September 5, 1908 



horticulture: 



32!f 



Flower Market Reports. 



There was some hope that 

 BOSTON the spell of dark and cold 

 weather would so reduce 

 the product as to clean up the market 

 on accummulated stock, bul thai hope 

 has vanished. Every kind of material 

 from the "fakir brand" of rose up to 

 the "special" Beauty, stands just where 

 it did, and the stagnation shows no 

 sinus of diminution. Asters are in by 

 the car-load — beautiful ones at t hat, 

 and a credit to the grower — but it is 

 impossible to move them aud prices 

 are at the vanishing point. All other 

 material is in full supply, and the 

 buyer sets the price. 



Spasmodic is the word 

 CHICAGO that best expreses the 

 condition of the Chicago 

 market. A brisk shipping trade will 

 be followed by no trade at all and local 

 conditions are not much better. The 

 bulk of the sales are for funerals, so 

 white and light colored floweis are 

 selling better than red. Good Kaiser- 

 ins sell rapidly. Killarney and Rich- 

 monds open up so fast that they must 

 be moved quickly or lost. Brides and 

 Bridesmaids are small and it will be 

 two or three weeks before good ones 

 are in. Marshall Field has proven it- 

 self a grand rose for summer bloom- 

 ing and Peter Reinberg is well pleased 

 with its behavior this summer. In 

 carnations White Perfection for white 

 and Scott for pink have led for sum- 

 mer blooming. White Perfection 

 comes early, stays late and is not in- 

 clined to get sleepy in the hot weather. 

 Gladioli are not all that could be de- 

 sired. Very many poor ones are seen 

 in the market and good ones are sell- 

 ing for less than the cost of the bulbs. 

 Lilies are not very much in evidence, 

 bul are good in quality. Sweet peas 

 are practically out of the market 



September brings but 

 NEW YORK a slightly increased 

 demand, which is moie 

 than offset by a growing supply of ma- 

 terial. The cut of roses is heavier, 

 and there are many more asters com- 

 ing into the market; of the latter many 

 are of fine quality, long stems and 

 large flower. As yet, Beauties are 

 mote plentiful in short grades; there 

 is, however, a sufficiency of specials, 

 the call for which is variable, with 

 consequent price fluctuations; in fact, 

 with present conditions anything like 

 a fixed price is out of the question. 

 Carnations do not yet figure to any 

 extent. There are some from out-doors 

 and a few from inside. The piotected 

 flowers look good. Field-grown stock 

 of the named varieties is plentiful. 

 Gladioli are only of fair quality. 

 Lilies are not so plentiful as they 

 have been and there is at least a tem- 

 poral y improvement in their sale and 



THE QUEEN OF AUTUMN 



CHRYSANTHEMUM TYPE 



n l ri_...... ««. C«U In orde- to get Introduced to the trade we hereby offer for sale to the retail 



bill P OWfilS lOr 5818 florists ot the United states and Canada cut Mowers f this World 

 Famous, Improved. Unexcelled Type of Aster. We expect by the time they come into bloom, which wM 

 be about the isth of September, to nave the plant, standing *'A to 5 H feet tall, possibly some few of same 6 feet, 

 enabling us to cut b oom stems ranging from 33 to 48 Inches (4 feet) in length, with jtow'Bft m 

 4 to S 1-2 inches in diameter. The prices, the same as Rosea, will be graded according to the length of 

 s.ems, ranging from 5 oc to $;.oo per dozen. On account of the extra length of stems, they being o fa s • if f , 

 wiry nature, capible of sustaining the extremely large bloom may be shipped 1500 to 2000 

 miles without deteriorate . as they absorb sufilclent water to preserve them in transU. A irial 

 sample order of a few dozen is s dicited, which will be, by far, .. ore convincing as to the merits than 



all ^ e A*"5rt oSV5i« with t-rmi of sale, embodied in an illustrated 1008 invitation folder, or hand bill, 

 will be sent to Interested parties upon application. Said folder also contains much of interest relatve o 

 the development of this new strain and t>pe of Aster, seed of which we have sold, during the past sp ng^n 

 nearly every state in the Union, also Canada Europe and Austral!, and ,s being c™»n after on ^ im- 

 proved methods of Scientific Intense Culture instruclions, which are original with » u "« ,v . e * a "° 

 unlike the methods set forth by seedsmen and practiced by Aster growers ge"Y«" y \ ' Tn.ar $w ■ 

 have orders booked from retail florists for sample shipments of Asters from cities far «nd n.ar viz. 

 Denver, Colo.; Boston, Mass.; New Orleans, La., and Toronto, Canada. 



THE SCIENTIFIC INTENSE CULTURE RANCH 



Chas. A. Kibbe, Mgr, Box 344, Elmhurst, III. 



price. Lily of the valley has been and 

 is supplied faster than it is consumed. 

 Signs of any marked improvement in 

 markel conditions are lacking, and 

 little can be expected except occasional 

 spurts for some time to come. 



The market shows 

 PHILADELPHIA possibly a slight 



recovery. Good 

 frame and greenhouse-grown asters are 

 now coming in abundantly. The 

 Crego. one of the choicest, is an im- 

 proved Comet. These ought to bring 

 at least $4.00 to pay the giower for such 

 superb stock, but the majority of re- 

 tailers don't feel keyed up to anything 

 over $2.00 or $3.00. American Beauty 

 roses are good and cleaning up nicely 

 Mrs. Jardine has made its appearance, 

 and is the best pink rose on the mar- 

 ket at this writing, and improving 

 right along. Orchids very, very scarce. 

 Easter lilies are also scarce, and a good 

 market is found for all first-class 

 stock arriving. The green market has 

 improved a little, especially on srailaic. 

 Gladioli are draggy. Even the light 

 colored are slow, and the darks go 

 begging. How is it that a dark red 

 dahlia is the best seller, while a dark 

 i cil ".ki'i'"lus is the v. O1S1 . 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Sept. 22nd is the date of the dahlia 

 show at Vincent's, White Marsh, Md. 

 A number of Philadelphians will at- 

 tend, leaving on the S.15 A. M. train. 



A Philadelphia wholesaler philoso- 

 phises on advertising, thus: The de- 

 mand for our goods is hard to start, 



but once started, it spreads like wild- 

 fire. That's why it pays to spend in 

 advertising a hundred times the value 

 of the customer's fust order. We have 

 long given up the idea that "good 

 goods will always sell themselves." 

 and now keep constantly hammering 

 until the people are compelled to listen 

 to us. A met chant's advertising expen- 

 ditures should at least equal the rent 

 of his business premises. We often 

 sp< nd moi i 



Bookings for rose While Killaim 

 are reported to be quite extensive in 

 this city. The Waban surplus ha 

 been engaged by the Pennock-Meehan 

 Co. The Pennock-Meehan Co. have 

 also arranged with the raisers of Uu 

 new carnation, O. P. Bassett, so as o 

 supply the trade in this vicinity for th ■ 

 coming season. 



The next few weeks will see most of 

 the vacationists back. Wm. Falck ap- 

 peared on the Pennock Bros, fence 

 this week, after an absence of three 

 months in Europe. Chas. E. Meehan 

 had a good time in Canada and New 

 England. Arthur A Niessen took tin- 

 opportunity after convention to make 

 manj long contemplated calls. Robert 

 Kilt' went to see "the Philistine 

 East Aurora X. V . and called i n 

 friends elsewhere. 



\nios Eldridge Brown, the financial 

 , mi ii of Burpee's, arrived home from 

 Europe on the 31si ult. Edinburgh he 

 considered the loveliest city of the old 

 wot lil. picturesquely, historically and 

 sentimentally unique. 



Visitor in Philadelphia: A. T. Bod- 

 dington. 



LU1 /\0 i ILXV.V3 per hundred 



CUT GLADIOLI SSSS? 



ALTIMO CULTURE CO. 



Canfield, Ohio. 



