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The Florists^ Review 



Fbbbuabt 12, 1920 



Ferns 



Every day in the year we 

 can supply you with good 

 feras. 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, $4.00 



DAGGER FERNS 



Per 1000, $3.00 



GREEN LEUCOTHOES 



Extra long, per 1000, $7.50 



GALAX, Grceo and Bronze 



Per case, $12.50 



MEXICAN IVY 



Per 1000, $7.50 



Wild Smllax - Boxwood 



Hemlock - LAurel 



Plumosus - Adiantum 



String Smilaz 



THE LEO NIESSEN CO. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



12th and Race Sts., riDLADELrilU, PA. 



BALTIMORE, MD. WASHINGTON. D. C. 



Spring Flowers 



Have the call now, and you should carry more of 

 them in stock. 



Gardenias 



The supply is increasing, 

 and we now have enough of 

 them every day to fill all 

 orders complete. You ari 

 safe in booking orders for 

 Gardenias if you depend on 

 us to supply ycu. 



Sweet Peas 



We are having more Peas 

 every day, and if weather 

 conditions are at all favor- 

 able there should be a good 

 supply of them. Some of 

 our growers are cutting Peas 

 of unusually good Quality. 



Calendulas - Snapdragon - Mignonette 

 White Lilac - Single Daffodils 

 Freesia - Myosotis - Daisies 

 Baby Primrose - Pussy Willow 



While Roses and Carnations are not plentiful, you should push 

 the sale of Spring Flowers, of which there is a good supply. 



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 



partly for pleasure and partly for busi- 

 ness. 



F. E. McGrath, of Tischer & McGrath, 

 New Castle, Pa., was here last week, 

 investigating sources of supply. 



PHn.ADELPHIA. 



The Iilarket. 



The first week in February was 

 marked by an even greater scarcity of 

 flowers than the weeks that preceded 

 it. Monday and Tuesday brought an 

 increased supply, but by Tuesday night 

 the market had absorbed it all. Then 

 came the worst snow storm of the sea- 

 son, lasting three days and three nights, 

 cutting down the supply. Usually in 

 such a storm the demand disappears. 

 This time it kept up. Saturday brought 

 bright weather, more flowers and an 

 active demand that took everything and 

 could easily have taken much more, 

 even at the prevailing high prices. 



The wholesalers are much upset at 

 the situation. Try as they will, they 

 cannot begin to fill their orders. Such 

 expedients as filling one-half or two- 

 thirds of the order, shipping or deliv- 

 ering every other day and arranging 

 to send so many dollars' worth of what- 

 ever they can gather together, are re- 

 sorted to in a vain effort to make the 

 stock go around. 



Sweet peas are more plentiful. There 

 are more daffodils, plenty of freesias, 

 some violets, a fair sprinkling of cat- 

 tleyas and a little myosotis. The sup- 

 ply of roses and carnations is about the 

 same. There is nearly enough aspara- 

 gus sprays, but not enough ferns. 



A Propagating House. 



There is a propagating house of much 

 more than ordinary interest at this 

 moment. It is at Chestnut Hill on the 

 place of Myers & Samtman. The house 

 is, at a guess, 12x150 feet. It contains 

 two wide propagating beds. These beds 

 are entirely filled with what appear to 

 be nicely rooted cuttings of three aris- 



BERGER BROS. 



EARLY SPRING FLOWERS 



VIOLETS VALLEY FREESIAS 



DAISIES GOLDEN SPUR EASTER LILIES 

 SWEET PEAS CARNATIONS ROSES 





1225 Race St. 



PHILADELPHIA 



Roses 

 Carnations 



Callas 

 Sweet Peas 



CHARLES E. MEEHAN 



5 South Mole Street, 

 PHILADELPHIA. PA. 



PLUNOSUS 



Striagt uai Baackts 



ADIANTUM 



and Green 

 of all kinds 



tocratic varieties of roses, American 

 Beauty, Premier and Columbia. 



The quantity, the varieties and the 

 success of the propagation make the 

 house remarkable. The difficulty of 

 rooting Beauties with certainty is well 

 known. The places, outside of Rich- 

 mond, Ind., that can put in such vast 

 quantities of Premier, are rare. Co- 

 lumbia is less numerous. Of course, this 

 large propagation is not for the place, 

 big as it is. It is for selling in small 

 pots. So great is the demand for small 

 plants of these three varieties that 

 flowering wood is being sacrificed, and 

 a house of rosps has been thrown out 

 to produce the stock, and this by a firm 

 preeminently cut flower growers. Prac- 

 tically all the stock above that needed 

 for their own replanting has been grown 

 on orders and enough has been ordered 

 to tax their capacity for four months 

 to come. 



Perhaps a few words about the mem- 



L I LA C 



Peas, Freesias, Roses, 



Carnations 



Snapdragons 



Philadelphia Cut Flower Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



1S17 Sansim St Philadelpkit, Pa. 



GEORGE AEUGLE, Proprietor. 



bers of the firm who run this little prop- 

 agating house, and ever so many big 

 houses besides, may be of interest. 

 Frank P. Myers is known in all our 

 large cut flower centers — to be explicit, 

 in New York, Chicago, Boston, Cleve- 



