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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Septembeb 9, 1909. 



Niessen's 



News Column 



The best, $3.00 per doz., $20.00 

 per lOO. 



Plenty of medium sizes at $1.00, 

 $1.50 and $2.00 per doz. 



Dahlias 



$2.00 to $3.00 per 100. 



All the best varieties in season. 



We are booking orders now for 

 regular shipments direct from the 

 grower. Our dahlias are carefully 

 selected and well packed. 



Try a sample shipment. 



Wild Smilax 



$6.00 per case. 



We now carry a small stock of 

 it on hand and can ship a few 

 cases on receipt of order. You 

 will find our southern smilax of 

 better quality than the stock usu- 

 ally offered. 



Asters 



The choicest stock in the mar- 

 ket at $1.50 to $2.00 per 100. 



Also a good grade at $1.00 per 

 lOO. 



We have not handled a better 

 grade of asters nor larger quanti- 

 ties of them than this season. 



Carnations 



$1.50 and $2.00 per 100. 



The quality is improving; flow- 

 ers fair, but stems somewhat short. 



Field-grown 



Carnation Plants 



List and Prices on request 



TheUoNiesseoCo. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



OPEN FROM 7:00 A. M. TO 6:00 P. M. 



FALL FLOWERS 



nAHl lAQ T^^^ showiest flower for decorative purposes can 

 ^ now be had in crimson, scarlet, orange, yellow, 

 white and variegated, and in many shades of these colors, in a 

 variety of beautiful forms. Our specialist promises a fine crop of 

 Dahlias from now until frost and we can supply them in quantity 

 of any color desired at moderate prices. 



COSMOS ^^^^^ flowers, long stems, pink, white and red, 

 WwlWIWfP ^gj.y decorative. 



AQTFDQ will be an important fall flower for a week or so 

 ^ fcHw yg^^ splendid stock, purple, white, pink, most 

 attractive to all flower lovers. 



WILD SMILAX for the decorator. 



W. E. McKISSICK & BROS. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



1619-21 Ranstead St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



'Die cut flower market, wliile quiet, 

 shows signs of improvement. There was 

 a little flurry iu Beauty roses Saturday, 

 September 4. which was felt Monday, de- 

 spite the holiday, the retailers who had 

 experienced the demand buying for stock. 

 The better grade.s Avere most popular, in- 

 dicating tliat the best flower buyers are 

 returning home. There was some ship- 

 ping, in which cattleyas and valley shared 

 in favor with Beauties. 



The aster season appears to be past its 

 height, to judge from the relative propor- 

 tions of fancy and low grade flowers. 

 One large shipper of asters to this market 

 has not yet commenced cutting, but 

 nearly everyone else 's best flowers have 

 been sliipped. Dahlias are just coming 

 into their glory. Indications point to a 

 .splendid crop of fancy flowers with the 

 aid of some rain soon. The dahlia van- 

 guard is here. They have not reached 

 their proper position and are selling 

 cheaply. Cosmos is good, but, like dah- 

 lias, cosmos is hardly in season before 

 the middle of September. Cattleyas con- 

 tinue scarce and high, with the promise 

 of increased supplies wlien labiata comes 

 into bloom. 



Carnations arc improving. The stand- 

 ard varieties can generally be obtained 

 with nice flowers and reasonably long 

 stems. The demand for these continues 

 light, while asters are so fine. 



The rose list has been strengthened by 

 White Killarney. For some time this 

 lose has been a disappointment, the color 

 in warm weather having an imwashed ap- 

 ])earance most unattractive to behold. The 

 cool nights, combined with skillful han- 

 dling, have overcome this defect, some 

 nice flowers now being seen. Richmond, 

 too, is improving as the season advances. 

 Neither of these roses can yet be had in 

 quantity equal to Maryland, Kaiserin, 

 Killarney, Bride or Maid. 



The supply of gladiolus is decreasing. 

 Choice stock is at times difiicult to ob- 

 tain. Easter lilies are apparently off 

 crop. There is a good assortment of out- 

 door flowers. Greens are quiet. 



Qub Meeting. 



At the monthly meeting of the Flo- 

 rists' Club, held September 7, John Weat- 

 cott and Leo Niessen spoke on the Cin- 

 cinnati convention. Nominations for oflB- 

 cers for the ensuing year were as follows : 

 President, Joseph Heaeock; vice-presi- 

 dent, Alfred Burton ; treasurer, George 

 Craig; secretary, David Eust. 



A Rose Garden. 



Nobody who pretends to know anything 

 about matters floricultural would advise 

 you to go down to Riverton to see roses; 

 they would send you there to see palms 

 and ferns, hardy perennials and aquatics, 

 unless, indeed, it be in the spring when 

 the roses are just bursting into leaf to 

 be shipped away to all parts of the coun- 

 try before the flower buds show. Yet. 

 curiously enough, the first thing that 

 George A. Strohlein said to a visitor the 

 other day was: "Shall we take a look 

 at the rose garden?" His smile said 

 more clearly than words : " I have a treat 

 for you. ' ' It was a treat. There were 

 268 varieties of roses planted out in 

 rows, three or four of each variety to a 

 row. It was the last week in August, 

 yet they were nearly all in full bloom, 

 bearing silent testimony to the popularity 

 of the hybrid tea class over all others. 

 It was a beautiful sight. There were all. 

 at least so many that it seemed to be all. 

 of the older varieties and many of the 

 new ones side by side, giving most valua 

 ble opportunities for comparison under 

 similar conditions. Think of seeing Mme. 

 Jules Grolez, Mme. Caroline Testout and 

 Killarney together. 



The gem of the collection was the Lyon 

 rose, introduced by Pernet-Ducher in 

 190S, a cro.ss between Mme. Meldine Sou- 

 pert and an unnamed seedling of Soleil 

 d'Or, awarded a gold medal at Paris in 

 1907. This I gleaned from Mr. Stroh- 

 lein, with many another bit of interesting 

 information about the roses, their an- 

 cestry, their quality and their habits. The 

 Lyon rose — I remember well reading the 

 description when- the medal was awarded. 

 100 points (an unheard-of number), and 

 after thought I decided, as we all do in 

 a self-opinionated way, that such a med- 



