The Florists^ Review 



September 18, 1919. 



Dahlias 



PLACE 



A REGULAR ORDER; 



for shipment every day or 

 as often as your business 

 requires. 



You can use them for every 

 purpose : 



Deaign Work 

 Basket Work 

 for a Decoration 

 for a Wedding 



We can match almost any 

 color. There is such a 

 variety of colors that we 

 can get you almost any- 

 thing. 



The Dahlia Season is short. 

 Order a shipment today, 

 and you will continue to 

 handle them until the end 

 of the season. 



THE LEO NIESSEN CO. 



WHOLUALI FLORISTS 



12th and Race Sts., rHlLADELrHU, PA. 



BALTIMORE, MD. WASHINGTON, D. C. 



DAHLIAS 



are at their best 



during the next four weeks. You should 

 start right now to handle Dahlias. Make 

 a display of them in your window and get 

 your customers started to buy flowers. 



We aim to handle Better Dahlias each year. Our growers 

 specialize in Novelties and we offer you many varieties 

 that you cannot buy elsewhere. 



You can make money on our Dahlias, and you will have 

 no trouble to find sale for them. 



Dahlias 



PLEASE NOTE 



We carry no Dahlias in 

 stock. Orders must be 

 placed in advance. 



All orders are packed at 

 the farm and are sold in 

 the original packages. 



You can order Dahlias by 

 name or color. We advise 

 you to leave the selection 

 of varieties to us. State 

 the color you want and we 

 will send you such varie- 

 ties as are best for cut 

 flower purposes. 



A trial shipment will con- 

 vince you that your cus- 

 tomers will buy Dahlias. 



Mention The RcTlew when yoa write. 



street for thirty years, reports business 

 as being good in all lines of store work. 

 Morse & Beals have received part of 

 their Paper Whites and have two cases 

 displayed in their window with some 

 planted in dishes. E. E. R. 



PHILADEU^HIA. 



The Market. 



The second week in September was 

 poor, with a slight improvement at the 

 close. The supply of short and medium- 

 stemmed asters and of short-stemmed 

 roses is diminishing; a good thing, as 

 there has been almost no need for them. 

 The short roses were particularly hard 

 to sell. The flowers most sought were 

 good roses, and even they were in over- 

 supply. Under these conditions the 

 ■wholesalers have been discouraging the 

 dahlia shipments, believing that the mar- 

 ket would not warrant sending them into 

 town. Those that did come were, for 

 the most part, sold at low prices. The 

 improvement at the close of the week 

 and the reduced supply of asters and 

 roses made an opening for dahlias. They 

 were more in evidence on Saturday than 

 at any time during the week. A few of 

 them brought fair prices. 



There are a few carnations and Easter 

 lilies and an occasional bunch of snap- 

 dragons. Gladioli of fair quality are 

 in moderate supply. Beauties and 

 orchids are available, also Golden Glow 

 chrysanthemums. 



The Knights Templar. 



The convention of the Knights Temp- 

 lar held in this city last week was a 

 notable affair. The ball given by the 

 order in the Commercial museum on the 

 evening of September 10 was attended 

 by something like 10,000 persons. The 

 decorations were arranged by J. J. Ha- 

 bermehl's Sons. Through the courtesy 

 of John P. Habermehl, who showed the 

 work and explained its details, the fol- 

 lowing account is made possible: 



BERGER BROS. 



DAHLIAS 



A fine lot of the best varieties. We can fill your regular 



and special orders. 



GOLDEN GLOW CHRYSANTHEMUMS 

 ASTERS GLADIOLI ROSES 



1225 Race St. 



PHILADELPHIA 



Mention The Review -wrhen you write. 



CHARLES E. MEEHAN 



5 South Mole Street, 

 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention The RcTlew when you ■write. 



PLUHOSUS 

 ADUNTIM 



ul Gteeni if 

 lU IdoA. 



Why Not Start the Season Right ? 



BY ORDERING YOUR FLOWERS FROM THE 



PHILADELPHIA WHOLESALE FLORISTS' EXCHANGE 



1615 Ranstead St. Philadelphia, Pa. 



The Commercial musem is a large, 

 barn-like building, with rafters to be 

 hidden and ugly spots to be covered, a 

 building with diflSculties that tax the 

 ingenuity of the decorator to the utmost. 



The main hall, in which the dancing 

 took place, was completely covered by 

 a canopy of wild smilax, concealing the 

 rafters. In the center was a great Mal- 

 tese cross, the emblem of the order of the 

 Knights of the Temple, formed by elec- 

 tric lights. On the sides of the hall 

 was a lattice-work fence, broken at reg- 



ular intervals by wide arches and cov- 

 ered with wild smilax. This lattice work 

 was to divide the promenade from the 

 space, a balcony, reserved for those who 

 wished to watch the dancing. This bal- 

 cony contained 4,000 chairs. It was 

 separated from the dancing floor by * 

 railing. In this hall were columns dec- 

 orated with the colors of the Templars, 

 black and white, and garlanded. Two 

 large stands were erected on the floor. 

 Each accommodated forty musicians and 

 were so arranged as to screen, without 



