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The Florists^ Review 



Jolt 14. 1921 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



The intense heat has completely de- 

 moralized the cut flower market. Eoses 

 and carnations have suffered severely. 

 Sweet peas are prostrated. The hot 

 weather standbys, gladioli and asters, 

 are coming forward as seasonable flow- 

 ers, while Easter lilies luxuriate in the 

 tropical temperature. For special occa- 

 sions there is a small regular supply of 

 lilies of the valley and a few nice 

 orchids, Cattleya MossIbb and the 

 smaller Harrisonii. 



It is only fair to say that business is 

 fully as good as usual at this season of 

 the year, but when it is hot a gloomy 

 view is natural. To try to be a little 

 more cheerful, it may be said that the 

 gladioli are really fine. The leading 

 varieties are Niagara, Schwaben, Pan- 

 ama, Pendleton, Augusta, America and 

 Mrs. Francis King. The asters are 

 quite fair for so early in the season. 

 The soft shell pink predominates in 

 numbers; then there are rose-pink, 

 white and a smaller quantity of laven- 

 der. The drawback is that dry weather 

 has made some of them rather short in 

 stem. 



Baseball. 



The first game of baseball for the 

 Campbell cup was played between the 

 teams of the Leo Niessen Co. and the S. 

 S. Pennock Co., at Belmont, Thursday 

 afternoon, July 7. Both teams scored 

 in the first inning, Pennock making two 

 runs to their opponents' one. Neither 

 team scored again until the sixth 

 inning. Pennock made one in the 

 sixth, three in the seventh, two in the 

 eighth and two in the ninth, the score 

 standing 10 to 1 at the end of the first 

 half of the inning. Then came a 

 change. Copstake, who had pitched 

 phenomenal ball for eight innings, 

 weakened. Up to that time seventeen 

 of the Niessen men had struck out and 

 only two hits had been made off his de- 

 livery. But the ninth inning was dis- 

 astrous; he was wild and ineffective. 

 Niessen made eiglit runs with only one 

 out. Then Albert Swan, the Pennock 

 catcher, went over to the scorer to ask 

 the score. This was done in order to 

 give Copstake breathing time. It 

 worked unexpectedly well. Bernheimer 

 made a mistake in the score. The Nies- 

 sen men were frantic. They surrounded 

 the scorer, all talking at once. When 

 the matter was finally straightened, 

 fifteen minutes had elapsed; Copstake 

 was himself again. He struck out the 

 next two men, ending the game, 10 to 

 9 in favor of Pennock. Tlie players 

 were tlic following: 



For the S. S. Pennock Co.: Gus 

 French, sliortstop; Kilgaleu, second 

 base; Cojistakc, pitcher; .Tamison, 

 right field; Cox, first base: Culbertson, 

 left field; Kennedy, third base; Swan, 

 catcher, and Weiss, center field. For 

 the Leo Niessen Co.: Campbell, first 

 base; Lee, catcher; Millet, pitcher; 

 Mayer, third base; Brown, center field; 

 Klinger, shortstop; Gaskell, left field; 

 Cunningliani, second l)ase; Koully, riglit 

 field. Umpire, Martin J. Gannan; 

 scorer, Eugene Bcrnlieinier. 



The same day the bascOaall team of 

 the M. Rice Co. met the junior team of 

 Lit Bros., on the grounds of Strawberry 

 mansion. It was the first game for the 

 Rice team. Their manager, Arthur 

 Zirkman, looked forward to it with 



The principal items during the summer are 

 GLADIOLI and ASTERS 

 EASTER LILIES 



Of them we have an ample supply. 



ASTERS are more plentiful, and we expect to have 

 enough of them this week to take care of all orders, we 

 sell the entire output of the largest Aster shippers in 

 this section, and that gives us a supply that is not 

 equaled elsewhere. 



GLADIOLI are coming in in larger variety. We 

 can now furnish you White, several shades of Pink, 

 Yellow and quite a few novelties. Our supply consists 

 of the best standard varieties that are best adapted for 

 Cut Flower purposes. 



EASTER LILIES should be used more than any 

 other flower during the hot months of the year. They 

 are not affected by weather conditions, and there is no 

 flower that will hold up as well as well-grown Lilies. 



We make a specialty of having good flowers all 

 through the summer, and if there is anything you need 

 in the line of Cut Flowers, you are absolutely safe in 

 depending ON US to supply you. YOUR ORDERS 

 WILL ALWAYS HAVE OUR IMMEDIATE, CARE- 

 FUL ATTENTION. 



BUSINESS HOURS, 7 A. M. to 4 P. M. 



THE LEO NIESSEN CO. 



Wholesale FlorUts 



BrMch«K 1201.S.B Rae* St. 



SSSSSS,N PHILADELPHIA 



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BERGER BROTHERS 



EASTER LILIES 



Exceptionally fine. $15.00 per lOO. Can ship in bud or bloom. 



GLADIOLI — Peace, America, Mrs. Francis King 



Snapdragons, Delphinium Belladonna 



ORDER EARLY, PLEASE 



1609 Sansom Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



CARNATIONS ROSES 



SWEET PEAS DELPHINIUM 



FEVERFEW GLADIOLI 



EASTER LILIES 



and all kinds of Greens 



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