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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Februaky 29, 1912. 



KILLARNEYS 



PINK AND WHITE 



Larger quantities are coming in and 

 we are giving you the benefit of the extra 

 supply. Quality has never been better, fine 

 large buds of good color. At moderate prices 

 we can furnish you a s:ood grade of stock. 



Light and Dark Doubles and fine large Single Violets 



75 CENTS PER HUNDKED FOB THE BEST. 



SPECIAL 



500 Carnations 



Fancy Stock 



$15.00 



The Special Offer represents extra good 

 value. We guarantee them to be high-grade 

 flowers. Special care is used in selecting Car= 

 nations for shipping orders, and we know what 

 varieties give best results. Try a shipment. 



The Leo Niessen Co. 



Wholesale """ *°" ""• "•"•••• 



Florist, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention The Rcy1*w •whan you write. 



PHmADEUHIA. 



The Sising Eastern Market. 



The cut flower market has declined 

 since Ash Wednesday. There is less 

 business, ^vith about the same quantity 

 of flowers. Prices have receded on 

 nearly all varieties and the effort has 

 changed from lilling to finding the or-" 

 der. The shipping tlemand gives 

 strength to the market, although the 

 shipping orders are not so numerous 

 or large as a weeic ago. The local 

 demand has been improved by the 

 milder weather; there- were few flow- 

 ers carried over Sunday, a fact that 

 goes a long way toward preserving 

 the tone of the market. 



The principal decline in roses has 

 been on the shorter grades. Beauties 

 continue firm; the supply of shorts 

 of this variety is increasing. Violets 

 have been plentiful, particularly so 

 on the sunny days. Many have been 

 marketed at good prices, while for 

 others it seemed impossible to find a 

 buyer. Carnations have held their 

 own as well as an}* other flower; some 

 wholesalers say a little better. The 

 increasing supply makes it harder to 

 market them at satisfactory prices, 

 although the quality is generally fine. 

 Mrs. C. W. Ward, Gloriosa. Pink De- 

 light and a few others are equal to 

 anything ofl'ered this season. Sweet 

 peas are divided into two flocks, the 

 sheep and the goats; the former are 

 few by comparison and satisfactory 

 to wholesalers and growers alike; the 

 latter are many and the reverse, the 

 |)urchaser feeling that he has con- 

 ferred a favor by taking them in 

 thousand lots at prices most ridiculous. 



There has been no particular change 

 in the flowers making up the rest of 

 the list; they have receded with the 

 staples described above, excepting in 

 a few cases where quality and lack 

 of quantity holds the price. The bulb- 

 ous flowers form by far the larger 

 part of those unnamed, but the prices 

 realized for them are so low that they 

 are much more satisfactory to the re- 

 tailer and his customer than to those 

 on the other side of the line. Em- 

 peror surpasses Golden Spur when well 

 grown and finds favor with the buyers. 



Princeton 



We are receiving daily shipments of this splendid rose, which we 

 cordially recommend to everj florist. Tlie bright pink color, good size and 

 lasting qualities of PRINCETON make it a general favorite. 



EASTER LILIES 



Of excellent quality in quantity. 



DAFFODIL 



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



per 1000. 



ROSES CARNATIONS SWEET PEAS 



and all varieties of Flowers and Greens. 



BERGER BROTHERS 



Wholesale Florists 

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



Mention The Review when vou wnie 



Compared with tlie first week of 

 Lent ii year aijo. many of those licst 

 able to judge say that the cut flower 

 iiiaikot is in satisfactory condition, 

 jiaiticularly set when compared with 

 the diilliicss evident in other industries. 



Joseph Beavis & Son. 



The i)rofessional history of .loseph 

 Beavis marks the changes that have 

 l)een taking place all around Philadel- 

 jdiia. Starting as a general grower — 

 that is, with a little of everything of 

 ])romise in cut flowers or in plants — he 

 has gradually blossomed into a special- 

 ist. 



Mr. Beavis was a painstaking grower 

 of marked ability. His place in Tioga, 

 which would now be considered small 

 were it in existence, was known to all 

 leading florists in the city, as well as 



to many of the snmller florists. His 

 stock was varied and well grown. The 

 plan then was to produce as many cut 

 flowers as possible during the winter. 

 As fast as benches went off crop they 

 were refilled with cinerarias, primroses, 

 tulii>s and daffodils in pots. These 

 were, in turn, succeeded by the Easter 

 specialties. So numerous were these 

 that the Aveek before Easter, when fifty 

 or sixty large wagon loads of plants 

 were sent out to the stores, was the 

 most important period of the year. 

 Then came the geraniums and other 

 soft-wooded spring plants, grown in 

 quantity in the houses and in the 

 frames, to say nothing of hardy roses, 

 vines and so forth, followed by the 

 period of house-cleaning, profit-count- 

 ing and preparation for the fall, with 

 occasional bright spots in the shape of 



