September 19, Ifjlig 



HORTICULTURE 



S93- 



Flower Market Reports. 



The situation here at pres- 

 BOSTON ent is worse, if possible, 



than last week so far as 

 disposal of flowers is concerned. There 

 is practically no demand for the vast 

 accumulation of asters, roses and 

 other things, carnations included. 

 American Beauty sales are satisfactory 

 as are also those of lily of the valley, 

 which is generally of superior quality. 

 Golden Glow chrysanthemum has made 

 its appearance in this market. 



The latter half, of the 

 CHICAGO week ending September 



12 was a period of great 

 depression in the Chicago market. A 

 hot wave swept over the city and 

 trade was practically at a standstill. 

 Asters, carnations and roses piled up 

 and were a glut on the market. For- 

 est fires raging in Wisconsin filled the 

 air with smoke and little else than 

 funeral flowers were needed. To make 

 the market condition worse, flowers 

 from New York, noticeably asters, are 

 being shipped. here in quantity. Sun- 

 day morning the tide began to turn 

 a little and Monday some of the larg- 

 est wholesalers expressed themselves 

 as believing the worst was over though 

 trade was very much below the nor- 

 mal. Asters are really fine stock, 

 though sales are discouragingly slow. 

 The early asters this year proved the 

 most satisfactory financially. Roses 

 are good and carnations rapidly im- 

 proving in size and length of stem. 



Business for week be- 

 DETROIT. fore last was very en- 

 couraging but the ab- 

 normally hot spell of last week 

 seemed to spoil a good beginning. 

 The northern fires which darken our 

 streets and make the air full of ashes 

 and smoke are playing havoc with the 

 fern crop. The fern gatherers travel 

 from place to place without making a 

 find. There will be a premium on 

 ferns next winter. 



The retail florists re- 



NEW YORK port a little Dree7 ' e - as 

 it were, just beginning 



to stir the stagnant surface of business 

 and are looking for a goodly ripple be- 

 fore long, but the movement is not 

 yet appreciable in wholesale circles 

 and we have little to report that will 

 be of interest or instruction to any- 

 body. Asters have been piling up 

 faster and higher and, in bulk, must 

 at the present time nearly equal the 

 entire receipts of the whole market. 

 They are very fine but that doesn't 

 help the prices much, if any, under 

 present conditions. Roses are showing 

 a little improvement in stem, color 

 and solidity of bud. Carnations make 

 progress slowly. Lilies are excellent 

 and lily of the valley has never been 

 finer. Cosmos is seen generally, and 

 dahlias, gladioli and hydrangeas are 

 coming in by the crate full. 



Trading has been 

 PHILADELPHIA, very quiet the 



past week, with 

 increasing receipts. No immediate 

 change is looked for unless we have 

 a sharp frost to check outdoor sup- 

 plies, or a let up on the fakir em- 

 bargo. Street merchants from New 



CUT ASTERS f° c ° $,5 ° 



per Hundred 



CUT GLADIOLI I™*?;! 



ALTIMO CULTURE CO. 



Canfield. Ohio. 



York have been hiring stands in door- 

 ways in the central part of the city 

 lately. This would look as if these 

 traders had some assurance from 

 official sources that the peripatetic 

 element were to be kept off indefi- 

 nitely. On top of the aster have come 

 the dahlias and a glut of Bride and 

 Bridesmaid roses — the latter mostly 

 of poor quality. Among the fairly 

 satisfactory items are My Maryland, 

 which is the best seller at present, 

 and American Beauties. Mrs. Jardine 

 comes next. Some fairly good long- 

 stemmed carnations are arriving and 

 sell well. Cattleyas are a little more 

 plentiful. There are a few Dendrobi- 

 um formosum. Lily of the valley is 

 in normal demand and supply. Hyd- 

 rangea, tritoma, gladiolus and many 

 other outdoor subjects very abundant. 

 Among the most popular dahlias are 

 Kriemhilde and White Kriemhilde, 

 Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Keith, Countess of 

 Lonsdale, Jack Rose, Sylvia, Lynd- 

 hurst and Perle d'Or. 



With the opening of 

 WASHINGTON schools and colleges 

 a great many per- 

 sons are coming back to the city, 

 and in consequence there is a decided 

 activity in the retail market. There 

 is a glut of asters, but they are of ex- 

 ceptionally good quality. Owing to the 

 drought and the stalk worm dahlias 

 are scarce, but are fine flowers. Car- 

 nations are coming in, in very limited 

 quantities. The flowers are remark- 

 ably good for this season, but the stems 

 are very short. Roses are good of 

 flower but also short stemmed, and 

 the wood is very soft. There seems 

 to be a greater demand for the latter, 

 than for the cheaper grade of flowei s. 

 Lily of the valley is fairly good, though 

 not in abundance. It and the Utile 

 rose have been the flowers par excel- 

 lence this fall for the numerous wed- 

 dings. The cool nights have cut off 

 the water lily supply to almost noth- 

 ing; even the warm days fail to make 

 them respond. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Percy B. Rigby of New York has 

 joined the Pennock-Meehan Co. as a 

 member of the firm and an important 

 stockholder. His special field will be 

 in the accounting department. 



Ernest Hemming, of the Thos. Mee- 

 han & Sons' Co., addressed the Penn- 

 sylvania Horticultural Society Septem- 

 ber 15th on Hardy Perennials. 



George M. Cook, with Pennock- 

 Meehan Co., was married September 

 Tth to Miss Lucille Harris, of Chester, 

 Pa. 



Jno. Burton and party left on an 

 auto trip to Summit, N. J., September 

 15th. Jno. N. May's rose-growing es- 

 tablishment and other interesting 

 points are on the itinerary. 



Visitors this week: L. M. Beck, Mil- 

 ton, Pa.; E. G. Hill, Richmond, Ind.; 

 J. B. Swayne, Kennett Square, Pa. 



It is reported that Philip Freud is 

 sitting up nights designing the Michell 

 float for Founders' week parade in Oc- 

 tober, and that it will be a stunner. 

 All indications point to a halcyon and 

 vociferous time in the old Quaker City 

 on its 225th anniversary celebration. 



NEWS NOTES. 

 John Bennett. Atlantic Highlands r 

 X. J., who was the victim of an ex- 

 plosion that completely wrecked his 

 greenhouses last March, has erected 

 new houses on modem lines and is 

 now ready for business. A cellar 108 

 feet long is a new feature. 



Again we note signs of the begin- 

 ning of a new season — one of the in- 

 fallible evidences that summer has 

 gone and that the time of frosty morn- 

 ings is (lose at hand — in the announce- 

 ment of the great initial auction sale 

 of useful florists' material by Wm. El- 

 liott & Sons, which appears on another . 

 page of this issue. Drop in and see 

 how his throat holds out. 



An invitation was received from Mr. 

 Whittier of the Framingham Nurser- 

 ies for the Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club of Boston to visit him next month. 



Mr. C. L. Washburn of Bassett & 



Washburn of Hinsdale, Ills., will take 



a vai ;<tioi! at his summer home in 



northern Wisconsin, accompanied by 



on. 



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