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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Afbil 22, 1909. 



Niessen's 



News 

 Column 



We Want 



Your Business 



There is a reason for our in- 

 creasing shipping trade. If it 

 were possible to give that part of 

 our business closer attention, we 

 would certainly do so. We claim 

 to give you service that is as near 

 perfection as a good supply of cut 

 flowers and a thorough knowl- 

 edge of the business can make it. 



We wish to call attention to a 

 few items that are particularly 

 good value at the present time. 



Beauties 



The best, $3.00 per doz. 



We can vouch for their quality 

 to be equal to any that are offered 

 in this market. 



Sweet Peas 



The best grade, 

 Very choice stock, $1.00 per 100 



We can furnish these in most 

 any quantity, in pink (flesh color), 

 Blanche Ferry, lavender and white. 



Snapdragon 



Stalks 4 to 5 ft. long, with large, 

 heavy flowera. Flowers in white, 

 yellow and dark pink. On short 

 notice we can furnish 500 stalks 

 in the best of condition. 



Price, $1.25 per doz. 



Dagger Ferns 



The best we have ever handled 

 at this season of the year. You 

 would hardly expect to get ferns 

 of a quality such as we are ship- 

 ping at this time of the year. 

 Good, clean stock, every leaf a 

 good one, and no waste. 



Price, $2.50 per 1000 



..The.. 



Leo Niessefl Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



Op«n from 7:00 a. m. to 8:00 p. ■. 



Orange Blossoms 



We offer Orange Blossoms as a specialty for April 



Weddings. Choice greenhouse-grown stock in 



large or small quantities. 



Other Specialties For April Weddinss 



SWEET PEAS, pink, white, lavender. 



VALLEY, select and fancy gfrades. 



BRIDE, BRIDESMAID, MARYLAND and KILLARNEY Roses. 



WILD SMILAX, for the decorator. 



Shipping orders for liigh-grade flowers on short 

 notice is our specialty. 



W. E. McKISSICK & BROS. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



1619-21 Ranstead St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention The Revleyy wben you write. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



Greens are the only strong feature of 

 a weak market. Conditions were favor- 

 able until the close of last week, the de- 

 mand being sufficient to keep some sort 

 of pace with the supply until Saturday 

 night. Summer heat on Sunday and 

 Monday brought in such an immense 

 quantity of flowers that the market was 

 swamped. The most strenuous efforts of 

 the wholesalers kept a certain amount of 

 stock moving, but the accumulations 

 were large. Prices have fallen all along 

 the line. Beauties are plentiful once 

 more, a condition not seen before this 

 year. The medium grades are still in 

 short supply, the abundance being in 

 long and to a lesser degree in shorts. 

 Other roses are in heavy supply, with 

 little demand for the inferior grades. 

 Mrs. Jardine is not keeping pace with the 

 others as a warm weather rose. Carna- 

 tions were fairly good stock last week, 

 but this week it is different. Cattleyas 

 are scarce. The smaller Skinneri is in 

 moderate supply. Sweet peas are good 

 and cheap, the better grades selling as 

 well as anything. Valley is a shade 

 scarcer, probably in anticipation of the 

 outdoor crop. White lilac is over, and 

 violets are nearly so. Gardenias are in 

 moderate supply, as regards the finer 

 grade, and plentiful wben ordinary stock 

 is under consideration. Southern daffo- 

 dils seem to be over ; the outdoor stock of 

 our own singles and doubles can be seen 

 everywhere. Easter lilies have become 

 plentiful, showing that some blooms did 

 miss Easter, while callas are quite a 

 drug. Daisies are not selling well, bar- 

 ring the pretty pink sport of Queen Alex- 

 andra. Cherry and apple blossoms aid 

 the decorator. "Wild smilax is still ob- 

 tainable. 



Cold rain improved the market condi- 

 tion slightly Tuesday and Wednesday of 

 this week, by shortening production. 



Independence Square. 



The bulb planting in Independence 

 square, famous for its historic associa- 



tions, has been limited this year to four 

 large beds. They are interesting as an 

 illustration of the effect of mass plant- 

 ing. Two circular beds, each some fif- 

 teen feet in diameter, are planted with 

 Keizerkroon in the center, surrounded by 

 a broad band of L'Immaculee. These 

 beds were not at their best in the early 

 part of the week, but will be showy when 

 these lines see print, the two varieties 

 being well timed for what might be 

 termed cooperative blooming. The other 

 two beds, triangular in shape, were 

 planted with a broad triangle of the 

 King of the Blues hyacinths in the cen- 

 ter, surrounded with six rows of La Gran- 

 desse, white, the border being five row» 

 of Gertrude, pink. The effect, April 19, 

 was striking, every flower stripe being 

 large, the flowers fully developed and 

 well colored. The bulbs for all the city 

 squares, some 65,000 in number, were 

 supplied by Henry F. Michell Co. 



Possibilities of the Pansies. 



The pansy has for the last three year» 

 made its impress on the cut flower mar- 

 ket of this city. One specialist, W. A. 

 Knott, of Fox Chase, has devoted his 

 entire time to raising these dainty flow- 

 ers. Other growers have devoted part of 

 their time and space to the pansy for cut 

 flowers, and even truckers, who formerly 

 grew heartsease, as the pansy is called, 

 only for plants for the garden, have 

 coaxed their stock into bloom in time to 

 harvest a crop of flowers. The bunches 

 have always been sent in mixed colors, 

 usually seven flowers to a bunch. A nov- 

 elty seen this week at the store of W. B. 

 McKissick & Bros, were bunches of some 

 fifty pansy blooms, each bunch composed 

 of only one variety, some crimson, some 

 blue, some purple, some white, some yel- 

 low. These bunches, arranged by Wm. A. 

 Keaton, Andalusia, Pa., a well-known 

 grower of fancy violets, seem a decided 

 advance. It may be that I am wrong in 

 my enthusiasm over these pansies, but 

 they suggested the possibility of corsage 

 bouquets, of luncheon effects, and other 

 telling arrangements in the hands of our 

 skillful retailers. 



