September 26, 1908 



HORTICULTURE 



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Flower Market Reports. 



This market is still 

 BOSTON, overstocked with small 



ros'es and asters. Glad- 

 ioli, which were also in the way, arte 

 now going past. As to asters, the 

 white stock is marketable at some 

 sort of price but the colored flowers 

 arte unsalable. Lily of the valley 

 finds a fairly even market but at 

 prices lower than in any season here- 

 tofore. Little change for the better 

 is looked for until heavy frost or 

 autumn rains put an end to ship- 

 ments of out-door stock. 



The market for the past 

 BUFFALO two weeks has been in 



bad shape, overloaded 

 with stock of all kinds, qualities and 

 quantities. Shipping trade being quiet 

 and a good portion being carried from 

 day to day enormous quantities of as- 

 ters .were finally lost. Gladioli were in 

 good supply and seemed to move more 

 freely than asters. Short cuts of new 

 crop roses were in about the same po- 

 sition as asters — no demand whatever; 

 the same may be said of carnations. 

 American Beauties and lily of the val- 

 ley moved more freely but too much 

 other stock with very little business 

 has caused the wholesaler to become 

 uneasy. It is hoped that things will 

 turn for the better in a short time. 



The flower market 

 CHICAGO showed signs of reviving 

 Friday and Saturday, 

 but the hot dry weather continues 

 making anything like satisfactory con- 

 ditions impossible. The outdoor flow- 

 ers are fast drying up. Asters are 

 beginning to drop out and some florists 

 are heard to express themselves as glad 

 of it. Asters have been shipped into 

 Chicago from far and near, till it 

 would have been impossible to handle 

 them under favorable conditions, but 

 with the market already overstocked it 

 was exasperating. Dahlias are good in 

 red and white but do not sell and will 

 not so long as asters are in. Gladioli 

 are surrendering to the unfavorable 

 weather and are not very plentiful. 

 Roses are in excess of the demand. 

 Kaiserins are good Brides and 

 Bridesmaids have to be disposed of 

 quickly. Beauties are fine and on long 

 stems. Carnations are on from six to 

 twenty-four inch stems and the sizes of 

 the blooms vary accordingly. White 

 Perfection is, for the time of the year, 

 "perfection," the blooms very large 

 and the stems from 24 to 30 inches 

 long. There is a steadily growing de- 

 mand for orchids in this market. 

 Chas. MeKellai. who is authority on 

 orchids, says the public are becoming 

 educated up to them. The demand is 

 from the smaller towns as well as the 

 larger cities. A few chrysanthemums 

 October Frost with nice long stems 

 were received Monday by Poehlmann 

 Bros. 



The general tone of busi- 



DETROIT ness is about the same 

 as last week. Extraor- 

 dinary warm weather with a drought 

 now reaching the sixth week have a 

 decidedly depressing tendency on all 

 business. Prices rule the same. As- 

 ters are slowly drying up in the fields 

 and this week will see the last of 

 them. Carnations are improving in 



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ALTIMO CULTURE CO. 



Canfield, Ohio. 



both quantity and quality. The same 

 may be said of roses. 



There is a little 

 INDIANAPOLIS more life and 

 movement in the 

 stores, but nobody seems to be work- 

 ing overtime. Several weddings and 

 fall openings are on the calendar for 

 this month, which will relieve the 

 monotony to some extent Carnations 

 have shown a wonderful improvement 

 in spite of the extremely hot weather 

 and roses also are getting quite pre- 

 sentable. Asters are about over, as 

 are gladioli. Very few out-door flow- 

 ers are uow presentable. Good Ameri- 

 can Beauties are being received which 

 sell well. Lily of the valley has done 

 better during September than in Au- 

 gust. A few chrysanthemums are seen 

 but they are not much better than 

 fancy asters. Greens of all kinds are 

 very plentiful at usual prices. 



Not many flowers are 

 NEW YORK in what may be called 



a real demand. Of 

 the few, Beauties lead in sales and 

 probably will continue to be wanted 

 until the chrysanthemum appears. In 

 small roses very little is doing except 

 for the novelties, and only for them 

 when long stemmed, of which there 

 are not many. The large proportion 

 of roses are moved with difficulty and 

 at low prices. More carnations are 

 appearing as the days go by, mostly 

 rather short in stem, but there are 

 many real good ones with winter 

 length of stems. There is no floating 

 supply of cattleyas. Ldlies are plentiful . 

 Asters going off. Plenty of dahlias. 

 There was a glut 

 PHILADELPHIA of everything last 

 week, excepting 

 American Beauty roses. These were 

 of fine quality and in good demand. 

 When a customer sent in an order for 

 some doubtful proposition he generally 

 added: "If you cannot send that, send 

 some good American Beauties." All 

 other roses were far too plentiful. 

 They were good, too, all having im- 

 proved with the cooler weather. Dah- 

 lias are splendid but draggy. Too 

 many asters. We see some signs of 

 aster-wane, however — even if there lie 

 no sharp frost to wind them up. Or- 

 chids are more plentiful. Single vio- 



lets have made their appearance, but 

 are not a factor as yet. Too much lily 

 of the valley. Carnations remain 

 about the same as to quality and 

 demand. 



Dahlias are begin- 

 WASHINGTON ning to come in in 



much larger quanti- 

 ties and they are of fine quality. The 

 aster glut still continues, but the cool 

 spell has cut down the size of the 

 bloom. All green is quite scarce, 

 though as yet the prices have not gone 

 up very much. Cosmos is being re- 

 ceived in limited quantity. Roses of 

 all kinds are more plentiful and the 

 quality is steadily improving. There 

 is a steady demand for Bride and 

 Beauty, as well as the good grade of 

 Cochet. 



COMMODORE WESTCOTT GETS 

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 John Westcctt of Philadelphia was 

 a proud man last week, whan he re- 

 ceived a handsome marine telescope 

 mounted on a tripod for the use of 

 guests at his hospitable bungalow at 

 Waretown, X. J., from two of his 

 Boston friends, Colonel William W. 

 Castle and William J. Stewart. A 

 characteristic letter accompanied the 

 gift. 



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