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The Horists' Review 



Mat 15. 1013. 



For Memorial Day 



We expect to have our usual large supply of Cut Flowers. Most everything in 

 season can be bought at reasonable prices that will insure you a good margin 

 of profit. We expect 



A LARGE VARIETY OE STOCK 



to select from and offer you special value in#- ■■■ 



Roses=Carnaf ions = Peonies 



Place your order as early as you possibly can. You can rely on us for your supply of Cut 

 Flowers and prompt and good service. Send for our special Price List. 



NEW CROP DAGGER FERNS, lOOO, $2.00 »^,^ 



You need Ferns in large quantity for Memorial Day, and we offer you the beet stock ii^ this 

 market at a big saving. Extra long, of splendid color, nearby stock. Try a sample shipment now. 



THE LEO NIESSEN CO., Wholesale FlorUU 



N. W. Corner 12th and Race Sts. ii ts ts PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Mention The Reylew when yoo wrlf . 



Boses also were in demand and cleaned 

 out of the wholesale markets before 

 noon. Other flowers felt the uplift. 



On tag day, for a charitable institu- 

 tion in Lynn, May 10, over 25,000 car- 

 nations were sold on the streets. 



Jarvis Cartwright, of Needham, a 

 brother of Geo. Cartwright, of the 

 Boston Flower Exchange, has the sym- 

 pathy of a host of friends in the 

 death, May 12, of his only son, after a 

 brief illness. 



r. J. Dolansky has already planted 

 one large house of gardenias. He has 

 just received a large importation of 

 Oattleya Mossise in fine shape. 



E. C. Bridgham, of the Newtonville 

 Greenhouses, states that the call for cut 

 flowers for Mothers' day at his green- 

 houses made them look as if a cyclone 

 had struck them. W. N. C. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Rising Eastern Market. 



The behavior of the weather has been 

 outrageous. Just on the day when all 

 the gardeners agree that it is perfectly 

 safe to take tender plants from the 

 greenhouses and frames and plant them 

 outside, just on that day, I say, it 

 froze! There was ice in Darby; there 

 was ice in Lansdowne; there was ice at 

 Chestnut Hill; there was ice in Moores- 

 town. The tender shoots hung over; 

 the edges of the leaves were blackened; 

 there will be a crop of yellow leaves 

 that will go to the heart of the man 

 who takes pride in his profession. The 

 extraordinary spell of cold weather 

 came from the west. It was preceded 

 by unusually hot weather and is now 

 leaving. All this has made the diffi- 

 culties unusual in the cut flower mar- 

 ket. Carnations were not nearly so 

 plentiful during the week ending May 

 14 as they seemed likely to be. The 

 hot weather hurt them and thrips did 

 harm in many of the houses. Then 

 the cold weather checked production. 



BERGER BR08. 



WHITE, PINK and 

 RED ROSES 



SWEET PEAS 



GOOD STOCK 



PROMPT SERVICE 



140-142 N. 13th St - • Philadelphia, Pa. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



Many of the growers had no fire heat. 

 Prices for Mothers' day advanced to 

 $10 per hundred for select white (they 

 had to be extremely fine to bring that 

 price), while fancy colored brought from 

 $4 to $5 per hundred. There were not 

 nearly enough, particularly of the white, 

 to go around. Eoses were so plentiful 

 that, though many were sold at satis- 

 factory prices, there was an oversupply. 

 Mothers' day was the event of the 

 week. It was more generally observed 

 than ever before. The retailers awoke 

 to the necessities of the case and 

 urged the use of colored carnations with 

 the white, and of other flowers, too. 



Eoses were often used when carnations 

 could not be obtained. One house 

 bought and distributed nearly 50,000 

 flowers one by one. Of these 35,000 

 are believed to have been carnations. 

 The rest were roses. 



Eeally fine sweet peas have been 

 short of the demand all through the 

 week. Callas are fast disappearing. 

 Easter lilies are scarce. Snapdragon 

 is overplentiful. Both cattleyas and 

 gardenias have shortened in supply. 

 The demand for southern peonies is 

 light and prices are declining. Well- 

 colored iris is good stock; not so the 

 dull colors. Asparagus sprays are in 



