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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



July 15, 1909. 



Niessen's 



News Column 



Bronze 

 Qalax 



$1.00 per 1000; $7.60 

 per case. SPECIAL 

 PRICE in more than 

 case lots. 



Bronze Galax is an iudiBpens- 

 able article to the florist. We 

 have them as good during the 

 summer months as you calf get 

 them any time during the year. 

 We claim to give yon 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 ralue in 



Sphagnum 

 Moss 



6 6-bbl. bales for $10; 

 single bales, $2.00. 



Compare them with what is 

 usually called a 5-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 issqe of the 

 Florist's Review. We guarantee 

 them to give satisf action. 



TheLeo Niessen Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



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



EASTER LILIES 



Really good white flowers are not plentiful, posaibly 

 excepting Kaiserins. Under these conditions we urge you 

 to use Easter Lilies where white is permissible. They are 

 in splendid form. Flower, stem and foliage are extra flne. 



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



We can offer Lilies in 1000 lots or over. Will you try them? 



W. E. McKISSICK & BROS. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



1619-21 Ranstead St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rism£ Eastern Market. 



Business is dull; conditions have 

 changed little during the week ending 

 July 14. The quantity of good flowers 

 coming into town is small. The demand 

 is light, both out of and in the city. 

 Easter lilies continue an important factor 

 in the quality class; they sell, but not in 

 proportion to receipts. The demand for 

 good roses is better; Kaiserins especially 

 enjoy favor. My Maryland is a good 

 second. Beauties go fairly. Carnations 

 are hard to obtain; even white have de- 

 teriorated. There is no special demand 

 for them. Asters are increasing in num- 

 bers. The b\jlk of the receipts are poor. 

 The good ones sell. Gladioli are in de- 

 mand, America taking the lead. Cattleyas 

 lag. Valley goes fairly and receipts are 

 moderate. 



The only active green is fine adiantum, 

 although some Asparagus plumosus sprays 

 are marketed. The severe drought has 

 cut down the production of outdoor flow- 

 ers, but still there axe too many for mar- 

 ket requirements. Achillea, pyrethrum 

 and candytuft are disposed of ia some 

 fashion at low figures. 



A New Stare. 



Robert Crawford, Jr., the successful 

 Eleventh street flqrist, about October 1 

 will open & new store on Market street, 

 above Fifty-second street. William A. 

 Crawford will be in charge. This store 

 is one of three erected by Jacob Becker 

 on the site of his former greenhouses and 

 show room. It will have a greenhouse 

 16x90 in the rear and will be fitted up in 

 first-class style. Mr. Crawford is also 

 planning alterations in his store at 233 

 South Eleventh street. The Lord & Burn- 

 ham Co. has the contract for remodeling 

 the greenhouses, which will be turned into 

 a conservatory with curved glass roof. 



A Vittt to Joseph Heacock. 



Thomas Cartledge, beloved by us all, 

 frequently called the attention of young 

 growers seeking his advice to the system- 

 ttic manner in which Joseph Heacock 's 



greenhouses at Wyncote were laid out. 

 He pointed out the benefits derived from 

 their position on the southern slope of 

 the hill, their compactness, and the ex- 

 cellent heating arrangements. What was 

 then true of Joseph Heacock 's place is 

 equally true of his company's plant to- 

 day, and it is no small feat for a grower 

 to be able to keep abreast of the times 

 for a couple of decades in these days of 

 rapid progress. Thoroughness is the key- 

 note of Mr. Heacock 's business success; 

 what he does he does well. He aims to 

 produce the best plants and flowers in 

 quantity, and no one visiting his place 

 today can deny that he accomplishes his 

 aim. 



The latest improvements have prac- 

 tically placed his entire range, one of the 

 largest about Philadelphia, under one 

 roof. Partitions and open spaces between 

 the house have disappeared, longer roof 

 bars and posts under the gutters complet- 

 ing the transformation. Palms, rosea, 

 carnations and orchids are all grown well. 

 In each case the best variety in its class 

 is specialized. In palms, kentias and 

 arecas are leaders, but cocos also is 

 grown ; in roses, Killarney, with its white 

 sister, My Maryland, and Richmond; in 

 carnations, Dorothy Gordon, considered 

 the rose-pink variety of greatest merit; 

 in orchids, cattleyas and Cypripedium in- 

 signe. 



The palms are the most important fea- 

 ture of the place; they are from seeds 

 sown there, and grown as well as it is 

 possible tfl grow them. The most impor- 

 tant departure in the method of growing 

 kentias is the substitution of the tub for 

 the pot in all sizes above 6-inch. This 

 substitution,^ was decided upon after a 

 comparative' test between two blocks of 

 Kentia Belmoreana of the same age and 

 size. One lot was shifted into 7-ineh 

 pots, the other into 7-inch tubs. The lat- 

 ter showed stronger growth after two 

 months' trial and it was confidently pre- 

 dicted that the improvement would be 

 even more marked before the plants were 

 ready for marketing' or shifting. The 

 effects of this change are of interest. In- 

 jury to plants through drying out will be 



