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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



Febbuabt 27, 1908. 









ACACIA PUBESCENS 



PANSIES DAISIES VIOLETS 



SWEET PEAS JONQUILS 



TULIPS FREESIA LILACS 



We offer also all The Leading Varieties of Flowers in Finest Quality. 



OUR SERVICE IS UNEXCELLED 



THE LEO NIESSEN CO.,Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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species. One-year-old plants, by good 

 culture, may reach a height of fifteen 

 to eighteen inches, and in two years they 

 may attain a diameter of three feet. A. 

 scutum does not require so high a de- 

 gree of warmth as A. cuneatum. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



The quality of cut flowers coming to 

 town this week has never been excelled 

 in the month of February. It really 

 seems that by far the larger proportion 

 of many varieties of stock has moved 

 into the special class. The demand is 

 still unequal to the supply, but addition- 

 al shipping orders have given a better 

 tone to the market. 



Carnations continue the weakest flower 

 on the list, the buyer who can take a 

 quantity securing far better than listed 

 quotations. Pink and white are mostly 

 in demand, but there were days on which 

 red carnations sold well. The supply 

 of roses, especially Beauties, has fallen 

 oflf. But there are plenty for all de- 

 mands, _ excepting occasionally in the 

 fancy grades. Cattleya Triana; is near- 

 ly over, Cattleya Schroederiana being 

 now in full supply. Lselias are about 

 done. Coelogyne cristata has been added 

 to the list. 



The supply of bulbous flowers is now 

 at its height. The jonquil (or should we 

 say single daflfodil?) has been reinforced 

 by Sir Watkin. Tulips can be had in 

 all shades, yellow, pink, white, double 

 orange, and occasionally scarlet. Sweet 

 peas are wonderfully fine, white, pink 

 and lavender being obtainable in quan- 

 tity with good stems and large floweis. 



Asparagus and adiantum continue 

 scarce, which fact possibly increases the 

 demand for smilax. Harrisii and callas 

 arc both plentiful and lower in price. 



A True Story. 



A small buyer (he is a very small buy- 

 er indeed) went into one of our commis- 

 sion houses some time ago to purchase 

 some roses. He was much delighted on 

 receiving what Mr. Battles would call 

 the "personal attention" of the pro- 

 prietor in addition to that of a sales- 

 man. So much pleasure did this person- 



TuberousBegonias 



FINE, SOUND BULBS 



Doz. 100 



Single Mixed $0.35 92.00 



separate colors 35 2.25 



Double Mixed 50 3.75 



Finest Valley Pips 



I force Valley extensively and always have the finest cut blooms 

 or cold storage Pips any day in the year. Let me figure on your 

 wants at any time. 



New Crop Flower Seeds 



Tr. pkt. Oz. 



Alyssum, White Carpet $0.10 $0.25 



AsparagoB Nanas...per 1000, $3.00 



BalsMu, Alba Perfecta 20 .75 



Candytuft, Empress 10 .20 



Coamos, Giants 10 .25 



lAbella, Crystal Palace Com- 



pacta 25 1.25 



Lobelia, Crystal Palace .15 .50 



Mignonette, true Machet 10 .35 



Tr. Pkt. 



Pansy, Stokes' Standard, the 

 best ever $0.50 



Pansy, Mme. Perret 40 



Salvia Splendens, my own 

 growing 25 



Salvia Bonfire, my own grow- 

 ing 30 



Oz. 



$6.50 

 3.00 



1.00 



2.00 

 Pkt. 



bweet Peas, fine mixture $0.25 



standard named sorts 25 



orchid-flowering 75 



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al attention afford the small buyer that 

 he took the few pennies left him as 

 change from a twenty-dollar bill with a 

 very good grace indeed, feeling that 

 even for a small buyer it is worth while 

 occasionally to. spend nineteen dollars 

 and some odd cents on a plunge where 

 you receive personal attention. Fancy 

 this small buyer's feelings some time 

 after when the aforesaid wholesaler 

 naively explained to an admiring audi- 



ence that he waited on fakers in person, 

 not on his good customers, because when 

 anything required looking after he could 

 leave them without ceremony. 



Various Notes. 



B. Eschner, of M. Rice & Co., having 

 just returned from an extended trip cov- 

 ering a large part of the country, re- 

 ports that his trade has exceeded his ex- 

 pectations, being in excess of the busi- 



