June 2, 1906 



HORTICULTURE 



715 



BASKETS 



are essential for June commencements. 

 Prices 15 cents to $1.25 each. 



A good collection of say a dozen assorted si/es and 

 varieties, costing you from #5.00 to $25.00 for the collection, would result in bringing you orders. All styles and 

 shapes. Selections that will please you and cost to correspond. 



A NEW LABOR SAVER.-THE F. F. PIN. The Fern Fastening Pin is a light, strong 

 hair pin made specially for design work. The idea you have been looking for for years. The price is so reason- 

 able that every one can use it. $1.50 per box containing from 10 to 11 thousand each, 



OUR TWENTIETH CENTURY PLANT STAND. Is a hit! See our last week's 

 ad. for full description. OTHER SEASONABLE SUPPLIES. Variety unlimited- 



THE FLORIST SUPPLY HOUSE OF AMERICA. 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO., 56 IM. 4th St., Phila. 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Decoration Day business 

 BOSTON has arrogated to itself 



all the interest attach- 

 ing to the flower business of this 

 neighborhood for the past few days. 

 It has been in all respects a conspicu- 

 ous floral record-breaker. As usual, 

 the demand has been for material suit- 

 able for low-price work and has come 

 largely from the country and suburban 

 districts. In American Beauty roses 

 the short-stem grade held sway. In 

 other roses similar conditions con- 

 trolled output and price. In carna- 

 tions the safe was prodigious, colors 

 having preference oyer the white va- 

 rieties. Lily of the valley — the well- 

 grown indoor stock — found a serious 

 impediment in the outdoor crop which 

 was just in its prime. The demand for 

 astilbe was hardly as heavy as ex- 

 pected, and sweet peas did not make 

 the record they did last year on this 

 occasion. Double flowered stocks were 

 superb in white, pink and purple, and 

 sold well. The single flowered variety 

 was worse than useless, and growers 

 who had given their space and time 

 to its cultivation had another jolt; no- 

 body wants it. There was no disposi- 

 tion to exact or to pay increased rates 

 on any flower,' so far as we have 

 learned. This is one of the reasons 

 for the floral popularity of the day, 



Up to the time of mail- 

 BUFFALO ing this report the pros- 

 pects are unmistakably 

 for a record-breaking Memorial Day 

 business. Everything in the line of cut 

 flowers, with the exception of a few 

 American Beauties and out-door lily 

 of the valley is sold out in the whole- 

 sale markets. Full report next week. 



It has settled into 

 COLUMBUS warm summer weath- 

 er, and in all lines we 

 are beginning to slack down. Of 

 course the sales of bedding plants are 

 still very large, and will continue so 

 until after Decoration Day. Peonies 

 have come and are most welcome. 

 Sweet peas are in good supply and go 

 fast. Outdoor lily of the valley is 

 much in demand. Decoration Day has 

 helped prices this week; Enchantress, 

 Lawson and other good carnations 

 have sold well. The season here for 

 bedding plants has been a splendid 

 one; geraniums have been as usual the 

 leaders with enormous sales. The 



seedsmen are on their last run for the 

 season, and it has certainly been a 

 good one. 



Business conditions 

 LOUISVILLE the previous week 



were in general satis- 

 factory. There has been a steady call 

 for carnations with enough to meet all 

 needs, but they are getting small. 

 Roses continue in fair quality with 

 demand and supply about equal. Sweet 

 peas have had a great run and are 

 fine. Lilies can be had in small quan- 

 tities but go slowly. Excellent peo- 

 nies are in and they sell well. Greens, 

 with the exception of fancy ferns, are 

 in satisfactory supply. 



The general supply of 

 NEW YORK flowers for Decoration 

 Day was affected some- 

 what by the all-day rain of Monday 

 with cool temperature. Out-door 

 stock was consequently not as abund- 

 ant as it would have been had weather 

 conditions been different. Peonies were 

 set back considerably, but there was 

 a fair supply in the market and prices 

 were satisfactory. American Beauty 

 roses were plentiful and no extra de- 

 mand was felt; in fact, the large grades 

 were decidedly slow in moving. The 

 call was for low-priced showy stock. 

 Of the small roses there was no over- 

 abundance and the proportion of good 

 clean stock sold well, especially 'in 

 Tuesday, but the mildewed goods, of 

 v. hich there was a goodly share had to 

 go at low rates. There was a plenty 

 of carnations but many were of poor 

 quality; the best sold readily, parti- 

 cularly the colors; whites and the 

 bright reds were not called for parti- 

 cularly. Sweet peas of choice grade 

 sold well but the general quality was 

 very inferior. The bulk of the busi 

 ness was with out-of-town buyers, the 

 city trade as usual on this occasion 

 amounting to but little. Shipments on 

 Wednesday were light, business ditto, 

 and nothing was done after the earlj 

 forenoon. 



SAN FRANCISCO NOTES. 



The eastern sentiment that 





pleases the florist, plantsmen and land- 

 scape gardeners is that, apart from 

 any sentimental considerations, the 

 rebuilding of San Francisco is a 

 national necessity. We find that this 



city is regarded as not only the 

 metropolis of the Pacific Coast, but 

 the nation's western gateway, just as 

 New York is the eastern gateway. It 

 not only is the natural inlet and out- 

 let of the Oriental commerce, which 

 every year becomes more important 

 to the nation, but by virtue of its 

 spacious, inclosed and otherwise 

 magnificent harbor the most practical 

 point of military protection on the 

 Pacific Coast frontier of the United 

 States. Therefore we are going to re- 

 build, and do it right hurriedly. And 

 let it be recorded that the first to re- 

 sume business in the burnt district is 

 a florist, a pioneer propagator and 

 grower, John H. Sievers, whose busi- 

 ness, conducted in the name of Sievers 

 & Boland in one of the largest and 

 most beautiful frescoed stores in the 

 city, was reduced to ashes by the great 

 fire. Within a stone's throw of the 

 John H. Sievers Company's nursery, 

 located within a block of the burned 

 section of the city, Mr. Sievers and his 

 ante-calamity partner reared this week 

 the old familiar sign, "Sievers & Bo- 

 land, Florists," on a newly constructed 

 board structure at the southeast 

 corner of Van Ness avenue and Chest- 

 nut street. Within this expansive 

 structure the entire old force of em- 

 ployes have drawn upon the nursery 

 and arranged a beauty scene of bloom- 

 ing plants, and choice cut flowers. 



San Francisco has repeatedly found 

 time to wipe her weeping eyes and ex- 

 press sympathy for the two rival 

 "Floral Cities" of the state, San Jose 

 and Santa Rosa, which were sufferers 

 by the earthquake to the estimated ex- 

 tent of $800,000 and $1,500,000, respec- 

 tively. Although sufferers to such 

 great extent these cities were heartily 

 drawn toward San Francisco, and with 

 the several carloads of provisions each 

 sent here were great quantities of 

 beautiful flowers donated by the grow- 

 ers of these two inland cities. The 

 modest Burbank, of Santa Rosa, re- 

 sponds to a city paper that his place 

 and all the growers of his city were 

 unharmed by the quake, yet the gover- 

 nor of the state and party who made 

 an official inspection of Santa Rosa's 

 damage publicly reports that "al- 

 though Luther Burbank's home and 

 experimental gardens were imma- 

 terially disturbed, his photographic 

 gallery in which were a valuable col- 

 lection of negatives was smashed to 

 splinters." And in San Jose, H. Bour- 

 guignon had three houses demolished. 



