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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Januabt 14, 1900. 



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News 

 Column 



Double Violets 



$10.00 per 1000 



There is no better stock 

 coming to this market than 

 we are offering. They are 

 as fresh as it is possible to 

 get violets — picked the same 

 day we ship them to you. 



Brides and Maids 



We are offering a grade of 

 roses in this line a trifle 

 better than the ordinary run 

 of stock. Our "best" are 

 very fine; in fact, in all the 

 grades the flowers are good. 

 We know that in Brides and 

 Maids you can get the best 

 market value from us. 



Well Rooted 



Caniation Cottioss 



Satisfaction Guaranteed 



PINK 



.^ , 100 1000 



Afterglow le.OOJSOCO 



Sl°°°* «00 50.00 



yig"or ••••• ; 3.00 25.00 



R. P. Encbantresa 3.00 26.00 



Enchantreaa 2.60 2000 



Lawson 2.50 20!oO 



WHITE 



l^rahHIU.. e.OO 5000 



W. EncbaDtress 8.00 25 00 



W.Perfectlon 8.00 25.00 



BED 



Be»con 8.60 30.00 



Victory 8.00 26.00 



And all tbe standard varieties. 

 SEND FOB COBIPI.ErE M8T 



..The.. 



Leo Niessen Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



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



MY MARYLAND 



A No. 1 stock of this grand New Rose. Strong 



own root plants from 2-inch pots, $10.00 per 



100; $90.00 per 1000. 



MRS. JARDINE 



Own root plants. $10.00 per 100; $90.00 per 1000. 



W. E. McHSSICK & BROS. 



Wholesale Florists 



1619-21 Ranstead St., Philadelphia 



Op«n tlU 8 p. M. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



The market is steadily declining. Gar- 

 denias are a bright, particular exception 

 to the general rule. They are extremely 

 fine for the season, fairly plentiful, and 

 in excellent demand. The decline in 

 other flowers is most noticeable in the 

 poorer grades and in white, despite the 

 large amount of funeral work, both in 

 and out of town. It would be waste of 

 time to enumerate the lower values in 

 each variety of flowers. Suffice it to 

 say that the decline is general, the pur- 

 chasing power of a dollar having in- 

 creased about twenty per cent since a 

 week ago in ordinary grades, and from 

 five to ten per cent in select grades. 



The other features of the market are 

 the strengthening in the demand for 

 Easter lilies, led by a special order for 

 1,000 blooms, presumably for the wed- 

 ding of a prominent baiJcer'h daughter; 

 the spasmodic demand for callas, which 

 comes all at once and then is gone, and 

 the heavy supply of really superb 

 orchids, chiefly Cattleya Trianse. The 

 minor features in the market are the 

 increase in the quantity of violets and 

 of single daffodils, and the livelier de- 

 mand for greens, notably plumosus in 

 bunches. 



The dullness in the local market was 

 most apparent on January 7 and 8. Sat- 

 urday, January 9, was not as good a 

 clean-up as the six preceding Saturdays 

 since Thanksgiving. The early part of 

 the present week has opened quietly, 

 with a few large social events, and some 

 good shipping orders, but not enough to 

 affect the market as a whole. 



Dorothy Gordon. 



The novelty committee of the Florists' 

 Club visited Wyncote December 30 to 

 see the new carnation, Dorothy Gordon, 

 growing in the houses of the Joseph Hea- 

 cock Co. The committee consists of Ed- 

 win Lonsdale, J. W. Colflesh and Eobert 

 Craig. Following is its report: 



"The variety resembles Eose-pink En- I 

 chantress in color and form, but is su- 



perior to that variety, in being of a, 

 more uniform color, and is also larger 

 and of greater substance, and is appar- 

 ently as free a bloomer, of stronger con- 

 stitution and a stiffer flower stem. Your 

 committee tested the keeping qualities, 

 and find them to be good. The flowers 

 were kept in an ordinary potting shed 

 and were salable four days after being 

 cut. ' ' 



The Ban Season. 



The ball season in Philadelphia was 

 opened New Year's night by one of the 

 most brilliant balls ever given in Hor- 

 ticultural hall, that of Mrs. Wheeler. 

 The decorations were beautiful, but need 

 not be given here in detail. The Bene- 

 dicts ', Mr. Elkins *, and the First Assem- 

 bly followed in rapid succession. All 

 gave abiudant opportunity to display 

 the decorator's art. 



The decorations for the Assembly ball 

 were fine. The well known ball-room in 

 the Bellevue-Stratford is so handsome as 

 to require but little adornment. This 

 little the decorators, J. J. Haberm^l's 

 Sons, added in the best taste. The color 

 scheme was in red and white, scarlet 

 azaleas, especially forced for the pur- 

 pose, white azaleas, and white callas be- 

 ing relieved by perfect specimen palms 

 and banks of green. The supper room 

 was filled with small tables. Each table 

 had a vase of flowers, either red or white. 

 For red, American Beauties were largely 

 used, also poinsettias; for white, calla 

 lilies. 



It is believed that more bouquets were 

 carried at the Assembly this year than, 

 for many years past. Among these bou- 

 quets quite a number were made up in 

 the old-fashioned style, such as grand- 

 mother carried, with several varieties of 

 flowers arranged stiffly in rows. The 

 bouquet, when finished, was set oflE with 

 one of those beautiful lace bouquet hold- 

 ers, the like of which grandmother never 

 even dreamed. Both H. H. Battles and 

 Pennock Bros, had a number of these 

 bouquets. There were also bouquets 

 made in the present style, a single va- 

 riety of rose, of highest grade, being 



