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The Weekly Flonsts' Review* 



Februaby 22, ltil2. 



SPECIAL 



500 Carnations 



Our selection of colors 



$15.00 



€. 



The Immense volume of our business makes It easy 

 for us to (five our customers advantages In quality and 

 price not found elsewhere. Carnations are at their best, 

 as far as quality Is concerned, and at our prices are ex- 

 ceptionally good values. Let us send you a shipment for 

 comparison. 



PINK KILLARNEYS 



You will not find a better grade of Pink Killarney in this market than we are offering. Our sup- 

 ply is getting larger now and we have quantities to select from. The three top grades represent 

 the best values. 



Light and Dark Double Violets and fine large Single Violets. 76 cents a hundred for the 

 best — special price by the thousand. Plenty of them. 



The Leo Niessen Co. 



Wholesale 

 i^'lorlsts 



UOi aikd Bmm Stroota, 



PHttADEtPHIA, PA. 



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PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



Lent has come and society has ceased 

 to dance the bunny hug, the turkey 

 trot, the grizzly bear; even opposite 

 ends is given up for the present. Gen- 

 erally speaking, the cut flower market 

 has been active during the last week of 

 the social season. The scarce flowers 

 were Beauties and really good garde- 

 nias. Everything else has been abun- 

 dant. It is difficult to give an accurate 

 idea of the conditions affecting the sup- 

 plv and demand of each variety of 

 flo'wer. One day roses were in active 

 demand, while carnations lagged. The 

 next day these conditions were re- 

 versed, although the supply of carna- 

 tions on the second day far exceeded 

 that of the first. An expert judge as- 

 serts that carnations have averaged 

 about $1 per hundred less this season, 

 from Thanksgiving to Lent, than they 

 did during the corresponding period of 

 a year ago. This is difficult to explain 

 in the face of the fine quality of much 

 of the stock and no particular increase 

 in the supply. Well colored cattleyas 

 have advanced in price, and with them 

 first grade gardenias. Acacia pubescens 

 is not equal to the demand. Good sweet 

 peas are selling well, but the short- 

 stemmed flowers are not. Valley, Eas- 

 ter and calla lilies have been going 

 pretty well. Golden Spur leads the 

 bulbous flowers in popular favor, at 

 firmer but not higher prices. There is 

 some freesia in the market. Greens 

 have been in active demand. The sup- 

 ply is not large. 



St. Stephen's Day. 



February 16 was observed by a small 

 coterie of the faithful who believe the 

 holidays should go in threes: Lincoln's 

 and St. Valentine's had not been real 

 holidays, unless that is the way to de- 

 Bcribe a day as full of work as the law 

 requires, and a little fuller. So the af- 

 ternoon of February 16 was at brief 

 notice devoted to two of the calls that 

 go BO far to make our profession above 

 all others because of the spirit of com- 

 radeship and equality so strongly in evi- 

 dence on such occasions. 



VIOLETS 



Fancy, single and double, at 76c per 100. 



CARNATIONS 



Gronnd stock, in all colors, at $3.00 and (4.00 per 100. 



DAFFODIL 



market is in your favor; take advantage of it. (2.50 per 100; $20.00 



per 1000. 



PRINCETON 



can be had in moderate quantities ; even now, when other roses are scarce, 



Princeton ia blooming. 



LILIES 



SWEET PEAS 



GREENS, Etc. 



BERGER BROTHERS 



Wholesale Florlats 

 140.142 North 13th Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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J. Stephenson's Son owns and oper- 

 ates two places on the Old York road 

 at City Line. The old place is famous 

 for Mrs. Jardine, grown to perfection 

 in large numbers. The new place, a 

 square away, consists today of one 

 house. It is such a house as one dreams 

 about; a perfect model of Lord & Burn- 

 ham latest construction: 400 feet long, 

 containing 15,000 roses. Mr. Stephen- 

 son and Mr. Geiger are justly proud of 

 the house, the stock and the power 

 plant. The Killameys, single, white 

 and double, are their varieties; while 

 there are others, these will be discarded 

 or moved to the old place and the va- 

 cancy filled with 3,000 Double Killar- 

 ney. Both Mr. Stephenson and Mr. 

 Geiger are ambitious; all their arrange- 

 ments indicate the probability of an- 

 other fine house in the near future. 



Stephen Mortensen, of Southampton, 



is one of those growers whose stock 

 always shows cultural skill of a high 

 order. His rose plants are good in the 

 old houses, as well as in the new 

 houses; even a fire is but a slight check 

 to him. Mr. Mortensen believes that 

 grafted roses are better than roses on 

 their own roots and that a well grown 

 novelty or two is desirable, provided it 

 be a novelty of merit. His standard 

 varieties are Richmond, Killarney, 

 White Killarney and Double Killarney; 

 his novelty is Lady Hillingdon; his 

 coming novelties are Sunburst and Dou- 

 ble White Killarney and some specially 

 selected pets for "^trial. Southampton 

 justly regards Mr. Mortensen as a flo- 

 ral wizard of extraordinary power. 



Mr. Pierson's Visit. 



Wallace R. Pierson, of Cromwell, 

 Conn., was here February 15. Mr. 



