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The Rorists' Rcvtcw 



OCTOBBR 9, 1910. 



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GOOD ROSES 



will be a strong factor 

 with us this season. 



Russell 

 Premier 

 Columbia 

 Prima Donija 

 Shawyer 

 Stotesbury 

 Maryland 

 Killarney 

 Hadley 



Donald McDonald 

 Sunburst 

 Ophelia 

 Ward 



Double and Single 

 White Killarney 

 V. Brunner 



Depend on us for Good 

 Roses. All varieties are 

 improving in quality. 



THE LEO NIESSEN CO. 



WHOLISALI FLORISTS - 



12th and Race Sts., PIDUDELrillA, PA. 



BALTIMORE, MD. WASHINGTON, D. C. 



The Quality of Our Dahlias 



Is getting: better and the supply larger 



You can handle Dahlias successfully and they 

 are money-makers if you will get your supply 

 from us. 



We advise placing a regular order for shipment 

 as often as you require. 



The varieties that we handle are the best. We 

 handle the entire cut of the Peacock Dahlia 

 Farms— the largest growers of Dahlias in the 

 country. 



WHEN YOU WANT GOOD DAHLIAS 

 TRY ONE OF OUR SHIPMENTS 



CHRYSANTHE- 

 MOMS 



Yellow- White-Pink 

 $3.00 to S4.00 



PER DOZEN 



The cut is increasing. You 

 can depend on having your 

 orders filled. 



CAHLEYAS 



They are more plentiful and 



the price is more reasonable. 



We can furnish them in large 



quantities. Let us have your 



orders. 



We will bill them to you at 



the lowest market price. 



OUR BEAUTIES 



are better than usual at this 

 early time of the season. If 

 you need Beauties let us 

 supply you. 



Mention The Rerlew when jon write. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



There was a typical early fall market 

 last week, September 29 to October 4. 

 Some good blooms of choice varieties 

 brought prices that were talked about, 

 while ordinary flowers were jobbed off 

 at prices too low to mention in polite 

 society. Dahlias, to begin with, were 

 in popular favor, as may be seen from 

 the fact that certain varieties, well 

 grown and, above all, well packed at the 

 farm on orders, readily brought $6 to 

 $8 per hundred. This plan of packing 

 dahlias at the farm to fill orders only 

 is increasing in popularity. It avoids 

 waste and steadies the market. The 

 other side of the picture is shown by a 

 friend who proudly displayed a bunch 

 of twelve quite fair roses purchased on 

 the street for a dime, with the question, 

 "How can they' be grown at that 

 price?" a question hard to answer. Yet 

 there are lots of such sales of roses and 

 dahlias and cosmos and other flowers, 

 mostly of low degree, and quite likely 

 there always will be such sales in times 

 of overproduction. 



Take it all in all, the market war- 

 rants the belief that we are going to 

 have a good season. It is warm, quite 

 warm; there are lots of flowers and 

 there is no especial demand. Yet the 

 transactions total up to pretty good fig- 

 ures and there is healthy activity in the 

 trade of each day. 



The two most noticeable features, 

 outside of the brisk business in dahlias, 

 are the increase in the chrysanthemums 

 and the drop in orchids. 



There are a half dozen varieties of 

 early chrysanthemums to be had — 

 Golden Glow, white and yellow Smith 's 

 Advance, Unaka, Early Rose and Early 

 Snow. All are good, early sorts, popu- 

 lar for the October weddings. Cattleya 

 labiata has declined a quarter in price 

 under the influence of much heavier re- 



CHARLES E. MEEHAN 



5 South Mole Street, 

 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention The ReTlew when you write. 



PLUNOSUS 

 ADIANTDH 



and Greens of 

 &H kinds. 



ceipts. Tliere are other orchids now — 

 oncidiums, dendrobiums and a few 

 vandas, just enough to give variety. 



Carnations are steadily improving in 

 all the qualities that go to make up a 

 good flower. Snapdragons, too, are get- 

 ting finer, but it is much too warm for 

 violets. They arrived on time, only to 

 curl up with the heat. There are no 

 Easter lilies. Good roses sell moderately 

 well at times. In the ordinary grades 

 white, being least grown, is most sought. 



The summer leaders, asters and 

 gladioli, are to be had, but they are no 

 longer to be depended upon. They are 

 apt to be poor when obtainable and 

 they are not always obtainable. 



An Entirely New Idea. 



We are all familiar with the black 

 gum that has superseded paint and 

 putty for making tight the greenhouse 

 roof. Put on with a hand force pump. 



generally styled a gun, it has revolu- 

 tionized this form of greenhouse work. 

 I am indebted to Mark Patton Mills 

 for an original method of applying this 

 gum which has successfully stood the 

 test of practical application at the Wil- 

 liam K. Harris range of glass. 



It seems that one day there were eight 

 or ten men putting this gum down the 

 sashbars when Mr. Mills called a coun- 

 cil of war. He complained that the 

 work was too slow; it was too costly. 

 What was to be done! Finally the fol- 

 lowing plan was evolved and put into 

 operation: A large bucket was secured 

 and put on a trestle of convenient 

 height, say, three feet from the ground. 

 A hole of perhaps a half inch in diam- 

 eter was bored in the bottom of the 

 bucket. This hole was plugged by a 

 stick, to which a washer was attached 

 to prevent leakage. The bucket was 

 then filled with four-fifths of gum and 



