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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



JUNB 6, 190T. 



FOR JUNE WEDDINGS 



PEONIES, an immense stock in all colors. 

 ORCHIDS, choice Cattleyas in quantity. 

 BEAUTIES, of finest quality, all you want. 



The Leo Niessen Co. 



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



Op«n from 7 a. m. to 8 p. m. Our 8«rvloe !■ Unezoellad. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



quantities. Southern fancy ferns are in 

 fairly good supply. Asparagus, both 

 Sprengeri and plumosus, can be had in 

 large quantities. 



Decoration Day. 



In former years there was little doing 

 in the line of cut flower sales on Memo- 

 rial day in this city, but things were 

 different this year. Owing to the pre- 

 vailing cool weather, there was a scar- 

 city of outdoor stock; then, again, out- 

 door planting was away back, so people 

 who wanted their friends' or relatives' 

 graves trimmed had to fall back on cut 

 flowers. No one"^ had anticipated the 

 demand there was for flowers of all 

 kinds. Prices were away up on every 

 salable article, and with most florists 

 about everything was cleaned up by 

 Thursday morning. 



Various Notes. 



Charles Tuson, the Windsor florist, 

 had a good wedding order last week. 

 The bride carried valley and white roses. 

 The three bridesmaids carried bouquets 

 of white and lavender lilacs, tied with 

 ribbon to match. The church was pret- 

 tily decorated with spiraeas, marguerites, 

 palms, etc. Arches were made with As- 

 paragus Sprengeri. 



Sullivan's staff has been kept busy 

 making confirmation wreaths the last 

 few Saturdays. The price of these is 

 gradually getting to where it should be 

 in order to make a reasonable profit. 

 Most of the florists will not touch one 

 under $1.50, while with several $2 is 

 the minimum. 



After July 1 the United States Ex- 

 press Co. will handle packages to the 

 suburban towns over the lines of the 

 Detroit United Ka51way. H. S. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market 



The current week, beginning May 30 

 and ending June 5, has been one of the 

 busiest of the season in the cut flower 

 market. Quality has been unusually high 

 for summer, a word that really does not 

 apply to the kind of weather we have 

 experienced lately. Quantity has been 

 somewhat reduced by the continued ab- 



THE Florists' Sopply House of America 



FRESH GOODS are Arriviog ! 



Just the things you want to make people decide that their own 

 flowers must stay in the garden and your flowers must come in the 

 house. We have everything in BASKETS, from the tall American 

 Beauty basket, with a deep vase for long-stemmed flowers, down to 

 the tiny flower-girl's basket for pansies or sweet peas. Then we have 

 TONEWARE VASES in every style, that add so much to a house 

 decoration, and our new WINDOW RUGS to lay under or wrap about 

 a pot plant. We also have the older PORTO RICAN MATS and 

 every shade of CREPE PAPERS, both pleated and water-proof. 



We cannot make further suggestions today, but we can furnish 

 anything in supplies that you want at short notice. 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO. 



ourcataio^e 1129 ^rch St,, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



sence of sunshine and outdoor flowers 

 have been seriously retarded, and in 

 some cases ruined by the late frosts and 

 heavy rains. These conditions combined 

 account for the brisk, almost buoyant 

 market. 



Prices advanced slightly for Decora- 

 tion day. Peonies and carnations were 

 unequal to the demands made upon 

 them. Fancy blooms of Festiva maxima 

 realized $2.50 per dozen, 50 cents more 

 than at the corresponding period last 

 season. All peonies in good condition 

 brought from $8 to $10, and occasion- 

 ally $12 per hundred. Some stock re- 

 ceived was not salable. Carnations were 

 fine. Good ordinary stock brought from 

 $3 to $4 a hundred, while some fancies 

 reached $5 and even $6. These prices 

 are nearly double those of last year at 

 the close of May. 



The shortage in peonies and carna- 

 tions had a stimulative effect on the rest 



of the market, the shorter grades of 

 roses being in excellent demand at $3 

 and $4 a hundred. It was rather dif- 

 ficult to find enough of the cheaper 

 grades of flowers, such as are used in 

 loose bunches for cemetery decoration, 

 snowballs, spiraea, deutsia, and kindred 

 shrubbery being reinforced by the wild 

 lupinus, which I believe is a novelty in 

 this market, and one that proved most 

 acceptable under existing conditions. 



Good judges estimate that the Decora- 

 tion day business rivaled that of Christ- 

 mas and of Easter, and was more satis- 

 factory than either. I do not mean by 

 this te say that the volume of business 

 in dollars and cents was larger on May 

 30 than at Christmas or at Easter, but 

 that quite as many flowers were mar- 

 keted, and that the cool weather did 

 much to keep the stock above the mar- 

 ket requirements. 



Friday was quiet, but Saturday, Mon- 



