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The Florists' Review 



V 



May 20. 1915. 



WHITE AND YELLOW 



Daisies 



$1.00 $1.50 per 100 



STOCKS and SNAPDRAGON 

 in quantity. 



THE LEO HIESSEN CO. 



WHOUSALE FLORISTS 



12th and Race Sts., riDLADELPinA,PA. 



BALTIMORE. MD. WASHINGTON. D. C. 



Beauties 



$1.00-$3.00 per dozen. 



Philadelphia's best Beauties 

 and the largest supply in 

 this market. 



MEMORIAL DAY 



Will bring you a large volume of business. You must be prepared for 

 the extra business that is sure to come j'our way. 



You can depend on quality and reasonable prices in all lines of cut 

 flowers, especially in Peonies and Double Blue Cornflowers. 



Place your order as early as possible. You cannot do better than 

 place your order for Cut Flowers and Greens with us. 



LOCAL PEONIES ROSES 



Carnations Cornflowers 



will be the leaders with us for this week. 



$2.00 

 per 1000 



DAGGER FERNS 



$2.00 

 per 1000 



New Nearby Dagger Ferns at the most reasonable prices. Extra long, 

 the kind you should have for your Memorial Day business. 



Valley, 



$3.00-$4.00 per 100 



Easter Lilies, 



$1.50 per dozen; $10.00 per 100 



Baby Gladiolus, 



$3.00-$4.00 per 100 



Gladiolus, 



$8.00-$10.00 per 100 



Cattleyas, 



The best, light or dark, $6.00 

 per doz. 



FANCY FERNS, $2.50 PER 1000 



BRONZE GALAX, $7 50 CASE 



Mwitlon Thy B^Tlew whga job wrif. 



den, says the Sunday visitors are be- 

 coming more numerous. The new bed- 

 ding and exhibitions seem to please the 

 visiting public greatly. Sunday, May 

 16, the attendance was the largest of 

 the year. 



Several in the trade have been do- 

 ing jury duty so far this month. Your 

 scribe is doing his this week. Sheriff 

 Joseph Dickman, a former seedsman 

 and member of the Florists' Club, 

 seems to have a liking for florists aa 

 jurymen. 



The trustees of the Florists' Club say 

 the June meeting will be the twenty- 

 ninth anniversary meeting. They are 

 planning for something out of the ordi- 

 nary for the occasion. J. J. B. 



PHIIiADELFHIA. 



The Market. 



Cool weather has checked production 

 and improved quality to a degree that 

 has put the market into better shape. 

 There have been bad days and good 

 ones; days so good that it was possible 

 to dispose of all the nice, clean stock 

 at moderate prices. Business is fair 

 for the middle of May; the lower 

 prices enable the buyers outside the 

 fashionable quarters to use more flow- 

 ers than in winter. 



The changes from a week ago are 

 quickly told. Iris, which has been a 

 satisfactory crop, is now a thing of the 

 past; outdoor iris by no means takes 

 the place of the greenhouse-grown stock. 

 Peonies are coming in more freely, 

 both from the south and locally. Tone 

 has been given to much of the green- 

 house-grown stock by the cool nights. 

 Outdoor flowers enrich decorations and 

 show windows. Qreetis increase. 



The experts consider the outlook for 

 Memorial day as promising, more prom- 



BERGER BROS 



PEONIES 



A good assortment of colors in the very best 

 varieties all through the season. 



Extra select Valley, Sweet Peas, the new 

 Orange QIadlolus Hollandia, Baby Gladiolus 

 and the best cut flowers and greens. 



1225 RACE ST. PHILADELPHIA 



Mcndoa The Rcrlew wbca joa writ*. 



ising than usual. They base their cal- 

 culations on the belief that heavy crops 

 of peonies will not be harvested here 

 before May 25. If this calculation 

 proves correct, that is, if a hot wave 

 comes now, the market will take all the 

 peonies of quality at fair prices. It 

 seems more than likely that indoor 

 crops will not be overabundant; that 

 is, that there will be no surplus, thus 

 affording a free field for the peonies. 



Spring Plants. 



An encouraging feature of the plant 

 market is the unusual demand for soft- 

 wooded stock for beds, boxes and bas- 

 kets, a demand that has not been 

 nearly equaled in the past. Ferns in 

 6-inch pots especially are extremely 

 scarce. This applies to nearly all sizes 

 of the Boston type. Geraniums in 

 bloom are hard to obtain, while nearly 

 all varieties of flowering plants and 



