January 20. 190C 



horticulture; 



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: VICTORY : 



The most brilliant scarlet carnation. Requires only ordinary culture. Is a fancy in the fullest sense a 

 of the word and wholesaled at $25.00 per 100 at Christmas. 



Cut Flower Market Re- 

 ports. 



While no great activity 

 BOSTON is noted in any special 

 line, yet the flower market 

 may he said to be in a healthy con- 

 dition, the outlet taking care of the 

 supply very satisfactorily, as a rule, 

 except in the case of white carnations 

 which seem to have struck an unappre- 

 ciative two weeks and require consider- 

 able pushing in order to keep them 

 moving. The carnation exhibition 

 next week may help to improve the 

 tone of the carnation market. The rose 

 demand is not particularly active but 

 the supply is correspondingly light 

 most of the local growers being more 

 or less off crop. 



During the past week, a 

 BUFFALO few days of April weath- 

 er was had, and those 

 who visited among flower stores could 

 plainly see that the warm atmosphere 

 had brought out carnations, roses and 

 bulbous stock a little faster than de- 

 sired. Stock was not so plentiful up 

 to Wednesday, but Thursday, Friday 

 and Saturday shipments came in heavy 

 at the wholesalers', and naturally 

 prices were at a decline. Carnations 

 came' on too fast; the ordinary, as 

 usual, blocked the market to some ex- 

 tent, and consequently had to be 

 moved at a lower price, and a few 

 bargain signs later were seen. The 

 Beauty, lily of the valley and violet 

 trade were somewhat quiet, while 

 lilies, peas, mignonette and white 

 stock were in much better demand 

 than the previous week. Green goods 

 in fair supply. 



After a quiet week 

 INDIANAPOLIS, following New 



Year's the market 

 opened with a brisk demand both re- 

 tail and wholesale, and we see every 

 indication of a period of very good 

 business. Roses are more nearly 

 equal to demand than at any time in 

 the past six weeks with excellent 

 quality, but a slight shortage of Beau- 

 ties and other red roses. Carnations 

 of all grades are to be had in great 

 quantities. Tulips, jonquils, sweet 

 peas and lilacs are on the market with 

 demand ahead of supply. Prices have 

 dropped since the holidays but high 

 grade stock is still bringing good 

 prices. All kinds of flowering plants 

 are to be seen everywhere and moving 

 quite freely. 



No great change from 

 NEW YORK conditions reported 



last week is apparent 

 in the cut flower market. Accumula- 

 tions in some lines, especially white 

 material and bulbous stock generally, 

 are becoming more troublesome and 

 the necessity for unloading large lots 



of roses, carnations and other staples 

 after the very moderate daily call has 

 been satisfied, is more imperative. 

 Carnations are less fortunate at pres- 

 ent than roses, the market rates being 

 comparatively lower and the demand 

 more uncertain. Quality is excellent 

 in all cases. 



From the 8th to the 



PHILA- 15th the Philadelphia 



DELPHI A cut flower market has 



been both plethoric and 

 platitudinous, this condition being su- 

 perinduced by too much stock and 

 too little business — and a good deal of 

 both. When it is mentioned that 

 white roses of the lower grades were 

 the best sellers on the market, enough 

 has been said to indicate the state of 

 things. Carnations particularly had a 

 tough time of it. Yellow daffodils are 

 now in and are selling fairly well. 

 Killarney roses are a bit scarce on ac- 

 count of much wood being needed for 

 cuttings 



have been discovered, and the propor- 

 tion affected in a region where ten 

 years ago 50 per cent of the trees were 

 diseased, has been reduced to less than 

 one-tenth of 1 per cent. 



PACIFIC COAST NOTES. 



The continuance of dry weather in 

 the farming sections of California has 

 caused the farmers to become worried. 

 While in some sections the early rains 

 have assured good crops, in other 

 places the farmers have been com- 

 pelled to cease operations. The stock 

 men have suffered severely, many of 

 them being compelled to buy feed for 

 their cattle. In several sections stock 

 succumbed to cold and lack of green 

 feed. 



In li e southern part of the State se- 

 vere frost this week hit flowers, vege- 

 tables and tender plants very hard in 

 the vicinity of Pasadena and Los 

 Angeles. Most tender plants at the 

 former place were killed or seriously 

 injured. It was the hardest frost Pasa- 

 dena has had for many years, the ther- 

 mometer showing ten below freezing 

 point, and ice formed half an inch 

 thick. At Los Angeles weather con- 

 ditions are unfavorable, moderate 

 rains, but weather very cold and 

 stormy, and all vegetation backward. 

 Considerable damage has been done 

 here by frost, both to nursery stock 

 and ornamental stock in private gar- 

 dens, especially such as heliotrope, 

 poinsettias, etc. 



The Bureau of Plant Industry of the 

 Department of Agriculture has estab- 

 lished a new date garden at Yurna, 

 A. T., especially for the cultivation of 

 varieties from the Persian Gulf, and 

 the foreign explorations of the bureau 

 have resulted in the securing of many 

 valuable varieties of dates for the Gov- 

 ernment date gardens of California 

 and Arizona, and the results achieved 

 in combating diseases of California or- 

 chard fruits have been especially 

 gratifying. Remedies for the disease 

 of orange trees known as "die back," 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Clarence J. Watson, manager for 

 Samuel S. Pennock, will be married on 

 the 24th inst. 



Jacob D. Eisele of the Henry A. 

 Dreer Corporation sailed for Europe on 

 the S. S. Cedric Jan. 10. He will be 

 gone about six weeks. 



It is none too early to put dahlia 

 roots in the sand for cutting purposes. 

 The present mild weather for shipping 

 and the Samuel S. Pennock distribu- 

 tion of the famous Atco stock is an op- 

 portunity that should not be missed. 

 Mr. Pennock has the 2G best varieties 

 lor cut flower purposes. 



V. E. Archambault, Jr., an esteemed 

 associate member of the Florists' Club, 

 died Jan. 11 after a brief illness. 



Edward A. Stroud of the Strafford 

 Carnation Farms is on the sick list. 



Among the prominent new building 

 operations we heard of in this vicinity 

 are those of Adolph Farenwald, David 

 Anderson, R. Scott & Son, Floral Ex- 

 change and Wm. A. Leonard. 



Win. J. Muth of the Cut Flower Co. 

 has just returned from a ten-day trip 

 among the growers. He reports good 

 business and a cheerful feeling all 

 along the line. 



At present writing it looks as if 

 there will be a good delegation from 

 Philadelphia and vicinity to the carna- 

 tion convention. Most of them intend 

 to take the Fall River route the night 

 before. 



Samuel S. Pennock announces the 

 opening of his additional building, 

 1608 and 1610 Ludlow street, adjoining 

 his other establishment at 1612-1618 

 Ludlow street, for Monday, the 22nd 

 inst. His new premises are of the 

 most modern construction, with hot 

 water heating and electric lighting 

 throughout, and runs from Ludlow to 

 Ranstead street, 101 feet by 25 feet, 

 three stores and basement. The 

 front part of the first floor will be 

 used partly as a private office and 

 partly for the elevator. The rear por- 

 tion of the first floor, 44x25, will be 

 used as a separate store, with en- 

 trance on Ranstead street. This new 

 addition, nearly doubling his present 

 floor space, will give Mr. Pennock 

 greatly improved and much-needed fa- 

 cilities for the transaction of his large 

 and rapidly increasing business. A 

 cordial invitation is extended to the 

 trade to call and inspect the new 

 building. 



Louis Menand, Albany, N. Y., has 

 filed a petition in bankruptcy. Lia- 

 bilities $2,146.35, all usecured, and no 

 assets. 



