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HORTICULTURE 



January 18, 1913 



Flower Market Reports 



(Continued /rom page qi ) 



fodils, sweet peas and daisies. We hope 

 the trade will be out of the doldrums 

 by next week, and that a more cheer- 

 ful report will result. 



A good marliet, stiff 

 PROVIDENCE prices and a good 

 supply in most 

 cases, has kept the trade fairly active 

 the first part of the week brought dull 

 business for the time, but the succeed- 

 ing cold spell saw a prompt recovery. 

 Carnations are up just at present. 

 Best grades of roses are fairly plenti- 

 ful with a wide range of prices. Acacia 

 has just made its appearance in the 

 market and is bringing a high figure. 

 As usual, the supply is very limited. 

 The local flower mar- 

 ST. LOUIS ket was in splendid 

 condition all during the 

 past week as far as the supply went 

 but buyers were scarce and our com- 

 mission men had their troubles. Carna- 

 clean up on the great bulk of stock 

 that came in daily. The retailers claim 

 they put in a mighty dull week. With 

 no demand to speak of from them and 

 shipping trade equally dull the com- 

 mission had their troubles. Carna- 

 tions, roses, sweet peas, violets and 

 bulb stock are coming in in great 

 quantity: in fact, the wholesalers were 

 up against it hard the last week. But 

 the retailer is in his glory for he can 

 buy cheap when a job comes in. 



Detroit — Business was good but not 

 what it might have been and we put the 

 blame on the shoulders of the weather 

 man. The general supply is of excel- 

 lent quality and prices firm. While 

 the big rose growers are off crop we 

 expect an increasing supply of carna- 

 tions and bulbous flowers by the end 

 of the week. 



Washington, D. C— There has been 

 enough work to keep everyone busy al- 

 though on the whole things are not 

 rushing. There has been little change 

 in the way of prices and there is a 

 plenitude of everything e.xcept colored 

 roses. Richmonds are out of crop and 

 this applies to nearly all others. Their 

 place is being taken by carnations of 

 which there are enough to meet all 

 demands; in fact, they are in full crop 

 and it is expected that the price will 

 drop materially on these within the 

 next week or ten days. Orchids are 

 more plentiful than they have been. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



W. Atlee Burpee and Mrs. Burpee left 

 on the 14th for Mia&ii, Fla., on a vaca- 

 tion. They expect to leturn to Phila- 

 delphia about March 1st. 



The ready facilities that the M. Rice 

 Co. have for shipping goods was am- 

 ply demonstrated on Thursday last 

 when a well-known Philadelphia florist 

 placed an order at 9 A. M. for 

 fifteen cornucopias four feet long. 

 They were made, finished and reached 

 their destination the same day. 



We regret to report a relapse on 

 Samuel S. Pennock's oldest boy, Charles 

 (see our issues of past two weeks.) He 

 was taken to the Presbyterian Hospital, 

 West Philadelphia, on the 12th inst, 

 for another pleurisy operation. Very 

 serious indeed. "While there's life 

 there's hope." but our hearts go out 

 and turn to water, while all we can do 

 is look on. There is no surcease of sor- 

 row to loving hearts — no matter though 



the whole world sympathize with them 

 in the grim struggle. 



The promoters of the "Retail Flor- 

 ists' Club of Philadelphia" held a meet- 

 ing in the library room of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Horticultural Society on the 15th 

 inst. We were not invited to attend; 

 but we are informed that those present 

 were John C. Gracey, C. H. Grakelow, 

 James McLane, E. H. Heilmann and 

 some others. It leaked out that one of 

 the first snags struck by the promoters 

 was as to whether they should admit 

 fakirs into the club. From the amount 

 of secrecy maintained we look for 

 some remarkable developments: and 

 like the rest of the outside world, we 

 await with "bated breath." 



The seed trade here, as elsewhere, 

 were sorry to get the news about the 

 sudden death of their old confrere 

 James B. Kidd. Personally we have 

 known him for nearly thirty-five years 

 —and that intimately. He was a man 

 among men. Wise, witty, big hearted 

 to a fault, a keen observant seedsman, 

 who reached eminence in every branch 

 of that intricate business. He will be 

 missed. Not the least of the services 

 he did to the business during his latter 

 years was his work in the appraisers' 

 department of the New York customs, 

 where he always had an eagle eye for 

 frauds and undervalues. It took a 

 smart scamp to fool "Jim" Kidd. 



(Copy.) 

 , „ .T.in. i;;. 1913. 



!^. S. Pennook-Meelian Co., Phil.ulelphia. 



Gentlemen: — I li:ive just returned from 

 our greenhouses and liave talked with our 

 foreman re.garding the Fire Flame Rose. 

 Instead of having one tjench in one of the 

 long houses, we have decided to plant one 

 whole house, which will hold 1.275. This 

 being the 1.3th da.v of the month and the 

 13th ,vear. I told ray foreman it would be 

 a good idea for you to book us for 1300. 



We do not know as the Irish are super- 

 stitious of number 13. but we are not. 

 Yours respectfully. 



Messrs. Pennock-Meehan replied to 

 this that they were not superstitious 

 either and that they were very glad to 

 book the order. We understand that 

 the advance bookings for this unique 

 new single rose Irish Fire Flame are 

 already quite heavy. 



Our attention has been called to the 

 fact that Burpee is not the first to offer 

 seeds at 2iA cents a pkt.; that long ago 

 there were concerns offering them for 

 as low as one cent. Quite true. But 

 no "first class" house has gone below 

 the standard in a regular way. Bur- 

 pee's idea of half-packets for the chil- 

 dren is not really a lowering of the 

 five-cent standard but a reduction in 

 the quantity so as to realize his new 

 idea of "Small Gardens for Small 

 Folks" — that being the title of a neat 

 little pamphlet of :32 pages which has 

 just reached our desk from the Burpee 

 establishment. The author is Edith 

 Loring Fullerton, whose "How to Make 

 a Vegetable Garden," and "The Lure 

 of the Land," have made her famous. 

 She says in her dedication: 



"This little liook was written at the re- 

 quest of Mr. W. Atlee Burpee, who has the 

 courage and kindliness to give to children 

 good seeds in proper proportions for their 

 gardens at a modrst price." 



We do not know how the idea wrill 

 work out: but we do know that there 

 are many in the trade who are wishing 

 they had thought of it first. 



Visitors: C. B. Coe, of D. M. Ferry 

 & Co., Detroit, Mich.; Eugene and Paul 

 Dailledouze, Flatbush, N. Y.; B. El- 

 lott, Pittsburgh. Pa.; Antoine Leuthy, 

 Roslindale, Mass. 



During Recess* 



Tarrytown (N. Y.) Horticultural So- 

 ciety. 



This vigorous horticultural organiza- 

 tion held its fourteenth annual ban- 

 quet at the Florence Inn on the even- 

 ing of January Sth. As usual, it was 

 an altogether glorious and festive oc- 

 casion, participated in by about 75 of 

 the leading professional and amateur 

 horticulturists of the neighborhood, 

 together with a goodly number of rep- 

 resentatives of the trade from New 

 York city and elsewhere. The table 

 and walls were superbly decorated, all 

 the new claimants for distinction in 

 the rose and carnation line being on 

 dress parade to delight the eye and win 

 the appreciation of the influential hor- 

 ticultural dignitaries that are ac- 

 customed to honor the Tarrytown 

 banquets with their presence. 



There were speeches full of wisdom, 

 wit and scholarly learning, plenty of 

 them, and interspersed with them mu- 

 sic and singing of a high order. Chas. 

 B. Millard served acceptably as toast- 

 master. 



New York and New Jersey Associa- 

 tion of Plant Growers. 

 The fifth annual dinner of the 

 New York and New Jersey Asso- 

 ciation of Plant Growers will be 

 held on Wednesday evening, January 

 29th, 1913, at Louis Martin's, Broad- 

 way, between 41st and 42nd streets, 

 New York, In addition to the best 

 dinner ever given by the association, 

 there will be a first-class entertain- 

 ment for which the best music and 

 vaudeville acts have been engaged. 

 Julius Roehrs, Jr., Herman Schoelzel 

 and Alfred L. Zeller compose the din- 

 ner committee. Louis Dupuy president, 

 Wm. H. Siebrecht, Jr., secretary. 



Cook County (III. 

 tion Bowling So 

 ORCHIDS. 



) Florists' Associa- 

 ores, Jan, 8, 1913. 



VIOLET 

 Krause, 129 154 IS!) A. H'bn'r, 115 

 Graff, nn 144 154 .T. Jacobs. 210 



Kraslr'm, 154 2101.30 W.Wolff, 178 

 Geo. O., 136 Iflfi 152 E. Sch'ltz, 103 

 J. Zech, 214 ISG 145 .T. H'bn'r, 125 



CARNATION'S. 

 Lorman, 100 14!) 182 

 L'b'rm'n, 140 143 158 

 Armst'g, 132 126 129 

 Ayer.s, 178 143 100 



A. Zech. irsiSS197 



ROSES 

 Goerisch. 127 

 Yelter, 123 

 Lazaroff, 118 

 Price, 1S4 



Fischer, 148 



S. 



150 115 

 169 157 

 167 193 

 134 206 

 147 126 



186 184 

 164108 

 144 114 

 151 175 

 134 173 



HITCHINGS & CO. BRANCH OUT. 



As a further indication of the un- 

 usual activities in the greenhouse field, 

 our readers will be interested to learn 

 that Hitchings & Company are open- 

 ing a branch office in Philadelphia. 



Their main sales offices, which, for 

 the past two years, have been located 

 at the factory in Elizabeth, N. J., are 

 being brought back to greatly en- 

 larged quarters in the Johnson Build- 

 ing, at 1170 Broadway, New York. 



We understand that F. W. Armitage, 

 secretary and sales-manager of the 

 company, will have his headquarters 

 at this office. 



NEWS NOTES. 



New York, N. Y.— The MacNiff Hor- 

 ticultural Company has moved into its 

 new quarters at 56 Vesey street. 



Reading, Pa. — F. Frank has acquired 

 the Brookside Greenhouses and will 

 conduct them as a plant growing es- 

 tablishment. 



