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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



January 27, 1910. 



Niessen's 



News Column 



WHITE OECHEDS. 



Laelia Anceps Alba. 

 $6.00 per dozen. 



Very choice flowers, three to 

 six blooms to a stem; stems firm 

 and long. 



ACACIA. 



Pubescens. 

 $2.50 per bunch. 



Long, graceful sprays of small, 

 yellow, bell-shaped flowers, with 

 beautiful foliage. The choicest 

 novelty in yellow at this season 

 of the year. 



TULIPS. 



Pink, white, red and yellow. 

 $3.00 and $4.00 per 100. 



SINGLE DAFFODILS. 



$4.00 per 100. 



—Per 100— 



Romans $2.00 to $3.00 



Paper Whites 2.00 to 3.00 



Valley 3.00 to 4.00 



Mignonette 3.00 to 4.00 



Sweet Peas 75 to 1.00 



Very choice 1.50 



Freesia 3.00 to 4.00 



Pansies 1.00 



Daisies, white 2.00 



Daisies, yellow 3.00 



Per Bunch. 



Pussy Willow $0.50 



White Lilac $1.00 to 1.25 



CARNATIONS. 



We have never had a better 

 grade to offer. Our stock consists 

 largely of the fancy varieties, 

 such as Winsor, Enchantress, 

 Winona, Beacon, Victory, White 

 Perfection, etc. We always have 

 a large supply of fancy red carna- 

 tions. You can depend on us for 

 good quality and right prices. 



WHITE KILLARNEY ROSE 



PLANTS. 



2-inch pots, per 100, $ 8.00. 

 2-ineh pots, per 1,000, 70.00. 



ROOTED CARNATION CUT- 

 TINGS. 



See our advertisement among 

 tlie classified ads. Strong, clean, 

 healthy cuttings, that we guaran 

 tee to give satisfaction. 



TheLeo Niessen Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arck StrMt 



PHILADELPHIA 



Open from 7 a. m. to 8 p. m. 



Mrso Jardine 



We offer you superb blooms, admittedly the finest 

 coming into Philadelphia, of this beautiful pink 

 rose; a rose so full, fragrant and highly colored as 

 to remind one of ripe peaches, the saffron or 

 apricot tint blending harmoniously with the softer 

 pink, as in the peach. 



Spring Flowers in quantity 



WILD SMILAX for the Decorator. 



W. a McKISSICK & BROS. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



1619-21 Ranstead St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising: Eastern Market. 



Beauties are shortening rapidly, fancy 

 stock being often diflBcult to obtain. Car- 

 nation conditions improve with the ap- 

 proach of McKinley day and Easter lilies 

 are abundant at moderate prices. Cat- 

 tleyas are more plentiful than at any 

 time since the fall, with prices lower. 

 Violets and sweet peas have receded a 

 little. There is heavy trading in Paper 

 "Whites at extremely low figures. Tulips 

 have been reinforced by a few pink and 

 red, although yellftw is the predominating 

 color and by far the finest, with white 

 next. Daffodils and white lilacs are 

 abundant and good. There is a brisk 

 demand for the former, while the latter 

 goes in with the fancy orders. 



A Philadelphian, a leader in the world 

 of finance, gave a ball in the Bellevue- 

 Stratford hotel on the evening of Jan- 

 uary 14, to which 1,000 guests were bid- 

 den. The floral decorations for this ball 

 Avere elaborate. A thousand of this va- 

 riety, 2,000 of that, 3,000 of the other, 

 running through a dozen sorts, were used, 

 besides many foliage and flowering plants 

 and greens galore. That even such a ball 

 would be felt in this market seems ab- 

 surd. Many such have passed with scarce 

 a ripple in the wholesale district, yet this 

 ball made a tremendous impression, not 

 so much from the quantity of flowers 

 used as from the fact that it marked a 

 change. Social festivities increased in 

 number; the supply of flowers decreased. 

 The market is buoyant. 



The changed conditions today, com- 

 pared with two weeks ago, are principally 

 evident in the rose market. The crops 

 timed for the holidays are over. There 

 were so many crops so timed as to make 

 a decided shortage. Prices have advanced 

 sharply. Fancy grade Richmond, Mrs. 

 Jardine and Killamey are in active de- 

 mand, with few obtainable. Cheaper 

 grades of Bride and "White Killamey are 

 selling briskly for design work. The 

 shortage in the rose market has affected 

 every other variety of flower, the dealers 

 turning from roses when possible to any- 



thing else attractive that can be used as 

 a substitute. Prices in the other flowers 

 have not advanced as in roses, but the 

 average sales are better. There is little 

 or nothing left. Gardenias are also weak, 

 although many, in fact far more than 

 ever before this season, are being sold at 

 listed quotations. Quality is an impor- 

 tant factor — "in the price of every- 

 thing," you were going to say. Cer- 

 tainly, but I mean especially in the price 

 of sweet peas. Bright, fresh flowers of 

 substance, with long stems, bring double 

 the price of ordinary or tired looking 

 stock. The orchid class is in two sections 

 at present, cattleyas and mixed orchids, 

 in which you get dendrobiums, oncidiums 

 and the rear guard of the cypripediums, 

 with possibly a few others. Greens are 

 in irregular demand; even smilax of the 

 tame variety is thankfully used one day 

 and rejected the next. There is an ex- 

 cellent shipping demand for good flowers. 



The Rote Mrs. Jardine. 



AV. E. McKissick laid his hand caress- 

 ingly on a jar of Mrs. Jardine roses, 

 asking an opinion on their quality. The 

 really magnificent blooms were enhanced 

 in beauty by the midwinter scarcity of 

 fine roses, and the sight of these highly 

 colored, large flowers, with their luxuri- 

 ant foliage, recalled vividly the history of 

 Mrs. Jardine. Heralded as a pedigreed 

 Irish rose and backed by the best judges 

 as a meritorious novelty, Mrs. Jardine 

 proved too capricious for all but two of 

 the Philadelphia growers; one the intro- 

 ducer, the other the man who grew these 

 flowers. A visit was immediately planned 

 and promptly executed, for such stock 

 was worth going many miles to see. 



J. Stephenson, of Oak Lane, has some- 

 thing over 30,000 feet of glass devoted 

 chiefly to roses, with a few carnations as 

 a side line. There are three separate 

 houses or ranges of glass. The last one, 

 completed September 10, 1909, is a model 

 Lord & Burnham house, 35x210, with the 

 ridge thrown just far enough back to 

 avoid shading the last of the five beds; 

 in other words, a carefully planned three- 

 quarter spanned house, in which cement 

 Avails, cement walks and cement beds add 



