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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Max 7, 1908. 





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FOR COMMENCEMENTS 



CSTTLEYA NOSSISE 



In Any Quantity. 



LAELIA PURPURATA 



BEAUTIES. Oar prize winning stock. We can fill SWEET PEAS. Choice long-stemmed flowers in 



all orders, large or small. pink, white and lavender. 



RICHMOND. Selected stock of finest quality. VALLEY of fine quality, well hardened. 



Our Service Is Unexcelled 



THE LEO NIESSEN CO., Wholesale Horists 



1209 Arch Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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cultural requirements, for if a consider- 

 able, amount of heat and atmospheric 

 moisture are necessary to keep it in good 

 health it is next to useless for general 

 decorative purposes. 



The plant must be free from formid- 

 able spines, as these may not only prove 

 a source of danger, but they injure other 

 plants that may be packed with it. 

 For this reason the beautiful forms of 

 dsemonorops, now know as calamus, 

 have never become common. It is also 

 necessary that a palm be of fairly quick 

 growth, and therefore be capable of 

 making well-furnisheu specimens in com- 

 paratively small pots. 



Kentia Belmoreana and Kentia For- 

 steriana may be quoted as ideal market 

 palms, but the private owner prefers at 

 least a certain amount of variety, as 

 a continual repetition is apt to pall. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rifing Eastern Market. 



Business is bad, so bad that the most 

 conservative judges say they have never 

 seen its equal for badness at this season. 

 The weather has been rather unusual, 

 the hot days bringing in so heavy a sup- 

 ply towards the close of last week that 

 even the cooler weather at the opening of 

 this week seems to have had little effect 

 in checking overproduction. The quality 

 has been benefited, the havoc anticipated 

 from the warm spell not being realized. 

 The only bright spot in the market lo- 

 cally has been the children's festival in 

 the Catholic churches on Sunday, calling 

 for much stock of fair quality the day 

 previous. There have been some good 

 shipping orders scattered throughout the 

 last six days, but all the orders, both 

 local and shipping, seem but as a drop 

 in the bucket. 



Beauties are not so strongly in crop 

 as a week ago. The quality continues 

 excellent, with quite enough to satisfy 

 the demand. The number of fancy 

 flowers in other varieties of roses is 

 somewhat reduced. Kaiserin is oflf crop. 

 Killarney is preferred to Bridesmaid as 

 a warm weather rose. 



The listing of carnations in fancy, 

 select and ordinary grades is somewhat 



BULB BARGAINS to CLOSE 



We offer (subject to being unsold on receiving order) a splendid lot of Tuberoses, at 

 the following extraordinarily low prices: 



Choice, first size, 85c per 100, $6.50 per 1000. 

 Choice, second size, 60c per 100, $3.50 per 1000. 



These bulbs are very fine, and must not be confounded with ordinary cheap offers. 



Tuberous Rooted Besronias. Fine bulbs in choice condition: 

 Single, mixed, per doz., 30c, S2.00 per 100. $18.50 per 1000. 

 Single, separate colors, per doz., 35c, 92.25 per 100, $20.00 per 1000. 



219 Market St., PHILADELPHIA 



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misleading at this season, the large ma- 

 jority of the stock coming to town be- 

 ing of first grade. Its price, when sold, 

 depends more on whether the buyer re- 

 quires a quantity and is not particular 

 as to color, than on the quality of the 

 stock. In other words, fine stock can 

 sometimes be bought at the price of ordi- 

 nary. 



Cattleyas are more plentiful, Mossise 

 being reinforced by gigas, and in lesser 

 quantity by other varieties. Sweet peas 

 are still fine and bid fair to continue in 

 good form, should May be cool, until 

 the arrival of the outdoor stock. Laven- 

 der is the scarcest color. Indoor pansies 

 are about over. Outdoor bulbous flowers 

 are in moderate supply. "White lilac is 

 popular. Dogwood is being freely used 

 where opportunity offers. Greens are 

 quiet. 



A Chat About Schizanthus. 



Edwin Lonsdale spoke before the Flo- 

 rists' Club May 5 on the above subject. 

 Mr. Lonsdale has been growing Schizan- 

 thus Wisetonensis for some years at 

 Girard College. It is a beautiful plant, 

 effective in the decorations required at 

 the college on Founders* day, May 20. 

 The seed is usually sown in the fall, 

 October or early in November, in order 

 to have the plants in full bloom this 



MISCELUNEOUS 



PLANTS 



PerllOO 



Aceratum, Qumey and Pauline, 2-in $2.00 



Alyssum, Double Giant, 2-In 2.00 



Begronla, Pres. Camot,2-in 3.00 



Cyperus AltemlfoUus, 2-in 3.OO 



Centaurea Gymnocarpa, 2-in 2.00 



Coleus, Golden Bedder and Verschaffeltii.l 



2-in i2.00 



Chryaanthemuins, Bonnaffon, Appleton,f 



Enguehard, White and Yellow Eaton, 2-in. 2.00 



Fuchsia, mixed, 2-in, $2.00 per 100; 3-in 5.00 



Geraniums, Mme. Salleroi, 2-in 3.0O 



Ctennan Ivy, 2-in 2.OO 



Heliotrope, 2-in 2.OO 



Mara:uentes,2-in 2.00 



Lobelia, Dwarf, 2-ln 2.OO 



Roses, 2-in. Maids, Brides, Chatenay, Gates, 



Richmonds 3.00 



Vlnca, Major, 3-in 5.00 



Verbena, n amed varieties, 2-in 2.OO 



Salvia, rooted cuttings. $1.00 per 100; 2-in. . . 2.00 



Stevia and Variegated Stevia, 2-in 2.00 



Ferns, Boston. 4-in., $15.00 per 100; 6-in 50.00 



VALLEY GREENHOUSE CO., Sewickley, Pi. 



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month. The first package of seed Mr. 

 •Lonsdale ever sowed failed completely 

 to germinate. The seed sown two years 

 ago came up admirably, and from this 

 seed the watchful Mr. Lonsdale secured 



