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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



OCTUBER 7, 1901) 



Niessen's 



News Column 



Cattleyas 



$ 6.00 per doz. 



40.00 per 100 



During the month of October we 

 will have an excellent supply of 

 Cattleyae. We can furnieh you a 

 quantity of them at ebort notice. 

 The flowers are very choice. 



Chrysanthemoms 



$1.60 and $3.00 per dox. 



We can now offer them to you 

 in quantity, in pink, white and yel- 

 low. We have always been head- 

 quarters for Chrysanthemums, 

 and while in season you will al- 

 ways find here the choicest blooms 

 in the market. If you want a 

 large quantity of any one particu- 

 lar variety or color, we can supply 

 them, and would be glad to send 

 you special quotations. 



Dahlias 



$8.00 to $4.00 per 100 



The demand for our Dahlias 



has been unusually good, no 

 doubt due to the excellent quality 

 of our stock. The quality of our 

 Dahlias this season is better than 

 we have ever had to offer. 



Please take Notice that we 

 are now open from 



7 a. in. to 8 p. in. 



A competent force will be in 

 charge after six o'clock in the 

 eveningtotakecare of your orders. 



ISOOKaiseriflPlants 



At $8.00 per 100 



$100.00 for the lot 



These are young plants that 

 have been growing outdoors 

 all summer, and are in splendid 

 condition. 



TheLeo Niessen Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



The Coming-out Teas 



Require the best flowers, somethinsf choice and pretty, carefully 

 selected and packed. We recommend 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS, pink and white. 

 ROSE BUDS, soft pink (Maryiand), and Bride for white. 

 VIOLETS, the first of the season, singles, especially fine. 

 CARNATIONS, Enchantress, soft pink; Climax, bright 



pink, and several good varieties of white. 

 lilLY OF THE VALLEY. 

 GARDENIAS. 

 ORCHIDS. 



COSMOS, Lady Lenox, $L00 per 100. 

 Until frost we shall have DAHLIAS of superb quality, in 



all colors, with long stems. 

 AUTUMN FOLIAGE. 

 WILD SMILAX. 



W. E. McKISSICK & BROS. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



1619-21 Ranstead St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention The Rpview when you write. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rifing Eastern Market. 



The buoyant market ilescribed in this 

 column one week ago, a market that is 

 phenomenal for tliis season of the year, 

 continues. Prices have actually advanced 

 on dahlias and on carnations, the supply, 

 of choice stock being insufficient. Boses 

 are about equal to the demand, although 

 at limes more fancy stock could be used 

 and there is always an excess of the poor 

 grades, which cannot be fairly classed 

 as marketable. Orchids are stronger 

 than for many months past. Cattleyas 

 are more plentiful and lower in price. 

 Dendrobiums, phala^nopsis, oncidiunis, 

 vandas and cypripediums can be had in 

 moderate quantities. (Jardenias are im- 

 ])roving, the demand warranting firmer 

 ])ri(t's. Double violets liave made their 

 appearance, the scouts here and there, 

 while singles are more plentiful, some 

 of them of excellent quality for tlie sea- 

 son. T>ily of the valley is in good de- 

 mand. Kaster lilies are fine and selling 

 bettor tlian for a long time, at firmer 

 ])ri('es. Cosmos lias been reinforced by 

 T.ady Lenox of superb quality. Autumn 

 foliage, chiefly oak, is at its best. The 

 stajile greens, especially adiantum and 

 sniilax, go begging. 



Chrysanthemums are coming in better 

 form and in larger numbers. Golden 

 Glow has given way to Monrovia, while 

 October Frost is reinforced by Polly 

 Rose. Glory of Pacific is giving the 

 much-needed pink in quantity. Dozen 

 sales liave been succeeded by sales in 

 hundred lots. The best have moved up. 

 while the culls have of necessity moved 

 down, indicating a broader market in 

 nick of lime for the weddings and teas. 



Vellow daisies are obtainable. The 

 small outdoor flowers are becoming shab- 

 by and undesirable. Asters are prac- 

 ti'-ally over. Sweat peas, so fine through- 

 out August and September, are now be- 

 tween seasons, awaiting the arrival of 

 the first blooms of the indoor crop. 



A fair proportion of stem and foliage 

 is even more important in the fall than 

 at anv other season of the year, and is 



even less regarded, to judge by the quaii 

 titles of short-stemmed flowers thrown 

 on the market. 



The October Meeting. 



The annual meeting of the Florists' 

 Club was held in the club room of Horti 

 cultural hall. Broad street below Locust, 

 on the evening of October 5. The offi 

 cers elected for the coming year were: 

 Joseph Heacock, president; Alfred Bur 

 ton, vice-president; George Craig, treas 

 urer, and David Rust, secretary. 



Variotst Notes. 



Oak leaves and autumnal foliage ef 

 fects that will last are this week's novel 

 ties with H. Bayersdorfer & Co. 



Philip Breitmeyer, of Detroit, was her* 

 October 2. 



.T. Otto Thilow arrived home from 

 Furope October 3 and was "on deck.'' 

 as he naively expressed it, early on tin 

 following morning, full of enthusiasm 

 over the gardens of Versailles, Malnnii 

 son, and several others, to say nothin;: 

 of the delightful experiences in foreign 

 lands. 



F. J. Michell reports the exhibition nt 

 R. Vincent & Sons Co., at White Marsh, 

 Md., as exceedingly fine. Fifty acres <ii 

 dahlias and ten acres of cannas, all i-' 

 good condition, formed a nucleus for -.i" 

 exhibition that Mr. Michell thought woril 

 visiting three times. 



The Florex Gardens have complef* 

 their mammoth greenhouse at Nor' 

 Wales and on October 11 they expect l 

 commence planting this vast house wi' 

 tomatoes from 2i4-inch pots. It will I 

 remembered that early in the spring ' 

 was intended to build this house durin. 

 the winter. Later a change was mad> 

 completion by November 1 being the en' 

 The successful accomplishment of th; 

 undertaking is most creditable to all th' 

 members of the company. 



The announcement made in the Kevien^ 

 last week that W. Atlee Burpee & Co. ha^ 

 jmrchased a seed growing farm of fortv 

 acres at Lompoc, Cal., and that Edwin 

 Lonsdale was to take charge, has arouse'l 

 much interest in this citv. The wonder- 



