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The Weekly Florists' Review, 



July 22, 1900. 



Niessen's 



News Column 



My Maryland 



Per 100 



Firsts $4.00 



Extras $5.00 to 6.00 



Fancies 8.00 



Not only the best Pink Rose 

 now, but also the best value 

 you can get in pink stock. If 

 you are not familiar with this 

 rose, you should give it a trial. 

 You will use no other. 



Asters 



Per 100 



Fancies $2.50 to $3.00 



Oood Steele 1.50 to 2.00 



Short stem 1.00 



The early crop will not be 

 as large as usual, owing to the 

 dry weather. So far we have 

 had a good supply, far beyond 

 our expectations, and the 

 quantity will be increasing 

 and the quality improving 

 each day. 



Beauties 



The best $3.00 per doz. 



$20.00 per 100 



Plenty of medium grades at 

 $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00 per 

 dozen. 



Bronze Galax 



$1.00 per 1000 

 7.50 per case 



Theleo Niessen Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



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



Midsummer Flowers 



Eastern Beauties 



The quickest way of saying the best Beauties grown in 

 summer, something you can depend on when you want 

 quality. Fancy, $3.00 a doz.; medium, $1 50 a doz.; short, 

 75c to $1.00 a doz. 



Easter Lilies 



The best ever seen here in midsummer, 

 them. $1.50 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. 



You will like 



Kaiserins 



Asters 



Sweet Peas 



W. E. McKISSICK & BROS. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



1619-21 Ranstead St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



, The cut flower market has reached the 

 lowest level, both as to supply and de- 

 mand. Opinions differ as to whether 

 business is or is not normal. This seems 

 to be affected by whether the speaker is 

 considering the shipping demand or only 

 the local trade. Shipable stock rarely 

 goes begging, but the quantity of ship- 

 able stock is small. Easter lilies con- 

 tinue the most plentiful flower in the 

 market, but unfortunately the market 

 fails to appreciate its opportunity; these 

 really splendid flowers are being in over- 

 supply. 



American Beauty roses are also a bit 

 overdone, especially in the poorer grades. 

 Kaiserin is scarce, most of the growers 

 being off-crop, and the supply unequal to 

 the demand. My Maryland has been com- 

 ing in strongly and sells fairly well. 



Carnations are scarce indeed. Asters 

 are only partially filling the gap. The 

 supply of choice flowers is small, that of 

 poorer quality far larger. There is 

 plenty of good valley and some nice cat- 

 tleyas are seen. Sweet peas have re- 

 vived, thanks to the delightful weather, 

 and promise to be with us a week or so 

 more. The stems on most of them are a 

 trifle short. There is an excellent de- 

 mand for the other outdoor flowers, can- 

 dytuft and feverfew leading. The total 

 sales in this class of stock do not mate- 

 rially swell the volume of business. 

 Greens are not in demand. 



Tlie Sign of the Rose. 



It is a recognized fact that it takes 

 an artist, if not a diplomatist, to sell 

 flowers. The day when flowers sold them- 

 selves is past. Everyone who earns his 

 or her bread and butter in this way will 

 agree that this is true. It is a dullard 

 indeed who cannot see where a mistake 

 has been made; a little lack of tact, the 

 wrong word at the wrong moment and a 

 sale has been missed. An instance of 

 ready wit occurred the other day when a 

 flower buyer, possibly a shade below the 

 average, entered the Sign of the Rose 



and asked William C. Harry, the right 

 hand man of Charles Henry Fox, for vio- 

 lets. A less tactful person would have 

 laughed gleefully and said: "Sir, or 

 madam (I do not know which), violets 

 have been burned up three months ago ' ' ; 

 but Mr. Harry simply said politely : ' * We 

 have no violets, but we have beautiful 

 violet sweet peas," displaying them 

 quickly while the customer was forget- 

 ting his or her mortification at the mis- 

 take made. In the course of conversation 

 Mr. Har»y artfully changed the words 

 violet sweet peas to lavender sweet peas 

 with a delicacy that none can fail to ap- 

 preciate. 



Various Notes. 



W. P. Craig has been devoting his at- 

 tention to an increasing bulb business. 



Gilbert Woltemate has leased the green- 

 houses of George Waterfield, at Wyn- 

 moor, Pa. Mr. Woltemate is the son of 

 Henry C. Woltemate. 



G. S. Kohler, well known as a grower 

 at Tioga, who removed his greenhouses 

 to Ivy Hill cemetery, has something like 

 10,000 feet of glass there. 



Dale & Yost are doing a nice flower 

 business at Northwood cemetery, near 

 Jenkintown, Pa. 



Albert O. Stein, of Stein & Levin, San 

 Francisco, Cal., was in the city this week. 

 Mr. Stein, who represents one of the lead- 

 ing retailers in the west, visited the prom- 

 inent wholesale and supply houses. 



Vacations are the order of the day, but 

 it really seems as though the head of the 

 bouse did not get his share. 



David Rust, secretary of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Horticultural Society, believes that 

 nothing definite can be done toward con- 

 summating the sale of Horticultural hall 

 before September. Mr. Rust thinks the 

 stories in the local dailies have little 

 foundation in fact. 



Berger Bros, are receiving some of the 

 finest sweet peas coming into town this 

 week. John Crawford says so, and he 

 ought to know. 



Mr. Becker and associates, of the, Avon- 

 dale Floral Co., Cincinnati, paid us a visit 

 a few days ago. 



The Henry F. Michell Co. has acquired 



