52 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



AcoDST 18, 1910. 



Niessen's 



News Column 



Of Special Value in Cut Flow- 

 ers for this week, we can recom- 

 mend to you: 



BESUTIES 



good flowers and fine color. 

 $1.00 to $3.00 per doz. 



KAISERINS 



in quantity, of all sizes. 

 $3.00 to $8.00 per 100. 



BRIDES, MARYLAND 

 AND KILLARNEY 



$2.00 to $6.00 per 100. 



ASTERS 



Fancv $2.00 per 100 



Firsts 1.50 " " 



Good medium.. 1.00 " " 

 Asters, suitable for design 

 work, in all colors, $7.50 per 1,000. 



VALLEY 



$3.00 and $4.00 per 100. 

 Always a large stock on hand 

 of a quality as good as you find 

 it in this market. 



GLADIOLUS 



Light colors, fancy varieties. 

 $3.00 to $5.00 per 100. 



Field-grown Car- 

 nation^ Plants 



PINK. 



100 1,000 



■\Vinsor $7.00 $60.00 



E. P. Enchantress. . . 7.00 60.00 



Enchantress 7.00 60.00 



Lawson 7.00 60.00 



Winona 7.00 



Joost 5.00 



WHITE. 



Perfection 7.00 60.00 



Bountiful 6.00 



Boston Market 6.00 50.00 



Queen 6.00 55.00 



Queen Louise 6.00 50.00 



RED. 



Bassett 7.00 60.00 



Beacon 7.00 60.00 



H. Fenn 6.00 



All the plants we are ofifering 

 are grown in this section. Each 

 lot, before we list them, is care- 

 fully inspected to insure that the 

 plants are in a good, healthy con- 

 dition. 



TheLeoNiesseoCo. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



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



Fancy Asters 



Ostrich Plume, Sample's Branching. The two finest varieties in the 

 market. We have thein in quantity. Ostrich Plume in white and pink; 

 Seniple's Branching in all colors; ntock that you can use anywhere, for'$2.00 

 to $3.00 per 100. For design work and cheajHT orders we have ordinary grades 

 of Asters at $1.00 and $1.50 per 100. 



EASTER LILIES. Fine well hardened flowers, two and three to a stem, 

 with clean foliage. $1.50 per dozen; $8.00 per 100; $70.00 per 1000. 



VALLEY. Well grown stock, $:].00 to $4.00 jx'r 100. 



ROSES. Kaiser in, the best white summer rost\ My Maryland, the 



l)est pink rose. $5.00 to $0.00 per 100. 



AMERICAN BEAUTIES. Eastern grown stock, cannot l)e equaled by 

 anything in the market, 75c to $.'5.00 ixT dozen. 



Our best service is at your connnand. 



W. E. McKISSICK & BROS. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



1619-21 Ranstead St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Me'^tion The Review when you write. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



The tone of the cut flower market 

 improves with the improvement in 

 the principal flower, the aster. The 

 number of really fine asters is increas- 

 ing and the flood of poor asters is dis- 

 appearing. Ostrich Plume, Vick's 

 Branching, Vipk's Upright and Sem- 

 ple's are all good, the first two espe- 

 cially so. The price on the best has 

 advanced. They are well worth the 

 added figure, selling more readily than 

 the ordinary grade. There is a differ- 

 ence in the demand for the different 

 colors as compared with two weeks ago, 

 for the rose-pink was at a premium 

 and now it is not in demand. Pink 

 and pale pink are preferred. White 

 and good purple sell best in proportion 

 to the receipts, which are much greater, 

 of course, in white than in purple. 

 Ostrich Plume shows a new shade — a 

 most delicate lavender, which appears 

 white in poor light. 



Eoses come next in importance to 

 asters. Kaiserin, Maryland, Bride and 

 Killarney are all in fair supply, the 

 preponderance strongly in favor of the 

 lower grades. Beauties are good and 

 sell fairly, but of course their number 

 is small. Gladioli are on the back 

 track now. Easter lilies continue ex- 

 cellent; the supply suffices, but is 

 smaller. Valley conditions fluctuate 

 frequently; at times there is not 

 enough. Cattleyas are so scarce that 

 small orders are halved most reluctantly 

 after every effort has been made to get 

 enough. Sweet peas are shorter in sup- 

 ply. Cosmos is improving. Hydrangeas 

 are fine. 



Fhiladelphians in Bochester. 



Philadelphia was well represented in 

 Rochester this week. The main body 

 left the Reading terminal in a special 

 car attached to the 10 a. m. train (not 

 10:30, as incorrectly given out), Mon- 

 day, August 15. Some went earlier 

 and a few later. 



Second and Bristol Streets. 



The property and greenhouses at 

 Second and Bristol streets, now owned 

 and operated by W. & H. F. Evans, 

 whose main place is at Rowlandville, 

 have been purchased by Edward and 

 Howard Aschmann, who will take pos- 

 session as soon as some flower crops 

 have been harvested. They will devote 

 the place to the growing of plants and 

 cut flowers. The place has had a check- 

 ered existence, passing through several 

 hands. The feeling on the street was 

 expressed by one of our leading busi- 

 ness men, who thought these young 

 men would make it a success, as they 

 are accustomed to battling with ad- 

 verse conditions and overcoming them. 



A Convention Souvenir. 



A pretty souvenir that was given out 

 in Rochester was a china piece consist- 

 ing of a chanticleer standing by a bas- 

 ket ornamented with forget-me-nots 

 underneath the giver's name and ad- 

 dress. Mr. Bayersdorfer timed these 

 souvenirs so well that they were re- 

 ceived and dispatched to their destina- 

 tion in the convention hall almost at 

 the minute needed. 



Various Notes. 



Godfrey Aschmann sailed for Europe, 

 August 13, to look over the Belgian 

 .azaleas and other stock. John Asch- 

 mann is in charge during his father's 

 absence. 



J. N. King, of Norristown, considers 

 Bridesmaid the best pink rose today. 

 He uses this variety in quantity. Mr. 

 Ring's retail business was established 

 by his father in Norristown about the 

 middle of the last century. 



William Rehder, of Wilmington, 

 N. C, spent a short time in this city 

 on his way through New England. He 

 will travel by motor. 



Peter Flanagan, for many years as- 

 sistant foreman at Horticultural hall, 

 in Fairmount Park, is visiting hia son 

 in Rochester, N. Y. 



Lancaster county is sending some fine 

 asters to this market. 



