May 24, 1913 



HOETICULTUEE 



803 



BUY 



BOSTON 



FLOWERS 



N. F. McCarthy & co., 



112 Arch St., 31 Otis St. 



BOSTON'S BEST 

 HOUSE 



Flower Market Reports 



{Continued from page Sot) 



one-fourth the price of these. All 

 kinds of roses are plentiful, prices 

 for good stock holding up well. Lily 

 of the valley is in great demand as 

 the wedding season approaches, but 

 this flower has sold well all the year. 

 Peonies are beginning to make their 

 presence felt. Some from Illinois are 

 arriving this week. Outdoor flowers, 

 especially snow balls have been held 

 back by cold weather till they are 

 likely to play a prominent part in 

 Memorial Day business. 



The street car strike 

 CINCINNATI in this city is now 

 over and business lo- 

 cally will undoubtedly get back to nor- 

 mal conditions in a big hurry. During 

 the pendency of the strike all retail 

 business, including the florist busi- 

 ness, down town was at a standstill. 

 The retailers in the suburbs were a 

 little more fortunate but they also say 

 that the effects of the strike on trade 

 in general was plainly felt by them. 

 During the past week the market has 

 been over-supplied in almost every line. 

 The receipts were very large while the 

 demand locally owing to the various 

 conditions was correspondingly small. 

 Shipping business was fairly good but 

 it coufd not carry everything on its 

 shoulders. Judging from the present 

 receipts of flowers and reports from 

 the growers the market will have an 

 ample supply for Memorial Day. Peo- 

 nies are coming in strong and it the 

 weather continues anyways fair at all 

 will be coming in much stronger in a 

 very few days. Besides these, as al- 

 most a special flower for the day, are 

 large cuts of double narcissus. There 

 are roses, carnations, lilies, orchids, 

 gladioli, snapdragon, sweet peas, etc. 

 New Kentucky ferns are in. 



For the last two or 

 NEW YORK three days everything 



seems to be coming 

 in more plentifully and business has 

 slackened considerably. All of the 

 stores are complaining, saying busi- 

 ness is very dull. There is not one 

 bright spot just at present. Sweet 

 peas seemed to have the call until 

 Monday, when the demand for them 

 fell off considerably. There is an 

 abundant supply of good stocks. Cal- 

 las, lilies and other large material are 

 very abundant and with the stocks, 

 astilbe and a plentiful supply of gar- 

 den shrub and herbaceous bloom will 

 fill a good place in the Memorial Day 

 supply. Roses are still in excellent 

 quality, due to the cool and bright 

 weather. They have rarely been so 



WELCH BROS. CO. 



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SUPERIOR ROSES. ULY OF THE VALLEY, CARNATIONS, ORCHIDS 



BKST PRODUCED 



%2ft Devonshire Street, Beeton, Maes. 



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383-387 ELUCOTT ST. 



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BUFFALO, N. Y. 



—MONTREAL FLORAL EXCHANGE, LTD.— 



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 CUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SCPPLIE.S OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. 

 Home-srown Stock a Specialty. STRICTLY WHOLESALE; NOTHING SOLD 

 AT RET.4IL. 



Ample reference furnished as to standing and financial ability of tbe company. 

 12S MANSFIKL.O 9TREKT, MONTREA.L. P. Q. 



WEW YORK QUOTAT IOWS PBR 100. To Dealer s Only 



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good at this date. Of carnations there 

 is an ample number coming in — qual- 

 ity falling off in many cases, but prices 

 holding up remarkably well. 



Trade on the 

 PHILADELPHIA whole has been 



excellent. A good 

 supply of all the staple stocks, but 

 no glut. In fact it is surprising in 

 view of the large receipts to find in 

 the long run that demand has kept 

 up with same. This In spite of cold, 

 cloudy weather. On Saturday it rained 

 from morning to night and very cold. 

 That killed it for the street men, and 

 usually that would have meant no 

 "clear-off" for the old accumulations. 

 But strange to say, Saturday was the 

 briskest day of the week, and every- 

 thing went. A partial explanation Is 

 to be found in the church May Day 

 festivals, which used up a large 

 amount of medium-priced stock. Then 

 came an unusual large number of 

 weddings and other gaieties. And 

 many good judges think that the im- 

 petus of Mothers' Day is still work- 

 ing. One wholesale house said they 

 did 51 per cent more business for that 

 occasion than last year. Roses — espe- 

 cially Beauty — were a little sluggish, 

 probably caused by so many peonies 

 around. Sweet peas, on the other hand, 

 were scarce some days, especially on the 

 high-grade Spencers. Carnations had 

 a splendid inning, with even tbe tail 

 enders coming in with a tally. The 

 supply of orchids slackened up a lit- 

 tle. Interest was added to the or- 

 chid market by the advent of gigas— 



splendid large well-colored flowers. 

 Demand very satisfactory. Gardenias 

 fewer and demand .also falling off. 

 Gladioli are going all right; quality 

 top-notch. Receipts rather less for the 

 week. Blue centaurea a favorite and 

 conspicuous item. Nothing to beat 

 this for boutonnieres. Greens hang 

 fire, with the exception of smilax and 

 A. plumosa. Advance bookings for all 

 lines of cut flowers for Memorial Day 

 are very satisfactory to date and com- 

 pare favorably with last year at same 

 time. Of course a whole lot depends 

 on the weather for this occasion — 

 much more so than at Christmas or 

 Easter — as there is such a large per- 

 centage of outdoor bloom not under 

 control. 



Business dur- 

 ROCHESTER, N. Y. ing the first 

 half of the 

 week eased up quite noticeably. The 

 latter part showed signs of improve- 

 ment and Saturday was one of the 

 "busy" days. Carnation quality is 

 poor and the stems are weak and 

 crooked, and they are scarce. Most 

 all of the bulbs have gone and sweet 

 peas are falling off in quality. Ameri- 

 can Beauty roses are in good condi- 

 tion and make fairly good prices. 

 Other kinds of which there is practi- 

 cally no shortage are good. Baby 

 gladioli sell very readily, the quality 

 being good. There is plenty of out- 

 door lily of the valley. Most flowers 

 are used up each day and practically 

 none of them go to waste. 



(Cotittnned on f'age Soo) 



