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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



AUGL-ST 10, 1911. 



THE LEO NIESSEN CO. 



GLADIOLI 



Fine commercial varieties, red, white and 

 pink. Can furnish a quantity of one color 

 at short notice. $3.U0 to $5.00 per 100. 



ASTERS 



I The best, - - - per 100, $2.00 

 I Good stock, - per 100, $1.00 to 1.50 



I RF/tllTIFCk Good Quality Xastem Stock, 

 I DE.A4IJ I It^ — aUSlzea, do« $1.00@$8.00 



I Sweet Peas, - - per 100, $0.75 



■ Valley, - per 100, $3.00 to 4.00 



FIELD-GROWN 

 CARNATION PLANTS 



Knoliantress 



R. Pk. Kncluuitresa 



Wblte Encliantr«8s 



Dorothy Gordon 



Th. LAWson 



Victory 



Victoria 



Winona 



Beacon 



Queen 



Winaor 



Boston Market 



Perfection 



Lady Bountiful 



The plants we are offering are all in fine 

 condition. They are ready for delivery now. 

 We will send you a complete list and 

 quotations for the asking. 



The Leo Niessen Co. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



1209 Arcli Street, PHILAOSLPHIA, FA. 



Open from 7 a. m. to 6 p. m. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Bifling Eastern Market. 



The scarcity of high grade asters is 

 the feature of the market. There is 

 a strong demand for fine asters that is 

 hard to satisfy. Good flowers command 

 $3 per hundred, selling promptly on ar- 

 rival in the city. All other flowers are 

 in ample supply. Easter lilies are sell- 

 ing well; good flowers bring $1.50 per 

 dozen; poor ones go slowly. The volume 

 has changed little during the last six 

 weeks. Some shipping orders and a few 

 local orders consume most of the good 

 stock, while funeral work takes much 

 of the lower grade blooms. The re^ 

 mainder realizes little or nothing. 

 Gladioli and short roses are plentiful. 

 There are a fiew good sweet peas and 

 some new crop carnations. Business is 

 full}' up to previous years at this sea- 

 son. 



The Visit to Boelofs. 



Joseph Heacock invited some of his 

 friends to go U]> with him to Roelofs 

 Station, near Trenton, on Thursday, 

 August 3, to see the new plant that 

 his company has established there. The 

 party gathered at Jenkintown early in 

 the afternoon and took a local train 

 through the steadily developing coun- 

 try lying between Jenkintown and 

 Roelofs. Mr. Heacock 's guests were D. 

 T. Connor, Robert Craig, George Craig, 

 Fred Hahman, Thomas W. Logan, David 

 Bust, G. C. Watson and .Tohn Westcott. 



A level, splendidly made road lies 

 between Roelofs Station and the plant 

 of the Joseph Heacock Co., situated on 

 an 85-acre farm about three-quarters 

 of a mile from the railroad. Robert 

 .Jamison, manager of the place, joined 

 the party there, aiding Mr. Heacock in 

 explaining the many interesting ar- 

 rangements. 



The greenhouse water and heating 

 system is probably twenty years ahead 

 of the times. It contains the most ad- 

 vanced ideas that have been proved 

 practically sound. The deep-well arte- 

 sian pump is so arranged that it starts 

 mechanically the moment a water spig- 

 ot is opened anywhere on the place; 

 this is made possible by the main- 

 tenance of thirty pounds of pressure 



The Way to Succeed 



This is the month when you are making your plans 

 for the opening of the season. You did well last 

 season. You want to do better next season: or, it 

 may be that things did not quite come up to your 

 expectations. You want to improve them. In 

 either case you want to talk over matters with 

 someone who is interested in the business. We will 

 be glad to see you at any time you are in the neigh- 

 borhood; it will be a pleasure to meet you, and 

 might be of benefit to us both. 



BERGER BROS. 



Wholesale Florists 



1305 nibeii Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Mention The Review when vou write. 



on the steam boiler that runs this pump 

 and the suction pump which brings con- 

 densation from the steam heating pipes 

 in the house back to the boilers. 



The steam heating plans, with the dif- 

 ferent sizes of pipes, the grades and 

 the distribution, are the result of years 

 of experience multiplied by common 

 sense. The air-well that carries off dust 

 from the machinery is one of the care- 

 fully planned and executed details that 

 add to the smoothness with which the 

 plant is run. 



The immense house, 55x600, with its 

 top and side ventilation, its lofty roof 

 and concrete beds, gives an idea of sta- 

 bility suggestive of enduring prosperity. 

 From this house have been sent to 

 Philadelphia, during the season just 

 ending, Killarney, White Killarney and 

 Richmond blooms that have been equal 



— nay, often better than the finest flow- 

 ers in the market. The house is laid 

 out in nine beds, divided in the middle 

 by a broad walk. Three of these beds 

 have been cut back for their entire 

 length; they are now starting nicely. 

 The next three appear ready for cut- 

 ting back, while the remaining three 

 have apparently had little drying yet. 

 Flowers are still being cut that grade 

 well. 



The farm is in excellent order. Cows, 

 pigs and poultry are thriving; orchard, 

 grain and potatoes promise an abun- 

 dant harvest, Avhile grazing fields and 

 woodland lend variety to the landscape. 



The thoroughness with which every- 

 thing has been done may be best under- 

 stood by mentioning the fact that all 

 the water from the north side of the 

 greenhouse, from the blow-off of the 



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