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The Florists^ Review 



Jdni 19, 1919. 



We will have 



Good Roses 



all through the summer. The 

 best for shipping during the 

 warm months of the year 

 are:— 



HADLEY 



RUSSELL 



COLUMBIA 



MARYLAND 



SHAWYER 



OPHELIA 



KAISERIN 



As a substitute for Beau- 

 ties we recommend our long 

 HADLEY. 



30 to 36-inch stems. 



TIE LEO NIESSEN CO. 



WHOLISALI FLORISTS 



12th and Race Sts., rHUDELriiU, PA. 



BALTIMORE. MD. WASHINGTON. D. C. 



We give you herewith a list of 



Seasonable Stock 



that will ship well and will reach you in good condition. 



DELPHINIUM 



$5rOO to $8.00 per 100 



Light and Dark Blue— Fine Stock. 



GLADIOLI 



$12.00 per 100 



In Different Colors 



CANDYTUFT, 35 to 50c a bunch 

 GAILARDIA per 100, $1.00 



FEVERFEW, 25 to 35c a bunch 

 CORNFLOWERS, per 100, $1.00 



COREOPSIS per 100, $1.00 



ORCHIDS 



GIGAS AND MOSSIAE. light and dark, large flowers. 



EARLY CLOSING 



COMMENCING 



JUNE 23rd 



Will close avery day 

 at 4 P. M. 



THE BEST 



DAGGER FERNS 



$2.50 per 1000 



Extra long, none better at 

 any price. 



Sphagnum Noss 



$3.00 per 5-Bbl. Bale 



The largest bale for the 

 money of fine clean Moss. 



Now is the time to put in your 

 supply for the season. Let us 

 give you our special price in 

 quantity. Every bale is bur- 

 lapped. 



Uentlon The R«Ti«>w whrn yon write. 



Paul Ude, son of Fred. W. Ude, of 

 Kirkwood, in a letter to his father 

 writes that he will be home from France 

 next month. He has been in the service 

 eighteen months. 



Miss M. S. Newman had a splendid 

 window decoration last week. Dorothy 

 Perkins and other rambler roses were 

 featured. Miss Armstrong is in charge, 

 Miss Newman having been ill the last 

 ten days. 



Pierre Schneider has bought the 

 greenhouses of J. E. Muldoon, at Kirk- 

 wood, Mo., and will move them to his 

 new place at Clayton, Mo. Other im- 

 provements will also be made at the 

 new place to supply the local market 

 with that high quality stock for which 

 Mr. Schneider is noted. 



D. I. Bushnell, president of the Mis- 

 souri Seed Dealers' Association, called 

 a meeting of the association June 12 in 

 the Chamber of Commerce. All local 

 members were present. Work on the 

 by-laws and constitution of the associa- 

 tion progressed nicely. It was decided 

 to have another meeting on the evening 

 of their departure for Chicago to at- 

 tend the American Seed Trade Associa- 

 tion 's convention, June 23. 



The members of the St. Louis Whole- 

 sale Florists' Association have decided 

 to close half a day on Saturdays, be- 

 ginning June 21. This order will be in 

 effect until September 15. 



Kalisch Bros., of Clayton, have had 

 a most successful season in outdoor 

 stock. They are cutting a fine quality 

 of Shasta daisies at present and will 

 soon be cutting from several acres of 

 gladioli. 



The Ove Gnatt Co., Inc., of La Porte, 

 Ind., has opened oflBce and sample rooms 

 in the Commercial building. J. J. 

 Beneke, the local representative, is in 

 charge. The display at the Jefferson 

 hotel last week attracted large numbers 

 of the local trade. 



Visitors last week were H. H. Putnam 

 and P. L. McKee, of the American 

 Greenhouse Mfg. Co., Pana, 111.; G. W. 



BERGER BROS. 



LAST CALL-WE HAVE 

 A FINE LOT NOW. 



PEONIES 



CARNATIONS, ROSES, SWEET PEAS, 



GLADIOLI, LARKSPUR, CANDYTUFT, 



RAMBLER SPRAYS. 



1225 Race St. PHILADELPHIA 



Grossart, W. E. Ogle and H. Emunds, 

 Belleville, 111.; Charles Johann, Collins- 

 ville. 111.; J. F. Ammann and F. Smith, 

 Edwardsville, 111., and Edwin Denker, 

 St. Charles, Mo. J. J. B. 



An inventory of the estate of John T. 

 Milliken, who died January 31, showed 

 his personal estate amounted to $7,155,- 

 139. Mr. Milliken was financial head 

 of the St. Louis Wholesale Cut Flower 

 Co., of which D. S. Geddis is manager. 

 He also owned the Mosgiel Gardens. 



PHUiADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



The change expected by the whole- 

 salers has come. There are so many 

 less flowers that business seems better. 

 The demand is probably a little lighter 

 than it was a week ago. It does not ap- 

 pear so. The lighter supply makes busi- 

 ness seem brisk. Buyers are on the 

 alert to get good flowers to fill their or- 

 ders instead of holding back to take ad- 

 vantage of any chance that comes their 

 way. 



What flowers are good today? Boses 

 are the mainstay of the market. Russell, 

 Ophelia, Maryland, Hadley, Double 

 White Killarney and a few others are 



in excellent shape, fit to send anywhere. 

 There are some orchids, a few good car- 

 nations 'and some gladioli. Of the out- 

 door flowers, delphinium is the best. 

 There are still some peonies. Candy- 

 tuft, alyssum, gaillardia and coreopsis 

 are abundant. Sweet peas have suffered 

 from heat and rain. 



The school commencements are the 

 strength of the market. They will prob- 

 ably continue to be so for some days to 

 come. There is no special change in 

 prices, but the average returns will be 

 much better than those of the week be- 

 fore. The unusual features are the end- 

 ing of the peony crop in just about one 

 week and the disappearance of the early 

 outdoor sweet peas. Both are due to 

 the heat. 



Orchids Coming Here. 



The most interesting news of the week 

 is the purchase of the entire collection 

 of orchids in the greenhouses of the late 

 C. G. Roebling, of Trenton, N. J., by 

 Mrs. Fitz-Eugene Dixon, of this city. 

 It was casually mentioned to Mrs. 

 Dixon, who was formerly Miss Wide- 

 men, that the collection was for sale. 

 Mrs. Dixon went to Trenton, saw the 

 orchids and bought them for a price 

 said to have been $30,0007" Mrs. Dixon, 

 it is said, will erect greenhouses on her 



