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THe Florists' Review 



Dbcbmbbb 21, 191C. 



ROOTED 



CARNATION 



CUTTINGS 



SEE OUR CLASSIFIED AD 



THE LEO RIESSEN CO. 



WHOLISALI FLORISTS 



12th and Race Sts., nOUDELriIU,rA. 



■ALTIMORE, MD. WASHINGTON, D. C. 



For GOOD 



Rooted Carnation 

 Cuttings 



Send your order to us 



Beauties in Quantity 



We can offer you now 



White 

 Lilac 



in quantity. When in the 

 market, let us supply you. 



For New Year's and the early part of January we will have plenty of good 

 Beauties of all sizes. Our Beauties at the present time are in exceptionally fine 

 condition, and the same good quality will continue for some time. 



PHILADELPHIA BEAUTIES have always had the reputation for quality, 

 and we are having the best that are coming to this market. 



ROSES 



The cut at this time is mostly of the long Roses, not so many of the shorter 

 grades. Quality is the strongest point about our Roses. Nowhere will you find 

 Roses in as large quantity as we offer you. 



Russell Prima Donna Hadley Pink and White Killarney 



Brilliant Shawyer Sunburst Ophelia Richmond 



Aaron Ward Sweetheart G. Elger 



The BEST of everything in Roses is here at the lowest market price. 



Mention The Barlew when yom write. 



Flower Pot Cover Co. This concern re- 

 ports extraordinarily good business this 

 season. 



Artificial Christmas goods evidently 

 will experience a fair demand this year, 

 due to the fact that fresh cut flowers 

 and plants are scarce. 



The wisdom of carrying liability in- 

 surance has been proved to W. J. 

 Palmer. Saturday, December 16, one 

 of Palmer's Pierce trucks collided with 

 another machine. The body and both 

 front wheels were smashed. Luckily, 

 the driver and "hopper" both escaped 

 injury. A. E. 



PHIIJ^DELPHIA. 



The Market. 



There is every indication of a white 

 Christmas. Two snow storms were ac- 

 companied by a degree of cold that 

 strikes terror to the heart of the shipper 

 of perishable plants and flowers. Ex- 

 traordinary efforts are being made to 

 get this perishable product safely to its 

 destination, with what success will be 

 known later. The usual period of dull- 

 ness that precedes Christmas and the 

 holidays has been absent. The market 

 has been active from December 14 to 

 December 20, with no surplus of stock; 

 in fact, so light has been the supply that 

 Christmas prices, or what is expected to 

 be Christmas prices, went into effect De- 

 cember 18 and 19. Carnations took a 

 sharp advance in the face of light re- 

 ceipts and cold, dark weather. Other 

 flowers shared in the advance to a lesser 

 extent. Koses advanced more in the 

 lower grades than in the higher, or 

 rather that advance was more apparent, 

 the trading in fancies being light this 

 week. The whole tone of the market is 

 to take what you can get and be glad 

 to get it, rather than the critical spirit 

 fostered by fall surpluses. 



Reviewing the market just before a 

 big holiday is rather stupid stuff, but 



BER6ER BROS. 



HOLIDAY FLOWERS 



Poinsettias Sweet Peas Violets 



Choice Pink, White and Yellow Roses 



Easter Lilies Callas Paper Whites 



Snapdragons Stevia Greens 



SHIPPING ORDERS A SPECIALTY 



1225 RACE ST. PHILADELPHIA 



Mentloa The Brlew when yoa write. 



there are a few points worth noting. 

 The heavy demand for flowering plants 

 has consumed, as far as the growers are 

 concerned, a supply of great size. The 

 effect of this great demand has been to 

 increase the number and size of the ad- 

 vance orders for cut flowers. Outside of 

 roses, also Paper Whites and stevia, Ihe 

 supply of cut flowers is below normal. 

 The trading in Christmas greens has 

 been extremely heavy. 



A Bose Garden. 



"When it became known that the 

 American Rose Society was to hold a 

 show of its own in this city next March, 

 that it would cease to be the tail to some 



other society's kite and make an ear; est 

 effort to become a power in the land, all 

 the wiseacres wisely wagged their he ids 

 and said that the show would succ ed, 

 provided the society get a rose garden. 

 Everybody enjoys plants, everybody en- 

 joys cut flowers, but everybody goes i er- 

 f ectly crazy about a rose garden. 



Now it is a pleasure to announce that 

 the first rose garden has been entered 

 for the first own show of the American 

 Rose Society, which will be held in the 

 First Regiment Armory in this city n*^^* 

 March. J. D. Eisele has promised in be- 

 half of Henry A. Dreer, Inc., tha'. ^ 

 rose garden will be planned and ■ ^^' 



