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The Florists' Review 



FiBBDABT 6. 1H9. 



FOR 



ST. VALERTME'S 



DAY 



Wm rmcommend to you: 



FREESIA. 



NARCISSUS 



YELLOW NARCISSUS 



SNAPDRAGON 

 Pink. White. Yelloft. 



DAISIES '^ «^' ^■ 



Yellow and White J^ 



DAFFODILS 



CALENDULAS 



PRIMULA 



myosotis 

 mignonette: ^ 

 pussy willow 

 LILAC ; 



PEAS 









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THE LEO NIESSEN CO. 



WHOLISALI FLORISTS 



12th and Race Sts., nDLADELriU, PA. 



BALTIMORE. MD. WASHINGTON, D. C. 



There is no scarcity of 



GARDENIAS 



npw and we will have a good supply of them every 

 day until the end of the season. If you have calls for 

 Gardenias let us book your order for regular shipments 

 every week. The flowers are the best, perfect and 

 long stems. 



c WHITE LILAC 



'f' You can always book an order for Lilac and depend 

 on the order being filled. We have a fresh supply 

 every morning and ''an furnish any Quantity on short 

 notice. You should use more of it and recommend 

 Lilap to your customers. 



Rooted 



Carnation 



Cuttings 



Ready for immediate 

 delivery in quantity. 



C. W. Ward 

 Matchless 

 Alice 

 Belle Washburn 



$35.00 per 1000 



All cuttings are guaran- 

 teed well rooted and 

 healthy stock. 



lieatlon The BeTlcw when 70a write. 



from the service. He is at work put- 

 ting the bouses that hare been idle 

 since he left in condition for service. 



Charles Tritchler plana to specialize 

 on ferns in the future. He will grow a 

 general line of bedding plants for the 

 present, as well. He is also working up 

 a fine stock of ornamental evergreens. 



F. B. 



PHII.ADEIJ>HIA. 



The Market. 



The market is easier. That is the 

 way the traders describe the decline in 

 prices that was necessary to sell the 

 flowers. It was not much of a decline, 

 two points each on carnations, Bomans, 

 freesia and Paper White narcissi and 

 a little less anxiety to secure the ex- 

 pensive grades of roses. It was not ap- 

 parent at the beginning of the week 

 and it was hardly noticeable at the close 

 of the week, but in the middle of the 

 week it could be seen readily. The 

 traders summed it up by saying that 

 there were more flowers and less busi- 

 ness, adding that a change from the 

 favorable weather that we have been 

 enjoying would cut down the supply of 

 flowers and liven things up. Experts 

 on the market assert that the thing to 

 do is to watch the supply. That is the 

 important part. The demand is always 

 there. (N. B. I give this statement as 

 I got it and do not fully indorse it.) 



The supply of carnations has been 

 heavier, also that of sweet peas and of 

 bulbous flowers. The latter have been 

 reinforced by daffodils, a few French 

 Trumpets and Golden Spurs. Boses are 

 not more plentiful. The heavy crop of 

 cattleyas is passing. Easter lilies con- 

 tinue scarce, high in price and with 

 something to be desired in the quality 

 of many of them. Valley is poor. There 

 is a steady supply of fine lilac. This 

 market seems to prefer fancy single vio- 

 lets to double violets in the ratio of 

 two to one. All the Asparagus plumosus 



BERGER BROS. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



EARLY SPRING FLOWERS 



Fancy Single Violets, Sweet Peas, Daisies, Paper White Narcissus, 

 Freesia, Choice Carnations, Lilies and Callas. 



PLEASE ORDER EARLY. 



1225 Race St. PHILADELPHIA 



Mentton The B«t1«w when yon writ*. 



sprays, both southern and local, that 

 come to market find ready sale. 



The Florists' Club. 



The notice given out last week in this 

 column about the club members dining 

 together at the Adelphia before the 

 meeting February 4 was an error, yet 

 it came from headquarters. 



Max Schling, of New York, was the 

 attraction of the evening at the club 

 meeting, with a talk and demonstration 

 on color combinations in the arrange- 

 ment of flowers that proved an attrac- 

 tion to the members and their friends 

 who gathered in the roof garden of the 

 hotel. 



Mr, Schling said he had spent $42,000 

 on advertising in one year. He believes 

 in the F. T. D. 



Edward Reid put up six vases of won- 

 derful orchid sweet peas for J. Howard 

 Thompson, of Kennett. 8. S. Pennock 

 Co. displayed a fine vase of Freesia 

 Purity. 



The Girls Have Come. 



The girls have come so quietly that 

 there has been little comment on their 

 arrival, yet what startling strides they 

 have made, when one compares the 

 present with a year ago! Then they 



LILAC, PEAS, PANSIES 

 Unexcelled Freesia 



AND ALL NOVELTIES 



Philadelphia Cut Flower Co. 



1517 Sansom Street, PhiladelphJr 

 W« close at 5 p. m. 



were here and there; today they are 

 everywhere. In the offices, at the tele- 

 phones, behind the counters, in the ware- 

 houses, in the commission houses, in the 

 factories, in the greenhouses, in the pack- 

 ing rooms, in the shipping rooms, in the 

 sorting rooms, at the potting benches, 

 on the delivery cars. There is not one 

 single department of our business where 

 girls have not made their appearance 

 as workers, and, in most cases, they are 

 doing well, so well, in fact, that it seems 

 more than likely that they will hold 

 their own even after the men have come 

 back from ' ' over there. ' ' 



Hose. 



Some years ago J. A. Peterson, of Cin- 

 cinnati, came out to talk begonias. When 

 he had finished, he looked over the place 

 and, while doing so, asked why 50-foot 

 sections of hose were used. He said that 



