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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



July 23. 1908. 







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Summer Beauties, Valley 



ASTERS — We are receiving excellent shipments in all the leading colors of this 



popular summer flower. 

 GALAX LEAVES, Bronze, excellent quality, $1.00 per 1000; $7.50 per case of 10,000. 



OUR SERVICE IS UNEXCELLED \ 



Open dally, includinc Saturday, 7 a. m. to 6 p. m. 



THE LEO NIESSEN CO., Wholesale Horists 



1209 Arch Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 





Mention The Review when you write. 



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a day at a time, fishing and at the ball 

 park. 



Word has reached this market that 

 Gunnar Teilmann, the well-known grower 

 of chrysanthemums who ships here from 

 Marion, Ind., has been offered the civil 

 eervice job of head gardener at the sol- 

 diers ' home in Tennessee, and that he 

 will sell or lease his place in Marion. 



Webster Randall spent a few days 

 last week on A. L. Randall's fruit farm 

 in Michigan and incidentally tried to cut 

 a finger off. These city people are not 

 wise to the dangers of country life. 



Bassett & Washburn are giving a little 

 blow-out every afternoon at the city 

 store — the auratums are not opening fast 

 enough in the field. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. makes a specialty' 

 of outdoor flowers and reports a record 

 July business. 



Walter Retzer, formerly of this city, 

 is up from St. Louis to visit a brother 

 in Rogers Park. 



Louis Wittbold has invented a punch 

 for making drainage holes in concrete 

 benches while the concrete is still soft, 

 doing away with the corks formerly used. 



H. F. Port, of Maywood, has returned 

 from Las Vegas, N. M., where he has 

 been for some time for his health. 



Fred Nelson has returned from a vaca- 

 tion of three weeks, spent at his old home 

 at Galesburg. 



The Wittbold retail staff went to Edge- 

 brook one day recently for a game of 

 tall with the greenhouse force there. 

 They say the score was 11 to 3 in favor 

 of the storemen, but the way they look 

 at each other when telling it leads to at 

 least a suspicion it was the other way 

 about. 



Nick Pontrich, a Louisville, Ky., flo- 

 rist, has been visiting his son, Mike Pont- 

 rich, who is with the Wittbolds. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Ritins Eastern Market. 



The feature of the cut flower market, 

 as I write, is the unusual scarcity of 

 flowers, both choice and ordinary. There 

 is not an especially heavy demand, but 

 the fellow with the order has to do some 

 lively hustling if he wants to fill it in 

 good shape. This scarcity is due to this 

 being between seasons with the indoor 

 flowers, and the devastation wrought in 

 the outdoor stock by the extraordinary 

 drought, a drought so long continued 

 that sweet peas locally grown have suc- 

 cumbed entirely, and even such hardy 

 stock as feverfew and achillea is af- 

 fected. 



WIRE STAKES 



No. 10 Steel Wire. Gilvanizei- 



2 foot 

 2»fl •' . 

 8 " , 

 8»a " . 



Per 100 

 .90.45 

 . .66 

 . .65 



. .78 



1000 

 «4.08 

 5.11 

 6.15 

 7.18 



4 foot. 

 4I2 " .. 



5 " .. 



6 " .. 

 6^ " .. 



Ne. I Steel Wire, Gtlvanizeri— For staking 

 American Beauty and other strong roues. 



Per 100 1000 



2 foot $0.55 $ 5.25 



2»a ■ 70 6.50 



8 " 80 7.60 



3h " 95 9.00 



4 " 1.10 10.00 



Per 100 1000 

 .S1.25 $11.50 



1.40 

 1.60 

 2.00 

 2.25 



13.00 

 15.50 

 18.00 

 20.50 



RUBBER HOSE 



3 ply, 12c per foot: 4-ply, 14^c per foot. In 25 and 50-foot sections. 



Just tbe bos* for florists- HXCHBLL'S "ANT LENGTH." A 



big Improvement over Chicago Electric. Can be had in any length desired. Flexible and 

 won't aink. IS^sc p«r loot, coupled free. 



MICHELL'S SEED HOUSE, A^^'^l^^t. PiiHadiiphia, Pa. 



New crop of Pansy, Cineraria, Primula, etc., now ready. See Pansy Seed Adv. on Page 25. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



The supply of asters, probably the 

 most popular summer flower, appears to 

 be short this season. It seems as though 

 most growers had not planted as many 

 as in years gone by. At any rate, they 

 have not increased in the same propor- 

 tion as the demand. The stock is scarce, 

 very scarce on some days, and while not 

 extraordinarily good, anything at all pre- 

 sentable is in lively demand. Valley is 

 also eagerly sought. Now that the 

 choicer flowers are mostly out of the 

 way, valley and Cattleya Gaskelliana 

 have the field pretty much to themselves. 



Carnations are scarcer, a good judge 

 tells me, than he has ever seen them in 

 the end of July. The extraordinary heat 

 of May and June, followed by the pres- 

 ent none too cool month, has made it im- 

 possible to keep carnations in good con- 

 dition. Gladioli are becoming more 

 plentiful. 



Kaiserin is in good supply. New crop 

 Beauties, locally grown, of good color 

 and substance, can be had with excellent 

 stems. ,The reduction in the supply of 

 outdoor flowers has caused better aver- 

 age prices than for some time past, 

 though of course this stock sells cheaply. 



The Express Charge on Ice. 



The Review two weeks ago, on its 

 contents page, printed an interview with 

 Edward Reid regarding the unfairne.ss 

 of the express companies in charging full 

 rates for cut flowers packed with ice on 

 the ground that cut flowers are a lux- 

 ury, when so-called ' * necessary commodi- 

 ties, " such as celery and celery plants, 

 mushroom spawn, bulbs, etc., may be 

 packed in ice and havo a discount of 

 twenty-five per cent in weight deducted 

 for ice. Mr. Reid wrote to the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission asking that 

 cut flowers be placed on this classified list, 



which receives the discount. The Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission has replied 

 acknowledging Mr. Reid's letter, and 

 stating that the matter would be taken 

 up with the Adams Express Co. 



Samuel S. Pennock, when asked what 

 he thought regarding the admission of 

 cut flowers to this classified list, said he 

 believed that they were entitled to admis- 

 sion, and that Mr. Reid's effort to ob- 

 tain the discount had his hearty support. 



Arthur A. Niessen said he believed 

 that customers were entitled to a dis- 

 count covering tbe weight of ice, because 

 his company had frequently received com- 

 plaints from their customers that a box 

 that was billed at, for instance, sixty-five 

 pounds, on being weighed on its arrival 

 was found to weigh only forty or fifty 

 pounds, the decrease being due to the 

 melting of the ice. Mr. Niessen thought 

 the placing of cut flowers on the classi- 

 fied list was only just. 



A Chat With Wm. Swayne. 



William Swayne is generally recog- 

 nized as the leading florist of Kennett, 

 and probably of Chester county, by right 

 of his long and successful business 

 career. Mr. Swayne worked, when a lad, 

 on a farm, and later took up the grow- 

 ing of flowers and plants under glass. 

 Like nearly all farmers who have gone 

 into our business, he succeeded from the 

 first, but, unlike many of the farmers, 

 his success continues. Mr. Swayne owes 

 his success not only to his ability as a 

 grower, but also to his painstaking care 

 and to his excellent business qualities. 



A few days ago Phil induced Mr. 

 Swayne to talk about business questions 

 of interest. Mr. Swayne said that he 

 thought that Chester county florists took 

 fully as much in now, in dollars and 

 cents, from their greenhouses as they did 



