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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Apbil 11, 1907. 



For April Weddings ! 



CUT LILIES, BEAUTIES, 

 WILD S1VIIL3X and VALLEY 



The Leo N lessen Co. 



Wholesale Florists. 1 209 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Op«n from 7 a. m. to 8 p. m. Our S«rvloe la Unozoelled. 



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is dry and market gardening operations 

 well under way. W. N. Cbaig. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market 



The volume of business in cut flowers 

 since Easter has been larger than for 

 the corresponding period last year. Con- 

 ditions, however, are decidedly unsatis- 

 factory. The quantity of stock coming 

 into the market each day seems larger 

 than ever before, and is certainly larger 

 than necessary for all legitimate busi- 

 ness. The fakers make valiant efforts 

 to dispose of the surplus, but even the 

 fakers are becoming fastidious, declin- 

 ing poor or stale carnations at any 

 price, and demanding spring flowers- 

 daffodils, sweet peas, valley and violets. 



Prices are receding, the fall on Ameri- 

 can Beauty roses being as rapid as any 

 bear could wish. At present quotations 

 Beauties and tea roses are cheap enough 

 to prove attractive to the moderate price 

 buyers, and the retailers are taking ad- 

 vantage of the opportunity to push roses 

 with this class of customers. Short- 

 stemmed roses are almost unsalable. The 

 flower lovers who buy regularly durifcg 

 the winter turn naturally to spring flow- 

 ers at this season, and sweet peas seem 

 a special favorite with them and also 

 for the weddings now so numerous. Car- 

 nations are cheap, plentiful and hard to 

 sell. Lieut. Peary brings top price, a 

 point ahead of Enchantress. 



Single violets are about over, except- 

 ing some stock from the frames, but 

 doubles continue excellent for so late in 

 the season. "White lilac is nearly done. 

 Easter lilies are becoming plentiful 

 again and sell fairly well, though there 

 is no especial demand. Bulbous stock 

 is on the wane, both tulips and daffodils 

 being far less plentiful than a week ago. 

 The shipments of southern daffodils have 

 been interrupted, possibly by the colder 

 weather of the beginning of the week. 

 Sniilax is scarce and in demand. Dag- 

 ger ferns are almost out of the market. 

 There is quite a run on Asparagus 

 plumosus. 



The Easter price of Kaiserins should 

 have read $12 to $15, instead of $15 to 



Mention The Review when you write. 



THE Florists' Supply House of America 

 Baskets for spring Flowers 



THE FLOWERS THAT BL(X)M IN THE SPRING 

 SHOULD PROVE A MIGHTY GOOD THING, 

 IN FANCIES AND STAPLES, SMALL AND BIG, 

 OF RATTAN, WILLOW, STRAW AND TWIG. 



Our Toneware Vases 



Will increase your smles. We offer three kinds — ANTIQUK or 

 POMPBIAN, COLORED and FANCY, or GRECIAN. 

 We recommend them highly. 



CREPE PAPER, POT COVERS, SCREENS, 



CYCAS LEAVES. WHEAT SHEAVES, 



GREEN SEA MOSS, 



LACE BOUQUET HOLDERS, satin finish. 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO. 



ourcataio^e ||29 Arcii St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



$18. The houses of, this rose, forced for 

 Easter, are now pretty well cut out. 



The April Meetios. 



The April meeting of the Florists' 

 Club was fairly well attended, the 

 plantsmen and growers of Easter lilies 

 being strongly in evidence. They all 

 wore a happy, prosperous look, reflected 

 less strongly in the faces of their cut 

 flower brethren. The consensus of opinion 

 was that the mild Friday and Saturday 

 before Easter had enabled them to sell 

 to the street venders all the leftovers of 

 the store orders. Fred Hahman presided. 

 Paul F. Richter's paper will be found 

 elsewhere in this issue. Mr. Riohter was 

 listened to with great interest. B. D. 

 Capteyn, representing Van Waveren & 

 Kruijft", of Holland, /'gave an interesting 

 talk on bulbs, describing varieties of 

 tulips, daft'odils and hyacinths with the 

 treatment necessary to succeed with 



each. John Westcott brought a specimen 

 pink spiraea which Mr. Capteyn said 

 would color even better if the glass were 

 shaded when the flower spikes appeared. 

 George Burton had the Lord & Burnhani 

 cup, which he won in Washington last 

 month, on exhibition. He filled it hand- 

 somely with a popular beverage, so the 

 members might celebrate his victory. 



Dreet^s Nurseries. 



Phil was informed that there were 

 some very interesting things to see at 

 Riverton. The first intimation came 

 through Harry C. Sim, on the evening 

 of the banquet tendered the executive 

 committee of the S. A. F. in Horticul- 

 tural hall. But Phil thought Mr. Sim 

 was troubling about the speech he had 

 to make, and so wanted to give him 

 trouble. Phil had troubles enough of 

 his own at the time and was not hunting 

 more. Later on, however, Mr. Sim's 



