July 20, 1907 



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FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Business is very dull 



BOSTON here, worse, if auything, 

 than at any previous 

 time this season. "Carna' Jive a 

 bunch — doz'n carna' fer fl' cen' " is 

 the call on every street corner, and 

 the street men are not doing a land 

 office business at that. The growers, 

 happy growers, are, most of them, 

 either already away or getting ready 

 to go — some of them abroad, others 

 to rural retreats nearer home. Many 

 retailers are likewise enjoying them- 

 selves. The wholesalers — well, they 

 are always enjoying themselves, even 

 when working their hardest. The un- 

 dercurrent, through all departments, 

 seems to give promise of a fine dele- 

 gation from the Hub to Philadelphia 

 next month. 



Summer dullness has 



BUFFALO come upon us and trade 

 is actually at a stand- 

 still. Stock came in in abundance 

 the past week, especially in the car- 

 nation line, with very little sale. The 

 customer makes no appearance, con- 

 sequently the rubbish man gets two- 

 thirds of the material. Roses are in 

 good supply, Killarney leading. In pink 

 Carnot and Kaiserin were fine, but 

 Brides and Bridesmaids are poor in 

 quality. Longiflorum lilies are in 

 good supply, also candidum and rub- 

 rum. Sweet peas are overflowing. 



Trade lias quiet- 



INDIANAPOLIS ed down and as- 

 sumed the usual 

 midsummer dullness. The weather 

 has grown warmer every day. and as 

 a result stock has shown plainly the 

 effect. Tea roses are producing quan- 

 tity, but are of the summer type. 

 Beauties with good, clear foliage find 

 good sale and are in fair supply. 

 Quite a variety of garden flowers are 

 to be had. with little or no sale. 

 Gladioli, Lilium candidum and longi- 

 florum are in good numbers, while 

 asters are in limited supply only. 

 Fine sweet peas are abundant at ex- 

 tremely low prices. Growers of bed- 

 ding plants report the best spring 

 trade in years. A visit to their places 

 finds them well cleaned out. 



Cut flower trade is 



NEW YORK only a memory now, 

 the principal remin- 

 der of which is imcollected accounts 

 which stare the dealer in the face 

 every time he opens his books and 

 which in a majority of cases are likely 

 to stay on the ledger for many moons 

 before they get their happy shift to 

 the cash account. This is the tough- 

 est part of the flower business, "and 

 that's no dream." Plenty of flowers 

 — such as they are — make the daily 

 trip from far and near and take their 

 chances at a sale which, if it is con- 

 summated, Inay or may not cover the 

 express charges (reduced or other- 

 wise). All are hoping for a reduction 

 of the shipments at one end or a re- 

 sumption of demand at the other. 

 One or both of these would be an im- 



provement thankfully received in 

 these blistering days. 



There is little 

 PHILADELPHIA change to report 

 on the market 

 here this week. The tone has improved 

 somewhat, but this is rather to be at- 

 tributed to the decrease in supplies 

 than to any increase in demand. There 

 are plenty of roses and carnations com- 

 ing in. of the usual summer quality. 

 In carnations, no really first-class 

 stock is to be seen, but the quantity of 

 seconds is more tian the market needs. 

 There is an unusual quantity of small 

 subjects, such as achillea, feverfew, 

 candytuft, sweet alyssum and such 

 arriving. Asters have improved some- 

 what, there being some very good pinks 

 now coming in, also whites, but the 

 latter are rather short-stemmed. Red 

 gladioli are plentiful, also sweet peas. 

 It has been a fine season for sweet 

 peas, and they are still very good. 

 Lily of the valley is of fine quality and 

 plentiful. The gardenia, is down into 

 the plebeian class now, but the stately 

 orchid holds its own at normal figures 

 with supply short enough to keep vul- 

 gar prices at a respectful distance. 



NEWPORT NOTES. 



The weather during the past five 

 weeks has been favorable in the ex- 

 treme to Newport as far as filling it 

 up with summer people is concerned 

 and that means more eventually than 

 if the weather conditions had been 

 more favorable for vegetation. It is 

 quite hot here now; outdoor roses are 

 in consequence all but river; florists 

 were not able to utilize these to any 

 appreciable extent this season. There 

 is now a scarcity of outdoor flowers 

 and the indications are that at no time 

 will such material be over plentiful 

 this year. With the cottages about all 

 occupied and nearly every one of the 

 prominent members of the four 

 hundred einiong the occupants things 

 look exceedingly promising for a good 

 and profitable .season tor florists and 

 growers. There are already many 

 entertainments talked of for the near 

 future and a few have already taken 

 place. Gardenias will be scarce this 

 season: there are few commercial gi'ow- 

 ers engaged in growing these here and 

 I think there are not many anywhere 

 although there is no apparent reason 

 why they could not be made fairly 

 profitable. 



All the florists are now firmly es- 

 tablished at their several stands on the 

 avenue and each one is seemingly put- 

 ting forth his best efforts in window 

 decoration. For a week or more F. 

 L. Zeigler has as an attraction a din- 

 ner table with silver and other acces- 

 sories prom.inent, showing a floral 

 decoration of something new for each 

 day. All the florists are still doing a 

 large plant business and there are still 

 many dwelliugs unsupplied with 

 palms, bay trees, etc. 



BUSINESS CHANGES. 

 Geo. A. Heinl has removed to 336 

 Superior St., Toledo, O. 



\Vm. Trillow of Des Moines, la., 

 has leased the Lambert Greenhouses. 



R. Dahn has taken over the busi- 

 ness of Dahn & Ford at Auburn, N. Y. 



Miss Ri.ggall has succeeded to the 

 business of Thomas Plumb on Yonge 

 St., Toronto. 



Andrew Frost has purchased the 

 business of J. P. McCullough, 284 Col- 

 lege St., Toronto. 



Perkins & Nelson succeed Perkins 

 & Schumann, as wholesale florists, at 

 55 W. 26th street, New York. 



J. H. Seaman & Co., Washington, 

 Pa., have bojight the greenhouses of 

 the Washington Floral Co., and will 

 carry on the Forrest houses until 

 December with George Garland in 

 charge. Eighteen thousand dollars 

 was the purchase price. 



A GREAT SUPPLY HOUSE. 



In many respects one of the most 

 interesting and useful features of the 

 S. A. F. convention at Philadelphia, 

 from the florists' standpoint, will be 

 the displays made by the Philadelphia 

 plantsmen, seedsmen and supply deal- 

 ers at the trade exhibition and at 

 their respective places of business. 

 Among the supply men Bayersdorfer 

 & Co. will surprise by the magnitude 

 of their display. Mr. Bayersdorfer 

 has just returned from Europe, and 

 there is nothing worth having that 

 he has not gathered together in the 

 determination to stand pre-eminent on 

 this occasion. 



OBITUARY. 



Sam Fine, a florist of St. Louis, Mo., 

 41 years old. died on July 8 at the 

 City Hospital. 



Nicholas Bartz. who established the 

 flrst greenhouse in Des Moines. Iowa, 

 died on July 15, aged 71. Two sons 

 survive him. 



Thomas Murphy, doing business as 

 a retail florist on Ogden Avenue. Chi- 

 ca.go, committed suicide on July 9. 

 He was 50 years' old. 



A. J. Anderson, late gardener to 

 Mrs. Thomas J. Emery. Newport, R. 

 I., committed suicide on July 16. He 

 leaves a widow and two children. 



A. R. Congdon of Oberlin, O., died 

 on June 29. Mr. Congdon had built 

 up a successful business through his 

 untiring energy and devotion and was 

 highly esteemed. 



Mr. E. A. Cannell. youngest son of 

 Henry Cannell of Swanley, England, 

 died recently, at the age of 40 years. 

 He was a member of the Cannell firm. 

 A widow ancl children survive him. 



