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The Florists^ Review 



November 20. 1919. 



What is in season 

 you are sure to find 

 with us: 



Cypripediums 



$3.00 per dozen 



Every good retail store can afford 

 to carry them in stock. 



Gardenias 



The supply is not large. Order 

 them in advance. 



Bouvardias 



$6.00 per 100 



The single pink variety. 



Calendulas 



$4.00 per 100 



Mostly orange -yellow. 



Snapdragons 



$1.00 to $1.50 per dozen 



Mostly pink, some yellow. 



Narcissi 



$6.00 per 100 



Stevias 



50c per bunch 



THE LEO NIESSEN CO. 



WHOLKSALI FLOMSTS 



12th and Race Sts., riDLADELrilU, PA. 



BALTIMORE, MD. WASHINGTON. D. C. 



For Thanksgiving Day 



we expect to have a large 



SUPPLY OF GOOD MUMS 



Our growers will be cutting Chrysanthemums in quantity 

 for that day. We will be very strong in such varieties as 

 Chadwick, Bonnaffon and Seidewitz. 



POMPONS 



This is another item we expect to have in quantity and 

 large selection of varieties, 



CARNATIONS 



will be in good supply and you can depend on us for some 

 very good stock. 



Thanksgiving will be a busy day this year and you 

 should not neglect to place your order early. 



BoxwooJ 



We are now booking orders 

 for Boxwood for immediate 

 and later delivery. There 

 was a shortage last year 

 and the supply will not be 

 any larger this season. Make 

 sure of your requirements 

 and place your order now. 



The Boxwood we handle 

 is the best. We sell more 

 of it every year. This is 

 the best ndication that we 

 have the right kind of stock. 



Lycopodium 



The supply of Lycopodium 

 is limited. It is cleaned and 

 put up in bunches. You will 



1 be well satisfied with our 



Wtock. 



Mention The ItoTlaw when yon write. 



ders for the erection of houses for next 

 season after building additions last sum- 

 mer. At Kirkwood A. F. Kopp will add 

 a house 36x100 and W. A. Eowe one of 

 the same size, his fourth repeat order. 

 Albert Senger will erect two, each 25x 

 100. Construction of all these will be 

 done by the American Greenhouse Mfg. 

 Co. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



The cut flower market is full of activ- 

 ity. The close of the outdoor season and 

 the cold weather have put snap into 

 business. Prices have commenced ad- 

 vancing, but it is for quality that higher 

 figures are paid; low grade flowers sel- 

 dom are wanted. Fancy chrysanthe- 

 mums have gone up to $5 per dozen, 

 carnations to $5 per hundred and vio- 

 lets to $1.50 per hundred. 



All the cleverest chrysanthemum 

 growers are sending in their best stock 

 now. Eaton, Chadwick in two colors, 

 Dean, Bonnaffon, Rager and Chieftain 

 are among the leading varieties. Pink 

 is hard to get. Many more of that color 

 are asked, but not given. Pompons are 

 selling decidedly better. Th? name 

 pompon is now supposed to include also 

 the singles, semi-doubles and anemone 

 flowers, much in demand for decorating 

 the center of the festive board. Many 

 of the carnations are hardly so good as 

 usual at this season, but there is some 

 excellent stock. Laddie looks particu- 

 larly well. Some of this variety are 

 bringing $6 per hundred. 



Roses are not plentiful and will not 

 be so for a while. Long Beauties are 60 

 cents each. Fancy, long-stemmed flow- 

 ers of other varieties bring 15 to 25 cents 

 each. There are few of them. Red 

 roses are scarce. Ophelia is fairly plen- 

 tiful. Columbia probably is uext."^ Both 

 orchids and valley are scarce and likely 

 to remain so. Stevia has come. 



The Russell-Premier Race. 



A friend has asked that a visit be 



BERGER BROS. 



Bonnaffon, Pompons, Carnations 



The best flowers of all seasonable varieties 

 for Thanksgiving 



Roses, Violets, Paper Whites 

 1225 Race St. PHILADELPHIA 



CHARLES E. MEEHAN 



5 South Mole Street, 

 PHILADELPHIA. PA. 



PLUHOSUS 

 ADIANTUN 



and Greens if 

 all lands. 



paid to the greenhouses of a noted rose 

 grower to see his Premier. With pleas- 

 ure at the earliest opportunity — only first 

 let this bo clearly understood, that the 

 paragraph expressing the opinion that 

 Russell was ahead for that part of the 

 season now past, the warm weather 

 period of late summer and early fall, 

 had nothing whatever to do with the 

 growing abilities of the two varieties. 

 It was a market report, pure and simple, 

 based solely on the selling records of the 

 two varieties as received in this mar- 

 ket. Whether Premier is a better cold 

 weather rose and whether our growers 

 know yet how to grow it arc different 

 questions, that will be decided later. 



Statice. 



The enterprise of Sydney II. Baycrs- 

 dorfer has brought here a flower once 

 well known, that lias been absent for 

 four ye.ars. Mr. Bayersdorfer went 

 abroad in July to secure some of the 



things our florists like and have not had 

 since commerce was interrupted. Among 

 them was the pretty white-flowered 

 statice so much used in making up 

 wreaths, Mr, Bayersdorfer says that 

 the statice he got is good, just as good 

 as he has ever seen it. As he held up a 

 spray in his hand last week he expressed 

 the hope that his florist friends would 

 use it. 



An Evil. 



Every stage of progress in an indus- 

 try is marked by bad points as well as 

 good. There is an evil in the plant in- 

 dustry today that is serious and ought 

 to be stamped out. I refer to the send- 

 ing out of plants that are below grade. 

 This evil is most conspicuous in those 

 plants that are most difficult of cultiva- 

 tion and in the novelties. It is due to 

 the scarcity of stock and to the craze 

 for novelties. It is most frequently seen 

 in the plants sent out from small pots. 



