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The Florists^ Review 



Mat 29, 1918. 



JUNE 



is the month for 



Commencements 

 and Weddings 



and we recommend to you 



Tine Large Cattleyas 

 White Spray Orchids 



The better grades of 



ROSES 



such varieties as : 



Russell - Columbia 

 .Hadley - Ophelia 

 Sunburst - Shawyer 



The first two weeks in June 

 are usually busy weeks and 

 it should be worth something 

 to you to know a good source 

 of supply. 



THE LEO NIESSEN CO. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



12th and Race Sts., PillLADELrilU, PA. 



BALTIMORE. MD. WASHINGTON, D. C. 



PEONIES 



White, Lififht Pink and Rose Pink 



The Local Peonies will be in full crop the early 

 part of June and we expect to be able to ship good 

 Peonies during the entire month. 



There is almost no limit to our supply and you 

 should get our quotations before placing a large 

 order. 



Peonies will be one of the best items in cut 

 flowers, and you should use them whenever possible. 



We can furnish fully developed flowers for 

 immediate use, or tight buds for stock. 



Seasonable 

 Stock 



that we recommend 

 to you: 



Large Gladioli 



Feverfew 



Delphinium 



Candytuft 



Snapdragon 



Cornflowers 



Double Stock 



Daisies 



There will be plenty of good 

 stock with us for the balance 

 of the season. 



Mriirinn The Kevlpw when Toii write. 



tory at the Soldiers' Home in Day-ton. 

 There is a splendid collection of palms, 

 ferns and various foreign and domestic 

 decorative plants here. A banana tree on 

 which hangs the ripe fruit is an inter- 

 esting feature. The grounds also are 

 beautiful. The entire place is looked 

 after by the veterans. E. E. T. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



Peonies have come. The wholesalers 

 welcomed them with a sigh of relief, for 

 now the Memorial day crop is assured. 

 That means not only that peonies will 

 be here when they are most needed, but 

 also that they will not be likely to over- 

 load the market in June. Peonies have 

 come! It is the event of the week. 

 The frequent tremendous drenchings 

 followed by the warm sunshine have fin- 

 ished them well. They are excellent. 

 Credit must also be given to the vari- 

 eties grown for market. They are a vast 

 improvement over the assortment offered 

 a few years ago. They are selling well 

 at good prices. There is every indica- 

 tion that the market will continue 

 strong until May 28. After that it will 

 depend on the local demand and on the 

 weather. The out-of-town demand for 

 peonies, and from the so-called battle 

 towns up the state, is strong. Prices 

 range from $6 to $12 per hundred. 



Carnations are declining a litile in 

 price with the waning of the regular 

 cut flower season, despite the approach 

 of Memorial day. Sweet peas are of less 

 and less account day by day. The in- 

 door stock is not good enough in most 

 cases; it does not ship well. The peas 

 grown outdoors in frames do not arrive 

 in suflScient numbers to make much of 

 a market. Roses are good and plenti- 

 ful. The cool spring has done a Jot to 

 help keep the roses in condition. They 

 have sold well at fair prices. 



The general tone of the market has 

 been good all through the week. We 



BERGER BROS. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



T^ f-i ^^ mj 1 C* C! THE FINEST VARIETIES 

 t^ JPj SJ A^ 1 Fj tj IN PINK, WHITE AND RED 



Roses, Carnations, Sweet Peas 

 All Seasonable Flowers 



1225 Race St. 



PHILADELPHIA 



have now passed the dangerous period 

 and are reasonably certain that there 

 will be no slump this month, with Me- 

 morial day close at hand. Brisk trading 

 for the closing week is likely. 



The Smoker. 



The last Florists' Club meeting of tlie 

 present season will be held at the Hotel 

 Adelphia, Tuesday evening, June 3, at 

 8 p. m. Ladies are invited. There 

 will be a vaudeville entertainment and 

 there will be refreshments, besides the 

 regular program and the fumigating. 

 Better come and bring your sister, your 

 cousin, your aunt or your best. Thej 

 will enjoy it. Tickets, $2 each, must 

 be engaged beforehand from Hugo Nies- 

 sen, 120 Race street, Philadelphia. 



The Price of Geraniums. 



The geranium has been recognized as 

 our standard bedding plant for many 

 years and is still so. Neither the rose 

 nor the canna (shall I say canna lily, 

 Mr. Pyle?) has been able to displace it 

 in popular favor. The standard price 

 of geraniums for many, many years 

 was $7 per hundred, wholesale. A few 

 daring growers with fine stock obtained 

 $8 per hundred, while the weak-kneed 

 brethren who had stock to match were 

 content with $6 per hundred. So firmly 

 was the price of $7 per hundred stand- 



ardized that it was considered as im- 

 movable as the laws of the Medes and 

 the Persians. Duncan Macaw achieved 

 in an instant a reputation for sagacity 

 when he said that he did not see any 

 profit in geraniums at $7 per hundred. 

 The fixed retail price was then $1.20 per 

 dozen, $10 per hundred. .John Westcott 

 highly disapproved of this retail price 

 as soon as he went strongly into retail- 

 ing geraniums. He offered fine varieties 

 of geraniums in 4-inch, with a trowel 

 (which was often returned) at 15 cents 

 each. 



Now in a few short weeks all this is 

 changed and geraniums in 4-inch pots 

 at $7 per hundred are a thing of the 

 past, let us hope, never to return. The 

 change was rumored when small gera- 

 niums from the cutting bench and from 

 21/t-inch pots got scarce in the late win- 

 ter and early spring months. At Easter 

 4-inch geraniums in flower brought $15 

 per hundred wholesale readily. It was 

 then predicted that they would not go 

 below $12 per hundred in May. This 

 prediction was wrong. Some lots sold 

 at $100 per thousand, some at $120 per 

 thousand; more sold at $16, at $18 and at 

 $20 per hundred. It was amazing. No- 

 body seemed to know exactly how it 

 happened; it came so quickly. The prob- 

 able explanation is that the closing of 



