January IS, 1908 



HORTICULTURi: 



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PHILADELPHIA PLANT EXCHANGE 



We aim to give our patrons the best values every week. Write us for anything you are in the market 

 for. We handle your surplus stock also, our only charge being lo per cent on sales. 



THIS 



500 PLUMOSA. 3 inch, 

 1000 niXED FERNS, 3 inch, . 

 500 RUBBERS, 4 inch, . 

 400 WHirnANI,4inch, 



WEEK'S BARGAIN OFFERS: 



$5 00 per 100 500 FICUS CUTTINGS, well rooted, . $15.00 per 100 



7.00 " 3000 JOOSTCUTTINOS, . 17.00 per 1000 



35.00 " 3000 MARION " ... 17.00 



25.00 " TODEAOIDES FERNS, 2>^ inch, . 20 00 per ico 



ADDRESS ALL ORDERS TO 



PHILADELPHIA PLANT EXCHANGE, 839 Market street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Don't grow crops there is no demand for. Write us first. We cannot handle anything unless it is first class in every way. 



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To Cut Flower Growers and 

 Retail Florists 



IF YOU 



want to find a market for your 



product 



want a regular or special supply 

 of the product of the best 

 growers 



Consult the Advertisements on 

 these Wholesale Flower Pages 



The Advertisers Represented Here are the Leading 

 Concerns in the Wholesale Flower Trade 



A. Fine Assortment of 



Extra fine lot of FIREFLY in bloom from 



NOW UNTIL EASTER 



WRITE FOR PRICES 



MAJOR BONNAFFON 



The best all 'round Yellow Chrysanthemum. Strong stools, 

 $5.00 per 100 



W. W. EDGAR CO., Waverley, Mass. 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



The lose market holds up 

 BOSTON satisfactorily thus far, 



but, outside of this, con- 

 ditions are quite blinky. Carnations 

 are coming in with a rush and there is 

 no demand equal to the occasion, so 

 inlces have sagged badly ana accumu- 

 lations are the order in the wholesale 

 marts. Violets are suffering to some 

 extent from the same trouble, as is 

 also all bulbous material. From all 

 obtainable information, however, this 

 market is as well-balanced at present 

 as any in the country, and price fluc- 

 tuations are moderate. The market 

 quotations as given in HORTICUL- 

 TURE are reasonably near the actual 

 returns received by growers from day 

 to day, and will be found on investiga- 

 tion to cover the situation as well as 

 it is possible in a weekly report. 



Trade was quite active 

 BUFFALO the past week, the 



weather being favorable 

 especially at end of the week, it being 

 more like spring than mid-winter. 

 Floral work has been much in evi- 

 dence, which has helped to clear up a 

 little surplus stock, white carnations 

 materially being much in demand. 

 Lawsons were much too plentiful, es- 

 pecially the poor grades. Roses werr- 

 a trifle more plentiful than heretofore, 

 and demand was good on all lines of 

 Teas. Beauties are in fine quality, but 

 not too abundant, and prices holding 

 firm. .Mignonette, lilies, narcissi, peas, 

 Roman hyacinths, lily of the valley, 

 violets and freesia are in good supply. 



At present everyone Is 

 DETROIT taking things rather 

 easy. While there are a 

 good many orders daily there is plenty 

 of time and material to fill consider- 

 ably more. Fortunately most growers 

 are off crop or else there would be a 

 great deal of waste. In a couple of 

 weeks we can expect a much heavier 

 cut in almost every line and we have 

 reasons to expect business to pick up 

 by that time. Bridesmaid rose will 

 have to give more way to La Detroit 

 in this summer's planting; it will be 

 more propagated than ever. Winsor 

 and White Enchantress are also driv- 

 ing some of the other carnations from 

 the local market. The Michigan Cut 

 Flower Exchange shipped 300,000 fancy 

 ferns last week; their weekly con- 

 sumption is 150,000 on an average. 

 Christmas orders called on them for 

 most everything in the florist line, the 

 principal items being carnations, 

 20,000; violets. 25,000: poinsettia'^, 3000; 

 boxwood. 1-2 ton; fancy ferns, 250,000. 



The past week has 

 INDIANAPOLIS been a fairly pros- 

 perous one with 

 the trade, making allowance for the 

 usual lull at this time. Beauties and 

 tea roses are in a supply that is equal 

 to the demand with prices a shade less 

 than a year ago. Carnations are of 

 fine quality and supply large. They 

 have also suffered in price. Smilax is 

 over-abundant while maiden-hair ferns 

 continue scarce. Tulips, daffodils and 

 peas find ready sale at good figures. 

 There seems to be a good trade in all 

 kinds o£ greens, galax leaves in par- 



ticular. Tomiinson Hall market re- 

 ports trade first class, wholesale as 

 well as retail. 



There is little to be 

 NEW YORK said about conditions 



in the market at the 

 present time, beyond stating that 

 the falling market noted in our last 

 report has continued steadily on its 

 downward course and that prices are 

 consequently from twenty to thirty 

 per cent, lower on many leading 

 things. Quality varies with the differ- 

 ent growers, some of them sending in 

 as fine material as ever was seen in 

 this market and others sending the 

 other kind. Neither are getting rich 

 on the proceeds, but of whatever there 

 is in it the first gets the lion's share, 

 as he should. The variety of flowers 

 in sight is increased by the addition 

 of tulips, trumpet daffodils, calanthes, 

 wall-flowers, freesias, callas and forced 

 shrub hlooni. 



The marked im- 

 PHILADELPHIA provement noted 

 in our last week's 

 report is not sustained this week. In 

 fact, a slight fall is noticeable in many 

 staples The general market lacks 

 snap. American Beauty and other 

 roses dropped a little, with the excep- 

 tion of Brides. These are quite 

 scarce. Carnations are easier. Violets 

 and lily of the valley are very fair 

 stock, but there is little go to them. 



{Continued on pagt 84) 



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