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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Fbbbuabt 28, 1007. 



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OIR SPECIALTIES 



ORCHIDS 



Pink and White Sprays 



WHITE LILACS SINGLE DSEEODILS 



TULIPS PANSIES FREESISS 



FANCY BRIDE, BRIDESMAID AND RICHMOND 



A complete line of Ciioice Easter Plants. Price list on request 



The Leo Niessen Co 



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WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



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Philadelphia, Pa. 



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next chrysanthemum show met and the 

 prize list was partly fixed so the school 

 children will be given a chance to com- 

 pete by a free distribution of plants, 

 and this was a good proposition, 

 brought by Paul Abele. M. M. L. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



The market has shown further shrink- 

 age in values during the last week, 

 noticeable especially on carnations, 

 sweet peas, lilac and valley. Migno- 

 nette, too, has depreciated, owing, 

 chiefly, to lack of quality. It is rather 

 difficult for bulbous flowers to depre- 

 ciate in value. Golden Spur, as re- 

 corded last week, being lower than in 

 the memory of man. Tulips, too, are 

 pretty cheap; even the buyers say that 

 and the quality in general is fair. 

 Daffodils are rather less plentiful than 

 a week ago, but they, too, are cheap. 

 Freesia has passed its glory. There are 

 plenty of good flowers about, but they 

 are less plentiful and lower in price. 

 Paper Whites can still be seen, but 

 Romans are practically over, so far as 

 the quality is concerned. Easter lilies 

 have fallen off a trifle, and white lilac 

 can now be had at bargain prices. Vio- 

 lets are in good supply, of fine quality, 

 and at the current prices, which are 

 fair for the season, they sell pretty 

 well, the street men clearing up the 

 day-old stock at reasonably good 

 figures. Carnations are in moderately 

 good supply, of fine quality and in fair 

 demand. Eoses shortened up a trifle 

 since a week ago. Some fine Bride, 

 Bridesmaid and Richmond are coming 

 in. Beauties are so scarce that the 

 extra and medium grades are practic- 

 ally out of the market, specials of fair 

 quality and what the street terms 

 "bum shojrts, " being in evidence. 

 Sweet peas are plentiful and of fine 

 quality. Pink are in fair demand, but 

 white are rather hard to sell. Prices 

 are unusually low for the season. 

 Greens have been selling well. 



Pittville. 

 During the spring months our florists 

 may be divided into two camps, one em- 



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Easter Novelties 



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Baskets, an immense collection. 



Qmaah Sea Moss beautiful in small baskets for house 



Pot Covers, 

 Hampers, 

 Crepe Papers, 

 Grecian Toneware, 



beautiful in small 

 decoration. 



our specialty. Name standard pot sizes you wish to 

 cover. We will fit tbem properly. 



for Daisies. The swellest novelty out. They are round, 

 steel gray. Flowers hand painted, all sizes. "^ 



very choice. Two colors in each. Combinations 

 for every variety of blooming plant. 



graceful lines, soft colors. A vase 

 that appeals to every one. All sizes. 



HAVE YOU KNOUGH GRASS HEADS? 



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H. BAYERSDORFER & CO. 



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bracing West Philadelphia and the cen- 

 trally located stores professing allegi- 

 ance to Jacob Becker; the other em- 

 bracing North Philadelphia, Kensington, 

 Tioga and Germantown, who follow the 

 banner of Charles Meckey. Their rule 

 is as absolute, though less arbitrary, 

 than that of Senator McNichol or of the 

 Vare brothers. For every florist who 

 wants good roses, geraniums or other 

 garden plants encompassed by well 

 burnt clay in standard sizes knows one 

 or the other of these places to be his 

 Mecca at some time during the busy 

 spring. 



Great, then, was the consternation in 

 North Philadelphia, Kensington, Tioga 

 and Germantown when it became known 

 last summer that Charles Meckey had 

 pulled up his stakes, removing his en- 

 tire plant from the built-up section at 

 Seventeenth and Erie streets to a place 



called Pittville, nobody knew just where. 

 The Review, being, as you know, most 

 progressive, dispatched Phil to ascer- 

 tain where that might be. It proved an 

 easy task, the Willow Grove trolley con- 

 necting with those in Chelton avenue to 

 Limekiln pike, and there you are. 



Mr. Meckey, Jr., was hard at work 

 but kindly led the way through some 

 fifteen well-built houses. About two- 

 thirds are the old houses rebuilt, the re- 

 mainder being entirely new. The place, 

 containing some 40,000 square feet of 

 glass, is built in the shape of the letter 

 Ij, bound by a connecting passage way. 

 The new rose houses are one side, run- 

 ning east and west. The older houses 

 run north and south, opening into as fine 

 a boiler and packing shed as could be 

 wished. The hair of the shed devoted to 

 the heating apparatus contains three 

 large hot water boilers and is open up 



