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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Jdlt 21, 1010. 



Niessen's 



News Column 



Beauties 



We are now getting local-groMm 

 Beauties, from plants specially 

 grown for summer blooming. The 

 quality is as good as can be had. 

 We have them in all lengths, and 

 in prices from $r.00 to $3.00 per 

 dozen. Here is something that 

 will give satisfaction, and Beau- 

 ties will carry about as well as 

 anything you can get at this sea- 

 son of the year. 



Asters 



The supply is increasing and 

 quality improving. From now we 

 will have them in most any quan- 

 tity, and you will find with ua 

 some of the choicest stock coming 

 to this market. 



$1,50 and $2.00 per 100. 



Sweet Peas 



They are really never out of 

 season with us. We will have 

 them all through the summer, out- 

 door grown stock. These Peas are 

 grown in a cool climate and will 

 keep and stand shipping very 

 nicely. 



50 cents to 75 cents per 100. 



Easter Lilies 



Local-grown, fine flowers 

 long stems. 



and 



)ng stems. 

 $1.50 per dozen., 

 $10.00 per 100. 



Valley 



The usual fine quality. 

 $3.00 and $4.00 per 100. 



Bronze Galax 



We have never had them better. 

 $1.00 per 1,000. 

 $7.50 per case. 



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Rose Plants 



IVORY AND GOLDEN GATES. 



3-inch pots. 



$6.00 per 100 — $50.00 per 1,000. 



BEAUTIES. 



2% -inch pots, $7.00 per 100. 



One- Year- Old Plants 



Maryland, $8.00 per 100. 

 White Killarney, $18.00 per 100. 



TheleoNiesseoCo. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



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



The Finest Asters 



Our house has a reputation for both quality and 

 quantity. We expect to be stronger than ever this season 

 on popular summer flowers. Of course, the finest flowers 

 are not the earliest, but our Asters today are as fine as 

 anything in the market and very much finer than any 

 carnations. We offer them to you in all colors : White, 

 lavender, pink, purple, at $1.60 and $2.00 per 100. We 

 feel confident that they will give you ajUtisf action and ask 

 the favor of a trial order. 



W. E. McKISSICK & BROS. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



1619-21 Ranstead St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Me'^tion The Review when you write. 



FHIIxADELFHIA. 



The Bising Eastern Market. 



The blissfully cool wave revived the 

 drooping spirits of the market and those 

 dependent on it during part of the week 

 ending Wednesday, July 20. Practically 

 all of last season's flowers have disap- 

 peared, and the market is the better 

 for it. The receipts of flowers each 

 day are smallest now. The demand, 

 such as it is, is about equally divided 

 between the quality and quantity for 

 design work. The quality buyer often 

 finds it hard to procure what is desired, 

 especially when white roses are needed. 

 Kaiserin is decidedly the best, and 

 Kaiserin is scarce — very scarce. Pink 

 roses are in excess of the demand, while 

 Beauties lack in feature beyond the ar- 

 rival of the first new crop locally grown 

 blooms. Good carnations are hard to 

 procure. Only a grower here and there 

 was skilful enough to carry his stock 

 in creditable shape through the recent 

 roast. There is a little good valley and 

 plenty that is not so good. Gladioli are 

 the strong feature of the market; the 

 assortment is good and grades high. 

 Asters are coming in more freely, but 

 not freely enough for the buyers, who 

 are buying in earnest where they can 

 get nice Queen of the Market. 



Local sweet peas are over, depend- 

 ence now being placed on the fine stock 

 from New York state. Candidum lilies 

 have disappeared, their place being 

 taken by Lilium album, with its scarlet 

 sister promised soon. The modest out- 

 door flowers for design work are in 

 moderate demand only. 



Another Branch. 



Rumor has been current for some 

 time that a leading Philadelphia whole- 

 sale house would shortly open a branch 

 in New York. This rumor — perhaps I 

 should say fact — first saw the light of 

 day in public print when the ever- 

 wakeful New York correspondent of 

 The Review wrote a little paragraph 

 darkly hinting at the plan, and saying 

 that Philadelphia is not slow. This is 



true. The Philadelphia correspondent 

 of The Review made diligent inquiry 

 in the City of Brotherly Love concern- 

 ing this matter. Conference with the 

 members of the house in question failed 

 to aflSrm or — significant fact^to deny 

 the rumor, so the inquiry was repeated 

 each week until this week, when Cap- 

 tain A. R. Jones, of the S. S. Pennock- 

 Meehan Co., smilingly remarked: "I 

 can tell you something today." 



The S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co., of 

 this city, has leased a store at 109 West 

 Twenty-eighth street. New York city. 

 This store will be run as a branch to 

 the establishment here. It will be 

 equipped in first-class style and will be 

 open for business, it is expected, late 

 in September. The New York branch 

 will be under the supervision of Percy 

 B. Rigby, treasurer of the company. 



This move of the Pennock-Meehan 

 Co. in establishing branches in Wash- 

 ington and in New York is a step for 

 ward in the marketing of cut flower- 

 and florists' requisites, making it th' 

 only wliolesale house in the countrj, 

 probably in the world, that has branche^^ 

 in three cities. 



Oo to Bochester. 



It will broaden your ideas. 



It will give the others a chance t i 

 meet a really nice fellow. 



It will please John Westcott, an" 

 Johfa Westcott has done such splendi ■ 

 work for "the boys" that you shoul ! 

 go to please him. 



It will cost you $7 for your railroal 

 ticket each way, going with the crowd- 



The Election of Mr. Pyle. 



As noted in The Review exclusively 

 last week, S. Morris .Jones has sold hi^ 

 entire block of stock in the Conard ^>^ 

 Jones Co., West Grove, Pa. His posi- 

 tion as treasurer of the company was 

 filled at the annual meeting recently by 

 Robert L. Pyle. Mr. Pyle is president 

 of the West Grove National Bank and 

 head of a successful chain of stores in 

 southern Chester couhty. Mr. Pyle '9 

 interest in floricultural finance has been 



