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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



March 24, 1910. 



Niessen's 



News Column 



Spriflg Weddiop 



They follow the lenten season, 

 like sunshine after rain. We are 

 glad to report that we will have 

 a large supply of stock appro- 

 priate for such occasions. Quality 

 is an all-important factor. " Cut 

 Flowers have reached a point of 

 perfection this season, never be- 

 fore accomplished. If you have 

 not found it is so, it is no reflec- 

 tion on tjhis statement — the fault 

 is with the source of your supply. 



Pink and White 



Killarneys 



Our growers are in with a 

 heavy crop. A large supply in- 

 surfls best selection. 

 Splendid value at 



moo to $12.00 per 100 

 Extra select 



$15.00 per 100 



Valley 



$3.00 and $4.00 per 100 



Cattleyas 



$9.00 per dozen 



Gardenias 



$3.00 and $4.00 per dozen 



Sweet Peas 



$1.00 per 100 



Daisies 



White and Yellow 



$1.50 and $2.00 per 100 



Can furnish them in quantity 

 at special prices. 



Southern Smilax 



$6,00 per case 



Southern Daffodils 



according to variety 

 $7.50 and $10.00 per 1,000 



TkeLeoNiesseiiCo. 



Wliolesale Florists 



1209 Arck StrMt 



PHILADELPHIA 



Op«B from 7 a. m. to 8 p. m. 



AFTER EASTER 



After Easter you will want many cut flowers for weddings, 

 lunches, teas and parties; we will have a complete assortment of 

 everytbinK in the market and can give you flne quality at moderate 

 prices. Our specialties : 



EASTER LlLIESy fancy and select. 



CARNATIONS, pink, white and red. 



SWEET PEAS. 



ROSES, including Madame Jardine ( our grower won the 

 highest award for this variety at the National Rose Society Exhibi- 

 tion in New York last week), and all SPRING FLOWERS. 

 WILD SMILAX for the decorator. 

 Our service is unexcelled. 



W. E. McKISSICK & BROS. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



1619-21 Ranstead St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



PHILADELPHIA. 





The Rising Eastern Market. 



The w^fe^Ji ending Wednesday, March 

 is considered the best in the cut 

 'ower market since New Year's. The 

 crops of carnations, and possibly roses, 

 have been larger at times, but the gen- 

 eral supply of flowers is now at its 

 height, with the demand fully equal. The 

 improvement commenced with the activ- 

 ity of white carnations, noted last week, 

 just tbef ore St. Patrick's day. When this 

 demand was satisfied, a far greater de- 

 mand for all other flowers kept everyone 

 busy; there has been practically no lull 

 since. Prices have advanced, more per- 

 haps in the ordinary grades bringing the 

 prices of the higher, than in any actual 

 increase in figures, with a few excep- 

 tions. The street men, who during the 

 last four weeks' depression have been so 

 useful in keeping down the surplus, com- 

 plain bitterly that they can not get any 

 thing worth having now. 



The height of the carnation crop is 

 past, with indications of a fair supply, 

 weather favoring. Prices, advanced so 

 sharply on whites for St. Patrick's day, 

 have receded but little, the colors now 

 keeping pace with white. Roses are ar- 

 riving in stronger force, with sufficient 

 demand for all, save possibly the poorer 

 grades, and they certainly do not realize 

 more than they are worth. . Sweet peas 

 have unexpectedly dropped off in num- 

 * bers just when the market began to take 

 a keen interest in their welfare, and 

 prices have advanced sharply, peas^^hat 

 could be had for 50 cents a week ago 

 now bringing from 75 cents to $1. The 

 fancy single violets are pretty well over, 

 the frames supplying most of the singles 

 now in ; they are only of fair quality. 

 Doubles are still fine, and Hudson river 

 shipments are increasing in size and in 

 their interest to the retailers. Daffodils 

 have advanced to double the price of a 

 week ago, chiefly due to the magnificent 

 flowers of Emperor. Pansies are selling 

 well. 



The return of the ' ' smart set ' ' to the 

 flower^lihops is evidenced in the increased 



demand for cattleyas and gardenias, 

 which has now supplemented an extraor- 

 dinarily heavy demand for southern ar- 

 butus, which has surprised the knowing 

 ones this season. Easter lilies are going 

 well, while callas have taken a jump, not 

 unexpected. The arrival of southern daf- 

 fodils has little effect, the quality being 

 unequal to the market requirements. 



Easter Plants at Harris% 



William K. Harris, Jr., and Mark P. 

 Mills were consulting in the office over 

 a' special delivery that had just come. 

 The shed was filled with orders selected 

 for sending out at one minute after mid- 

 night on Monday morning, when the big 

 vans were to come in and the packers 

 start to work. It was an opportunity 

 for seeing the stock at its best. The 

 plants graded high. There were more 

 azaleas than anything else, all standard 

 sorts well grown, as William K. Harris 

 delighted to say, the specimen azaleas be- 

 ipg particularly fine. Fancy bougain- 

 villeas were as usual well done, their 

 graceful, drooping flowers contrasting 

 beautifiUly with the white azaleas. An- 

 other pleasing lavender sha^k|is here in 

 Rhododendron EverestianumP The hy- 

 dranges showed a far largCT percentage 

 of blue than of pink, some of the blue 

 being truly cerulean in shade; it was 

 not stated whether this was a change of 

 popular tests or whether some fairy had 

 slipped certain mineral properties in the 

 potting soil all unbeknown to Mark P. 

 Mills. 



The genistas, exceedingly well done, 

 were less numerous than of yore, fickle 

 fashion seemingly preferring better keep- 

 ers, for the time at least. The roses in 

 the rambler class were represented by 

 Crimson Ramblers and Baby Ramblers, 

 both in strong supply; the hybrid per- 

 petuals by Magna Charta, an old-time 

 favorite, nicely done. The gardenias in 

 pots with the select Baby Ramblers may 

 be classed as the cream of the novelties. 

 There were more lilies, mostly of a good 

 medium height, than usual, and a nice 

 batch of the pink-flowered crabapple, 

 pretty for variety. 



The two^ principal whites of plainer 



