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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Mabcb 7, 1912. 



WHITE and 



KILLARNEYS ?iS'^ 



In Roses we do not hesitate to say we give you the 

 best that are coming to this market. Killameys are 

 in splendid condition and prices very reasonable. Let 

 us send you a sample shipment. 



CARNATIONS 



In 500 lots, all fancy varieties, one selection of 

 colors, $3.00 per 100; 500 for $12.60. 



The quaUf^ of this stock we guarantee as good as 

 any you will find in Philadelphia. 



QREEN CARNATION DYE Package, 50c 



A preparation that has given splendid satisfaction for years, and we guarantee it to do the work. 



PANSIES $6.00 per 100 bunches 



Bright, cheerful colors. We can furnish several 

 hundr^ bunches at short notice. 



VIOLETS 75c per 100 



Double and single, very plentiful and of good qual- 

 ity. We are quoting attractive prices in 1000 lots. 



P6RNS, Fancy and Dagger, tOOO, $2.00 



The Leo Niessen Co. 



^S!SS' PHIIADEIPHIA, PA. 



Mention The Kavltw •whan you write. 



WARNZNQ! 



A canvasser is working in Philadel- 

 phia and vicinity, taking subscriptions 

 to The Eeview in the name of the 

 Franklin Square Agency, New York. 

 The agency is not authorized to accept 

 subscriptions for this paper and fur- 

 thermore brands this man as a swin- 

 dler, stating that the Periodical Pub- 

 lishers' Association of America, 156 

 Fifth avenue. New York, offers $25 

 reward for his arrest and conviction. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



The question has sometimes been 

 asked, "Is it not difficult to write a 

 market report each weekt" Not at 

 all. Get the facts, consider them, and 

 describe truthfully. That is all, unless 

 it be added that work of any kind re- 

 quires one's best efforts to achieve 

 success. The conditions in the market 

 this week are such that description is 

 painful to peruse rather than pleasant, 

 so it will be brief. 



There are more flowers, and there is 

 less business, than a week ago. A 

 glance at the price list does not show 

 this clearly, because flowers are sold 

 at the same figures that they brought 

 one week ago, but fewer qualify in the 

 higher grades. Many more go into 

 the lower grades. Many add little or 

 nothing to the receipts. The return 

 of winter, the absence of flower buyers 

 from the city, the increase in produc- 

 tion, all aid in the demoralization of 

 the market. The quality of much of 

 the stock is excellent. This is par- 

 ticularly true of carnations. Many of 

 them are of exhibition standard. The 

 volume of business would be consid- 

 ered fair for the second week of Lent 

 were it not for the unusual cost of 

 production and for that difficult prob- 

 lem, the surplus. 



A Oood Sport. 



He was the Champion Dandelion 

 Grower of Swainsonia; his title, won 

 by a thorough mixture of brains and 

 hard work, was acknowledged. He 

 ■was a tall young man, strongly built, of 

 open countenance and genial manners. 



Princeton 



We have a fine stock of the best bright rose ready for your orders. 

 Ty*mZfy^r:^4-^^'fy wou the Montgomery Cup at Detroit for the best 

 I linwwVvin pink rose not yet introduced. 



DAFFODILS 



are good, plentiful and cheap. 



EASTER LILIES 



always one of our specialties. 



VIOLETS 



single and double, very fine. 



CARNATIONS SWEET PEAS 



and all varieties of Flowers and Greens. 



BERGER BROTHERS 



ROSES 



Wholesale Florlits 



140-142 North 13th Street, 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention Tbe Review when yoa vnte 



He met his visitors with a hearty wel- 

 come, showed them his dandies with 

 pride and courteously answered their 

 questions. 



At length the propagating house was 

 reached; the type is familiar, a long, 

 narrow house, with a central walk and 

 sand-filled bench on either side. Thou- 

 sands of dandies had been carefully set 

 out in the sand, but something had gone 

 wrong; many had lost their foliage, 

 many were rotting, few were rooting. 

 It was a distressing sight. The visitors 

 sympathized, consoled, suggested, ad- 

 vised. He looked calmly at the wreck 

 and only smiled; not a word of re- 

 proach for himself or anyone else, not 

 even a solitary cuss word escaped him, 

 he simply talked pleasantly and smiled. 



Perhaps you will think this is a poor 

 story. It may be that you will throw 

 down your paper in disgust; yet con- 



sider among your friends how mauy 

 of them could have such true sports- 

 manship. That man was not only the- 

 Champion Dandelion Grower of Swain- 

 sonia; he was a thorough sport in alii 

 that the term implies and a true gentle- 

 man. 



Various Notes. 



Joseph Heacock, state senator from 

 Montgomery county and president of 

 the company that bears his name, fa- 

 vored the Florists' Club with some in- 

 teresting ideas on "What the State 

 Colleges Are Doing for the People,"' 

 gleaned from his week's stay each at 

 Belfont and Ithaca. 



The steamer Pisa, fourteen days over- 

 due and obliged to put in at Halifax 

 for breath, so to speak, has arrived thi» 

 week, bringing consignments of Easter 

 goods eagerly awaited by M. Bice &; 

 Co., to complete orders. 



