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The Florists^ Review 



October 22, 1014. 



BRANCHi;STORES: 



BALTIMORE, 

 5-7-9 W. Centre St. 



WASHINGTON, 

 1214HSt.,N.W. 



THE LEO NIESSER CO. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



N. W. Cor. 12th and Race StreeU 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Bronze Galax 



Extra fine quality, as gooi 

 as you will buy when tho 

 new. crop comes in. 



$7.50 per case 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS 



All the best varieties in season 



$8.00 to $20.00 per 100 



Valley 



Plenty of good Valley. No 

 scarcity here and no advance 

 in price. The best, $4.00 per 100. 



Cattleyas 



The best $5.00 per dozen 



Dendrobium Formosum 



Per dozen $0.00 



Gardenias 



Per dozen $1.50 to $3.00 



Our supply is such that we can offer you all grades in quantity, 

 splendid flowers in the medium grades, at $12.00 to $15.00 per 100 



BEAUTIES 



Any quantity of the medium and best 

 grades at $1.50 to $3.00 per dozen. All per- 

 fect flowers, good, strong stems, fine foliage. 



THORA 



$3.00 to $8.00 per 100. 

 A new Rose, the color somewhat like Taft. 

 A good flower in every way. 



AFTERGLOW 



Offered for the first time this year. A 

 Rose similar to Fireflame, of a bright red 

 color. 



GREENS 



Adiantum Croweanum . .100, $ 1.50 



Farleyense 100, 15.C0 



Dagger Ferns 1000, 1.50 



Galax, Green case, 7.50 



Wild Smilax case, 5.00 



Cut Hemlock bundle, 2.50 



Autumn Foliage bundle. .75 



Fadeless Sheet Moss . . .bag, 3.50 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



Maxwell will lecture. Refreshments will 

 follow later in the evening. President 

 Johnston hopes for a full attendance. 



Harry Ekas is cutting some fine Golden 

 Gate dahlias. This is one of the new va- 

 rieties of the year and many favorable 

 comments are heard on its unusual size 

 and beauty. It is of a clear yellow color, 

 of the quilled cactus type, and flowers 

 of from six to nine inches in diameter 

 are not unusual for this variety. 



W. F. E. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



It may fairly be said that the queen 

 of autumn has replaced the dahlia as the 

 leading flower this week. There is a 

 marked difference in the chrysanthe- 

 mums coming in today over the early va- 

 rieties offered in the market during the 

 last five years. Now there are more 

 good yellows than all the other colors 

 combined; formerly there were more of 

 the Pacific family than anything else, 

 sometimes several times as many. The 

 change is an improvement, for in Rama- 

 po, Chrysolora, Comoleta and Donatello 

 we have a quartet of excellent early yel- 

 lows, and yellow is the color most sought 

 in this great faU flower. 



The dahlia has improved with the 

 much needed rains of October 15 and 16, 

 but the public is tiring of dahlias, al- 

 though there are more to be had today 

 than at any time during the season. The 

 extremely warm weather has had a dis- 

 astrous effect on carnations; many of 

 them have reached the market asleep and 

 more have promptly gone to sleep on 

 their arrival. This unhappy condition, 

 together with the overloaded condition 

 of the market, made prices about half 

 those of the week before. Roses have 

 done better in the warm weather varie- 



BERGER BROS. 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS 



All the sorts are good and plentiful— yellow, 



white, pink, bronze. 

 Prices very reasonable. 



DAHLIAS 



Our g^rowers will have fine stock until frost. 

 All the best varieties in quantity. 



Extra Select VaDey. The Best' of Everything in the Market. 



1225 RACE ST. PHILADELPHIA 



Mention Tln^ B«iTlaw when yoo write. 



ties, but not in the Killarneys, which 

 have suffered badly, many popping open 

 on arrival, while the buyers are chary 

 of them, often requiring price induce- 

 ments. Cosmos is used in great quanti- 

 ties. Sweet peas, mostly single-flowered, 

 are to be had. To sum up, the supply 

 greatly exceeds the demand. 



The Eiverview Nurseries. 



There is a modest sign that informs 

 whomsoever it may concern that the 



principal nurseries of Henry A. Droer, 

 Inc., are one mile west. You wouldn't 

 think so if you had tramped all o'cr 

 those splendidly kept fields of dahliiS) 

 cannas, asparagus, etc. Their extent is 

 surprising, but it. is not in these fieiJs 

 that the inspiration for this paragrnp^ 

 lies, but in the well appointed block of 

 greenhouses set in their midst. The 

 block I have often described; it is J. ^• 

 Eisele's first contribution to what i* 

 planned as an immense establishment id 



