

The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



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December 24, 1008. 



Niessen's 



News 

 Column 



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|0 OUR friends, patrons, 

 and the trade in gen- 

 eral, we wish to extend the 

 compliments of the season. 

 Many thanks for your gen- 

 erous support during the 

 past year. You all have our 

 best wishes for a liberal 

 share of the prosperity of 

 the promising year of 



1909 



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Leo Niessen Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



Open from 7:00 a. m. to 8:00 p. m. 



POINSETTIAS 



We offer a splendid stock of this seasonable flower for the 

 Christmas Holidays and for New Year's. We can give 

 you fancy long stemmed stock, or medium sized flowers and 

 stems, or small flowers on short stems, at reasonable prices. 



May we have your order? We will do our best to please you 



W. E. McKISSICK & BROS. 



Wholesale Florists 



1619=21 Ranstead St., Philadelphia 



Open tm S P. M. 



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PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



"Fresh Cut Holly!'" "Mistletoe!" It 

 is heard all along Market street, where 

 the crowds throng about the fakers' 

 stands, surging back and forth, remind- 

 ing one of a great holiday gathering for 

 a circus or for Founders ' week. The 

 amount of greens that have been har- 

 vested this week is enormous. Never be- 

 fore in the history of the City of Broth- 

 erly Love have such immense quantities 

 of holly, mistletoe, and all the other 

 varieties of greens, berried and unber- 

 ried, been shipped into and out of the 

 city, to say nothing of the quantity that 

 has been consumed therein. But this is 

 a digression, excusable only because 

 of the extreme difficulty of writing in- 

 telligibly about a battle on the eve 

 thereof. 



Let us leave the battle until next week, 

 and report briefly the doings in this 

 market from December 16 to 22. The 

 demand has been light and irregular; 

 prices have slowly advanced, especially 

 on fancy orchids, gardenias and roses. 

 The quantity of poinsettia coming into 

 the market is larger, despite the casual- 

 ties, than was at first anticipated. It 

 seems probable that the supply will equal 

 the demand. Callas have developed a 

 surprising scarcity, Pittsburg being ap- 

 pealed to in vain. Easter lilies are fine 

 and quite plentiful. Violets are excel- 

 lent and in fair demand. The Hudson 

 river continues to supply this market 

 with large quantities of Marie Louise, 

 while Hightstown-grown Lady Campbell 

 and fancy singles are increasing in num- 

 bers. There is a noticeable holding back 

 of carnations from some of the growers, 

 which is greatly to be deplored. "While 

 the market for these flowers is not good 

 enough to warrant high prices, except on 

 a few reds and fancies, they are sure to 

 cause dissatisfaction with them -when 

 they come. Fortunately this evil is de- 

 creasing. Sweet peas are more plentiful 

 than ever before at Christmas, some of 

 the stock coming in showing unusual 

 quality. Most of the smaller flowers on 



the price list are. in excellent supply. 

 Greens are abundant. 



The Plant Trade. 



Plants have never sold better before 

 Christmas than this season. The retail 

 stores have stocked heavily with nearly 

 all choice varieties of plants, and a good 

 demand has been noticed for the small 

 sizes of choice foliage plants to be made 

 up prettily in hampers and baskets. Cro- 

 tons have figured especially in these 

 combinations, and the variety named 

 after the chief of the horticultural de- 

 partment at Girard college, Edwin Lons- 

 dale, has been favored for its beautiful 

 red coloring. The supply houses have 

 catered to this demand by producing 

 many original designs in hampers and 

 plant baskets, giving the retailers oppor- 

 tunity to display artistic skill of a high 

 order. Charles Thorley, the famous New 

 York florist, when talking recently with 

 a Philadelphian, said he believed there 

 was a great future in the making up of 

 plant combinations for holiday gifts. 

 Nothing is considered too good for these 

 arrangements, the best in plants, bas- 

 kets and millinery being combined to 

 produce a telling effect. 



Horticultural Society Election. 



The election of officers of the Penn- 

 sylvania Horticultural Society took place 

 at the annual meeting December 15 and 

 resulted as follows: 



President — Clement B. Xewbold. 



Vice-presidents — Randall Morgan, Dr. 

 J. Cheston Morris, Henry F. Michell, J. 

 Gardner Cassatt. 



Treasurer — Sydney W. Keith. 



Secretary — David Rust. 



Professor of Botany — Stewardson 

 Brown. 



Professor of Horticultural Chemistry 

 — Dr. Percival Frazer. 



Professor of Entomology — Dr. Henry 

 Skinner. 



Professor of Biology — Dr. Ida A. Kel- 

 ler. 



Executive Council — Robert C. Lippin- 

 cott, John W. Pepper, Edward A. 

 Schmidt, William Robertson, Robert 

 Craig, John McCleary, Dr. Robert Huey. 



