January 18, 1913 



HOETICULTURE 



91 



BUY 



BOSTOIN 



FLOWERS 



N. F. McCarthy & co., 



112 Arch St.. 31 Otis St. 



BOSTON'S BEST 

 HOUSE 



Flower Market Reports 



(Continued from page Sq) 



medium roses and these have cleaned 

 iip every day with a good prospect of 

 more selling if they could have been 

 secured. American Beauties have not 

 been so active but the cut is not espec- 

 ially lieavy just now. Carnations are 

 lagging a little and more are seen on 

 the counters than at any previous time 

 this season. Violets, too, are not sell- 

 ing as they should. There are more 

 tulips seen each day, some of the red 

 and yellow ones now coming. Paper 

 whites are not meeting ready sale. 

 Freesia is seen in limited quantities 

 and sells readily. 



The market at the 

 CINCINNATI opening of this week 

 was easy in all lines 

 but nice clearances were effected in 

 many of them. This condition is far 

 different than the opening was a week 

 previous. Then practically every line 

 was crowded somewhat and consider- 

 able stock went into the discard. If 

 this week continues as it started very 

 little, if any, will fare so badly. The 

 prices realized are really below what 

 would be a normal price for the quality 

 of the stock that is offered. Shipping 

 business is very good. The rose supply 

 has slackened up considerably and now 

 easily meets the demand and that is 

 all. It, however, meets this demand at 

 only ordinary prices. The pink rosea 

 are enjoying the strongest call. All 

 are of a very good quality. The car- 

 nation supply continues heavy and at 

 times large sacrifices have had to be 

 made to clean up the stock. The sup- 

 ply of white is larger in proportion 

 than that of the other colors. Lily of 

 the valley, double violets, orchids and 

 Ijulbous stock have taken more or less 

 of a slump since the holidays. The de- 

 mand for narcissi and Roman hya- 

 cinths has shifted to the carnations 

 and roses that are so easily available. 

 Sweet peas, if choice, sell well: if not 

 they find only an ordinary request. 

 This great flower cen- 

 NEW YORK tre is not the "bar- 

 ometer" of the flower 

 markets of the country as it is of the 

 money, stock and various other "mar- 

 kets" of the country, as our varying 

 accounts of conditions elsewhere for 

 the present week show. It ought to 

 hold such a position and the only 

 reason that it does not is the provin- 

 cialism that prevails in all flower mar- 

 kets and in this one more than any 

 other. A co-operative system of ad- 

 justment of values and distribution of 

 product is the only remedy for the 

 irregularities which are so expensive. 



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in one way or another, to the men 

 who invest their capital, brains and 

 time in flower production and this 

 must eventually come by mere force 

 of circumstances if not otherwise. In 

 a general way the market is well- 

 supplied — in some directions very 

 much oversupplied — in no direction 

 undersupplied, and values are about 

 as unstable as can well be imagined. 

 The general tendency to surplus and 

 consequent temptation for price- 

 breakers is seen in violets, carnations, 

 bulbous stock and some varieties of 

 roses. The latter, however, are not 

 very badly congested; Beauty and 

 other roses which run to varyin.? 

 grades and corresponding prices are 

 selling most freely in the medium 

 grades. This, however, may be and 

 probably is a temporary condition 

 only, as the society activities now due 

 to begin in real earnest will, undoubt- 

 edly, tend to reverse this condition 

 after they get agoing. They'll have 

 no trouble to get all they want in any 

 line. 



One of the great- 

 PHILADELPHIA est fallacies ever 

 offered: "Good 

 stuff will sell itself." Iterated and re- 

 iterated along the byways of my short 

 sojourn. I have always been a listener 

 rather than an asserter. The propo- 

 sition sounded good. I was like the 

 rest of the crowd: I swallowed it. 



There was a basisof truth back of it — 

 else nobody would have swallowed it — 

 not even counting yours truly. But 

 after going through the ruck and the 

 rough and tumble of the past thirty 

 years, 1 have come to the conclusion 

 that good stuff will not sell Itself. Not 

 only that, but that good material will 

 sometimes go a-begging — while poor 

 stuff is eagerly snapped up. Witness 

 last week's market in Philadelphia. 

 Nothing doing in the long-stem stock 

 in carnations and roses. But in short 

 stock for little money — everything 

 went at beyond the average prices. We 

 hear a whole lot from the retailers: 

 "give us quality;" we can sell it! All 

 right: the growers strain every nerve; 

 buy novelties and burn coal; hire ex- 

 tra night firemen and put in plate 

 glass instead of double thick; give 

 them extra quality and all the novel- 

 ties. What is the result? They (the 

 retailers) don't want the novelties; 

 they don't want the extra quality long- 

 stem stock; they want "the cheaper 

 grades at two cents — and yet these 

 same retailers pretend when they come 

 to a club meeting that the reason of 

 their failure to do business is lack of 

 quality, variety and novelty on the part 

 of the producer. The retailer ought 

 to get a move on. There was a good 

 demand last week for early spring sug- 

 gestions: low-priced stock such as daf- 



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