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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



V. 



Fbbbuabt 18, 1909. 



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News 

 Column 



ACACIA 



^PUBESCENS 



We have found a good demand 

 for it— in fact, a more ready sale 

 than any other season. For an 

 effect in yellow, where something 

 very choice is wanted, we can 

 recommend it to you as filling the 

 bill. We have the largest stock 

 of this novelty in the country. 



put up In bunches at 

 $2.50 each 



Sweet Peas 



They are at their beet with us 

 at the present time. Can furnish 

 them in white, flesh color pink, 

 Blanche Ferry, and lavender. The 

 best of them are very choice. 

 Stems ten to twelve inches long. 

 In all the grades we offer good 

 value. 



$1.00 to $1.50 per 100 



Greens 



We aim to get the best in that 

 line the market affords. Our 

 fancy and dagger ferns are hard 

 to beat. Long leaves, clean stock 

 and no waste. We include in our 

 stock of greens everything in the 

 market, and we guarantee the 

 best value at the market prices. 



We can make prompt shipment 

 of all the new and standard varie- 

 ties of 



Rooted 



Carnation Cottings 



List and prices on request 



..The.. 



Leo Niesseo Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



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



Flowers of Quality 



Carnations and Spring Flowers 



are now at their best. We have an immense stock 

 of all the leading varieties of Carnations in pink, 

 white and scarlet. In Spring Flowers we offer 

 Violets, Freesia, Valley, Tulips, Daffodils, 

 Sweet Peas and Easter Lilies. :: :: :: 



Wild Smilax is our specialty. - > 



^ PROMPT AND EFFICIENT SERVICE GUARANTEED 



W. E. McKISSICK & BROS. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



1619=21 Ranstead St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



.i£^ „_^, Open tlU 8 P. M. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Riiinc: Eastern Market. 



St. Valentine's day proved more of a 

 floral holiday than ever before. It waa 

 largely advertised, and the demand thus 

 created proved beneficial to violets, enor- 

 mous quantities of these sweet scented 

 flovFers being sold February 13. As fre- 

 quently happens, the growers had more 

 than discounted the demand, the held-up 

 supply being fully equal to all require- 

 ments. In fact, prices weakened a little 

 late in the day. No better illustration 

 of the situation can be given than to 

 say that one bright retailer sized up the 

 market so well that he advertised a spe- 

 cial violet sale for that day, securing all 

 the stock he required at moderate prices. 



The ordinary demands of this active 

 pre-Lenten season have been sufficient to 

 keep the market bare of flowers, there 

 being no need for a floral festival to ab» 

 sorb any other stock than violets. Beau- 

 ties continue scarce and high in the 

 fancy grades. Other roses are increas- 

 ing in supply, but they are not yet equal 

 to the demand. Carnations are falling 

 off a little, with really choice stock bring- 

 ing excellent prices. Cattleya Schroeder- 

 iana has replaced Cattleya Trianse. It is 

 in limited supply, the pink phalsenopsis 

 helping it somewhat to fill the demands 

 for orchids. Lily of the valley is in bet- 

 ter demand than for some weeks past. 

 The price has stiffened under the influ- 

 ence of thousand lot orders. Sweet peas 

 are selling well. While prices average 

 lower than in past seasons, it is evident 

 that the new winter-blooming varieties 

 are sufficiently productive to make well 

 grown stock profitable at market quota- 

 tions. The range of color adds to their 

 popularity. Gardenias have enjoyed a 

 broadening market, the price being stead- 

 ily maintained. Asparagus plumosus is 

 selling wonderfully well, but smilax con- 

 tinues in poor demand. 



There is much shipping to outside cit- 

 ies. The only changes in the spring 

 flower situation are the lower price of 

 daffodils, the poor demand for the lower 

 grade of freesia, and the advent of dou- 



ble tulips, both Murillo 

 d'Or being in fine form, 

 increased demand. 



and Couronne 

 Pansies are in 



Branch of the Tree. 



It is officially announced this week 

 that the S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co., of 

 this city, will open a branch in Washing- 

 ton, D. C., on or about March 1. Nego- 

 tiations have not yet been completed for 

 the company's Washington headquarters. 

 Suffice it to say that the location will be 

 central. Albert Schnell has been selected 

 for the responsible position of manager. 

 Mr. Schnell, who has had business experi- 

 ence in Buffalo and in Washington, is be- 

 lieved by competent judges to be weU fit- 

 ted for the exacting requirements of his 

 position. Samuel S. Pennock, president of 

 the S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co., said that 

 a large stock of cut flowers, both from 

 Philadelphia and from Washington, 

 would be offered in the new store and 

 also a complete line of florists' supplies. 

 The street views this move favorably, be- 

 lieving that the time has come when the 

 business of the national capital will sup- 

 port a first-class wholesale florists' estab- 

 lishment. 



Rose Harry Kirk. 



A friend has called my attention to the 

 following paragraph that appeared in 

 the Sharon Hill notes in this column last 

 week: "The aim today is to secure a 

 first-class yellow rose (Harry Kirk has 

 been found wanting)." My friend states 

 that, while I am writing about forcing 

 roses, the reader may naturally suppose 

 that I mean Harry Kirk is useless as an 

 outdoor rose as well. This is not the 

 case. Dr. Huey considers Harry Kirk 

 as the finest yellow outdoor rose and his 

 opinion is supported by other rose ex- 

 perts, who believe that the sterling good 

 qualities of this really beautiful variety 

 will bring it rapidly to the front among 

 our bedding sorts. 



The Efiect of the Storni. 



A storm of cyclonic proportions broke 

 over this city shortly after one o'clock 

 on the afternoon of February 10. The 

 greenhouses of Ferdinand Le Gierse and. 



