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The Florists^ Review 



DSCBMBEB 18, 1919. 





Cattleyas 



Orders should be placed 

 at once, as there is likely 

 to be a shortage. 



Gardenias 



The supply will be very 

 limited. 



White Lilac 



One of our specialties. 

 We always have it in 

 stock, and can furnish 

 large quantities on short 

 notice. 



Snapdragon 



Most of our Snapdragon 

 is far better than what 

 is offered elsewhere. 

 Mostly pink, also yellow. 



THE LEO NIESSEII CO. 



WHOLESALE FLOMSTS 



12th and Race Sts., nDLADELTIIU, PA. 



BALTIMORE, MD. WASHINGTON, D. C. 



There is no shortage of 



GOOD ROSES 



with us. If you want Roses of the better kind, of 

 the newer varieties, such as Russell, Premier, Co- 

 lumbia, Hadley, we can fill your orders. They are 

 of a quality that is hard to beat. 



We have a big cut of Pink, White Killarney and 

 Brilliant. Good quality stock and big value. 



High Grade Beauties 



You can also depend on us for High Grade Beauties, 

 mostly of the Special, Fancy and 24-inch grades. 



Mignonette 



You should not overlook 

 this item. Very fine 

 stock. 



Other items that we can 

 recommend: 



PUSSY WILLOW 



NARCISSUS 



CALENDULAS 



STEVIA 



VIOLETS 



DAISIES 



A Urge supply of 



Plumosiu, Adiantum and 



Smilax 



wad Smilax^ 



On account of the large 

 quantity of Wild Smilax 

 handled, we can afford to 

 carry a large stock. We 

 can fill your order on 

 short notice. 



Mention The Bevlew when you write. 



poinsettias. Edwiii Nelaon is again 

 with this firm. 



Julius Dillofif, representing Wert- 

 heimer Bros., New York, visited the 

 trade laat week. E. E, T. 



PHTT.ADEUHIA. 



The Market. 



It is funnj: Carnations are bring- 

 ing more than roses. 



That is the feature of the market. It 

 is due to a short crop of carnations, 

 to the beginning of the holiday crop of 

 roses and to the fact that the buyers 

 have not yet met the changing condi- 

 tions. The market is taking easily the 

 flowers offered. The buyers say there 

 is no business, but they continue to 

 take all the flowers in sight. White 

 has been somewhat plentiful, but as the 

 week closes that seems to be past. Pink 

 roses are rather scarce, particularly in 

 the shorter grades. Columbia affords 

 few shorts. What remains of Killarney 

 is mostly cropped for Christmas. 

 Ophelia is the most plentiful rose to- 

 day. 



Boses have always been the main- 

 stay of the market at Christmas. This 

 year they promise to be more impor- 

 tant than ever. There are fewer carna- 

 tions, fewer violets and sweet peas are 

 showing that unhappy tendency toward 

 bud-dropping, their bane in early win- 

 ter. Not much is expected of snap- 

 dragon. There will be orchids for those 

 who can afford them. There are lots of 

 poinsettia, stevia and Paper Whites. 



A Florist's Story. 



"My wife went shopping the other 

 day. She likes to go early; the stores 

 are less crowded, so the service is bet- 

 ter. She arrived about 8:30 that morn- 

 ing. She went to the glove counter. 

 There she was asked $4.50 a pair for 

 exactly the same gloves that had cost 

 $2.50 a pair a year ago. As she turned 

 away the saleswoman remarked that 



BERGER BROS. 



POINSETTIAS 



Carnations Violets Roses 



Stevia Paper Whites Greens 



PLEASE ORDER CHRISTMAS FLOWERS EARLY 



1225 Race St. 



PHILADELPHIA 



Cuutiiiis 

 Sweet Pets 



CHARLES E. MEEHAN 



5 South Mole Street, 

 PHILADELPHIA. PA. 



PLUNOSUS 

 ADIANTUM 



and Greens e! 

 aD lands. 



those gloves had been $3.50 a pair last 

 week. In another department store she 

 saw tags being changed from $2.50 to 

 $3, others from $3 to $3.50. That eve- 

 ning she was indignant about it. I told 

 her there was another side to it, most 

 likely. The stock of gloves waa growing 

 short and could not be replaced except 

 at an additional cost of, say, 60 cents a 

 pair. ' ' 



The Plant Market. 



Never in the history of the plant mar- 

 ket have indications been brighter. 

 There are still plants for sale, lots of 

 them, but the novelties and specialties 

 are gone and the market generally is in 

 the condition, December 12, that it or- 

 dinarily hopes to reach December 24. 



On Twenty-Eighth Street, New York. 



It is an unwritten law that a cor- 

 respondent should not invade the terri- 

 tory of another correspondent on any 



For Christmas 



Poinsettias, Columbia, 

 Peas, Stevia, Roses, 

 Carnations 

 Snapdragons 



Philadelphia I Cut Flower Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



1S17 Sansom St. Philidelphia, Pa. 



GEORGE AEUGLE, Proprietor. 



pretext whatsoever. This law was 

 strictly adhered to in the palmy days of 

 J. Austin Shaw, after that guileless 

 youth tired of gathering flowers by the 

 wayside in Quakertown. Now Mr. Shaw 



