March 8, 1913 



HORTICULTURE 



345 



ALBANY GUT FLOWER EXCHANGE 



76 Maiden Lane, ALBANY, N.Y. 



Flower Market Reports 



Trade is decidedly dull 

 BOSTON again this week. Sup- 

 plies are coming in heav- 

 ily and wholesale markets are clogged 

 lip with flowers in all lines, American 

 Beauty roses alone excepted. Of these 

 latter there are no good or even pas- 

 sable flowers to be had here. Short 

 stemmed and discolored deformed buds 

 are all that are to be seen. Carnations 

 are perhaps in better running than 

 tliey were last week, white selling a 

 little higher than the colors. The 

 stock of roses is large and the quality 

 has fallen off noticeably. White Kil- 

 larney is the best seller at present. 

 Bulb stock, of course, is an unwieldy 

 surplus and sales in job lots are made 

 at figures far below quotations, al- 

 though at best the latter are unprece- 

 dentedly low for so early in the sea- 

 son. Double violets are practically 

 dead stock; nobody cares to handle 

 them and even the singles sell not 

 any too well. Altogether prices are very 

 irregular with no standard of value 

 that can be maintained on anything. 



Trade has not been very 

 BUFFALO brisk the past week; in 

 fact, another genuine 

 Lenten week in which there has been 

 too much stock to feel comfortable. 

 The receipts have been heavy on all 

 lines and no scarcity exists. Prices 

 are reasonable and on some things 

 very low which does not encourage 

 the speculators to load up. Carnations 

 have been in good supply and have not 

 sold any too well. There are plenty 

 of fine tulips, daffodils and other bulb- 

 ous stock, 



.^11 kinds of weather, 

 CHICAGO txcept the kind that 

 brings out the buyers, 

 made the last week of Februaiy a poor 

 one for sales in general and a record- 

 breaker in the history of violets. Sales 

 of violets have been rather below nor- 

 mal all the season and the demand al- 

 most ceased with the coming of the 

 snow, sleet and cold and the stoak 

 piled up to unmovable proportions 

 towards the end of the week. Very 

 great concessions were made to move 

 the accumulation but a large propor- 

 tion went to waste. Sweet peas were 

 tending toward the same end, only the 

 number was much less. Carnations are 

 now including a great many splits and 

 weak-stemmed ones which move off at 

 a big reduction, but the good ones 

 sell well and prices hold firm on them. 

 American Beauties are very scarce in 



THOMAS TR.ACEY, Mgr. 



WHOLESALE ONLV; 



SAVE TIME AND MONET BY SENDLNO YOCB ORDER TO US 



Prices Right. Consignments Solicited. Telephone Connection 



WELCH BROS. CO. 



A«ERIC\N BEAUTY. KILLARNEY. RICHMOND. M \RYLAND AND * LL THE 



SUPERIOR ROSES, LILY OF THE VALLEY. O^RNATIONS, ORCHlDi 



c=S£^^: BKST PRODUCED 

 226 Devonshire Street, Boston, IWa«». 



William F. Hasting Co. 



\A/hole8al. 



383-387 ELLICOTT ST. 



loris-ts 



BUFFALO, N. Y. 



—MONTREAL FLORAL EXCHANGE, LTD.— 



ORGANIZED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CANADIAN TRADE. 

 CUT FLOWERS AND FL.ORlaTB' STPI'LIES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. 

 Homr-rrvn'n Stock • Spaclmlty. STBtC'TLY WnOLBSALE; NOTHING SOI.D 

 AT RETAIL.. 



Ample reference fnrmlehed ae t* steodBs %u6 nnanelal ability of the company, 

 123 MANSFIELD SXREET, MONXREAU, P. Q. 



WHOLESALE FLOWER MARKETS — ^«^"^''«"=^S-d^Ver% only 



ROSES 



BOSTON 



March 6 



CHtCAOo 



February 24 



sT LoUls> 



March 3 



PHILA. 



March 3 



Am. Beauty, Fancy and Special.... 



" *' Extra 



No. I 



" " Lower Grades 



Killarney , Extra 



" Ordinary 



Richmond, Maryland, Extra 



" " Ordinary . .- 



Bride, 'Maid 



HilliDgdon, Ward, Melody, Extra-. 

 " " " Ordinary 



Taft, Sunburst ■ 



Carnations, Fancy Grade 



" Ordinary 



Cattleyas 



Lilies, Longiflorum 



Callas 



Lily of the Valley 



Narcissus, Paper White ... 



" Trumpet 



Tulips 



Roman Hyacinths 



Violets 



Daises 



Mignonette 



Sweet Peas 



Gardenias • 



Adiantum 



Smilax 



Asparagus Ploraosus, Strings (100).. 

 " " & Spren. (100 Bchs.). . 



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anything like a good grade and there 

 is a steady demand for more than the 

 market can supply. All kinds of roses 

 are in good demand for shipping trade 

 and there has been no special weak- 

 ening in price. Bulbous stock is not 

 quite so plentiful. Snapdragons are 

 coming in and there is a good one of 

 a Killarney pink shade that brings the 

 top price. Stocks also are seen. The 

 usual herald of spring, pussy willows, 

 afford attractive window display for 

 the retailers. All kinds of green are 

 to be had in quantity. 



The past week the 

 ST. LOUIS market was in a satis- 

 factory condition, so 

 far as buyers of stock were concerned, 

 for anything in season one wanted 

 was to be had in quantities and at 

 prices very much lower than they 

 have been for the past month. Sweet 

 peas are a glut and so are violets and 

 the wholesaler has to dispose of them 

 at very low prices. Roses are becom- 



ing more plentiful each day and the 

 price has dropped. The local ship- 

 pers say they will be in full crop for 

 Easter. Carnations, too, are away too 

 many for the demand. Bulb stock is 

 now in full crop and of fine quality. 



(Continued on Page 347) 



GEO C. 5IEBRECHT 



WHOLESALE FLORIST 

 ^ to& ^A/ES-r 2s«K ST 



CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED 



pbone;^08|madisonsq,. new «Y0RK 



ROSES WANTED 



will Pay Good Prices for Saleable 

 Blooms Shipped Regularly. 



A. L. YOUNG & CO. 



S4 W. 28th Street, New York 



