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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



SpPTEUBKB 24, 1008. 



Niessen's 



News 

 Column 



We have just completed our four- 

 teenth year in the commission busi- 

 ness. We are justly proud of our 

 record. From an humble beginning 

 we have grown to be counted among 

 the six largest commission houses in 

 the country. Continued success in 

 business is only possible where sound 

 and conservative methods are its 

 foundation. 



We do not aim to do all the busi- 

 ness, but we do aim to do some of it, 

 and do it right. Would it be posiible 

 to build up a business such as we 

 have done, if we had not conducted 

 business for fourteen years in " the 

 right way" ? 



We aim to make business financial- 

 ly profitable to " three,'' that make 

 our business possible, the grower, the 

 retailer, and ourselves. Most of our 

 growers are prosperous; we can 

 readily see it by their expansion, by 

 looking back a few years. The re- 

 tailers that have dealt with us for 

 years must have found their dealings 

 profitable. The best proof is that 

 they are dealing with us today. 



Why don't you get some of this 



Prosperity ? 



Try our services and our methods. 

 One or two shipments is not a fair 

 trial, not fair to you or to us. Let us 

 have your business for a month or 

 two, and after that we know the 

 habit to order from "Niessen" will 

 have grown on you. 



Let us send you 

 our price list.ir 



TheLeoNiesseoCo. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch Street 



Philadelphia 



ing, indicating that he must have had a 

 good trade last season. He also distrib- 

 uted a carload of flower pots last week 

 that were sent in here by the Ionia Pot- 

 tery Co. 



J. Austin, a florist at Thirty-fifth and 

 Park streets, has opened a cut flower 

 store at Thirty-second and Troost streets, 

 with a millinery store. Mr. Austin for- 

 merly grew only vegetables for this mar- 

 ket, but the last year has changed to 

 plant growing and now to plants and cut 

 flowers. He is quite a hustler and seems 

 to make a success of everything that he 

 undertakes. 



Geo. M. Kellogg 's store has undergone 

 a great change in cleaning and rearrang- 

 ing and a brand new floor covering. 

 They report business as rather quiet at 

 present. The greenhouses are sending ia 

 some good Beauties and Killarney 'roses. 



Geo. Bastian, of Geo. M. Kellogg 's 

 cut flower store, is quite ill with pneu- 

 monia. 



Charles Thomas, one of Kansas City's 

 store men, is now with Geo. M. Kellogg 

 in the wholesale department. 



Miss J. E. Murray has had an attract- 

 ive window of tritoma and snapdragon. 



The Flower Shop at Eleventh and 



Mrs. Martin Reukauf. 



(She escaped from a wrecked sleepinR car last 

 week by climbiag tbrough a window.) 



Main streets is running a hot race in 

 cutting prices with some of the Walnut 

 street stores. W. H. H. 



LIFE ON THE ROAD. 



The traveling salesman may, in certain 

 instances, lead what Danny Dreamer 

 calls "a gay life," but there are other 

 features incidenlE to occupation on the 

 road. Martin Beukauf, of Bayersdorfer 

 & Co., Philadelphia, encountered one of 

 these experiences at San Marcos, Tex., 

 September 16, in the early morning, and 

 it chanced that on this western trip he 

 was accompanied by Mrs. Reukauf. At 

 6:15 a. m. they were awakened to find 

 themselves, with other passengers, hud- 

 dled together in a bunch in an over- 

 turned sleeping car, from which the only 

 means of escape was through a broken 

 window. With his usual gallantry, Mr. 

 Reukauf assisted his wife out first, then 

 the other passengers, and last passed out 

 a miscellaneous assortment of clothing, 



from which they were able to select all 

 their own attire except Mr. Reukauf 's hat 

 and cuflfs, with diamond sleeve buttons. 

 Seventeen passengers were badly injured 

 in the wreck, but both Mr. and Mrs. 

 Reukauf escaped without a hurt. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



Values are extraordinarily good in the 

 cut flower market. It is seen in cattleyas, 

 in Beauties, in valley, in roses of the 

 tea varieties, in carnations, in asters, in 

 dahlias; in fact, in everything. The crit- 

 ical buyer can find little to find fault 

 with, no matter what he wants. Every- 

 thing is good, and everything is abun- 

 dant. I do not mean by this that there 

 are not plenty of poor flowers, for there 

 are, enough and to burn, and there is no 

 other possible use for them. But there 

 are so many good flowers that no one 

 need lack. 



The features of the market are the im- 

 provement in quality and quantity" in the 

 dahlia, an improvement that the public 

 seems slow to grasp; the falling off in 

 quantity of fancy asters, the colored 

 sorts being less abundant than the 

 whites; the improvement in carnations, 

 the new crop from indoor-grown stock 

 showing vast improvement over a week 

 ago, and the advance made by single vio- 

 , lets in quantity and in quality. 



Richmond roses have been vastly over- 

 done. They are fine, but no one wants 

 them, not at least nearly enough of them 

 to make an impression on the market. 

 Brides and Maids are improving, but 

 they are not selling particularly '^ell. 

 Valley is fine and has sold well at times. 



The general market is unsatisfactory. 

 Shipping business is picking up, there 

 being quite a few orders from outside 

 towns. Wild smilax and autumn foliage 

 are excellent and can be had in quantity. 



Various Notes. 



William Warner Harper returned from 

 a trip in the central part of Pennsyl- 

 vania September 21. Mr. Harper says 

 that the drought has been worse there 

 than on the eastern seaboard, the trees 

 ih many cases having shed their leaves, 

 notably at Montrose. 



Charles Henry Fox has a beautiful 

 window display at the Sign of the Rose, 

 consisting of crotons, cat-tails and rib- 

 bons of autumn tints. The opposite 

 window is tastefully arranged with dah- 

 liaa and autumn foliage. Mr. Fox's de- 

 termination to part with his uptown shop 

 continues to interest the street. 



Martin Reukauf, with H. Bayersdorfer 

 & Co., was in a serious railway accident 

 in Texas last week. While Mr. Reukauf 

 was dazed, he fortunately escaped bodily 

 injury, and only lost a few trifling ar- 

 ticles. His escape was a narrow one. 



David Herbert & Son, Atco, N. J., are 

 sending some choice dahlias to the S. S. 

 Pennock-Meehan Co. 



Walter P. Stokes is offering some fine 

 decorative plants grown at Floracroft, 

 at his Market street seed store. 



John Lucas & Co. report the glass mar- 

 ket as extraordinarily favorable to in- 

 tending buyers. 



Edward Reid is receiving some excep- 

 tionally fine Beauties, Reid's brand, of 

 course. 



Among the visitors in town, reported 

 by M. Rice & Co., are J. W. Grandy, 

 Norfolk, Va.; Miss Mary Smith, with 

 G. B. Smith, Baltimore, who called on 

 her way from Atlantic City; Mrs. Fanny 



