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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



AuausT 17, 1911. 



THE LEO NIESSEN CO. 



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GLADIOLI 



Fine commercial varieties, red, white and 

 pink. Can furnish a quantity of one color 

 at short notice. $3.00 to $5.00 per 100. 



ASTERS 



The best, - - - per 100, $2.00 

 Good stock, - per 100, $1.00 to 1.50 



RpAIITIFCk Good Quality Kastem Stock, 



■'■-**«J ■ ""-^ aUSlzes.doz $1.00@$3.00 



Sweet Peas, 

 Valley, 



- per 100, $0.75 

 per 100, $3.00 to 4.00 



FIELD-GROWN 

 CARNATION PLANTS 



EncliantreaB 



R. Pk. Knohantreaa 



White Knoliaatresa 



Dorothy Gordon 



Th. LA^son 



Victory 



Victoria 



Winona 



Beacon 



Queen 



Winaor 



Boaton Market 



Perfection 



Lady Bountiful 



The plants we are ofifering 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 N lessen Co. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



1209 Arch Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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



$2 to $3. Mrs. Taft is quoted at $3, 

 $4 and $5. 



The Unbreakable Flower Vase Co., 

 of Washington, is making an exhibit 

 at Baltimore. This company has an 

 article which seems to be accepted by 

 the trade as a long-felt want. D. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Bisiug Eastern Market. 



Business is flatter than at any time 

 this summer. While the supply of good 

 flowers is light, there is not enough 

 demand to take them every day. Some 

 days they go; some days they go not. 

 The poor flowers are more numerous 

 and more difficult to market. The as- 

 ter crop has been damaged by rain and 

 sun. Pew good asters are arriving. 

 Some fine branching ones brought $5 

 per hundred — an extraordinary price. 

 Mrs. Francis King, the finest gladiolus 

 today, has brought $8 per hundred. The 

 ordinary garden sorts of asters and 

 gladioli can be had at low prices. Cat- 

 tleyas are almost out of the market. 

 A hail storm in the sweet pea district 

 cut off the supply August 10, 11 and 

 12. The supply gradually increased on 

 the following days. Eastern Beauties 

 are the best roses. Easter lilies are 

 the best value in white decorative 

 flowers. A few dahlias have come. 



Norwood. 



It is probable that Robert Craig has 

 more friends among the florists than 

 almost any other man in Philadelphia. 

 I do not mean by this merely more 

 acquaintances or business friends, but 

 more real friends — friends who would 

 go to any length for him. The reason 

 is plain; the kindnesses that Robert 

 Craig has shown to those who needed 

 his help are legion — kindnesses that 

 no one but he could have rendered, 

 because of his large knowledge of mat- 

 ters floricultural and his broad view. 

 For this reason there will be widespread 

 interest in just what he and his sons 

 arc doing at Norwood, their new place 

 in Delaware county. It is generally 

 known that the march of building im- 

 provements will soon reach Forty-ninth 

 and Market streets, so that Norwood 

 is destined to become the future home 



AFTER THE CONVENTION 



You will come to Philadelphia. Then 

 drop in at 1305 Filbert Street, where 

 you will receive a cordial welcome. It 

 will give us pleasure to show you any 

 courtesy in our power.- j» j* j» 



BERGER BROS. 



Wholesale Florists 



1305 nibeH Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



The most centrally located Wholesale House in the cHy. 



Mention The Review when yoa write. 



of the Robert Craig Co.; until the 

 entire place is centered there, Norwood 

 is being used as a trial ground under 

 glass. Specialties are being grown in 

 a way they have never before been 

 grown in this country, probably in the 

 world. 



There are now five houses at Nor- 

 wood. Four of them, the original plant, 

 are 28x300 each; the fifth, finished last 

 March, is 21x300. To these will be 

 added, in a few weeks, four houses, 

 each 44x150. 



The features of Norwood today are 

 the crotons, the dracaenas and the ferns. 

 The crotons are- the most wonderful 

 sight of their kind I have ever seen. 

 There are said to be 30,000 of them, 

 highly colored, in large and medium 

 sizes. They cover a variety in form, 

 shape and color that must suggest un- 

 known possibilities to the floral artists. 



Some fifteen of the standard varieties 

 are grown in quantity, so that 500 or 

 more of each of these named varieties 

 forms a stock not easily exhausted. 

 Then there are the seedlings, the result 

 of an accidental check to some stock 

 plants at Norwood, when the heat was 

 late the first fall, an accident of which 

 William P. Craig promptly took advan- 

 tage; the little camel 's-hair fertilizing 

 brush went from flower to flower, and 

 today there are those thousand and one 

 seedlings, so delightful to the heart of 

 every true lover of crotons. It is ab- 

 sorbingly interesting to note their dif- 

 ferences, their habits, their characteris- 

 tics, to argue over their strong and 

 weak points and to select the most 

 beautiful, only to change once or twice 

 before making that selection final. 



Turning reluctantly from the seed- 

 lings back to the standard varieties. 



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