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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



lU&CH 28. 1012. 



AS NEVER BEFORE 



Are we in position this year to fill , 



Your Easter Order for Cut Flowers 



We can ofifer you special large value in the following: 



WHITE AND PINK KILLARNEY 



Considering the fine quality of this stock, you will find our prices very reasonable. 

 BEAUTIES CARNATIONS 



The largest stock in this market. Quality as 

 usual the Best. 



DOUBLE VIOLETS 



Ferns, dagger and fancy per 1000, |2.00 



Galax, green and bronze per 1000, 1.00 



Galax, green and bronze per case, 7.60 



The beet varieties for shipping. 

 White and Pink Wards. 



Plenty of the 



VALLEY 



SNAPDRAGON 



Leucothoe per 100, $0.75 



Wild Smilax per case, 6.00 



Boxwood per 60 lbs. , 6.00 



The Leo Niessen Co. 



Wholesale 



ISih and Race Btraata, 



n^TiZ:- PtniADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention Tbe RsyIcw wbsD you write. 



PTrrr.ADELPHIA. 



The Bising Eastern Market. 



A majority of the wholesalers in this 

 city positively assert that the cut 

 flower market has fallen off during the 

 last week. A strong minority assert 

 quite as positively that the market has 

 not fallen off. 



The features of this week are the 

 arrival of southern daffodils, and of 

 arbutus, the decrease in the poorer 

 grades of sweet peas, some of the win- 

 ter crops being over, and the falling off 

 in single violets of finer quality. White, 

 in roses and carnations, is less plentiful 

 than colors, which makes the demand 

 seem better. The rose market generally 

 is in good shape, save only Beauties, 

 which lag. Cattleyas are represented 

 chiefly by Schroederse. Good gardenias 

 are a bit more plentiful. Sweet peas 

 are excellent; the average grade is 

 higher, due to the shortening of the 

 shorts. Easter lilies are coming for- 

 ward; they promise well for next week. 

 Tulips are in their glory, better than at 

 any time this season. The price of daf- 

 fodils has strengthened under the influ- 

 ence of the receipt of some excellent 

 Emperor. The short-stemmed southern 

 stock is clean and nice, but not in the 

 same class. Odds and ends are selling 

 poorly. Greens are in fair request. 



The Plant Situation. 



The advance out-of-town orders for 

 Easter blooming plants are heavy. Much 

 fine stock has been shipped. More is 

 set aside ready for shipping on specified 

 dates. The local demand is slower. The 

 disposition to hold off until a week be- 

 fore Easter is marked. This delay is 

 not practiced in the cases of scarce va- 

 rieties or of exceptionally well grown 

 stock offered at moderate prices. The 

 fine quality of the stock has attracted 

 many visitors from out of town. Indi- 

 cations point to a big business. 



The Spring Show. 



The spring show of the Pennsylvania 

 Horticultural Society was held in the 

 lecture room oi Horticultural hall, 

 Broad street below Locust, March 19 

 to 21. The quality of the flowering 



Easter Flowers 



The stock of EASTER FLOWERS will be large in all varieties, the 

 prices reasonable. May we have your orders in time to do them justice? 



FINE ROSES 



Carnations Easter Lilies 



Single and Double Violets Sweet Peas 



Daffodils Tulips 



PRINCETON ROSE is our exclusive specialty 



EASTER PLANTS 



of best quality may be secured through us from Philadelphia's leading 

 growers. 



BERGER BROTHERS 



Wholesale FlorlBts 

 140-148 North 13th Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention Tbe Review when too wnie 



plants exhibited by the private gar- 

 deners was fine. The lecture room pre- 

 sented a brilliant appearance, filled 

 with many-colored spring flowers. The 

 hyacinths were a feature of the show; 

 unusually large, well colored flowers 

 were there in profusion, their effective- 

 ness increased by length of stem. Lilies 

 and azaleas were not prominent, but 

 there were more spiraeas than one could 

 have expected and a good representa- 

 tion of cinerarias, tulips, daffodils, lilac 

 and valley. 



J. G. Harrison & Sons, Berlin, Md., 

 decorated the stairway with ever- 

 greens. Henry F. Michell Co. made a 

 strong exhibit of grasB seed and lawn 

 mowers. Henry A. Dreer, Inc., exhib- 

 ited a group of beautiful Cocos Wed- 

 delliana and also made a good exhibit 

 of grass seed and lawn mowers. 



The competitive classes were well 



filled with entries for the prizes offered 

 by Henry A. Dreer, Henry P. Michell 

 Co. and Hosea Waterer. 



Who Gets the Pie? 



Scene — A street in the city. 



Little Boy — "Father, who is that 

 poor man over there?" 



Father — "That is a great grower; he 

 was the first to discover how to force 

 buttercups under glass in winter." 



Little Boy — "Is that rich man who 

 has just stopped to speak to him a 

 grower, toot" 



Father — "No, my son, that is the 

 man who makes buttercups fashion- 

 able." 



Various Notes. 



Becent visitors to this city include 

 both members of the firm of Randolph 

 & McClements, Pittsburgh; Bay J. Dash- 



