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TficWeekly Florists' Review. 



OCTOBIB 12, 1911. 



BEAUTIES 



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Extra quality, large buds and splendid color. We have a large supply of them. 

 ; , The best grade, 36-inch stems and over, $25.00 per 100. 



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NUNS 



Pink, White and Yellow. « - -^-^ 



The season's best varieties. 

 $1.50 to $3.00 per dozen. 



VALLEY 



Our Special Grade — -;:. 



Very choice $4.C0 per 100 



Good stock 3.00 per 100 



High Grade Dahlias 



The finest and largest supply in Philadelphia. $1.50 to $3.00 per 100. 



Dorothy Peacock, $^90 per 100. 



Thi^ I ^A Nltf^AA^n Cg\ WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



Open from 7 a. m. to 8 p. m.- 



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Mention Tbe Beview ythva you write. 



Leeme, of the Leedle Eosery, Spring- 

 field, O., and J. Reinhart, of Belief on- 

 taine, O. R. A. B. 



, PHILADELPHIA. 



. The Bising Eastern Market. 



kTbe "^ioiie of the cut flower- market 

 ew's decided improvement. The de- 

 md is better, while the quality of the 

 ^ock keeps pace, aided by favorable 

 weather. "Early chrysanthemums are the 

 heading feature. Many of the flowers are 

 ordered before they arrive. All are sold 

 soon after they are received, at good 

 prices. The varieties named last week, 

 Golden Glow (Early Gold), Smith's Ad- 

 vance, Polly Rose, Early Snow and Mont- 

 mort, are in larger supply. To these have 

 been added Monrovia, October Frost, 

 Glory of Pacific and Mrs. George W. 

 Kalb, affording a good range of color. 

 The general stock of early varieties is not 

 in yet, only a few growers having com_- 

 menced cutting. 



The keeping qualities of the dahlia 

 have improved considerably in the last 

 week. Cool nights and bright days are 

 ideal for dahlias. The market has ab- 

 sorbed a larger quantity than in any six 

 dayrf' of the season. Roses have short- 

 ened in supply and improved in quality. 

 Beauties continue in demand. The long- 

 stemmed flowers are plentiful — not so the 

 mediums and shorts. White roses are in 

 brisk demand-^JBUchmondiTAre less plenti- 

 ful than a fortnigljf ago. Carnations 

 show a big improvemetat. TJiey sell well 

 at good prices, but are not overabundant. 

 Indoor sweet peas are arriving, both pink 

 and white, good in color but small as yet. 

 Single violets are nice, doubles hardly in 

 form. Cattleyas are plentiful, gardenias 

 scarce. Supply and demand are well 

 balanced in valley. Easter lilies are ex- 

 cellent stock. Bouvardia has come in 

 all the colors; also snapdragons and yel- 

 low and white daisies. There. still are a 

 few asters. Greens sell moderately, fems^ 

 particularly well. There is some demand 

 for wild smilax. 



Jubilee Echoes. 



TWenty-five years ago an entertain- 

 ment such as that given by the Flo- 



White Killarney 



We have an exceptionally fine stock of this best' of ■ 

 White Roses and will be able to fill your orders 

 now and throughout the season for choice blooms. 



Carnations are rapidly rounding into form. 



' Violets, single and double, in quantity. 



Chrysanthemums, yellow, white and pink. 



Easter Lilies one of our specialties. . .. _ 



Most centrally located wholesale house in the city. ^^^ 



BERGER BROS. 



Wholesale Florist! '^^ 



1305 rilbsrt Street, Philadelphia, Wm. 



Mention The'Re7Kv«t|when you write. 



rists' Club last week would have been, 

 an impossibility, not because of ex- 

 pense, for a banquet given at that 

 time would probably have been as 

 costly, but because of the taste dis- 

 played. fPvery detail was carefully 

 planned and executed. The arrange- 

 ment of the guests, the decorations, 

 the speeches, the music, the singing, 

 the dinner itself, and above all the 

 presence of the ladies combined to 

 make an entertainment of which any 

 organization in the land might well 

 be proud; surely wo have progressed 

 in twenty-five years. Good fellow- 

 ship, always an important element in 

 our busy lives, is as prominent now as 

 then. There was nothing lost and 

 much gained. Great credit is due the 

 committee: Thomas W. Logan, John 

 F. Sibson, J. Otto Thilow, George Bur- 

 ton and Robert Kift. 



J. William Colflesh's Sons. 



There is an unwritten law among flo- 

 rists that you may go through the green- 

 houses of a brother florist without his 

 company, a little matter of courtesy as 

 rigidly observed in this profession as 

 were the laws of the Modes and Persians 

 in olden time. So when accepting the 

 invitation of the Messrs. Colflesh to 

 "drop in on us as you did on father," 

 a search was commenced in the roomy 

 shed and carried on from house to house 

 throughout the entire establishment. A 

 quiet looking individual encountered in 

 the shed said Mr. Colflesh was about. A 

 man engaged in cultural work in one of 

 the houses corroborated this statement, 

 but somehow the round was completed 

 without the desired meeting. Time for- 

 bade waiting, so I can only say that the 

 mantle of this great grower has fallen 



