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The Florists^ Review 



Mabch 16. 1922 



his first business visit last week, calling 

 on the fustonicrs of the late Martin 

 Renkaiif. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Tbe Market. 



The market is in fair, but by no 

 means first-class condition. There are 

 good days and poor ones. Most often, 

 flowers are sold at prices that are gen- 

 erally conceded to be good for this sea- 

 son. There are some of the commoner 

 flowers that bring but a sou or are 

 wasted — calendulas, short freesias, mig- 

 nonette, New York double violets and 

 other odds and ends. 



Beauties are beginning to arrive 

 more freely; the spring crop is coming. 

 Otherwise, there is no especial change 

 in the rose market, except the changes 

 made by the buyers, who often transfer 

 their patronage to other varieties when 

 Lent comes. 



The carnation crop is still heavy and 

 prices are low and values irregular. 

 Some of the growers realize more for 

 flowers now than in midwinter; produc- 

 tion is so much larger. 



Sweet peas have further declined in 

 price, owing chiefly to this crop going 

 off. Valley is dull. There are a good 

 many poor orchids. Tulips are selling 

 rather well; better than for several 

 seasons past. Prince of Austria, Fred 

 Moore, Murillo and Couronne d'Or are 

 the leading varieties. Daffodils con- 

 tinue to enjoy active trading at prices 

 that are considered low. Much green 

 is sold. 



Shamrocks. 



The plant event of the week was the 

 marketing of 90,000 pots of shamrock 

 for St. Patrick 's day. They are sown, 

 grown and, for the most part, delivered 

 in 2%-inch pots. A few are taken from 

 these pots and put into shamrock- 

 shaped pans. They are grown by Wil- 

 liam K. Harris in two entire houses at 

 Fifty-fifth street and Springfield ave- 

 nue. They are sold to department 

 stores, which give them away as an ad- 

 vertisement. 



Marl. 



A New York firm, with headquar- 

 ters at Yonkers, is placing a new fer- 

 tilizer, called Marl, on the market. At 

 least, it is new hereabouts. Marl, it is 

 claimed, has been mined for the last 

 two years at a place about fourteen 

 miles outside of Camden, N. J. Marl, 

 it is claimed, is obtained from a depth of 

 thirty-five feet below the surface of the 

 ground. It contains six per cent potash 

 and is, therefore, valuable for produc- 

 ing' a luxuriant growth on many crops. 

 The value of Marl as a first-class fer- 

 tilizer is firmly believed in by its in- 

 troducers. 



The Nurserymen. 



The style of literature sent out by 

 the nurserymen this season shows orig- 

 inality and progressive methods. J. 

 Franklin Meehan and son, Thomas Mee- 

 han III, sent a well-written letter, en- 

 closing a postal card for reply on which 

 are conventionally printed the differ- 

 ent branches of their business. You 

 arc asked to put a cross opposite the 

 name of the work desired. 



Adolph Mueller wants you to plant 

 something. He suggests a visit to his 

 De Kalb nurseries to see things grow- 

 ing and to talk over matters. Mr. 

 Mueller closes the bright letter in his 



Flowers in all the seasonable lines continue to be 

 plentiful, and the quality of the stock is all that 

 can be desired. 



Our Beauty grower reports there will be a larger 

 supply and that the quality will probably be 

 better than we have had for some time. 



In Roses, in such varieties as Premier, Columbia, 

 Butterfly, Ophelia, Hadley, we do not hesitate to 

 say our supply has no equal. 



In small corsage Roses, we recommend Maybelle, 

 McDonald and C. Brunner. 



There are plenty of ORCHIDS 



Any quantity of GARDENIAS 



An abundance of VALLEY. 



A large cut of SNAPDRAGON in several shades 

 of pink, yellow, and bronze; in fact, there is so 

 much good stock on the market that we cannot 

 itemize them all here. 



It is safe for you to depend on us for your supply 

 of cut flowers. What is in season, you are sure 

 to find here. 



THE LEO NIESSEN CO. 



Wholesale FlorUta 



1201-3-S Rae* St. 



PHILADELPHIA 



Branches: 



BALTIHORE 

 WASHINGTON 



BERGER BROTHERS 



SPRING FLOWERS 



CAIXA LILIES, TTJUPS 



Daffodils, Snapdragrons, Sweet Peas, Sin^rle Violets, 

 Valley, Pussy Willows and Roses 



EASTER LILIES ALL THE YEAR AROUND. 



1609 Sansom Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



EDWARD REID 



SWEET PEAS CALLA LILIES 



DAFFODILS CARNATIONS 



VIOLETS VALLEY 



PREMIER COLUMBIA BUTTERFLY 



AND ALL THE LEADING ROSES 



mtmn They're Reid't They're Right 



1619-21 Ranstead St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



