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The Florists^ Review 



OCTOBBB 29, 1914. 



Carnation 

 Cuttings*. 



New and standard varieties 

 —See our classified ad. 



THE LEO NIESSEN CO. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



BALTIMORE and WASHINGTON 



Bronze Galax 



Extra fine quality, as goo( 

 as you will buy when th.; 

 new crop comes in. 



$7.50 per case 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS 



Buy your Mums here, everything is in your favor, quality, quantity, moderate prices. $10.C0, $12 CO 

 and $15.00 per 100. All the best seasonable varieties. We can fuinieh you splendid flowers at theee pricts 



CHRYSANTHEMUM POMPONS, $3.00 -$5.00 



Large variety of colors, liberal size bunches. Try a dozen bunches. 



per dosen 

 bunches 



BOXWOOD 



15 cents par pound 



Place your order now and have 

 it shipped when you want it. We 

 supply the same customers every 

 year, which is the best indication 

 that we have the right kind of Box- 

 wood. 



BEAUTIES 



$1.00-$3.00 

 per doz. 



If you are familiar with the Philadelphia 

 market, you must know that we handle the 

 entire output of the best Beauty growers 

 shippiug to this market. 



Good Roses and Novelties 



In the Killampy8."BRILLlANT" ia the best color 

 and si e of Uuwers 



THOU A, a )it{ut pink Rose, is in fine condition. 

 Thia Rose is not ofifered elseW ere. 



FiRh-FLAME and AF I Bt^QLOW a<-e two novel- 

 tir-s you can recommend m yuur be<t customers. 

 Keep thf m interested in cut flowers by offeiin^ them 

 something out of the ordinal y. 



GREENS 



Adiantum Croweanum . . 100, $ 1.50 



Farleyense 100, 15.» 



Dagger Ferns 100\ 1.50 



Galax, Green case, 7.50 



Wild Smilax case, 5,00 



Cut Hemlock bundle, 2.^0 



Autumn Foliage buudle. .75 



Fadeless Sheet Mi ss . . .bag. 3.50 



Mention Tli»* U«*»U'w wlifn ntn writ*-. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



The entire market, both plants and 

 cut flowers, has been so badly over- 

 stocked that it has been possible only to 

 make the best of the unfavorable con- 

 dition. There has been no frost as far 

 northwest as Detroit, an unusual thing 

 for 80 late in the season. The supplies 

 of dahlias and of really fine cosmos 

 have been enormous. Last, and most 

 important of- all, the mild weather has 

 brought a tremendous crop of early 

 chrysanthemums into bloom at once. 

 These conditions have thoroughly de- 

 moralized the cut flower market, to a 

 degree that lowers prices and makes 

 impossible the disposal of all the re- 

 ceipts. 



Yellow chrysanthemums are most in 

 evidence. The prices for fine yellows 

 have receded from $2 per dozen to 

 $1.50, and now $1 per dozen often will 

 buy them. White chrysanthemums are 

 much fewer in number than yellow. The 

 arrival of William Turner has for that 

 reason been welcome. Pink has been 

 strengthened by Pacific Supreme and 

 Chieftain, a Bonnaflfon-like flower of 

 excellent color. Pompons are mostly 

 outdoor stock so far, but the indoor 

 stock is commencing and proves wel- 

 come. 



Dahlias have outlived their useful- 

 ness in many stores. With chrysanthe- 

 mums so good and so cheap, the dahlia 

 is more and more neglected. The quan- 

 tity continued large until frost killed 

 them October 28. 



Carnations have suffered more than 

 any other staple flowers. Prices have 

 declined to a point that is maddening 

 to the growers. Good stock averages 

 about one-half of the price realized at 



Merger bros. 



SHOW MUMS 



Yellow, White, Pink, Bronze — of exhibition quality, at 



very reasonable figures. 



POMPONS— Greenhouse-grown 



The best varieties in quantity. 



DAHLIAS-Until Frost 



Extra select VALl EY, ROSES, VIOLETS, 

 CARNATIONS, GREENS 



1225 RACE ST, PHILADEIPHIA 



Mention Th* Brt^w wb»n yon wnte. 



this time last year. It is only fair, 

 however, to say that the conditions are 

 quite different, as the plants then were 

 small and the crops late. Roses are in 

 rather smaller supply than they have 

 been for the last few weeks, but this 

 is hardly noticed with the heavy crops 

 of other flowers. Orchids are coming in 

 heavily and can be had at low prices. 

 Violets, both Marie Louise and Lady 

 Hume Campbell, are plentiful, almost 

 as much so as the singles. Pansies are 



blooming freely. Sweet peas and sn.'p- 

 dragon are hardly in form yet, Th. re 

 is more valley than the market -e- 

 quires just now. 



A lightning Circuit. 



There was a time when, with the •'i'' 

 of the railroad, the trolley, the horse, 

 or even of Shanks' mare, it was possi- 

 ble to call on one or two of the grefO- 

 house places in the suburbs in an aft':-r- 

 noon. Today, with the aid of the nio- 



