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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



August 12, 1909. 



Niessen's 



News Column 



We will be represented at 



Cincifloati 



at the meeting of the 



S. A. F. 



by our Mr. Leo. Niessen, 



who will be pleased to 



meet the many friends 



of the House, and 



make a few 



new ones 



Bronze Galax 



$1.00 per 1000 

 7.60 per caie 



Special price in quantities of 

 more than one case lots. 



Carnation Plants 



We have prepared a list of Car- 

 nation plants, including most all 

 the desirable varieties. Plants are 

 not plentiful and we advise order- 

 ing early. We will send you a 

 copy of the price list on request. 



Theleo Niesseo Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



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



Are just comiDg into their glory — splen- 

 did flowers with long stems and good 

 foliage. They are truly fancy Asters. We 

 are receiving Ostrich Plume Asters in in- 

 creasing quantities and respectfully ask 

 your orders for them, with confidence in 

 our ability to please you. 



W. E. McKISSICK & BROS. 



WHOLESALB FLORISTS 



1619-21 Ranstead St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising: Eastern Market. 



The cut flower market is in an unsatis- 

 factory condition. The demand is not 

 equal to the supply. Of course there are 

 bright spots that one might as well look 

 at to get some cheer. Kaiserins were in 

 demand on several daj's. Cattleyas are 

 scarce and have advanced in price. The 

 same is true of Easter lilies to a lesser 

 degree. Choice asters are more plentiful 

 as the Ostrich Plume comes into season. 

 The quantity of poor asters is still op- 

 pressive and their price painfully low. 

 Gladioli are in oversupply; the fancy 

 sorts sell, but the common do not and the 

 reds least of all. Sweet peas continue 

 excellent and valley plentiful, Beauties 

 less so and in moderate demand. 



Greens are fearfully dull, spoiling, alas, 

 on all sides. Outdoor flowers of miscel- 

 laneous sorts are reduced and impover- 

 ished by drought. 



The Effect of the Tariff. 



The chief points of interest to florists, 

 seedsmen and nurserymen in the new bill 

 that went into effect August 6 are the 

 increase in duty on rose plants, whether 

 grafted, budded or own-root, from 2iA 

 cents to 4 cents each, and the change 

 from twenty-five per cent ad valorem to 

 $1 per thousand on most of the French 

 and Dutch bulbs, with $2.50 per thou- 

 sand on hyacinths. This latter change 

 has been urged by the seedsmen in the 

 interests of fairness, and will not, it is 

 thought, affect the amount of duties paid. 



The Supervisor's Views. 



There were just two minutes before 

 the up train was due, when I reached 

 our local station and met the supervisor 

 in charge of our section of the Pennsyl- 

 vania railroad. The supervisor was 

 stranded. A visit to the neighborhood 

 of the station, where railroad property 

 was injured by the opening of a new 

 street, had filled most of his afternoon. 

 Now, when he wanted to go back to the 

 city, he could not do so. Hence he 



gladly joined me in a flying trip up the 

 country, remarking that it would give 

 him a good chance to look over his lines, 

 anyway. The supervisor is an interesting 

 chap; he has ideas, and is evidently 

 climbing the ladder and comes in con 

 tact with some of the best railroad men. 

 You may think this is not particularly 

 rinteresting floriculturally, but it certainly 

 is, for florists depend on the railroads to 

 a large extent for intake and output. 

 But it was not of that I was thinking. 

 The supervisor had been relaying heat- 

 ing pipes in the Pennsylvania's green- 

 hoases at Newark, Del. — "a fearful hot 

 job," as he frankly expressed it. Two 

 or three of his men quit; 125 degrees 

 down there under the benches; nothing 

 but determination kept him at it. "The 

 system worked like a charm," he added, 

 with proper pride in the result; "we like 

 hot water under pressure best." 



"What do you grow in those green- 

 houses, Mr. Supervisor?" was asked. 

 ' ' We used to grow bedding plants, but 

 we are giving them up; there is not 

 sufficient return for the outlay." This 

 seems worthy careful consideration, that 

 the Pennsylvania railroad, which has 

 been planting geraniums, coleus, etc., at 

 all its suburban stations, now has these 

 beds filled with shrubbery, with peren- 

 nials, or they have been sodded over. The 

 reports from the various sections of the 

 country seem to indicate that the popu- 

 larity of many of our standard bedding 

 plants is on the decline, especially among 

 the better class of flower lovers. If this 

 is true, every florist should be on the 

 alert and decrease the output of such 

 varieties as are waning in popularity, 

 putting the space into something that is 

 wanted by his customers. 



Various Notes. 



Charles Keller, who will represent the 

 Keller Pottery Co., of Norristown, at the 

 Cincinnati convention, is taking with him 

 a souvenir that will surprise and delight 

 those who meet him there. 



Among the visitors in this city lately 

 were : Miss Rork and Miss Bailey, of D. 



