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The Florists' Review 



AuocsT 25, 1921 



largo quantities and the place will be 

 known as the Homo Lawn Flower Gar- 

 dens. 



Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Bohannon and 

 S. Bryson Ayres drove to Sedalia, Mo., 

 Wednesday and back Friday. 



August Luther has built a new retail 

 store in connection with his greenhouse. 

 The former store was too small. As 

 this part of Twenty-seventh street is all 

 business, he was permitted to build to 

 the sidewalk. Instead of going to the 

 line he left a few feet for flowers and 

 ornamental shrubs outside and thus 

 addded a great deal to the appearance. 

 There is a plate glass front twenty-five 

 feet wide. The store is thirty feet deep. 

 Ah effective lighting plan makes the 

 place prominent at night. 



Mrs. J. H. Boyd will add a high-class 

 cut flower department to her downtown 

 flower store in September. 



Miss Nettie Seymour is on vacation. 



Mrs. John Murray is in California. 



The Alpha Floral Co. had seven fu- 

 nerals of overseas soldiers August 14. 



Miss Virginia Bales, of Excelsior 

 Springs, Mo., is visiting her cousin, 

 Mrs. R. J. McGrail. 



A. Newell 's shop had three heavy 

 (lays last week and was prepared to 

 start early Monday morning, August 22, 

 on orders for a funeral. 



Nelson Jarrett intends to go into the 

 nursery business. He will grow peren- 

 nials and hardy shrubs on the ground 

 adjoining the greenhouses. Richard 

 •Tarrett will take over the greenhouses. 



Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Chandler have 

 returned from Minnesota. 



Joseph Austin has gone to Hot 

 Springs, Ark., for a month. Mrs. Austin 

 will join him the first part of Septem- 

 ber. 



Bernard Barbe, who has been in Colo- 

 rado the last few weeks, has continued 

 his motor trip to California. 



O'Connell's Flower Shop made up 

 more than $200 worth of work for the 

 funeral of Joseph Gilday. 



Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Cane are spending 

 the week-ends at their cottage near 

 Greenwood, Mo. J. E. K. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



Convention week was dull in the cut 

 flower market. The out-of-town orders 

 ;ire fair for niidsuninier. The local busi- 

 ness is light. Really good asters are 

 wanted. The New York state growers 

 are not shipping here now; their fine 

 ostrich plumes are missed. Maybe we 

 did not deserve them. However, we 

 have good gladioli and extremely good 

 roses, and we expect indoor asters. 

 White flowers have been selling better 

 than colored, especially white roses. 

 For the colored roses the demand is 

 poor. Dahlias have made their appear- 

 ance. Here, too, white sell, and white 

 only as yet. Cosmos and hydrangeas 

 are more plentiful. Easter lilies are an 

 important staple for every day in the 

 year, while valley can be had whenever 

 it is wanted. 



The Washington Convention. 



The Philadelfihians — there were a good 

 many of them — who attended the S. A. F. 

 convention in Washington, must have 

 experienced a feeling of just pride that 

 they came from the Quaker City, after 

 they had walked through the exhibition 

 hall. Something like one-half of the 

 space in the armory was occupied by 



No matter what season of the year, 



We aim to carry a full line of 

 everything the market affords: 



Some of the Best Cut Flower items 

 are 



ROSES 



The varieties that we particularly recommend are 

 RUSSELL, COLUMBIA and BUTTERFLY. 



The first two varieties we have in all grades from 

 Shorts to Specials. They are the best summer roses 

 we have ever handled, 



GLADIOLI 



Only the better commercial varieties we use for.ship- 

 ping purposes. We have plenty of the lighter shades. 



If you are buying flowere outside of your Local 

 market, you will do well to send that business in Our 

 Direction. 



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



THE LEO NIESSEN CO. 



Wholesale florUte 



1S01.3-B Rae* St. 



PHILADELPHIA 



BnachcK 



BALTIMORE 

 WASHINGTON 



BERGER BROTHERS 



EASTER LILIES» can ship in bud or bloom. 



GLADIOLI — Peace, America, Niagara, Schwtben ROSES 



ASTERS, all colors 



Snapdragons, Delphinium Belladonna, Dahlias 



ORDER EARLY, PLEASE 



1609 Sansom Street PHILADELPHIA 



Asters Gladioli Roses 



PHILADELPHIA CUT FLOWER CO. 



Pbon«a: 



WhoUMl* FkMTlsta 



K.f^!^'.!''S^\m-ni> 1517 Sansom St, PhiUddpliia, Pa. 



GEORGE AEUOLE 

 Proprietor 



Philadelphia exhibits, chiefly those of 

 the plantsmen and of the dealers in flo- 

 rists' supplies. Both classes of exhibits 

 were of a high order and the quality of 

 the plants was probably the best that 

 has ever been seen at any convention. 

 The arrangement of the exhibits of flo- 

 rists' supplies was undoubtedly better 

 than anything seen in the past, while 

 all were largo and covered a great va- 

 riety of novel ideas. The impression 

 created in the mind of the visitor was 

 that, should any untoward event haj)- 

 pen to the greenhouses of this country, 

 the supply men would instantly and 



cheerfully fill the void. It would no* 

 give them the least trouble to do this. 

 Th(! real advantage of the Washingtoi 

 convention lay, as it always does ii 

 these .gatherings, in meeting men ani 

 women who are making their mark ii 

 the world of flowers — to exchange view 

 with them, hear of their achievement 

 and their problems and learn to kno^ 

 and to like them. 



The Coming Election. 



With the approach of the September 

 meeting of the Florists' Club, whei 

 officers are to be nominated for th 



