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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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HOLIDAY SPECIALTIES 



IMMORTELLES, all colors, in any quantity. We can fill your rush orders instantly. 



CREPE PAPERS, water-proof and pleated, in all best flower ahades; very choice. 



HOLLY WREATHS, well berried, handsome and more lasting than the ordinary stock. 



PORTO RICAN MATS, just received; very desirable. 



HOLIDAY BASKETS, with and without handles, round, oval in shape, or any size you desire. Willow, 

 Reed or Rattan, plain or fancy. Be sure to have plenty on hand, for you can turn your short-stemmed flowers to 

 account, we think, as you can in no other way. Just think of those odds and ends of poinsettias, Romans and 

 what-nots, and the pretty combinations you can make with the right kind of basket. 



FERN FRONDS. Durable, electrically prepared, perfect fronds of Adiantum, Pteris, Asparagus, 



Araucaria; something you can use anywhere; combining the grace of the fern with— well, not the strength of the 

 oak, but they certainly have a thousand times more strength than the delicate ferns you generally use. 



Our factory can turn out anything you want in florists' supplies. Send for our illustrated catalogue. 



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Florists' Baskets 



Our aim is Artistic Baskets; that is what makes them appeal to dis- 

 criminating people. Every basket is made by hand, and finished as if our 

 whole reputation depended upon that particular basket. Madison Baaketcraft 

 Co. 's baskets are designed for use as well as beauty. They are practical, 

 indestructible, made of willow in odd and artistic shapes, and colored in 

 various delicate tones. Greens, gun metal and browns are the beet colors. 



PRICES TO'iTHE TRADE 



Diameter 

 Outside 



MISSION No. 



Opening 



10-inch 8-inch . . 



12-iDch 9- inch . . 



13-inch 10-inch . . 



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.$1.25 15-inch .11-inch $2.50 



. 1.75 18-inch 13-inch 3.00 



. 2.00 21-inch 15-inch 3.50 



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tiz:z We sell nothinsr but Baskets. Make two hundred different shapes. 

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a plantsman's triumph under adverse 

 weather' conditions. 



In order to get an expert's view on 

 these improvements, I went to Eobert A. 

 Craig and asked him to tell me briefly 

 what had been accomplished during the 

 last year. Mr. Craig pointed out cycla- 

 men of perfect shape, with flowers of 

 almost orchid size, glossy green foliage, 

 an improved strain from selected seed; 

 begonias of the Lorraine type, almost 

 ball-shaped, hard and covered with bloom, 

 all pinched stock; poinsettia with large, 

 sturdy bracts, and, best of all, foliage 

 down to the pot, e\'idently the result of 

 studying nature 's way. There were other 

 things, but these are suflScient to show 

 why I was convinced that the brains and 

 enterprise that have placed Philadelphia 

 growers among the front rank of plants- 

 men will keep them there for many a 

 long day to come. 



VuiotM Notes. 



The new greenhouse on the seed trial 

 farm of the H. F. Miehell Co. has been 

 completed. 



Miss Dundore, with Harry Shroyer, 

 Lancaster, Pa. ; A. B. Ellsworth and Mrs. 

 Ellsworth, Allentown, Pa.; Ernest Ash- 



ley, Allentown, Pa. ; A. N. Pierson, Crom- 

 well, Conn., and Arthur Langhanz, Wheel- 

 ing, W. Va., were here recently. 



Arthur Philips Niessen has come to 

 make his home with the secretary and 

 treasurer of the Leo Niessen Co., bring- 

 ing much brightness with him. 



The Henry A. Dreer Co. took advan- 

 tage of the mild weather to push out or- 

 ders for what is promising to be an ex- 

 cellent Christmas in decorative plants and 

 ferns. 



Alexander Montgomery, Natick, Mass., 

 not long since honored Wyndmoor and 

 Dorranceton by a visit. 



The Florex Gardens have begun forcing 

 lily of the valley pips. They have com- 

 menced shipping the so bell-like flowers 

 to Eugene Bernheimer. 



William P. Craig is in the west middle 

 states this week. 



William J. Baker finds a ready market 

 for callas, now coming in more freely. 



There have been many visitors to the 

 Bising Eastern Market during the last 

 few days. They include Loyd G. Blick, 

 Norfolk, Va. ; George Cooke and Mrs. 

 Cooke, Washington, D. C. ; Frank B. Bine 

 and Mrs. Eine, Lewisburg, Pa.; F. G. 



Berger, E. A. Seidewitz, and Charles and 

 William Feast, all of Baltimore; W. J. 

 Carney, of J. B. Murdoch Co., Pitts- 

 burg; Benjamin Passmore, Malvern, Pa., 

 and a representative of the Loudon Nur- 

 sery Co. 



William K. Harris died December 13 

 after a long illness at his home in West 

 Philadelphia. 



Stephen Ager was scheduled to speak 

 before the Germantown Horticultural 

 Society's December meeting on "The 

 Winter Preparation of the Garden." The 

 present officers were reelected for 1910. 



The poultry show of the Henry F. 

 Miehell Co., held at 518 last week, 

 brought out 600 birds and on the clos- 

 ing day a crowd estimated at 2,000 

 passed under the electric arches erected 

 for the occasion. 



An able judge of cut flowers earnestly 

 advises the growers to come into the 

 market and look over their stock when 

 it is offered for sale before they decide 

 on the prices that should be realized at 

 the holidays. 



The Philadelphia Wholesale Flower 

 Market has paid a final two and one-half 

 per cent dividend. Phil. 



