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26 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



APHIL 28, 1910. 



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-inch 2.50 per doz. 



24-inch 2.00 per doz. 



18-inch 1.50 per doz. 



Maryland 



30-lnch stems $12.00 per 100 



Pink and While Killarneys, 



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 



Good 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 



Red, white and pink, 

 $8.00 per 100. 



We expect to have a steady sup- 

 ply of them now until the end of 

 their 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. 



TheLeoNiesseoCo. 



Wholesale Flori'sts 



1209 Arch Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



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



FINE VALLEY 



We take pleasure in offering fine Valley in three grades : 

 Fancy, $5.00 per 100. 

 Select, $4.00 per 100. 

 Ordinary, $3.00 per 100. 

 This is well grown atock, carefully hardened, so that it 

 can be safely shipped to a distance and will be in 

 the best condition when received. You can safely 

 depend on us, for our stock is large and we will 

 work hard to please you. 



W. E. McKISSICK & BROS. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



1619-21 Ranstead St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



PHILADELPHIA, 



The Rising Eastern Market 



The rains of Quaker week, carried over 

 a little longer, have not destroyed the 

 improved tone in the market. All kinds 

 of roses are more plentiful and are sell- 

 ing better than at any time since Easter 

 week. Beauties are an exception to this 

 rule. The height of the crop has been 

 passed. The good Beauties are selling 

 well, with prices holding satisfactorily 

 for the season. Carnations are not so 

 plentiful as a week ago, the demand re- 

 maining about the same, resulting in 

 better average prices for much of the 

 good stock. Sweet peas are of improved 

 quality, due to the new crop of a num- 

 ber of growers. The vines ,iust coming 

 into bloom give some splendid flowers in 

 all colors. The spent vines do not pro- 

 duce stock that will compare with these 

 new crops. Fine peas are in active de- 

 mand on the wedding days. Cattleyas, 

 chiefly Mossiae now, are more plentiful 

 and lower in price. The drop has not 

 yet accelerated the demand. 



Inere is not much doing in gardenias, 

 owing possibly to the absence of their 

 bosom friends, the violets. Lilies of the 

 valley are the liveliest flowers on the 

 list today, a genuine scarcity in really 

 fine valley sending the wholesalers to the 

 wires connecting with the specialists, a 

 condition as unusual as it is exhilarating 

 for the late spring. The price has 

 moved up under active buying for crit- 

 ical orders. 



All kinds of green are plentiful, even 

 dagger ferns being quite equal to the 

 demand. 



Snaps arc fine and plentiful; quite a 

 good demand has been developed at ex- 

 tremely moderate prices. White lilac 

 has been reinforced by outdoor-grown 

 stock of excellent quality. There are 

 still a few daffs, but tulips are over. 



Long-lstemmed lilies find a better mar- 

 ket now; Easter lilies have firmed in 

 price, while callas are not nearly so 

 plentiful. 



Spring blossoms are abundant when 

 not spoiled by the rain. 



The East End. 



Phlox divaricata is just coming into 

 bloom on the eastern slope at Horticul- 

 tural hall in Fairmount park, lightening 

 the dark masses of low-growing ever- 

 green with a pale glory that is fully a 

 fortnight earlier than usual. The beds 

 facing the east end are extremely fine 

 this year; the combination is of tulips 

 and pansies with the white English 

 daisy, Bellis perennis, planted effectively 

 as a border. The central bed, where the 

 tulips are just falling with the rain, now 

 appears a solid carpet of pansies in 

 shades of blue edged with the pink tinted 

 white daisies, a combination most pleas- 

 ing. The other beds show the possibili- 

 ties in pansy planting, the powers that 

 be rightly believing the best effects can 

 be made with single varieties in a bed 

 rather than by a riot of color. 



The sun is just setting on the beauty 

 of the parterre planted, as last year, in 

 tulips, beds and festoons filled with the 

 best varieties, the planting closely fol- 

 lowing the graceful lines laid out on the 

 velvety green grass. 



Various Notes. 



H. Bayersdorfer and Mrs. Bayersdor- 

 fer sailed April 23 from New York for 

 Antwerp on the Red Star liner Lapland. 

 Their son, Sydney Bayersdorfer, went 

 over to see them off. 



Howard Thompson, Kennett Square, 

 Pa., will rebuild this season, erecting 

 four new houses, 28x200 each, connected, 

 to be devoted to carnations and mush- 

 rooms. Mr. Thompson has placed his or- 

 der with D. T. Connor, of Lord & Burn- 

 ham Co. 



A. B. Ellsworth, Allentown, Pa.; Mrs. 

 C. Blackman, Reading, Pa., and Mrs. A. 

 S. Dimson, Reading, Pa., were visitors 

 recently. 



M. R'ce and Mrs. Rice have written 

 to friends in this city from Vienna. 



David Feurstenberg is gazing thought- 

 fully at the mushroom field. 



John F. Erwin Co., Delanco, N. J., 

 are sending fine new crop sweet peas, 

 pink, white and lavender, to Samuel F. 

 Liiley. They are grown in solid beds 



