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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



September 9, 1909. 



THE Florists* Supply House of America 



Fancy Baskets 



Yon will want the latest styles for displaying fall flowers to 

 advantage; big, long handled, oval baskets for dahlias and early 

 chrysanthemums. Square Hampers for ferns and foliage 



plants, little round baskets for small flowers, everything that will tempt flower lovers to step from the street 



into your shop. 



Ferneries 



We have a splendid assortment " au naturelle," which in good plain English is 

 the French way of saying "we imitate nature," or, in other words, that we give 

 you bark and twig ferneries in many shapes and sizes, ferneries that make the 

 green fronds look as if they were growing from the real stump or branch. 



1^1 w ^^M^m ^^ ^m^ ^® h&ye so many of them this year, really good novelties that we want you to come 



l^y ■■Af VtI 1 1 VT^tt ^^^ ''^B' ^^ i^ yo^ can't do that watch for our card, where they will be described 

 * ^^^ * ^i^«»«X^<i^ from time to time. 



SEND FOR OUR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF EVERTTHING IN FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO., 



1129 Arch Street, 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



his Waban stock. His flowers at the store 

 of the Leo Niessen Co. were excellent. 



A representative of P. J. Berckmans 

 Co., Augusta, Ga., was here some days 

 ago looking over the foliage plants. 



Robert A. Craig says September and 

 October are the two best growing months 

 for nephrolepis. Mr. and Mrs. Craig are 

 enjoying a week's vacation. 



The new tariflp has materially increased 

 the duties on florists ' supplies. 



The Henry F. Michell Co. is about to 

 begin work on its seed testing green- 

 house, to be erected at Torresdale. Fred- 

 erick J. Michell is enjoying a short res- 

 pite from his hard work. 



William J. Baker paid his long prom- 

 ised visit to Thornhedge, September 2. 

 Henry Bauer and Frank Gaul were his 

 escorts. 



John W. Mclntyre returned from the 

 south September 4. He speaks favorably 

 of the national capital as a floral center, 

 with Gude Bros. Co. in the usual role of 

 both leading growers and leading re- 

 tailers. 



Smith, Lineaweaver & Co. report awak- 

 ening activity in both anthracite and bi- 

 tuminous coal. 



B. Eschner says the orders are heavier 

 than ever before, compelling overtime to 

 keep up. 



James C. Clark says that popular favor 

 is centering on Nephrolepis Scottii, with 

 N. Whitmani as leader among the crested 

 sorts. The new claimant, N. Seholzeli, is 

 coming forward rapidly. 



Paul J. Klingsporn, who returned from 

 Florida some time ago, has been seen 

 once more in the wholesale centers. His 

 time has been devoted to moving pictures 

 rather than to moving flowers. 



Ralph G. Shrigley is no longer with the 

 Leo Xiessen Co. Phil. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market 



September ha.s brought as fine a sam- 

 ple of seasonable fall weather as could 

 have been made to order. Its good effect 

 is seen in the improving quality of the 

 stock now reaching the wholesale market 

 and in the perfection of the late asters 

 and gladioli, both of which are at their 

 best after the needed rains. 



In the wholesale cut flower market the 



Headquarters for 



Mushroom Spawn 



Our mushroom spawn is used b7 the leading growers throughout this country 

 on account of Its superior quality. 



MICHELL'S ENGLISH SPAWN 



Fresh from the most celebrated maker in England. 



Per brick $0.16 



Per brick, postpaid 26 



Per dozen bricks 1.40 



25 lbs $ l."5 



100 lbs 650 



1000 lbs 60.00 



250 pounds at 1000 pound rate. 



LAMBERT'S PURE CULTURE SPAWN 



Produces larger mushrooms than the English; bearing earlier, and for a 

 longer time. 



STANDARD BRICKS 



Per brick, about l^s lbs $0 20 



Per brick, postpaid 30 



5 bricks 90 



12 bricks 1.80 



25 bricks $ 3.50 



60 bricks 6.50 



100 bricks 12.60 



1000 bricks 115.00 



ALSO ANGLO-AMERICAN MUSHROOM SPAWN 



Write for our Latest Wholesale Catalosrue of Bulbs 



Henry F. Michell Co. 



Iterket St. above 10th St. 

 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention The Kevlew when you write 



most encouraging sign of awakening is 

 the general repairing, repainting and 

 activity that betokens faith in the coming 

 season and assurance of an aggressive 

 campaign. It will be the liveliest ever 

 known in this lively center. The retail 

 department of the business is also about 

 ready for the revival. New stores are 

 opening rapidly and the old ones are 

 being redecorated and made ready for 

 the promised prosperity which now seems 

 assured. With the openings of theaters 

 and schools, and the Hudson celebration, 

 which will bring hundreds of thousands 

 of visitors to New York and cause num- 

 berless dinners and other social events, 

 the outlook for the immediate future is 

 bright. 



The best Beauties and, in fact, the 

 selected roses of every kind, already feel 

 the influence of the times and are in im- 

 proved demand. There is a great abun- 

 dance of mediocre stock arriving, short- 



stemmed roses and carnations and com- 

 mon asters and gladioli, that no price 

 can be accurately quoted for. and that is 

 sold in bulk to street men or jobbers, and 

 by the wagon-load, at any figure the auto- 

 crats of the department stores may see 

 fit to offer, a demoralizing state of af- 

 fairs that seems to have no remedy while 

 the law of supply and demand continues. 



Fortunately, there is the promise of a 

 great business this fall and winter, and 

 the flooding of the market will see its 

 finish as soon as the chrysanthemums are 

 gone. The first arrivals of tliese, the 

 Golden Glow, may already l)e seen in 

 the windows of the up-to-date retailers, 

 and selected stock last week touched at 

 times $2 per dozen. It will be some 

 weeks before the market will feel seri- 

 ously the inflow of the autumn queen. 



Dahlias are here again in larger vol- 

 ume, and will soon be reckoned with as a 

 serious factor in an overstocked market, 



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