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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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Mabch 2, 1911. 



Big Supply of 

 Medium and Short 



PINK KILLARNEY 



>$5.00 to $12.00 per lOOi 



CLOur growers are cutting them in quantity, mostly of the medium grades. 

 Well-grown stock, perfect buds. It Your customers will see at once the 

 extra value in our fancy, $4.00 per 100 CARNATIONS* Good stock, 

 $3.00 per 100. We can prove this fact to your complete satisfaction with 

 a sample shipment. In quantity we can quote you attractive prices. Our 

 daily supply is large, and we can make immediate shipment on receipt of 

 all orders. Mrs. C. W. and Alma Ward, per 100, $6.00. 



The Leo Niessen Co. 



Wholesale Florists 



1209 Arch St. ti Philadelphia 



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



Mention The Review when you write. 



nice talk and donated $10 for the good 

 of the show. Several firms from as 

 many leading cities have promised to 

 send displays of novelties, and E. G. 

 Hill will be with us at a meeting in 

 April to give us some of his views on 

 shows. J. M. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



The close of the pre-lenten season has 

 been quiet; there was not the rush that 

 sometimes marks a short season, due 

 partly to the fact that there has been 

 plenty of opportunity for entertaining, 

 with no necessity for crowding many 

 parties into the last few days, and 

 partly owing to the coming of spring. 



The sun, for so long almost unknown, 

 has been with us once more; the 

 ' weather is milder and is bringing for- 

 ward the crops rapidly. Roses, carna- 

 tions, violets and sweet peas are in 

 heavier supply. There is not enough 

 business to maintain the prices in the 

 face of the increased receipts. Lower 

 figures are recorded on all grades of 

 carnations, on the shorter grades of 

 roses and on sweet peas. Violets have 

 also receded. 



There has been an excellent demand 

 for Beauties, the crops of which are 

 short. Fancy grades of other roses 

 also have sold well. Valley has been 

 rather irregular in supply, the market 

 failing to absorb., the unexpectedly 

 heavy shipments receipted on several 

 days. A decided preference is shown 

 for Cattleya Trianae, which holds its' 

 price, over Cattleya Schroederiana, 

 which has to be shaded in price to sell. 

 Gardenias are in good demand. Callas 

 and Easter lilies have sold well, par- 

 ticularly the former, but the buyers are 

 loudly demanding lower rates for Lent. 

 Daffodils continue to lead the bulbous 

 stock, with tulips a good second. Prices 

 are receding, due partly to conditions 

 and partly, it is whispered, to the first 

 shipments of the southern product. 



Greens have been selling exception- 

 ally well, particularly Asparagus plu- 

 mosus sprays in bunches. Mexican ivy, 

 leucothoe and dagger ferns have been 

 in good demand. 



SPRING FLOWERS 



WHITE LILAC 



DAFFS, double and single 

 FREESIA 



VALLEY 



TULIPS 



SWEET PEAS and VIOLETS 



We can give you excellent value in all these varieties. 



FANCY BRIDES, RICH.1VIOND, MARYLAND 



CARNATIONS In all colors 



EASTER LILIES 



BERGER BROS. 



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•••Wholesale Florlsts^^^ 

 1305 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



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Various Notes. 



E. O. King will deliver an illus- 

 trated lecture before the Florists' Club 

 in Horticultural hall, Broad street below 

 Locust, Tuesday evening, March 7, at 

 "8 'clock ; subject, ' ' Greenhouse ' Con- 

 struction, Including Eiverview. " ' <^(j^ 



The Philadelphia Florists' Club lias 

 issued invitations to all its members for 

 the trip to the Henry A. Dreer green- 

 house warming at Eiverview, March 

 8. The special train will leave Market 

 street wharf at 2 p. m., returning leave 

 Eiverview at 5:45 p. m. Invitations 

 have also Keen issued to the New York, 

 Baltimore and Washington Florists' 

 Clubs. This invitation is, of course, on 

 behalf of the officers of the Henry A. 

 Dreer corporation, made at their re- 

 quest. It is an E. S. V. P. affair. 



Eobert Craig is expected home from 

 the Isle of Pines March 5. 



WILLIAM B. LAKE 



Distributor of " Superior " ''■ 



Ribbons, Specialties 



28S N. t4tk St, rUUMitu, fi. 



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The Chestnut Hill Floral Exchange 

 has closed. 



The deal reported last week that J. 

 J. Hunt had taken the store of the late 

 Louis Muth, at Fifth and Fairmount 

 avenue, is off. Some stock had already 

 been ordered in Mr. Hunt's name when 

 the deal fell through. 



Ira H. Landis purchased the H. H. 

 Girvin place at Paradise, Pa., not the 

 W. B. Girvin place, as incorrectly re- 

 ported last week. W. B. Girvin is a 



