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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



March 3, 1910. 



Niessen's 



News Column 



Carnations 



We find with much of our trade 

 the most Important question Is 

 quality, and then price. You can 

 depend on our carnations being 

 fresh at all times, regardless of 

 price. When you get one of our 

 shipments it has every Indication 

 about It of care in selection and 

 good packing. Our prices for the 

 week are as follows: 



The best, $3.00 per 100. 



In lots of five hundred, 



your selection of colors, 

 $2.50 per 100; 



our selection of colors, 

 $2.00 per 100. 



Roses 



PINK KILLARNEY 



WHITE KILLARNEY 



MARYLAND 



and 

 RICHMOND 



are the predominating varieties. 

 Our grade at $8.00 per hundred we 

 consider special value. No matter 

 what your trade requires, some- 

 thing of the highest grade, or for 

 the cheap buyer, we can supply you. 



TULIPS and DAFFODILS, 

 Double and single, 

 $2.00 to $3.00 per 100. 

 We have them In Immense quan- 

 tity, and It will pay you to get our 

 special prices on large orders. 



CATTLEYAS 



$7.50 per doz. 



GARDENIAS 

 $3.00 and $4.00 per doz. 



DAISIES 



White, $1.50 per 100. 

 Yellow, $2.50 per 100. 



SWEET PEAS 



EJxtra fine quality, 

 75c and $1.00 per 100. 



FREESIA 



$2.00 and $3.00 per 100. 



PANSIES 



$5.00 per 100 bunches. 



DOUBLE VIOLETS 



75c per 100. 



WHITE KILLARNEY ROSES 



Plants — ^Waban Strain. 



2-In. pots, per 100 $ 8.00 



2-in. pots, per 1,000 70.00 



CARNATION DYE 



For St. Patrick's Day. 

 A composition produced by an 

 expert chemist to dye carnations 

 green. Guaranteed to give the best 

 results. 



50c per package. 



TheLeoNiesseiCo. 



Wholesale FlorisU 



1209 Arch 8tr««t 



PHILADELPHiA 



Op«a from 7 a. m. to 8 p. an 



White Carnations 



For St. Patrick's Day 



If ill surely prove a good investment for you, combined perhaps with some 

 of your favorite Green Dye. "We expect to have a large stock of White Carnations, 

 fancy, select, ordinary, and can (ill your orders for any quantity if received in time. 



Other specialties are : 



MRS. JARDIMB ROSE, the best rose in the Philadelphia market today. 



DAFFODILS. SINGLE and DOUBLE TULIPS in all colors. 



VIOLETS* our fancy singles are particularly fine, also Lady Campbell and 

 Marie Louise doubles. 



COLORED CARNATIONS. 



EASTER LILIES, one of our leading specialties. 



SMALL WHITE FLOWERS for design woik. 



WILD SMILAX for the decorator. 



W. E. McKISSICK & BROS. 



WHOLESALB FLORISTS 



1619-21 Ranstead St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



The closing days of February and the 

 early days of March find the cut flower 

 market in the worst condition of the sea- 

 son. The supply of flowers is increas- 

 ing, the demand has fallen off, the mid- 

 Lenten dullness being accentuated by bad 

 weather and the strife of the carmen's 

 strike. The streets in the shopping dis- 

 trict are quiet. Nearly everybody who 

 can postpone shopping does so, while in 

 the districts where the battle has been 

 most fearfully waged by the strikers 

 against the trolley company a Sabbath- 

 like quiet prevails between the stormy 

 gusts. This brief description clearly pic- 

 tures business conditions. There is a 

 fair shipping demand, and a certain 

 amount of local business, in which it is 

 evident that when the buyers do not 

 want flowers price is unimportant. A 

 prominent wholesaler, when asked whether 

 there was any bright spot on the dark 

 side, smilingly answered: "Yes, the 

 police wer6 so busy with the strikers on 

 Saturday that the street boys had it all 

 their own way." They sold a lot of left- 

 overs that nobody wauled. The average 

 of returns to the growers during the 

 week of February 24 to ^.larch 2 will be 

 extremely low. 



Beauties are scarcer now than in Feb- 

 ruary, prices being fairly well main- 

 tained on thin receipts. Adiantum and 

 both kinds of asparagus sell well. White 

 roses continue in demand. White Kil- 

 larney seeming to be preferred to Bride. 

 Sweet peas of quality are difficult to pro- 

 .duce this weather. The really good ones 

 coming to town go fairly well. The rest 

 of the flowers on the list suffer more or 

 less severely from the dullness, carna- 

 tions and Easter lilies faring the worst. 

 The bulk of the bulbous stock sells cheap- 

 ly, good freesia and fancy tulips being 

 about the only exception. 



Easter Plants. 



The demand for Easter blooming 

 plants that has been increasing steadily 

 year by year will not be affected by the 



early Easter.- The wholesale growers 

 in this city, believing that it wiU be 

 more than usually difficult for the flo- 

 rists to supply their own wants, have 

 made an extraordinary effort to be ready 

 should there prove a shortage in any of 

 the staple stock. The cold, stormy 

 weather has retarded the crojjs to an 

 unusual extent, demanding skill and per- 

 severance to get' them in time. 



An hour spent in the Eobert Craig Co. 

 greenhouses showed that a large pro- 

 portion, it might be fair to say prac- 

 tically all, of the stock will be on time, 

 a feather in the cap of Eobert A. Craig. 

 Mr. Craig has banked heavily on lilies 

 and on roses, believing that these two 

 crops will be most difficult to flower nice- 

 ly by the end- of March. Azaleas, too, 

 are in immense supply, with spiraeas, 

 genistas, rhododendrons, bougainvilleas, 

 hydrangeas and some novelties strongly 

 represented. 



The total glass area devoted to Easter 

 plants is larger even than last year, two 

 large carnation houses and one or two 

 smaller ones now being filled with Easter 

 stock, the entire carnation stock having 

 gone to the new place at Norwood. The 

 lilies average from five to eight flowers 

 on the bulbs reserved for selling as pot 

 plants. The few-flower bulbs will be 

 cut. The foliage is clean and healthy. 

 The sizes vary from the tall church to 

 the medium and even dwarf window 

 plants. The roses, too, were most pleas- 

 ing. Crimson and Baby Eamblers, Lady 

 Gay, Dorothy Perkins and Tausendschon 

 were all well set with buds of promising 

 size, the plants free from mildew. The 

 azaleas showed especial strength in Mme. 

 Van der Cruyssen. The whites are rep- 

 resented by carried over or spring im- 

 ported plants of Bernard Andre alba 

 and a few of the white sport of Ver- 

 veeneana. The specimens were particu- 

 larly fine, some measuring three feet 

 across. A whole house was given up to 

 Spiraea Gladstone that looked extremely 

 well. The genistas were being carried 

 cool already, to insure that much desired 

 hardness. The rhododendrons were bet- 

 ter than I remember to have seen. The 



