December 5, 1908 



horticulture: 



753 



QUALITY 



as choice stock as ever came to Philadelphia, good 

 bright color, splendid deep green foliage. 



Mediums SI5 Short $8 and $10 

 Beauty Ribbon, No. 40, $2.00. No. 80, $3.00. 



Red Ribbon for Xmas, good assortment, sample and prices on application. 



BEAUTIES, 



SpecialsIS25 and $30 



5. 5. PENNOCR-MEEHAN CO., 



1608-1620 Ludlow St., Philadelphia. 



"The" Wholesale Florists <,/ Philadelphia 



Flower Market Reports. 



The cut flower busi- 

 BALTIMORE ness has improved 



not by leaps and 

 bounds but in common with commer- 

 cial industries it has felt the influence 

 of more settled monetary conditions. 

 Chrysanthemums arc well nigh passed. 

 Koses and carnation are in sufficient 

 quantity. Violets are scarce. 



The continued hot weath- 

 BOSTON er has created an unex- 

 pected dullness, unprece- 

 dented at this season. Prices are down 

 and stock moves slowly. Chrysanthe- 

 mums are gradually disappearing, only 

 a few stragglers being seen. Violets 

 are marked at a low figure. A cold 

 wave has swept in as we go to press, 

 and if it tarries conditions should 

 brighten. 



Beginning Monday the 



BUFFALO 23rd, the market opened 

 up brisk and stock 

 moved much better than in weeks past. 

 The first winter holiday being Thanks- 

 giving, and the three days previous be- 

 ing more like April than November 

 (the thermometer registering 60 to 66), 

 trade was much better than expected, 

 although prices had changed but little, 

 and on only one or two lines. The de- 

 mand was for violets and not a bunch 

 was left over. The supply of chrysan- 

 themums was exceptionally good. The 

 supply of Beauties was light, though 

 with no heavy demand, the high price 

 checking the sales, while long stemmed 

 Richmond filled the bill in many cases 

 where medium quality was preferred. 

 In the carnation line there was a fair 

 demand, but the warm weather showed 

 the effects on those that had been held 

 a day or so and caused a good many to 

 display signs of sleepiness. Selected 

 stock sold well, but high prices were 

 out of the question on anything. Lily 

 of the valley was in good supply, and 

 moved well. Greens of all kinds were 

 in good supply. 



The Chicago market is 



CHICAGO waiting for cold weather. 

 Everyone has a large 

 stock and much of it is good, but the 

 warm weather has hurried it along. 

 This is practically the last week for 

 many of the chrysanthemum growers, 

 though a few have late blooms which 

 will probably bring good prices. The 

 Thanksgiving trade as a whole was far 

 from satisfactory. Continued warm 

 weather and rain decidedly reduced the 

 demand. The usual holding back of 

 stock by the growers brought the usual 



WHOLESALE FLOWER MARKETS.- 



PER t«0. 

 TO DEALERS ONLY. 



CINCINNATI 



NOV. ID 



oh i Hon 



Dec. i 



BUI HALO 



Dec. i 



ROSES 



Am. Beauty, Fan. and Sp.. 



" Extra 



No.t 



Lower grades 



Bride, 'Maid, F. & S. 



" " Low gr 



Killarney, Fan. & Sp 



" Lnwer grades . . 



Richmond, Fancy & Special. 

 Ljwer grades. 



Catenay 



Golden Gate, Ivoiy, etc. 



My Maryland 



Queen Beatrice 



Mrs. Mar. Field .. 

 CARNATIONS 



Fancy and Novelties. 



Ordinary .... . 



MISCELLANEOUS 

 Chrysanthemums, F»ncy. 



Ordinary.. 



Cattleyas 



Lilies 



Lily ol the Vallev 



Narcis., PaDer White 



Rom?n Hya 



Sweet Peas 



Gardenias 



Violets 



.VIlTHimi 



Smilax — - 



Asoaragus Plumosus, strings 



" & -'pren (roobchs.) 



PITTSbtkO 



Nov. 30 



10. co 



30 CO 

 30 00 



lesult, an overstocked market. Much 

 has been held till it was unsaleable, 

 even had there been a demand. At 

 this writing the air is as warm as 

 summer, and a cloudy condition 

 prevails. 



Thanksgiving 

 PHILADELPHIA, week was one of 

 the most satisfac- 

 tory the Philadelphia trade has experi- 

 enced for some time. All agree that 

 it was better than last year even if 

 average prices did rule lower. The 

 Cornell and Army-Navy games with 

 auxiliary social dispersions we;e the 

 two stirring events — one on Thursday, 

 the other on Saturday. There were 

 plenty of local flowers with the excep- 

 tion of violets. Dozens. of growers and 

 wholesalers at outside points (notably 

 Rhinebeck and New York) were called 

 on to supply the deficiency in violets, 

 Chrysanthemums are still a factor in 

 the market. There was no marked 

 advance in rose prices except for some 



lots of the very choicest quality. The 

 weather is again warm and immense 

 quantities of flowers of all kinds are 

 being forced in, thus checking the 

 natural upward tendency of prices. 

 Carnations are an exception to this, as 

 the early fall stimulation of this crop 

 has spent itself and supplies are short- 

 ening up. Orchids are in such good 

 demand that — with normal supply — 

 Christmas prices already prevail. The 

 same may be said about gardenias. 

 The market is full of such things as 

 bouvardia, mignonette, stevia, candy- 

 tuft, sweet peas, Roman hyacinths, 

 paper whites, lilies and so forth 



Business has been 

 TWIN CITIES fairly good the past 



week: if the weaih- 

 er had not been so mild and balmy, it 

 would have been more brisk. There 

 s iems to be a temporary shortage of 

 nil roses, otherwise the demand aud 

 supply ire about equal. 



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