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Dkcrmbkr l(h 1914. 



BOXWOOD 



$7.50 par cas* 



It is the best you have ever 

 used . 



Immediate Delivery 



THE LEO MESSEN CO. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS ^ 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



BALTIMORE and WASHINGTON 



NEW BRONZE 

 QALAX 



S7.50 par caaa 



LONQ GREEN 

 LEUCOTHOES 



$6.80 par lOOO 



White Lilac 



of the best quality, and it should 

 prove very desirable stock. 



$1 .50 per bunch 



Cypripedium 



will be in large supply, and no or- 

 ders will go unfilled. 



$15.00 per lOO 



Gardenias 



are one of our specialties, and no- 

 where will you find a better sup- 

 ply, or flowers of better (luality. 



Mignonette 



Big, heavy spikes, unusually well 

 Kro»vn. 



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FOR YOUR 



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Christmas Business 



we can positively assure you of the best values 

 in everything in season in the Cut Flower line 



BEAUTIES of unusual quality — thousands of them. Mostly of 

 the top grades; also a good supply of the medium. 



All the Tea Roses worth growing — plenty of them in all grades, 

 including a good supply of red roses, the most desired color for 

 the holidays. 



CARNATIONS of the best commercial varieties, the kind that 

 will ship and arrive in satisfactory condition. 



Choice quality Valley, pink and yellow SnapdrogOD, white 



and yellow Daisies and Boiivardia. 



Place Your Order Now, as It Never Pays to Walt Until the Last Moment 



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PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



Winter is the jnoiiouncoil ffjituie of 

 the market for the week pndinfr Decem- 

 ber 9. Perhaps it niijjht better be said, 

 from summer to winter, for this would 

 pretty nearly cover the variation in 

 temperature, to say nothing of the 

 change from clear to dark days, with 

 rain, sleet and snow. Business has not 

 been good; that is, not good for De- 

 cember. There have been good days, 

 but there have also lieeTi poor ones, not 

 generally expected now. The out-of- 

 town demand has furnisheil the main- 

 stay of the market, with only fair local 

 support. Prices have l)een weak ami 

 irregular, excepting for certain things, 

 usually of fine quality or that are ])r()- 

 duced in small quantity. There are 

 no special features to the market, un 

 less it be the gradual disappearance of 

 the chrysanthemums, which really may 

 not entirely disappear before the dose 

 of the month. 



There is great activity in Christmas 

 green, holly, boxwood, lycopoilium and, 

 to a lesser extent, mistletoe. The su|>- 

 ply api)ears an^.ple aiul of good quality, 

 with prices about the same as last 

 season. 



The December Meeting. 



The Florists' Club decided, in honor, 

 of tlie out-of-town lecturer, that ' the 

 meeting DecemV>er 1 should be held in 

 the lecture room of Horticultural hall 

 instead of in the dubroom. Vice-Presi- 

 dent Gracey was in the chair. After 

 routine business, Charles Henry Fox, 



BERGER BROS. 



HOLLY BOXWOOD 



Qlossy, green, $4.00 and $5.00 per case Per case of 50 lbs., $7.50 



HOLLY WREATHS 



$12.50. SK^.OO and $18.00 per 100 



LYCOPODIUM 



$9.00 per 100 lbs. 



PUSSY WILLOW 



Scarlet Poinsettias Paper Whites 

 Chrysanthemums 



THE BEST OPi^VERYTHINQ IN THE MARKET 



1225 RACE ST. PHILADELPHIA 



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cl^iiriuan of« the essay committee, in- 

 troduced the speaker of the evening in 

 a few well chosen words. Prof. Shel- 

 don, chief of the Shelilon school, s{)oke 

 on "Jiusiness Building,'' including 

 salesmanshiji. The speaker is a lec- 

 turer of marked ability, who ])ut in 



words what many of his hearers know, 

 and a great deal more. The grouping 

 of the members in the room was rather 

 curious. The entire right was filled by 

 those in power and their friends; the 

 left, presumably by the opposition, 

 while between these two wings there 



