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The Weekly Florists Review* 



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 August 26, 1909. 



Niessen's 



News Column 



ASTERS 



We are now getting the 

 choicest stock of Asters that 

 we have handled this season. 

 Some of our growers, in spite 

 of the unfavorable conditions 

 of the season, are producing a 

 grade of Asters of surprisingly 

 fine quality. It has been a 

 poor growing season, we ad- 

 mit, but if you are under the 

 impression that there are no 

 good Asters in the market, we 

 would like you to try a ship- 

 ment of our goods. We know 

 that we can please you both 

 in quality and price. 



Field-grown 



Carnation 

 Plants 



With a few exceptions, we 

 are still offering Carnation 

 Plants of all the varieties as 

 listed in the last issue of the 

 Review. We guarantee these 

 plants to be healthy, and as 

 good as can be had this sea- 

 son. If you so desire, before 

 placing your order, we will 

 submit samples. 



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TheLeo Niessen Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



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



To The Growers 



You will soon be making your plans for the coming season, 

 deciding where you will send your cut flowers, whether you 

 will continue shipping them to your wholesaler of last year 

 or whether you will make a change, important points that 

 will have much to do with your returns. 

 We ask that before you decide this point you will come and 

 see us and talk the matter over, find out whether we can have 

 a good opening for the kind of stock you are producing and 

 look at our facilities to see whether we keep abreast of the 

 times; we believe that a business chat will be to our mutual 

 advantage, and hope you will call when you are in town. We 

 will be glad to call on you at any time. 



Very truly yours, 



W. E. McKISSICK & BROS. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



1619-21 Ranstead St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Risiii£ Eastern Market 



There is a wide divergence of opinions 

 regarding business conditions for the 

 week ending August 25. The majority 

 hold that there is a decided improvement, 

 the minority as stoutly maintain there 

 is not. A slight increase is evident in 

 the demand from the seashore resorts. 

 Added to this is a slight addition to the 

 ranks of the stay-at-homes who take an 

 interest in flowers. Their interest is 

 stimulated by the cooler weather. Trifling 

 matters these, but straws that prove low- 

 tide is past. 



The quality of the asters coming to 

 town indicates clearly the height of the 

 season for this queen among late sum- 

 mer flowers. We have Ostrich Plume, 

 Vick's and Semple's Branching, all at 

 their best. The market is hardly able 

 to care for so many really fine asters at 

 once, following the shortage in this 

 grade. Beauties come next to asters as 

 the flowers of the day. Both eastern and 

 locally grown stock is in demand. Val- 

 ley has been selling well, for the supply 

 is light. Cattleyas are scarce. Green- 

 house grown gardenias have made their 

 appearance and in some instances are 

 accepted instead of orchids. Fine gigan- 

 teum lilies are abundant, with little de- 

 mand. The scouts of the carnation army 

 have made their appearance. Kaiserin 

 is not plentiful. Maryland is in excellent 

 supply. Many of the flowers are of ex- 

 cellent quality with long stems, but de- 

 spite of all that is said in favor of My 

 Maryland it has not the place in the 

 hearts of the flower-loving public held by 

 Killarney. Gladioli are decreasing in 

 numbers. Hardy ferns are most active 

 among the greens. 



The Cindnaati G)OventioQ. 



Leo Niessen returned to this city Au- 

 gust 22 after a week's stay in Cincin- 

 nati. On the following day Mr. Niessen 

 kindly consented to talk a little about his 

 trip. 



The attendance at the convention was 

 equal to that of former years, the middle 



west being largely represented, the east 

 and south sparingly. The weather was 

 delightful, and the Cincinnati florists did 

 all they could to make the visit pleasant. 

 The S. A. F. has accomplished an excel- 

 lent work through its tariff committee, 

 iEis shown in the report of Mr. Pierson. 

 The trade exhibit was of high quality, 

 Philadelphia making a splendid display. 



The gladioli of the Cushman Co. were 

 wonderfully fine. An interesting feature 

 at the Cincinnati wholesale commission 

 houses is the way gladioli are shipped. 

 A square box open on top is filled with 

 four cans firmly braced in the four cor- 

 ners; these cans are partly filled with 

 water and in them the gladioli are placed 

 and secured. It is possible with this 

 method of shipping to cut the gladioli 

 two-thirds developed, this insuring far 

 finer flowers than can be obtained under 

 the method in vogue in the east, where 

 they are shipped in bud. The Chicago 

 wholesalers who saw this unusual method 

 of shipping expressed doubt as to 

 whether the express companies would ac- 

 cept boxes open on top and containing 

 buckets of water in their city. 



A Pleasinc Novelty. 



Harry Bayersdorfer, head of the firm 

 that bears his name, made time to show 

 a representative of the Review an at- 

 tractive novelty in chinaware that seems 

 destined to play a part in the table 

 decorations of the coming season. This 

 novelty consists of miniature rivers, so 

 to speak, or perhaps to be more accurate 

 river banks, the china pieces, a cotiple 

 of inches high and perhaps half as wide, 

 being made to hold water. There are 

 straight lines and curves of china, so 

 designed that any desired form can be 

 outlined on a table. The fernery can be 

 surrounded by a circle of violets or 

 panics. The whole table can be outlined 

 with just the right curve at the end, 

 or a series of S's can be made to wind 

 in and out among the table ornaments. 

 There are gates and gate posts which 

 cunningly devise flower holders from 

 which asparagus may be trailed to meet 

 the vine trailing from another china 



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