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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



August 6, 1008. 





Summer Beauties, Valley 



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



popular summer flower. ^^ 



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



OUR SERVICE IS UNEXCELLED ,. 



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



THE LEO NIESSEN CO., Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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New Crop Pansy Seed 



Michell's Giant Exhibition Mixture ^. „ . Trade pkt. oz. 



. , » ^ , . , , . J , Giant Trlmardeau— Very large 



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the leading pansy specialists In Germany, BuMiot Odlar aiAl CAflBlar— 



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size of bloom, heavy texture and varied A superb mixture.......... 50 5.00 



shades and colors, with their distinct mark- Masterplooe-Giant curled 60 4 00 



ings, this strain cannot be excelled. Trade Non Plus Ultra-Giant blotched 



pkt.. 60c; ^ oz., 75c; per oz.. $5.00. varieties 50 4.00 



nnest Enellali BUxed. trade pkt.. 25c.; Odler, or Blotched 50 3.00 



per oz., 75c. Parisian Laree— Stained 40 2.50 



We also Offer Pansy Seed In Separate Colors 

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PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



The cut flower market, while quiet, is 

 normal, the consensus of opinion being 

 that July was equal to or ahead of the 

 same month last year. There is little 

 change in the conditions surrounding the 

 principal varieties on the cut flower list 

 since last week. Cattleyas have advanced 

 in price. They can still be obtained in 

 moderate quantity. Lilium Harrisii is 

 seen in most of the leading wholesale 

 houses. The quality is excellent, demand 

 fair. Valley is probably the most plen- 

 tiful of the choicer flowers. The quality 

 is as fine, or finer, than has ever been 

 seen in this- market in midsummer. 



Asters are the ruling summer flowers. 

 While there is general complaint of poor 

 quality, there are large quantities of 

 really fine stock on the market. The 

 Ostrich Plume variety continues favorite, 

 with some excellent Semple's Branching 

 as a good second. Gladioli have taken a 

 tumble. The choice named varieties still 

 command fair prices, but ordinary stock 

 is cheap and extremely difficult to mar- 

 ket. Sweet peas are excellent, but by no 

 means plentiful, locally grown stock 

 being practically over. Outdoor flowers 

 and greens are abundant. There is no 

 change in the rose and carnation situa- 

 tion. 



Philadelphia to Niagara. 



The Florists' Club expects to take the 

 train at 8:25 a. m., on the Pennsylvania 

 railroad, Monday, August 17, arriving 

 at Niagara Falls at 9:05 that evening. 

 An excursion ticket, good until August 

 25, will cost $14.80 for the round trip. 

 The Hotel Imperial, at $3 a day, and 

 Temperance Hotel, are recommended by 

 the committee. Arrangements should be 

 made in advance. 



The Sorprise of the Week. 



It was announced on the street late 

 this week that Fox's uptown store, at 

 Twenty-first and Columbia avenue, is 

 for sale. This announcement caused con- 

 siderable surprise, the store having been 

 established by C. H. Fox seventeen years 

 ago and being evidently prosperous. The 

 most progressive paper, being determined 

 to learn for its readers the why and 

 wherefore of this move, went to head- 

 quarters for information; a somewhat 

 difficult matter, you will say, for Mr. Fox 

 is enjoying the fruits of his labor in 

 Europe. Despite this fact, the Review 

 is able to announce authoritatively that 

 Charles Henry Fox finds the weight of 



two flower shops, with their large busi- 

 ness responsibilities, too heavy. He there- 

 fore decided to offer one of them for 

 sale, the older shop at Twenty-first and 

 Columbia avenue, retaining possession of 

 the newer, the Sign of the Rose, at Broad 

 and Walnut streets. You will want to 

 know how the most progressive paper 

 was able to obtain this information. In 

 answer I will give you a little story of 

 George D. Clark's: 



Mr. Clark says that when American 

 missionaries and residents in China were 

 thought to be in peril during the recent 

 Boxer uprising, considerable anxiety was 

 felt in this country. Whitelaw Reid, edi- 

 tor of the New York Tribune, determined 

 to find out their fate, and after trying 

 the usual channels without success he 

 then cabled direct to Li Hung Chang. 

 Result: The Tribune was able to assure 

 its readers of the safety of our country- 

 men. 



Moral: Go to headquarters for infor- 

 mation, no matter what the cost. 



Latest Improvements at Wyncote. 



The Joseph Heacock Co., of Wyncote, 

 has just successfully completed an ex- 

 tensive building operation of a difficult 

 nature. This consists in removing the 

 dividing walls and partitions between 

 eighteen houses, large and small, throw- 

 ing all into one open, glass-covered space 

 90x275. To do this it was necessary to 

 take out the north side sashbars and 

 plate, as well as the post, on one line of 

 houses, using in their place a longer 

 sashbar, covering not only the back of a 

 wide house but a small house also. These 

 sashbars now rest on a cypress gutter 

 between this house and the next. This 

 gutter is supported by 2-inch galvanized 

 iron pipe-posts bolted on to the gutter 

 and set in five feet of concrete. These 



pipe-posts are set five feet apart, making 

 a strong and not expensive support that 

 economizes room and admits light. 



This remodeled range will be quite a 

 departure from established ideas in its 

 contents. The houses in this section rise 

 one above the other on the side of a hill, 

 the lower benches being devoted to the 

 company's new rose-colored carnation 

 now christened Dorothy Gordon. The 

 next benches are filled with the popular 

 Irish rose, Killarney, 5,000 plants all in 

 thrifty condition, while the upper benches 

 are filled with as pretty a lot of kentias 

 as one could wish to see. Mr. Heacock 

 believes that the proper temperature for 

 each variety of plant can be maintained 

 without partitions. If, however, this 

 proves to be a mistake, sash with burlap 

 or shading cloth can* be used along the 

 post lines. 



Another improvement on the place is 

 a new house 20x67 just built for Cypri- 

 pedium insigne. Some 900 plants in 

 thrifty condition fill the house. The cyps 

 have now become so important a flower 

 in the market that they are deemed 

 worthy of a special house all to them- 

 selves. 



The kentias are finer and more numer- 

 ous than ever before. The cedar tub for 

 larger sizes has evidently come to stay, 

 as there ^re more 9-inch and 12-inch ken- 

 tias in tubs than last year. The best 

 decorators are gradually finding out the 

 advantages of tubs over pots for deco- 

 rative sizes. It would be difficult to 

 imagine a prettier sight than the kentia 

 houses filled with clean, thrifty plants, 

 deep green in color, and shapely. 



Other features of interest are some 

 beautiful specimens of Cybotium Schiedei 

 and some imported cattleyas added to 

 those tried last year. In the present car- 

 nation houses Dorothy Gordon is still 



