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Tlic Weekly Florists' Review. 



June 24, 1909. 



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News Column 



Important! 

 Early Closing 



Gommencing June 28, t>ur bnei- 

 ness hours will be from 7 a. m. to 

 6 p. m. 



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SPECIALS 



FOR THE WEEK 



CAHLEYAS 



Choice stock. $6.00 and |7.50 

 per doz. 



BEAUTIES 



Beet, $3.00 per doz., $20.00 per 

 100. 



I Medium grades, $1.00 to $2.00 

 per doz. 



My Maryland 



We are now getting a fair sup- 

 ply of this popular rose. As a 

 summer rose it is hard to beat. 



Best, $8.00 and $10.00 per 100. 



Shorter grades at $4.00 and 

 $6.00 per 100. 



CARNATIONS 



Our best grade, $3.00 per 100. 

 Good stock, $2.00 per 100. 



FERNS 



$1.00 per 1000. 



Send for our list of rose plants 

 and chrysanthemam cuttings. 

 We will have a list of field-grown 

 carnation plants ready early in 

 July. 



Theleo Niessen Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



7:00 a. au to 6:00 p. m. 



Summer Roses 



When a special customer of yours wants Roses in summer 

 nothing but the best will answer. We have the best. 



American Beauties 



Specials.. $3.00 per doz. Mediums. $1.60 per dos. 



Extras . . .$2.00 to 8.60 per doi. Shorts . . .$0.76 to 1.00 per doi. 



Kaiserins 



Specials $10.00 per 100 Mediums $6.00 per 100 



Extras S.OOper 100 Shorts 4.00 per 100 



Cut Easter Lilies $12.50 per lOO 



Prompt attention paid, guarantee on all orders whether local or 

 shipping. 



OPKH FROM 7:00 A. M. TO «:00 P. M. 



W. E. McKISSICK & BROS. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



1619-21 Ranstead St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



PHILAPELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



The cut flower market was fairly active 

 June 17 to 19. A perceptible falling 

 oflf was evident June 21, with a slight re- 

 vival on the two days following. 

 The conditions governing supply have 

 changed. The cool weather prevailing 

 last week was succeeded June 20 by a 

 decided rise in temperature, which proved 

 too much for the flowers the strength 

 of which was nearly spent, knocking 

 them out completely. The stock that 

 reached the market in good condition, 

 not too open, and of quality had the 

 call for 'whatever business was doing, 

 only really choice stock leaving the city 

 for points outside. 



The orchid situation is uncertain. One 

 day cattleyas are plentiful; the next day 

 they are scarce. The demand created for 

 gardenias has not entirely subsided with 

 the advent of summer, the best south- 

 ern flowers being carefully selected to 

 fill special orders, the rest being jobbed 

 off at low prices but not low as compared 

 with previous years. 



Sweet peas of high grade were retard- 

 ed by the unfavorable conditions, so that 

 prices ruled higher at the close of last 

 week than is usual for the season. The 

 difference in values on choice and poor 

 stock is marked. The hot weather of 

 the present week is rapidly increasing 

 the supply. 



Outdoor flowers are more numerous. 

 Coryopsis, delphinium and cornflower are 

 prized for their decorative effect. Water 

 lilies of really choice sorts can be ob- 

 tained in fair numbers. 



Carnations are retrograding rapidly, 

 the quantity of really choice blooms be- 

 ing smaller day by day as the growers 

 discontinue shipping. There are still 

 some flowers of shipable quality but 

 the bulk of the stock belongs to the 

 third grade. 



Asparagus is easier in price, the best 

 bunches only being used by the discrim- 

 inating buyers. 



Valley has been selling fairly well; the 



June weddings you know; there have 

 been days when good valley was scarce. 



Some heavy rose orders were filled 

 last week. The best eastern may be 

 termed fancy and the best local select. 

 These only were used in quantities felt 

 by the market. Beauty, Kaiserin, Kil- 

 larney and My Maryland were preferred, 



Atlantic City has been a heavy buyer 

 in this market. 



The Schaffer Trust. 



The actirn of the Pennsylvania Hor- 

 ticultural Society, at its special meeting 

 on June 15, in voting to sanction the 

 sale of Horticultural hall, cannot be 

 clearly understood without full knowl- 

 edge of all the facts in the case. 



The will of the late Miss Elizabeth 

 Shaffer, as directed by her brother, the 

 late William L. Shaffer, probated in 

 1887, left to the Pennsylvania Horti- 

 cultural Society the ground and building 

 on Broad street above Spruce. This 

 building was burned in 1893, the society 

 receiving $25,000 insurance. November 

 28, 1894, an arrangement was made be- 

 tween a syndicate and the society for tJie 

 purpose of erecting a new hall on the 

 site of the old one. This arrangement 

 provided that the syndicate was to fur- 

 nish $200,000, the society the insurance 

 money of $25,000, the total amount to be 

 expended in the erection of a new build- 

 ing. The syndicate was to receive bonds 

 bearing interest at the rate of three per 

 cent, the society to have the use of the 

 hall for exhibitions and meetings free 

 of charge. 



All revenue derived from the rental of 

 the hall after expenses and interest had 

 been paid was to be devoted to a sinking 

 fund to be used for the purpose of re- 

 tiring the bonds, the plan being that the 

 bonds should be paid off gradually until 

 at the end of thirty years all the bonds 

 would be paid and the building returned 

 to the society without cost. This plan 

 was carried into execution the following 

 year; the present beautiful hall was 

 erected and all went well until the erec- 

 tion of the Bellevue-Stratford hotel, 

 when the social element transferred its 

 entertainments there, decreasing the 



