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The Weekly Florists' Review 



July 14, 1910. 



FOR WATER LILIES 



Water Lilies are popular flowera now, they are bo pretty and cool looking. The floral artist 

 is particular about the way he arranges his Water Lilies. Have you tried them in our 



IMPERIAL CHINA WARE VASES? 



You can make a telling eflEect with them in this way in your window or on the dinner table. Get a 

 set of our imperiai Cilinaware; there are seventeen pieces in it, and you can arrange them ai 

 you like, using all or part of the set to make your design. Try it. A little enterprise in this direction 



will pay you well. ^. __ ,, m 



Summer Specialties: Cycas Leaves, Wheat Sheaves, Magnolia Leaves 



(green and bronze), French Flowers, for perishable decorations. 



Everything in Florists' Supplies. Send for our Illustrated Catalogue. 



H. Bayersdorfer & Co. 



1129 Arch Street 

 Philadelphia,Pa. 



p».;i^ heads, the color being a charming 

 shaue of violet blue, a shade of color 

 which ladies are particularly partial to. 

 The flowers last finely in water and 

 their light, airy appearance attracts in- 

 stant attention. 



This plant is worthy the attention of 

 private gardeners, both as a pot and 

 border plant, while it should have some 

 commercial possibilities also. In Great 

 Britain it is popular, both as a green- 

 house and border plant, and when bet- 

 ter known it will be largely grown 

 here. The plant belongs to the natural 

 order campanulacese. C. 



NEW YOEK. 



The Market. 



The hot wave continues. ' ' There is no 

 business," is the universal greeting to 



one's "How's " They do not give 



one time to ask the question. "Bad as 

 every summer is, ' ' the oldest wholesaler 

 says, "this season overtops them all." 

 The hot weather does not seem to in- 

 terfere with the quantity of shipments. 

 The market simply cannot digest them. 

 It would seem wise for the growers to 

 hold and destroy everything that is not 

 perfect. Such a course would be far 

 better for them and for the business 

 generally — in fact, several wholesalers 

 have given these instructions to their 

 shippers, for in many cases the cost of 

 expressage is not realized. Day after 

 day last week a big Brooklyn buyer 

 carted away 5,000 carnations from the 

 shipments of a grower of national 

 reputation and paid only $10 for them. 

 It would be money in the pockets of 

 grower, wholesaler and retailer if every 

 flower store would close during July 

 and August. 



Apart from funeral work there is ab- 

 solutely nothing doing. It is next to 

 impossible to quote prices. Buyers find 

 no reasonable or unreasonable offer 

 ignored. Hundreds of dollars' worth 

 are destroyed daily, because no possi- 

 ble market can be made for the ar- 

 rivals. Even the best stock deteriorates 

 rapidly in the intense heat and only the 

 select brings any price at all. 



Beauties sell at from 15 cents down 



IfeatioD Tbe Review when you write 



BERGER BROTHERS 



WHOLESALE FLOKISTS 



1305 rilbert Street, 



Philadelphia* Pa« 



For Mid-summer Orders 



GIG4NTEUM LILIES, M4RYUNP ROSES, 

 KAISERIN ROSES, CHOICE SWEET PEAS 



and everything seasonable in cut flowers. 



Drop in at the most centrally located wholeaale commiasion 



house in Philadelphia. 





Mention The Review when you write. 



and few roses, even Kaiserin and Kil-' 

 larney, go above 3 cents, while vast 

 quantities of both roses and carnations 

 sell at 25 cents per hundred. Valley 

 seems to be the only scarcity. It 

 brought early in the week as high as 

 $3 per hundred for the best. This is 

 sweet pea week, and we will see the 

 finest of them at the convention. There 

 is no price for inferior stock, and the 

 street is the only outlet. 



The Week's Outings. 



Members of the New York and New 

 Jersey Association of Plant Growers, 

 their wives, daughters and sweethearts 

 to the number of seventy-five, includ- 

 ing the guests, journeyed on the early 

 train Thursday, July 7, to Lake Hopat- 

 cong, one of the prettiest sheets of 

 water in the state. On arrival there 

 at 10 a. m. the boat in waiting carried 



the company to the popular inn, where 

 after a sumptuous breakfast the ladies 

 enjoyed a two hours' sail around the 

 charming lake, while swimming, boat- 

 ing and bowling kept the sterner sex 

 interested. Then the privileges were 

 reversed and the ladies' bowling con- 

 tests for handsome prizes began. Mr. 

 Nash, of Bronx park, and wife, who are 

 camping on the shores of the lake, 

 were welcome visitors during the after- 

 noon. The weather was perfect. The 

 contests were keenly enjoyed and the 

 prizes well worth the winning. Mr. 

 and Mrs. Herman Scholzel celebrated 

 with the company their fourteenth wed 

 ^ng anniversary, and Mr. and Mrs 

 Wittman their twenty-fifth anniversary 

 which occurred only a few days before 

 The Schultheis brothers gave an exhibi- 

 tion of fancy swimming fuUy clothed, 

 that was easily the popular hit of the 



