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The Florists^ Review 



July 11, 1912. 



BRONZE QALAX 



$1.50 per lOOO 



$7.50 per case of 10,000 



Extra quality, large and medium size leaves of 

 splendid color. We paid a premium above the mar- 

 ket price for selected leaves. No advance in our price, 

 and we guarantee the quality. 



DAQQER FERNS 



»♦'• 



$1.50 per 1000 

 $1.25 per 1000 in case lots 



5000 to 6000 to a case 

 We invite comparison as to quality, regardless of 

 the price you are paying. Why pay more than our 

 price? . ^^... 



SPHAQNUM MOSS S-S!t.5."b*V^**io!S!! 



Our customers have remarked that "our $10.00 offer " is the biggeet value 

 they ever bought. Our Moss is frebh, clean, free from sticks and briars. Now 

 is the time to put in next season's supply. 



FIELD=QROWN CARNATION PLANTS 



All the btst commercial varieties. See list among classified advertisements 



The Leo Niessen Co. 



^^Vt PHIIADEIPHIA, PA. 



Mention The Review when you write 



mercial Club, with the request that it 

 register an official protest at Washing- 

 ton. Ge Dale. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



"Customers are scarcer than flow- 

 ers. ' ' That is the way one of our 

 bright wholesalers epitomizes the situa- 

 tion. Yet, when a customer wants some- 

 thing nice, it is not always easy to 

 obtain it. The market is dull. The 

 supply of fine flowers is limited. The 

 list printed elsewhere gives accurately 

 what the market affords, with the prices 

 asked, when stock arrives in good con- 

 dition. Easter lilies are as fine as ever 

 seen here in midsummer. My Maryland 

 is undoubtedly the best hot weather 

 rose, with Kaiserin and Beauty to add 

 variety. Sweet peas were fine, but they 

 do not like the heat and lack support, 

 in consequence. There are some nice 

 orchids, gardenias and quite a little 

 valley. Outdoor flowers are plentiful. 

 Indoor gladioli are waning. Asters ard 

 not yet plentiful. 



Various Notes. 



Recent visitors include August Tisch- 

 inger, Baltimore; Fred H. Lemon, Rich- 

 mond, Ind.; Myer Heller, New Castle, 

 Ind.; Mrs. George G. Goldbach, Lancas- 

 ter, Pa. 



Henry L. Renard is running the Ches- 

 ter Valley Greenhouses, East Downing- 

 town, Pa. 



August Gontram, the violet and sweet 

 pea grower of Holmesburg, sailed across 

 the big pond the glorious Fourth to 

 visit his brother. 



The death of William R. Smith, which 

 occurred in Washington, D. C, .July 7, 

 is sincerely mourned by a host of warm 

 friends in this city. Mr. Smith was 84 

 years of age. Robert Craig, .1. D. Eisele 

 and .1. Stephenson were among those 

 who attended the funeral. 



Oglesby Paul, landscape gardener of 

 Fairmount park, is hajipily recovering 

 from an operation for appendicitis. 



H. Bayersdorfer writes from Frank- 

 fort, Germany, that he is still hunting 

 novelties and getting them, too, and 

 that he hopes to be back in good time 



When You Want 

 Summer Flowers 



Wire, phone, write or call 

 on 



BERGER BROTHERS 



Wholesale Floritto 

 140-142 Nortk 18th Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Tlie most centrally located \7lioleeale cut 

 flower housa in the oity. 



EASTER UUES 



A Specialty. 



MentloD I'be Keview wben tou wme 



for the convention with some things 

 worth going a long way to see. 



Louis Berger has landed the lion's 

 share of the Harrisburg city park order 

 for Van Waveren & Kruijff. Mr. Ber- 

 ger is now sending out for his firm the 

 most artistic bulb catalogue ever pub- 

 lished, with a strong U. S. Government 

 recommendation on the first page. 



The home of George Burton, the suc- 

 cessful Beauty grower of Wvndmoor, 

 was brightened by the arrival of a lit- 

 tle lassie July 29. 



Fred Berger is enjoying a well earned 

 holiday at Seaside Park. 



Raymond Kester left on his holidav 

 ,Iuly 6 with oOO flies. This was not 

 done solely from humane motives 

 toward those who remain. Mr. Kester 

 is a great fisherman. 



The Leo Niessen Co. has purchased 

 an auto car. 1913 model, of ;{,000 pounds 



capacity, for the delivery service next 

 fall. 



William Berger is erecting two more 

 greenhouses, about 25x100 each, in the 

 rear of his Germantown store. They 

 will be filled with palms and ferns. 



George A. Strohlein, who has been 

 ill, is at work again. 



Walter P. Stokes has returned from 

 Chicago pleased with the seed men's 

 convention. Mr. Stokes was toastmas- 

 ter at the banquet there. 



The genial ,lohn G. Whilldin has 

 been chosen president, as well as gen- 

 eral manager, of the su('cessful Whill- 

 din Pottery Co. Walter B. Galloway is 

 secretary and treasurer. 



Philip Pincus, of the Philadelphia 

 Cut Flower Co., has returned from his 

 wedding trip. 



President Thilow has appointed John 

 Westcott chairman of the transporta- 



