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TheWeefcly Florists' Review. 



Mat 23, 1912. 



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FOR MEMORIAL DAY 



New Crop Nearby Dagger Ferns 



SPLENDID STOCK— None Better at Any Price 

 $2.50 per 1000— $2.25 per 1000 in lots of 5000 or over 



Peonies 



Carnations 



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Cornflower— Qladlolus-Stocks— Daisies— Spanish Iris 



We are offering quite a variety of miscellaneous stock, suitable for BouQuet-work. You can depend on us for excellent value. 



The Leo Niessen Co. ""^tsr mm^mv^ffi 



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MentiOD The Reyicw wb«n you write 



PHILADEU>HIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



The week ending Wednesday, May 

 22, was good, considering the season 

 of the year. The cool weather preced- 

 ing the present warm wave has kept 

 most of the indoor flowers in excellent 

 condition; to these may be added some 

 good outdoor stock, making the aver- 

 age quality high for the third week in 

 May. The demand has kept up fairly 

 well; there is no rush, but a moderately 

 reliable call for cut flowers. It is the 

 middle of the planting season, a time 

 when the cut flower market is apt to 

 be depressed. In contrast to that con- 

 dition, the present situation is satis- 

 factory. 



The superabundance of Beauties has 

 passed; the low sales reported a week 

 ago, of open stock to clear up, are 

 less frequent now. There is little 

 change in the conditions surrounding in- 

 door flowers, excepting a lower price 

 on carnations, white lacking the buoy- 

 ancy of Mothers' day. Cornflower has 

 arrived and some new crop sweet peas 

 that are decidedly acceptable. Peonies 

 are becoming more plentiful; the first 

 of the local stock is promised when 

 these lines appear. Some of the south- 

 ern shipments have been stopped owing 

 to heating in transit. 



Indications point to a good supply of 

 peonies, carnations and roses for Me- 

 morial day. 



New crop dagger ferns are arriving 

 in good condition. 



Founder's Day. 



Girard College is rightly considered 

 one of our greatest institutions. Mon- 

 day, May 20, was Founder's day there, 

 which is virtually alumni day, when 

 with appropriate services the under- 

 graduates entertain the graduates and 

 all the world besides, marching for 

 their benefit with school band and col- 

 ors flying. An immense throng was 

 present. Besides the graduates there 

 were mothers, sisters, cousins — everyone 

 seemed to have a personal interest in 

 Tom, Dick or Harry and in the college 

 itself. 



Your interest is in Charles W. Cox, 



For Memorial Day 



A large supply of showy flowers in all the leading 



varieties. 



PEONIES, pink, white and red. 



CARNATIONS, all colors. 



ROSES, White Killarney, Killarney, Rich- 

 mond, Princeton. 



SWEET PEAS, lavender, white and pink. 



LILIES, etc., etc. 



All orders will be promptly and carefully executed 

 when entrusted to 



BERGER BROTHERS 



Wholeiale Florlats 

 140-142 North 13th Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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Mention Tbe Review wben voa wnie 



who had the college grounds in beau- 

 tiful order. The tomb of Stephen 

 Girard was adorned with handsome 

 plants, foliage and flowering, some be- 

 lated azaleas giving a brightness to the 

 stately surroundings. In front of these 

 decorations were the floral tributes 

 from the alumni. Greater New York 

 and western Pennsylvania were repre- 

 sented by appropriate offerings. 



The features of the outside planting 

 were the pansies, bearing enormous 

 flowers, and an erect, free-blooming, 

 dwarf blue, lobelia-like plant that most 

 be guardedly named, Mr. Cox not being 

 at my elbow. 



Mr. Bedles' Departure. 



It is becoming generally known that 

 the blight that for so many years has 

 been threatening the life of our chest- 

 nut groves is creating a new industry. 

 Perhaps it would be safer to say broad- 



ening an old industry, the newness con- 

 sisting of its application to chestnut 

 trees in particular and to the new ma- 

 chinery used in turning the wood into 

 merchantable form. The vast private 

 estates on Long Island at and near 

 Oyster Bay are planted with immense 

 groves of chestnut trees; these groves 

 have been killed almost to a tree. Con- 

 tracts have been made for converting 

 the dead trees into telegraph poles, 

 posts, boards and so on. So extensive 

 is the work that it will take some years 

 to carry it out in this neighborhood 

 alone. 



The above brief description explains 

 the cause for the departure of George 

 Bodies from Germantown, May 16. Mr. 

 Redles has accepted a position where 

 his knowledge of forestry, of lumber 

 and of botany is of special value. His 

 loss to the Germantown Horticultural 

 Society is irreparable. True, there is 



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