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The Florists^ Review 



August 16, 1917. 



FIELD-GROWN 



CARNATION 

 PLANTS 



C. W. Ward 



Alice 



Siegwart 



Miss Theo 



R. P. Enchantress 



L, P. Enchantress 



Supreme 



Alma Ward 



Matchless 



White Enchantress 



White Wonder 



White Perfection 



Belle Washburn 



Champion 



Beacon 



Victory 



Send for complete list and prices. 

 Satisfaction guaranteed with all 

 plants shipped out. 



THE LEO MESSER CO. 



WHOLISALI FLORISTS 



12th and Race Sts., nnUDELrilIA,rA. 



BALTIMORE. MD. WASHINGTON, D. C. 



ASTERS 



The Best, $2.50-$3.00 per 100 

 Good Stock, 2.00 per 100 



For Design work, 1.00 per 100 



The midseason crop is coming in very strong 

 now. Better flowers and better varieties. Plenty 

 of Astermums and the Sample varieties. 



Dagger Ferns 



Bronze Galax 



NEW CROP 



BEAUTIES 



$3.00 dozen, the best 

 2.50 dozen, 30-inch 



EASTER LILIES 



$8.00 per 100 



RUBRUM 



♦iii 



$6.00 per 100 



1000. 



.$1.50 1000. $1.50 



GLADIOLI 



$3.00 and $4.00 per 100 



Panama, Augusta, Amer- 

 ica, Francis King and 

 many other new introduc- 

 tions. 



Mention The R«Tlew when yon writs. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



The cut flower market is weak and 

 irregular. There is no fault to find 

 with the supply. There are plenty of 

 good summer flowers, but there is not 

 enough business to care for them. 

 Gladioli are now extremely plentiful. 

 The new crop is fine. The last of the 

 old crop is poor; the heat caught them, 

 with disastrous results. There is also 

 an excellent supply of asters. The best 

 bring fair prices. The poor asters are 

 thoroughly unsatisfactory to grower 

 and wholesaler alike. Easter lilies 

 have dropped back in sympathy with the 

 general market. Only orchids and 

 valley are scarce and high in price. 

 The Japanese hydrangea is in season. 

 White roses are not equal to the de- 

 mand at times. Other roses are plenti- 

 ful and cheap. Compared with the first 

 half of last August, the wholesalers say 

 that the volume of business is as great 

 but the average prices are much lower, 

 as so many more flowers are offered now 

 than there were a year ago. 



Greenhouse Building. 



So much has been said about the 

 private places that would not operate 

 greenhouses next winter on account of 

 the unsettled labor and coal conditions, 

 that it is refreshing to receive the fol- 

 lowing list of new contracts from the 

 Philadelphia office of the King Con- 

 struction Co., through the courtesy of 

 William J. Muth: 



Erection of curved-eave greenhouse, 18x50, for 

 Dr. Archibald G. Tliorason, Ardmore, Pa. 



Erection of curved-eave lean-to, 12x34, for 

 Watson F. Fuqua, Jenkintown, Pa. 



Erection of range for George C. Thomas, Jr., 

 Chestnut Hill, Pa., consisting of one curved- 

 eave greenhouse, 25x84, divided into three com- 

 partments; one house 25x59, divided into two 

 compartments; one propagating house 11x17 and 

 service building 25x26. Briclt walls will be 

 used throughout in this construction, panel 

 vents being worked in the walls for bottom ven- 

 tilation. All benches will be of strictly sanitary 

 type, having galvanized pipe frames with tile 

 bottoms and slate sides. 



Erection of curved-eave house 18x58, divided 



BERGER BROS. 



OFFER PLENTY OF GOOD SUMMER FLOWERS 



GLADIOLI ASTERS 

 EASTER LILIES 



EVERYTHING IN CUT FLOWERS 



Visitors who are passing through Philadelphia 

 on their way to or from the New York Conven- 

 tion are invited to call at our store. It will give 

 us pleasure to render any service in our power. 



1225 RACE ST. PHILADELPHIA 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



into two compartments, for Eugene Du Pont, of 

 Greenville, Del. 



Erection of iron-frame house 24x34, for C. C. 

 Harrison, Jr., Villa Nova, Pa. 



Materials for house 21x100, for the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, at Beltsville, 

 Md. 



Materials for house of semi-iron-frame con- 

 struction, 21x150, for R. Jamison & Sons, Ger- 

 mantown. Pa. 



Materials for house 18x25, for Robert D. 

 Weaver, Washington, D. C. 



Doings at Dreer's. 



The description of what is going on 

 at a thoroughly equipped range like that 

 of the Eiverton one of Henry A. Dreer, 

 Inc., is necessarily confined to broad 

 lines. There is so much of interest that 

 detail is out of the question. Speaking 



broadly, then, the kentias will meet the 

 market requirements for the coming 

 season. They are a magnificent lot in all 

 the sizes. The kentia ranges are a 

 pleasure to see. Evidently the buyers 

 are ordering earlier than usual. Entire 

 beds of kentias in many of the houses 

 are reserved for delivery early in Sep- 

 tember. The stock that remains still is 

 ample. Cocos Weddelliana is for the 

 present confined to the small sizes. The 

 handsome specimens have been swept 

 so closely that no more will be available 

 now. This dainty palm is beautifully 

 grown here. There is a handsome block 

 of Asplenium Nidus-avis. These cele- 



