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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



July 28, lf)i i. 



Niessen's 



News Column 



Asters 



The supply has largely increased 

 ■■•and the quality correspondingly 

 improved. You Can depend on us 

 for most any quantity of them; 

 our quality is as good as any 

 coming to this market. We have 

 them in -white, purple, lavender 

 and pink. Good stock we can fur- 

 nish at $1.50 and $2.00 per hun- 

 dred, and for design work a sat- 

 isfactory grade as low as $1.00 

 per hundred. 



Sweet Peas 



Pink, white and lavender. 

 50 and 75 cents per 100. 



We receive daily shipments of 

 Peas from where conditions are 

 favorable for growing them. With 

 the small assortment of flowers 

 during the summer months, they 

 should prove very desirable for 



design work. 



Valley 



in any quantity. 

 $3.00 and $4.00 per 100. 



Caster Lilies 



$1.50 per dozen. 

 $10.00 per hundred. 



Beauties 



Local grown stock. 

 $1.00 to $3.00 per dozen. 



Cattleyas 



$6.00 to $7.50 per dozen. 



(Rose Plants 



IVOB"^ and GiOIJ)EN GATES. 



3-inch pots. 



$6.00 per 100; $50.00 per 1000. 



BEAUTIES. 



2Vi-inch pots, $7.00 per 100. 



*" One-Te»F-01d Plants 



Marvland, $8.00 per 100. 

 White Killamey, $18.00 per 100. 



TheLeoNiesseoCo. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



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



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Asters For August 



Xstors are the leading summer flowers; they are at their best 

 during August and they are one of our specialties. We can new 

 confidently offer Asters in all colors, white, pink, rose-pink, lavender 

 and purple, in quantity, feeling sure they will give you satiBfaction. 

 Price, $1.50 and $2.00 per ICO. 



Other Specialties 



Eastern American Beauties. Gladioli in fancy varieties. 



Kalserin Roses. White Carnations. 



Small White Flowers for deslgrn work. 



We excel in prompt shipments of first-class stock. 



W. E. McKISSICK & BROS. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



1619-21 Ranstead St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



FHIIiADELFHIA. 



The Bising Eastern Maxket. 



The feature of a quiet market is the 

 increase in the supply of asters; there 

 are three timealRB many asters coming 

 into town todaJTas there were a week 

 ago. They are^welcome, for with the 

 absence of carnations and the extreme 

 shortage of white roses the asters often 

 do duty for both. Queen of the Mar- 

 ket is the only variety arriving. A few 

 of the best have brought more than 

 listed quotations, but most of the 

 asters are only fair in quality, not the 

 kind of flowers that command advanced 

 prices. It seems that the dark shades 

 are in better form early than the pink 

 and white; at any rate, there are a 

 good many more lavender-purple than 

 any other shade and they average bet- 

 ter in quality. 



The other features of the market are 

 the continued scarcity of white roses 

 (it is promised Kaiserin will be more 

 plentiful soon) ; the continued supply 

 of gladioli, and the fine quality of the 

 Easter lilies, a quality so goiid during 

 this hot, dry weather as to command 

 a market wherever it is possible to use 

 large lilies. Sweet peas from down 

 east are exceptionally fine, the stems 

 slightly drought shortened. Water lilies 

 have been strengthened by the arrival 

 of lotuses. There is a good supply of 

 nice valley, while Beauties, Maryland 

 and Killarney of fair quality are 

 usually obtainable. 



The shipping demand is fair, limited 

 sometimes by the supply that is good 

 enough to ship. Greens are dull. 



The Annual Meeting at Dreer's. 



The annual meeting of the Henry A. 

 Dreer Co., Inc., was held at Riverton, 

 N. J., on the afternoon of July 16. The 

 present officers were reelected: Presi- 

 dent, William F. Dreer; vice-president, 

 Jacob D. Eisele; treasurer, Herbert G. 

 Tull; secretary, J. Otto Thilow. Per- 

 haps the most significant way of de- 

 scribing the company's condition is to 



tell of the auto trip that followed the 

 meeting, a trip taken to inspect the 

 new 124-acre farm, lying along the 

 tracks of the Pennsylvania railroad to 

 the east of the present large plant, 

 where it is proposed to build a modern 

 range of greenhouses, with packing 

 shed so conveniently arranged that the 

 railroad may discharge and receive sup- 

 plies directly, saving time and expense 

 in hauling. Is not this progress? 



A Letter From Mr. Stokes. 



Walter P. Stokes writes entertain- 

 ingly from Brussels. He describes 

 briefly a day or so spent in the islands 

 of Guernsey and Jersey, then tells of 

 his arrival in St. Malo, France, and liis 

 impressions of the town otf St. Michiiel. 

 built on a pile of rock rising from the 

 flat sand by the sea, the convnt 

 picturesquely situated on top. Fiom 

 St. Michael Mr. Williard and Mr, Stokes 

 went to Angers, a seed-growing district 

 in the west of France, where fortwe tv 

 miles around everybody grows seed, in 

 industry surprising in its magnit mIp 

 and perfection. Paris came next, wh re 

 the size and system of the house of 

 fVilmorin was of especial interest: jO 

 employees in this seed house, each dc ag 

 his work quietly and well without in- 

 terfering with anyone else. M 'f- 

 Henri Vilmorin, wife of the late h ;i<i 

 of the house, entertained the visitor; ^t 

 her home, while the pleasure of tl. ir 

 stay was further increased by ot -r 

 courtesies shown them by members nf 

 the firm. The present head of '^ 

 house was absent, being at the expf ■}■ 

 tion in Brussels. An incident in P; ns 

 was the "visitors' book," with r.y- 

 alties among the signatures. 



The D. & C. Co. 



Pubii* interest in the affairs of ♦'*' 

 Dingee & Conard Co. centers in the «' • 

 tirement of the veteran Charles Din^" ^ 

 from the business that he founded many 

 years ago. While Mr. Dingee has takt"" 

 little active part in the company ? 

 affairs of late years, he has retained Ii'^ 

 stock until now and has been suppost^'l 



