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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Jamdabt 9, 1908. 



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BEAUTIES 



We expect a steady supply and our stock is of exceptional quality. Our *' Specials " of 



Richmond, Maids, Brides and Killarney are very choice. 



THE LEO NIESSEN CO.,Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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Mention The Rcylew when yon write. 



Mrs. Jardine rose. He says he has sold 

 30,000. 



Smythe had the decoration for the big 

 Vanderbilt dance on the evening of 

 January 8. 



Alexander McConnell has been busy 

 with some exceptional funeral orders. 

 J. Austin Shaw. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



The demand for good stock has been 

 fairly brisk in the last week, fancy 

 flowers being scarce, especially in the 

 rose line. Beauties shortened up con- 

 siderably and were much sought after, 

 especially so in the medium grades. 

 Brides are scarce and clean up at good 

 prices. Maids are coming in fairly 

 strong and the short and medium grades 

 are hard to move. Killarney was in 

 good demand for New Year's day and 

 sold up clean at a good average price. 

 Bichmond and Liberty are good stock 

 and the supply is much stronger than 

 it was a week ago. 



The carnations seem to be catching 

 their stride and the long delayed crops 

 appear to be on. The fancy grades hold 

 firm in price, while the shorter ones have 

 dropped and do not move rapidly. Val- 

 ley cleaned up better than it has for the 

 last few weeks. The big crop which 

 was forced for the holidays is about 

 over. 



Green stuff is moving off in good 

 shape. Hardy ferns are scarce and have 

 advanced in price. 



Violets are selling poorly and a good 

 many find their way to the street. 

 Romans and Paper Whites are a glut and 

 are hard to move at any price. The 

 fir.st freesia was seen last week, whicli 

 makes another addition to the list of 

 spring flowers. Mignonette, which is 

 fine, has dropped in price but sells fair- 

 ly well. 



The first Assembly, which took place 

 last week, did not use much in the cut 

 flower line, Beauties being the only 

 flowers called for. 



Club Meeting. 



The meeting of the Florists' Club on 

 Tuesday evening, January 7. was well 

 attended. S. S. Skidelsky read his paper 



THE Florists' Supply House of America 



Look out for our future announce- 

 ments of up-to-date florists^ specialties 



H. Bayersdorfer & Co. ph" 



189 ARCH ST., 

 LADKLPHIA 



Mention The Berlew when yon write. 



The most beautiful as well as the most useful Fern ever offered. 

 It is suitable both for specimen pot plants and for using: as a cut 

 frond. Well rrown stock ready now. 2^-lDch, $3.50 per doz.; 

 $25.00 per 100; $200 00 per 1000. 4-inch, $10.00 per doz.; $75.00 

 per 100. Specimens in pans, $2.00, $3 00 and $5.00 each. 



WM. P. CRAIG, 1305 Filbert St., Philadelphia 



Mention The Rerlew when yon write. 



entitled "Competition, Fair and Foul," 

 which was received with great applause. 



There were a considerable number of 

 exhibits, including several new roses. 

 The Waban Eose Conservatories, Natick, 

 Mass., exhibited twenty-five blooms of 

 Killarney on stems three feet long, that 

 were greatly admired, flyers & Samt- 

 man exhibited a vase of their new rose, 

 Wyndmoor, which already has made a 

 reputation for itself in this market. The 

 E. G. Hill Co., Eichmond, Ind., exhibited 

 a splendid vase of Ehea Reid, the new 

 red. The blooms are of great size. 

 Poehlmann Bros. Co., Chicago, sent an 

 exhibit of Mrs. Potter Palmer, the deep 

 pink sport of Chatenay, which was much 

 admired. A. Farenwald, of Hillside, 

 exhibited Aurora, a pink rose which re- 

 sembles Chatenay. He also staged Miss 

 Kate Moulton and Killarney in good 

 form, Eobert Scott & Son, of Sharon 

 Hill, showed Mrs. Jardine in splendid 

 shape. 



Among carnations exhibited were four 

 vases by John E. Haines, of Bethlehem, 

 Pa. Fred Dorner & Sons Co., Lafayette, 

 Ind., sent a fine vase of Winona. After- 

 glow, exhibited by R. Witterstaetter, Cin- 

 cinnati, is a fine thing, with long stem 

 and large flower of pleasing color. 



The First Assembly. 



J. J. Habermehl's Sons had charge of 

 the decorations for the First Assembly 

 in 1908, which was giv'en on the evening 

 of January 3 in the ballroom of the 

 Bellevue-Stratford hotel. The Assembly 

 is an old Philadelphia institution, hav- 

 ing been started in the middle of the 

 eighteenth century and given continuously 

 ever since. The decorations were hand- 

 some, but were dignified in their sim- 

 plicity. As a background for the pa- 

 tronesses, who received in the foyer, a 

 screen ot palms and ferns intertwined 

 with smilax had been erected. This wa.^ 

 set off by red poinsettias, relieved here 



