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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



JANUABT 19, 1911. 



Spring Flow^ers 



White Lilac, 75c and $1.00 per bunch. Pussy Willow, 50c per bunch. 

 Sweet Peas, $1.00 per 100. Valley, $3.00 and $4.00 per 100. 



Single Daffodils, $3.0ato $4.00 per 100. Tulips, $3.00 and $4.00 per 100. 



Pansies, $8.00 per 100 bunches. 



.00 per 100. 

 Singles, good value, 50c to 75c per 100. 



The Leo Niessen Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch St. ti Philadelphia 



Op«n from 7 a. m. to 8 p. m. 



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Md., has installed his new 100 horse- 

 power tubular boiler, which is doing 

 excellent work, as Mr. Hamilton 's range 

 of glass is a large one. His cut of roses 

 and carnations is the finest he has had 

 for some time. 



G. A. Lotze, of Glenbumie, Md., has 

 two houses of single violets which are 

 worth going a long way to see. The stems 

 are about seven inches long. He has just 

 finished a propagating house, 14x75, for 

 carnation and mum cuttings, which are 

 looking fine. He has two acres of sweet 

 peas planted outside and covered with 

 pine branches. Q. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Bising Eastern Market. 



A decided change has come over the 

 cut flower market. Perhaps it may be 

 most clearly described by dividing the 

 account into two parts. In the first 

 period, comprising Thursday, Friday 

 and Saturday of last week, business 

 was something like the weather, dull 

 and featureless, with a fair market at 

 the close. In the second part, compris- 

 ing Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 

 of the present week, business has been 

 brisk, the weather invigorating. The 

 supply of roses is diminishing and in 

 their place other flowers are being used. 

 The demand has not yet extended to 

 bulbous flowers, the slowest on the list. 

 Violets, too, have been rather dull. 



American Beauties have been better 

 in the long than in the medium grades. 

 A fair quantity of stock is offered; 

 prices are firmer. Richmond and Kil- 

 larney are in only moderate supply; 

 the shorter grades have advanced in 

 price. Maryland is scarcer than Kil- 

 larney. While there is a good demand 

 for pink roses, white is selling even 

 better. There are no fancy whites in 

 the market. All grades of White Kil- 

 larney and of Bride are in demand. 



Carnations gave a lot of trouble last 

 week, during the depressingly damp, 

 warm weather; they would not keep 

 when subjected to strain. Conditions 

 have greatly improved with the colder 

 weather and carnations are now in re- 

 quest, the better grades particularly 

 so. Violets have been unsatisfactory, 

 but there is an improvement both in 



High. 



grade 



Richmond, Maryland 



and other leading roses 



Choice Easter Lilies, Violets, Valley and 

 Carnations. 



SPRING FLOWERS— Fine Tulips, Daffo- 

 dils, Sweet Peas, etc., etc. 



BERGER BROS. 



~^ ...Wliolesale Florists... 

 1305 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



The most centrally located Wholesale House In Philadelphia 



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quality and in popularity. Sweet peas 

 are in fair demand; really fine flowers 

 everybody wants. Cattleyas have fallen 

 lower than at any time this season, in- 

 fluenced by heavy supply. Gardenias, 

 too, have dropped, though the supply 

 of gardenias is shortening. Valley from 

 the new pips is extremely fine, demand 

 good. White lilac is selling better than 

 at any time this season. Easter lilies 

 go slowly. Callas continue better stock, 

 partly, perhaps, because scarcer. Daf- 

 fodils have dropped a point and are 

 selling freely. Not so tulips. Paper 

 Whites and Bomans continue to worry 

 the wholesalers; they will accumulate, 

 though, when it comes to a concession 

 in price to move. Paper Whites are 

 always stronger. Freesia has made its 

 appearance. Of the greens, smilax is 

 dull, adiantum and asparagus active. 

 Hardy ferns sell well. 



WIU^AM B. LAKE 



Dlstri^itor of "Superior" 



Ribbons, Specialties 



253S N. Mtk St, rUMdikia, ft. 



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Mr. Towill's New Eose. 



I am indebted to Edward Towill, of 

 Eoslyn, for two blooms of his new rose, 

 a seedling raised from a cross between 

 Richmond and J. B. Clark. Edward 

 Towill, who may be fairly termed the 

 "great Towill," to distinguish him 

 from several brethren who are likewise 

 ornaments to our profession, has made 

 his mark with the camel 's-hair brush in 

 the past. To judge this rose as it came 

 today would be to place it in the front 



