February 22, 1913 



HORTICULTURE 



271 



Flower Market Reports 



fContiniteii from ^age 20q) 



long ones are not selling any too well, 

 although they manage at times to clean 

 up. The sweet pea cut has increased 

 tremendously. The good long ones sell 

 easily while their shorter confreres 

 find difficulty in obtaining a market. 

 The supply of lilies, too, has increased 

 until the market in this line is easy. 

 All the stock offered for the past fort- 

 night has been the good solid kind that 

 delights the retailer. The carnation 

 supply has held up steadily as tar as 

 blooms are concerned. A large num- 

 ber of either split carnations or some 

 that have been held too long are be- 

 ing dumped into the market, but the 

 supply of good local stock has been 

 sufficient to talve care of most of the 

 wants. At the present time, however, 

 judging from the appearance of the re- 

 ceipts, the local growers are going off 

 crop. Neither violets, orchids or bulb- 

 ous stock of any kind are finding a 

 very strong market. As long as there 

 are roses and carnations in adequate 

 numbers the local buyers do not seem 

 to take kindly to the other lines. The 

 feature in the green goods maricet is 

 the heavy call for cut ferns. 



Business conditions 



NEW YORK have not changed ma- 

 terially from those 

 reported last week. The volume of 

 business must, however, show a con- 

 siderable increase if it is to use up 

 the augmented supply of roses which 

 must now be reckoned with. A strong 

 downward tendency may be looked for. 

 AH other crops are on full tilt and 

 with quality generally good, except 

 that quantities of low grade carnations 

 and sweet peas are coming in from 

 growers who lack in skill, attention 

 or equipment or something of that 

 sort and who will be candidates for 

 the poorhouse if they have to depend 

 upon the returns from the sale of 

 these outclassed goods. 



There was con- 



PHILADELPHIA siderably more 

 vim in the cut 

 fiower market here last week. This was 

 especially true towards the end of the 

 week when trading was very brisk in- 

 deed. Prices stiffened very materially 

 all along the line — the leaders in that 

 respect being carnations, orchids, and 

 Richmond roses. The general run of 

 roses were not in large supply and the 

 clean-up was excellent. No doubt the 

 St. Valentine episode of the week 

 helped considerably. Gardenias, vio- 

 lets and sweet peas, were all plentiful 

 and good and met with ready sale. 

 Rather too many daffodils, but there 

 was a big overturn of these at fair 



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MISCELLANEOUS 



Cattleyas 



Cyprlpedlums 



Lllicrs. Luntttflorum 



Cailas 



Ln> ol the Valley 



Narcissus, Paper White 



Trumpet 



Roman Hyacinths 



Tulips 



Violets 



Daises 



Mignonette 



Sweet Peas (per icx> bunches) 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



5mllax 



Asparagus Plumosus, strings (per xoo) 



** •* &. Spren (loo bunches) . 



Last Half of Week 



ending Feb. 15 



1913 



20.00 



10.00 

 6.00 



10.00 

 1. 00 

 1. 00 

 1. 00 

 1. 00 

 1.50 

 .20 

 •50 



2. 00 

 3.00 

 8.00 

 -50 

 6.00 

 3500 

 15.00 



3S-00 

 12.00 



8.00 



12.00 



4.00 



1.50 



2,00 



1.50 



3.00 



.50 



1.50 



6.00 



12.00 



2r..OO 

 1. 00 

 12.00 

 40.00 

 25.00 



First Half of Week 



beginning Feb. 17 



1913 



20.00 

 10.00 

 6.00 



35'0» 

 12.00 



•50 



6.00 



35.00 



15.00 



ia.o* 

 40.0* 



as°« 



prices. Paper whites nearly over, but 

 the freesias are now abundant and fill 

 that gap nicely. 



The market was equal 

 ST. LOUIS to the big demand all 

 during last week and 

 from reports among the retailers Lent 

 has cut but very little figure so far — 

 ot course St. Valentine's Day business 

 came in during the week and kept us 

 all very busy. The sale for this day 

 was mostly for violets and our com- 

 mission men say over 200,000 vio'ets 

 were received on Thursday and Fri- 

 day and all cleaned up nicely. Sweet 

 peas, too, had a big call and sold as 

 well as violets only there were not so 

 many. Roses are coming in better 

 and are more plentiful. Carnations 

 are up in price and today bring 4 and 

 5 cents for extra quality, with supply 

 large. Bulb stock sells at usual prices 

 and plenty of them at any time. 



Saint Valentine's 

 WASHINGTON Day and the Auto- 

 mobile Carnival 

 brought a large amount of extra busi- 

 ness to the stores, which, last week, 

 took on a decided holiday appearance. 

 Roses continue scarce. Carnations are 

 retailing at 50 cents per dozen at a 

 number of the downtown stores al- 

 though the growers and commission 

 houses are cleaning out their stock at 

 from $2.50 to $4.00 per hundred. Sweet 



peas are very plentiful. The supply of 

 snapdragon and lupines is increasing 

 but the demand exceeds the supply. 

 There is quite a little call for novel- 

 ties including magnolias, peach and 

 other blossoms which cannot be sup- 

 plied by local firms. Lilies and cailas 

 are moving well. 



"Mnny growers of violets in Pough- 

 keepsie and Rbinebeck bave given up tlie 

 growing of tli's flower because tbe.v say 

 tbey are no longer worn. Tbe turkey trot 

 and like dances are so rougb tlia't tbe 

 flnnprs are knocked off after a few min- 

 utes." 



Now we know what happened to 

 the "Up-the-Hudson" product. We did 

 think it was something else. 



How and where to construct a pub- 

 lic park or private estate was enter- 

 tainingly described by Arthur A. 

 Shurtleff, engineer of the Boston Park 

 Department, at Horticultural Hall, 

 Boston, Saturday afternoon, February 

 15, 1913. 



ROSES WANTED 



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 Blooms Shipped Regularly. 



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