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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



JANUABT 25, 1012. 



Lilac 

 Tulips 

 Pansies 

 Freesia 

 Daffodils 

 Mignonette 

 Sweet Peas 

 Pussy Willow 



SPRING FLOWERS 



€[We are ofifering quite a variety in this particular line. Your 

 customers look for a change from the everyday flowers. It 

 is profitable stock for you to handle, as our prices are 

 sufficiently low to make them attractive to all. Include 

 some Spring Flowers in your next order. 



Fancy Ferns, extra quality, $2.00 per 1 DOO 



The Leo Niessen Co. 



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%1SS' PHIIADELPHIA, PA. 



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PHn.ADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



The market has shown decided im- 

 provement for the week ending Jan- 

 uary 24. The weather has moderated. 

 The supply is hardly so heavy. The 

 demand has improved. Prices are firmer 

 That is the situation in brief. Boses 

 are rather less plentiful. There is 

 nothing approaching a shortage except 

 in the cheaper grades. Carnations are 

 more plentiful. Prices rule lower. At 

 these lower figures a better demand 

 has developed. Good sweet peas are 

 in active request at excellent figures. 

 Most of the flowers are now of medium 

 and lower grades, selling at from one- 

 half to one-third the price of the best 

 stock. Cattleyas, gardenias and vio- 

 lets are rather quiet, with the supply 

 fully equal to the demand. There is a 

 marked increase in the receipts of bulb- 

 ous flowers. Single daffodils and free- 

 sia both are fine. They are used in 

 large numbers. Tulips generally are 

 poor. Many of the bulbs do not appear 

 to have been well ripened and do not 

 produce good flowers and stems so 

 early. Paper White narcissi are cheap. 

 Lilies are selling better. Valley always 

 seems in favor when well done. Greens 

 are in brisk demand. 



The out-of-town demand is lively, 

 calling for much fine stock. The pre- 

 Lenten social season of entertainments 

 is in full swing everywhere. 



A Pretty Novelty. 



"I have something to show you. 

 Here are two hat baskets; one is made 

 up ready for a 6-inch pot; the other 

 can be made up with this adjustable 

 wire any size desired. ' ' The speaker 

 was H. Bayersdorfer. Before him were 

 two attractive braid hat baskets, one 

 ready for use, with a light handle; the 

 other flat, awaiting adjustment. Mr. 

 Bayersdorfer said they came in flower 

 colors and were a novelty that would 

 prove invaluable. 



As many letters have postscripts, so 

 with this novelty comes another — a 

 French, or may be it was termed Pari- 

 sian sprinkler, an ingenious device by 

 which a steady spray is pumped, as it 



SPRING FLOWERS 



Single Daffodils are very fine, in large or small quantities. 



YioletSy single and double, are choice. 



Freesia^ with long stems. 



Paper Whites are very good value for decorations. 



Valley* in two grades. 



We have an excellent supply of ROSES, CARNATIONS, 

 EASTER LILIES and all seasonable flowers. 



PRINCETON 



We are receiving large shipments of this fine rose daily. In 

 color it is the brightest and best of the pinks. Princeton won 

 high honors at Detroit at the American Rose Society Exhibition. 



BERGER BROTHERS 



Wholesale Florists 

 140-142 North 13th Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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were, from a bottle. This ingenious 

 device is intended to supplement the 

 rubber sprinkler now in use in the 

 shops. It was instantly adopted by 

 several of our leading florists. 



Various Notes. 



A Chestnut Hill grower is said to 

 have cut $5,000 worth of Beauties dur- 

 ing the week before Christmas. 



Philip Breitmeyer, Detroit; Eugene 

 Dailledouze, Flatbush, L. I., and R. T. 

 Brown, Queens, N. Y., were recent 

 visitors. 



The Philadelphia Cut Flower Co. re- 

 ports the arrival of fine freesia and 

 sweet peas. 



Charles F. Edgar is now at the 

 Bellevue-Stratford flower shop of J. J. 

 Habermehl's Sons. 



Victor Groshens is building a resi- 

 dence on his farm at Eoslyn, Pa. 



The Henry F. Michell Co. has leased 

 a four-story building at 500 Ludlow 

 street, for storage purposes. 



J. William Colflesh & Sons will be 

 strong factors in English ivy this 

 spring. 



William J. Baker is steadily recover- 

 ing from the injuries received from his 

 recent accident. 



The temperature on the morning of 

 January 14 was reported at 18 below 

 zero at Norfolk, Va., and below at 

 Alexandria, near Washington, D. C, 

 and at White Marsh, Md. 



Edwin C. Jellett read a paper on 

 ' ' The Gardens and Gardeners of Ger- 

 mantown" in the museum of Vernon 

 park, Germantown, before the Site and 

 Relic Society on the evening of 

 January 19. 



The Robert Craig Co. recommenced 

 shipping plants January 23, after a 



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