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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



August 19, 1909. 



Niessen's 



News Column 



What Is Worth 

 Haying 



in cut flowers at this season of the 

 year, you will find here, and as 

 good as they are grown. We have 

 plenty of CHOICE ASTERS, 

 GOOD BEAUTIES in all grades, 

 a good supply of KAISERIN and 

 MARYLAND roses, and the 

 BEST PEAS in town. "We will 

 fill your cut flower order in a way 

 that will please you. 



Field-grown 



Carnation 

 Plants 



We have to offer, subject to 

 being sold, the following plants: 



FIHK 

 sbo WiiiBor 

 10,000 Knobantress 

 S.OOO Rose-pink Snohantress 

 2,500 Attarslow 

 400 Arlstooxat 

 3,000 Jooat 



WHITK 

 500 Sarah HUl 

 3,000 Whtta Pe fectlon 

 1,000 Queen Louise 

 5,000 Queen 

 4,000 Boston Market 

 l.OfiO Lady Bountiful 

 1,100 Lieutenant Peary 



MISCELLANEOUS 



1,800 Beacon, red 

 5<iO Harry renn, crlmHon 



1,000 Harlo^'arden, crimeon 

 500 Irene, yellow 



2,000 Red Seedling 



These plants we guarantee to 

 be healthy, strong stock, free from 

 disease. Every lot of plants, be- 

 fore we offer them to the trade, 

 are personally inspected in the 

 field. We know that we can recom- 

 mend these plants, and that they 

 will give you entire satisfaction. 

 Our list is constantly changing, 

 and if interested, let us know the 

 quantity you want, and wo will 

 quote you prices. 



TheLeo Niesseo Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



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



Ostrich Plume Asters 



This is the height of the season. For the 

 next fortnight we can give you superb 

 Asters in all colors^ exceptional value, 

 easily the finest flowers in the market. 



LILIUM GIGANTEUM 



Choice Flowers $15.00 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. 



There is no business; still, to be ab- 

 solutely fair, a few lines must be given 

 to a description of cut flower conditions. 

 There is a limited demand for good flow- 

 ers. This is proved by the extremely 

 high price that cattleyas command. 

 There are not many of them, not enough 

 to fill all orders at $9 per dozen. Valley 

 is in fair demand, especially high grade 

 stock. 



The rose market is in bad shape. All 

 the poor and some of the better stocky 

 accumulate. A few really fine carna-' 

 tions have appeared — white, almost in 

 winter form, and Ethel Crocker. Good 

 asters are scarce, but poor flowers are 

 almost unsalable at any price. Gladioli 

 are less plentiful. Dahlias have made 

 their appearance, some fine pink being 

 accepted as a substitute for fancy asters 

 on a day when that color could not be 

 secured. There is no steady demand for 

 dahlias yet. Fine cosmos is in, but does 

 not sell. 



A Land Purchase. 



The flower world will be deeply inter- 

 ested in the plans of the Joseph Heacock 

 Co., which have now taken definite shape. 

 It has been generally known that the 

 plant at Wyneote had reached its limit; 

 all the available ground is covered with 

 glass and more ground in the neighbor- 

 hood cannot be acquired; valuation is 

 increasing. A farm farther out of town 

 became necessary. A year was spent in 

 going carefully over the gi'ound. Last 

 wecK Joseph Heacock, president of the 

 company, purchased a tract of fifty-eight 

 acres of land at Roelofs Station, eight- 

 een miles above his present station, Jen- 

 kintown, on the Bound Brook railroad. 

 The ground is slightly rolling, with dark, 

 rich soil that Mr. Heacock considers well 

 adapted for the growing of cut flowers. 

 It is understood that Mr. Heacock 's 

 l)lan is to erect a range of glass for his 

 roses and carnations at Roelofs, while 

 the palms and orchids will remain at 



Wyneote. The new plant will, it is un- 

 derstood, be in operation by next July. 



Norwood. 



Robert A. Craig met his guests at the 

 West Philadelphia station. There were 

 just two, Jacob Becker and Phil. It 

 proved a congenial party. The short ride 

 out of town was pleasantly spent in chat. 

 The trio stopped at Norwood, a pretty 

 suburb in Delaware county, with hand- 

 some houses and good roads. Hard by 

 the station on the main road is the six- 

 teen-acre lot owned by the Robert Craig 

 Co. On this lot were the improvements 

 the party had come to see. 



The lot itself was desirable — square, 

 or, to be exact, rectangular, level, un- 

 shaded. The houses, four in number, are 

 each 27^4x300. Mr. Craig said they were 

 flat roofed — a pitch of something like 

 six inches to the foot. The walls are of 

 concrete, a little less than four feet high, 

 straight and true, with even finish, good 

 to see. The roofing material was what 

 D. T. Connor delights in calling semi- 

 iron construction, which, put in plain 

 English, means "imperishable," when 

 compared with you and me. The glass 

 was 16x24 inches and double thick. The 

 benches were raised and made of cypress, 

 with heating pipes beneath. 



This heating system was of deep inter- 

 est, embodying the latest ideas. Mr. 

 Elder, who had that part of the contract 

 in charge for the builders. Lord & Burn- 

 ham Co., described it in detail. A 150 

 horse-power horizontal return tubular 

 boiler will heat water that will circulate 

 through 5-inch' mains into 2-inch flows 

 and returns, scientifically laid to insure 

 equal temperature throughout both pipes 

 and houses. This circulation will be 

 quickened by a circulator, or in plain 

 words a suction pump applied to the re- 

 turn pipes to bring the water back quick- 

 ly to the boiler. A fan or blower will 

 be used to give suflBcient draught to 

 burn small hard coal. A forty horse- 

 power steam boiler will also be installed 

 and a sufficient amoimt of li4-inch steam 

 pipe will be attached to it and laid in 

 the houses to keep out the dampness dur- 



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