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The Florists^ Review 



August 18, 1921 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



The Market. 



There are fewer flowers in the market 

 than there wore a week ago. The de 

 crease in the number of asters and of 

 gladioli has continued and there has 

 been no especial increase in any other 

 flower to take their places. There are, 

 however, some really fine roses, made 

 possible by the cooler nights. The^se are 

 welcomed by the wholesalers who ship 

 many of their flowers, as they give a 

 quality not easily obtained at this sea- 

 son. A good many of the asters and 

 gladioli were poor. Many of these re- 

 mained over in the iceboxes at the end 

 of the week, but all the better flowers 

 found a market at higher average prices 

 than the week before. To sum up, as- 

 ters, gladioli, roses, Easter lilies and val- 

 ley are the principal flowers. Both sup- 

 ply and demand are light and fairly well 

 balanced. 



Oil for Fuel. 



Duncan Macaw believes that in a few 

 short years we may all be looking back 

 at the days when we burned "that dirty 

 stuff" for heat — days never to return. 

 He thinks that the joy of turning on an 

 extra oil jet, when the thermometer 

 swoops downward, will be greater than 

 the misery of cleaning a heavy fire under 

 the same conditions. 



Mr. Macaw has carefully worked out 

 the principal points in the burning of oil 

 for heating greenhouses, something in 

 this way: He thinks that for a plant 

 of 50,000 square feet of glass, a tank, 

 say, of l.'),000 gallons capacity, buried 

 under ground, with the necessary pumps, 

 piping and jets, attached to the present 

 horizontal tubular boilers, would cost 

 approximately from $3,500 to $4,000. 

 In this latitude something like 70,000 

 gallons of oil would be required to carry 

 a moderate temperature in all the green- 

 houses on a place of this size. It would, 

 then, simply be a question of obtaining 

 the oil at a fair price. The oil men as- 

 sure Mr. Macaw that there will be no 

 difilculty, whatever, in filling his tank, 

 whenever necessary. They further be- 

 lieve that 4% cents a gallon would be 

 a fair price for fuel and that oil of this 

 price delivered would be about equal in 

 value to a ton of high-grade soft coal 

 for $5. The only difficulty lies in the 

 fact that the oil men are not yet willing 

 to sign contracts protecting the owner 

 of perishable property from loss in the 

 event of their failure to deliver at a 

 fixed price. Mr. Macaw believes that 

 the day will soon be here when this diffi- 

 culty will be overcome and that the 

 immense saving in labor and increase in 

 the efficiency of the boilers will make 

 the use of oil for fuel in greenhouses 

 general. 



SasebaU. 



The second week in August was the 

 liveliest so far in baseball circles. Three 

 big games were played, all at Belmont 

 The first, Monday afternoon, August 8, 

 was between the Pennock and Rice 

 teams. Owing to the absence of their 

 regular pitcher and two players, the Rice 

 team failed to do themselves justice, 

 Pennock winning easily by a score of 

 36 to 9. Both the other games were 

 played on Wednesday, August 10, and 

 both were hotly contested from start to 

 finish. The Niessen team met the Inde- 

 pendents in a quickly played game, last- 

 ing little more than two hours. Millet 

 and Lee were opposed to Peil, Meehan 



NEW CROP ROSES 



RUSSELL 

 COLUMBIA and BUTTERFLY 



Some of our growers are just starting to cut on a 

 new crop. ' We have an ample supply of these varieties 

 from Shorts to Specials, especially in Russell and Colum- 

 bia. They are of a very tine quality, and prices are 

 leasonable. 



We also recommend: 



VALLEY — Of a very tine (luality. 

 GLADIOLI — In all the Best commercial varieties. 

 GOOD ASTERS— In quantity. 

 A fresh supply of LILIES every day. 



Depend on us for your Cut Flowers. We offer you 

 a dependable supply of what is in season every day in 

 the year. 



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



THE LEO NIESSEN CO. 



Wholesale Florists 



Branches: 1201-3-5 Rac* St. 



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EASTER LILIES, can ship in bud or bloom. 



GLADIOLI — Peace, America, Niagara, Schwaben ROSES 



ASTERS, all colors 



Snapdragons, Delphinium Belladonna 



ORDER EARLY. PLEASE 



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PHILADELPHIA 



Asters Gladioli Roses 



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Ke|?to„!'SS»ml-ui« 1517S«ittoin St. Philaddphia, Pa. 



GEORGE AEUGLI 

 Proprietor 



and Miller. After a hard-fought battle 

 of nine innings the Independents proved 

 victorious by the narrow margin of one 

 run, the score being 13 to 12. The game 

 between the Craig and Rice teams was 

 stubbornly fought all the way through, 

 the score standing 14 to 14 at the end of 

 the eighth inning. Then the Craig men 

 made a tremendous effort and scored five 

 runs in the ninth inning. Alas for them, 

 darkness intervened and the umpire was 

 obliged to call back the game to the 

 eighth inning, a tie. A feature of the 

 game was Raymond Brunswick's stealing 

 home from third, while the Craig 



pitcher was winding op. The game wi 



be replayed. The standing of the clubs 



follows: 



Tpiims Won Lost 



IVnnock 4 



Independents 8 2 



Craig 1 1 



Itiokmore 9 1 



lUee 3 



Schedule for this week: Bickmore vs. 

 Independents; Bickmore vs. Craig, and 

 Independents vs. Craig. 



Vaxious Notes. 



Samuel S. Pennock writes from Essen, 

 Germany, that the Friends' Relief is 



