May 1, 1909 



HORTICULTURE 



64a 



Flower Market Reports. WHOLESALE FLOWER MARKETS.— i 



-Much colder weather (or 

 BOSTON the past week has had the 



effect of retarding the 

 heavy crops that were hegiiiniiig to 

 overburden this market and conditions 

 are generally much better than at the 

 time we made our last report on the 

 flower situation. Demand has livened 

 up somewhat, prices are more stable 

 and a better feeling prevails all 

 around Quality was never better. All 

 varieties of roses are being received 

 In fine shape, including high class Car- 

 nots from cold houses. Two items are 

 scarce — smilax and lily of the valley. 

 The former is always in short supply 

 in April hut the lily of the valley sit- 

 uation is somewhat peculiar. Ever 

 since Easter, it has shown unexpected 

 activity. 



The Chicago market is 

 CHICAGO in a normal condition. 

 Large shipments of flow- 

 ers are coming in and prices conse- 

 quently low but these low prices have 

 induced buyers to come into the mar- 

 ket who do not genersUy do so. The 

 volume of trade is therefore very 

 large. Business this year has been 

 fully equal to that of last spring. The 

 cold wet weather has held back out- 

 door stuff and no glut is expected. 

 Beauties are doing exceptionally well. 

 Carnations are in great supply but all 

 really good shipping stock is moved 

 promptly. Mr. Washburn says he is 

 unable to fully meet the demand for 

 the O. P. Bassell carnation. The rose 

 supply is very large, Killarney being 

 in heavy crop, as indeed are most of 

 the varieties. The cold weather has 

 shut off the lilacs that were coming in 

 from southern Illinois. At Washington 

 Heights, just outside Chicago, sweet 

 peas six inches in height were reported 

 frozen on April 25th. 



The week (ollow- 

 INDIANAPOLIS ing Easter was a 

 most successful 

 one for all concerned, the growers 

 being well prepared for all demands. 

 The better classes of goods sold well, 

 but there was a noticeable reduction 

 in all grades of roses. American 

 Beauties are in fine quality, the sup- 

 ply equal to demand. Carnations are 

 holding their own but prices have 

 receded somewhat. Bulb stock is on 

 the wane. Sweet peas are handled in 

 great quantities, the quality has never 

 been better. Lily of the valley and 

 orchids appear to be scarce. Lilac 

 and violets are about over for this 

 season. Anything in green goods is 

 to be had at regular prices. Some 

 good mignonette, snapdragon and 

 stocks are seen. The plant growers 

 are now devoting their time to bed- 

 ding stock, but the planting does not 

 become active till about the tenth of 

 May. 



An avalanche of 

 PHILADELPHIA flowers rolled 



down on Phila- 

 delphia last week. Ten tidies as much 

 as the market could use. The de- 

 mand was about the usual for this 

 time of year; but was entirely in- 

 adequate to make any impression on 

 the mountain of supply. The warm 

 weather from the 17th to the 20th, 

 loosed a regular cataract of flowers 

 of all kinds — the worst that has ever 

 been experienced at same date within 



CIMCINNATI 



OBTRDIT 



April 27 



BUFFALO I PITT8BUK4 



April ij I April J» 



ROSBS 



Am. Beauty, Fan. and Sp. 



" Extra 



No.. 



" Lower grades 



Bride, 'Maid, Golden Gate, F. & S. 



" " Low.gT 



Killarney, Fan. &Sp 



" Lower grades 



Richmond, Fancy & Special 



" Lowcrgrades 



Chatenay 



My Maryland 



CARNATIONS 



Fancy and Novelties 



Ordinary 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Catcleyas 



UUes 



Uly of the Valley 



Tulips 



Daffodils 



Mignonette 



Sweet Peas 



Gardenias 



Violets 



Adlantum 



Smilai 



Asparagus Plufnosus, strings 



" & Spren. (too bchs.) 



I 00 t« 4.*« 



the memory of the oldest. Quality 

 was all that could be expected. The 

 outlook for this week is more promis- 

 ing. Crops are shortening up a little 

 and a larger number of weddings and 

 other functions for the end of the 

 month are on the cards. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Victoria, B. C. — Fairview Esquimalt 

 Greenhouses, two houses 136 x 20.5. 



Columbus, O. — Wm. Graff has se- 

 cured a five years' lease of the store 

 room adjoining his present establish- 

 ment. 



Chicago, III. — It is said that C. 

 Clemenson. intends to erect an up-to- 

 date florists' place on the land he 

 recently acquired at 78th St. and R. 

 R. Ave. 



Indianapolis, Ind. — The legislature 

 has recently appropriated a generoua 

 sum for the parks and Supt. H. Tall 

 is having a large number of trees, 

 shrubs and perennials set out for the 

 adornment of the city. 



Philadelphia, Pa. — Bids for the com- 

 pletion of the park and boulevard 

 plans for League Island Park were re- 

 ceived on April 26 by the Department 

 of Public Safety. The present appro- 

 priation allows $500,000 for this pro- 

 ject. About $3,000,000 will have been 

 expended upon this scheme when com- 

 pleted. 



Residents of North Ablngton, Mass., 

 are greatly stirred over the discovery 

 that vandals had slashed and cut off 

 with knives and axes last Monday 

 night, some 1700 young trees belong- 

 ing to the Bay State Nurseries, the 

 damage amounting to several hundred 

 dollars. The police are working en 

 the case and a special town meeti.;g 

 may be called. 



ALBANY NOTES. 



A special, meeting of the committee 

 of the flower show was held at the 

 store of W. C. King, on Thursdav, 

 April 29th. 



Visitors at Albany: J. J. Karins, 

 representing Henry A. Dreer, Phila- 

 delphia; Ed. Roehrs of the Julius 

 Roehrs Co., Rutherford. N. J. 



W. C. Kurth and Ely D. Burke have 

 purchased the store, 518 Broadway, 

 and will open up same about May 1 

 under the name of the Broadway 

 Florist. 



Mr. R. W. Zobel has sold his green- 

 houses and stock to Fred. Keller who 

 is in the employ of the Julius Roehrs 

 Co., Rutherford, N. J., who will take 

 possession the 15th of May. Mr. 

 Zobel is confined to his home with a 

 severe attack of inflammatory rheuma- 

 tism. 



PERSONAL. 



Frank Sealey, of Millbrook, N. Y., 

 has taken a position with Miss C. A. 

 Bliss. New Canaan, Conn. 



M. E. Estep, of Chicago, landscape 

 gardener, has opened offices at 407 

 Mohawk Block, Spokane, Wash. 



The recovery of James McKellav, 

 secretary of the Florists' Club of 

 Columbus, O., from the operation for 

 appendicitis, is now fully assured. 



Visitors In Boston this week: Mar- 

 tin Reukauf, representing H. Bayers- 

 dorfer & Co.. Philadelphia: A. Zirk- 

 man, representing M. Rice & Co., 

 Philadelphia; J. J. Van Waveren, Hil- 

 le.Kom, Holland; Andrew Wilson, Sum- 

 mit. N. J.; George C. Watson, Phila- 

 delphia., Pa. 



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