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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Apbil 8, 1909. 



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News 

 Column 



SEASONABLE 

 SUGGESTIONS 



Easter ie usually followed by 

 numerous weddings. We have 

 much to offer that would be de- 

 sirable and appropriate. We wish 

 particularly to call your attention 

 to the high grade of stock we are 

 offering in each line. 



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Easter Lilies'- 



$12.00 per 100 flowers. 



Valley 



A good grade, $3.00 per 100. 

 Best grade, $4.00 per 100. 



Brides and Maids 



Choice stock. 



$8.00 and $10.00 per 100. 



Sweet Peas 



White, pink and lavender. 

 75c, $1.00 and $1.50 per 100. 



Daisies 



White and yellow. 

 $1.00 and $1.50 per 100. 



Snapdragon 



Light shades— pink, white and 



yellow. 



$1.50 per dozen. 



Dagger Ferns 



If you are not satisfied with 

 your present supply of ferns, try 

 a shipment from us. We can fur- 

 nish you the best dagger ferns to 

 be had at this time of the year. 

 They are the best we have ever 

 had. 



Price, $8.60 per 1000 



Wild Smilax 



Always on hand. 

 $6.00 per case. 



..The.. 



Leo Niesseo Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



OpMi from 7:00 a. m. to 8:00 p. ■. 



Easter Weddings 



axe incomplete without Orange BlOSSOms* We have 

 choice sprays of these greeDhouse-grown flowers, and can 

 offer them to you in large or small quantities. 



Lily-off-lhe- Valley is excellent now. 



Sweet Peas are at their best in all colors, finer perhaps 

 than this market has ever seen them before. 



Long strings of Asparagus* so useful in decorations, 

 can be had in quantity. 



^ Also Wild Smilax* the most decorative of southern 

 greens. 



WRITE U8 FOR QUOTATIONS 



W. E. McKISSICK & BROS. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



1619-21 Ranstead St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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PHILADELPHIA. 



The Riiins Eastern Market ' 



It is always particularly diflBcult to ac- 

 curately describe market conditions just 

 before a great holiday. We are ap- 

 proaching the greatest church and floral 

 holiday of the year. The demand fell 

 oflf a little last week, but was sufficient 

 to absorb most of the good stock at fair 

 prices. The present week opened much 

 more actively, both in and out of town. 

 The mild, springlike weather is bringing 

 in increased shipments. Where the qual- 

 ity is maintained; the stock is not ac- 

 cumulating. 



The features of the market today are 

 the advance in the price of Cattleya 

 Schrcederae, made necessary by the com- 

 bination of decreased supply and active 

 demand, and the stringency in lilies. The 

 consensus of opinion on the street today 

 is that good lilies are worth $15 per hun- 

 dred, with the probability that there will 

 not be sufficient to meet requirements. 



While Beauties are becoming more 

 plentiful, they are not abundant. Indi- 

 cations point to their being scarcer this 

 Easter than for many years past. White 

 .carnations have again become favorites 

 over the colored varieties, the best whites 

 bringing advanced prices. Sweet peas 

 are coming in from growers who have 

 specially prepared them for Eaater. The 

 stock is fine, strengthening the market 

 nicely. Daffodils are not plentiful; the 

 southern stock is arriving in limited 

 quantity. In fact, it looks as though the 

 Virginia growers were passing this city 

 by. 



The Meeting of Councils. 



The first Monday in April is well 

 known to every florist in this city as the 

 day when City Councils first meet in City 

 hall. It is the beginning of the new 

 councilmanic year. For several years 

 past flowers have taken a back seat at 

 these gatherings. The desks, especially 

 of the new members, once made gay with 

 floral offerings from admiring friends, 

 have been bare. This year everything is 



changed. The old custom has been re- 

 vived so generally as to be quite surpris- 

 ing. City hall was almost surrounded by 

 the wagons of our leading florists and 

 decorators from every ward in this great 

 city just before Councils assembled last 

 Monday morning. There were horseshoes 

 of good luck, and baskets galore. There 

 were red roses and pink roses, and every 

 kind of flower bright and cheerful. The 

 place of honor must be conceded to the 

 baskets, made up of flowering plants 

 with here and there a touch of green. 

 The florists had a great opportunity. It 

 was the week before Easter, and the ad- 

 vance guard of Easter plants was at its 

 Dest. Here was a chance to get their 

 hands in at making up, a chance that 

 was eagerly grasped. There were many 

 beautiful combinations seen at City hall 

 that morning, combinations that it is 

 hoped the city fathers appreciated, and 

 it is hoped, too, that they will allow this 

 custom to continue by admitting the 

 tributes! to be placed on their desks each 

 year, isstead of banishing them to a side 

 room. 



Wilson vs. Pericat. 



The floral world has been interested 

 from time to time in various suits, I 

 think they were four in number, brought 

 by Mrs. Edna Wilson, wife of George B. 

 Wilson, against Alphonse Pericat. The 

 final suit, civil in its character, has just 

 been concluded in the Delaware County 

 Court, at Media, resulting in a verdict 

 for the defendant. The facts in the 

 case, briefly stated, are as follows: Al- 

 phonse Pericat, gardener and orchid 

 grower for George B. Wilson, was in- 

 structed by Mrs. Wilson to market some 

 of his products, Mrs. Wilson proposing 

 that he should pay her a certain portion 

 of the receipts and retain the balance. 

 The receipts were quite large, amounting 

 in eighteen months to about $2,800. Mr. 

 Pericat paid Mrs. Wilson the amount 

 agreed upon, but when Mr. Wilson be- 

 came aware of the arrangement a dis- 

 pute arose, ending in criminal and civil 

 suits. Mr. Pericat has been successful in 

 all of the suits, clearly proving that bis 



