June 14, 1913 



HORTICULTUEE 



903 



Flower Market Reports 



This market in common 

 BOSTON with most others, is in 



the dumps at the present 

 time — very decidedly in the dumps. 

 There is a heavy influx of everything 

 in staple flowers, and a very light de- 

 mand. The few weddings and dinners 

 that occur make no impression on the 

 enormous quantities of roses, lilies, 

 carnations, stocks, sweet peas, irises, 

 etc., that are piling in from all sides 

 and the peony crop is yet to come, be- 

 ing held back so far by the very cool 

 nights. Graduation exercises have 

 hardly begun, but even when they do 

 start, a few days hence, there is little 

 of promise in the outlook. Quality is 

 all right on most things, any deficiency 

 in that respect not being blaniable to 

 either the variety or the weather but 

 to the grower himself. While the out- 

 look is not particularly encouraging in 

 the matter of prices, yet we do not ex- 

 pect that any appreciable number of 

 growers in this section will be likely 

 to throw out their old stock until after 

 the graduation season is entirely over. 

 So present conditions are with us to 

 ■stay tor two or three weeks probably. 



Receipts have been 

 BUFFALO heavy throughout the 



week. especially on 

 roses and carnations, and prices are 

 all broken up. The coolers are again 

 filled to their capacity. Peonies are 

 now coming on and other outdoor 

 stock is had in quantity Lilies were 

 very plentiful but the heaviest re- 

 ceipts was roses and Beauties. Lily 

 of the valley and other wedding flow- 

 ers are offered in abundance. 



The market is at its 

 CHICAGO lowest ebb just at this 



time and very little can 

 "be said of it that will be interesting, 

 the cause being simply the reaction 

 that follows an unusually good holi- 

 day, accompanied by a great quantity 

 of stock, most of which is of fine qual- 

 ity. Where much of the stock is poor 

 and there is a slump, only the good 

 flowers sell but as is the case now 

 the proportion of first-class flowers is 

 so large that prices have dropped to 

 almost nothing when the buyer is on 

 the spot. More is realized, of course, 

 in the shipping trade, but quotations 

 are much lower than during last 

 month. Certainly the month of com- 

 mencements and of weddings has not 

 opened auspiciously tor florists for 

 while stock is cheap the retail price 

 has been cut below a chance for profit 

 by the street offerings and the de- 

 partment store sales. Every kind of 

 flower is coming in and the counters 

 and ice boxes are filled. The cooler 

 weather did some good but not pro- 

 portionate to the quantity of stock. A 

 large department store sold Killarneys, 

 Richmonds and short Beauties for 9c. 

 per dozen, Saturday the 7th, and the 

 retailers have to compete with these 

 special sales. A street vender's sign 

 Monday displayed over a wagon load of 

 carnations read "two dozen for ten 

 cents." 



{Continttcd on page QO^) 



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One of the few flowers tli.it cnn be sbipped .saf.-ly in warm weatlier. magniflceut, 

 large, deep rich folored GIG.*S ui- GASKEL,LI.VN.\, S(;.00 per iloz. A ti'W DEN- 

 DBOBIUM I'ORMOSLM at $7.50 per rtoz. 



SWEET PE.\S: Spencer type, and beantifiil tbiwer.s they are. eflertivt' 

 wherever used — a flower for every oceasim. 75c. to $1.00 per 100. 



PEONIES: Splendid quality, all eolors, *4.00 to .fii.OO per 100. 



R\JIBLEB SPR.4VS: Dorothy Perkins. Lady i:ay and some of the later blooms 

 of Crimson Rambler. $5.00 to $30.00 per 100, aeeiprding to length of sprays; 

 mostly medium sprays, $0.00 to $10.00; very few o£ the extra large ones at $20.00. 

 VAELEY: Special, $4.00 per lOO; Extra. .^3.00 per 100. 



HEADQUARTERS FOR GREENS 



HKOXZE G.\LAX. .s;l..".0 per 1000; $10.00 per lO.OrO. 



<iHKKN SHEET MOSS, .$3.50 per bag. 



si'll \GNIM MOSS. 10 bbl. Iiales, nicely burlapped, each $4.00; .5 bale lots, 



i-iirh .>i:;7.". : 10 bale lots, eacb $3.50. 



ASI'AHAtil S STRINGS, oOc. each. 



.VSI'.XH AGIS .VND SI'RENGERI, bunches, oOc. each. 



.AUI.VNTIM, $1.00 and $1.50 per 100. 



S.MIL.VX, 20r. per string. 



CIT HE.MLOt K, $2.50 per bundle. 



H.VRDY I>.\GGER FERNS, best quality, large long fronds, $1.-50 per l.lllXl. 



$0.50 per 5,000. 



RIBBONS AND Sl'PPLIES: Many new patterns in exclusive Riblious. Write us 

 for prices on these and on Supplies. 



Small sliipineiits can be sent by Parcel Post at purchaser's risk. 



S. S. Pennock-Meehan Go. 



The Wholesale Florists of Philadelphia 



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PHILADELPHIA 

 1608-1620 Ludlow St. 



NEW YORK 

 117 West 28tliSt. 



WASHINGTON 

 1216 H. St., N. W. 



WHOLESALE FLO WER MARKETS — "^"^^"^ '"^"^^o-d^e'aVe^s om.Y 



CHICAGO " — - 



BOSTON 



June 12 



ROSES 



Am. Beauty, Fancy and Special.... lo.oo to 15.00 



" " Extra 8.00 to 10,00 



** " No. I \ 5.00 to 6.00 



" *' Lower Grades \ 2.00 to 3.00 



Killarney, Extra 4.00 to 6.00 



" Ordinary i.oo to 2.00 



Richmond, Maryland, Extra 3.00 to 6.00 



" " Ordinary... i.oo to 2.00 



Bride, "Maid i.oo to 4.00 



Hillingdon, Ward, Melody, Extra.. 3.00 to 6.00 



** '* " Ordinary 1.00 to 2.00 



Taft, Sunburst 3.00 to 8.00 



Carnations, Fancy Grade .75 to 1.50 



" Ordlnftry 50 to .75 



Cattleyas " 25.00 to 35-00 



Lilies, Longifiorum 3.00 to 5.00 



Callas 4.00 to 6.00 



Lily of the Valley 1.00 to 3.00 



Gladioli 2.00 to 4.00 



Iris 1 .00 to 3.00 



Mignonette 1 .00 to 2 .00 



Dakes to i .00 



Snapdragon 3.00 to 4.0O 



Stocks 75 to I.oo 



Sweet Peas 35 to -75 



Gardenias 6.00 to. 8.00 



t.diantum i .00 to i .25 



milax 10.00 to 15.00 



Asparagus Plumosus, Strings (100).- to 50.00 



*' " & Spren. (100 Bchs.).. ' 25.00 to 35.00 



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