October 31, 1908 



HORTICULTURE 



58* 



Flower Market Reports. 



The florists' business, 

 BALTIMORE in common with most 



others, suffers from 

 the depression incidental to the presi- 

 dential election year, it being rein- 

 forced this season by the unsettled fi- 

 nancial conditions. With the ther- 

 mometer rambling between 70 and 

 SO degrees, flower beds are still bril- 

 liant. The effect of the summer 

 weather is seen in some varieties of 

 chrysanthemums, as Bonnaffon, Amor- 

 ita, Shaw, Robinson and a few others 

 which have been crowded in several 

 days ahead of their normal season. 

 Roses and carnations are abundant. 

 Sweet peas and violets are in limited 

 quantity only. 



It is not possible to say 

 BOSTON anything complimentary 

 concerning the flower 

 market this week. There are not 

 words expressive enough in the Eng- 

 lish language which at the same time 

 would be permissible in type to repre- 

 sent the feelings of growers and whole- 

 salers as they contemplate the magni- 

 tude of the supply and the paucity of 

 the demand for their product. There 

 is no choice to be made of any partic- 

 ular class as doing better than others, 

 but perhaps it can be said in fairness 

 that the white carnation is in a little 

 worse predicament than anything 

 else. In roses, if anything sells it is 

 apt to be Killarney. 



Only the most optimistic 

 CHICAGO can see much change in 



the condition of the Chi- 

 cago flower market. Unfavorable 

 weather has prevailed throughout the 

 month, and consequently October busi- 

 ness has not been what it generally 

 is. There was stock in abundance— 

 in fact, too much — but it would not 

 hold up after it was taken from the 

 ice box. At the end of the week the 

 weather cooled, followed by a drizzling 

 rain which quickly deci eased the 

 quantity of stock, and the last week 

 of October opened up with a slight in- 

 crease in business, mostly in chrysan- 

 themums. Roses, which had dropped 

 to about one-half their former price 

 when chrysanthemums came in, are 

 not yet restored to normal. Later va- 

 rieties of chrysanthemums are taking 

 the places of the early ones. Sweet 

 peas are in the market, and Bouvardia 

 Humboldt! is a specialty at McKellar's. 

 Lilies are not seen in any great quan- 

 tity. Lily of the valley is in fair sup- 

 ply. Orchids are more abundant, and 

 the price a little lower. Cattleya la- 

 biata, Vanda coerulea, Oncidiuni 

 Rogersii and Dendrobium formosum 

 are the varieties now offered. Violets 

 are coming in better as the season ad- 

 vances. The season has been very un- 

 favorable so far both for the growing 

 and the shipping of violets. Out-of- 

 town orders for All Saints' Day are 

 beginning to come in. Bassett & Wash- 

 burn a*-e filling large orders for chry- 

 santhemums to Texas. Bach bloom 

 is wrapped in tissue paper for ship- 

 ping. 



Business the p ist 

 LOUISVILLE week was very quiet, 



nothing moving any 

 too well. Chrysanthemums sold some 

 and are very plentiful. Roses and ear- 

 nations are good and abundant, but 

 bring small prices, considering the 



WHOLESALE FLOWER MARKETS.- 



CINCINNATI 



O.t.20 



DETROIT 



Oct. zo 



PER 100. 

 'TO DEALE RS ONLY. 

 BUFFALO ! PITTSBURG 

 Oct. 26 Oct. 27 



ROSES 



Am. Beauty, Fan. and Sp. 20.00 



" Extra 18.00 



No. 1 12. 00 



" Lower grades 600 



Bride, 'Maid, F. & S 400 



" " Low.gr 2.00 



Killarney, Richmond, Fan. & Sp.. . 500 



Lower grades. 2.00 



Kaiserin, Car not 4.C0 



Golden Gate, Chatenay, etc 3.C0 



CARNATIONS 



Fancy and Novelties. 

 Ordinary 



35.00 

 20.00 

 15.00 

 10.00 

 6.00 

 4.00 

 7.0c 

 4.00 

 6.co 

 6.00 



2.00 

 1.50 



20 00 

 1 8.00 

 14.00 

 6.00 

 6 co 

 4.00 

 6.00 

 4.00 

 6.00 

 4.00 



25 CO 

 20.00 

 16.00 

 1 o.co 

 8 00 

 6.00 

 8 00 

 6.00 



8.0c 



6.00 



2.03 to 

 1.50 to 



4.00 

 2.00 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Cattleyas 

 Lilies . . . 

 Lily of the Valley 



15.00 

 8.00 

 3.00 

 6. co 

 2. co 

 6 00 

 2.00 

 3.00 

 3.00 



1.50 to 

 1. 00 to 



25.00 

 50.00 

 15.00 

 8.00 

 7.00 

 4.00 

 7.00 

 4.00 

 7.00 

 6.co 



2. CO 



1.50 



12.50 

 6.00 



4.00 

 5 00 



2. CO 



2.00 



25.00 



15.ee 

 10 CO 



3.C0- 



6.00 



500 



6,o« 

 4.00 

 6.00 

 4 00 



2.00 



■75 



to 35-°o to 50.00 4000 10 50.00 40.00 to 5'. 00 



8.00 tO IO. OC 12.50 10 15 CO J.OO tO 12.00 10.00 tO I2.50 



3 00 to 



4.50 3.00 to 4.0c 3 00 to 



4.00 



4 oc 3 00 to 



Chrysanthemums, Fjncy 15.00 to 25.00 15.00 to 25.00 12. co to 15.CO 1500 to 20.CO 



Ordin-iy.. 5 co to 10,00 6.oa to 12.00 I 5.C0 to 7.00 5.00 to 1000 



60 .50 to 



t.oo 1 1. co to 



Violets 50 to 



Adiamum v • . ■ ■ to 



Smikax . 



.60 

 1.50 



.40 to 

 .50 to 



.50 



I 50 



•75 

 1.25 



IO. CO tO I2.5O I2.5O tO I 12. OO IO I5.OC lOOO tO 12.50 



Asparagus Plumosus, strings 40.0c to 50.00 50. co to 7500 4000 to 50.00 25 co to 50.00 



" " & Spren.fiocbchs.) 25.00 to 35.00 40.00 to 50.00 j 25.00 to 30.00 30. co to 50. co. 



quality. Other stock is plentiful, but 

 has only a slow demand. 



Market last week 



PHILADELPHIA very congested, 

 and while busi- 

 ness was fair, prices were very unsat- 

 isfactory on most lines. Immense 

 quantities of low grade to medium 

 chrysanthemums, a large proportion of 

 which went begging. The weather 

 is unseasonably warm, crops unseason- 

 ably heavy and demand unseasonably 

 slack. The flower trade may therefore 

 be said to be in the delightful situa- 

 tion of "hell on one side and the iron 

 works on the other." The rose market 

 is about as healthy as any — the supply 

 not being so very far ahead of the 

 demand. If My Maryland keeps its 

 summer and fall pace up during the 

 winter and spring it will prove the 

 greatest thing in many a day, both for 

 grower and retailer. Two lots of 

 White Killarney have been on view at 

 one of the wholesale centres, and 

 it would seem that the keeping 

 qualities of this new claimant have 

 not been exaggerated. Carnations 

 are more plentiful, but we regret 

 to report quality nothing extra. The 

 warm weather has been especially 

 hard on single violets. Pansies are 

 excellent, and meet with ready sale. 

 Retailers and whole- 



TWIN CITIES salers in the Twin 

 Cities report busi- 

 ness picking up. Owing to the warm 

 weather of late it was not-as good as 

 might bave been expected; but the 

 week past it was increasing and the 

 outlook for the rest of the month 

 seems to be promising. "Violets are jn;t 

 commencing to come in. Demand ami 

 supply in other cut flowers are about 

 equal, except on lilies, which are 

 scarce. Rice Bros, are shipping roses 

 in bud to Seatile. Wash., wheie they 

 are used as hatpins after being treated 

 with some solution, so prepared that 

 they are supposed tn last for a long 

 time. 



There seems to be 

 WASHINGTON a tone of improve- 

 ment in both whole- 

 sale and retail markets over last week 

 but the unatural heat of the past 

 week has very decidedly impaired the 

 quality of the greenhouse products. 

 Cosmos is very much injured by a 

 bug which feeds upon the petals and 

 comes with the warm weather and 

 while there is any amount of the bloom 

 a great deal of it is not fit to handle. 



PERSONAL. 

 Herman Myers of Chicago has taken 

 a position with the Columbine Gardens, 

 Westminster, Colo. 



Visitors in Boston: L. J. Reuter, 

 Westerly, R. I.; John W. Gibson and 

 Wm. Jurgens, Newport, R. I.; Conrad. 

 Schultz, Westerly, R. I. 



Four members of the family of ex- 

 Judge W. B. Sands, of Baltimore, have 

 been seriously ill and we regret to re- 

 port that all are not yet out of danger. 



Visitors in Chicago: Mr. and Mrs. 

 J. J. Soper, Rockord, 111.; Louis Was- 

 sermann, Muskegon, Mich.; Mr. Aug- 

 spurger, of D. N. Augspurger & Son. 

 Peoria, 111. 



J. G. Crozer and son, of Cedar Rap- 

 ids, la., are in Chicago this week, look- 

 ing after plans and materials for a re- 

 tail store and show house. Mr. Crozer 

 reports business as good in Cedar 

 Rapids. Happy town! 



A. M. Rennie has resigned his po- 

 sition with the Haskell Implement & 

 Seed Co., Boston, and accepted the 

 1 ust of Chicago representative of A. 

 H. Hews & Co., flower pot manufactur- 

 ■ of North Cambridge, Mass. 



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