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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



NOVESMBEH 30, 1911. 



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ROSES 



Beauties, Richmoad, Pink aid White Killarieys 



You can depend on us in the above for quality and value. 

 Our daily receipts are very large and we have the goods to fill 

 your orders. You will find the best value in the higher grades. 



BOXWOOD, = = = per 50=lb. crate, $7.50 



Lycopodium, =, = = 50-lb. bags, 9c per lb. 



*^ Price of Lycopodium subject to ciiange. 



-ri, _ f ^rt Nitfkfi«P>n Ct% wholesale florists 



■ mm^^- ^B^-^^-^ Open from 7 ». m, to 8 p. m. 



tions. Especially fine there are En- 

 chantress, Beacon and White Perfec- 



^ Trustees elected at the annual meet- 

 ine of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society were Thomas Boland, C. S. 

 Sargent, H. F. HoU and Thomas Allan. 

 W W. Tailby, of Wellesley, has a 

 nice* lot of longiflorums and specio- 



sums. _, , , , 



Charles Rapp, of Melrose Highlands, 

 who was formerly gardener on a pri- 

 vate estate in Millbrook, N. Y., has a 

 nice crop of mums and carnations. 



Arthur Griffin, of Woburn, stands in 

 the front ranks among local camation- 

 ists. His Pink Delight, Beacon, En- 

 chantress and White Perfection are of 

 extra quality. 



The present fall has been a favor- 

 able one for local nurseries, the ground 

 being more moist than in some years. 

 Sales have been unusually heavy of 

 both evergreen and deciduous stock. 



W. N. Craig. 



FHILADEIiPHIA. 



The Bising Eastern Market. 



The last week in November has been 

 fair rather than first-class in the cut 

 flower market. The Army and Navy 

 football game, so important when the 

 market has been depleted by the heavy 

 Thanksgiving demand, proved unim- 

 portant by itself. The vast crowd 

 came; there was entertaining, but it 

 was insufficient to affect the market in 

 the face of a quiet Saturday. Yellow 

 chrysanthemums hardly felt the dif- 

 ference. Violets might have felt it 

 but for certain adroit moves in the 

 game by sellers and buyers. The last 

 three days of the current week, Mon- 

 day, Tuesday and Wednesday, saw a 

 healthier condition than the three pre- 

 ceding. There was a good out-of-town 

 demand, with values more evenly main- 

 tained. Chrysanthemums continued in 

 heavy supply at moderate prices, with a 

 strong probability that this condition 

 will continue for a week or ten days. 

 Beauties and choice carnations are 

 buoyant; the rest of the list shows little 

 change, except that the activity in gar- 



Mentlon The Bevltw whan you wrlt« 



Princeton 



The best new rose on the market; has large, glow- 

 ing pink flowers and luxuriant, glossy foliage on 

 strong, stiff stems. 



We can offer Princeton in quantity and will be 

 glad to quote on regular or special orders. 



We also offer : 



ALL the Leading Varieties off Fine Cut 

 Flowers at Reasonable Prices* 



BERGER BROS. 



Wholesale Florists 



140-142 North 13th Street, Piiliadeiphia, Pa. 



MentlOD The Review when you write. 



denias was greater and there was a tem- 

 porary scarcity of short roses. 



Mrs. Ehret. 



Fred Ehret is happy in the partner 

 of his joys and sorrows being likewise 

 the partner in his chosen profession. 

 Mrs. Ehret is as capable as her hus- 

 band in the intelligent execution of or- 

 ders from the most fastidious flower 

 buyers. Mrs. Ehret loves flowers; she 

 says that love for them is necessary to 

 achieve success, quite as necessary as 

 love for one's chosen calling is to suc- 

 cess in any work of life. Mrs. Ehret 

 believes in showing the prospective cus- 

 tomer the pretty effects that can be ob- 

 tained from the flowers in stock, rather 

 than in taking orders for something 

 that may prove difficult to procure or 

 unsatisfactory when obtained. "We 

 like to talk pink roses when we have 



plenty of them," she said. Mrs. Ehret 

 thinks that the pompons are increasing 

 faster in popular favor than the larger 

 flowered Japanese varieties because 

 they are so pretty for table decora- 

 tions, where the big flowers are often 

 out of place; she sometimes uses pom- 

 pons in ferneries, where these cut 

 sprays are lovely among the growing 

 ferns and last as long as in water, 

 when the soil is kept moist. Mrs. 

 Ehret 's feeling for chrysanthemums is 

 like that of most persons for me- 

 chanics; she is glad when they come 

 and glad when they go; they make 

 such a dirt you must keep sweeping 

 all the time. Mrs. Ehret has a keen 

 sense of humor; when speaking of a 

 competitor whose shingle no longer 

 ornaments the thoroughfare nearby, she 

 said, with a merry laugh: "She has 

 retired on the profits of the business." 



