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TheWcefcly Florists' Review. 



Mat 80, 1912. 



For June Weddings and Commencements 



SPECIAL BEAUTIES, $20.00 per 100 



Always a strong factor with ub. You will find them as good as any coming from this market. 



Valley 



$3.00, $4.00 per 100 



Cattleyas 



$6.00, $7.50 per dozen 



Good stock, $6.00 per 100 PEONIES "^^^ ^^^^* ^^'^^ P®*" *^^ 



We advise getting our quotations, if you should be in the market for a quantity. 



The Leo N lessen Co. ^"^' miummaTrfi 



Mention Tbe Review Trhao yoa write. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Bising Eastern Market. 



The real market now is in the green- 

 houses of the plant growers. All the 

 plantsmen in the suburbs see more 

 business than even the great wholesale 

 houses in the heart of the city. The 

 plant business is at its height; there is 

 the accumulated business of a late 

 season that must be rushed through in 

 short order, while the cut flower busi- 

 ness, though fair, is dull before Me- 

 morial day. Plants are going out of 

 town in large numbers from the great 

 shipping places at Riverton and West 

 Philadelphia, while the army of smaller 

 plant growers is supplying the homes 

 and cemeteries with all manner of 

 flowering and foliage plants. 



Prices are a shade lower in the cut 

 flower market, due to the heavy sup- 

 ply. Much stock is sold at figures 

 that are fair for this season. The fea- 

 tures are the Spencer sweet peas, which 

 are so fine that the price has ad- 

 vanced on a declining market, and the 

 gladioli, in several of the best varieties. 

 These are not the so-called baby gla- 

 dioli — there are infants too — but the 

 genuine gladioli, with large flowers and 

 long, heavy stems. Peonies have not 

 come in so rapidly as expected, and 

 they are causing the wholesalers anx- 

 ious moments. There are local peonies 

 now and there will be more before 

 Memorial day, but it is feared that the 

 main army will be late. Boses are a 

 shade less plentiful than they have 

 been. Beauties particularly. Carnations 

 are plentiful and good; red are selling 

 unusually well. There are some fine 

 Cattleya gigas, also some well grown, 

 long-stemmed lilies. A few greenhouse- 

 grown white asters, short-stemmed, 

 have made their appearance. 



Various Notes. 



B. F. Rubel, of the Fleischman Flo- 

 ral Co., Chicago, was here recently. 



Mrs. Clara Blackman, of Beading, 

 Pa., telephoned an order to this city 

 and then motored down after it. 



Charles Meyer, lately with the Florex 

 Gardens, at North Wales, has accepted 

 a position as carnation grower with Ira 



FOR JUNE ORDERS 



A splendid stock of all the best flowers 

 in the market. 



PEONIES, pink, white and red, for decorations and bouquets. 

 ROSES, Princeton; you can get this beautiful variety nowhere 



else. White Killarney, Richmond, Killarney. 

 SWEET PEAS, pink, white and lavender. 



EASTER LILIES, 



LILY OF THE VALLEY, 



CARNATIONS are choice. 



Our central position enables us to fill 

 orders on short notice. 



BERGER BROTHERS 



Wholeeale Floiiete 

 140- 14S Nortk 18tk Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention The Review when too wnw 



G. Marvin, Wilkesbarre, Pa., where 60,- 

 000 carnations are grown. 



Edmund G. Bowers has prepared a 

 neat folder for M. Bice & Co. that 

 is intended as a companion for filing 

 with their Easter folder. Mr. Bowers 

 does good work. 



Maurice Fuld spoke before the Gar- 

 den Club at Gwynedd Valley May 30. 

 His subject was * ' Gladioli. ' ' Mr. Fuld 

 is one of our most popular speakers 

 and is doing much for the advance- 

 ment of horticulture among amateurs 

 and professionals. 



Berger Bros, have splendid butterfly 

 sweet peas, that being the popular 

 name for the Spencer type. 



C. G. Neilson, of Plymouth, Pa., was 

 a visitor recently. 



Israel Bosnosky is home again, well 

 and hearty. 



George Auegle shows with pride the 

 fine early festiva maxima peonies com- 



ing in for the Philadelphia Cut Flower 

 Co. 



The Hartman Co. is offering the Nel- 

 son valve, which is coming into promi- 

 nence for both steam and hot water. 



The Germantown Horticultural So- 

 ciety hopes to induce J. Otto Thilow 

 to talk about the wonderful trial rose 

 gardens of H. A. Dreer, Inc., at Eiver- 

 ton. 



Eugene Bernheimer reports heavy 

 supplies of roses and carnations. 



Philip Freud has arranged an excel- 

 lent butterfly window for the H. F. 

 Michell Co. The butterflies hover over 

 the rankest poison in fancied security; 

 hellebore and arsenate of lead for 

 rose pests, and slug shot for tomatoes 

 and egg plant parasites, while on a 

 grapevine covered trellis in the back- 

 ground are bunches of grapes, insect 

 devoured, and other bunches saved by 

 paper bags; a timely suggestion. 



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