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The Florists' Re^^ 



AUODST 21, 1018. 



ASTERS, - - $1.00 to $3.00 per 100 



Asters can be had in any quantity. The quality is up to the usual standard for this season of the year, the 

 blossoms being large and of good color. At $1.50 to $2.00 per hundred, we can furnish you excellent stock. 

 Shorts for design worlf, good flowers, at $1.00 per hundred. Having quantities to select from, we offer you . 



advantages that you cannot find elsewhere. 



BEAUTIES, 



$1.00 to $3.00 per dozen 



Our growers are cutting quantities of the medium grades, at $5.00 to $12.00 per hundred, which are in good 



demand with the trade, and you should find ready sale for them. The flowers are excellent for so early in 



the season. They are of a fair size and good color, with plenty of clean foliage. 



EASTER LILIES 



$10.00 per 100 



Our Lilies are fine, and can strongly recommend them to you. Our supply is a steady and dependable one, as 

 some of our growers make a specialty of growing Lilies during the Sunlmer months. 



FIELD GROWN CARNATION PLANTS look for our Classified adv. 



THE LEO NIESSEN CO., wholesale FlorUts 



N. W. Corner 12th and Race Sim. ts ii is PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention Th. Review when yon writ*. 



PHTT.ADELPHIA. 



The Eastern Market. 



Biisiness is rather dull. There are good 

 days and poor ones. Opinion is fairly 

 evenly divided as to whether conditions 

 are as good as they usually are in mid- 

 summer; let us take a hopeful view and 

 believe that they are. Good flowers are 

 in much better demand than poor ones. 

 The prices are so low that no one objects 

 to the price; the thing is to get the 

 flowers in the proper stage of develop- 

 ment. Beauties, locally grown, are finer 

 and more plentiful than a week ago. There 

 are some good Killamey and a few 

 nice White Enchantress. A few really 

 superb asters are offered and some fancy 

 dahlias show what is to come. The other 

 flowers show little change from a week 

 ago. Most of the business is for funerals, 

 but some large entertainments at the 

 fashionable seashore and mountain re- 

 sorts have made heavy demands on the 

 market and there are always a few flow- 

 ers used for gifts. 



A Triumph. 



Last May Edward Eeid received a tele- 

 graphic order for flowers to be sent to a 

 distant point C. O. D. Through an error 

 of the Western Union Telegraph Co., 

 that part of the order given to carna- 

 tions read 2,000 instead of 200. This 

 error caused the bill, amounting to $67, 

 to so greatly exceed the expectations of 

 the florist who sent the order that he 

 declined to accept the shipment. Feeling 

 that he had carried out his part faith- 

 fully, Mr. Beid would not interfere. The 

 telegraph company admitted its error, 

 but declined to make good. Its New York 

 attorneys wrote one of those nonsensical 

 letters that corporation lawyers some- 

 times indulge in wh«n dealing with sup- 

 posedly weak individuals. Mr. Eeid 

 promptly brought suit, notified all his biit- 

 of-town customers that it would be bet- 

 ter not to use the Western Union lines 

 and ordered his call box removed. The 

 telegraph company quickly came to terms, 

 paid the amount of the bill and all costs 

 and asked that the ban on their wires 

 be removed, as they were getting letters 

 of inquiry from all over the country. 



BERGER BROS 



Have Splendid Facilities for 



Handling Cut Flowers Promptly 



Visitors are Welcome 



Asters f.'n'e 



COLORS 

 QUALITY 



Roses Easter Lilies Gladiolus 



AND ALL SUMMER FLOWERS 



140-142 N. 13th St - • Phiiadelpliia, Pa. 



Mention The Rerlcw when yon write. 



Mr. Reid was graciously pleased to ac- 

 cede to their request. 



Our Western Delegation. 



Some years ago the late Edward Ever- 

 ett Hale came to our house to supper. 

 While here the dear old gentleman told a 

 story of how he was going out to West 

 Philadelphia in the trolley the night be- 

 fore to deliver a rather dry lecture at 

 the university. The car rapidly filled 

 with girls and boys, who crossed the 

 river with him. He thought how nice it 

 was that all these girls and boys were 

 going out to "Fenn" to hear him lec- 

 ture. When they all got out of the car 

 to go to a popular show — I think it was 

 a circus — he felt it was better so. I 

 was reminded forcibly of this story when 

 the newspaper men gathered in Broad 

 Street station last Sunday morning to 



see our delegation off for Minneapolis. 

 There ' were four of them, Thomas J. 

 Lane, Fred J. Michell, Jr., Theodore 

 Shober and Antoine Wintzer. Evidently 

 Waretown and Ocean City drew the 

 crowd. Where was John Westcottf In- 

 quiry over the telephone revealed the 

 fact that the train from Barnegat bay 

 had not been belated, but the great com- 

 modore was resting quietly at home. The 

 man who had led our delegation so 

 bravely year after year to every city in 

 the country felt that the time had come 

 for him to withdraw. Counting those 

 who went before, sixteen Philadelphians 

 are known to have gone to the convention ; 

 they will give a good account of them- 

 selves. 



Charles D. Ball. 



To do one thing well year after year, 



