June 7, 1913 



HORTICULTUEE 



871 



BUY 



BOSTON 



FLOWERS 



N. F. McCarthy & co., 



112 Arch St., 31 Otis St. 



BOSTON'S BEST 

 HOUSE 



William F. Kasting Co. 



\A/^l-iolo8al< 



383-387 ELUCOTT ST. 



loris-ts 



BUFFALO, N. Y. 



—MONTREAL FLORAL EXCHANGE, LTD^ 



ORGANIZED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CANADIAN TRADE. 

 CUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SUPPLIES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. 

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

 AT RETAIL. 



Ample reference famished as to standing and financial ability of the company. 



138 MANSFI£I<0 STREET, MOMTREAL. P. Q. 



Flower Market Reports ^CT^YOKK QUOTATION S PER 100. To Dealers O nly 



(Continued from page Sbq) 



favorites as usual. Candidum lilies 

 are in. 



The market is again 

 CINCINNATI crowding up in near- 

 ly every line. The 

 call for flowers is pretty fair hut not 

 nearly sufficient to take up anything 

 like all the offerings. Peonies are 

 coming in very strong. The last of 

 the early varieties and the big fine 

 later ones are arriving in the whole- 

 sale houses in profusion. Roses, too, 

 are coming in nice and the better 

 quality finds a fair call. Along with 

 these last may be included a good call 

 for lily of the valley and small fancy 

 green. The cut of carnations is ordi- 

 nary but easily sufficient for require- 

 ment. Some very fine giganteum lilies 

 are offered. The few candidum lilies 

 sell readily. Gladioli meet with a fair 

 call. Spanish iris of good quality are 

 not finding a very good market. The 

 sweet pea cut is very limited. 



The Memorial Day 

 NEW YORK business of this city 

 was about on a par 

 with previous years — a demand before- 

 hand for material for out-of-town 

 needs, sufficient to put a good clamp 

 on wholesale values and then a local 

 condition of "nothin' doing." The 

 weather had been such, however, as 

 to prevent any heavy accumulations, 

 either outdoor or indoor stock and it 

 was the first of the present week be- 

 fore the "dull thud" was heard. When 

 it did come, everybody heard it and 

 market conditions are pretty "ragged" 

 at present writing with the certainty 

 that the advent of a couple of warm 

 days will do a lot more in the ragged 

 line. Local peonies are now with us 

 and that means a couple of weeks of 

 hard going for roses and other things. 

 We look for a spell of low vitality in 

 the wholesale district for the next 

 week or two, but if it transpires that 

 we are mistaken and "the unexpected" 

 should happen, nobody will be better 

 pleased than the scribe. 



The Memorial 

 PHILADELPHIA week story along 

 the who 1 e s a 1 e 

 Rialto is unanimous— the best ever. 

 Everything salable found a market. 

 Roses and carnations were in short 

 supply. Peonies were plentiful, but 

 many of them too tight and by Thurs- 

 day night there was some scratching 

 to fill urgent orders. Carnations a 

 little oft crop generally and getting 

 smaller. American Beauty roses were 

 of excellent quality and went off bet- 



MISCELLANEOUS 



CotlteyaA 



tilies, Longinonnn . 



CoIIas 



UVy of the Valley ... 



aiadloil 



iris 



Mlenonette. 



Snapdragon 



Stocks 



Srweet Peas (p«r loo bunches 



Qutlefllas 



Adtantum 



3adlR 



Aafraragus plumosus, strings (per zoo) 



** *' Sl Spren (loo bunchg) . 



ter than usual. So did lily of the val- 

 ley, which usually does not go so well 

 around Decoration Day. Bright days 

 have helped the sweet pea crops. 

 These are now surprisingly beautiful — 

 especially the Spencers. 



Business took a de- 

 ROCH ESTER cided leap upward 

 during the past week 

 and the shadows of a dull, depressing 

 week previous were all forgotten in 

 the hustle for Memorial Day. Green- 

 house men were kept busy filling or- 

 ders for porch boxes, baskets and 

 lawn work and most of these were 

 required for the 30th. Bedding plants 

 were especially plentiful, as was par- 

 ticularly noticed in the Decoration Day 

 parade. Thirty-two express wagons 

 were filled high with these and taken 

 to the cemeteries of the city. Cut- 

 flowers were plentiful in about all 

 kinds save carnations and prices were 

 well up. There was quite a call for 

 purple flowers, and the old-fashioned 

 lavender lupin which grows wild near 

 the lake came in very useful. Roses 

 are good in all grades. American 

 Beauties are rather small, but other 

 varieties are all of good quality. Sweet 

 peas are inclined to be a little off In 

 color, but their stems are long. Peo- 

 nies sell readily. Outdoor-grown candy- 

 tuft is on the market and is very use- 

 ful for design work. Smilax is some- 

 what scarce, but other greens are 

 plentiful. 



Stock for Decoration 

 ST. LOUIS Day was plentiful al- 

 though the bulk was 

 second grade and prices advancing at 

 lot even on this. Gladiolus spikes are 

 coming in more and prices on fancy 

 America and Mrs. P. King are down 

 a little. Augusta sells well also. , Car- 

 nations are becoming small and soon 

 will be scarce. Asters afe coming in 

 now and are selling well at top prices. 

 Everything else about as usual. 



DURING RECESS. 



The New York and New Jersey 

 Plant Growers' outing this year will 

 take place on June 24 and 25. The 

 party will leave on the Lackawanna 

 Limited at 10.15 A. M.. and go to the 

 Delaware Water Gap, where they will 

 spend two full days and a night. The 

 committee in charge which consists 

 of Julius Roehrs. Jr.. and Anton Schul- 

 theis, have made full arrangements 

 for a glorious time for all who attend, 

 including prize bowling for the ladies 

 and gentlemen, ride to Stroudsburg, 

 boat trip on the Delaware River, 

 through the Water Gap, besides danc- 

 ing and other recreations. Tickets can 

 be obtained from the secretary. Wil- 

 liam H. Siebrecht. Jr., at the Queens 

 Plaza Court Building. Long Island 

 City, at a cost of $8.50 per person, 

 which includes railroad fare, meals and 

 all expenses. 



PERSONAL. 



Hugh Chesney, of Hartford, Conn., 

 is now in the employ of Mrs. J. C. Ha- 

 worth, Farmington, Conn. 



S. Hanfling, of Russin & Hanfllng, 

 New York, sailed Saturday on the 

 steamship Lapland for a two months' 

 business trip. 



Billy Gear is back in Cincinnati 

 again after his long visit in Idaho. 

 Mr. Gear has many interesting hap- 

 penings on his trip to relate. 



Cincinnati visitor — Speed S. Kelley 

 of Lexington, Ky. 



Boston visitors: H. A. Bunyard and 

 A. P. Faulkner, New York; J. J. Ka- 

 rins. Philadelphia; Rudolph Roehrs, 

 Rutherford, N. J. 



St. Louis visitors— Ed. Denker of St. 

 Charles, Mo.; E. W. Guy and H. 

 Emunds of Bellevue, 111., and H. Hib- 

 bert of DeSoto, Mo. 



