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ThcWeekly Florists' Review. 



Sbptbmbeb 8, 1919. 



Niessen's 



News Column 



GIVE MORE THOUGHT 

 to the BUYING of your 



Cut Flowers 



Your thoughts in the right 

 direction means better stock, 

 better service and correct prices. 

 We can give you all that, and 

 we are always at your service. 

 All we ask is, that you give us 

 the opportunity to serve you, and 

 we will serve you well. 



Suggest to your customers that 

 which is in season; it means more 

 satisfaction to all. The market 

 always offers something of qual- 

 ity. When you combine quality 

 and quantity, you are vet-y likely 

 to get good value. 



DAHLIAS 



Here is something seasonable. 

 They will have the call for the 

 next month. We have all the 

 best commercial varieties for cut 

 flower purposes. Stock that is 

 well grown, carefully handled and 

 packed, to insure their arrival in 

 perfect condition. 



$1.50 to $3.00 per hundred. 



Field Grown Carnation Plants 



Not a lot of plants picked up at 

 random, but all stock carefully in- 

 spected, produced by growers in 

 whom we have every confidence. 

 We have supplied the same cus- 

 tomers for years, which is sufficient 

 proof of satisfactory dealings. 



Pink 100 



Wlnsor $7.00 



Enchantress 7.00 



R. P. Enchantress 7.00 



Winona 7.00 



Afterglow 7.00 



Aristocrat 7.00 



Lawson 7.00 



1000 

 $60.00 

 60.00 

 60.00 



60.00 

 60.00 

 60.00 



White 



W. Perfection . . . 7.00 60.00 



Sarah Hill 7.00 60.00 



Boston Market... 6.00 50.00 



Queen 6.00 50.00 



Red 



Beacon 7.00 60.00 



Victory 7.00 60.00 



1200 Pink Seedling, good color 

 and long stems, medium size 

 flower, free bloomer, $7.00 

 per 100; $60.00 per 1000. 



TheLeoNiessenCo. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



Open from 7 a. m. to 6 p 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Bising Eastern Market. 



The first seven days of September 

 have been dull in the cut flower mar- 

 ket. Business was smaller the first 

 three days of September than it had 

 been during the corresponding days of 

 the previous week; then came the holi- 

 day following Sunday, accompanied by 

 fierce heat. Flower buyers left the 

 city. Those who remained took little 

 interest in flowers. The wet weather 

 followed by the heat made the quality 

 poorer; brown-tipped asters were the 

 rule while it was damp. Dahlias ar- 

 rived in poor shape; even the finest 

 stock suffered. 



Chester county has been sending some 

 fine asters, but the percentage of good 

 flowers is smaller than a week ago. 

 There are numbers of small-flowered, 

 short-stemmed asters coming into town 

 that are unsalable, bringing only dis- 

 appointment to all. Dahlias have not 

 really started yet. The heavy ship- 

 ments will not come for a few days, 

 but by the time these lines appear 

 dahlias will be an important factor. 

 Gladioli are unchanged from a week 

 ago. Easter lilies have shortened and 

 the price is firmer. Valley is in good 

 supply. Cattleyas continue scarce; 

 there are now two grades. Beauties 

 have become more plentiful. They are 

 not selling so well as a week ago, 

 though the quality is improving. Kai- 

 serin is coming on crop again. There 

 are plenty of nice Maryland and a few 

 Killarney with substance. Hardly any 

 of the carnation growers who produce 

 largely in winter are shipping yet. 



Wild smilax has made its appearance, 

 a sure sign of the approach of the deco- 

 rative season. 



Club Meeting. 



Tuesday, September 6, was the hot- 

 test September day in iflany years, and 

 the attendance at the meeting of the 

 Florists' Club that evening was thereby 

 reduced. 



J. Otto Thilow, John Westcott and 

 others spoke entertainingly of the 

 pleasure and profit derived by all from 

 the Rochester convention. 



The secretary was directed to express 

 the sympathy of the members to the 

 family on the death of George Eedford, 

 superintendent of Mt. Vernon cemetery. 



This year's officers all were nomi- 

 nated for reelection: President, Joseph 

 Heacock; vice-president, Alfred Bur- 

 ton; treasurer, George Craig; secretary, 

 David Rust. 



The Largest Contract. 



Dreer has ordered two acres of green- 

 houses from King. That is the brief 

 of the news given out from 714 Chest- 

 nut street. 



Elaborated, it means that the Henry A. 

 Dreer corporation has placed the largest 

 single building order ever placed in 

 this vicinity; it is for two ranges of 

 even-span, ridge and furrow, semi-iron 

 construction, each range consisting of 

 ten greenhouses 21x200, with a cor- 

 ridor house between. In round figures, 

 this v/ill require pretty nearly 100,000 

 square feet of glass. These ranges are 

 for the new Dreer farm, a short dis- 

 tance from Riverton. The building con- 

 tractors, King Construction Co., of 

 North Tonawanda, N. Y., have agreed 

 that the material for the ranges shall 

 be furnished at once. Work on grading 



Its merits have been con- 

 clusively proven through 

 Public Demonstrations. 

 Aphine will not injure the 

 tenderest flower or foli- 

 age — in fact it invigor- 

 ates plant life. 

 It possesses excellent 

 cleansing qualities. 



$8.60 per Gallon, $1.00 per Quart 



Gtet it from your Seedsmen, or write 



APHINE MANUFAaURING CO. 



MADISON, N. J. 



Pacific Coast Dlstributlnff Asents 

 MacRORIE-McLAREN COMPANY 



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JOS. G. NEIDINGER 



1513-15 GermMtown Aveme, PHIIADELPHIA 



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Florists' Refrigerators 



Write ns for catalogne and prices, stating size 

 you require and for what Idnd of out floorers 

 you wish to use the refrigerator; also state 

 whether you want it for display or only for 

 ■toraB*. 



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Chrysaothemom 



By Arthur Herri ngton 



Formerly president Chrysanthemum 

 Society of America. 



The most complete and comprehensive 

 work on the cultivation of the chrysan- 

 themum that has yet been published in 

 America. Its scope and character may 

 be gleaned from the list of contents, 

 which comprises chapters on composts; 

 planting ; benches, boxes or pots ; general 

 cultural details ; crown and terminal buds ; 

 feeding, its object and application; care 

 of the buds; exhibition and judging; spec- 

 imen plants, plants in pots ; raising from 

 seed and hybridizing; sports; hardy 

 chrysanthemums ; chrysanthemums for 

 south and west; insect pests and diseases: 

 classification and selection of varieties 

 for special purposes; history of the chrys- 

 anthemum, etc. The book will be wel- 

 comed for the lucid, comprehensive, as 

 well as the practical character of its con- 

 tents. Handsomely illustrated. 108 

 pages, 5x7 inches. Price 50c postpaid. 



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