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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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Septembrr 20, 1907. 



CATTLEYAS 



We are receiving very fine flowers in quantity. 



CARNATION PLANTS — All the leading varieties from the open ground. Send 

 for list and quotations. 



DAHLIAS — A complete assortment received fresh each morning. 



WILD SMI LAX — We can supply decorators with case lots in any quantity. 



THE LEO NIESSEN CO. 



Open 7 a m. 

 to 8 p. m. 



1209 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



growers, the result being a scarcity of 

 white roses on several days, as there are 

 few Brides equal to market requirements. 

 Killarney continues better than Maid 

 daring this warm month. Beauties are 

 iq good demand, especially the fancy 

 grade, of which many more could be 

 uded. The short-stemmed stock is at 

 times overdone. Orchids are becoming 

 much more plentiful, cattleyas being es- 

 pecially fine. Carnations are more abun- 

 dant. There is some demand for gladi- 

 oli. Easter lilies are nearly over. There 

 is little call for greens. 



But what of asters and dahlias! Dah- 

 lias really rule the market today, where 

 handsome flowers are wanted for effect. 

 The quantity of choice varieties has 

 never been excelled, it being possible to- 

 day to secure many blooms of any one of 

 the finest sorts, and the market, or, more 

 properly speaking, the critical buyer, is 

 taking advantage of this condition to 

 elevate the standard of the public and 

 create a demand for the very best. As- 

 ters, chiefly from distant points, are of 

 superb quality, the white Ostrich Plume 

 and a soft pink being exceptionally fine. 

 Locally grown asters are nearly over, 

 much of the stock being short-stemmed, 

 and selling at reduced prices. 



Wyndmoor. 



Myers & Samtman have decided to 

 name their new cheerful pink rose Wynd- 

 moor, after the small town made famous 

 as a great rose-producing center. It will 

 be remembered that this rose scored 

 eighty-one points before the American 

 Rose Society at Washington last March 

 and that its certificate has been awaiting 

 the choice of a name before being award- 

 ed. 



A visit to the firm's rose-growing es- 

 tablishment, showing Wyndmoor in its 

 glory, will long be remembered. The 

 plants, some 3,000 in all, had been grow- 

 ing in the tables. During the early 

 stages they were planted close together 

 and replanted July 12 in the house where 

 they are to spend the winter, the stock 

 being then about equal to good 4-inch 

 pot plants. These plants lost no time 

 in growing and bloom so freely that Mr. 

 Myers believes Phil's reputation for 

 veracity would suffer were he to give the 

 exact figures. SuflSce it to say, how- 



"THE PHILADELPHIA LACE FERN" 



The lace-like fronds of this grand fern are the 

 coming green for cut flowers. It is as beautiful 

 as Farieyense and much more durable. It is also 

 the best pot plant, being finished and salable in 

 all sizes. Our stock is in excellent shape and we 

 will be able to supply as follows. 



•4.00 doc; •«S.OO 

 50 at 100 rmtm; 500 



2K-lnoh, cood atrona; plants, 



par 100; tSOO.OO par 1000. 



at 1000 rat*. 

 4-lncti pots, $10.00 doz.; $75.00 par 100. 5-lncli 



pots, $1.SU aach; $15.00 doz.; $100.00 par 100. 

 Wa bavo also spaclmans In 8-lncli, lO-incb and 



12-inoh pans, $S. 50, $$.00, $5.00 and $7.50 aaoli. 



DELIVERY IN SEPTEMBER 



WM. p. CRAIG, 



1305 Filbert 

 Street 



Philadelphia 



Meatlon The Review when you write. 



ever, that September 19, not quite ten 

 weeks after the plants had been planted, 

 they were in full crop, averaging four 

 or five medium-stemmed buds to a plant 

 and looking the picture of health and 

 vigor. The impression created by seeing 

 Wyndmoor on this day is that this rose 

 can be handled advantageously on any 

 place without regard to its size or soil. 



Two Interestiag Poiott. 



Two papers that have recently ap- 

 peared in the columns of the Review are 

 of more than ordinary interest. Both 

 are ably written, by specialists on sub- 

 jects of which they have made a thor- 

 ough study, and both contain many 

 points well worth learning. 



* ' The Philosophy of Wholesaling, ' ' by 

 Charles E. Meehan, read before the Phil- 

 adelphia Florists' Club, which appeared 

 in the Review of September 5, has a 



point worthy of debate. In this paper 

 Mr. Meehan gives it as his belief that 

 the retailer would be benefited by buying 

 in larger quantities from the wholesaler 

 instead of ordering small lots of a certain 

 variety during the day. While this may 

 be true, it appears to be a weakness of 

 the argument in favor of the concentra- 

 tion of large quantities of flowers. The 

 very fact that the city retailer has at 

 his door a source of almost unlimited 

 supply encourages him to place risk of 

 depreciation or loss on the wholesaler 

 rather than take it himself. 



The second paper, read by F. C. W. 

 Brown, manager of the Rosery, Toronto, 

 before the Canadian Horticultural As- 

 sociation in convention at London, Ont., 

 August 29, appeared in the Review of 

 September 12. After giving some most 

 valuable suggestions as to the manage- 

 ment of retail shops, Mr. Brown, who it 



