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The Wccldy Florists' Review* 



Aphil 0, 1908. 





Beauties 



Our prize winning stock. We offer choice blooms 

 in any quantity for Easter. 



Very fine stock, 

 on long stems. 



Fancy flowers 



Cut Lilies 



Extra choice flowers for church decoration on 

 long stems. Also good flowers on med. stems. 



OUR SERVICE IS UNEXCELLED 



THE LEO NIESSEN CO., Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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Mention Thf R»Tlfw when you write. 



DO YOU WANT EASTER NOVELTIES ? 



Send for oar handsomely illustrated new catalogue, which is the most elaborate book ever published in the 



florists' supply line. If you have not one already, send for it. 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO., 1129 Arcli Strut, Philadelphia, Pa. j 



Mention The Rerlew when yon write. 



receiving $5 or $6 in change. About 5 

 o'clock Friday evening Muckey placed 

 an order for funeral flowers with Miss 

 May Wright, of Schroeter's, and, as be- 

 fore, tendered a check. Hugo Schroeter 

 refused the check and Mr. Muckey went 

 out, saying he would come baQk soon 

 with the cash, as he wanted the flowers. 

 Mr. Schroeter followed him about town 

 for about thirty minutes, until he met an 

 officer, to whom he told his suspicions, 

 and the tear-stained Mr. Muckey was 

 given a berth at headquarters. 



There is much talk of Philip Breit- 

 meyer being the republican candidate 

 for mayor. 



William Dilger, as assistant park com- 

 missioner, is giving the public some first 

 lessons in the gentle art of raising plants 

 and improving the back yards. The 

 newspapers are taking much interest in 

 the matter. H. S. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market 



Business conditions are not nearly so 

 satisfactory as was expected for the week 

 preceding the week before Easter. There 

 have been good days, with fair local and 

 shipping business, but the enormous 

 quantity of flowers coming into the mar- 

 ket is too great a burden to be borne. 

 Great quantities go to the street at ab- 

 surd prices, and more are wasted than I 

 like to tell about. 



Despite these unfortunate conditions, 

 there are some bright spots, with good 

 prospects for an excellent Easter. The 

 carnation market has improved consider- 

 ably, insofar as the colored varieties are 

 concerned. On Monday, particularly, 

 choice deep pink carnations were scarce. 

 White lags. Sweet peas have been sell- 

 ing better than for some time past. The 

 best grade, of which there are only a 

 few, has been in demand. Most of the 



ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS NANUS.^ ,^ 



Choice srreeDbouse-growD seed $0.60 $4.50 



Soutbern-Krown seed, under slats 50 3.25 



Asparagus Spreng^eri 



Choice greenhouse-grown seed 



Imported seed 



1.25 

 .70 



Tuberoses 



Choice first size 1.00 9.00 



second size 60 4.75 



Tuberous Rooted Begonias 



Fine bulbs in choice condition. 

 Single, mixed per dozen, 30c 2.00 18.50 



separate colors. 



35c 2.25 20.00 



(^/oAes S^<^c/ S^<^^' 



219 Market St., PHILADELPHIA j 



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flowers coming into the market belong to 

 the medium grade. Southern daffodils 

 appear to have been affected by the frost 

 in some instances. The stock coming in 

 from some places is, however, extremely 

 fine, Emperor, as received by John Mc- 

 Intyre April 6, being of excellent qual- 

 ity. Callas are really superb now. It is 

 a pity there is no special demand for 

 them, as such fine stock ought to bring 

 good prices. Easter lilies are increasing 

 in number, as the g^eat church festival 

 approaches. Single violets are practically 

 over, those now coming into the market 

 being hardly worth noticing. There are 

 a good many double violets, both from 

 the Hudson river and locally g^own. In- 

 dications point to their continuance for 

 a couple of weeks at least. American 

 Beauties are fine and plentiful. All the 

 other roses are in good form for this 

 season of the year. Kaiserin is now plen- 

 tiful and of excellent quality. Greens 

 are abundant. 



Eleventh and Westmoreland. 



Christian Eisele is one of the old-time 

 florists who might be described in the 

 words of a girl I used to know, who, when 

 she spoke of anyone she particularly 

 liked, said he was a scholar and a gentle- 

 man. Mr. Eisele knows his plants, loves 

 them dearly, and can talk about them 

 intelligently. At his place you can find 

 plants that you can find nowhere else, 

 varieties of merit that have been dropped 

 by seekers after gold mines because, per- 

 chance, they could not grow fast enough 

 or bloom freely enough; yet they are 

 varieties of sterling merit that have 

 places in the hearts of our truest flower 

 lovers. I will not tire you with a list of 

 them, just go to Eleventh and Westmore- 

 land and see for yourself; but if you 

 must have a taste of what is in store I 

 will say you will find peppermint gera- 

 nium there, a plant I cannot recall hav- 

 ing seen anywhere else, certainly not in 

 many moons. Bouvardia Humboldtii is 



