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I'he Florists^ Review 



JUNB 17, 1920, 



A. C. Kohlbrand was taken ill during 

 the heat wave last week and spent 

 several days under the doctor's care. 



Visitors. 



W. Cleveland Johnson, of Memphis, 

 spent two days here last week on busi- 

 ness connected with the equipment of 

 the new storo his concern will open in 

 the late summer. It will be one of the 

 finest in the south. 



Mrs. Minnie Lilley Copeland, pro- 

 prietor of the Marion Greenhouses, 

 Marion, 111., stopped in Chicago on her 

 way home from a twelve days' trip 

 through the east. 



Mr. Bromcil, representing the Jones- 

 Eussell Co., Cleveland, was here last 

 week on an errand connected with the 

 new store to be opened in the autumn. 

 He was specially interested in iceboxes 

 and refrigerating machines and visited 

 a number of florists here to examine 

 their equipment and see what their ex- 

 perience has been with it. 



Joseph Frisch, of Frisch Bros., Antigo, 

 Wis., visited Chicago June 11, to get 

 better acquainted with his source of 

 supply and to exchange ideas with fel- 

 low florists. 



PHTLABELPHIA. 



The Market. 



The week has been one of decided 

 activity, with plenty of flowers at low 

 prices. The height of the peony season 

 is past. While they will never recover 

 lost ground, they are commencing to sell 

 at moderate prices. The market is 

 changing rapidly now. The supply of 

 carnations is declining. There are fewer 

 good roses in proportion to the poor 

 ones. Outdoor sweet peas, mostly 

 frame-grown, are coming in more freely. 

 Outdoor delphiniums have arrived; so 

 have sprays of climbing roses. 



Weddings, commencements, children's 

 day in the churches, occasions of joy and 

 occasions of sadness have accelerated 

 the wheels of business with a final whirl 

 before they run slowly for the summer. 

 There is no denying that the regular 

 business is rapidly declining; it is only 

 the sjiecial orders that keep things going. 



The peony has l)een at its best for 

 weeks, putting I'vcrything else in the 

 shade, carnations going into a particu- 

 larly dark corner, while lilies had a 

 flickoiis of a time. Good judges say 

 that the local jjeony crop yielded from 

 ten to twenty-five i)cr cent of its value 

 h.Til it l)een in time. 



A Suggestion. 



A friend wiites tliat lie has read that 

 tlic Massacliusotts Horticultural So- 

 ciety will hold a great rose show next 

 April, with j)rizos amounting to $6,000, 

 and suggests that the Pennsylvania 

 Horticultural Society, with its vast 

 wealth, ought to do something of the 

 sort here. The suggestion is a good one, 

 well worth the careful consideration of 

 tlie 1'. H. S. executive council. It is 

 inijtortant that the society do some- 

 thing for horticulture. The shot fired 

 by James G. Scott, that the society was 

 thinking of liaving a garden nearly a 

 hundred years ago, went home. 



A garden or a rose show, or somethiuii 

 — only let it be something. 



The Independent Grower. 



Tlic independent grower is at once 

 the blessing and the bane of the cut 

 flower market. The blessing because 



EASTER UUES 



One of the most satisfactory flowers to handle 

 during the hot months of the year. Our grower 

 specializes in Lilies. He makes a large shipment 

 to us every day. On short notice we can furnish 

 several thousand of them. 



Our Lilies are well grown. We have Ihem cut 

 before the flowers open. In that condition they 

 will ship without bruising. You can carry them 

 in stock for almost a week. We solicit regular 

 orders for them at the special price 

 of 50 buds for 



$7.50 



Don't Overlook Other Seasonable 

 Flowers that we Offer: 



DOROTHY PERKINS.. . .in almost any quantity 



PEONIES in white and pink 



DELPHINIUM BELLADONNA 

 NEW DAGGER FERNS $2.50 per 1000 



For quick service and a reliable supply of season- 

 able flowers, you cannot do better than 

 place your orders with us. 



THE 



Branches: 



BALTIMORE 

 WASHINGTON 



LEO NIESSEN CO. 



Wholesale Florists 



1201.3-5 Race St. 



PHILADELPHIA 



Mention ThP Rerlew when yon write. 



BERGER BROTHERS 

 PEONIES ROSES 



CARNATIONS DELPHINIUMS 

 LILIES VALLEY CORNFLOWER 



All Seasonable Cut Flowers 



1609 Sansom Street PHILADELPHIA 



CHARLES E. MEEHAN 



5 South Mole Street, 

 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



PLUNOSUS 



strings and Bunche* 



ADUNTUn 



and Greens 

 of all kinds 



lie l)io;i(l('ns tlio tii'ld; tlio banc because 

 he cuts jirices. The iiidejiendeiit grower 

 is a liard working, ilhigical, unbusiness- 

 like sort of a chaj), especially created 

 for the i)urj)0se of worrying the whole- 

 saler when 'le wages guerrilla warfare 



for eight months out of every twelv'- 

 A wholesaler once conceived tlic bri'' 

 liant sclieme of getting all the i'"'^' 

 j)endcnt growers together within '"'" 

 walls — no, not in a j)rison, just a i"'" 

 ket. Tlie independent growers i*' 



