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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Jdlt 30, 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, including Saturday, 7 a. m. to 6 p. m. 



THE LEO NIESSEN CO., Wholesale Horists 



1209 Arch Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



The cut flower business has reached 

 its lowest summer level. There is not 

 enough stock coming into the market to 

 keep the wholesale houses busy, but 

 quite enough, were quality not consid- 

 ered, to satisfy all demands. Quality, 

 however, is considered more and more, 

 and the quality of much of the stock 

 coming into the market is not satisfac- 

 tory to the critical buyer. As a result, 

 special orders require special effort to 

 fill them properly, and a few special or- 

 ders will stir the placid summer season 

 of the wholesale market into something 

 approaching a ripple of life. 



Asters are much more plentiful than 

 a week ago, but the quality of the asters 

 grown in and near Philadelphia is not 

 such that we like to point them out with 

 pride to our New York cousins. A few 

 select blooms are coming in from a dis- 

 tance, notably of the variety Ostrich 

 Plume, described before in this column, 

 and the Pink Ostrich Plume, a sister 

 sort of refreshingly lively color. Gladi- 

 oli furnish us this week with a soft pink 

 variety, named May, that can be had in 

 quantity, and commands attention from 

 the best buyers. The commoner sorts 

 are more plentiful and lower in price. 



Kaiserin roses are in crop. They are 

 very nice indeed. Killarney from down 

 east has reappeared, a stride in advance 

 , of the locally grown stock. 



Valley continues an important factor 

 in funeral work and in choice orders, 

 but cattleyas have decreased so mark- 

 edly in quantity as to be unobtainable 

 at times. Carnations, gathered from old 

 plants still in the houses and from the 

 young stock in the field, cannot together 

 muster enough force to form a corporal's 

 guard, but such as there are appear to 

 be in demand. Of the smaller outdoor 

 flowers, some have improved with the 

 rain and some have not. Golden Glow 

 has made its appearance in quantity. 

 Water lilies continue plentiful. 



It is Brand-new. 



It was suggested to Phil that Robert 

 Kift had a beautiful photograph of an 

 1 ivy cross decorated with a bunch of 

 American Beauties tied with Beauty rib- 

 bon. It was really worth seeing. So 

 to Mr, Kift's shop Phil straightway re- 

 paired, bent on seeing and securing that 

 photograph for the benefit of the Kb- . 

 VIEW readers. Now, Mr. Kift is him- 

 self a writer of high renown, but Phil 

 argued that inasmuch as Mr. Kift is a 



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We alio Otfer Panax Seed in Separate Colors 

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HENRY F. MICHELL CO., Marlet St. abm lOlh St., Piiiladalphia, Pa. 



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modest man, he might possess that 

 Beauty photograph for many moons be- 

 fore his friends knew it. Mr. Kift was 

 cordial, and, like Barcus, willin', but 

 there was a difficulty. The Beauty pho- 

 tograph on the ivy cross was so firmly 

 moored as to be unobtainable, but it 

 often happens that when you go for 

 one thing you get another. The great 

 thing is to keep going, , 



In this case Phil, who was rambling 

 about, heard Mr. Kift say: "It is 

 brand-new," and saw him standing in 

 front of a table covered with ferns in 

 tiny conservatories, with a look of pride 

 on his face. "Talk about them," Phil 

 commanded, and Mr, Kift obediently ex- 

 plained that these tiny conservatories or 

 oval-shaped glass bowls, inverted, were 

 intended to keep off the air and at the 

 same time give an unobstructed view of 

 the plant underneath. Fish bowls are 

 somewhat similar in general appearance, 

 but they are better suited for tiny 

 aquariums or for partridge berry bowls, 

 so often seen in the shops. Mr. Kift's 

 idea is to plant a single fern in a little 

 glass saucer made to fit the bowl, which 

 is turned upside down on top of it. He 

 is experimenting with the close saucer 

 and with the saucer with air holes, as 

 seen in a lamp, but has not yet decided 

 which is better suited for growing pur- 

 poses. Mr. Kift's fern bowl is very at- 

 tractive, and seems well adapted to its 

 purpose. The ferns were uniformly 

 healthy and could be seen to advantage. 



Seashore Effects. 



More attention is being paid to plant- 

 ing at the seashore resorts this season 

 than ever before. Many of them were 

 formerly content with a little grass plot 

 around a few favored hotels or cottages, 

 never dreaming of aspiring to the lux- 

 uriance of flower and foliage seen at 



Newport and a few of the more fashion- 

 able resorts. This season marks a de- 

 cided advance in planting. I mean by 

 this that planting, intelligent planting, 

 is spread over a broader area than ever 

 before, I was interested in the planting 

 seen on a flying visit to one of the 

 Bhode Island resorts by the sea, A col- 

 ony of people from St, Louis had laid 

 out a tract of ground on which they 

 built a score of so-called shoreby cot- 

 tages, and a club house. The planting 

 in front of this park was composed en- 

 tirely of Wichuraiana hybrid rosea, in 

 several varieties, backed by Yucca fila- 

 mentosa. Both the roses and the yucca 

 were in full bloom the third week in 

 July and presented a really beautiful 

 appearance. The former were trained 

 upright, forming a dense hedge about 

 two and a half feet in height, which was 

 covered with pink and white blooms*. An- 

 other pretty feature here was the boxes 

 covered with birch bark and filled with 

 scarlet geraniums, used on some of the 

 private summer houses overlooking the 

 jetties or piers, 



Variotu Notes. 



Israel Rosnosky will speak before the 

 Florists' Club Tuesday, August 4, at 8 

 p. m., in Horticultural hall. His sub- 

 ject will be "The Formosa Lily." 



William R. Gibson, of the Livingston 

 Seed Co., Columbus, O., was in this city 

 last week, Mr, Gibson was formerly 

 with Pennock Bros, 



Louis Berger has patented his ma- 

 chine for stemming flowers. The ma- 

 chine wires the flower on a toothpick 

 and cuts the wire with great rapidity. 

 It may be worked by a pedal or by elec- 

 tricity. 



A letter received in this city from 

 Charles Henry Fox, on the steamer Eo- 



