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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Dbcsmbkb 14, 1911. 



looses For The Christmas Holidays 



Beauties, Richmond, Killarney, Maryiand. 



We are offering Beauties that are as good as they can be, 36 to 48-inch stems, 

 perfect flowers. Our supply of the other mentioned varieties will be large and of 

 exceptionally fine quality. The "Specials" have stems 24 to 30 inches long. It , 

 will pay you to get our quotations. ] 



BOXWOOD, 



per 50=Ib. crate, $7.50 



New Bronze Qalax. 



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Open from 7 a. m. to 8 p. m.- 



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which will be more plentiful and finer 

 than at any previous Christmas. 



It is reported that Fleischman bought 

 6,000 Killarneys for the sale advertised 

 for December 9. They were from 

 medium to the longest. 



One of the new features of the ser- 

 vice of the Weather Bureau is a notice 

 to shippers of perishable articles, giv- 

 ing packing directions for thirty-six 

 hours in advance and for a radius of 

 400 miles. 



Kroeschell Bros. Co. is sending grow- 

 ers a new edition of its carnation 

 measure, now enlarged to five inches 

 in diameter. The scale of points for 

 judging is printed on it. 



Visitors: Otto Lang, Dallas, Tex.; 

 Mr. and Mrs. Theo, Meyer, Wauke- 

 gan, HI.; E. J. Fancourt, of S. S. Pen- 

 nock -Meehan Co., Philadelphia. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Bising Easter^ MarkH. 

 The cut flower market' has dropped a 

 little during the last week. Business 

 is about the same, but with increased 

 receipts. Violets suffered most. The 

 demand for them disappeared on Satur- 

 day, just when it usually is strongest, 

 and has bfee^ pftor since. This is usual 

 after the close of the football season. 

 Roses are much more abundant. Many 

 of them are fine. The values given in 

 pink and white are above reproach. Car- 

 nations show less -increase, although 

 the springlike weather has increased 

 their numbers too. Chrysanthemums 

 are fast disappearing. The withdrawal 

 of that grand late white, Jeanne Nonin, 

 makes room for the Easter lily to 

 emerge from retirement. Romans are 

 quite a factor now, while the trading 

 in valley and Paper Whites is brisk. 

 Sweet peas of color prove more popular 

 than white. Poinsettias have^ made 

 their appearance and stem-burning has 

 recommenced in earnest. The trading in 

 greens is active. Boxwood, holly, lyco- 

 podium and laurel are bought and sold 

 freely in surprisingly large quantities. 



Improvements at the Hall. 



There is a steady, consistent progress 

 at Horticultural hall, Fairmount park. 

 Those familiar with the building in its 



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For Christmas 



Richmond, White Killarney 



and Princeton Roses 



Violets, Single and Double 



Carnations, Easter Lilies 



and all the best that the market affords. 



Send your orders in early 



BERGER BROS. 



Wholesale Plortsts 



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



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Centennial days will remember that 

 back of the landscape gardener 's office 

 was a vast storeroom, from whose re- 

 cesses all the odds and ends of garden- 

 ing requisites were brought. This store- 

 room is a thing of the past. In its 

 place has been reared a substantial tem- 

 perate house, with ^Jofty curved roof, 

 concrete benches set on brick piers andi 

 concrete walks; a most substantial af- 

 fair, filled with the best of the plants 

 that formerly inhabited the old tem- 

 perate house, and with rnhny more. 



Next to this new house is a second 

 fern house, extending from the tem- 

 perate house to the first fern house,: 

 glass partitions giving a clear view 

 throughout. This second fern house is 

 made necessary by Mr. Paul's trip to' 

 Jamaica, which resulted in many rare, 

 and beautiful species being added to 

 different groups in the hall, and by the 



increase in the nephrolepis family. Mr. 

 Schmitt assured me that he had all the 

 members of this prolific family save 

 four or five. It was pretty dark and 

 I really can not tell; there certainly 

 were a great many nephrolepis and Mr. 

 Schmitt is a man of unimpeachable in- 

 tegrity, so I am sure he has them all 

 save four or five and that they are 

 doing well. 



There are two rare orchids in bloom, 

 of which Mr. Schmitt is justly proud. 

 One is Vanda Sanderiana, with five 

 spikes; they have had.it with ten, bear- 

 ing soft blue flowers. The other is 

 Cypripedium Gaudianum, a rare hy- 

 brid, showing some of the blood of Cur- 

 tisii, one of its parents. 



The entire main floor of Horticultural 

 hall is now given up to plants, except 

 the office of the landscape gardener. 



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