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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Apbil 21, 1910. 



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Niessen's 



News Column 



ROSES 



In that direction we believe the 

 market affords the best values now. 

 BEAUTIES we can furnish In most 

 any quantity, and would be pleased 

 to quote special prices on large 

 orders. You will find our Beauties 

 of excellent quality, good color and 

 fine foliage. The quality of our Best 

 Maryland is also worthy of special 

 mention. They have stems 30 Inches 

 long, good flowers and make a splen- 

 did showing when fully developed. 



Beauties 



The Best |3.00 per doz. 



30-lnch 2.50 per doz. 



24-lnch 2.00 per doz. 



18-lnch 1.50 per doz. 



Maryland 



30-lnch stems $12.00 per 100 



Pink and White Killaraeys, 



Richmond, Kaiserin, 



Bride, Maid, Maryland 



100. 



Good long stems $8.00 to $10.00 



Good mediums 5.00 to 6.00 



Shorts 3.00 to 4.00 



Carnations 



The Best $3.00 per 100 



Gtood stock 2.00 per 100 



Daisies 



White $10.00 per 1000 



Yellow 15.00 per 1000 



We can furnish Daisies In most 

 any quantity. You will find them 

 of good quality, large flowers and 

 long stems. 



Peonies 



Bed, white and pink, 

 $8.00 per 100. 



We expect to have a steady sup- 



Sly of them now until the end of 

 leir season. If we have a few days' 

 notice, can supply them in large 

 quantity, at special prices. 



Sweet Peas 



50c to $1.00 per 100. 

 Pink, White and Lavender. 



TheLeoNiesseiiCo. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arck StfMt 



PHILADELPHIA 



O^B from 7 a. a. to 8 p. m. 



EASTER LILIES 



Nothing 80 deoorativa for the amart weddings at the end of 

 Apiil. Our lilies are the finest in the Philadelphia market, w^iiave 

 them in quantity and can fill yonr order at short notice. 



CARNATIONS 



All colors, select and ordinary grades, at moderate prices. 



ROSES 



We are receiving some of the finest stock coining into this 

 city, including Mrs. Jardine, recognized as the leading rose during 

 the past season. 



WILD SMILAX 



Still have a few cases left for the decorator. Price, $7.50 per case. 



W. E. McKlSSICK & BROS. 



WHOLBSALB FLORISTS 



1619-21 Ranstead St., PHILADELPHIA. PA. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market 



Mrs. Jardine is the bright, particular 

 star of the floral world this week, for has 

 not Mrs. Jardine been selected as the 

 proper pink for the wedding in New 

 York, going over fully 1,000 strong, in 

 appearance so fine that Philadelphia may 

 well be proud! 



The fashionable weddings, here and 

 elsewhere, create the principal demand 

 from the smart set. The stock is in 

 every way worthy for such occasions, the 

 higher grade of orchids, roses, valley, 

 etc., being especially fine. Unfortunately, 

 there are many flowers in the lower 

 grades, flowers that cannot find a market 

 that will pay the cost of production. 

 These flowers are mostly sold at some 

 price, but their increasing number causes 

 grave anxiety to the wholesalers, who feel 

 the responsibility of returning living 

 prices to the growers. At times like 

 these the difference between stock of high 

 grade that reaches the market in prime 

 condition and stock of low grade, or stock 

 that is unripe, or too ripe, is enormous. 



Sweet peas continue in active demand. 

 The supply of fine stock is limited. It 

 would seem that the hot weather of two 

 weeks ago railroaded crops to a degree 

 that precluded the possibility of much 

 fine stock for a time. Poor peas are not 

 in demand. Carnations vary greatly with 

 different growers. Many of those who 

 have had heavy crops through the winter 

 and at Easter are now at low water mark, 

 while many others are coming in with a 

 strong spring crop. 



The percentage of high grade carna- 

 tions is not large; the poor stock is par- 

 ticularly trying to the dealers. Roses are 

 abundant. Fine flowers in all varieties 

 are obtainable at prices moderate for the 

 season. Here, too, the lower grades are 

 most in evidence. The lily market is im- 

 proving, although lilies do not yet bring a 

 price that can be returned with pride. 



Cattleyas are increasing in supply, 

 prices declining. The market for gar- 

 denias is insufficient. Violets still hold 



on, the buyers manifesting less and less 

 interest. Dagger ferns are most active 

 among the greens; the fine stock of the 

 old crop is at premium. Pansies gain 

 added interest to the exit of the violet 

 and the shortage of the sweet pea. A few 

 outdoor daffodils and tulips are seen. 



Apple blossoms and Jersey lilacs are 

 abundant. 



The Shifting; of the Scene. 



With the opening of spring, popular 

 interest, from the florists' standpoint, 

 centers in the establishments of the 

 wholesale plant growers, those who spe- 

 cialize in pot plants for lawns and gar- 

 dens. It has been the object of this 

 column to write of one or more of these 

 places each spring; this season the choice 

 fell on Charles Mecky. 



Mr. Mecky, reputed one of the most 

 prosperous of our florists, formerly 

 owned and operated a plant at Seven- 

 teenth street and Erie avenue. The 

 march of improvement drove him west- 

 ward; about five years ago he purchased 

 a large tract of ground on the Limekiln 

 pike, north of Chelten avenue, in Pitt- 

 ville, where he has erected something 

 like 50,000 square feet of glass, more 

 or less,^ in the most substantial manner. 



His packing shed is an immense af- 

 fair, designed for expeditious loading of 

 vans; no other word will apply to the 

 kind of wagon Mr. Mecky uses, for he 

 believes in having a means of trans- 

 portation that comes as near to carry- 

 ing all of an order as anyone could 

 reasonably expect. When I was there 

 one of these vans was being loaded with 

 hydrangeas and geraniums, both nicely 

 done, the former the tail end of the 

 Easter crop, the latter the scouts of the 

 spring army. The Easter crop at Pitt- 

 ville includes Hydrangea Otaksa and 

 Thomas Hogg, that good old standby, 

 not as frequently seen as of old. The 

 pure white, seen in mass, was most at- 

 tractive, there being no evidence of that 

 crumpled look so distressing in this va- 

 riety. Daisies are also grown in large 

 quantities, and spirsBas, too, I think. 

 Boses are the mainstay of the Pittville 



