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The Florists^ Review 



FUBUABT 27, 1919. 



NOVELTIES 



and some of our 



SPECIALTIES 



Acacia Pubescens 



$2.50 per bunch. 



This is something very 

 choice in yellow. 



White Lilac 



$1.60 per bunch. 



At our price you can use 

 Lilac for every purpose. 



Gardenias 



$3.00 to $5.00 per dozen. 



They are all perfect flow- 

 ers and are always abso- 

 lutely fresh. 



Snapdragon 



$2.00 per dozen. 



Several shades of pink, 

 bronze, yellow and white. 



THE LEO NIESSER CO. 



WHOLESALI FLORISTS 



12th and Race Sts., PIDLADELrilU, PA. 



BALTIMORE. MD. WASHINGTON. D. C. 



CARNATIONS 



We have had most satisfactory 

 results with our out-of-town ship- 

 ments. If you are not quite satis- 

 fied with your present source of 

 supply, why not let us send you a 

 sample shipment? You will not 

 only find that the quality of our 

 Carnations is quite up to the 

 standard, but our prices will also 

 impress you favorably. 



GREEN DYE 



for 



St. Patrick's Day 



75c per package 



The Dye we offer this 

 year is imported and for 

 that reason we will abso- 

 lutely guarantee every 

 package. If you follow 

 our instructions, Carna- 

 tions will have a good 

 color within an hour. You 

 cannot be without Green 

 Carnations for 



St. Patrick's Day 



So place your order at 

 once. 



Mpntton The ReTlew when you write. 



Mrs. Blanche Webber, of the Eoches- 

 ter Floral Co., is leaving this employ- 

 ment and will take a trip to Hornell, 

 N. Y., and New York city. 



Excellent counter trade is reported at 

 the retail store of James Vick's Sons, 

 Stone street. Early spring orders con- 

 tinue to arrive daily. They say the out- 

 look for the coming season is encourag- 

 ing. W. H. Dildine, president of this 

 firm, is improved in health, but has not 

 returned to the city as yet. 



Salter Bros, had a Saturday special 

 sale of bulbous stock February 22. 

 Large vases of forsythia in full bloom 

 are an attraction here. 



The Hart & Vick seed store held a 

 formal opening February 22. Each vis- 

 itor at the store received a 25-cent pack- 

 age of aster seed gratis. 



The death of Abraham H. Cushman is 

 noted in the*obituary column of this 

 issue. H. J. H. 



PHILADEU^HIA. 



The Market. 



Every daffodil grower decided to 

 bring in a crop for St. Valentine's day. 

 As this was not a difficult task, every 

 grower succeeded. The result has been 

 most surprising. The market, which was 

 well supplied last week, has been bare 

 this week. Daffodils were hard to ob- 

 tain, just at the height of their season. 

 The ruling price of daffodils for St. 

 Valentine's day was $5 per hundred; 

 some went lower, a few higher. This 

 week it is $6 to $8 per hundred, with 

 hardly any stock available. 



The market is active but irregular, 

 with a slight tendency toward lower 

 prices on the poorer grades of roses and 

 carnations. - Perhaps this tendency is 

 explained by the quality of the flowers 

 themselves. The poorer grades at the 

 beginning of the winter are apt to be 

 better than the poorer grades at the 

 close of the winter, even of such a won- 

 derfully fine winter as this one has been. 



BERGER BROS. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



Offer Good Values in SPRING FLOWERS 



Violets, Tulips, Paper Whites, Daffodils, Daisies, 

 Pussy Willow, Iris Tingitana. 



^ PLEASE ORDER EARLY. 



1225 Race St. PHILADELPHIA 



Mention Th* B«Ttow when you write. 



Violets are giving the wholesalers 

 trouble; they are good and yet they are 

 hard to sell at satisfactory prices. 

 Sweet peas, on the other hand, are much 

 more active; the receipts are large and 

 the trading is lively, at good prices. 

 Myosotis is little sought. Pansies go 

 better; so do calendulas. Calla lilies 

 bring a better average price than Easter 

 lilies just now. It is done on merit. 

 Acacia pubescens is selling well; so are 

 cattleyas. Schroederse is commencing 

 as TriansB wanes. Snapdragon is more 

 plentiful. 



Just now the fancy grades of roses 

 bring better prices, relatively, than the 

 short-stemmed grades. Of course the 

 proportion of fancies is smaller than at 

 any time during the winter. Beauties 

 are in the market; that is all that can 

 be said for them for a while. There are 

 some good Bussell and Hadley. Ophelia 

 is preferred to Sunburst at this season. 

 Killarney is coming into crop again. 



Carnations continue fine and so plenti- 

 ful that doubts are expressed as to 

 whether they can stand the pace and 

 continue flowering for the balance of 

 the season. The deep, rich colors are 

 most sought. Out-of-town orders have 

 been large. 



Lavender and White Lilac 

 Daffodils - Fancy Peas 



AMD ALL SEASONABLE FLOWERS 



Pliiladelphia Cut Flower Co. 



1517 Sansom Street, Philadelphia 

 W« do— at 5 !>. m. 



The February Meeting. 



There was an excellent attendance at 

 the February meeting of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Horticultural Society, held in 

 Griffith hall, in the Crozier building, 

 February 18. While the members and 

 their friends are ascending the stair- 

 way beside Frank L. Polites' flower 

 shop and taking their places, there will 

 be time to look at the exhibits. They 

 are not the exhibits of pre-war days, 

 but they are of decided merit. There 

 are a couple of specimens each of Cin- 

 eraria stellata and Cineraria hybrida, 

 two vases of mixed flowers, chiefly bulb- 

 ous, the exhibitor with the greater 

 variety winning over his less varied 

 competitor. Then there are amaryllis; 

 wonderful sea kale; rhubarb, unusual at 

 this season; groups of white and of sal- 

 mon pink cyclamens and some vases of 

 well groT^n carnations. The exhibitors 



