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The Florists' Review 



April 13. 1022 



of Schiller's, Chicago, and C. G. Kootz, 

 of Indianapolis. G. H. K, 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



Business slackened at the beginning 

 of last week, quickening at the close. 

 The general health of the city and 

 country was good and white flowers, no- 

 tably lilies and lilacs, were dull. The 

 carnation crop shortened perceptibly, 

 keeping the price firm. Snapdragons 

 are in full crop. 



The weather seemed to have less to 

 do with market conditions than usual, 

 because the dull period did not favor 

 production, while the warm weather 

 came with improvement, but this was 

 apparent only because the demand ma- 

 terially increased as Palm Sunday ap- 

 proached, regardless of weather condi- 

 tions. 



Business is especially well distrib- 

 uted among the different varieties of 

 flowers. The bulbous group, sweet peas, 

 roses, carnations, snapdragons and the 

 miscellaneous group all receive strong 

 support. Prices are not high, except 

 here and there, but the trading is large 

 and the outlook for Easter is bright. 



The Lace Flower. 



It may not be generally known that 

 Charles Henry Fox has created a con- 

 siderable demand for the so-called lace 

 flower. The lace flower resembles the 

 wild carrot in appearance, except in 

 color, which is blue. Mr. Fox secured 

 seed of this flower, advertised and sold 

 it and induced Zieger & Son to grow it 

 for cut flowers. Zieger & Son have two 

 benches of the lace flowers on their 

 place, on East Washington lane; one 

 bench was in bloom for the Christmas 

 holidays; the other batch is in full 

 bloom now. The flowers are durable 

 and have made a hit. 



Snapdragon. 



Snapdragon is such an important fac- 

 tor in the cut flower market this Easter 

 that a little "snap story" is in season. 



It is the ambition of every grower of 

 snapdragons to get flowers early, just 

 as it is the ambition of every bulb 

 forcer. Early snapdragons should be 

 in bloom at Thanksgiving, be at their 

 best at Christmas and continue through 

 January; it is awfully difficult and 

 hardly anybody does it. There is, how- 

 ever, at least one snapdragon specialist 

 who does it and does it easily. He does 

 not plant extremely early, but the seed- 

 lings go right ahead unchecked. He 

 cuts at Thanksgiving, he is in crop at 

 Christmas and he cuts heavily through- 

 out January, all extra fine stuff, care- 

 fully disbudded and grown to perfec- 

 tion, and he gets an awful price for 

 his flowers. 



Various Notes. 



Recent visitors included T. B. Mc- 

 Clintock, Scranton, Pa.; John Giles, 

 Reading, Pa.; George H. Berke, Atlan- 

 tic City. N. J., and John C. Hatcher, of 

 Amsterdam, N. Y. 



J. P. McCarthy has resigned his po- 

 sition with the M. Rice Co.; he went 

 into business for himself at Camden, 

 N. J., April 1. 



There have been many visitors here 

 from New York and from Baltimore 

 within the last few days. 



Mrs. George H. Stout, of Short Hills, 

 N. J., spoke on the cultivation of 



Now and until the end of the season 

 we can furnish you in quantity 



Russell Roses 



of a very fine quality. The best pink rose 

 for shipping purposes. All grades, from 

 shorts to 36 inches long. 



Hadley Roses 



all grades, some 36 inches long. 



Premier and Columbia 

 Ophelia and Butterfly 

 Double White Killamey 



There is almost no limit to the supply of our 

 Roses, and for this reason we are in a position 

 to give the utmost value, and carefully 

 selected stock. 



THE LEO NIESSEN CO. 



Wholesale Floruta 



1201-3-S Race St. 



PHILADELPHIA 



Branches: 



BALTIMORE 

 WASHINGTON 



BERGER BROTHERS 



Sweet Peas Darwin Tulips 



Daffodils Callas Carnations 



Roses Snapdragons 



Easter Lilies all the year around 



1609 Sansom Street PHILADELPHIA 



EDWARD REID 



EXTRA 



EASTER LILIES 



SWEET PEAS 

 DAFFODILS 



FINE VALLEY 



SNAPDRAGONS 

 CALLA LILIES 

 CARNATIONS 



PREMIER COLUMBIA BUTTERFLY 



AND ALL THE LEADING ROSES 



V^»n Thmy'n Rmid'a Th^y'rm Right 



1619-21 Ranstead St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



