May 22, 3909 



HORTICULTURE 



743. 



Flower IVlarket Reports, 



ilarket is reported as 

 BOSTON, "no good" this week. A 



visit to tlie various marts 

 where flowers are distributed by 

 growers or commission dealers con- 

 firms this assertion for the slock is 

 piled up in hopeless profusion and 

 values exist on paper only, for no of- 

 fer, however low, is refused. Last 

 week was fairly good and no cause 

 for complaint was in evidence until 

 the present week. All eyes are turned 

 to next week with its Jlemorial Day 

 activity to retrieve the losses of the 

 present. As to quality, nothing but 

 praise can be accorded to the stock 

 which is being sent in. The cool 

 weather is, no doubt, partially respon- 

 sible for the excellent quality which 

 compares favorably with the very best 

 product ot the early spring season. 



A rather unsatisfactory 

 CHICAGO week from a business 



standpoint completed the 

 first halt of May. The supply was 

 greater than the demand in nearly all 

 lines, especially in roses. The week 

 opened rather slow with considerable 

 stock on hand from Saturday and busi- 

 ness continued dull throughout the 

 week, Thursday being perhaps the 

 best day. Friday, usually a good 

 shipping day was a disappointment. 

 Everyone has a good crop of Beauties 

 on and all other roses are fine in 

 quality. Kaiserins are now coming in 

 freely, some with long stems. Pansies 

 are plentiful but quality a little poor. 

 They do not have the substance so de- 

 sirable in pansy stock and sell slowly 

 or are thrown away in many eases. 

 Candytuft in white and lavender is 

 in stock. Cattleya Mossiae are seen 

 at JIcKellar's and are of fine quality. 

 Carnations are selling too freely for 

 such good stock and if the warm 

 weather continues they will be hurried 

 along faster than growers like with 

 Decoration Day just ahead. Lilacs are 

 not out yet but are coming in from 

 southern Illinois. The very last of the 

 bulbous stock is being cut now. 

 Sweet peas are coming with very short 

 stems. Callas are in excess of the 

 demand, a condition which has pre- 

 vailed most of the season. Flowers 

 shipped from the south now are 

 limited to peonies, of which there 

 are many and of fine quality. Tril- 

 lium, well known as Wake Robin, is 

 in the market. It attracts attention 

 but does not bring the dollars. Daisies 

 are on rather short stems but sell 

 fairly well. The violet season is over. 

 The last boxes received were entirely 

 worthless. 



All of us ought to be well 

 DETROIT satisfied with local trade 



conditions, 'tt'hen supply 

 is good in quality, liberal in quantity 

 and cleaned up every day we certainly 

 have no cause for complaint. Of 

 course, outdoor stuff is very backward 

 and this will influence Decoration Day 

 business, but while the weather is bad 

 the plant man will have his inning 

 but temporarily must exercise a good 

 deal of patience. 



When the weather 

 PHILADELPHIA is good and busi- 

 ness is humming 

 its a fairly pleasant job being a mar- 

 ket reporter. When the weather is too 

 good, and the market no good, there's 

 only one job worse, and that's writ- 



WHOLESALE FLOWER MARKETS.-to o^^^E^rbNuv. 



CINCINNATI 

 May x8 



DETwrr 



May i8 



BUFFALO 



May 17 



PlTTSBUKfl 



May '7 



Roses 



Am. Beauty, Fan. and Sp. I 3o.( 



•* Extra as.t 



No. 



'* Lower gravies 3.00 to 



Bride, 'Maid, Golden Gale, F. & S. 6 oa to 



'* " Low. gr 3.00 to 



Killamey, Fan. & Sp 6.00 to 



'* Lower grades 3.03 to 



Richmond, Fanc>' & Special 8.00 to 



'* Lower grades 400 to 



Cbatenay 5.00 to 



My Maryland to 



CARNATIONS 



Fancy and Novelties ' to 



OnUoiary j 1.00 to 



10 10. as^ 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Catdeyas 



LUiei. 



Uly of the VaUey. 



Mignonette 



Sweet Peas .5* to 



Gardeniae • ..•..• {o 



Peonies ••.! to 



Da 



Stocks 



Snapdragon 1 



Adjaainiai 



Sailai 



Aaparagus Plufnosafi, stiings* • • 

 " " & Spren. (loobchs.)! so.ci 



3.00 to 4.0c 



ing up the death notices. This week 

 every wholesale center seems to wear 

 sackcloth and ashes in its atmosphere 

 — wrapt in a cloud of sable by day and 

 the stillness of death by night. When 

 one asks the god of the machine in 

 such places "how's things this week? ' 

 he looks at you with a woeful counten- 

 ance and points to a pile of boxes 

 containing thousands and thousands of 

 the choicest gems of the universe, and 

 says: "don't ask — we haven't opened 

 these yet and orobably never will '' 

 All of which is very depressing to a 

 sympathetic scribe who delights in 

 describing the cheerful side of things; 

 so he trusts that this week you will 

 excuse him from going into the grue- 

 some details. Some of the growers 

 were growling last week about the 

 smallness of their returns. When these 

 good souls get their returns next week 

 they better take a bracer in advance. 

 In the words of Worcester and Web- 

 ster it is surely a case of "cheer up— 

 the worst is yet to come!" Good roses 

 were cleaning up on Saturday, the 1st 

 inst., to the street men, at two dollars 

 per thousand. On the whole, we think 

 the week ought to be baptized "Dona- 

 tion Week." There were no prices — 

 if there were one would have had to 

 use a million magnifying X-Ray micro- 

 scope to see them. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Everett, Mass. — Osgood Bros., flor- 

 ists, report that two men have been 

 soliciting orders in their name with- 

 out authority, and warn the public 

 against them. 



Cambridge, Mass. — H. L. Cameron. 

 North Cambridge, a leader in high- 

 quality spring bedding stock for the 

 Boston market, has the contract to 

 supply all the bidding material for 

 CiiTVib, idge Cem.^icr'- and all tbe ger- 

 aniums for Norumbega jJaik. Fron'' 

 tw) to three thousand geranir.'i arc 

 oirried ;way every mornin? from Mr 

 Cameron's greenhouses by peddUrs. 

 The reason is backward and geraniums 

 as well as other ilowerin.^ bedding 

 stock are very late in coming into 

 bloom. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Heacock saUeJ 

 on the 20th inst. for Bermuda. They 

 expect to be home again in about ten. 

 days. 



David Beattie has resigned his posi- 

 tion with Fred Ehret and engaged 

 with .Julius vrolff, Jr. 



Wallace Faust, late with Keegan, 

 intends to start in business for him- 

 self on South 13th, between Chestnut 

 and Walnut streets, a locality in 

 which he has long been a well-known 

 and popular figure. 



Visitor this week: John De Buck 

 with a consignment of orchids from 

 South America. 



Alfred Burton is busy with build- 

 ing operations on the new range back 

 of the old establishment and has same 

 ready for planting. In line with the 

 spirit of the times he is following up 

 the demand for orchids and will de- 

 vote a part of his place to this crop. 



George Burton, nearby, has alsa 

 been extending his area of glass — in 

 part for orchids. On this place was 

 noted a strong favor for the tile 

 bench. Much has been said about 

 this as an economical and healthy aid 

 to commercial culture, and when a 

 conservative like Mr. Burton takes it 

 up there must be something worth 

 considering. It seems the difference 

 01 cost between this and wood is only 

 trifling. 



The Joseph Heacock Co. have com- 

 pleted the remodeling of their plants 

 bringing same up to modern stan- 

 dards over the whole establishment. 

 The smaller houses have been rebuilt 

 — two and three to one in some cases 

 — in other cases the partitions have 

 been removed, thus giving greater 

 facilities in heating and working 

 operations. Besides palms, orchids 

 and Killarney roses, which are the 

 leading crops, an interesting specialty 

 at present is their new pink carna- 

 tion, Dorothy Gordon, a novelty which 

 has won honors wherever exhibited 

 and which will be put on the market 

 next spring. 



