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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



May 20, 1909. 



Niessen's 



News Column 



SPECIALS 



for 



Decoration Day 



Peonies 



We will have a good supply of them, 

 including: all the bett varieties. They 

 will be in the right condition when you 

 get them, and a ehipment from us will be 

 sure to please you. 



Prices on application 



Beauties 



The best at $2.50 per doz. 



On large quantities we will quote you 

 special prices. No better Beauties are 

 coming to this market than we are 

 offering you. 



Roses 



At $4.00 to $6.00 per 100 



At this price we will furnish you a 

 grade of roses that we consider excep- 

 tionally good value. Roses are very 

 plentiful with us, and we are giving you 

 the benefit of this increased supply. We 

 will give you the best value in roses that 

 you can get anywhere in this market. 



Assorted Flowers 



There is quite a call for Decoration 

 Day for bouquets, something inexpens- 

 ive. We will have a good assortment of 

 stock suitable for that purpose, guch as 

 stocks, snapdragon, poeiicus, gladiolus, 

 etc. Let us know the amount of money 

 you wish to spend, $3.00, $10.00 or 

 $15.00, and we will send you a box of 

 flowers that will please you. 



Dagger Ferns 



New crop $2.50 per 1000 



TheLeo Niesseo Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



Op«n from 7:00 a. m. to 8:00 p. wt. 



NEW CROP BEAITIES 



The hot weather of last week was a bit rough on the 

 Beauties that have borne the brunt of the season's work. 

 You will not wonder if they look a bit tired. We offer 

 New Crop Beauties, fresh, bright colors, large flowers, 

 glossy green foliage, from $1.00 to $3.00 per dozen. Try 

 them. 



Short Beauties, fine flowers — 



12-in. stems $6.00 per 100 



6-in. to 8-in. stems 4.00 per 100 



CAN FURNISH IN ANY QUANTITY 



Choice Peonies and Carnations, all colors, in 

 quantity, for Memorial Day. 



W. E. McKISSICK & BROS. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



1619-21 Ranstead St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



as it is possible to be with counter sales 

 of seeds and plants. 



N. C. Moore & Co. have gone some 

 little way toward restoring their place 

 since the lightning and wind struck it. 

 Bedding stock is reported selling well. 



C. W. McKellar says cattleyas, long so 

 hard to come at, have joined the ranks of 

 the unemployed. 



Arnold Eingier, of the W, W. Barnard 

 Co., is home from a short trip to St. 

 Louis. He recently returned from an 

 especially successful trip to the Pacific 

 coast. 



Hawery Wojtkiewicz, proprietor of the 

 greenhouses of St. Adalbert's cemetery 

 at Niles, and Mrs. Mary Stefanski were 

 married May 12. Mrs. Stefanski is the 

 widow of Pavel Stefanski, who about two 

 months ago was killed in an accident, 

 falling off a tree wagon near Irving 

 Park boulevard and Milwaukee avenue. 

 Mr. Stefanski was employed by Mr. 

 Wojtkiewicz and also boarded Mr. 

 Wojtkiewicz and his men. During the 

 recent storm one whole hotbed, frame 

 and all, blew into one of the houses at 

 St. Adalbert's, doing considerable dam- 

 age to glass, as well as to stock. Spring 

 stock on this place is in an excellent 

 condition, and a rushing business is 

 being done. 



Among the week 's visitors were D. J. 

 Murphy, Manistee, Mich. ; A. L. Treman, 

 Oswego, III. 



Bowlins;. 



There was an attendance of twenty 



bowlers at Bensinger's alleys May 14. 



John Zech is the champion. Following 



are the scores: 



Player 1st 



n. ErlPksoii 184 



F. Pasternick 154 



O. Goerlsch 146 



.T. Mlchelsen 1.S7 



J. E. Jensen 106 



J. Zed) 160 



Total 887 



Player 1st 



n. Pleser 130 



H. Kruchtcn 13.3 



P. Ericksuii 80 



^r. Fink !»!• 



C: Asmns 178 



Hergman 128 



Total 748 8r,'> 824 



Player 1st 



E. Farley 108 



L. Vaughan 172 



C. W. McKellar 108 



W. Wolf 213 



F. Ayers 129 



E. ArmStriPiiK 117 



Total 847 



Player Ist 



M. Krause 104 



A. Zech 143 



W. Graff 138 



J. Kruehten 138 



E. Scliultz 120 



T. Vogel 85 



Total ...728 



718 



774 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



The duty of reporting the cut flower 

 market is hardly a cheerful matter this 

 week. A careful survey of the field leads 

 one to wonder why so many cut flowers 

 are produced. And as one wonders, the 

 answer comes forward naturally: In 

 order to get enough during the dark days 

 of winter. So we must be cheerful about 

 it, and admit as pleasantly as possible 

 that there are entirely too many cut flow- 

 ers coming into the market today, per- 

 haps twice as many as necessary to meet 

 all requirements. The second half are 

 carted away in the rubbish heap, or, far, 

 far better, go to the hospitals, or in some 

 cases they are sold at so low a price as 

 to deserve the name of being given away. 



There is a fair amount of business, the 

 best flowers being used to fill the orders. 

 Everybody likes to put his best foot fore- 

 most. The overproduction in Beauties is 

 marked. Most of the plants did less than 

 usual last winter and, in order to make it 

 up, they are doing decidedly more than 

 usual now, with the result that Beauties 

 are a little lower in price than for many 

 years during the third week in May. The 

 hot weather of May 15 and 16 did some- 

 thing toward knocking out the roses that 

 are grown in low houses, and where the 

 growers are overworked. The same is 

 true of carnations to an even greater de- 

 gree, and of many other varieties of cut 

 flowers. 



The carnation market has relapsed since 



