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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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Februaby 16, 1911. 



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ACACIA 



PUBESCENS, 

 $2.50 per bunch 



The choicest of all the yellow flowers in February. Nothing more effective for a yellow weddings 

 a decoration, etc., where something exclusive and select is wanted. We have the largest supply to be 

 found anywhere in the U. S. 



WHITE LILAC, 75c to $J.25 per bunch. Single and double DAFFODILS, $3.00 to $4.00 per JOO. 



PANSIES, very choice, $8.00 per 100 bunches. Single and double TULIPS, $3.00 to $4.00 per (00. 



FREESIA, $4.00 per 100. 



The abov^ are only a few of the many items in which we are offering special values. 



The Leo Niessen Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



l209ArchSt. » Philadelphia 



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



Mention The Review when you write. 



PHIIiADELFHIA. 



The Bising Eastern Market. 



The increase in quantity and im- 

 provement in quality of the sweet peas 

 is the feature of an active market. 

 Carnations, too, are more plentiful, 

 while extra heavy trading in daffodils 

 continues. Shipping orders are heavy, 

 with the market better supplied to meet 

 the demand than for some time past. 

 Eoses are not overplentiful. The better 

 grades are scarcer than the mediums 

 and shorts. Beauties have advanced 

 again, with light receipts. St. Valen- 

 tine's day orders were excellent. Bed 

 roses, violets, sweet peas and a little 

 myosotis were favorites. Red carna- 

 tions advanced in price under the in- 

 fluence of orders for the day. 



Lilac is plentiful, popular and of fine 

 quality. Calla lilies have sold freely 

 on account of their good value at listed 

 prices. Cattleyas, gardenias and valley 

 are all good sellers. Paper Whites are 

 on the back track. Daisies are dull, but 

 pansies are active. Greens are in good 

 demand. Tulips, when well done, sell 

 well. The white have been a feature; 

 red is scarce. White carnations are not 

 going so well as the colored. Indica- 

 tions point to an active fortnight before 

 Lent. 



Various Notes. 



A slip of the tongue is oft regretted, 

 a slip of the word oftener. By some un- 

 happy accident, Charles Henry Fox's 

 beautiful Bluebird boxes, suggestive of 

 the most imaginative book and imagi- 

 native play of the day, was last week 

 made to suggest shocking brutality in 

 the single word Bluebeard, while H. 

 Bayersdorfer's hastily snatched private 

 audience appeared to be in the full 

 glare of the electric lights of the club- 

 room. 



Prof. Henry Fox, of Ursinus College, 

 spoke on "The Heredity and Recent 

 Investigations in Plant Life" before 

 the Germantown Horticultural Society 

 February 13. 



William J. Baker was surprised by 

 an informal gathering of his friends at 

 his home on his birthday, February 9. 

 The evening was passed most pleas- 

 antly. Among those present were Gil- 

 bert Baker, Eugene Bernheimer, George 



SPRING FLOWERS 



When you ^vant something aho^ry and seasonable use 



DAFFODILS, single and double 



TULIPS, pink, white and yellow 

 FREESIA, 



LILAC, white and purple 



SWEET PEAS, pink, white and lavender 

 VIOLETS, single and double 



Our Other Specialties Include: 



CARNATIONS, 



EASTER LILIES, 



LILY OF THE VALLEY, 



and all seasonable flowers. 



The moat centrally located Wholesale CommisBion House in the city. 



BERGER BROS. 



...Wholesale Florists... 

 1305 Ellbert Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



ROSES. 



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F. Christie, of Clifton, Pa.; Theodore 

 Edwards, Bridgeton, N. J.; Charles W. 

 Kahlert, John Nichols and "William 

 Swayne, of Kennett. Among Mr. 

 Baker's gifts was a beautiful meer- 

 schaum with amber mouthpiece from 

 Pennock Bros. 



The will of the late Charles J. Wister 

 directed that $100 be paid to the Ger- 

 mantown Horticultural Society, the 

 principal to be held in trust, the in- 

 terest to be used for a wild flower 

 prize to be offered by the society each 

 May. 



E. O. King, North Tonawanda, N. Y., 

 will deliver an illustrated lecture on 

 greenhouse construction before the 

 Florists' Club March 7. 



The Joseph Heacock Co. is putting 

 in two shower baths in its model place 

 at Koelof. 



The Women's Horticultural College 

 at Ambler, Pa., has ordered material 



WILLIAM B. LAKE 



Distributor of "Superior" 



Ribbons, Specialties 



ZS3S N. 34th St, rUliddikii, tt. 



Mention The Review wnen you write. 



for a greenhouse, 21x85, from the King 

 Construction Co. 



Two exhibits reached the Florists' 

 Club after the report of the Februkry 

 meeting was sent. They were fine vases 

 of Enchantress and a red seedling from 

 John Kuhn, Olney, and splendidly 

 grown vases of White Perfection and 

 Pink Delight from the Strafford Flower 

 Farm. 



A portrait of the late William J. Col- 

 flesh was presented to the Florists' Club 

 by Mrs. Colflesh. 



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