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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



Fkbbuart 9, 1911. 



Bulbous Stock 



Per 100 



Valley $3.00 to $4.00 



Freesia 4.00 to 5.00 



Single Daffodils 4.00 



Tulips, single 3.00 to 4.00 



Tulips, double 4.00 



In offering you this Bulbous Stock at these 

 prices, we know we are giving better values than 

 it is possible to get anywhere else. 



Lencbflioe, Galax 



Ferns, Wild Smilax 



We sell only the best that money can buy. 

 These Greeits cost us more to buy — but quality 

 is the first thought and we know what you ex- 

 pect from us. 



SPHAGNUM MOSS 



5-bbl. bale $ 2.00 



Six 5-bbl. bales 10.00 



The Leo Niessen Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch St. » Piiiladelphia 



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



Mention The Review when you write. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



The weather bureau asserts that we 

 have had only one clear day this year. 

 This may account for the extreme 

 shortage of those varieties of flowers 

 that require sunshine. There are not 

 enough flowers to fill all orders and 

 prices are firm. The only exceptions 

 are Beauties and cattleyas, which seems 

 rather odd, as neither Beauties nor cat- 

 tleyas are in crop. Beauties have fallen 

 in price just when they were expected 

 to advance. It may be that the quality 

 does not tempt the buyers from Rich- 

 mond or Killarney at the price asked, 

 or it may be the uncertainty of a 

 Beauty order being filled in full just 

 now, or it may be the price was too 

 high. At any rate, Beauties have tum- 

 bled in an advancing market, and the 

 street wonders. 



Cattleyas are firmer, but there is 

 little demand for them. Gardenias are 

 coming in crop and the quality is im- 

 proving. There is more demand and 

 the price has advanced. Lack of sun- 

 Hhine continues to affect sweet peas 

 more than any other flowers. When 

 good they are popular. Valley is in 

 great favor and violets in moderate 

 favor, with at times heavy sales. Boses 

 are steadily, though slowly, increasing 

 in numbers. Killarney is the leader. 

 White are particularly scarce. The 

 carnation pendulum has swung back 

 again, for where the whites were most 

 plentiful, it is now the colored varieties 

 that predominate. The real business 

 of the week has been done in the so- 

 called spring flowers — daffodils, tulips, 

 freesias. Paper Whites and lilacs — be- 

 cause these flowers can be had in quan- 

 tity at moderate prices. The trading 

 has been especially heavy in daffodils, 

 notably Golden Spur. Heroic efforts to 

 advance the price of this variety over 

 3 cents on Saturday failed, despite the 

 scarcity. Easter lilies have advanced 

 a trifle. Daisies are not wanted just 

 now. Greens are selling fairly briskly. 



Tbe Event of the Week. 



A large attendance was especially in- 

 terested in the announcement made by 



FANCY BRIDES 



We have something a little better than you can get 



elsewhere in 



Brides and Richmond 

 Lady Campbell Violets Single Violets 



Also a fine stock of all varieties of Spring Flowers. DaKs in 

 quantity. Tulips, Sweet Peas, Paper Whites and 

 Freesia* Our other specialties include 



EASTER LILIES and CARNATIONS 



BERGER BROS. 



•••Wholesale Florists^^. 

 1305 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



The moat oantrally located Wliolesale House In tbe city. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



SPRINELEPROOF RIBBONS 



(trade mark) 

 and 



SPRINELEPROOF CHIFFONS 



(trade mark) 

 Their Use Denotes the np-to-date Florist. 



Originators and sole distrlbators. 



WERTHEIMER BROTHERS 



KEW YORK 



J. Otto Thilow at the Florists' Club 

 meeting February 7. Mr. Thilow prom- 

 ises an unusual treat for next month 

 as follows: Tuesday evening, March 7, 

 an illustrated lecture on the Kiverview 

 Nurseries, showing the difficulties met 

 and overcome in the construction of a 

 modern greenhouse plant, by R. O. 

 King, of North Tonawanda, N. Y, 

 Wednesday, March 8, an invitation 

 from the Henry A. Dreer Co. to the 

 Florists' Club of Philadelphia to visit 

 their new Riverview Nurseries and see 



WILLIAM B. LAKE 



Distributor of " Superior *' 



Ribbons, Specialties 



2S3S N. Mtk St, rUUMrUa. h 



MentloD The Review when you write. 



the plant described by Mr. King the 

 evening before. A special train will be 

 provided and everything will be done 

 to add to the plesisure of the trip. 



W, H. Taplin's interesting paper on 

 "Carnations of Today" is printed on 

 another page of this issue. 



H. Bayersdorfer talked interestingly 

 of the special needs of our floral artists 

 at this season: A perfect gondola, an 

 exact reproduction in miniature of 

 those used by the Venetians; a fish, 

 presumably for a midwinter fish-dinner 



