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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



NOTEHBEB 3, 1910. 



Timely Offerings in Cut Flowers 



Chrysanthemums 



$1.00 to $3.00 per dot. 

 In variety and quality a supply that is 

 hard to beat. Our grades at $1.50 and 

 $2.00 per dozen you will find special 

 values. White Ivory in any quantity at 

 $8.00 per 100. Our mums you will find 

 a profitable purchase. 



POMPONS 

 ' $3.00 to $4.00 per doz. bunches 

 They are sure tp. f^d favor wjith your 

 trade. We have ihem in great variety, 

 and they are very attractive for cut 

 flower work. 



Double Violets 



75c per 100 



The quality is much improved, and 

 we can give youpositive assurance of 

 their freshness. They are picked the 

 same day we ship them to you. 



Pansies 



$1.00 per 100 



All bright, cheerful colors. You can 

 depend on us for pansies. ^^g. 



Mignonette 



$4.00 per 100 

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



Richmond Roses 



$3.00 to $8.00 per 100 

 Our growers are startmg to cut some 

 fine Richmond roses. We will have a 

 large supply of them all season. When 

 you want red roses, the finest to be had, 

 or any other grade, bear in mind that 

 you can get them here. 



Gardenlps 



$Z00 to $4.00 per doz. 



Cattleyas 



•'$6.00 per doz. .; 



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Areet. ThftJ,' with the regular work, is 

 taxing the firm to its full capacity. 

 The new office is nearly completed and 

 promises to be an attractive addition 

 to the fine greenhouse plant. 



Chas. S. Marks, one of Erie 's most 

 prominent business men, was buried 

 October 30. It made a call for many 

 large designs. B. P. 



PHIIiADELFHIA. 



The Kising Eastern Market. 



Conditions have changed. October 27 

 and 28 were just as unsatisfactory as 

 any days in the preceding week; Octo- 

 ber 29, Saturday, came the change. The 

 demand for cut flowers was increased 

 to what some of the wholesalers called 

 "an old-fashioned rush," until by 

 night the supply of many varieties of 

 flowers was exhausted. Hallowe'en 

 and All Saints' day, October 31 and 

 November 1, made a fair demand; the 

 killing frost that preceded them dis- 

 posed of the dahlias and cosmos so that 

 the market is in better condition than 

 for a long time. 



The queen of autumn is the leading 

 flower. Fine chrysanthemums sell well, 

 ordinary and poor stock moderately. 

 Pompons go better than they did. The 

 chrysanthemum situation is curious. 

 November 2 finds the late or Thanks- 

 giving varieties already well repre- 

 sented. The leading sorts of the day 

 include Ivory, Alice Byron, Mrs. Robin- 

 son, Harry Balsley, and Virgfinia Poehl- 

 mann, in whites, Mrs. Coombs, Mrs. 

 Frick, Mrs. Shaw, Harry Balsley, Maud 

 Deane, a few William Duckham and 

 the rear guard of Clementine Touset in 

 pinks, with Col. Appleton, Major 

 Bonnaffon, Florence Harris and Golden 

 Age among yellows. Tint of Gold also 

 is still here. The orange, yellow and 

 bronze pompons have been reinforced 

 by white. 



Violets are in evidence. The demand 

 for the Penn-Indian football game 

 seems to restart the season locally. 

 Singles are good, doubles not yet so. 

 Carnations have improved in quality 

 and are in demand at limes, but at 

 other times they seem hard to sell. 



There is no especial demand for pink 



Call on us when in town 



"We wanLio «^"^ y"« our j^ock of fine 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS 



in all colors. 



ROSES) all the leading varieties. 



Carnations, Easter Lilies 



Violets 



and all other CUT FLOWERS now in the market. 



Our houie is the most centrally located in Philadelphia. 



The sensational new rose PRINCETON will be here about December 1st 



BERGER BROTHERS 



...Wholesale Florists... 

 1305 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



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roses, but Beauties sell well, Bich- 

 mond is not in heavy supply. White 

 roses are only in fair demand. Orchids 

 are firm, white orchids buoyant. Gar- 

 denias are in demand, the supply rather 

 short. Valley is selling splendidly. 

 Greens go rather slowly. Autumn foli- 

 age is still fine. 



Club Meeting. 



There was a large attendance at the 

 meeting of the Florists' Club Tuesday 

 evening, November 1. Mr. Meehan 

 gave an excellent talk on pruning, with 

 practical demonstrations on how to 

 prune and how not to prune. Robert 

 Craig presented the club with a photo- 

 graph of the late William K. Harris, 

 from Mrs. Harris. 



The American Plant & Rose Co., 

 Springfield, O., sent a representative 

 with its new type of Boston fern, to be 



named Roosevelt. It seems promising. 

 The Leo Niessen Co. exhibited some 

 handsome vases of Carnation Mrs. C. 

 W. Ward, deep pink, and Alma Ward, 

 white, grown by Henry M. Weiss, of 

 Hatboro. Both varieties were much 

 admired. 



The Dahlia Season. 



The dahlia season has been of unusual 

 length. The number of flowers sold has 

 been larger than ever before. There 

 have been no extreme prices, the aver- 

 age price rather low, due to poor qual- 

 ity of some of the stock. Single dahlias 

 have not sold so well as in former years. 

 Except where well grown there is no de- 

 mand for them. When good single 

 varieties are well grown and disbudded, 

 a limited number can be sold advan- 

 tt^geously. The decorative class are best 

 for cut flowers. Some cactus varieties 



