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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Fbbbuaby 11, 1909. 



Niessen's 



News 

 Column 



Some of our growers are coming 

 in with a fine crop of this popular 

 rose. We will have plenty of them 

 for the next four weeks. The best 

 of them are 36 inches long. We 

 believe that no better stock is 

 coming to Philadelphia in that 

 line than you will find here. Not 

 only the best in quality, but value 

 as well. 



ACACIA 



If you want to include in yoar 

 stock all the novelties in season, 

 you cannot overlook Acacia. It 

 is the finest flower in yellow to be 

 had now. We always have some 

 on hand, or can get it on a few 

 hours' notice, or supply a quantity 

 if ordered in advance. 



DAFFODILS 



DOUBLE and SINGLE. 



They are somewhat more plenti- 

 ful now. In single we can offer 

 you Golden Spur, one of the best 

 of the single varieties. 



Price: $ 4.00 per 100 

 35.00 per 1000 



CAHLEYAS 



VERY CHOICE FLOWERS. 

 $6.00 per dozen. 



PURE WHITE 



FREESIA 



Long stems, selected stock. 

 $4.00 per 100. 



..The.. 



Leo Niessen Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



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



CarnatioDS 



are our ipecialty. The 

 flowers arc now at their 

 best; all the leading 

 varieties. 



Wild Smilax 



for the decorator. 



PROMPT 



SERVICE 



GUARANTEED 



Tuli ps 



The largest stock in Philadel- 

 phia of all the leading varieties 

 of TULIPS— red, pink, yellow 

 and white. Also choice 



Violets, Freesia, 

 Daffodils, White Lilac 

 and Easter Lilies. 



W. E. McKISSICK & BROS. 



WHOLESALE FLORliSTS 



1619-21 Ranstead St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Op«n tUl 8 P. M. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Risiiig Eastern Market. 



"Stuff scarce." This terse, possibly 

 inelegant expression exactly describes the 

 conditions prevailing in the cut flower 

 market. There are not enough flowers to 

 fill all the orders. Personality, hustle, 

 and even grabbing are requisite factors 

 in securing enough stock to make a re- 

 spectable showing where many flowers are 

 required. The special features of the 

 market are the advance in price of Amer- 

 ican Beauty roses meriting a position in 

 the special class; the substitution of 

 fancy Richmond where the medium grade 

 of Beauty cannot be obtained; the in- 

 crease in the supply of and demand for 

 choice spring flowers, so called, of all 

 varieties, and the dullness in the violet 

 market. Carnations seem less plentiful 

 than a week ago. Sweet peas are abun- 

 dant, and selling remarkably well, soft 

 pink or flesh color and the lavender being' 

 highly prized for special work. Daisies 

 are a trifle more abundant. Acacia pu- 

 bescens is arriving in excellent form. The 

 conditions in the green market are un- 

 changed. Wild smilax is in demand. 



A Beneficial Association. 



The employees of Henry A. Dreer at 

 Eiverton have organized a beneficial as- 

 sociation with eighty-seven charter mem- 

 bers. The following oflScers were elected : 

 President, James J. Flynn; vice-presi- 

 dent, William Hoyle; secretary, Harry 

 Betz; treasurer, Atkinson Lloyd. The 

 dues are 25 cents a month, the initiation 

 fee $1, which is paid by the company for 

 all charter members. The benefits are $5 

 a week after two months' membership in 

 case of sickness. This amount may be 

 drawn for thirteen weeks; $50 is paid 

 to the family in case of death. All ques- 

 tions arising will be submitted to a board 

 of nine directors. February 18 has been 

 set as the last day of joining for those 

 desiring to become charter members. 



This seems like an excellent move, and 

 the inception of like associations should 

 be encouraged by all large firms and cor- 

 porations throughout the country. 



Sharon Hill. 



Alexander B. Scott has made the green 

 houses of Robert Scott & Son a Mecca 

 for florists. Mr. Scott has accomplished 

 some things that make him famous today 

 in the floral world, and one or two of 

 these things will undoubtedly make him 

 famous with posterity. The achievement 

 of flowering gardenias in midwinter was 

 not a solitary success; they have been 

 flowered again, and even more success- 

 fully than a year ago, the gardenia houses 

 alone being well worth the trip. Mr. 

 Scott's second most notable achievement 

 is his handling of the Dickson roses, 

 which he tests each season in a special 

 end of one of his large greenhouses. Here 

 all the claimants for popular favor are 

 tried. Some are rejected, some given fur- 

 ther trial. The aim today is to secure a 

 first-class yellow rose (Harry Kirk has 

 been found wanting), and a red rose that 

 will surpass Richmond during the warm 

 weather. Mr. Scott's fame today is in- 

 creased by his skill with Mrs. Jardine. 

 Killarney, Richmond and more especially 

 Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, of which the 

 original plants are now in their eighth 

 year. Mr. Scott is introducing this year 

 White Killarney (pure white), which 

 sported with him three years ago, and 

 Duchess of Wellington, a Dickson rose 

 of promise. 



In summing up the achievements of 

 Alexander B. Scott I must not fail to 

 mention that he gets up a rose about as- 

 fast as anyone I know. As I write I can 

 sec Edward Schwartz holding up a 

 grafted plant of My Maryland and giv 

 ing the exact number of days (they were 

 very few indeed) since that little piece 

 of wood had been growing on tlie parent 

 rose bush. 



Various Notes. 



Visitors reported by M. Rico & Co. : 

 Mrs. E. A. Williams, Pittsburg; Messrs. 

 W. F. Gude and O. A. C. Oehnilcr, Wash 

 ington, D. C. 



William C. Smith, Sixty-first and Mar 

 ket streets, will demolish five greenhouses 

 and erect in their stead forty-one dwell- 

 ing houses, facing on Market street, on 



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