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The Weekly Florists* Review. 



MABCH 10. 1008. 



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 Ions-stemmed flowen in any quantity. 



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Fine flowen on heavy canes. 



ACACIA PUBESCENS 



PANSIES DAISIES VIOLETS SWEET PEAS JONQUILS 

 TULIPS FREESIA LILACS 



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



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Mention The Berlew when you write. 



rick's day, quite a lot being green in 

 honor of the Irish saint. 



Violets are fairly good stock. While 

 the price is low, they do not seem to have 

 increased in proportion to other flowers. 

 Sweet peas are less in demand than a 

 week ago. Cattleyas are more plentiful 

 and fine. Harrisii lilies are now of ex- 

 cellent quality and fairly abundant. Cal- 

 las are so largely in excess of the demand 

 that it is almost impossible to sell them 

 at any figure. Southern daffodils have 

 arrived, the first shipments being only 

 of moderate quality. There is a fair de- 

 mand at low prices for good daffodils 

 and tulips. The latter have been rein- 

 forced by Murillo, the best double white. 

 Choice Acacia pubescens is still to be 

 had, and there is an increase in the pro- 

 duction of gardenias. Arbutus has made 

 its appearance and is eagerly welcomed 

 by the buyers. 



Riverton. 



Three people met at the well-appointed 

 office of Henry A. Dreer, Inc., to talk 

 about matters of interest and look over 

 the stock. They were George A. Stroh- 

 •lein, who has almost as many friends 

 on the other side of the water as he 

 has on this side; James C. Clark, who can 

 tell you as many interesting things about 

 Oyster Bay as Theodore Roosevelt him- 

 self, and Phil, who is eager to hear 

 and see everything that may be of gen- 

 eral interest. On the tour a halt was 

 made in the packing-shed to look over 

 the benches filled with orders to go out 

 to all points of the country. There were 

 kentias for the decorator, Eucharis Ama- 

 zonica for the florist who forces his own 

 flowers for retailing, Helleborus niger 

 for the far north, where some nursery- 

 men propose to test its hardiness, and 

 many others. It is interesting, by the 

 way, to note that Mr. Clark has seen 

 long beds of the Christmas rose planted 

 outdoors in frames, sections sash-cover- 

 ed, at a time so as to produce a con- 

 tinuous lot of blooms from November 

 to Christmas. While I cannot recall the 

 latitude in which this was done, my 

 impression is that it was not far south 

 of here. 



Mr. Clark believes that the limit of 

 public endurance has been reached in the 

 matter of new types of Boston fern and 

 that unless the introducer of a new type 



ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS NANUS 



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Choice greenhouse-grown seed $0.60 $4.50 



Southern-grown seed, under slats 50 3.25 



Asparagfus Spren^eri 



Choice greenhouse-grown seed. 

 Imported seed 



1.25 

 .70 



Valley Pips for Easter 



, __ , .„., , . should be put into the sand the week beginning March 22. 



'//J^^^^vSSk I force Valley largely myself and have only the finest Pips. 



/ /'/ 'niU V \ '^^^y ^""^ °°* bouKht to sell. I buy them to force, my- 



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Vegetable Asparagus Seed 



The demand for AsparaKus Roots is growing by leaps and bounds. The demand is 

 greater than the supply and will be for some time to come. I have a splendid stock of seed 

 of all varieties. in lo-ib. lots 



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Early Giant AreenteuU. Genuine French Grown seed, saved from beds free 



of rust. This is the famous Paris Asparagus and grows to immense size $0.75 



Early French Giant. American grown. Pine French stock 65 



Donald's Elmira. A New York State Asparagus of good reputation. Good 



rust resistor 50 



Bonvallet's Giant. Popular in parts of the west. A fine, robust growing 



Asparagus gg 



Barr's PMladelplila Mammoth. Very popular around Phila. and N. ¥.!!!." !40 



Palmetto. Of Southern origin. Very green 40 



Conover's Colossal. The old standard sort ',',\ ',sb 



5 per cent discount from above prices for cash with order. 



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219 Market St., PHILADELPHIA 



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has something far and away superior to 

 anything now in sight, it will become 

 increasingly difficult for him -to obtain 

 fancy prices for his introduction. Curi- 

 ously enough, the older types, the original 

 Boston and the Scott fern, maintain their 

 places at the top of the list. The Whit- 

 man kind is also in the vanguard, but 

 many others have been dropped, simply 

 because it is impossible to carry a large 

 enough stock of each to catalogue them 

 all. There are two or three promising 

 new varieties on trial, notably one of 

 Pierson's, one of Barrows' and one of 

 their own. Each has good points and will 

 be given a thorough test before their fate 

 is decided. 



Cibotium Schiedei holds its own, the 

 sizes indicating the demand to be fully 

 equal to the supply. It must also be 



said that the demand for the various 

 types of Boston, in what might be termed 

 the domestic sizes, is also fully equal 

 to the supply" and in some cases a little 

 ahead of it; many benches were filled 

 with stock plants planted out for run- 

 ners. The progress made in the growth 

 of the Boston type of fern has slightly 

 restricted the smaller varieties grown 

 for ferneries, chiefly of the pteris family. 

 Still, there were immense quantities of 

 pteris and other low-growing ferns of 

 the hardier kinds in splendid condition. 

 These will be followed by an immense 

 stock of small plants pricked out into 

 boxes, while these in turn will be fol- 

 lowed by another immense lot of fern 

 spores just showing signs of germina- 

 tion. 



The dahlias are well under way fer 



