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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



Fbbbvabt 6, 1908. 



$6.00 A $7.50 

 per dozen 



CATTLEYAS 



White and Yellow DAISIES 



$64(M>Jt$7.50 

 per dozen 



GARDENIAS PANSIES 



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. 



Mention The Bevlew when yoo write. 



hope to see business pick up during Feb- 

 ruar7. 



Various Notes. 



P. McKenna & Son's Store No. 2 has 

 been re-arranged inside. They say they 

 sold 3,000 carnations last week. 



Miss Murray reports that business is 

 just moving along, no worse and no 

 better than other years. Her store looks 

 exceedingly pretty. 



Miss Cairn's window has been a mass 

 of fine carnations and ferns, well ar- 

 ranged. She says she always has plenty 

 to do. 



Miss Carmichael reports trade to be 

 rather slow. She has decided to keep 

 her store for another year. 



E. Mepstead, of Ottawa, was in town 

 last week. 



George Robinson, J. McKenna and E. 

 Mepstead paid a visit to J. Bennett, at 

 Lachine, January 25. 



C. A. Smith, gardener to T. A. Dawes, 

 Lachine, has been elected to the council. 

 If he keeps his promises Lachine will 

 have a small park this summer, with 

 well kept flower beds and lawns. 



Tommy. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



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

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



frond. Well arrown stock ready now. 23>i-lncb, 93.60 per doz.; 

 125.00 per 100; $200.00 per 1000. 4-inch. 910.00 per doz.; $75.00 

 per 100. Specimens in pans, $2.00, 93.00 and 95.00 each. 



WM. P. CRAIG, 1305 Filbert St, Philadelphia 



The Rising; Eastern Market. 



The market conditions of last week 

 have been bad at times and most of the 

 stock was hard to move. Roses seem to 

 be the only flowers for which there was 

 any great demand. All grades of roses 

 sold up clean. Beauties have not sold 

 so well as might have been expected. The 

 supply is limited and good medium ones 

 are scarce, while the long Beauties are a 

 little plentiful and hard to move. Gar- 

 denias are scarce and are sold as soon 

 as they arrive, most of them being or- 

 dered ahead, Cattleyas are none too 

 plentiful and sell well, while the demand 

 for cypripediums is poor and they can be 

 had in any quantity. Carnations are 

 coming in heavily and the quality is fine, 

 but the demand is light, except for the 

 fancy varieties, which sell out clean from 

 day to day. The new carnation, Torea- 

 dor, which is an improvement on Pros- 

 perity, has been used extensively by 

 Pennock Bros, in their window decora- 

 tions and was much admired. 



Sweet peas are fine and can be had in 

 almost any color. The fancy grades clean 

 up nicely, while the shorts are plentiful 

 and hard to move at any price. Daffo- 

 dils and tulips can be had in any quan- 

 tity and are good, but do not sell. Paper 

 Whites have shortened up and are in 

 fairly good demand. A large number of 

 them are sold for funeral work, of which 

 there is quite a lot. Valley and Romans 

 are a glut on the market and can be 

 bought cheap in large quantity, Violets, 

 single and double, are plentiful. The 

 fancy grades sell fairly well, while the 

 smaller ones are hard to move. Good 

 lilac and mignonette are in fair demand, 

 but there is entirely too much of the 

 poorer grade, Harrisii and callas are in 

 good shape; the demand is also fair and 

 they sell up close. Yellow daisies are 

 good stock and are a little scarce. White 

 daisies are just the reverse. Plumosus 

 and Sprengeri are none too plentiful and 

 the same is true of smilax. The other 

 green stock, of which there is quite a 

 lot, is selling poorly. 



Qub Meetinsf. 



The meeting of the Florists' Club, 

 which was held Tuesday evening, Feb- 

 ruary 4, was largely attended. Edward 

 A. Harvey read a paper on carnation 

 culture under glass all summer, which 

 was well thought of, it being one of the 

 best papers ever read before the club. 



A. Harvey & Sons had a fine exhibit 

 of carnations. The varieties were Bea- 

 con, Robert Craig, Victory, White Per- 

 fection, Winsor, Lawson, Aristocrat, 

 Lady Bountiful, and a white seedling of 

 enormous size and fine stem which looks 

 like a good bloomer. 



Joseph Heacock Co. has a fine thing in 

 the new pink seedling which has a color | 



something like Rose-pink Enchantress. 

 The flower is enormous in size. 



Samuel Batchelor, gardener to C. A. 

 Newbold, had Enchantress, white and 

 pink, and a fine pair of white cyclamen, 

 which were much admired. 



The Strafford Flower Farm exhibited 

 a fine lot of Enchantress, Beacon, Boun- 

 tiful and Winsor. 



F. H. Kramer, of Washington, had a 

 fine vase of the new rose. Queen Beatrice. 

 The flowers were large and a fine shade 

 of pink, on good stems. 



H. A. Dreer had a plant of Clematis 

 indivisa, which was covered with a fine 

 lot of blooms and was much admired. 



Hatboro. 



Harry Weiss & Sons have two houses, 

 35x300, and thirty-five feet high. They 

 contain 35,000 carnation plants of En- 

 chantress, Winsor, Lieut. Peary, Mrs. 

 Lawson, White Lawson, Queen, Craig, 

 Aristocrat and Crimson Glow. There 

 are four benches in each house and 

 the plants are supported by vnres run- 

 ning the full length of the house, with 

 strings across, which make an excel- 

 lent support. Enchantress is fine and 

 will cut quite heavily for the next three 

 or four weeks; the other varieties are 

 also praiseworthy, and the houses massed 

 with buds are a sight well worth seeing. 

 Winsor and Aristocrat are well thought 

 of and will be grown extensively next 

 season. The young stock is clean and 

 healthy. The entrance to the houses is 

 through the boiler-shed, which is on the 

 south side and contains two boilers, about 

 100 horse-power. The greenhouses cover 

 five acres of ground. The cut of this 

 place is handled by the Leo Niessen Co. 



Eugene Weiss has thirteen houses 

 of different widths, but all are 



