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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Fbbsuabx 15, 1912. 



PINK Dj 



Killarney 



jF you could see cur daily ehipments of Pink Killarney, 



you would not hesitate to say that we are headquarters 



for Pink Roses. We have a large supply of the three 



top grades. The flowers are fine, of good color, fplendid 



shaped buds. We can assure you of the largeet value you can 



get anywhere. Try a shipment. 



WHITE 



Per bunch, $1.00 LAVENDER 



LILAC 



Per bunch, $1.25 



The beat Lilac coming from this market. A large supply every day. 



Fancy Ferns 



$2.00 per 1000. 



PSAS, extra quality per 100. $1.50 



PKAS, good stock per 100. $0.75- 1.00 



SNAPDRAGON perdozen. 2.00 



MIGNONKTTE per 100, 4.00- 6.00 



Smilax 



$5.00 per case. 



The Leo Niessen Co. 



Wholesale 



12tli and Bao« Straets, 



Piortete PHIIADEIPHIA, PA. 



Mention The Beyl«w when you write. 



President Foulsham introduced C. M. 

 Gardener, master of the State Grange 

 of Massachusetts, who gave a splendid 

 lecture on "Practical Tests of Rural 

 Progress." The speaker was given a 

 rising vote of thanks, after which re- 

 freshments were served. W. H. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



St. Valentine's day, an increasingly 

 popular flower day, closed a week that 

 was more active at the close than at 

 the beginning. Flowers, with a few 

 exceptions, were plentiful, affording 

 plenty of good material for the orders. 

 The out-of-town demand was a feature 

 of the week, many excellent orders 

 going out from the wholesale houses 

 that make a specialty of shipping. 

 Local business was fair. The fashion- 

 able florists were particularly busy. 



Beauties are extremely scarce. It 

 seems as though all the growers are 

 completely cut out. Orders that could 

 easily have been filled a fortnight ago 

 now cause grave anxiety and are al- 

 most impossible to fill. Other roses are 

 in fair supply — the shorter grades and 

 white are most difficult to obtain. The 

 rose market generally is buoyant. Car- 

 nations are just the reverse. Many of 

 the flowers coming into town are su- 

 perb, but the supply exceeds the de- 

 mand and prices are declining. Sweet 

 peas are abundant; the quantity con- 

 sumed is large, but they often require 

 pushing and the poorer grades must be 

 offered cheaply to sell them. Daffodils 

 continue low in price. Double Von 

 Sions are becoming an important fac- 

 tor, but they do not seem more popular 

 than Golden Spur. The modest violet 

 came forward more prominently on the 

 two days following Lincoln's birthday, 

 prices becoming firmer. The cold 

 weather, bad for flowers generally, has 

 been particularly so for the gardenia; 

 so, too, for the disposal of odds and 

 ends so generally looked forward to 

 on Saturday by the wholesale houses. 



. The February Meeting. 



So great was the interest shown in 

 the meeting of the Florists' Club last 



DAFFODILS 



are in full supply. We can give you fine flowers at moderate prices in any 



quantity desired. 



$3.00 per 100, $25.00 per 1000 



CARNATIONS 



We are receiving sonre exceptionally well-grown white and pink varieties. 



$4.00 per 100 

 $3.00 per 100 for all colors of select stock. 



PRINCETON 



The best bright pink rose in the cut flower market. 

 ALL LEADING VARIETIES OP CUT BLOOMS AND GREENS 



BERGER BROTHERS 



Wholesale Florists 

 140-142 North ISth Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention Tbe Keview wbea too «ni» 



week that it has awakened ideas of 

 the possibilities of this meeting among 

 the bright minds in our profession. An 

 attendance that taxed the capacity of 

 the club room; an exhibition worth com- 

 ing miles to see; an interchange of 

 opinion of greatest value; all these are 

 worthy of encouragement from those 

 interested in floricultural advancement 

 and in the club's welfare. 



Samuel S. Pennock suggests that the 

 February meeting of the Florists' Club 

 be devoted in future to an exhibition 

 of novelties and that the meeting be 

 held in the lecture room of Horticul- 

 tural hall, thus affording abundant seat- 

 ing capacity and a good exhibition 

 room. Mr. Pennock also advocates 

 that invitations be sent to the wives 

 and daughters of the members, their 

 sisters, their cousins and their aunts, to 

 attend this meeting. His idea is that 



the future of the novelties rests mainly 

 with the ladies and that their judgment 

 on these novelties will be of incal- 

 culable value in determining merit or 

 lack of it. President Thilow thought 

 so highly of Mr. Pennock 's idea that 

 he at once endorsed it warmly and pro- 

 poses recommending its adoption in the 

 near future. 



Various Notes. 



D. Fuerstenberg and Harry Simpson 

 visited S. J. Renter & Son, Westerly, 

 R. I., during their recent trip. After 

 carefully examining Double White Kil- 

 larney Mr. Fuerstenberg decided to pur- 

 chase the entire stock of grafted plants 

 of this strain. They will be planted 

 at Edgely, where Mr, Simpson is in 

 charge. 



At the February meeting of the Ger- 

 mantown Horticultural Society, in Asso- 

 ciation hall, on the evening of Lin- 



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