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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Jancabt 26, 1911. 



OlALITY CARNATIONS 



We are shipping thousands of them every day. Stock that is giving satisfaction. 

 Try them. You will be glad to have found such a reliable source of supply. 



Alma Ward $8.00 per 100 Specials $5.00 per 100 



Mrs. C. W. Ward 8.00 per 100 Fancies 4.00 per 100 



Firsts 3.00 per 100 



TULIPS, all colors. 



SINGLE DAFFODILS, $4.00 per 100; long stems and large flowers. 

 $4.00 per 100 WHITE LILAC 



$1.00 per bunch 



The Leo Niessen Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch St. » Philadelphia 



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





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PHILADELPHIA. 



The Bising Eastern Market. 



The market is buoyant. Roses are 

 not plentiful. Other flowers are in fair 

 supply. Carnations have advanced in 

 price, commanding probably $1 per 

 hundred more than a week ago, but 

 there are indications that conditions 

 will be easier by the end of the week. 

 Spring flowers are coming in more 

 freely. They are selling well. Paper 

 White narcissi are in active demand. 

 Prices average better. Daffodils and 

 tulips are all freely bought. Violets 

 go slowly; prices are only fair. Sweet 

 peas are not abundant. Good stock is 

 at a premium. Callas go briskly. Easter 

 lilies are better stock than a week ago. 

 Cattleyas continue plentiful, with prices 

 low. Cypripediums and dendrobiums are 

 rarely seen. Gardenias are excellent 

 and in fair supply. Good white lilac is 

 plentiful. There is a little purple lilac 

 in the market. Valley has taken a 

 turn for the better. The new crop is 

 fine, but lacks foliage. Acacia pubes- 

 cens has arrived, also myosotis. 



There has been a splendid lot of 

 shipping orders, which has kept the 

 houses that make a specialty of out-of- 

 town business busily employed. Return- 

 ing to roses: Beauties have advanced 

 in price, influenced by active buying 

 and moderate receipts. There is little 

 change in other varieties, excepting 

 that the lower grades bring unusually 

 high prices — better in proportion to the 

 higher grades than at any time this 

 season. Killarney is most plentiful, 

 with a fair supply of Richmond, Mary- 

 land, Bride and White Killarney. 



The local demand is, checked a little 

 by the short supply. Yellow daisies 

 are not in as much request as they have 

 been, before daffodils and yellow tulips 

 became plentiful. Greens are fairly ac- 

 tive. 



Building Contracts. 



D. T. Connor met Phil in the store 

 of Berger Bros., a few days ago, and 

 Reposed that they go to his office for 

 a few minutes. This was a surprise. 

 The lower prices of flowers at the holi- 

 days hardly seemed to suggest building. 

 Arrived at Mr. Connor's cheerful office. 





PAPER WHITE NARCISSUS 



Large supply^ fme flowers^ good value> just what you want to 

 fill out 



EASTER LILIES» good f lowers^ not too many on a stem* 



DAFFODILS, the best yellow in the market* 



VIOLETS, single, fancy varieties. 



VIOLETS, double. Lady Campbell; both very fine. 



CHOICE ROSES and CARNATIONS. 



The best LILAC in Philadelphia — purple and white. 



BERGER BROS. 



...Wholesale Florists... 

 1305 Eilbert Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



The most centrally located Wholesale House In Philadelphia 



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the following Lord & Burnham con- 

 tracts were given out: J. Stephenson's 

 Sons, Oak Lane, Pa., one iron frame 

 house, 72x400 feet. This house will be 

 erected on the four-acre lot where Mr. 

 Stephenson has his nursery. It is 

 about a square and a half beyond his 

 home and greenhouses, on the opposite 

 side of the York road, near City line. 

 The width of this house is unusual — 

 seventy-two feet. It will be even-span, 

 with sashbars forty-one feet long on 

 each side, reaching to the header, with 

 ventilation on both sides of the ridge. 

 The angle will be about twenty-nine 

 degrees. The eave plates will be six 

 feet high on each side, with glass sur- 

 mounting concrete walls. There will be 

 eleven beds in the house, each five feet 

 wide. 



Enos Lefever, Lancaster, Pa., will 

 build two houses, each 28x100 feet, 

 semi-iron construction, for carnations. 



WILLIAM B. LAKE 



Distributor of "Superior" 



Ribbons, Specialties 



2SSS N. 34tk St, rUUddpliii, Ft. 



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Stevenson Bros., Baltimore, Md., one 

 house, 43x206 feet, semi-iron construc- 

 tion, for roses. 



Stephen Mortensen, Southampton, 

 Pa., one house, 36x175 feet. This is 

 rebuilding to replace and lengthen a 

 125-foot house that is to be torn down. 



M. J. Brinton, Christiana, Pa., one 

 house, semi-iron construction, 40x200 

 feet, understood to be for carnations. 



Mr. Connor also said that the two 

 new houses, 35x150 feet each, that H. 

 M. Weiss & Sons are building at Hat- 



