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The Rorists^ Review 



ADGCST 11, 1921 



made tlieir appearam-c. Tliey are being 

 used for funeral work and baskets. 



Hydrangea is coming into the local 

 market in quantities and is being used 

 in general decorations for large baskets 

 and in funeral work. It is well received 

 as a desirable adjunct to the other 

 stocks. Good orchids may now be had 

 at $6 per dozen, but the demand is light 

 for these. Delphinium is still arriving 

 in good shape and it is selling well. 

 Larkspur, scabiosa, gypsophila and 

 other small flowers are also to be had. 

 They fill a sort of void that exists in the 

 market due to the cutting out of other 

 stocks during the recent extremely hot 

 weather. 



Various Notes. 



Black and gold are the colors selected 

 by George C. Shaffer to be used in the 

 redecoration of his store at Fourteenth 

 and I streets. This work is to be ac- 

 companied by the installation of a new 

 icebox and other improvements. Mr. 

 Shaffer is planning an entire rearrange- 

 ment of his store. The space occupied 

 l>y the present box will be utilized for 

 inake-up work and the large table now 

 in the center of the store will be put 

 there. The rear wall is now covered 

 l)y a huge plate glass mirror. The mir- 

 ror is to be moved to the front of the 

 store and erected against the side wall. 

 The new box will be installed at the 

 rear. The new icebox will be much 

 larger than the present one, being 

 twelve feet long, six feet deep 'and eight 

 feet high. In addition, in the small 

 workroom at the rear, there will be 

 placed a table containing a box for the 

 storage of galax. The box will be 

 equipped with coils to keep it cool. 



Arthur Shaffer, who is in charge of 

 tlie bookkeeping department at George 

 C. Shaffer's store, and Fred Myers, a 

 member of the sales force, have re- 

 turned to the city from vacations spent 

 witli their families at Ocean View, Va. 



Mrs. Nettie Supper, of the Gude IBros. 

 Co., has gone to New York for a visit, 

 following which she will go to Virginia 

 Beach for the rest of her month 's vaca- 

 tion. Hardy Pritchard, also of this com- 

 ])any, with Mrs. Pritchard and their 

 young daaghter, has returned to Wasli- 

 ington, concluding a four weeks' vaca- 

 tion at Atlantic City. T. N. S. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



The change that came during tlie first 

 week in August is surprising. Yet its 

 description iiuist lie carefully worded 

 to be quite clear. Flowers are scarce. 

 Everything sells well except poor qual- 

 ity asters and poor quality gladioli. 

 Together with this statement must be 

 coupled another: There is not quite so 

 much business as during the last week 

 of July. In other words, the supply of 

 cut flowers during the first week in 

 August is smaller than it has been; 

 the early rrops of asters and of gladi- 

 oli arc going off. There do not appear 

 to be as many midseason flowers grown 

 as usual in these two staples. Roses, 

 the third most important flower at this 

 season, have been greatly reduced in 

 number by cutting back. There are 

 only a few roses of the new crop and 

 tlie old crop is rapidly disappearing. 

 Easter lilies are in fair supply; there is 

 a steady supply of valley and there are 

 a few orchids. The first early Beauties 

 have come; outdoor flowers are fairly 

 plentiful. 



ASTERS ROSES 

 GLADIOLI 



Are the main features in the Cut Flower Market. 



ASTERS are reported scarce in some sections, but 

 we have an ample supply of very good stock. 



GLADIOLI we continue to have in nearly all good 

 commercial varieties. 



VALLEY — We are handling some of the finest 

 Valley we have had this season. 



DAGGER FERNS, 1000, - $2.50 

 (iREEN GALAX, 1000, - 1.50 

 ADIANTUM, 100, - 2.00 



Our splendid supply of Cut Flowers puts us in a posi- 

 tion to take care of your orders in a very satisfactory 

 manner. 



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



THE LEO NIESSEN CO. 



Wholesale Florists 



120I.3-S Rae* St. 



PHILADELPHIA 



Bnmches: 



BALTIMORE 

 WASHINGTON 



BERGER BROTHERS 



EASTER LILIES^ can ship in bud or bloom. 



GLADIOLI — Peace, America, Niagara, Schwiben ROSES 



ASTERS, all colors 



Snapdragons, Delphinium Belladonna 



ORDER EARLY, PLEASE 



1609 Sansom Street PHILADELPHIA 



Asters Gladioli Roses 



PHILADELPHIA CUT FLOWER CO. 



Phonea: WholcMdc Floricto GEORGE AEUGLB 



Ke%!f^ m'l-uii 1517 Sansom St, PhUadelpUa, Pa. Proprietor 



The market report is incomplete with- 

 out mention of the weather, which has 

 been delightfully cool, in striking con- 

 trast with much of the summer. 



Sridgeton, N. J. 



It will become more and more evi- 

 dent as time progresses that Bridge- 

 ton's horticultural interest will cease to 

 be connected with glass or with boilers 

 and will become much more vital to the 

 profession. Perhaps this will not actu- 

 ally be in greenhouses, but it will be in 

 plants that are used in greenhouses and 

 in outdoor work by our landscape gar- 



deners. While this is only a prelimi- 

 narj- notice of wliat may be expected, 

 it is made with great earnestness, be- 

 cause it looks today as though the start 

 at Bridgeton would be of far-reaching 

 importance. Everybody knows that the 

 present times are making horticultural 

 history; that the quarantine of two 

 years ago has made a tremendous dif- 

 ference in the plant stock available for 

 this market; that California is straining 

 every nerve to fill the void caused by 

 the exclusion of the European-grown 

 plant. Now Bridgeton, N. J., is prepar- 

 ing for the same task. 



