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The Florists^ Review 



August 19, 1920 



Martin Seeger and Al Artmann, of Mul- 

 lanphy Florists, recently returned from 

 a trip with a big string of fish. 



Frank X. Gorly, who is out in Cali- 

 fornia for the summer, writes to friends 

 in the trade of the splendid time he is 

 having. 



Word was received from Julius 

 Schaefifer, Edward Steitz and F. C. 

 Weber, who are summering up among 

 the northern lakes, that they were hav- 

 ing a great time and would meet the 

 St. Louis party at Cleveland for the 

 S. A, F. convention. 



Andrew Hoffman, Jr., and Adolph 

 Steidle will be in charge of F. H. Web- 

 er's store while the latter is attending 

 the S. A. F. convention. 



Arthur Beyer, who is in charge of 

 F. C. Weber's store in the latter 's ab- 

 sence, says that the summer business 

 has been excellent so far. 



John Boerm is having a vacation. His 

 store at Delmar and Euclid avenues is 

 being wrecked to give place to a more 

 modern building. Mr. Boerm has not an- 

 nounced his plans for the coming sea- 

 son. 



The St; Louis party bound for the 

 S. A. F. convention at Cleveland was 

 one of the largest that ever attended a 

 convention. The party numbered thirty- 

 eight and was to be joined at Cleve- 

 land by four others, making a total of 

 forty-two. State Vice-president W. J. 

 Pilcher, who had charge of the trans- 

 portation, was obliged to engage two 

 special cars for the party, which left 

 Monday, August 16, over the Big Four 

 route in time to arrive at Cleveland at 

 7 a. m. August 17. Among those who 

 secured reservations were W. J. Pilcher, 

 Charles Ostertag, Fred Michel, Martin 

 Seeger, N. Kingsley, Henri Durenberg, 



C. E. De Wever, F. H. Weber, W. H. 

 Ossick, A. H. Hummert, Carl Beyer, Gust 

 Grossart, L. J. Bourdet, W. A. Rowe and 

 Mrs. Eowe, O. C. May and Mrs. May, 

 J. F. Ammann, Mrs. Ammann and their 

 daughter; A. G. Fehr and Mrs. Fehr, 



D. S. Geddis and two friends, H. G. 

 Berning and Mrs. Berning, Mrs. T. Die- 

 mer and two friends, Mrs. J. W. Brue- 

 nig and two daughters, Walter Amling 

 and Mrs. Amling, L. Baumann and two 

 friends and George Deutschmann. These 

 were joined at Cleveland by F. C. Weber, 

 Jr., Mrs. Weber, Mrs. F. C. Weber, Sr., 

 Julius Schaeffer, Edward Steitz and Vin- 

 cent J. Gorly. J- J- B. 



PHIIiADEIiPHIA. 



The Market. 



The second week in August brought 

 disaster. There was more business than 

 usual, with many times the usual 

 amount of flowers. The reasons for this 

 unfortunate condition are clear: Favor- 

 able growing conditions, heavy planting 

 of gladioli and the effect of the two 

 combined; that is, in a season so unus- 

 ually favorable to growth outside that 

 the timing of the planting of bulbs is 

 upset. They start, mature and bloom 

 so quickly that the bulbs intended for 

 flowering in the middle of September 

 are in bloom now. The sales of gladioli 

 have been disheartening, little better 

 than the waste. Both bad sales and 

 waste have been common. There has 

 been business at fair prices, but it is 

 overshadowed by the sacrifice sales and 

 the losses. Asters suffered from the 

 frequent rains as they came into bloom. 

 The flowers shipped when not perfectly 



A Good Supply of 



Cut Flowers 



of a better grade than usual, is what we ofiFer you this week. 



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BEAUTIES 



$4.00 to $6.00 per dozen. 

 The two Best Summer Roses, Russell and Columbia, 



are quite plentiful with us. Shorts and medium, $5.00 to $12.00 

 per 100. 



LILIES 



$2.00 per dozen; $15 00 per 100. 



GLADIOLI 



A large supply of all the best commercial varieties. 

 $4.00 to $6.00 per 100. 



ASTERS 



Shorts, $1.50 per 100; medium, $3.00 per 100. 



The best stock. $5 00 per 100. 



You will find our Best Grade of au unusually fine quality. 



The medium grade are very fine flowers and represent good value. 



Dagger Ferns, per 1000 $2.60 



Our list of Carnation Plants is still complete. Look for our classi- 

 fied advertisement. The plants are the best we have had for years. 



Business Hours 7 A. M. to 4 P. M. 



THE LEO NIESSEN CO. 



Wholesale Florists 



Branches: 1201-3-5 Race St. 



WASHINGTON "Hll-iAl-ltjLir^rlLA 



EASTER LILIES 



GLADIOLI in all colors 

 ASTERS ROSES 



With our improved service we can handle additional ccDsignments of 



good stock to advantage. 



We close dally at 4 p. m. Saturdays at 1 p. m. 



BERGER BROTHERS 



1609 Sansom Street PHILADELPHIA 



ASTERS ROSES 

 GREENS 



THE PHILADELPHIA WHOLESALE FLORISTS' EXCHANGE 



16 is Ranst«ad Straot, 



PHILADELPHIA 





