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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



0<TOWK 20, 1910. 



Niessen's 



News Column 



Of special interest and 

 value to the 



Retail Cut Flower Buyer 



Chrysanthemums 



Our stock is large, consisting 

 of most of the best varieties on 

 the market. You can depend on 

 us for g:ood value in mums. We 

 have them of all sizes, all colors 

 and all prices. Let us fill your 

 next order for mums. We know 

 that we can please you in every 

 respect. Per lOO 



Fancy $18 00 to $25.00 



First 12.00 to 15.00 



Medium.... 10.00 



Small 8.00 



Beauties 



We have a large supply of the 

 fancies, 36-inch stems and over. 

 Stock in fine condition, good color 

 and large bud. 



The Best, $25.00 per 100. 



Pink and White KILLABNEY, 



MARYLAND, RICHMOND, 



BRIDE and MAID. 



The Best, $8.00 per 100. 



Extrafe. .$5.00 and $6.00 per 100. 



Firsts, $4.00 per 100. 



VALLEY. 



$3.00 and $4.00 per 100. 

 We always have plenty of it. 



CATTLEYAS. 

 $6.00 per dozen. 



EASTER LILIES. 



$1.50 per dozen. 

 $10.00 per 100. 

 A Specialty with us. Always on 

 hand. We will supply you with a 

 dozen or a thousand. 



WE HAVE THE BEST AND 

 LARGEST STOCK WE HAVE 

 EVER HAD TO OFFER AT 

 THIS TIME OF THE SEASON. 

 WE CAN FILL YOUR ORDERS. 

 AND WE KNOW THAT WE 

 CAN SATISFY YOU. IT IS 

 WORTH YOUR WHILE TO 

 FIND OUT HOW WELL WE 

 I CAN SERVE YOU. 



The Leo Niessen Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



Open from 7 A. M. to 8 P. M. 



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CHRYSANTHEMUMS 



The first of the mid-season sorts have strengthened the earlies. Pink, white, 

 yellow, and we have Tint of Gold, a bronze variety, 



DAHLIAS 



are coming in by the wagon loads and will come every day till frost. The best 

 varieties, all colors. 



ROSES 



Choice Bride, Richmond, Maryland, Kaiserin, Killarney and White Killarney. 



CORRECTION 



Tlirough an error we were made to say tliat the new rose Princeton was 

 coming in last week. This is a mistake. Messrs. Stockton & Howe will com- 

 mence sending us Princeton about the first of December, when we want your 

 trial orders for this sensational new variety. 



BERGER BROTHERS 



The most centrally located commission house in the city. 



1305 Ellbert Street, Phitadelphia, Pa. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Bising Eastern Market. 



The weather has been ideal for the 

 world 's series for the baseball cham- 

 pionship between Chicago and our own 

 Athletics, but it has not been so good 

 for the cut flower market; the fort- 

 night ending October 19 has been a 

 hard one. The supply of outdoor 

 flowers, nipped on the morning of Octo- 

 ber 13, is again in full sway. The 

 combination of outdoor and indoor 

 flowers makes a load that staggers the 

 market. Add to this a daily increasing 

 supply of chrysanthemums and you 

 have the situation. There is business, 

 plenty of business, but it would take 

 something phenomenal to consume the 

 enormous supply. One wholesaler 

 clearly expressed the condition of 

 affairs by saying it will get worse 

 every day until frost. 



People are tired of dahlias; the de- 

 mand decreases; hundreds are used 

 where thousands were sold. Beauties 

 and chrysanthemums have ceased to be 

 the strong factors. Orchids, gardenias 

 and valley have replaced them. The 

 carnation market is not in good shape. 

 Violets have received a setback from 

 the warm weather; doubles are arriv- 

 ing. Greens sell slowly. Good sweet 

 peas have come. Cyps and a few Vanda 

 cserulea have strengthened the orchid 

 list. Cattleya labiata is fine and plenti- 

 ful. The white Dendrobium formosum 

 and the feathery oncidium can be had 

 in moderate numbers. 



Chrysanthemums arc improving in 

 quality and declining in price. Golden 

 Glow, Monrovia and Donatello are the 

 yellows, with Halliday in prospect. 

 Glory of Pacific and Pacific Supreme 

 are the pinks. October Frost, Opah, 

 Polly Rose, Estelle and Early Snow, 

 just in, are the whites. Then "there is 

 Tint of Gold. Cosmos Lady Lenox is 

 fine. 



A Modem Place. 



The Joseph Heacock Co. has its new 

 place at Reulof Station, about six miles 



below Trenton, in operation. This 

 place, which will be run as a branch of 

 the main place at Wyncote, consists of 

 about fifty-eight acres of fertile farm 

 land. One immense greenhouse, 55x600, 

 was completed last July, of Lord & 

 Burnham construction, semi-iron, even 

 span, with concrete sides and concrete 

 beds. Two tiled drains were laid the 

 entire length of the house, to carry oflf 

 surplus surface water. Nine beds and 

 ten walks form the interior arrange- 

 ment. The north outside walk has 

 seven 114-inch steam pipes, the south 

 side five lines of pipe. The inside walks 

 have two pipes each, thus distributing 

 the heat evenly. These pipes are all fed 

 by an asbestos covered main that runs 

 along the north side of the house, start- 

 ing from the middle and running each 

 way, thus giving 300 feet of pipe, for 

 which five inches expansion is allowed. 

 A neat device for hanging the pipe on 

 the concrete walls with rollers under- 

 neath is in use. An idea of Mr. Hea- 

 cock 's for vaporizing nicotine in a 

 small socket is carried out on each side 

 of the house at intervals of about 

 twenty feet. The general eflfect, stand- 

 ing in the center or at either end of 

 this immense structure, containing 

 something like 40,000 square feet of 

 glass, is impressive. It seems that the 

 plants in such a house have an immense 

 advantage over the darker, smaller 

 houses that chill so easily in winter 

 storms. One-half this house is planted 

 with 8,000 Killarney roses, the remain- 

 ing half with 5,000 White Killarney and 

 3,000 Richmond. Two dozen Beauties 

 have been planted on trial, to see the 

 effect of soil and environment. The 

 plants are starting nicely, and have 

 been yielding flowers for the last month. 

 The heat for this greenhouse is sup- 

 plied by two horizontal tubular boilers 

 of 100 horse-power each, with room for 

 two more, to be added in case of need. 

 One sixty horsepower boiler will supply 

 sufficient heat for the present glass, but 

 two boilers of larger capacity have been 

 installed as a safeguard, and in order 

 that no further addition need be made 

 for the next house. The smokestack is 



