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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



AtJOtJST 5, 1909. 



Niessen's 



News Column 



Asters 



The Best $2.00 per 100 



Good Stock 1.50 



Medium 75c to 1.00 



We can offer you the choicest 

 Rtock on the market and in any 

 quantity. For design work we 

 have a grade, medium stems but 

 good large flowers, on which we 

 can make you attractive prices. 



Beauties 



The Best per doz., $ 3.00 



The Best per 100, 20.00 



Plenty of medium grades at $1.00, $1.50 

 and $2.00 per doz. 



Our Beauties are in fine form 

 for this time of the year. The 

 flowers are of fair size, good color 

 and plenty of foliage. We claim 

 there are no better Beauties com- 

 ing to this market. Let us con- 

 vince yeu of the superior quality 

 of these roses by placing your 

 next order with us. 



MyMaryland 



This rose has proven its great 

 value and is well liked by the 

 trade. We get a large cut of it 

 every day; the best of them have 

 15 to 18-inch stems. We have 

 them in all grades at prices rang- 

 ing from $3 to $8 per hundred. 



Field-grown. 



Caroalioa Plants 



At your request we will send you 

 a list of all the varieties that we 

 have to offer. Plants are not plen- 

 tiful and we advise early ordering. 



TheLeo Niesseo Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



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



August is the month when Aatera are at their best. They are 

 steadily improving now and by the time you read these lines vve 

 shall be getting some of the grand stock that made such a hit last 

 year. The best aster on the market is, as you well know, Odtrich 

 Plume, a name that well describes the showy flowers of this variety. 

 We shall have them in all colors and solicit your regular or special 

 orders, which will receive our careful attention. 



Other varieties for August: 



BEAUTIES. KAISERIN, EASTER LILIES. 



Wire, phone or write us when you want the best. 



W. E. McKISSICK & BROS. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



1619-21 Ranstead St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



August and asters worthy the name, 

 Scrapie's of remarkable size and great 

 length of stem, have arrived together 

 this week. August is welcome because 

 it brings holidays to most of us. The 

 asters, too, are cordially greeted, because 

 everybody is tired of the miserable little 

 make-believes that the heat and drought 

 have forced the dealers to handle. The 

 market can be described in a few words, 

 so perhaps you will let me sermonize just 

 a minute. A competent judge, one of 

 the best in Philadelphia, asserted with 

 feeling that if the growers would water 

 just a tiny little patch of all their asters 

 and cultivate them, and water some more, 

 they would have a whole lot more pen- 

 nies for their work than they are getting 

 now, when great quantities of trash are 

 daily dumped on a weak market. There 

 are only a few of these asters coming 

 into town, perhaps 500 or so a day, but 

 the way they bring $3 per hundred, and 

 the poor little chaps that bring 50 cents 

 and go begging at that, is a lesson. 



Gladioli are in splendid form. America 

 leads them all. Excuse a bit of patriot- 

 ism, but we certainly owe a kind thought 

 for John Lewis Childs for sending out 

 that lovely soft pink variety. 



Of the other flowers valley and orchids 

 enjoyed a revival for a brief day. Beau- 

 ties are improving in quality, the de- 

 mand being chiefly for the shorts. My 

 Maryland and Kaiserin are not selling as 

 well as a week ago. Sweet peas in lim- 

 ited quantity are extraordinarily fine in 

 all the colors. There is quite a demand 

 for outdoor flowers, but they do not real- 

 ize paying prices. To sum up, the qual- 

 ity is improving, but the supply exceeds 

 the demand. 



Philadelphia to Cincinnati. 



The Florists' Club of this city will 

 leave Broad Street station Monday, Au- 

 gust 16, at 12:31 p. m. It expects to be 

 joined en route by the Baltimore and 

 Washington florists. The party is due to 

 arrive at Cincinnati over the Baltimore 



& Ohio on Tuesday morning, August 17, 

 at 8:15 a. m. The fare will be $12.05 

 going, with $4 additional for Pullman 

 berth each way, and $13.35 returning. 



For further information address John 

 Westcott, Ridge and Lehigh avenues, or 

 David Bust, Horticultural hall. Broad 

 street, below Locust street, Philadelphia. 



Asters. 



A local cut flower expert, who wishes 

 his name withheld, has kindly given me a 

 few notes on the aster growing industry 

 of New York state. He says that the 

 asters are produced in the vicinity of 

 the cities of Auburn, Geneva and Eoch- 

 ester, where the soil is light, rich and 

 mellow and the climate cool during sum- 

 mer. The asters are grown mostly out- 

 doors. The best stock is usually pro- 

 duced by those who are careful to save 

 only the best seed. 



The necessity for meeting competition 

 has brought out new methods in aster 

 growing, designed only to facilitate 

 work; of these methods is the planting 

 machine, so arranged as to hold three 

 men — a driver and two planters. On this 

 machine is also room for the seedling 

 asters to be planted in the field, a driller 

 to mark where they are to go, an arrange- 

 ment which presses the soil firmly about 

 them when they are planted, and a barrel 

 that waters them automatically as the 

 machine moves slowly onward. This j>r- 

 rangement will surprise many of the ;^e- 

 viEW readers, as it certainly surprised 

 me. It may be that, not having seen it, 

 the description is imperfect, but it ! 'i* 

 been given verbatim as nearly as p^S' 

 sible, and I feel sure it is virtually cor- 

 rect. 



The indications in the aster growiug 

 district in New York state are for a fi'ie 

 crop of late asters, but it will probacy 

 not be so large as last year. 



Varioof Notes. 



Herbert G. Tull, treasurer of the Henry 

 A. Dreer Co., left on his vacation August 

 2, first taking time to say a commenda- 

 tory word for the Review's credit ar- 

 ticle a fortnight ago. 



William P. Craig was admitted to mem- 



