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The Florists' Review 



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JuLT 81, 1919. 



RUBRUN 

 LILIES 



$8.00 per 100 



Now is the time to 

 stock up with' 



SPHAGNUN 

 NOSS 



Large 5-bbl. Bales of 

 good clean Moss 



$3.00 each 



6 Bales for $15.00 



THE LEO NIESSEN CO. 



WHOLISALK FLOmSTS 



12th and Race Sts., PULADELPIIIA, PA. 



BALTIMORE, MD. WASHINGTON. D. C. 



You always get the Best Value where you have 

 the assurance of an ample supply. 



ASTERS 



$2.00 to $5.00 per 100 



The best of the early crop are coming in now. The supply 

 is larger and there is a big improvement in the quality. 

 We can now furnish you the best asters we have handled 

 so far this season. 



GLADIOLI 



$5.00, $6.00 and $8.00 per 100 



Good varieties, and well grown. America, Schwaben. 

 Francis King, Panama, Pink Perfection are some of the 

 better kinds you will always find here. 



EARLY CLOSIRG 



WE CLOSE 



EVERY DAY 



AT 4 P. M. 



New Green 

 Galax 



$12.50 per case. 



Fine Large 

 Bronze Galax 



$12.50 per case. 



Dagger Ferns 



$2.50 per 1000; *2.00 per 

 1000 in case lots. 



You cannot buy better Ferns 

 at a higher price. 



Mi'titlon Th» R»Tt>w wh^n yon writ*. 



P. J. Olinger has begun to cut some 

 excellent asters at his greenhouses, at 

 New Oastle, Ind. 



Mr. and Mrs. G. Adrian left for their 

 cottage, at Les Cheneaux, Mich., Mon- 

 day evening, July 28. They plan to be 

 there for two months. 



Wm. C. Schaef er has purchased Henry 

 Koester's place and plans to grow lilies 

 as a specialty. 



Among recent visitors were J. E. 

 Thomas, Circleville, O., and Walter Tap- 

 per, Falmouth, Ind. C. H. H. 



SOUTH BEND, IND. 



Ten cars carried the members of the 

 South Bend and Mishawaka Florists' 

 Association to Indian lake July 16 for 

 a picnic. Two ball games were staged 

 between the "slims" and the "fats," 

 the "slims" coming out victorious in 

 both games. A three-legged race was 

 won by Joseph Beckrich and Adam 

 Beehler. E. D. Buckels carried off the 

 honors in the 100-yard dash, and in the 

 horseshoe pitching contest he divided 

 them with Boss Kinyon. The children 's 

 race was won by John Kinyon. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



Trading was dull throughout the week, 

 with the market a little stronger at the 

 close. The better grades of flowers gen- 

 erally sold at fair prices. Poor asters, 

 mixed gladioli and short roses of the 

 Killarney family did not sell. 



Fine gladioli continue to be the fea- 

 ture of the market. They are finer than 

 in past years. Choice varieties like 

 Panama and Pendleton can be had in 

 quantity, with a reasonable certainty 

 that an order to duplicate next day will 

 be satisfactorily filled. 



Asters have been strengthened by the 

 arrival of a few so-called astermums, 

 which rather imposing name is given to 

 a selected strain carefully grown to 

 mum-like size. There are few good 



roses. New stock Premier is better this 

 week. Mrs. Eussell, from old stock, 

 Maryland and Victoria are the stand-bys 

 for everyday use. Valley has again 

 dropped out. 



Cattleya Harrisonii brings the re- 

 spectable figures of $4 to $6 a dozen, 

 while gigas and Gaskelliana bring twice 

 the last-named price. 



The Bickmore Greenhotises. 



Milton H. Bickley is considered one 

 of our real live wires today because he 

 has already carried extensive improve- 

 ments into operation — already, because 

 only a really alert person could so 

 quickly recover after discouraging war 

 conditions. Mr. Bickley is building two 

 fine King houses on his place near Wal- 

 lingford. They are 21x200 feet each. 

 They are the latest style of construc- 

 tion and are intended for young carna- 

 tion plants and spring stock. One house 

 is planted with asters and chrysanthe- 

 mums. The planting was done the mo- 

 ment the house was ready. The other 

 house is not yet built. Both houses will 

 be heated by steam. Hot water has 

 supplied the heat to the present Bick- 

 more range. 



Joseph Goetter, the manager of the 

 Bickmore greenhouses, is taking advan- 



tage of the let-up in rain to get the car- 

 nations into their winter quarters in 

 the older range. Bickmore is justly 

 famed for its carnations. The wide 

 house, 54x300, is being planted first. 

 The stock looks well. The work of 

 transplanting from the field into the 

 benches is being pushed by the entire 

 force. No new varieties are being 

 grown, dependence being placed on last 

 season's leaders, which did so well. 



The chrysanthemums are fully estab- 

 lished, staked, tied and making excellent 

 growth. As in the carnations, last sea- 

 sou's leading varieties will again be 

 found in the van. 



There are 75,000 gladioli in the fields 

 at Bickmore. It seems a good many. It 

 was not the number that interested Mr. 

 Goetter most, it was the fact that they 

 were all Holland-grown bulbs and that 

 they looked so fine. Mr. Goetter had 

 been frequently assured that gladiolus 

 bulbs grown in Holland would not do so 

 well as those grown in America, but this 

 lot is the finest that has ever bloomed 

 at Bickmore. 



There are many interesting things at 

 the Bickmore greenhouses — the lovely 

 side ventilation, the reversible bench 

 boards, the alarmingly deep manure 

 tank and, most interesting of all, the 

 large, airy, covered shed for compost, 



