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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



July 8, 1000. 



Niessen's 



News Column 



Bronze 

 Qalax 



$1.00 per lOCO; $7.60 

 per case. SPECIAL 

 PRICE in more than 

 case lots. 



Bronze Galax is an indispens- 

 able article to the florist. We 

 have them as good daring the 

 sammer months as you can get 

 them any time during the year. 

 We claim to give you the cheapest 

 galax on the market— not cheaper 

 in price— but the best in quality. 

 If you buy our galax you have 

 no waste. 



POSITIVELY 



the best value in 



Sphagnum 

 Moss 



6 6-bbl. bales for $10; 

 single bales, $2.00. 



Compare them with what is 

 usually called a 6-bbl. bale and 

 note the difference in size. All 

 bales for shipping are wrapped. 

 We would not ship them any 

 other way. 



Rose Plants 



A list and quotations you will 

 find in the previous issue of the 

 Florist's Review. We guarantee 

 them to give satisfaction. 



TheLeo Niessefl Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



OPEN fROM 7:00 A M. TO 6:00 P. M. 



EASTER LILIES 



We have a magnificent stock of high-grade Easter 

 Lilies— flower, stem and foliage are all that can be 

 desired. We expect to have this stock in quantity 

 all summer, and can offer them in lots of one, two, 

 or even three thousand. 



Price, $1.50 per doz., $10.00 per 100 



W. E. McKISSICK & BROS. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



1619-21 Ranstead St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 





Mention The Review when you write. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



The glorious Fifth, the florists' only 

 holiday, marked distinctly the line be- 

 tween the tremendous production and 

 scarcity, a scarcity that would be even 

 more apparent were business brisk. 

 There was a fair demand in the first 

 three days of July, Saturday being bet- 

 ter than the other two. Sunday and 

 Monday interrupted the demand, which 

 set in strongly Tuesday, stocking up be- 

 ing encouraged by cool weather. Ship- 

 ping is good for the season, one or two 

 of the wholesalers being open Monday, 

 July 5, to dispatch out-of-town orders. 

 Easter lilies are +he strong card this 

 week. The supply of fair flowers is un- 

 usual for the season. Kaiserin is the 

 leading rose of the day, My Maryland 

 next. Beauties are averaging better as 

 to flowers, less as to stem; in other 

 words, the summer crop is in the as- 

 cendant. 



Some growers are still sending in fair 

 Winsor. Enchantress varieties lead other 

 carnations, but the quantity is decreas- 

 ing. Cattleyas are not in demand. Val- 

 ley is in fair request and at times has 

 been unusually scarce. Gladioli are 

 plentiful; both indoor and outdoor 

 grown are excellent. America leads. 

 The cornflower-candytuft section of out- 

 door flowers has been strengthened by 

 the arrival of Hydrangea panieulata. 

 Good sweet peas sell. Greens are in good 

 supply. 



The Andorra Show. 



When William Warner Harper under- 

 took to give flower-lovers an object les- 

 son in the possibilities in outdoor exhi- 

 bitions a year ago, his efforts met with 

 instantaneous success. The number of 

 people who walked, rode and drove to the 

 beautiful hillside at the top of the pic- 

 turesque Wissahickon drive was so large 

 as to astonish those who have attended 

 floral exhibitions in the heart of the city. 

 Nature's gem with nature's setting ap- 

 pealed irresistibly. 



The sunken garden or grotto, halfway 



up the hillside, above Mr. Harper 's house, 

 was again the scene of a beautiful iris 

 show during the closing days of June. 

 Words fail to paint the beauty of this 

 floral theater. Pines, hemlock, spruce 

 in the background, mossy banks, Jap- 

 anese maples, ferns, and above all the 

 Japanese iris, arranged in groups of 

 purple, lavender, white and variegated, 

 each by itself for better effect, a sight 

 to satisfy an artist's soul. 



The Andorra Nurseries have opened a 

 field of great promise — the education of 

 flower lovers on what may be termed 

 the kindergarten or object lesson plan. 

 This plan, attempted at some of the city 

 shows, is seen at its best in the country 

 and will, if intelligently followed out, 

 undoubtedly bring wondrous results in 

 the future. 



The P. I. C. 



Eeview readers will recall a brief note 

 in this column last month to the effect 

 that the Philadelphia Insecticide Co. had 

 been formed, with the object of assisting 

 the growers in keeping their pets free 

 from insect pests. It seems that an in- 

 inventor named Pullman, whose initials 

 I unluckily failed to secure, remember- 

 ing the story of the father and his little 

 boy — but, by the way, as you may not 

 know that story, it will give me pleasure 

 to tell it to you : A father and his little 

 boy were walking on the street, when his 

 father pointed out a poor, seedy looking 

 chap, but with an intelligent face. ' ' That 

 is an inventor, my son, ' ' the father said. 

 Presently they passed a prosperous look- 

 ing chap, sleek and rosy, evidently with- 

 out a care. "Is that an inventor, 

 father ? ' ' the guileless youth asked. ' ' No,. 

 my son, that is a man who has profited 

 by the inventor 's invention. ' ' Mr. Pull- 

 man, I say, remembering that story, de- 

 cided to associate with himself capital 

 and business acumen in the persons of 

 Charles and Louis Berger. They formed 

 the Philadelphia Insecticide Co. last 

 month and opened a factory at 324 

 Queen street, Germantown, where a motor 

 grinds out insect powder of the P. I. C. 

 brand from the raw material. Doubtless 

 you would like to know the ingredients. 



