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The Florists' Review 



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Fbbbdaby 6, 1920 



Every day ia the year we 

 can supply you with good 

 ferus. There is quite a sav- 

 ing wheu iou buy good ferus, 

 and our price is less than 

 what you have to pay else- 

 where. 



FANCY FERNS 



Per 1000, $4.00 



DAGGER FERNS 



Per 1000. $3.00 



GREEN LEUCOTHOES 



Extra long, per 1000, $7.50 



GALAX, Green and Bronze 



Per case, $12.50 



MEXICAN ivy 



Per 1000, $7.50 



Wild Smllaz - Boxwood 



Hemlock - Laurel 



Plumosus - Adiantum 



String Smilaz 



THE LEO NIESSER CO. 



WHOLISALI FLOmSTS 



12th and Race Sts., riQUDELrillA, PA. 



BALTIMORE. MD. WASHINGTON. D. C. 



PLACE YOUR ORDER EARLY FOR 



St. Valentine's Day 



The supply of Cut Flowers will depend a great 

 deal on weather conditions, but we expect to have 

 a good supply of 



Orchids Violets Freesia 

 Calendulas Myosotis 

 . Mignonette Lilac 



The supply of Carnations will be larger, but we expect 

 no surplus. 



With favdrable weather conditions we should have a 

 large supply of good Peas. 



It will be safe to depend on your orders for Sweet 

 Peas to be filled. 



Rooted 



Carnation 



Cuttings 



C. W. Ward 



Theo 



Alice 



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 



slightly affected by the quarantine. He 

 is now figuring on moving his head- 

 quarters to one of the states in the corn 

 belt. 



Calvin D. Kinsman, of A. N. Kins- 

 man, Inc., Austin, Minn., was a visitor 

 last week. He looks forward to the 

 rapid development of the florists' and 

 nursery business in the north and his 

 company is making plans for increasing 

 facilities and forces. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Tbe Market. 



Freesia Purity from California-grown 

 bulbs marks the only improvement in 

 the supply at the close of January. There 

 is quite a lot showing a range in quality, 

 as can be imagined. There is long- 

 stemmed, fancy freesia, the bunches 

 making as fine a show as a bunch of 

 choice lilac, or perhaps a better com- 

 parison would be to say, looking like a 

 bunch of Paper White narcissi of extra- 

 ordinary refinement, and there is small, 

 short-stemmed freesia, suggestive of 

 snowdrops in early springtime. It all 

 goes, helping to make the shortage less 

 acute. Yet the expected relief has not 

 come and the market is nearly as bare 

 now as at any time during the month. 

 Golden Spurs have not come in sufficient 

 quantities to amount to anything. They 

 bring the most unheard-of prices and 

 sweet peas still show that dislike for 

 extremely wintry weather that makes 

 reliance on them at this season most 

 unsafe. 



We are told that the tide is turning; 

 that there will be a little more of this 

 and a little more of the other in a few 

 days and that all together they will 

 have an effect, and when you ask your 

 informant whether business will not 

 likewise improve with something to of- 

 fer during February, and whether the 

 demand is likely to continue to outstrip 

 the supply, he looks dubious and won- 

 ders whether his troubles are over after 

 all. Thsy are having a hard time of it, 



BERGER BROS. 



EARLY SPRING FLOWERS 



VIOLETS VALLEY FREESIAS 



DAISIES GOLDEN SPUR EASTER LILIES 

 SWEET PEAS FOR VALENTINES 

 CARNATIONS and ROSES 



1225 Race Si. 



PHILADELPHIA 



Mention The Berlew when you write. 



Carnations 



Callas 

 Sweet Peas 



CHARLES E. MEEHAN 



5 South Mole Street, 

 PHILADELPHIA. PA. 



PLUHOSUS 



Striagt aad Benckat 



ADIANTUH 



and Green 

 of all kinds 



those market experts. They have built 

 up a wonderful business by years of 

 hard work and they are confronted by 

 a new condition; they cannot get the 

 stock. Every day business that they 

 have had hard work to develop is being 

 declined for want of material. Every 

 day they divide up their small supply 

 of stock as best they can, hoping that 

 tomorrow there will be enough to go 

 around. For a whole month this tomor- 

 row has not come. Will it come in Feb- 

 ruary! 



In Chicago. 



Alfred M. Campbell kindly favored 

 your correspondent with a brief, infor- 

 mal chat the day after arriving home: 



"I went out to the carnation meeting 

 in Chicago, leaving here January 20. 

 The exhibition was a small one, as 

 might have been expected, with a won- 

 derful display of Laddie. The gold 

 medal vase of Laddie, from Samuel 



L I LA C 



PeaSy FreesiaSy Roses, 

 Carnations 

 Snapdragons 



Philadelphia Cut Flower Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



1517 Sansom St. Philadelplua, Pa. 



GEORGE AEUGLE, Proprietor. 



Goddard, and the silver medal vase of 

 Laddie, from C. S. Strout, of Bidde- 

 ford, Me., were splendid. Strout 's also 

 had a choice general collection that was 

 finely staged. My vase of Laddie was 



