April 24, 1909 



HORTICULTURE 



607 



Flower Market Reports. WHOLESALE FLOWER MARKETS.-i 



Business in Boston is 

 BOSTON veritably in the dumps. 



It was not long after 

 Easter belore symptoms o£ congestion 

 began to appear and the spell of hot 

 weather added to the Patriots' Day 

 holiday was all that was necessary to 

 smash the moorings and piecipitale a 

 stampede on all lines. The most re- 

 grettable feature of the situation is the 

 high quality which characterizes most 

 of the material marketed. The stuff is 

 entirely too good for such a predica- 

 ment and the slaughter figures at 

 which it must be unloaded. Tlie 

 ■'street merchant' has his innings and 

 he knows it all too well. 



A few days of real 

 BUFFALO spring weather and 

 plenty of sunshine 

 brought on stock so fast that the 

 wholesalers could not handle it to ad- 

 vantage and by the middle of the 

 previous week there was a flood ot 

 everything and values were much on a 

 decline. Roses are making up for the 

 shortage during the winter and any 

 quantity can be had at low figures. 

 Carnot and Kaiserin have been added 

 to the list but have had only a fair de- 

 mand. Bridesmaid and Bride are in 

 heavy supply but Killarney lias the 

 preference. Crops are heavy in the car- 

 nation lihe, also. Lilies, which should 

 have been in for Easter are now to 

 be had in any quantity; also callas, 

 with little demand. Peas have sold 

 readily and are taking the place of 

 violets; the latter are nearing their 

 end. Lily of the valley has made up 

 for lost time. The only thing scarce 

 is smilax; other greens are in fair 

 supply. 



The usual reaction fol- 

 CHICAGO lowed Easter and the 

 early pait of the week 

 found trade practically at a standstill 

 and stock shipped in added to that left 

 unsold on Easter Sunday, soon caused 

 an accumulation hard to move off. In 

 the week after Easter the effect of the 

 increasing plant trade is felt more and 

 more. Some dealers are very strongly 

 of the opinion that the quiet spell 

 lasts about as long as the life of the 

 plants and, barring tuneral work, 

 there will be few flowers sold till the 

 plants are gone from the homes of 

 their customers. Carnations are par- 

 ticularly plentiful and hard to dis- 

 pose of. Some good violets are coming 

 in again. Sweet peas are of good 

 quality but prices low. American 

 Beauties are again getting equal to the 

 demand and all other roses are coming 

 in faster than they can be disposed of. 

 Cattleyas are between crop and at 

 present scarce in consequence. Gar- 

 denias are also scarce and southern 

 crop still several weeks off. Callas 

 are here in numbers and call for them 

 light. 



Weddings and 



PHILADELPHIA, other social gaie- 

 ties came thick 

 and fast the week after Easter, reach- 

 ing their culminating point Wednes- 

 day, when some of the big retail 

 stores declared they were rushed 

 almost as much as on an Easter Fri- 

 day. Since then business has receded 

 somewhat although there is still a 

 good deal going on. Tlie advancing 

 season has brought crops in on the 

 jump so that the congestion is very 



CI^C«NNATI 



April a- 



OeTROIT 



April 19 



BUFFALO j PITT8BURW 



April 19 I April 19 



Roses 



Am. Beauty, Fan. 



Low 



ndSp.. 



KllUrney , Fan. & Sp 



'* Lower grades . . . . 



Richmond, Fancy & Special. 



*' Lower grades.... 



Chatcnay 



My Maryland 



CARNATIONS 



Fancy and Novelties 

 Ordinary 



MfSCGLLANeoUe 



Catlleyai 



Lilies. 



LJly of tlie Valley 



Tulips 



Daffodils 



Mignonette 



Sweet Peas 



Gardenias 



Violeu 



Adlantxnn 



SmUax 



Asparagus Plumosus, atiings 



•• " & Spren. (100 bchs.) 



severe. This is especially the case 

 with roses. What business there is 

 seems to call more for carnations, 

 sweet peas, lily of the valley, etc., 

 rather than roses. Cattleyas are ex- 

 ceedingly scarce and the few that are 

 coming in are eagerly snapped up. 

 The local supply is entirely inadequate 

 and outside points when called on 

 have been unable to furnish any relief. 

 The hot weather is bringing the 

 gardenia crop on again and values are 

 much lower. Another week will 

 probably see the last of the violets. 

 Lilies sold well up to the middle of the 

 week but are now slacking up. There 

 are few tulips and daffodils about. 



Easter in the Twin 

 TWIN CITIES Cities did not turn 



out what it should 

 have. Although business was as good 

 as last year's, the expectations were 

 to beat last year's output. The retail- 

 ers in Minneapolis have quite some 

 stock left over— not very miich of any 

 particular thing, but a little of al- 

 most anything that would not be much 

 good anywhere after a few days. 

 While pot plants went fairly good, 

 tulips, daffodils, etc. and even lilies, 

 were too abundant. The wholesalers 

 especially have some "left overs" in 

 bulbous stock. As usual prices were 

 cut early Saturday afternoon in same 

 places. Easter over, there was a gen- 

 eral rest all around. 



BUSINESS CHANGES. 



Tyler, Texas. — The Sneed Nursery 

 & Orchard Co. have filed articles of 

 dissolution. 



Canal Dover, O. — Daniel Wyss has 

 purchased land just out of the city 

 on which he intends to start a 

 nursery. 



Pittsburg, Pa. — William Plemm has 

 retired from the firm of Breitenstein 

 & Flemm and the new name of the 

 house will be Breitenstein & Co. 



Santa Cruz, Cal. — Ernest A. Bailey, 

 has bought a one-half interest in the 

 A. Mitting Calla Lily Bulb Co. A. 

 Mitting will be president and man- 

 ager; Ernest A. Bailey will be secre- 

 tary and treasurer. 



INCORPORATED. 



Plalnfield, N. J.— Van Zandt & Voor- 

 hes: capital, $50,000. To deal in 

 seeds, fertilizers, etc. 



Rochester, N. Y. — Home Planters' 

 Association: directors, Harry B. Phil- 

 lips, Stuart Hamilton, H. E. Grady. 



Providence, R. I. — The Meshanticut 

 Nursery Co.: J. Rogan. F. I.McCanna, 

 J. A. Lee; capital, $5,000. For buying, 

 selling and cultivating all kinds of 

 flowers, seeds and nursery products. 



MOVEMENTS OF GARDENERS. 



Hamilton, Mass.— Ed. Davies has 

 taken the rosition of gardener on the 

 estate of Hugo Johnstone. 



Orange, N. J.— S. Wyatt has suc- 

 ceeded John Dervan with A. C. Van 

 Gaasbeck. 



L. Merton Gage, Orange, Mass., 

 writes that he is testing this year 

 nearly 400 named varieties ot gladioli, 

 175 of which are advanced novelties, 

 and will also plant a large quantity of 

 seed, including seed of his own cross- 

 ing. He promises a report on these 

 novelties next fall in HORTICUL- 

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