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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



March 10, 1910. 



Niessen's 



News Column 



Cut Flowers 

 for Easter 



This Is a subject of much inter- 

 est to all cut flower buyers. We 

 can assure you of two most Im- 

 portant points — that we have the 

 stock, as well as the facilities, for 

 handliner a large holiday business. 

 Our service is dependable, and our 

 prices will be governed by market 

 conditions. 



Worthy of special mention for 

 the Easter trade, will be our 

 stock of 



Pink Killarney 



and 



Richmond 



We will have them in quantity. 

 Our growers have never produced 

 them better than this season, and 

 the quality for Easter will be un- 

 usually fine. 



Carnations^ > 



If you have been buying them 

 from us, you know what the qual- 

 ity has been, and what to expect 

 for Easter. Our Carnations have 

 given better satisfaction this sea- 

 son than ever before. 



Violets 



The demand for them for Elaster 

 Is always very heavy. They are 

 a good seller, and Easter being 

 early you can handle them with 

 satisfaction. We will have a large 

 quantity of them, both Double and 

 Single. 



Valley 



Very choice. 

 $3.00 and $4.00 per hundred. 



We will also have in quantity 



White and Yellow Daisies, 



Single and Double Daffodils, 



Sing^le and Doable Tulips, 



Pansies, Sweet Peas 



for St. Patrick's Day 



GREEN DYE for COLORING 

 CARNATIONS. 



Guaranteed to do the work. 

 50 cents per package. 



TheleoNiesseoCo. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arck Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



Open from 7 a. m. to 8 p. m. 



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For March 17th 



St. Pa^iok's Day comeB next Thursday, when all true Iiish^ 

 girls and boys will waniA bunch oi Green Carnations or a 

 (ireen Boufonnlere. By laying in a^ck of White Carna- 

 tions and putting them in vases containing a judicious mixture of 

 dye and water, you will astonish your, customers by having a crop 

 of Green Carnations timed to the hour. It will give you a 

 chance to do a little busineis the week before Easter, usually a 



quiet time. 



WILD SMILAX for the decorator. 



W. E. McKISSICK & BROS. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



1619-21 Ranstead St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



The extreme depression prevailing in 

 the cut flower market during the week 

 ending "Wednesday, March 2, continued 

 at the opening of the present week. 

 Fortunately, by March 4 and 5 the mar- 

 ket had adjusted itself to the lower level 

 of prices, new buyers coming forward 

 who could use flowers at the tempting 

 prices offered. The result was a most 

 satisfactory sweep by Saturday night, 

 nearly all, even of the poorer flowers, 

 being sold at some price. 



Business opened fairly well on Mon- 

 day, March 7, the market being so bare 

 of stock that the rather moderate de- 

 mand was sufQcient to insure a healthy 

 tone. Tuesday was not quite so good, 

 the shipping being the backbone of the 

 market. Under these conditions listed 

 quotations, though made up with great 

 care, are misleading. A limited number 

 of the best flowers bring the top prices, 

 but by far the larger number are jobbed 

 off to tlie quantity buyers at special 

 thousand rates. This covers general con- 

 ditions, thought there are some excep- 

 tions. 



Beauties continue scarce, holding their 

 own under active buying in and out of 

 town in small lots, an order of 100 or 

 200 Beauties requiring ability to fill. 

 Cattleyas are also in demand. Trianae 

 has given place to Schrcederiana. Greens 

 are selling well and white roses have 

 not yet felt the effect of Kaiserin com- 

 petition. The forerunners of the south- 

 ern crop of daffodils have arrived, but 

 not even the greatest croaker in the 

 market can charge them with the down- 

 fall of the price on home-grown product 

 this year. Acacia pubescens and forget- 

 me-not have made their final bow and 

 exit. 



Violets suffered badly during the warm 

 weather of the early days in March, the 

 singles faring worse. Growers and whole- 

 salers are about equally divided in their 

 opinon regarding violets for Easter. It 

 is probable there will be a fair supply 



of high grade, and a large supply of 

 medium grade stock if the cooler weath- 

 er prevailing now continues. Easter 

 lilies have improved in the demand, but 

 nobody seems interested in calla^. The 

 flood of carnations has passed, with a 

 decidedly healthier tone in the market 

 than for some weeks. There is no es- 

 pecial advance in the price of carnations, 

 but the clean-up figures of $4 to $5 per 

 thousand are a thing of the past until 

 after Easter, the street men gladly buy- 

 ing at $1 to $1.50 per hundred when 

 possible. 



Unfair to Philadelphia. 



Business men of this city are incensed 

 at the sensational reports published in 

 the papers of other cities regarding the 

 condition in our streets owing to the 

 strike. The Public Ledger of March 7 

 in an editorial reprints extracts from the 

 New York Sun and the New York World 

 of the preceding day that draw a pic- 

 ture of conditions here that would ter- 

 rify the stoutest heart. These pictures 

 do credit to the descriptive powers of 

 the writers, but not to their truthful- 

 ness. There is a strike in Philadelphia 

 among a portion of the employees of 

 the trolley lines. There have been out- 

 rages, chiefly smashing of windows, and 

 there have been at least two fatalities, 

 with a number of injuries and arrests. 

 The disturbances are so limited in num- 

 ber that a large majority of the people 

 of Philadelphia have seen . nothing of 

 these disturbances beyond what they read 

 in the papers. Business in the banks, 

 in the wholesale centers, and in the 

 shops goes on exactly as it has done 

 before. The streets are quiet and or- 

 tlerly, with few exceptions, and then for 

 a brief time. Most of the disturbers 

 are boys. 



This statement is due to the business 

 men of Philadelphia. Its earnestness 

 will be best understood when I add that 

 two New York men with business ap- 

 pointments in this city for March 7 

 wired canceling because they feared it 

 was not safe to walk three squares from 

 Broad Street Station. 



Two-thirds of the trolley cars are run- 



