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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Mabch 31, 1910. 



THE FLORISTS' SUPPLY HOUSE OF AMERICA 



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Fancy Handle Baskets, Tall Baskets with Vases, Plateau Baskets, Crepe 



Papers, Flower Shades, Handle Pot Baskets, Pot Covers, 



Toneware Vases, Imperial Chinaware 



Imported Foliage, Electrically prepared Ferns, Chiffons and Chiffons, 

 Everything in Florists' Supplies. Send for Our Illustrated Catalogue 



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1129 Arch Street 

 Philadelphia,Pa. 



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would have brought good money early in 

 the week. 



Beauties were a shade more plentiful 

 than expected, but the general result was 

 all right, because the surplus Beauties 

 were not up to shipping requirements. 

 They were poor and sold below market 

 prices, which were $6 to $7.50 per dozen. 

 Mediums were scarce; shorts plentiful. 

 Richmond sold well, also fancy Killar- 

 ney; ordinary tea roses hung fire. Pan- 

 sies were in great demand. Snaps were 

 much used, a wide range of prices being 

 noted. 



Greens were in extraordinary demand, 

 plumosus leading, Tlie short supply of 

 smilax brought the most extraordinary 

 prices, $20 to $25 being paid for light 

 strings. Wild smilax was not in demand. 

 Gardenias were brisk. 



A curious incident at the close of the 

 market was the stinging of the fakers, 

 who bought freely of carnations and 

 other flowers, only to see the public turn 

 to plants. 



Since Easter. 



There has been a drop in prices since 

 Easter, a fair shipping and local business 

 calling for considerable fancy stock at 

 about one-third of Easter prices (see 

 listed quotations). 



Easter in Philadelphia. 



The spirit of the Easter season took a 

 firmer hold on the Quaker City than ever 

 before. The soft, .springlike weather, 

 suggestive of nature bursting forth into 

 leaf and flower, brought out a warm re- 

 sponse in the hearts of the people chilled 

 by a long winter. Everywhere Easter 

 was welcomed; the store windows in the 

 shopping district were gay with Easter 

 baskets of hydrangeas, spiraeas, hya- 

 cinths, tulips and daffodils, all trimmed 

 with chic, bright ribbon bows. The flo- 

 rists' shops were ablaze with glorious 

 color; the best in nature and art were 

 combined to please the cultivated taste. 



These are a few of the many pretty 

 things in the shop windows: 



A specimen pink azalea of show-like 

 size and beauty adorned one window of 

 Robert Kift's store, finished off with an 

 immense blue bow (a Parisian adoption). 

 This central figure was set off, as the 

 play says, by lords, ladies in attendance 

 or minor floral personages. The street 



BERGER BROTHERS 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



1305 Filbert Street, 



Philadelphia, Pa. 



APRIL SPECIALTIES 



Bride and Richmond Roses, 



Fancy Sweet Peas, pink and white, 

 Lily of the Valley, 



Choice Carnations, 

 Easter Lilies. 



We are centrally located, a g^reat advantage 

 in filling hurry-up orders. 



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view through the store was an effect in 

 white, dazzlingly beautiful. 



Frank Polites had the happy inspira- 

 tion of filling an orange-colored basket 

 with an Otaheite orange plant. It was 

 strikingly pretty. 



H. H. Battles favored the natural pot- 

 tery of light hue, having many spring 

 plants in pottery of this sort. Pink and 

 yellow heather were noticed as being par- 

 ticularly novel and attractive. 



Miniature clay barrels, each filled with 

 a blooming plant, were seen in the store 

 windows of Robert Crawford, Jr. 



George Craig effectively used light 

 blue ribbon with pink flowering plants. 

 The combination was sure to make one 

 stop and take notice. 



Birch bark baskets, long-handled and 

 spiraea-filled, were a feature at Charles 

 Henry Fox's Sign of the Eose. 



A magnificent specimen of Bougainvil- 



lea Sanderiana, dressed in lavender-pur- 

 ple, so to speak, ' to match, was one of 

 the floral triumphs of the Bellevue-Strat- 

 ford window of J. J. Habermehl's Sons. 

 There were many more bits of floral 

 art, planned and executed by our leading 

 artists, working in harmony with the 

 most fastidious flower lovers, but these 

 few pretty pictures, poorly described, 

 must suffice. 



Hardy Perennials. 



The frames were full of 2% -inch pots, 

 with little green showing, the plants in 

 more or less advanced stages and here 

 and there a flower of golden yellow 

 adonis or early primrose to show that 

 spring had really come. Bow after row 

 of these frames gave an idea of vastness,. 

 clearly marking the extent to which the 

 growing of hardy perennials has ad- 

 vanced in the Dreer nurseries, at Biver- 



