June 14. 1913 



HOETICUL'TUEE 



905 



BUY 



BOSTON 



FLOWERS 



N. F. McCarthy & co., 



112 Arch St., 31 Otis St. 



BOSTON'S BEST 

 HOUSE 



Flower Market Reports 



(Continued from page QOj) 



The market is very 



CINCINNATI overcrowded in near- 

 ly every line. There 

 is a fair demand but it is not near suf- 

 ficient to take up all the offerings. Last 

 week was a good one because of the 

 large school commencements. The de- 

 mand was for the better grades of 

 stock but because the supply was so 

 over-large only moderate prices were 

 realized by the wholesalers. The rose 

 supply is large and the Beauty cut 

 larger and better than at a correspond- 

 ing time, for several years past. 



Peonies are a glut and move slowly 

 at low prices. The carnation cut has 

 increased much faster than the call 

 for them. Good sweet peas are short 

 of the actual demand. There are lilies 

 and miscellaneous stock in abundance. 

 A few very warm days 



DETROIT at the early part of last 

 week brought an over- 

 abundance of supply though the de- 

 mand was fully up to expectations. 

 Just now things are changed again and 

 we are going through a cold spell 

 near freezing point which is below 

 anything experienced within many 

 years. The books show that May, 

 1913 was a jolly good fellow, much 

 better financially than any previous 

 May. 



Notwithstanding cool 



NEW YORK and retarding weath- 

 er conditions the re- 

 ceipts of flowers at the wholesale 

 marts have for the past week been far 

 in excess of the means tor their dis- 

 posal. Never before in the recollec- 

 tion of the pioneer wholesalers has 

 the drop in demand and in market 

 value been so abrupt and so complete. 

 The prices at which carnations, roses, 

 lilies, etc., are offered seem absurdly 

 low but at that they do not sell and 

 bargain quotations still lower on large 

 quantities stand without a taker. It 

 is very evident that a large part of 

 the material shipped in this week will 

 go to loss and the grower will get 

 practically nothing. This state of af- 

 fairs is not likely to last long, how- 

 ever. The growers will throw out 

 their stock rather than ship it under 

 existing conditions; then the peonies, 

 irises, kalmia, garden roses and other 

 things which now contribute to the 

 general chaos will come to an end, 

 and some measure of relief will come 

 to the perplexed wholesaler. So we 

 hope to be able to rei>ort a better bal- 

 anced market before long. 



WELCH BROS. CO 



AMERICAN BEAUTY, KILLARVEY. RICHMOND. MARYLAND AND ALL THE 

 SUPERIOR ROSES, LILY OF THE VALLEY. CARNATIONS. ORCHIDS 



BE^T PRODUCED 



2(24 Devonshire Street, 



Boston, Ma—. 



William F. Kasting Co. 



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383-387 ELLICOTT ST. 



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BUFFALO, N. Y. 



^MONTREAL FLORAL EXCHANGE, LTD.— 



ORGANIZED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CANADIAN TRADE. 

 CIT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SUPPLIES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. 

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

 AT RETAIL. 



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

 123 MANSFIELD STREET, MONTREAL, P. Q. 



NEW YORK QUOTATIONS PER 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Cattleyas 



Lilies, Loneiflorum . 

 Lily of the Valley ... 



Gladioli 



Iris 



Mlgnonetle 



Daises 



Snapdragon 



Stocks 



Sweet Peas (per loo bunches 



Gardenias • ■ 



Adiantum 



5mllax 



Asparagus Plumosus, strings (per loo) 



** " & Sprea (too bunches) . 



Last week a tre- 

 PHILADELPHIA mendous amount 

 of stuff came in 

 and simpl.v swamped the market. 

 There was a fair amount of busines.s 

 around, but nothing like enough to ab- 

 sorb the extra supplies. Roses were 

 more demoralized probably thafi any- 

 thing else. The cool cloudy weather 

 during much of May held them in 

 check and the warm and brilliant rays 

 of the past ten days brought them in 

 with a rush. The rose seems to re- 

 spond more quickly to such conditions 

 than other subjects. Outdoor roses 

 do not cut nearly so much of a figure 

 in the market now as they did several 

 years ago. The only outdoor roses oc- 

 cupying a jirominent position today 

 are the Ramblers — Lady Gay, Dorothy 

 Perkins. Tausendschon and Crimson 

 Rambler especially. Considering the 

 season the quality of the carnation cut 

 continues very creditable indeed. Some 

 days the sweet peas came in good; at 

 other times badly scorched. All tlie 

 first-class ones sold well. Cattleya 

 Gaskelliana is the latest arrival in the 

 orchid market — taking the place of 

 gigas, which is about over. Delphin- 

 ium continues in quantity — a most 

 charming and attractive subject. The 

 clean-up on Friday and Saturday was 

 all right except financially disastrous. 

 A terrible slaughter. 



Market was in good 

 ST. LOUIS condition all last week, 



plenty of stock, and 

 prices much lower. The supply was 

 short on extra fancy stock in roses 

 and carnations, but in the lesser 



grades there was considerable over- 

 stock. Asparagus and smilax had big 

 calls this week, owing to the scarcity 

 of ferns. 



There has been an 

 WASHINGTON oversupply of all 



varieties of roses 

 but graduation exercises in schools, 

 seminaries and colleges, and the many 

 .June weddings, are using up large 

 amounts of cut flowers and they are 

 moving better than last week. Last 

 week carnations went begging but the 

 supply is somewhat shorter and the 

 demand heavier since the weather 

 turned cooler. Water lilies are now 

 offered. Orchids have dropped in 

 price. 



NEW YORK PERSONAL NOTES. 



Davie Adam is no longer engaged 

 at Thorburn's. 



A. Schmidt of 180 Ave. B, sailed for 

 Europe last Wednesday. 



Wm. Pankok, of Whitestone, N. Y.. 

 sailed for Germanv on Thursday, June 

 12. 



Bert Chadwick has left Vaughan's 

 Seed Store to take a position with C. 

 F. Meyer. 



Max Schling plans to go to northern 

 New York state about the middle of 

 July and stay until September. 



News from Italy, where Julius 

 Roehrs, Sr., is now trying to regain 

 his health, is not as encouraging as 

 fcis many friends would wish. 



Visitors: W. F. Kasting, Buffalo: 

 A. Farenwald. Roslyn, Pa.; S. S. Pen- 

 nock. Phila., Pa. 



