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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



May 13, 1909. 



Niessen's 



News 

 Column 



Your 



Decoration Day 



Order 



We are offering the usual sea- 

 sonable selection of stock for 

 Decoration Day. If we supplied 

 you last year, we know that you 

 have no reason for hesitating to 

 place your order with us again 

 this season. * 



If we did not supply you, and 

 you were not satisfied with the 

 goods you got elsewhere, you have 

 an excellent reason for sending 

 your order in our direction. 



The three big leaders for Deco- 

 ration Day will be 



Roses 



Carnations and 



Peonies 



and it will pay you to get in touch 

 with us for the right prices and 

 good service. 



QUOTATIONS 



FOR THIS WEEK 



Beauties— The best, $2 50 per doz . 

 Brides and Maids — Excellent 

 value, $6.00 and $3.00 per 100. 

 Cattleyas— $7.50 per doz. 



Dagger Ferns -We guarantee the 

 quality. $2.50 per 1000. 



Sweet Peas — Choice stock, 75c 

 and $1.00 per 100. 



A complete list of Rose 

 Plants from 2% and 3-inch 

 pots, sent on request. Ready 

 for delivery now. 



..The.. 



Leo Niessen Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch Street 



PHILADELPHIA 



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



NEW CROP BEAUTIES 



We offer splendidly colored blooms of highest quality 

 American Beauty roses in all grades, and can give you 

 any length of stem desired in quantity. Price, $1.00 to 

 $3.00 per doz. 



FANCY VALLEY 



We can recommend our selected Valley as being equal 

 to anything coming into the Philadelphia market today. 



SWEET PEAS 



In all colors, very fine. 50c to 75c per 100. 



W. E. McKISSICK & BROS. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



1619-21 Ranstead St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



iron-frame houses for Mr. Pierson, each 

 55x300. Mr. Sykes, the Chicago manager 

 for Lord & Burnham Co., was in New 

 York last week, closing up a contract for 

 the concern. He says the western busi- 

 ness sky looks sunny. Lyman B. Craw 

 has convalesced sufficiently to make an 

 occasional call now at the New York 

 office. 



Kessler Bros, are doing a good plant 

 business, and last week secured the con- 

 tract at Coney Island to decorate Dream- 

 land. 



The movement to close the wholesale 

 stores on Sunday has failed because of 

 lack of unanimous support. 



Clarence Saltford's fishing last week 

 was in the trout streams of Sullivan 

 county and his trophies many. 



The Astoria bowlers will go to Cin- 

 cinnati in W. H. Siebrecht 's touring auto, 

 and they will bring back some of the 

 prizes. Messrs. Donaldson, Miesem, Sie- 

 brecht, Kessler and Lorentz make an un- 

 beatable combination. In the mixed 

 bowling last week the standing resulted 

 in the following order as to merit and 

 score: Gentlemen — H. Lorentz, W. H. 

 Siebrecht, Sr., John Donaldson, Miesem 

 A. Bleckwenn, Doerhoefer, Philip Kess- 

 ler, Archmann, Arnold H. Siebrecht Dr. 

 Lorentz, Jacobson, W. H. Siebrecht,' Jr., 

 Anderson, Boese, Brodsky, F. Bleckwenn' 

 H. Lorentz, Sr. Ladies — Mrs. Lorentz' 

 Jr., Mrs. Doferhoefer, Mrs. Donaldson^ 

 Mrs. Bleckwenn, Jr., Mrs. Brodsky, Mrs! 

 W. H. Siebrecht, Sr., Mrs. Jacobson', Mrs! 

 Korfmann, Mrs. Weishar, Mrs. Anderson 

 Mrs Bleckwenn, Sr., Mrs. Boese, Mrs! 

 Arnold, Mrs. H. Lorentz, Sr. The' hand- 

 some traveling bag donated by Philip 

 Kessler was won by Mrs. Lorentz, Jr. 

 Every lady received a prize, and' the 

 special prize for ladies in the afternoon, 

 a handsome book of poems, was won by 

 Mrs. Bleckwenn, Jr. The banquet and 

 ladies' night was a great success. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



Francis G. Shanley, formerly of Guil- 

 ford, Conn., has opened a retail store at 

 1363 St. Nicholas avenue. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



Mothers' day was the feature of the 

 cut flower market during the week end- 

 ing May 12. The success of this anni- 

 versary was remarkable. Last year, when 

 first instituted, Mothers' day made a 

 pronounced hit. This year the popular 

 observance so far exceeded last year that 

 there was no comparison. I do not mean 

 by this that everyone you met on the 

 street or in any public place wore a white 

 carnation. Far from it! But the de- 

 mand was so great that the supply was 

 entirely inadequate, despite the special 

 preparations by our enterprising whole- 

 salers, who had, in many instances, 

 coached their growers long enough ahead 

 to bring a crop of white carnations in 

 at this time. Conservative judges state 

 that the demand for white carnations was 

 greater than at Christmas or at Easter. 

 They were bought in large lots, and in 

 small lots, by buyers of all degrees. 

 Everyone asked for white carnations 

 first, and, if they got white carnations 

 they often took something else also. The 

 average market price for white carna- 

 tions was $4 per hundred. Advance or- 

 ders were booked and filled at $30 per 

 thousand. Some choice White Perfec- 

 tion brought $5 per hundred, and there 

 were a few scattering sales at higher 

 prices at the eleventh hour. Enchantress, 

 which is sometimes taken to make up a 

 shortage in white, brought $3 per hun- 

 dred, but deep pink carnations and red 

 went begging and were hard to market 

 at any price. 



The demand for carnations helped the 

 cut flower market in other lines, bring- 

 ing flower buyers to the stores at a time 

 when they were badly needed. The rose 

 crops are extremely heavy just now, 

 Beauties being especially overdone, and 

 it requires great exertion on the part of 

 the wholesalers and growers to keep the 

 stock moving. Other features of the 

 market may be briefly summed up as fol- 

 lows: Cattleyas are rather scarce. Gar- 

 denias are retrograding. Valley is in 



