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The Florists' Review 



Januabt 16, 1919. 



Greens 



Of all kinds in our own cold 

 storage rooms. 



Bronze Galax 



$12,50 per case 

 Large leaves of a good color. 



Dagger Ferns 



$3.C0 per 1000 

 Clean and of a good size. 



Green and Bronze 

 Leucothoes 



$7.50 per 1000 

 We handle only the long 

 ones, 18-in. and over. 



Wild Smilax 



$6.00 per case 



Your order can be filled at 

 any lime. 



THE LEO NIESSEN CO. 



WHOLISALK FLORISTS 



12th and Race Sts., riDLADELrHIA, fh. 



BALTIMORE, MD. WASHINGTON. D. C. 



Cut Flo\\rers 



We have in quantity and can recommend to you: 

 BEAUTIES 



The supply is not unusually large, but enough to take 

 care of the demand. Place your order in advance when- 

 ever possible and you have every assurance it will be filled. 



SNAPDRAGON 



Mostly pink, but also some white and yellow, 

 did stock, and we expect to have it in quantity. 



Splen- 



WHITE LILAC 



You can use it in connection with almost any kind of 

 flowers, and it makes a fine combination. 



PUSSY WILLOW 



35c, 50c and 75c per dozen, according to the size, but 

 all perfect stock. 



Rooted 



Carnation 



Cuttings 



Ready for immediate 

 delivery in quantity. 



C. W. Ward 

 Matchless 

 Beacon 

 Alice 



$35.00 per 1000 



All cuttings are guaran- 

 teed well rooted and 

 healthy stock. 



Mention The ReTiew when you write. 



Florists' Society was held January 13 

 at Henry Shepherd's store. C. H. H. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



The situation is slightly easier. Car- 

 nations are more plentiful and their 

 price is lower; lower by comparison, 

 only — from $(i to $10 per hundred this 

 week; $3 to $10 at this time last year. 

 Roses are much less plentiful than car- 

 nations. Their prices continue hif^h, 

 especially so on the shorter j^rades. 

 Beauties are in fair demand at good 

 prices. The crippled flowers that usually 

 appear at this season even among the 

 long-stemmed flowers do not pass muster 

 until four-fifths of their value is sacri- 

 ficed. There are more sweet peas. Some 

 of them are choice. Double violets have 

 reappeared. Valley is still coming into 

 the market. Cattleya Trianse is plenti- 

 ful. There are hardly any other or- 

 chids. Gardenias do not cut much of a 

 figure. Paper White narcissus and 

 freesia are both obtainable in fair quan- 

 tities. There are a few calendulas. 



Business is light. Out-of-town orders 

 are the mainstay of the market. The 

 larger buyers show a disposition to take 

 anything good that offers, when the 

 price is not too high. There is no sur- 

 plus except now and then in orchids and 

 violets. 



The Florists* Club. 



The publicity meeting of the Florists' 

 Club, held in the Adelphia hotel Janu- 

 ary 7, was one of the best gatherings 

 ever held under the club's auspices. 

 There were ninety-one present at the 

 dinner on the roof garden, which pre- 

 ceded the meeting, while at the meet- 

 ing itself there were over 200 assembled, 

 including two ladies. Miss Eva Fletcher 

 and her friend, Mrs. Livezey. The 

 speakers were Major P. F. O'Keefe and 

 Henry Penn, of Boston; William F. 

 Gude, of Washington; Wallace R. Pier- 



BERGER BROS. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



EARLY SPRING FLOWERS 



Paper White Narcissi, Freesias, Violets, 

 Sweet Peas, Pussy Willows 



PLEASE ORDER EARLY. 



1225 Race St. 



PHILADELPHIA 



Mention The Berlew when 70a write. 



son, of Cromwell, Conn.; John Young, of 

 New York, and our own Robert Craig, 

 Charles H. Grakelow and W. F. Therkild- 

 Hon. It was in every way a delightful 

 meeting and one that will go a long way 

 toward putting the club back into its 

 former position of leader among the 

 florists' clubs in the land. Such meet- 

 ings as this will make the growers feel 

 that it is a privilege to display their 

 novelties before the meetings. The eX' 

 hibits were: Asplenium Nidus-avis, 

 from the Joseph Heacock Co., Wyncote; 

 Carnation Belle Washburn, from the 

 Beckmore Greenhouses, of Wallingford, 

 and fine roses from the Florex Gardens, 

 of North Wales. 



The Men of Today. 



It is well known that the chairman of 

 any committee is the man who is re- 

 sponsible for the successful work of the 

 committee. So especial interest attaches 

 to the chairmen of the several commit- 

 tees of the Florists' Club appointed by 

 President E. A. Harvey. They form a 

 group of the most active men in the 

 profession, men who have the reputation 

 of doing their work well. They are: 

 Club room, Hugo Niessen; novelties, 

 Carl A. Corts; essays, J. Otto Thilow; 

 membership, Clarence U. Liggit; games, 

 George Burton. 



Lilac, Peas, Pansies 



and all Novelties 

 Philadelphia Cut Flower Co. 



1517 Sansom Street, Philadelphia 

 W« cl<M« at S p. m. 



MentloB Tl>* B«tI«w when yon writ*. 



Theodore Roosevelt. 



The death of Theodore Roosevelt has 

 been profoundly felt all over the coun- 

 try. It will recall to a number of Phila- 

 delphians a scene in the White House 

 a dozen years ago, where they went as 

 members of the American Rose Society 

 to present the President with a vase of 

 wonderful Richmond roses. It was a 

 happy occasion. Robert Craig made the 

 presentation speech. Mr. Roosevelt re- 

 sponded and then shook hands all 

 around. He said "Dee-lighted" to P. 

 J. Lynch; he said "Dee-lighted" to 

 Robert Pyle; he said "Dee-lighted" to 

 every mother's son of us, whether he 

 came from Philadelphia or from Fish- 

 kill-on-the-Hudson. 



We shall miss Mr. Roosevelt sadly. 



The Big Three. 



It is not so long since the horticultural 



