April 11, 1908 



HORTICULTURE 



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EASTER PLANTS 



Azaleas, Baby Ramblers, 



Hydrangeas, Lilies, 



Geraniums 



In fine cor, dit Ion. Wrile for Prices 



WM. W.EDGAR CO., WaveNey, Mass. 



Lilies for Easter 



CUT AND PLANTS 



Prices on application. 



We handle the crop of the best growers in ihis vicinity. 



The Leo Niessen Company 



1209 Arch St., Philadelph a, Pa. 



Open from 7 a. m. to 8 p. m. 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Cut-fl&wer trade is in bad 

 BOSTON shape here this weel--. It 



is not that the supply is 

 too heavy, for it is no greater than at 

 a correspondin,^ date last year, but 

 simply that the buyei-s seem to have 

 ceased to buy for the time being. Yet 

 the advance buying for Easter is ex- 

 ceedingly good and to this extent, at 

 least, the siituation is very encourag- 

 ing. At the present time roses seem to 

 be the greatest sufferers. Carnations 

 are less ;ibundant than they were and 

 surpluses are ciepleted sufficiently to 

 help materially towards a better re- 

 turn from wholesale markets. Violets 

 are also showing a slight but . unmis- 

 takable improvement. 



Ever\' one liopefui, for 

 CHICAGO the Easter outlook is 

 bright. Roses, lilies and 

 carnations are coming in freely and 

 the demand is fairly good. The qual- 

 ity of stock is excellent. Violets, daf- 

 fodils, tulips, lily of the valley, all are 

 selling at fairly satisfactory prices. 



Considering the slowness 

 DETROIT of sales made society 



must take the season of 

 Lent rather seriously. Everybody has 

 plenty of flowers and just as much time 

 to tuin these flowers into money. Ac- 

 cording to Messrs. G. Heinl and F. 

 McGee, of Toledo, who were visitors 

 last week, business there is about the 

 same. While we have plenty of lilies 

 for Easter there must be a shortage 

 up the state because the Michigan Cut 

 Flower Exchange is expressing large 

 quantities of potted lilies daily. 



Bulbous stock and 

 INDIANAPOLIS lilies are advanc- 

 ing very rapidly 

 and some apprehension is felt as to 

 what Ivind of ."-hape they will be in for 

 Easter. Beauties and teas are now at 

 the hei.sht of perfection and are dis- 

 posed of at prices satisfactory to 

 grower and retailer. Carnations are a 

 little ahead of demand but so far no 

 bargain counter sales have been ad- 

 vertised. Easter lilies and callas are 

 in fair supply but move slowly. Vio- 

 lets are getting toward the end of 

 their season. An abundance of fine 

 sweet peas is to be had and sells well, 

 while lily of the valley is only in light 

 demand. Adiantum and a.sparagus 

 are good property now. The retailers 

 all report an exceptionally active week. 

 Plant trade in particular is picking up, 



both inexpensive and high grade sell- 

 ing readily. 



The stagnation in the 

 NEW YORK flower market In this 



city continues un- 

 abated. Indeed, it may truthfully be 

 said that last week's market touched 

 the lowest point ever reached in the 

 experience of the longest established 

 dealers. The quality of stock coming 

 in is very heavy on all lines, and the 

 situation suggests that possibly there 

 may be an unexpected shortage for 

 Easter on some things which tV.e 

 frequent warm days are driving to 

 maturity more rapidly than the grow- 

 ers like to see. Lilies are already 

 quite abundant in wholesale establish- 

 ments, the majority of them having 

 stalks shorter than ever before. 

 Qualitv, in roses particularlv. is very 

 high. 



Stocks cleaned up 

 PHILADELPHIA a little better last 



week, and while 

 no material advance has taken place 

 in prices, the conditions are on the 

 whole more favorable. We must ex- 

 cept carnations from this. These did 

 not hold their own as compared with 

 the previous improvement reported. 

 Roses remained normal. Beauties not 

 so plentiful. White roses in heavy 

 supply. Medium priced reds the best 

 sellers. Cattle> as, oncidiums and den- 

 drobiums were in good demand with 

 supply on the short side. Any amount 

 of .good, lily of the valley can be had 

 at prices that please the buyer very 

 much. As the spring advances sweet 

 peas seem to increase in favor, but 

 prices are low. Single violets show 

 effect of the waning season. Doubles 

 still pretty good. Pink antirrhinum 



a dainty quickly snapped up. Swain- 

 sona if long stemmed a good 

 seller. Greens are In good healthy 

 condition with supply and demand 

 well regulated. Many strangers have 

 been In town recently looking things 

 over and the Easter plant bookings 

 are reported brisk. Forsythlas and 

 some other spring shrubbery have 

 commenced. The growers of indoor 

 stock are hoping for cold weathe" un- 

 til Easter, so as to keep all that de- 

 moralising influx in abeyance. South- 

 ern daffodils, as well as home grown 

 bulboiis stock of all kinds, are over the 

 crisis and now much easier to handle. 



Both pot and cut 

 WINNIPEG flowers are selling 



well, although trade is 

 still rather quiet, consequent on a 

 large number ol people wintering away 

 from the city, but in the greenhouses 

 plants and blooms for Easter are com- 

 ing along splendidly. 



NEWS NOTES. 



G. S. Ramsburg of Somerswortli, N. 

 H., has secured the contract from the 

 G. A. K. decoration committee of 

 Dover. N. H.. for Memorial Day. 



Reports from the South show that 

 the unprecedented warm weather haft 

 cut short the shipping season for nur- 

 sery stock b>- at least three weeks. 



On Tuesday. April T. at deary's Hor- 

 ticultural Co., New York, announce- 

 ment is made of a "Defiance Sale' of 

 roses, trees, shrubs and bulbs. Cata- 

 logue can be had on application. Am- 

 brose T. Cleary will wield the auction- 

 eer hammer. 



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113 W. 28th ST. 

 New York 



WHOLESALE DEALERS 



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GOOD BARGAINS 



listed in the 



BUYERS' DIRECTORY, 



Pages 510 to 515, this week. 



