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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Febbcabt 21, 1907. 



Our FEBRIARY SPECIALTIES- 



ORCHIDS, Pink and White Sprays 

 ACACIA PUBESCENS SINGLE DAFFODILS 



WHITE LILACS FANCY MIGNONETTE 



TULIPS PANSIES FREESIAS 



The Leo Niessen Co« 



Note our new number. 



WHOLESSLE ELORISTS 



1209 Arch Street, 



Philadelphia, Pa. 



Open from 7 ». m. to 8 p. m. Our Service la Unexcelled. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



ester, will discuss "Forestry from a 

 Commercial Standpoint," February 23, 

 at Horticultural hall. 



Backer & Co., of Billerica, who are 

 carnation specialists, have many fine 

 seedlings this season, some yellow ones 

 being of special merit. 



S. J. Goddard had a heavy order for 

 flowers of his carnation, Helen Goddard, 

 for a banquet at the Parker house the 

 past week. W. N. Cbaiq. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market* 



It is a buyer's market, with prices 

 receding on all but two or three of the 

 scarcer varieties of flowers. The great- 

 est fall in prices has been on bulbous 

 flowers, which are extremely fine and 

 very plentiful. Buyers who could use 

 these in thousand lots obtained the 

 lowest prices of the season, and the 

 average returns to the growers will be 

 lower than usual at this time of year. 

 Some of the buyers have taken advan- 

 tage of these conditions to use great 

 quantities of Golden Spur, offering them 

 at tempting prices that were little if 

 any above the normal wholesale rates. 

 .Carnations are also much lower than 

 before Lent, the principal decline being 

 on fancy grades. Tea roses, too, are 

 much more plentiful, with prices ruling 

 lower. The other declines most marked 

 are in calla lilies and violets; the latter 

 sold remarkably well up to Ash Wednes- 

 day, but since then have receded in 

 price. The strong features of the list 

 are Beauties, the fancy grades still so 

 scarce that they command extraordi- 

 nary Lenten prices; cattleyas, which 

 have advanced slightly, and greens, 

 smilax and Adiantum Croweanum being 

 in remarkably brisk demand. Return- 

 ing to St. Valentine's, business taken 

 as a whole was disappointing. Myoso- 

 tis, however, sold extraordinarily well, 

 the prices realized being the highest 

 ever recorded, several thousand sprays 

 realizing from $2.50 to $4 per hundred. 

 Indications point to still further de- 

 clines in several varieties of flowers be- 

 fore normal conditions are reestab- 

 lished. 



THE Florists' Supply House of America 



Easter Novelties 



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 of the popular Toneware. 



HAVE TOU XNOUGH GRASS HEADS? 



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H. BAYERSDORIER & CO. 



1129 Arch St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mr. Stokes' Latest Itnportatioti. 



Walter P. Stokes, the popular and 

 successful head of the S. S. S., which 

 you can read either as Stokes' Seed 

 Store or Stokes' Standard Seeds, ac- 

 cording to the position in which it 

 stands, has just received a new and 

 very interesting importation in the 

 shape of a box of raffiatape, which ap- 

 pears to be an improvement on the 

 common raffia used so extensively for 

 tying plants. Eaffiatape is corrugated, 

 colored green and Mr. Stokes says is 

 cheaper than raffia. It is put up very 

 neatly and so arranged that it may be 

 either used by fastening the reel in the 

 buttonhole or in coils to be put in the 

 pocket. Better see Mr. Stokes about 

 this raffiatape before you tie your 

 lilies. 



Various Notes. 



Paul Berkowitz, of the firm of H. 

 Bayersdorfer & Co., returned on Mon- 



day from a four weeks' trip, which he 

 describes as "extremely cold," though 

 his business friends greeted him most 

 warmly. Businessly speaking, it was 

 the most successful trip the congenial 

 Mr. Berkowitz has ever enjoyed. 



W. J. Sherry, of the Johnson Seed 

 Co., reports an excellent mail demand 

 for all varieties of seeds. The com- 

 pany's store is a very busy place just 

 now. 



Robert Craig will be one of the 

 judges at the American Eose Society's 

 exhibition at Washington next month. 



Walter P. Stokes is delighted with 

 his new truss houses, which stood the 

 great weight of snow without the 

 slightest difficulty. 



J. Stern has returned from a success- 

 ful business trip this week. 



The committee in charge of the ways 

 and means for the national society's 

 convention here in August met on Mon- 



