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The Rorists^ Review 



Sbftdmbbb 25, 1919. 



Dahlias 



PLACE 



A REGULAR ORDER 



for shipment every day or 

 as often as your business 

 requires. 



You can use them for every 

 purpose : 



Detign 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. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



12th and Race Sts., nDLADELPIDA, PA. 



BALTIMORE. MD. WASHINGTON, D. C. 



The DAHLIA SEASON is here 



The Flowers will be at their best during the next four 

 weeks. We do not recommend the handling of Dahlias 

 until all conditions are right. Now is the time. 



OUR BIG AIM IS 



'^BETTER DAHLIAS" 



EACH SEASON 



We aim to handle only the best varieties that have all 

 the qualifications as a Cut Flower. We specialize in 

 NOVELTIES. Many of the varieties that we handle 

 are not offered elsewhere in quantity. 



Start to handle them today. Let us send you a ship- 

 ment, and you will order them again. 



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 R^tIpw when yon writ*. 



John K. Bugowski, of Manitowoc, 

 Wis., stopped in Detroit to find a mar- 

 ket for his seeds, etc. He had a sample 

 lot of new varieties of asters, one of 

 which is nameless, and he offers a cash 

 prize for a name for it. He had beauti- 

 ful pure white shaggy asters named 

 Pure Honor, and a similar one, purple 

 in color, called Purple Honor. They 

 were the best ever seen, in the opinion 

 of several local florists. 



Wayne MacLaughlin, of John Breit- 

 meyer's Sons' Broadway store, is away 

 on his vacation. 



E. A. Fetters has the season's order 

 for the decorations for the Detroit 

 symphony orchestra, which will include 

 decorations in Chicago, St. Louis, To- 

 ronto, etc. 



Harry Breitmeyer is in the east, on 

 his vacation. H. T. 



FHILADEIiPHIA. 



The Market. 



There is a gratifying improvement in 

 market conditions despite the unseason- 

 ably warm weather. People are home. 

 A few of them are buying flowers. That 

 has led to the discovery that the mar- 

 ket is but poorly supplied. The whole- 

 salers are hustling to find stock. The 

 dahlia furnishes the most satisfactory 

 field for their efforts, barring only the 

 heat; dahlias do not keep in hot 

 weather. 



There was a day when good dahlias 

 were quoted at 50 cents to $2 per hun- 

 dred. That day has passed. You can 

 still get dahlias for from 50 cents to $2 

 per hundred, all you want of them, but 

 fine dahlias bring from $4 to $6 and 

 occasionally $8 per hundred. They sell, 

 and the poorer do not. That is the story. 

 Good varieties and culture have pro- 

 duced such fine quality that ordinary 

 Btock has no chance against this select 

 stock. Unfortunately, much more than 

 half of the dahlias coming into the mar- 

 ket are of ordinary grade. The select 



BERGER BROS. 



DAHLIAS 



The best sorts, well grown, 

 in quantity. 



CARNATIONS 



An extra large supply during the 

 coming season. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM GOLDEN GLOW 



1225 Race St. PHILADELPHIA 



Mention The BcTJew when you write. 



CHARLES E. MEEHAN 



5 South Mole Street, 

 PHILADELPHIA. PA. 



Mention The BeTlew when you write. 



PLUHOSUS 



ADIANTUN 

 ud Gkcis iI 

 ill Ididt. 



Why Not Start the Season Right ? 



BY ORDERING YOUR FLOWERS FROM THE 



PHILADELPHIA WHOLESALE FLORISTS' EXCHANGE 



1615 Ranstead St. Philadelphia. Pa. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



stock is safe. Since the middle of last 

 week it has been selling well at list 

 prices. 



Roses have been selling better. There 

 are fewer of them and there is more 

 business. Flowers that can be classed 

 as fancy, such as Beauties and long- 

 stemmed Columbia, are firmer in price, 

 with likelihood of an advance. There 

 are few really fine roses. The bulk of 

 the stock is short-stemmed. There are 

 lots of asters, but as their season ad- 



vances it becomes harder and harder to 

 get good stock. 



Gladioli are the support of the deco- 

 rator who aims to produce bold effects. 

 They are not so fine as they were two 

 months ago and do not command any- 

 thing like the prices, but they have 

 many friends and fill an important place 

 in the cut flower market. 



The October Meeting. 



The next meeting of the Florists' 



