January P, 1906 



H ORT1 CULTURE 



21 



VICTORY 



Requires only ordinary culture and is a fancy in the fullest sense of the word, sold for 25c each at Christmas. 



91 



Cat Flower Market Re- 

 ports. 



Country and suburban buy- 

 BOSTON ers are beginning to find 



fault with the wholesale 

 prices of flowers, which means that 

 business is slack with them. It is 

 slack in city circles as well, and the 

 receipts of flowers being rather heavy 

 in wholesale markets, accumulations 

 are inevitable, and so the prices must 

 go down, whether it pays or not. 

 There has been no sensational tumble, 

 as was the case last year, but it has 

 already gone below a reasonable level 

 on some things as, for instance. En- 

 chantress carnations, which bring with 

 difficulty anything over $4 per 100, al- 

 though the superb stock offered must 

 have cost more than that to produce. 

 In roses, the medium grades are in 

 demand in a ratio of about nine to one 

 as compared with the specials which 

 are represented in the top figures given 

 in our market quotations. The whole- 

 salers made a struggle on New Year's 

 day to hold American Beauty specials 

 at $75 per 100, but the final result is 

 that $50 is the outside figure. Boston 

 is not a very elastic market, and it 

 does not take much, after the country 

 trade stops buying, to choke the chan- 

 nels and compel unloading at sacrifice 

 rates. 



With ideal spring 

 BUFFALO weather for Christmas, 



a rushing business was 

 done. Plant trade was exceptionally 

 good, with mild weather for delivery. 

 Stock was a little scarce at the whole- 

 sale house at the beginning of the 

 week, but on Friday a good quantity 

 was had, and shipping orders were 

 rapidly filled. Select roses were about 



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the only scarce article, especially long 

 stem Liberties; as for ordinary and 

 Teas, any amount could be had. 

 Beauties were leaders, and in fairly 

 good demand, with prices ruling high. 

 Violets were held off until the latter 

 part of the week, when they came in 

 large quantities, and a good many were 

 carried over, which were sold far be- 

 low the list price. Carnations of fin- 

 est quantities were had. Enchantress, 

 Red Lawson, Flamingo and Cardinal 

 being leaders, and brought good prices. 

 Narcissi, Roman hyacinths and lily of 

 the valley were in good demand. It 

 may be said that shipping trade has 

 been better than for years. All retail- 

 ers are well satisfied with the amount 

 of business done. 



Business conditions 

 LOUISVILLE the previous week 



were pretty well in 

 keeping with the Christmas rush, 

 which was probably the best ever ex- 

 perienced in Louisville. Carnations 

 have had an unusually good demand, 

 with the quality great, and the supply 

 short. Roses have certainly had their 

 share of popularity. The quality and 

 supply with one or two exceptions are 

 satisfactory. Violets, mignonette and 

 lily of the valley move rapidly and are 

 of good quality, but the supply at 

 times is short. The supply of poin- 

 settias is about over. 



After the Christmas 

 NEW YORK sweep a considerable 



drop in values ensued, 

 but not a severe drop, and prices held 

 together fairly well, the anticipation 

 of New Year's being a factor. This 

 latter holiday, although observed by 

 New Yorkers with universal enthusi- 

 asm, amounted to but little, however, 

 as a flower-buying occasion. This has 

 been the case for a number of years 

 back, and there was no good reason to 

 expect anything better this year. The 

 retailers took advantage of this as- 

 surance to stand out against the hold- 

 over Christmas figures which whole- 

 sale dealers tried to maintain on somp 

 choice lines, and succeeded in modify- 

 ing prices somewhat, although there 

 was no very serious smash-up. On 

 Sunday evening most of the large re- 

 tail establishments closed their doors 

 at six or eight P. M., an unprecedented 

 thing for New Year's Eve. The mar- 

 ket at present is quiet, with a down- 

 ward tendency, and should the weather 

 continue favorable to heavy blooming, 

 a considerable reduction in market 

 values generally may be looked for. 



All the growers 

 INDIANAPOLIS and the leading 

 retailers report a 

 record breaking Christmas trade at 

 least 35 per cent, in advance of last 

 year. Prices ruled high in most every- 

 thing especially Beauties and best 

 grade tea roses of which there was a 

 big shortage owing to dark weather. 



Christmas greenery w^ent better than 

 last year. The market was not over- 

 stocked so everything was sold at good 

 prices. Brisk sales as usual in flower- 

 ing plants and made up baskets. Ex- 

 tra trimming of same not in evidence. 

 Nothing in the line of novelties was 

 seen. Business has quieted down con- 

 siderably since Christmas and prices 

 have got nearer to normal again. 



New Year's trade was 



PHI LA- not as good here as last 



DELPHIA year. The immense 



Christmas business done 



no doubt had something to do with 



ai centuating the reaction. Stocks were 



plentiful and good and while pricss 



dropped on most items they are still 



satisfactory. Very little business was 



done on Sunday, the 31st ult., and had 



it not been for the out of town orders 



the wholesale forces might as well 



have gone to church. The weather has 



been ideal. 



The 1905th Christmas 

 SAN- has come and gone, 



FRANCISCO and with it came to 

 plantsmen and florists 

 the greatest trade in the history of the 

 city. Everything seasonable in the 

 blooming line, and some flowers out of 

 season, were in the flower stores in 

 great abundance, with the solitary ex- 

 ceptlon of American Beauty roses. 

 The growers did their best to be amply 

 supplied with Beauties, but their ship- 

 ments Christmas morning at advanced 

 prices were far short of the orders 

 florists had in hand. The out-of-sea- 

 scm blooms referred to were good sup- 

 plies of magnificent yellow chrysanthe- 

 mums and rulirum lilies that had been 

 held back by Batistie Ginochio. the 

 Oceanview grower. These rubrums, 

 in hampers and baskets, brought from 

 $fi to $8. The supply of pot plants was 

 beyond other Christmas seasons, and 

 Gloire de Lorraine begonias, prim- 

 roses, poinsettias, cyclamens, azaleas, 

 berried plants and lily of the valley 

 and other bulbous stock sold well, 

 buyers being more than ever predis- 

 posed in favor of potted blooming 

 plants over cut flowers for Christmas 

 gifts. Florists were especially pleased 

 with good supplies of improved 

 Testouts grown by Aebi of Berkeley. 

 In length of stem they rivaled the best 

 Beauty, and sold as fast as they came 

 at remunerative prices. Last week's 

 prediction that normal prices would 

 be maintained proved erroneous; fully 

 25 per cent, advance was about the 

 way things went. 



The bursting of the boiler at the 

 greenhouses of Fred B. Barrington, 

 Gloucester, Mass., caused a miniature 

 flood, but the mildness of the weather 

 prevented any serious damage to the 

 st i uk of flowers and plants while re- 

 pairs were going on. 



