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The Florists^ Review 



NOTBMBEB 28. 1918. 



Cypripediums 



We have plenty of 

 them now. 



THE LEO MSSEN CO. 



WHOLISALI FLORISTS 



12th and Race Sts., PinLADELrinA, PA. 



BALTIMORE, MD. WASHINGTON. D. C. 



Catdeyas 



You can always sret 

 them here. 



Place your order for 



GREENS FOR THE HOUDAYS 



now and we will make shipment when you are ready. The supply of Boxwood 

 and Lycopodium is limited. Make sure of your requirements .and order today. 



BOXWOOD SPRAYS 



$18.00 per 100 lbs. 

 Order your Boxwood now. You will pay more if you 

 wait until later. 



NEW BRONZE AND GREEN GALAX 



$10.00 per case. 



GREEN LEUCOTHOES 



Extra long @ $7.50 per 1000. 



MEXICAN IVY 



$7.50 per 1000. 



LYCOPODIUM 



$15.00 per 100 lbs. 

 Cleaned and bunched. The best we have ever handled, 



CUT HEMLOCK 



$2.50 per bundle. 



WILD SMILAX 



Per case, $6.00 



SPHAGNUM MOSS 



Large bales, $3.00 each. 



M«iitlon The Review whan ronwrite. 



to arrange for the big Victory meeting 

 and dinner of the St. Louis florists, 

 which will be held at one of the leading 

 hotels early next month. 



The J. F. Ammann Co., of Edwards- 

 viUe, is sending to this market Colum- 

 bia and Bussell roses of exceptional 

 quality, also an excellent cut of carna- 

 tions. J. J. B. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



The market is tightening. There is 

 less stock, there are more orders and 

 higher prices. The wholesalers do not 

 want to lay stress on the fact that 

 prices are higher. They do not want to 

 discourage business. But the fact re- 

 mains that prices must advance or there 

 will be no stock. 



Chrysanthemums will hold out until 

 Thanksgiving; that part is settled. 

 There will be fewer of them, no doubt, 

 but there will be some of the fine, late 

 sorts that make a strong ending to the 

 season, including Bonnaflfon, the Chad- 

 wicks, Maud Dean, Seidewitz, Jeanne 

 Nonin and a few others. The quantity 

 has been smaller the last season, prices 

 have been higher and many more could 

 have been sold. Good judges say that 

 the market undoubtedly would have 

 taken the quantity of chrysanthemums 

 grown last year at this year's better 

 prices. 



Carnations are looking up as a real 

 factor in the market. They are improv- 

 ing and they are going higher. Roses 

 are on the back track. There are not 

 so many of them and they, too, are 

 advancing, Violets are of importance 

 as Thanksgiving approaches. Some 

 houses handle only extremely fine single 

 ones; others depend chiefly on the 

 doubles. The former use violets locally 

 or for nearby points; the latter use vio- 

 lets in long-distance shipping. 



A few Paper Whites and some stevia 

 have appeared. Greens are ended. 



BERGER BROS. 



BONNAFFONS 

 POMPONS 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



CHADWICKS 

 CARNATIONS 



SEIDEWITZ 

 VIOLETS 



BOXWOOD SPRAYS 



1225 Race St. 



PHILADELPHIA 



MentlOD Tb* BeTl«w wfc«« you wrtf. 



The Florists' Club. 



There are some things that may not 

 be mentioned. There are some things 

 that may not be written; at least, so 

 the minor papers believe. But I firmly 

 believe that good comes of talking and 

 writing plainly of the things that are 

 of interest to us all. I believe this just 

 as firmly as I do that where there is 

 mystery in business there is apt to be 

 crookedness. I have often been criti- 

 cised for discussing the Florists* Club 

 matters, on the ground that private 

 matters should not be made public. 

 This seems to me most unjust. The 

 Florists' Club aims at the betterment 

 of our profession and is open to every 

 one of us whose legs are not black. We 

 ought, one and all, to do everything in 

 our power to make the club as good as 

 it can be made here on earth. If we 

 do not talk about it, it might as well be 

 in heaven for all the good it will do 

 here. This by way of preamble. 



There is a queer condition existing in 

 the Florists' Club today. The club has 

 a president who will not preside. Such 

 a thing has never occurred before in the 

 history of the organization. It probably 

 never will occur again. It is considered 

 a great honor to be elected president of 

 the Florists' Club. Every florist would 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS 



CARNATIONS - ROSES - POMPONS 



and all •casonablc flowers. 



Philadelphia Cut Flower Co. 



1517 Sansom Street, Philadelphia 

 We dose at 5 p. m. 



enjoy this distinction; few of us attain 

 it. The first president of the club was 

 the foremost man in the profession and 

 the most popular. Then came the next 

 and the next in order as representatives 

 of the profession. After a while there 

 was no longer unanimity of opinion aa 

 to who should be president. Some 

 thought one, some another. There were 

 rival candidates. Presently the great 

 business houses took a hand in the selec- 

 tion. This caused friendly rivalry. 

 The October election was somewhat in 

 the nature of a canvass. The friend of 

 one great house, a man of note, was 

 chosen president; the friend of another 

 great house, a younger man, but one of 

 scarcely less note, was chosen vice- 

 president; when, to the horror of every- 

 one, the president declined to serve. 

 This placed his friends in a position of 

 unusual embarrassment. They could 

 not decently impeach him. What could 



