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The Florists^ Review 



November 30. 191«. 



Meiitlon The B«Tlew when yoa write. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



The eve of the opening of the social 

 season at Thanksgiving finds the c\it 

 flower market in a state of brisk ac- 

 tivity. Sales are increasing in numbers 

 and in size. Prices are firm; now and 

 then they advance. Conditions indi- 

 cate a good Thanksgiving business. A 

 great many chrysanthemums are being 

 marketed. A dozen or two dozen here 

 and there go at $2..50, $3 and even $4 

 per dozen; a vast quantity of them at 

 $2 per dozen to a dime apiece, witli 

 poor stock much lower and hardest of 

 all to sell. The street men will often 

 pay top prices for chrysanthemums, 

 particularly Bonnaflfon — $10 to $15 per 

 hundred, and take them as they come. 

 Yellow is most seen. Partly for that 

 reason the retailers are more eager for 

 pink and white. Greonhouse-grown 

 pompons are out of favor; as a rule 

 their quality is poor. 



Violets were good stock for the Yale- 

 Harvard football game. Several street 

 men went from here to New Haven, 

 taking the violets with them. They 

 paid the top market price, $10 per thou- 

 sand, and bought freely. Valley has 

 advanced to $8, a price unknown to the 

 present age. History tells us it was 

 $12.50 per hundred once, but that is a 

 good while ago. There- are more or- 

 chids than a wook ago, but not enough 

 more to make much difference in price, 

 as there is a good demand. 



Carnations liave shared in the im- 

 proved market. The light pinks are 

 still weaker than the bright colors. 

 Beauties have advanced; the trading 

 in Beauties is brisk. The crops of 

 other roses are rather meager, not un- 

 usual four weeks from Christmas. The 

 fancy varieties are preferred to the 

 standard sorts. Easter lilies sell slowly 

 under keen competition with the fine 

 white chrysanthemums. Double pink 

 bouvardia lias arrived and it is in high 



BERGER BR08. 



PINK, WHITE and YELLOW ROSES 



Select Carnations Single Violets 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS 



CHADWICK— pink, white, sTolden JBANNB NONIN, white 



Easter Lilies Paper Whites 



Valley; Qreens, all kinds. 



BOXWOOD, $7.50 per case 50 lbs.; 100 lbs., $14.00 



1225 RACE ST. PHILADELPHIA 



Mention Tha B«t1«w idMn jtm write 



favor, being much more durable than 

 the single. Boxwood has come. 



The Show in the Park. 



The authorities of Fairmount park, 

 who have in charge the flower shows in 

 Horticultural hall, evidently feel that 

 a really good thing is hard to beat. 

 This idea is expressed in the show now 

 staged in the east wing of Horticultural 

 hall. In conception and execution it is 

 an exact repetition of the shew staged 

 there last year and for several years 

 previously. There are but slight van- 

 ations in detail. The chrysanthemum 

 plants grown in pots with their flowers 



in natural clusters are arranged on 

 staging across each end of the wing, 

 the white and pink varieties at one 

 end, the yellows at the other. Here 

 and there a rogue has crept in, as it 

 were, to heighten the effect. There is 

 one notable improvement. It is in the 

 arrangement that, starting from the 

 border of the path at the feet of the 

 onlooker, forms a broad sheet of un- 

 broken color to a considerable height 

 in the rear. This work has been done 

 with infinite pains. The result is a 

 flower picture of quiet sadness at one 

 end, of glorious life at the other. Be- 

 tween the two pictures are palm-bor- 



