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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Mabch 18, 1909. 



Messen's 



News 

 Column 



VALUE 



for your money 



We can furnish you a grade of 

 roees at $5.00, $6.00 and $8.00 per 

 100, that will surely please you; 

 Rood Killarney, Brides, Maids, 

 Richmonds, etc. Not the best 

 grades of these roses, but the best 

 value at the prices quoted that 

 you can get in this market. 



BEAUTIES 



The best grade, 36-inch stems 

 and over, at $ti.00 per dozen. We 

 have plenty of the medium sizes. 

 If tbe market price is less, they 

 will be charged to you accord- 

 ingly. You will get the benefit of 

 any change in prices. 



Carnations 



Fancies 



In 500-lotB, $3.00 per 100. Our 

 selection of colors, including En- 

 chantress, Winsor, Rose-Pink En- 

 chantress, good red and white. 



PANSIES 



Do not think of the grade of 

 pansies generally offered. This 

 is a different grade, the best you 

 can get anywhere. We can supply 

 fifty bunches, or a thousand, at 

 short notice. 



$5.00 per 100 bunches. 



Bulbous Stock 



In great variety and at very 

 attractive prices. Single and 

 double Tulips in all colors, green- 

 house grown Daffodils and the 

 southern stock, pure white Freesia. 

 Callas, $ 1.50 per doz. 

 10.00 per 100. 



..The.. 



Leo Niessen Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



Open from 7:00 a. m. to 8:00 p. m. 



Special Quotations 



The next fortnight is a fruitful time for 

 creating business; the stocks are large and 

 of high quality, the public must be tempted. 

 Will you try a quantity of some variety of 

 flowers for a specialty ? If so, write, wire 

 or 'phone us for quotations. 



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 Riling Eastern Market 



The feature of the market this week 

 commented on everywhere is the scarcity 

 of white carnations, desired, presumably, 

 for St. Patrick's day. It did not ap- 

 pear that white carnations were so scarce, 

 but when overyone wanted some for stock 

 or to dye, the supply proved entirely in- 

 adequate, and prices advanced forthwith. 

 The other features of the market are the 

 increase in the fancy grades of American 

 Beauty roses, the increase in quantity 

 and corresponding decrease in price of 

 Cattleya Schroederiana, and the cheapness 

 of violets and pansies. The market is in 

 fair shape. There is quite a little busi- 

 ness going, but it has to be courted, and 

 prices wabble considerably. The ten- 

 dency is downward, but the quality does 

 much to check the decline. Further com- 

 ments are superfluous, conditions being 

 but little changed from a week ago, barr- 

 ing only St. Patrick's day. which was a 

 major shamrock and minor floral festival. 



The Daty on Roses. 



Congress has been summoned to Wash- 

 ington in extra session this week to re- 

 vise the tariff, a subject that has given 

 anxious thought to men in all branches 

 of business all over the country. Eecom- 

 mendations for an increase ot duty, for 

 a lower duty, or for placing on the free 

 list, have been pouring in upon the Ways 

 and Means committee for many weeks. 



A feature of special interest to nur- 

 serymen and florists is the duty on roses. 

 The present duty is 2% cents a plant, 

 intended to protect our home-grown stock 

 from the more cheaply grown plants 

 across the water. This duty, the nur- 

 serymen have almost unanimously agreed, 

 should be raised to 4 cents a plant, with 

 the idea of further protecting and fos- 

 tering rose growing in this country. 

 Some of the most influential importers 

 object to this proposed increase, pointing 

 out that it will simply work a hardship 

 on them without in any way benefiting 

 our growers. 



J. D. Eisele, vice-president of H. A. 



Dreer, and one of the ablest and best 

 informed men in our business, says that 

 he is opposed to this increase in duty, 

 because it would simply oblige the im- 

 porters to pay money to the government 

 out of their own pockets, without bene- 

 fiting anyone else. Taking the total of 

 four invoices, Mr. Eisele counted 56,000 

 roses imported from England and Ire- 

 land this season. Of these 33,000 were 

 of varieties that cannot be obtained in 

 this country; 7,500 were of varieties that 

 can rarely be obtained in this country, 

 making a total of 40,500 out of 56,000 

 rarely if ever procured here. These roses 

 are catalogued at 50 cents each, $5 a 

 dozen. It would not be practicable, Mr. 

 Eisele said, to increase the price, as they 

 are now sold on a close margin when all 

 expenses are considered. This would 

 therefore mean an additional expense of 

 $800 on the rose business of one com- 

 pany alone, without any prospect of bene- 

 fiting the home industry. 



Roses on Own Roots. 



P. Joseph Lynch, managing owner of 

 the Dingee & Conard Co., takes issue 

 with W. N. Craig in his reply to a recent 

 inquiry regarding outdoor roses. Mr. 

 Craig advocates budded or grafted stock 

 for the best results in the garden. Mr. 

 Lynch believes that garden roses should 

 be on their own roots. He instances 

 many of the finest gardens throughout 

 the country, gardens which he personally 

 has planned and planted all with Amer- 

 ican-grown roses. Mr. Lynch supports 

 his views with the corroborative testi- 

 mony from an army of amateurs and 

 landscape gardeners. He further points 

 out the danger of the outdoor rose de- 

 teriorating and the greater danger that 

 in unskillful hands suckers will destroy 

 the plants. Eegarding quality Mr. Lynch 

 says that he will defy the imported 

 budded or grafted rose to meet the own- 

 root rose grown outdoors in his North 

 Carolina farm in friendly competition; 

 the growth has been excellent, the buds 

 large and well formed. 



Discussing business conditions, Mr. 

 Lynch said that the large plant orders 

 from the wealthy almost entirely ceased 



