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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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Mabch 25, 1909. 



Niessen's 



News 

 Column 



EASTER 

 PLANTS 



We have made up a list of all 

 the desirable plants for Easter. 

 Orders entrusted to us will have 

 the best care and attention. We 

 will secure for you plants pro- 

 duced by the best growers in 

 Philadelphia. We will mail you 

 our list on request. 



Lilies 



We are booking orders now for 

 cut blooms for Easter delivery. 

 Lilies are apparently not very 

 plentiful, and orders should be 

 placed early. We are offering a 

 stock of lilies as good as any 

 grown in this section. 



According to the length of stem, 

 $12.00 and $15.00 per 100. 



Cut Flowers 



of Special Value 



We can offer you for next week 

 in roses: 



Brides Maids 



Killarney Richmonds 



A good grade, and of some of the 

 varieties the best stock, at $6.00, 

 $8.00 and $10.00 per 100. 



Carnatioos 



Fancy Stock 



Our selection of colors and va- 

 rieties, ordered in five-hundred 

 lots and over, $3.00 per 100. 



..The.. 



Leo Niessea Co. 



.Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



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



For Easter :-Kaiserifl,yiolets 



We expect to have a fine lot of High Grade Kaiserins at Easter. Write 

 us now, and we will book your orders for as many of these popular 

 Roses as you may require. We are assured a good supply of Double 

 Violets, both Marie Louise from the Hudson River, and Lady 

 Campbell from the local growers, and will book your orders for 

 high grade stock for Easter delivery. :: :: :: :: 



It looks as though all kinds of flowers would be of excellent quality 

 and reasonably plentiful. We solicit your orders in advance to 

 secure the selected stock, which is always in brisk demand. 



Wild Smilax for the decorator 



W. E. McKISSICK & BROS. 



WHOLESALE PLORISTS 



1619-21 Ranstead St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Club attended a meeting of the North 

 Shore Horticultural Society, March 19, 

 and enjoyed a pleasant evening. Had 

 the invitation been received a little ear- 

 lier, so that proper notice could have 

 been given to members, many more would 

 have attended. 



The Gardeners' and Florists' Club 

 members and friends intending to go on 

 the field day to the W. W. Edgar Co., 

 April 3, are asked to take Waverley car, 

 leaving Park Street station at 1 o'clock. 

 The establishments of Edgar Bros, and 

 Peirce Bros, will also be visited. 



John Barr, of South Natick, has a 

 magnificent lot of cyclamens for Easter, 

 which are all sold. Mr. Barr's exhibits 

 of cyclamens were for years a feature 

 at the Boston show, while he was head 

 gardener on the Cheney estate. 



A. S. McDonald, of Temple place, car- 

 ries an extra fine line of leucothoe, galas 

 and dagger ferns. He personally over- 

 sees the packing of the bulk of his ferns, 

 which accounts for their extreme fresh- 

 ness. 



John McFarland is marketing fine lots 

 of Brunner roses at present, in addition 

 to his other specialties, gardenias and 

 valley. 



H. M. Kobinson & Co. have a fine con- 

 signment of southern smilax for Easter. 

 They will also make a feature of ship- 

 ping crates of pot lilies this year. They 

 report trade as good, with excellent 

 Easter prospects. 



WilUam T. Walke, of Salem, has, 

 among other Easter flowering stock, an 

 extra fine lot of amaryllis. 



H. H. Bartsch, of the W. W. Edgar 

 Co., spent a few days the last week 

 looking over plant growing establish- 

 ments, including among others such 

 noted ones as those of Anton Schultheis, 

 Keller, Dupuy, Dreer and Bobbink & 

 Atkins. 



Thomas Eoland has his houses, as 

 usual, overflowing with a magnificent lot 

 of acacias, ramblers, genistas, bougain- 

 villeas and other Easter stock. 



William Miller, the veteran and genial 

 West Lynn florist, is taking his custom- 



ary winter trip, which this season is to 

 Bermuda. 



Now that Boston has demonstrated its 

 ability to hold two big commercial shows 

 within three weeks of each other, it is to 

 be hoped that another year an amalga- 

 mated show may be arranged, which 

 thousands of the general public can 

 enjoy. 



J. B. Velie, local representative of the 

 Lord & Burnham Co., reports business as 

 showing a distinct improvement. 



Superintendent Pettigrew, of the park 

 system, rightly condemns California 

 privet as a hedge plant for this section. 

 It is quick growing and cheap, but ut- 

 terly unreliable, every severe winter cut- 

 ting it to the ground. It succeeds in 

 Newport, E. I., where the climate is 

 milder, but as a hedge plant in Massa- 

 chusetts it is almost worthless. 



Present indications are that the 

 amount of winter killing among trees 

 and shrubs will this season be unusually 

 small. The greatest damage done is to 

 perennials which were unmulched. 

 Losses in these promise to be quite se- 

 vere. W. N. Ceaig. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Riiiii£ Eastern Market. 



Conditions have improved somewhat in 

 the cut flower market since the report of 

 one week ago. The rather wintry March 

 weather has retarded crops, benefiting 

 prices. This is notably true in the case 

 of sweet peas, carnations, and, in a less 

 degree, violets. Eoses have been rather 

 dull. Beauties continue to maintain their 

 high price through shortage in supply. 

 Other roses are not in especial demand, 

 white being preferred to colors by the 

 buyers. White has also the preference 

 over colored blooms in other varieties of 

 stock, indicating funeral work. The 

 northern grown daffodils of quality in 

 varieties fike Golden Spur continue to 

 maintain an excellent price, despite the 

 southern grown stock offered here. These 

 Virginia flowers are chiefly Princeps so 

 far. Greens are rather scarce. Good 



