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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



OCTOBBB 27, 1910. 



Wc Can and Wc Will Serve You Well 



Chrysanthemums 



$1.00 to $3.00 per doz. 



We can give you the best values in 

 Mums telling at 10 to 15c» due to the 

 immense supply of good mediums. 

 Fancy Mums at $2.50 to $3.00, very 

 choice stock. We will select varieties 

 that will stand shipping. You will find 

 our Mums a profitable purchase. 



Valley 



$3.00 and $4.00 per 100 

 Quality never better, and a large sup- 

 ply always on hand. 



Easter Lilies 



$1.50 per do2.— $10.00 per 100 

 every day in the year. Write us if you 

 want a large quantity of them. 



C ATTLEY AS $6.00 per do2. 



DENDROBIUMS 5.00 per doz. 



CYPRIPEDIUMS 2.00 oer doz. 



ONQDIUMS . . . .$3.00 to 5.00 per 100 

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



Roses 



PINK AND WHITE KILLARNEY 



RICHMOND MARYLAND 



BRIDES AND MAIDS 



Fancy $8.00 per 100 



Extras $5.00 to 6.00 per 100 



Firsts 4,00 per 100 



Our Rose growers are acknow^Iedged 

 the best consigning to this market. We 

 are able to give you the BEST in quality 

 and price. 



The Leo Niessen Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209ArcliSt. » Piiiladelpliia 



Mention T^e Review when yoa write. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Bising Eastern Market. 



Sometimes it seems that there are 

 twice as many cut flowers as need be, 

 while on bright days one-third of the 

 cut only should go to Kamchatka to 

 make things as they should be. Things 

 are not as they should be — little won- 

 der, with such enormous supplies of 

 everything. The mild weather has low- 

 ered the quality of much stock and only 

 fine flowers bring satisfactory prices. 

 Chrysanthemums are in heavy supply. 

 Yellow, when fine, sells best. Robert 

 Halliday and Col. Appleton lead. In 

 white, Beatrice May, Virginia Poehl- 

 mann and Ivory are seen. In pink, 

 Pacific Supreme is excellent when well 

 colored. There are other sorts, but these 

 will suffice as examples. Tint of Gold 

 sells poorly. Dahlias are nice, despite 

 the nipping Jack Frost is giving them. 

 Beauties and really choice valley are 

 shy. Orchids are plentiful, but gar- 

 denias are not. The violet season has 

 not opened in earnest yet. Choice white 

 lilac has come a month earlier than 

 usual. Ordinary grades of roses and 

 carnations are abundant. Pompons are 

 in, yellow and bronze, and a little mig- 

 nonette. 



The suburban debutante teas broaden 

 the chasm between value of select and 

 ordinary stock. The one realizes good 

 prices even in these times of overpro- 

 duction; the other is cruelly hard to sell 

 at any price. 



A Oood Investment. 



When the carnation growers learned 

 that Henry M. Weiss had bought heav- 

 ily of two novelties last spring, they 

 shook their heads. Some said that 

 was not the way to do; try a few and 

 then you know. Others said that it 

 was all right to buy heavily to dis- 

 tribute stock, but not for cut flowers. 

 A few, a very few, believed it an able 

 stroke. Then came the unfortunate 

 break in the steam pipe, which badly 

 scalded some of the novelties planted 

 on a bench nearby. They recovered 

 splendidly; Mr. Weiss said they looked 

 none the worse for the burn. They 

 grew well and were benched — and nowf 



MUNS FOR ALL 



Good stock at popular prices. We can supply yellow, pink and white, at 

 from $1.00 to $2.50 per dozen on short notice. 



EASTER LILIES 



A regular supply of well grown stock; price, $1.50 per dozen. 



CARNATIONS 



Select stock of the leading varieties, at from $1.00 to $2.50 per 100. 



GREENS* 1° variety. 

 The most centrally located commission house in Philadelphia. 



BERGER BROTHERS 



•••Wholesale Florists^^^ 



1305 Filbert Street, 



Philadelphia, Pa. 



N. B. Messrs. Stockton & Howe have notified ut they will begin shipping 

 their sensational new rose, Princeton, in December. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Readers of The Eeview who watch 

 the market price list may have noticed 

 the following: "Carnations, the Wards, 

 $4; select, $2 to $3; ordinary, $1 to 

 $1.50. ' ' In plain English, that means 

 that Henry M. Weiss & Sons are get- 

 ting $4 a hundred for the carnations, 

 Mrs. C. W. Ward, pink, and Alma Ward, 

 white, today, when no other varieties 

 are bringing that price. The market is 

 badly overstocked with many flowers 

 of ordinary varieties or of ordinary cul- 

 ture, sold below market price, and some 

 not sold at all. Despite this condition, 

 blooms of both Alma Ward and Mrs. 

 Ward are eagerly sought at fancy price ; 

 the supply, though excellent, is unequal 

 to the demand. 



This clearly shows the possibilities of 

 the cut flower market. It is not pos- 

 sible to get a price for only a few 

 blooms, but it is possible to get a good 

 price for a fine flower when there are 



enough blooms to make a market — that 

 is, to enable the buyers to feel they can 

 get this stock when they need it. 



Three Specialties. 



To give an extended account of a 

 pleasant afternoon spent with Messrs. 

 Eisele, Strohlein and E. H. Michel in the 

 greenhouses and grounds of the Hfenry 

 A, Dreer corporation at Eiverton would 

 be an easy matter. Perhaps it would be 

 more interesting to confine the impres- 

 sions of that afternoon to three special- 

 ties — cocos, kentias and variegated pine- 

 apples. Eiverton is famous for the first 

 and for the second, and it will be 

 famous for the third. 



It is not many years since CocoB Wed- 

 delliana was the standard center for the 

 table fernery. Everybody wanted one 

 of these graceful little palms and the 

 demand for them steadily grew. There 

 were difficulties in the path of the cocos 



