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The Florists^ Review 



Januabt 22, 1920. 



Every day ia 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, $12.60 



MEXICAN IVY 



Per 1000. $7.50 



Wild Smilax - Boxwood 



Hemlock - Laurel 



Plumosus - Adiantum 



String Smilax 



THE LEO NIESSEN CO. 



WHOLISALI FLORISTS 



12th and Race Sts., PIDLADELrinA, FA. 



BALTIMORE. MD. WASHINGTON. D. C. 



ULACs 



.50 Per Bunch 



ULAC 



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 seem reasonable 

 to the public compared with the prices in other lines. 



Rooted 

 Carnation 

 Cuttings X 



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 yon write. 



son and he does not know whether it is 

 because his new building is attracting 

 more attention than the old one did or 

 just the natural growth of the city. 



Mrs. T. J. Noll was visiting in St. 

 Louis last week. 



T. J. Cane, of tlie Peterson Floral Co., 

 was in Pleasant Hill a few days ago. 



Miss Elizabeth Haj'den has returned 

 from Excelsior Springs, Mo. J. E, K. 



PHILADEIiPHIA. 



The Market. 



Frank M. Eoss's prediction that this 

 winter would see unexampled scarcity 

 of stock in cut flowers was fully borne 

 out by the week of January 12 to 17. 

 Flowers were liarder to obtain than 

 they were tlio week before. The 

 weather was most unfavorable. The 

 carnation crop was woefully scant. 

 Daffodils liave hardly commenced. So 

 far tlicre is only a little freosia. Roses 

 show no change from a week ago; the 

 crop is off. Violets and cattleyas are 

 in fair supply at easier prices. Sweet 

 peas give promise of coming in more 

 freely. There are just a few more 

 callas. Easter lilies have reappeared. 

 Snapdragons, mignonette and calen- 

 dulas have all improved and have sold 

 well. 



Prices rule higher than a year ago 

 at this season. They are so high as to 

 keep the ordinary buyer out of the mar- 

 ket. But with so little stock offered, 

 there is not enough for those who can 

 pay the price. 



The Carnation. 



The serious feature of the cut flower 

 market is the shortage of carnations. 

 There arc little more than half as many 

 carnation blooms coming into town as 

 there were a year ago at this season. 

 Disease caused by the wet summer is 

 the principal cause of the trouble. Some 

 growers will grow as many carnations 

 next year as they did this year; others 



BERGER BROS. 



VERY EARLY SPRING FLOWERS 



Sweet Peas Violets Valley 



Daisies Daffodils Paper Whites 



CARNATIONS - ROSES - EASTER LILIES 



1225 Race St. PHILADELPHIA 



Roses 

 Carnations 



Callas 

 Sweet Peas 



CHARLES E. MEEHAN 



5 South Mole Street, 

 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



PLUMOSUS 



Striaft ud Baacket 



ADIANTUN 



and Green 

 of all kinds 



will grow more chrysanthemums, snap- 

 dragons, sweet peas, etc., and fewer 

 carnations. It is thought by one care- 

 ful observer of the market that the car- 

 nation reached its high-water mark last 

 season. 



The Idol. 



It was a joke among the passengers 

 on a steamer liomeward bound that a 

 young man on the boat with them had 

 an i<icd. He did not worship it, but he 

 put it in front of his plate in the dining 

 saloon and gazed at it affectionately. 

 The so-called idol was a little porcelain 

 statuette of a cherub in front of a vase. 

 The young man smiled at this cherub 

 and kept the vase filled with fresh flow- 

 ers. To those about him at the table 

 the young man confessed that the 

 cherub's expression fascinated him. 

 They all admitted that the child's ex- 

 pression was wonderfully human. 



The young man was Sydney H. Bay- 



LILAC 



PeaSy Stevia, Roses, 



Carnations 



Snapdragons 



Philadelphia Cut Flower Co. 



Wholesale Plorists 



1S17 Sansom St. Philadelphia, Pa. 



GEORGE AEUGLE, Proprietor. 



ersdorfer. The cherub was a foreign 

 find. 



Various Notes. 



E. H. Wilson delivered an illustrated 

 lecture on the wonderful flora of For- 



