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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



JUMB 20, 1907. 



FOR JUNE WEDDINGS 



PEONIES, an immense stock in all colors 

 ORCHIDS, clioice Cattleyas in quantity 

 BEAUTIES, of finest quality, all you want 



We have a 

 Fine Stock of 



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Bride, Bridesmaid and Richmond* Write for prices. 



The Leo Niessen Co* 



Wholesale Florists. 1209 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



/ Op«n from 7 ». m. to • p. m. Oar Barrto* la Un«zo*ll«d. 



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Mention The RcTlew when yon write. 



In this yfay they get out a large quan- 

 tity foi/ storage that would have to be 

 sacrifioed unless worked over; 



Mrfi. J. T. Helbok startj^d June 17 

 for a visit at her old home in Germany. 

 She will return in September accom- 

 panied by a niece of Mrs. Frank Beu, 

 a girl of 15 years, who will make her 

 home with Mrs. Beu. 



Fred Struvy has taken his son-in-law, 

 George Green, into partnership and in- 

 tends that the business shall be pushed 

 harder than ever, while he himself takes 

 life easier. Mr. Struvy always has said 

 he intended to retire when he was 55 

 years old. He has to keep busy only to 

 July 14. 



Mrs. E. H. Hunt departed June 18 

 for a visit at Akron, O. 



A, C. Kohlbrand, at Amling's, was at 

 Gray's lake June 16 and reports the 

 fishing good. 



Apparently a great many sweet pea 

 growers picked early Sunday morning 

 and left the stock till Monday in water. 

 The flowers will not stand it this hot 

 weather, for Monday afternoon those 

 still in the wholesalers' hands were 

 many of them in exceedingly bad shape. 



Among the week's visitors were C. J. 

 Ohmer, of Cincinnati, on his way home 

 from a trip to the Pacific coast; F. L. 

 Tomquist, Benton Harbor, Mich., buy- 

 ing material for a new greenhouse. 



PHILADBLPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



We are enjoying the genuine thing. 

 Summer has arrived, exactly as pre- 

 dicted last Saturday morning. The re- 

 sult on the market has been depressing. 

 It is not easy to produce high-grade flow- 

 ers in hot weather, from plants that 

 have bloomed all winter. The growers 

 are giving this up as a bad proposition, 

 one by one, and the wholesalers confess 

 that they are heartily glad of it. The 

 best flowers, those that are given es- 

 pecial care, or that have not produced 

 heavy crops during the winter, are sell- 

 ing fairly well. Beauties, valley, or- 

 chids, and possibly gardenias, are most 

 in demand. Local business is dull, while 

 shipping is fairly active. A true con- 

 ception of the market can best be ob- 



Welcome to the Elks 



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|E cordially invite the Florists who will visit 

 Philadelphia next month to attend the 

 Convention of the Benevolent Protective 

 Order of Elks, to make our building their head- 

 quarters while they are in this city. 



We are centrally located, a little over one block 

 from the Lodge. We shall be decorated in your 

 honor. Come, to us. Bring your family to us, 

 meet your friends here. Have your mail sent 

 here. We want you to feel at home in the city 

 of Brotherly Love. 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO. 



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1129 Arch Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



tained by slightly changing Tennyson's 



famous lines to read: 



Peonies to the right of us. 

 Peonies to the left of us. 

 Peonies to the front of us, 

 Onward they come. 



Unfortunately many of them reach the 

 market too far advanced, rendering it 

 almost impossible to dispose of them at 

 any figure. Conservative judges believe 

 that the local growers will not average 

 anything like the prices of former sea- 

 sons on their peony crop. Southern grow- 

 ers have, of course, had a record season. 



The various odds and ends of summer 

 flowers can be had in quantity; they 

 rarely realize high prices. Pyrethrums, 

 sweet William, hemerocallis, iris, and the 

 belated Japanese snowballs give some 

 idea of the flowers meant. 



The Demand for Plants. 



This season has been remarkably fa- 

 vorable for the plantsmen. They were 



favored, as none of them dared to hope, 

 by a week of wonderful weather preced- 

 ing Easter. They were further favored 

 by the long spring, which gave them time 

 to get their succeeding crops into condi- 

 tion, and now they are experiencing what 

 cricketers term a second inning of unex- 

 pected length. The demand for crotons, 

 begonias, ferns and nearly all varieties 

 of plants suitable for window-boxes, 

 porch decoration, and sub-tropical bed- 

 ding, has been unprecedented. This de- 

 mand is partly local and partly shipping, 

 the latter due to the fame of our plants- 

 men throughout the country. There really 

 seems danger of overselling, rendering 

 certain varieties and sizes of other vari- 

 eties scarce when the demand sets in 

 next fall. 



The Florez Gardens. 

 Leo Niessen once said that Mr. Fuers- 

 tenberg had progressive ideas that would 

 keep him ahead of the times. These 



