February 22, 1908 



HORTICULTURE 



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FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



We should like to be able 

 BOSTON to report some improve- 

 ment over the sluggish 

 and unsatisfactory conditions recorded 

 for the previous week, but there is 

 nothing to warrant such. Demand has 

 not increased any and supply, which 

 it was hoped might slacken up, con- 

 tinues to increase. Roses are now in 

 the same condition of over-supply that 

 carnations have been experiencing, and 

 indications are for a still heavier over- 

 stock. Bulbous stock is, if possible, 

 in worse straits than ever before. Yel- 

 low narcissi are splendid as to quality 

 but that does not appear to help them 

 to move any faster. Altogether, the 

 market is disappointingly slow. 



Trade has been very un- 

 BUFFALO even, one day a flurry 

 and the next two no life 

 at all. St. Valentine's day was quite 

 lively and the demand was more brisk, 

 especially In the violet and rose line, 

 but as for carnations there wer^ 

 enough to go around a number of 

 times and at prices ridiculous for the 

 month of February, although of good 

 quality generally. The keeping qual- 

 ity has not been of the best, a result 

 attributed to the changeable weather. 

 Roses are none too plentiful and have 

 cleaned up well. Beauties are coming 

 in only normal Supply and selling rap- 

 Idly; also Richmonrts, Killarneys and 

 other teas, and prices holding firm. 

 Narcissi overloaded. Spring stock 

 sold belter than in previous week. 

 Adiantum and other greens in .good 

 supply. 



The past week, being 

 CHICAGO so-called "Cupid Week, " 



had a tendency to rush 

 business somewhat with the shipping 

 trade. It was very good, a great many 

 violets as well as other flowers being 

 sent out. Roses still hold up at fair 

 prices. Beauties not being so plentiful 

 and bringing better figures. Carnations, 

 first class stock, have held up well 

 but second class stuff is being sold 

 at any price obtainable. Lily of the 

 valley is selling well as also are or- 

 chids. Bulbous stock is still on the 

 decline. 



Your correspondent is 

 DETROIT forced to idleness through 



a broken collarbone. On 

 the same day his mishap occurred 

 Chas. Warnke of Woodmere broke his 

 left leg. The bones of both unfortun- 

 ates are beginning to heal nicely. Al- 

 though the weather was anything but 

 favorable to business, Valentine's Day 

 nevertheless brought forth a healthy 

 increase in the flower business. Every- 

 body was very busy that day while 

 several banquets and the arrival of 

 Secretary Wm. H. Taft caused con- 

 siderable hustling most of the week. 

 Prices are maintained at good healthy 

 figures with carnations crowding the 

 market to some extent. 



Trade conditions 

 INDIANAPOLIS for the past week 



have been no bet- 

 ter. Bulbous stock is more than 

 enough; carnations are also coming in 

 a little stronger, red having the 

 slowest sale, and there are roses 

 enough to go around. Valentine's Day 

 was not up to last year. Violets took 

 the lead. 



There is no rmprove- 

 NEW YORK ment in market condi- 

 tions here and none 

 in sight. The abundant supply of car- 

 nations and bulbous stock makes 

 clearances diflScult, and when effected 

 it is at low figures. The cut of tea 

 roses is not heavy but the demand is 

 so uneven that fixed quotations are 

 out of question and, with cheap carna- 

 tions in competition, prices are de- 

 pressed. American Beauties are in 

 light supply still and the price for 

 them is fairly steady. Cattleyas are 

 bringing more money now as a result 

 of a lighter crop. Lily of the valley 

 is doing fairly well at the present 

 writing. Of freezias, sweet peas, 

 daisies, Harrisii and forget-me-nots 

 there is a plenty, going at all sorts of 

 prices according to quality. Supply 

 and demand are about equal as regards 

 smilax and asparagus. 'To sum up the 

 situation, it may be said that the mar- 

 ket is supplied with more stock than 

 can be moved daily and trade is dull. 



Three bad days 

 PHILADELPHIA followed by three 



good. The bad on 

 account of cold weather and lack of 

 demand, the good because of a rise in 

 temperature and St. Valentine. The 

 rise in temperature let the fakirs out, 

 and St. Valentine called for violets in 

 immense quantities, also welcomed 

 red roses, sweet peas, myosotis and 

 Paris daisies. The carnation was pro- 

 bably the worst sufferer of the week 

 but American Beauty was not far be- 

 hind. The area under cultivation both 

 for Beauties and carnations is much 

 larger in this vicinity than ever before, 

 and the demand for these and every- 

 thing else is away below normal. Rich- 

 mond roses were a fairly satisfactory 

 proposition, also Liberty. Brides sold 

 well but at reduced prices. Fancy 

 Bridesmaids brought good prices but 

 the great bulk, being under grade, suf- 

 fered severely. Daffodils never so plen- 

 tiful; to much freesia, lilies and callas; 

 too much of all kinds of bulbous flow- 

 ers. Orchids clean up well — perhaps 

 on account of being off crop. Aspara- 

 gus, plumosus and smilax find a satis- 

 factory market. 



Improved c o n d i- 

 WASHINGTON tions are apparent 

 in the flower mar- 

 ket and several of the retailers are 

 more than rushed. Prices are still 

 normal and there is every reason to 

 believe that they will continue so until 

 Lent begins, for there are numberless 

 gaities to be crowded into the next 

 two weeks. 



BUSINESS CHANGES. 



Max R. Englemann has withdrawn 

 from the firm of R. Englemann & 

 Son, of Pittsfield, Mass. 



Miss Lizzie Miller, who was formerly 

 connected with the Mt. Hope Floral 

 Co., is mana.ger of the New Floral Co., 

 at C5 Hammond street. Bangor, Me. 



The Holloway Seed and Floral Co. 

 will hereafter be known as the Robin- 

 son Seed and Plant Co., Dallas, Texas. 



A. Pelerson and S. B. Lawrence, two 

 well known florists of Hoopeston, 111., 

 have combined their interests, and the 

 firm name will be Peterson & Law- 

 rence. 



INCORPORATED. 



Minge Flo:-al Co., Mobile, Ala.; 

 Maria Minge, Windham Lyon, W. M. 

 Bailey; capital, $20,000. 



The Guthrie-Lorenz Company opened: 

 a new flower store at 420 Sixth Ave.,. 

 Des Moines, la.,. on February 10. 



A. J. Fellouris Co., New York, whole- 

 sale florists; A. J. Fellouris, S. J. 

 Loupy, G. G. Malhami; capital, $5000. 



McKay Nursery & Floral Co., Jack- 

 son, Miss.; A. B. McKay, R. L. Atkin- 

 son, J. T. Dameron, J. T. McKay; 

 capital, $20,000. 



Rapp Horticultural Building Co.,. 

 New York; to manufacture green- 

 houses, etc.; Roy I. Rapp, W. J. Mc- 

 Cormick, W. C. Lange; capital, $10,000. 



Earp-Thomas Farmogerni Co., .Jer- 

 sey City, N. .1. ; to manufacture and 

 sell certain nitrogen gathering organ- 

 isms or bacteria for use in inoculating 

 plants, seeds or soil; J. A. Graves, 

 B. J. Pierce, A. H. Trimmel, J. S. 

 Gormlev, J. W. Kennedy; capital, 

 $180,000. 



Mr. Louis Boeglin, head gardener at 

 the Park greenhouses, Minneapolis, has 

 returned from a trip abroad, bringing 

 a nice collection of plants in varieties 

 which had been used in bedding in 

 Europe, but have not yet been well in- 

 troduced into this country. Among 

 these are some fuchsias, geraniums, 

 begonias, verbernas, variegated solan- 

 ums, etc. He reports that conditions 

 for employes abroad are better than 

 they ever were. Wages have risen 

 considerably, and the men that have 

 their board with the employers are 

 better taken care of than before. The 

 working hours are reduced to nine- 

 hours in landscape and ten hours in 

 the other branches. 



In ordering goods please add, "I saw 

 It in HORTICULTURE." 



J. B. Murdoch & Co. 



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