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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



JUNB 6, 1912. 



Cut Flowers of Good Quality 



FOR JUNE WEDDINGS AND COMMENCEMENTS. 



Caster Lilies^ $1.50 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. Well grown, splendid stock for shipping. 



Valley, $3.00 to $4.00 per 100. We will be strong with fine quality Valley during this month. 



Sweet Peas, 75c to $1.00 per 100. The Spencer varieties, the finest in quality we ever 

 handled. 



Per 100 



Festiva Maxima $6.00 



PEONIES 



Per 100 



Other good varieties . . . .$5.00 



If you order a quantity, we will bill them at a special price. We can fill most any size order. 

 New Dagger Ferns, splendid stock, $1.50 per 1000. 



N. W. Cor. IStli tt Bao* Bta. 



The Leo Niessen Co. 



^fISISS' PHIIADEIPHIA, pa. 



Mention The Reyiew wbaa you write. 



selling out clean witli the exception of 

 a little Spiraea Japonica and light car- 

 nations. Over 9,000 carnations were 

 sold. Trade in bedding plants is extra 

 brisk, and there is also a good call for 

 funeral designs. Spring business has 

 been good. 



PHIIiADELPHIA. 



The Bising Eastern Market. 



The volume -of business at Memorial 

 day was fully as large as in any previ 

 OHs year. Business was far from satis- 

 factory, because of the immense quan- 

 tity of flowers. Peonies dominated the 

 market. The conditions enveloping the 

 sale ot peonies go far towards explain- 

 ing the situation. Advance orders for 

 peonies were accepted with caution. 

 Some reluctantly were declined, because 

 of the uncertainty of the stock being 

 on time. The warm weather and the 

 rains brought the flowers forward rap- 

 idly. By Tuesday, May 28, the big ship- 

 ping day, there were about enough 

 peonies to fill the orders. Prices were 

 fair. Wednesday, May 29, saw increased 

 receipts and fewer orders, with lower 

 prices. Memorial day brought still 

 heavier shipments and little or no busi- 

 ness. The day after, some of the local 

 ;;rowers were cut out. White sold best, 

 Festiva maxima starting at $8, a few at 

 $10, and going down to $6, $5 and $4 

 for good stock. The colored varieties 

 were lower. There is always waste in 

 peonies. Carnations were abundant; 

 the best brought $4 and $5. White did 

 not sell; the demand was for good 

 blooms of bright colors. Enchantress 

 suffered. Beauties were in good de- 

 mand. The smaller roses were not 

 wanted, though the short grades were in 

 tremendously heavy supply. Good 

 judges say there were more carnations 

 and roses offered than this market has 

 ever seen before at Memorial day. 

 Sweet peas were plentiful and awfully 

 cheap, only the Spencer type in good 

 colors holding a fair price. Any price 

 was thankfully taken for the rest. 



These facts will give an idea of 

 Memorial day conditions. There was 

 much entertaining, due to the Devon 

 horse show and other social events, but 

 society had its own roses and peonies 



June Roses 



PRINCETON— our exclusive novelty 

 WHITE KILLARNEY 



KILLARNEY 



RICHMOND 



BUTTERFLY SWEET PEAS in all colors 

 PEONIES 



CARNATIONS 



EASTER LILIES, etc., etc. 



BERGER BROTHERS 



Wboleaale Florists 

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



Mention Tbe Review when you wnie 



in its own gardens and, presumably, 

 used them. 



There has been much good business 

 in the week ending June 5. Beauties, 

 valley, orchids, Spencer peas and choice 

 pink roses were in demand. The peonies 

 are selling, but the avalanche of these 

 showy flowers still depresses the mar- 

 ket and prices rule low. 



Opposite Laurel Hill. 



John Westcott once said: "The 

 dead are soon forgotten." Right, Mr. 

 Westcott, undoubtedly right. Yet there 

 are so many exceptions and such con- 

 stant additions that business at our 

 great cemeteries is heavier than ever 

 this season. William B. Westcott, the 

 Commodore's son, says that scarlet al- 

 ternanthera has been especially popu- 

 lar. It is used for designs planted on 

 grassy plots. Well grown geraniums of 



Beaute Poitevine and Alphonse Ricard 

 in bud and bloom have more than held 

 their own, while the severe winter has 

 made a big hole in the stock of hardy 

 ivies, always so popular for their ever 

 fresh green. The regulation vase in 

 several sizes, the largest filled with 

 Dracaena indivisa, small foliage and 

 flowering plants once encircled, finds 

 ready sale. 



Charles E. Fliegel, manager for Mrs. 

 Mary Alburger, is well pleased with the 

 increased demand. The call for baskets 

 and vases, tastefully filled, has made 

 large inroads on their stock. Mr. Fliegel 

 thinks that a high standard of excel- 

 lence in plant workmanship is essential 

 to success. 



A Sign of the Times. 



There is a big crowd around the 

 eastern show window of 714 Chestnut 



