May 31, 1913 



HORTICULTURE 



839 



Flower Market Reports 



(Continued from page S^y ) 



lieen refusing orders since Sunday. 

 Carnations are decidedly scarce. A few 

 cut-ot-door snowballs, spirea, etc.. are 

 seen. 



A few days of cloudy 



CINCINNATI and rainy weather, 

 combined with the go- 

 ing off crop of some flowers and a 

 possible holding by some florists for 

 Memorial Day put a decided crimp in 

 the receipts of flowers toward the end 

 of last week and the beginning of this 

 week. As a result on Saturday the 

 market for the first day in several 

 weeks cleaned up in a very satisfac- 

 tory manner. This week the first few 

 days showed a very nice business. The 

 supply of peonies for Memorial Day is 

 very large. The rose cut is not as 

 large as a fortnight ago. Beauties are 

 In good supply. The carnation glut of 

 a fortnight ago has ended. Other 

 staple flowers are in good quality and 

 ample quantity. Business in green 

 goods is good. 



The weather is so that 



DETROIT the supply of cut blooms, 

 especially carnations, is 

 at low ebb and difficulties to fill orders 

 arise incessantly. Again the storeman 

 feels the lack of supply of such plants 

 as snapdragon, stock, moonvines, 

 hardy phlox, etc., articles which if 

 properly handled yield a good profit 

 and convert many a flower lover into 

 a steady buyer for next winter. Co- 

 operative advertising is being tried for 

 Decoration Day on a smaller scale than 

 for Mothers' Day and we hope some 

 day to make this day as important as 

 it ought to be. 



For a large part of 



NEW YORK the flower and plant 

 trade. Memorial Day 

 occupies attention to the exclusioiTof 

 everything else this week. Nature, as 

 usual, is a potent factor in the outlook 

 as to supply and market value of the 

 cut-flower product. Until this week 

 there was some room for speculation 

 as to the quantity and character of 

 the available outdoor material, but 

 now there seems no question that an 

 enormous supply of really useful 

 shrub and herbaceous bloom will be 

 provided, thus checking any general 

 advance in the value of greenhouse 

 stock for this occasion. At present 

 writing stiff prices are in force on 

 carnations of acceptable quality and 

 these are maintained in some degree 

 by the call from the Boston wholesale 

 shippers and from country districts 

 remote from the principal centres of 

 supply, but the quantity of carnations 



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MISCELLANEOUS 



Cattleyas 



Lilies, Longlflonini 



Cailas 



Ul> of the Valley 



aiadloli 



Iris 



IVUgnonette 



Daises 



Snapdragon 



Stocks 



Sweet Peas (per loobuDchcs 



Qardenias 



Adlantum 



Smllax 



Aaparmsus Plumoaus, strings (per loo) 



** ** & Spren (i(x> bunchec] . 



List Half of Wsa 



ending May 24 

 1913 



3.00 

 6.00 



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2.00 



2. 00 

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4.00 



12.00 



35.00 



15.00 



40.00 

 8.00 

 8.00 

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4.00 

 300 



1.00 

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4.00 



I3.00 



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1.00 

 15-00 

 40.00 

 25.00 



nnt Half tt Wi* 



beginning May 26 

 1913 



20.00 

 5-00 



6j>o 

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 2.00 

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to 30«» 



to itm 



to 15,^ 



to 40.9 



to ajJ> 



ir sight is quite large and with a gen- 

 erous offering of douhle white narcissi 

 at $10 a thousand and great quantities 

 of double-flowered stoclis, tlie out- 

 Icolv for local carnation demand at $40 

 to $60 per 1000 seems none too bright. 

 Lilacs are gone, but the precocious sea- 

 son has replaced them with peonies 

 and snowballs, philadelphuses and 

 deutzia. Roses of all varieties are in 

 full crop, judging from the whole- 

 saler's counters from day to day. 

 Outdoor lily of the valley is about fin- 

 ished and those who want lily of the 

 valle.v will have to pay full prices from 

 now on. Cattleyas are superb, hut 

 they move very slowly. The next few 

 weeks, however, should develop a live- 

 ly market for these and other high- 

 class floral material. 



There was a fall- 

 PHILADELPHIA ing off last week 

 — business not 

 being quite so brisk as the week pre- 

 vious. Three days were quite dull 

 and while Friday and Saturday were 

 good -on the lower-grade stocks, there 

 was not enough to bring up the aver- 

 age. On top of that condition came 

 a much larger influx of flowers of all 

 kinds. The best seller on the list 

 were probably white roses. Good 

 sweet peas have also sold well, but 

 there was little call for anything be- 

 low first grade. Carnations are more 

 plentiful, but are beginning to show 

 the effect of the advancing season. 

 The supply of American Beauty roses 

 remains about the same. Demand is 

 fairly good. Peonies are in excellent 

 shape for Memorial Day work. The 



late varieties seem to have pushed 

 ahead faster than the early and me- 

 dium, the latter having suffered more 

 from the cold spell so that it is likely 

 all will come in nearer together this 

 year. Cattleya gigas holds the fort in 

 the orchid market. Gardenias are not 

 coming in so freely and what there 

 are meet with very ready sale. Plenty 

 of gladioli — especially of the large- 

 flowering sorts— splendid quality. 



Business last week 



ROCHESTER was hardly up to the 

 standard, owing to 

 the cold weather, but we were glad 

 to welcome the rains, which were so 

 badly needed. The planting of out- 

 door stock is in its full and everybody 

 is busy. Cut flower stock is of excel- 

 lent quality. Roses of all kinds are in 

 fine condition. Carnations are rather 

 slow in arriving, but their quality is 

 improving. Peonies, which during the 

 week made their first appearance, 

 move rapidly. Sweet peas, lily of the 

 valley, pansies, etc., sell at fairly good 

 prices. Greens of all kinds are plen- 

 tiful. 



The market of the past 



ST. LOUIS week ended pretty much 

 as the week previous, 

 demand good but plenty of stock was 

 left over every day and, of course, 

 prices had to suffer. Roses are very 

 plentiful and quality good; carnation 

 the same. Sweet peas, too, are away 

 too many but will soon shorten up. 

 Gladioli and peonies are coming in 

 heavy and the prices are down a lit- 

 tle. Asparagus and smilax have sold 

 well all week. 



