August 15, tflOS 



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W. E. McKISSICK 



Wholesale Florist 

 161Q-1621 Ranstead Street, - - - PHILADELPHIA 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



The first part of previ- 

 BUFFALO ous week was somewhat 



quiet and stock accumu- 

 lated fast especially mixed colors of 

 gladioli of ordinary quality which had 

 little or no demand, the solid colors 

 of red. white and pink selling rapidly. 

 The short crop of early asters are 

 about over and a few branching or late 

 varieties are seen. The mid-week sale 

 was quite satisfactory as to roses, car- 

 nations, lily (if the valley. Beauties, etc., 

 as a few good sized floral orders helped 

 considerable. Japan and longiflorum 

 lilies were in demand and cleaned up 

 well. Greens and adiantums took a 

 little life and moved better than 

 heretofore. 



But little change is 

 CHICAGO noted in the Chicago 



market. Trade is pos- 

 sibly a little brisker though no rain 

 has relieved the anxious florist. As- 

 ters are suffering severely and the 

 average stock has very short stems 

 An occasional exception is seen, one 

 dealer having asters, Chicago-grown, 

 with stems fully thirty inches long. 

 Gladioli also show the effects of the 

 drought, the stalks being very small. 

 Carnations are poor and sell slowly. 

 Roses are advancing a trifle in price. 

 Beauties being in demand particularly. 

 Tritoma and golden glow are seen and 

 sell fairly well. 



The weather the 

 INDIANAPOLIS past two weeks 

 has been the hot- 

 test of the season and the result is 

 that everything is at a complete stand- 

 still. There are very few carnations 

 and they are poor. Only small roses 

 are to be had. Quite a quantity of 

 asters are in the market but no first- 

 class stock among them. American 

 Beauty has maintained its reputation 

 by withstanding the heat and remain- 

 ing one of the few satisfactory offer- 

 ings of the flower market. Gladioli 

 and lilies are still in good supply and 

 are offered at fairly low prices. Some 

 very gocd lily of the valley and or- 

 chids are to be had in limited quanti- 

 ties. Chrysanthemums are looking fine 

 and the outlook is good for early 

 blooms. 



What strikes the visi- 

 NEW YORK tor to the wholesale 



flower markets most 

 forcibly at the present time is the 

 great abundance and general accumu- 



lation of asters, gladioli and lilies. 

 By the latter is meant the hardy gar- 

 den sorts such as auratum, speciosum 

 roseum and magnificum, together with 

 a moderate proportion of tigrinum. 

 From one to two dollars per hundred 

 is the prevailing price, counting all 

 buds, but there must be considerable 

 shrinkage in returns on account of 

 unsold stock. Gladioli and asters are 

 in the same box as business is unpre- 

 cedentedly dull, even for the midsum- 

 mer periods. The gladioli average up 

 much better as to quality than they 

 did a faw years ago, such popular 

 \ arieties as America, Shakespeare and 

 Princeps and many of the Childsii type 

 being in evidence in place of the old 

 Brenchleycnsis which until recently 

 formed the larger part of the market 

 shipments. While the asters are also 

 generally better than ever before at a 

 corresponding date the proportion of 

 the big loose-flowered long-stemmed 

 fancy type is not large. There are, 

 however, enough and more than 

 enough, to fill all demands. Roses do 

 not cut much of a figure just now. 

 American Beauty of best grade exper- 

 ience no difficulty in finding a ready 

 appreciation but the balance of the 

 list gets little attention, and a large 

 part of the shipments must submit to 

 the tender mercies of the street men 

 and speculative element. There is an 

 abundance of lily of the valley in vary- 



ing grades. Orchids are conspicuously 

 missing, consequently there is an 

 incessant call for more than can pos- 

 sibly be supplied but the situation wili 

 improve soon as Cattleya gigas, onci- 

 diums and other standard favorites are 

 about due. Next week will see the 

 wholesale district half depopulated, 

 judging from the large number in- 

 tending to participate in the trip to 

 Niagara. 



There was an 

 PHILADELPHIA overdose of flow- 

 ers the past week, 

 especially in the lower grades of asters 

 and white roses. There were a great 

 many poor asters, this crop not hav- 

 ing recovered from the dry summer 

 as expected, notwithstanding the co- 

 pious rains of the past three weeks. 

 American Beauty roses are fully as 

 good as last year and selling well. A 

 few field-grown carnations are coming 

 in — good flowers but short-stemmed. 

 The "rreenhouse product is very in- 

 ferior. There is a good demand for 

 orchids and these are on the scarce 

 side. The lily of the valley market 

 is in healthy condition as to quality 

 and demand. Sweet peas are still com- 

 ing in from the north and are readily 

 taken at fair prices; also very good 

 gladioli, the best being America which 

 is eagerly snapped up. Tritomas and 

 hydrangeas are conspicuous among the 

 riable minor items. 



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