When it comes to 



ROSES 



we can serve you better than 

 anyone else in this market. 



PRIMA DONNA-RUSSELL 



HADLEY 



SUNBURST-OPHELIA 



AARON WARD 



SHAWYER— THORA 



WHITE and PINK KILLARNEY 



BRILLIANT-MARYLAND 



FIREFLAME 



SWEETHEART 



Remember we have the best and lar- 

 gest supply of Koses in this market 

 and are in a position to give you the 

 best market value. 



Mention The Review when yog write. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



The market has broken so badly that 

 all the wholesalers feel that their best 

 efforts have been in vain. They have 

 tried every method that ingenuity could 

 suggest to dispose of the immense quan- 

 tities of flowers tliat have been placed 

 in their liands, with only moderate suc- 

 cess. The change in the weather has 

 reduced production. This leads to the 

 hope that before long supply and de- 

 mand will become more evenly bal- 

 anced; then a better market will come. 



An accurate report of the present 

 conditions is disheartening. Fine 

 weather and skillful culture have 

 brought in a vast quantity of well 

 grown chrysanthemums and ])ompons. 

 The demand has been so light that low 

 prices have been realized on most of 

 the stock — prices about one-third less 

 than value. Nothing is scarce, save 

 possibly Vanda ca-rulea and Asparagus 

 plumosus strings; neither of these 

 items amounts to much in the sum total 

 of business. Carnations have fallen in 

 price. Roses have recovered a trifle 

 under lighter receipts. Violets sell as 

 the Sabbath approaches and lag during 

 the middle of the week; quantity sales 

 to clear uj) are made at extremely low 

 figures. 



The leading chrysanthemums today 

 are Charles Rager, white; Major Bon- 

 nafl'on, yellow; Chieftain, pink. There 

 also is White Chieftain. Afaud Dean, 

 pink, is just commencing. There are 

 other good varieties, but these will s>if- 

 fice to show that the midseason varieties 

 are in their glory. T'ompons, in a jtro- 

 fusion of good sorts, are seen every- 

 where. Their price has declined in 

 sympathy with the general market. 



The Bulb Situation. 



George D. Chirk, of Henry A. Dreer, 

 Inc., is recogiii/.eil as an authority on 

 bulbs and their market in this countrv. 



BERGER BROS. 



Big Mums and Pompons 



RAGER, White 



CHIEFTAIN, Pink 



Well grown flowers of all the best 

 mid-season sorts. We oflfer good 

 value in all colors. 



BONNAFFON, Yellow 



An unusually fine assort- 

 ment of indoor-grown 

 flowers. 



Order early to get the very best. 



ROSES CARNATIONS VIOLETS 



Plenty of flowers for all. 



1225 RACE ST. PHILADELPHIA 



Mention The R«t1«w when yon write. 



So to him the question is put concern- 

 ing present conditions in this field of 

 enterprise, ^fr. Clark said: "The im- 

 portations of bulbs, particularly Dutch 

 bulbs, have been extremely heavy this 

 season. Even so the demand has out- 

 stripped the supply, making it impos- 

 sible to fill many orders in full. There 

 should be a general bulb clearing house, 

 which would enable the larger import- 

 ers to secure one from the other what 

 each could spare that another required 

 early in the season. There is an ar- 

 rangement by which this is done before 

 the season closes, but it becomes effec- 

 tive too late to be of much benefit. 

 When it became apparent, about the 



middle of September, that certain va- 

 rieties of bulbs would be in short sup- 

 ply, an eff'ort was made to secure 

 them by cable. This eff'ort was frus- 

 trated by the British censor, who, 

 fearing that the names of the bulbs 

 might be a cable code for munitions of 

 war, with a reverse meaning for send, 

 blocked the shij)ment. 



"This was especially aggravating be- 

 cause some of the ladies' garden clubs 

 decided that ]turple and lavender shades 

 of Darwin tulijjs woubl harmonize beau- 

 tifully with Delphinium Belladonna, 

 and so ordered these May tuli|>s with a 

 liberality that upset all calculations. It 

 is too bad that the sources of supply in 



