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The Florists' Review 



January 15,. 1920. 



DEvery day in the year we 

 can supply you with good 

 ferns. There is quite a sav- 

 ing when you buy good ferns, 

 and our price is less than 

 what you have to pay else- 

 where. 



FANCY FERNS 



Per 1000. $3.50 



DAGGER FERNS 



Per 1000. $3.00 



GREEN LEUCOTHOES 



Extra long, per 1000, $7.50 



GALAX, Green and Bronze 



Per case. $12.50 



MEXICAN IVV 



Per 1000. $7.50 



Wild Smilax - Boxwood 



Hemlock - Laurel 



Plumosus - Adiantum 



String Smilax 



THE LEO MESSEH CO. 



WHOLISALI FLORISTS 



12th and Race Sts., mLADELFllIA, PA. 



BALTIMORE, MD. WASHINGTON. D. C. 



LILAC ^z-s" f« »°°^ LILAC 



The supply is increasing. This is a good item, 

 particularly at a time like this, when stock in gen- 

 eral is scarce. 



ORCHIDS 



This is the first time in months that the market 

 offers a sufficient supply of Orchids. The price is lower 

 than it has been for some time. One of our growers has 

 a splendid crop of good flowers, and the supply will con- 

 tinue for several weeks. 



Encourage the sale of Orchids at a time like this. 

 You can sell them at a price that will seeui reasonable 

 to the public compared with the prices in other lines. 



Rooted 



Carnation 



Cuttmgs 



C. W. Ward 



Theo 



Alice 



Beacon 



Matchless 



White Perfection 



Belle Washburn 



$ 6.00 per 100 

 50.00 per 1000 



PINK BENORA 



A very fine light pink. A 

 free bloomer, good flowers. 

 A variety that we can safely 

 recommend. 



$100,00 per 1000 



Mention The Review when you write. 



phia; Stephen Green, with H. Bnyers- 

 dorfer & Co., Philadelphia, and Louia 

 Hanfling, of Russin & Hanfliug, New 

 York. 



Various Notes. 



Tliursday, .January 15, there will be 

 a meeting of the Federation of New 

 York State Floral Clubs at the Hampton 

 hotel and in the evening the Albany Flo- 

 rists ' Club will hold its annual banquet, 

 witli the delegates to this meeting as 

 its guests. An cnjoyal)le evening is 

 anticipated. 



All of the growers are preparing for 

 Easter, after having had a most success- 

 ful Christmas trade. 



Roses and carnations seem to be the 

 most plentiful tiowers on the market 

 and, although the prices are firm, the 

 demand seems to be greater than tlie 

 supply, which means good business for 

 cvervone. "• ^^* 



PHILADEIiPHIA. 



The Market. 



T(Mi days of .January passed without a 

 sign of tlie dullness that is apt to follow 

 th^e Christmas holi<l:i.vs. The leading 

 local buyers made a gallant effort to get 

 prices down, on the ground that a lower 

 l('V(d of values would benefit business. 

 Just for a moment a wholesaler wavered, 

 here and there, only to find that the 

 number of unsatisfied' orders was increas- 

 ing, not diminishing, even at the high 

 prices prevailing. Then the market stif- 

 fened. The week of danger for a break 

 has passed, with prices steady, even 

 ])uovant, at the close. The weather has 

 been most unfavorable for production. 

 Although there is much talk of warm 

 sunshine heli)ing matters, those best iu- 

 fornuMl think that the buds are not there 

 anil that the supply is unlikely to keep 

 ni> with the demand for some time to 

 come. 



No one who is not in close touch with 

 the market can realize how scarce flow- 

 ers were during the week. It has been 



BERGER BROS. 



VERY EARLY SPRING FLOWERS 



Valley Easter Lilies Violets 



Sweet Peas Paper Whites Daffodils 



aRNATIONS A SPECIALTY 



1225 Race St. PHILADELPHIA 



Roses 

 Carnations 



Callas 

 Sweet Peas 



CHARLES E. MEEHAN 



5 South Mole Street, 

 PHILADELPHIA. PA. 



riUHOsus 



Struct and Bondiet 



ADIANTUM 



and Green 

 of all kinds 



extremely difficult to fill orders. Partial 

 filling and refusing have become dis- 

 tressingly frequent occurrences. The 

 amount of business that has been lost 

 through lack of stock is appalling. 



Orchids are more plentiful than they 

 have been this season. Tlie ])rice has 

 fallen to figures that enable more buy- 

 ers to use them. White' flowers are so 

 much more plentiful than colored that 

 thoy are quite generally used for display 

 even at this cold season. White carna- 

 tions, daisies, callas and Paper White 

 narcissi are seen in many show windows 

 and show cases. Early bulbous flowers 

 are slowly making their appearance. It 

 is l)ope<l that this week will see more 

 stock. 



Oil for Fuel. 



The .January meeting of the Phila- 

 delpliia Florists' Club brought out the 

 fact that oil can bo successfully burned 

 for fuel under any kind of beiler by 



LILAC 



Peas, Stevia, Roses, 

 Carnations 

 Snapdragons 

 Philadelphia Cut Flower Co. 



Wholesale florists 



1S17 Sansom St. PhUadelphia, Pa. 



GEORGE AEUGLE, Proprietor. 



means of a special burner. It also 

 brought out the fact that oil is much 

 more difficult to obtain today than coal. 

 The supply of oil is said to come largely 

 from Mexico and its use in the navy 



