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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Mav 9, 1912. 



At our price you can find a marliet for ttiem— 



Special Bcautics,$3.00 doz. 



You know we have the quality, and you can depend on us for 

 the lowest market price if you can use a quantity of Beauties 



Snapdragon, white and yellow doz., $0.75-$1.2o 



Snapdragon, pink doz,, 1.00- 1.25 



Pansies 100 bunchee, 4.00 



Valley, special 100, $ 4.00 



Valley, extra 100, 3.00 



Easter Lilies 100, 10.00 



DAGGER FERNS, per 1000, $2.00 \ The best you ever bought 

 FANCY FERNS, per 1000, 2.50 j so late in the season 



The Leo Niessen Co. 



Wholesale 

 Florists 



N. W. Cor. 18tb Se Bao* 8ta. 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



The unexpected advance in the price 

 of carnations was the feature of the 

 market May 3 and 4. This price was 

 not sustained steadily May 6 and 7, 

 the demand being weak and irregular. 

 The advance was so strong and unex- 

 j)ected as to take those who are best 

 posted completely by surprise. Carna- 

 tions almost doubled in price, fancies 

 bringing 4 cents and occasionally 5 

 cents, while ordinary stock that would 

 have sold for l^A cents a few days be- 

 fore generally brought 3 cents. It is 

 thought that this condition is due to 

 short crops and the low prices that have 

 prevailed throughout the season, and 

 in support of this explanation it is said 

 that a similar advance occurred in May, 

 1907. There are some, however, who 

 assert that the advance is due to hold- 

 ing for Mothers' day, but while there 

 is probably some holding, this evil is 

 not sufficient to cause the scarcity. 



Tlje only other noteworthy feature 

 of the market is the continued demand 

 for fine sweet peas. Eoses are more 

 plentiful than any other flower. Out- 

 door lilac, Jersey grown, is exceedingly 

 fine and is handled by most of the 

 wholesale houses. Bulbous flowers from 

 down east have replaced bulbous flow- 

 ers from down south. To them may 

 be added some locally grown outdoor 

 stock. Good snapdragons have been in 

 request, but poor snaps, like poor peas, 

 are in a predicament. There is not 

 much else worthy of comment except 

 that the shipping demand continues 

 fairly active. 



Subsoiling. 



The methods of growing cut flowers 

 in this latitude are gradually chang- 

 ing; the elevated bench is giving way 

 to the solid bed, for two reasons, econ- 

 omy and summer quality. It is an ad- 

 mitted fact outdoors that soil deeply 

 plowed yields better crops than where 

 only the surface is disturbed. In other 

 words, the mixing of the subsoil with 

 the soil is conducive to retaining mois- 

 ture; the water does not run off readily, 

 as in shallow soil with a hard pan bot- 



HEADQUARTERS FOR 

 ALL VARIETIES OF 



Seasonable 



Cut Flowers 



The favor of a trial order is 

 solicited. We are in earnest 

 and will spare no effort to 

 please you. 



BERGER BROTHERS 



Wholesale Floiiste 



140-148 North 13th Street. 



PHILADELPHIA. PA. 



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torn. Granting this, the question arises: 

 Why should not subsoiling be of benefit 

 under glass as well as outdoors? 



When it became known that so pro- 

 gressive a man as Rowland C. Hay den 

 deemed this experiment worth trying, 

 it was high time to make an inquiry. 

 This developed the fact that blasting 

 with dynamite, cap and fuse can be 

 and is being so safely done as to ren- 

 der it not only possible but practically 

 safe under glass. This dynamiting is 

 an economical method of breaking the 

 hard pan below the top soil, and open- 

 ing cracks that run a couple of feet or 

 more into the earth below. The object 

 is to give the roots encouragement and 

 thorough drainage, so that the water 

 will run down and not out over the 

 walks. The idea of blasting inside a 

 greenhouse appeared ridiculous at first, 

 but practical tests show that this is 

 merely an idea; the charges, skillfully 



laid, raise the soil barely a couple of 

 feet when set oflf. 



It will take a year, maybe more, to 

 determine the value of subsoiling under 

 glass. The experiment will be watched 

 with interest by all who are abreast of 

 the times. 



Various Notes. 



Charles E. Lehman, of Stokes Bros. 

 Co., reports receipts of excellent cypress 

 from the south. 



.1. William Colflesh 's Sons have di- 

 vided their plant business into three 

 sections. J. William, Jr., manages the 

 place, David sells the product and C. B. 

 looks after the facts and figures. 



Charles B. Stahl is continuing the 

 business conducted for so long by his 

 father on Eleventh street, above Chest- 

 nut, using the place at Twelfth and 

 Dickinson streets as a base of supplies. 



Stephen Poryzees, lately with Charles 



