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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



FBBBX7AB7 10, 1910. 



Niessen's 



News Column 



ACACIA 



Pubescens. 

 12.50 per bunch. 



If your customer calls for an at- 

 tractive arrangrement of flowers in 

 yellow, somethini? out of phe ordi- 

 nary, nothing fills the bill like 

 Acacia. Exquisitely dainty, yellow 

 flowers, borne on sprays of various 

 sizes, covered with an abundance 

 of delicate, green foliage. Our sup- 

 ply of this novelty is not equaled. 



Carnations 



Good stock, our selection of colors. 

 In lots of 500 and over, 

 $3.00 per 100. 

 Our supply of carnations consists 

 largely of the better varieties. Our 

 growers have, in quality, surpassed 

 their production of other years. 

 We can truly say that never before 

 have we offered better quality, or 

 larger values. Red carnations. Bea- 

 con, Victory, Bassett, etc.. we have 

 in quantity. An order for a few 

 thousand of them we can fill at 

 short notice. 



SPRING FLOWERS 



SINGLE DAFFODILS Per 100. 



Golden Spur J4.00 



Prlnceps 3.00 



TULIPS $2.50—4.00 



Fancy Doubles 4.00 — 5.00 



DAI SI ES, White 2.00 



DAISIES, Yellow 3.00 



VALLEY 3.00— 4.00 



FREESIA 2.00—3.00 



SWEET PEAS, choice.. 1.00 



Per Bunch. 

 PANSIES, per hundred.. $8.00 



LILAC 1.00 



PUSSY WILLOW .50 



PUSSY WILLOW, per doz. 5.00 



DOUBLE AND SINGLE 



VIOLtTS 



$7.50 per 1,000. 

 Quality all that can be desired. Can 

 ship them to you the same day 

 they are picked. They couldn't be 

 fresher. 



White Killarney Rose 



PLANTS, Waban strain. 



2-lnch pots, per 100 $ 8.00 



2-Inch pots, per 1,000 70.00 



ROOTED CARNATION CUHINGS 



See our advertisement among the 

 classified ads. Strong, clean, healthy 

 cuttings, that we guarantee to give I 

 satisfaction. I 



TheUo Niessen Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arck Strtt 



PHILADELPHIA 



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





Ea^er Lilies 



We are the recognized headquarters in Philadelphia 

 for high-grade Easter Lilies. We have them in quantity 

 throughout the season and can supply your orders for 

 selected blooms, each stem carrying a small number of 

 large, well-hardened flowers. 



stems of good length, foliage perfect, price 

 $1.50 per dozen; $10.00 per hundred. 



DAFFODILS. GOLDEN SPUR, very fine, in quanUty. 

 WHITE TULIPS, pure white; long stems for cut flowers; short stems for design work. 



SPRING FLOWERS in quantity. 

 WILD SMILAX for the decorator. 



W. E. McKISSICK & BROS. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



1619-21 Ranstead St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



'iiiM-^Jti,' 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



"When the days begin to lengthen the 

 cold begins to strengthen." The closing 

 week of the social season has been 

 marked by an active demand for all 

 varieties of flowers that was insufficient 

 to hold prices firm in the face of the 

 increasing supply. The decline was most 

 noticeable in carnations, in sweet peas, 

 in violets, and, greatest surprise of all, 

 in Beauties. It is probable that the 

 decline in Beauties was quite as much 

 due to the fact that the average quality 

 was hardly up to the mark as to anything 

 else; a flower must inspire admiration to 

 become popular. The carnation market 

 held well February 3, but increased re- 

 ceipts the next two days were more than 

 the market could stand, despite excellent 

 buying. The little additional activity 

 occasioned by the close of the season was 

 more than offset by the extraordinarily 

 cold weather, which destroyed transient 

 business. 



Sweet peas, althoxigh quite as good as 

 they were a week ago, have dropped back 

 to $1 and sometimes 75 cents, due to 

 increased receipts. The consumption is 

 large. Violets 'have become quite plen- 

 tiful and, while they sell well when the 

 weather permits of street wear, extreme 

 cold is most prejudicial to the violet. 

 Spring flowers are better and more plen- 

 tiful. Golden Spur is the daffodil of the 

 day. The transactions in this variety 

 alone have been heavy. Both yellow and 

 white tulips can be had in quantity; they 

 are not especially popular. Freesia is 

 obtainable in quantity, the good stock 

 going well. 



The sales in greens have been enor- 

 mous, asparagus leading the way, with 

 adiantum an active factor at good prices. 



To return to the more-sought-after 

 flowers, Killarney is the leading rose and 

 the quality of some of the stock is 

 worthy of admiration. Richmond and 

 Bride come next. Cattleyas are quiet; 

 the heavy crop has been marketed and 

 tlie moderate supply is about equal to the 

 demand. Gardenias and valley, while 



much used, show no special change from 

 the report of two weeks ago. Cyps are 

 pretty nearly over. The supply of Easter 

 lilies has been decreased by the tem- 

 porary elimination of an important fac- 

 tor. Callas are becoming more plentiful. 



The Storm. 



Sunday morning, February 6, saw the 

 severest storm that has visited this city 

 in two years, a severe northerly gale in- 

 creasing the distress of the zero tem- 

 perature that came with it. The storm 

 raged with great severity all night, caus- 

 ing anxiety in all the greenhouses near 

 the city, but so far as learned everyone 

 withstood the cold successfully. There 

 were several close shaves, one instance 

 being reported where the temperature of 

 the house fell to 34 degrees, due to in- 

 sufficient boiler capacity. The tempera- 

 ture moderated the following morning 

 and with it the gale. 



Carnation Pink Delight. 



It may be of interest to carnation 

 growers who were unable to attend th(- 

 Pittsburg convention to know that of tht 

 carnations introduced a year ago noni 

 is in such lively request as Pink Delight 

 Pink Delight, an introduction of FVet 

 Dorner & Sons Ck)., is a shade or twe 

 brighter than Enchantress, a littl< 

 smaller in size, fragrant and long 

 stemmed, especially so in the fall, whei 

 long-stemmed carnations are scarce. I; 

 is commanding $1 more today in thr 

 Philadelphia market than any othev 

 variety, saving possibly a few fancies. 

 The stock is so scarce in comparison witl 

 the demand that none of the grower 

 Avill take orders for Pink Delight unles' 

 with it come orders for some of the varie 

 ties they are most anxious to sell. 

 Samuel S. Pennock, in speaking of thi- 

 variety, called especial attention to tht 

 fact that it is a good keeper, a quality 

 of first importance in every commercial 

 variety. 



Dorothy Gordon is Popular, 



Joseph Heacock was asked, on his re- 

 turn from the carnation convention in 



