June 22, 1907 



horticulture: 



825 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



The market still contin- 

 BOSTON lies in bad shape owing 

 to the enormous supplies 

 forced in by the extremely hot days of 

 the present week. Qualities are also 

 affected considerably by the heat. Up 

 to the present time roses have been 

 remarkably good. Carnations are very 

 abundant and in lots of one thousand 

 or more the buyer makes the price. 

 Peonies are also coming in heavily, but 

 the special grade blooms bring a fair- 

 ly good figure. Many are poor and 

 ragged, however. Sweet peas have ex- 

 perienced a big slump. Pink pond lil- 

 ies are now coming in; sales slow at 

 $2 to $4 per 100. 



Stock of all kinds is 

 COLUMBUS coming in more freely, 

 with the natural re- 

 sult that prices have softened con- 

 siderably. Carnations are in enormous 

 supply. Outdoor stock is beginning to 

 come in large quantities, especially 

 peonies. A very careful comparison 

 with a year ago, shows hardy stock 

 to be from three weeks to a month 

 behind. Our florists will all be very 

 busy the rest of the month with the 

 usual .Tune weddings and school com- 

 mencements. Bedding plants are nov/ 

 aDout all planted. Trade is certainly 

 good. 



The time has arrived 

 DETROIT when the supply over- 

 reaches the demand. 

 While funerals or commencements keep 

 most of the stores humming there is a 

 remarkable lack of large weddings. 

 Flowers of every description are ;ilen- 

 tiiul. The plant men also have sold 

 out elite generally notwithsti-i Mng 

 the late beginning of the planting sea- 

 son. 



Business has kept 

 INDIANAPOLIS up nicely for the 

 past week. The 

 market shows signs of a break in 

 prices. Roses are plentiful and good 

 for this time of the year. Carnations 

 remain of excellent quality and there 

 seems to be a good demand for them. 

 Lilies are to be had in large numbers; 

 also lily of the valley and sweet peas. 

 Thousand of peonies are being cut but 

 it is impossible to dispose of all profit- 

 ably. This has been an unusually good 

 season for the retailer, the cool 

 weather enabling him to obtain good 

 prices for his stock. The veranda 

 and window box, as well as the bed- 

 ding trade goes merrily on and prob- 

 ably will keep the florists busy till 

 the first of .July. The green goods 

 market is well stocked and there is an 

 excellent demand. 



Present conditions do 

 NEW YORK not favor the main- 

 tenance of set prices 

 on anything. The cut of roses is not 

 heavy" but the small amount of busi- 

 ness " being done and the volume of 

 other material keeps quotations very 

 low. Carnations are very plentiful and 

 generally of excellent quality but they 

 are cheap. The belated peonies are 

 just beginning to come along and 

 present indications point to no short- 

 age during .fane. Sweet peas are very 

 abundant and fine. 



Business here was 



PHILADELPHIA rather spasmodic 



last week, but on 



the whole it may be summed up as a 



fairly satisfactory market for mid- 



June. The first half is now the best, 

 most social affairs being through by 

 Friday or Saturday, when people leave 

 for the seashore or mountain. Beauty 

 roses were too plenty on Monday, 

 scarce later, and by Saturday too many 

 again. Bridesmaids had the call on 

 higher grades, but Brides and Kaiser- 

 ins were in best demand in the 

 low-er qualities. Richmonds and Lib- 

 ertys are of good quality; carna- 

 tions fine, but entirely too plentiful; 

 impossible to find a market for more 

 than one half of them. Peonies are in 

 their glory at present but "what's the 

 use"? It is impossible to find a mar- 

 ket for all the fine stock coming in. 

 The lily of the valley market is the 

 steadiest of any at present. The out- 

 side sweet pea crop is now coming in 

 and is very fine. Ten-week stocks. 

 Bride and Blushing Bride, and Craw- 

 ford's May gladioli are conspicuous; 

 also hardy phloxes and blue corn- 

 flowers. 



Trade so far this 

 TWIN CITIES month is the best we 

 have had in years. 

 Stock is plentiful, the growers have 

 reduced their figures materially but 

 the retailers have not as yet made any 

 cut in the prices. Roses are still re- 

 tailing at figures which allow the 

 store men a nice profit. The weather 

 is exceedingly hot and its effect is 

 already noticed on the size of the car- 

 nations. A number of banquets, also 

 graduating exercises have greatly in- 

 creased the demand. Secretary Taft 

 was banqueted on the 1-lth; the floral 

 decorations were extensive. Planting 

 is still .going on quite heavily. 



After a solid week 

 WASHINGTON of rain, Washington 

 is enjoying regular 

 summer weather, and the market has 

 become somewhat crowded as a result 

 of the sunshine. Carnations have tak- 

 en a drop in price, and are in abund- 

 ance. Crimson Ramblers are just com- 

 ing in and the quality is unusually 

 fine. Planters of fall crops are away 

 behind in their work, and should there 

 be early frosts there will be nothing 

 doing in the dahlia and cosmos lines. 

 Commencements still delight the heart 

 of the retailer, but the end of June will 

 wind them up, and with society people 

 off for the seashore, etc., there will be 

 but little flower news from Washing- 

 ton for the next two months. 



OBITUARY. 

 Dr. Maxwell T. Masters. 

 It is with a feeling of sadness that 

 we record the death of this eminent 

 horticulturist and author. The loss to 

 the Gardeners' Chronicle of London, 

 over which he has presided as editor 



BUSINESS CHANGES. 



LePage Bros., succeed Hilary E. Le- 

 Page at Stamford, Ct. 



G. Johnson has hired the Yates 

 greenhouses at Champaign, 111. 



Walter Garbett has bought the Brad- 

 dock street store of L. I. Neff, Pitts- 

 burg, Pa. 



Frank S. Hicks has severed his con- 

 nection with Hicks & Crawbuck, Inc., 

 B'ooklyn, N. Y., having sold his in- 

 te'est to Mr. Crawbuck by whom the 

 business will lie run under the oM 

 name. Mr. Hicks has rented the sto.-? 

 at 52 AVest 2Sth street. New York, 

 where he will carry on the wholesale 

 cut flower business. E. J. Van Reyper, 

 who has been in the employ of Hicks 

 & Crawbuck for some time will go iJ 

 New York with Mr. Hicks, who expects 

 to open up early in July, so as to get 

 nicely started by the time the fall 

 business begins. 



Dr. Maxwell T. Masters. 

 foi- more than forty years, is a severe 

 one. but it is equally so. in a broader 

 way to every lover of horticulture and 

 admirer of its noble exponents among 

 whom Dr. Masters stood in the first 

 rank. By those who knew him person- 

 ally he is spoken of as a genial gen- 

 tleman, and kind and sympathetic 

 friend, and the announcement of his 

 demise has called forth tributes to his 

 worth and expressions of bereavement 

 such as it is given to but few to merit. 

 Dr. Masters died of heart failure on 

 Mav 30 at his residence at Ealing, after 

 four weeks' suffering from pleurisy 

 and pneumonia. He was 74 years of 

 age. We know that among our read- 

 ers there are many to whom Dr. Mas- 

 ters and his work are well known, and 

 we feel sure that they will join with 

 us in extending to the afflicted family 

 of the deceased, to our distant contem- 

 porary, and to the horticultural world 

 generally our sincere sympathy in the 

 great loss which they have sustained. 



Other Deaths. 

 Paul Pavelchik, wire designer, died 

 in Chicago on June 1. 



George Marzolf, a retired gardener 

 of Allegheny, Pa., born in Alsace, 



Germany, died on June S, aged 67. 

 Three sons and a daughter survive 



him. 



Mrs. .Johanna Duane, widow of John 

 Daane an old and popular member of 

 the Boston florist fraternity, died at 

 her home in West Medford. Mass., on 

 June 13, aged 83 year.'. 



Otto Schwill, Sr., died in Memphis, 

 Tenn., on June 10. aged 61. Mr. 

 Schwill vvas oorn in Koeniugberg, 

 Germany, but came to this co-mtry in 

 1S61, and since ]St39 has been located 

 in Memphis as the head of the firm of 

 Otto Schwill & Co. He* is survived by 

 a widow, two sons and tv^•o daughters. 



