June 29, 1907 



HORTICULTURE. 



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Visitors Welcome 



TheS.S. Pennock-Meehan 

 Co. extend a cordial invi- 



Philadelphia to make their headquarters with them ; and during the Convention week in 

 August special arrangements will be made for the convenience of patrons. Telephone 

 service, stenographer, etc. will be at the command of all. and general information regarding 

 points of interest as well as business will be given intelligently. For the convenience of 

 those e.xpecting late mail our office will not close until late in the evening. 



S. S. PENNOCK-MEEHAN CO., 1608-1618 Ludlow St. 



THE WHOLESALE FLORISTS OF PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



CUT FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



Market conditions at the 

 BOSTON present time are in a bad 

 way, with the rush of 

 weddings and commencements over 

 and a continued spell of hot weather 

 the effect is felt both on prices and 

 condition of stock. Flowers of every 

 description show the effects of the 

 weather, complaints being received on 

 every hand. Peonies and Jacqueminot 

 roses are plentiful, but have little de- 

 mand owing to the fact of being so 

 late, .American Beauties faring no bet- 

 ter. Kaiserin and Carnot are in good 

 condition and are selling well, being 

 the one redeeming feature of a wilted 

 market. 



The past two weeks 

 BUFFALO found the market over- 

 stocked on all lines, al- 

 though trade has been good consider- 

 ing the amount of stock handled. 

 Roses and carnations have been too 

 plentiful and the severe warm weath- 

 er has made the keeping quality of 

 short duration. Sweet peas and lily 

 of the valley have had a fair demand, 

 prices holding well. Now that the 

 oiudoor stock has appeared in large 

 quantity and fine quality it is pre- 

 ferred. The week of June 24 being 

 school week, a good demand is looked 

 for. 



At last the warm 

 COLUMBUS weather has come, 

 and everything is 

 jumping ahead. As expected stock 

 both greenhouse and hardy is coming 

 in fast, and in such enormous quanti- 

 ties that prices have had to give way 



considerably. There has been never- 

 theless an excellent business the past 

 week, even though our customers are 

 beginning to go away for the summer. 

 The seedsmen are on their last run 

 for what has been the longest drawn- 

 out season in years. 



While commencement ex- 



DETROIT ercises kept things hum- 

 ming very lively the 

 local niaiket experienced its first glut 

 in carnations which could be relieved 

 through fakers only. Most of the 

 craft are thinking how to spend the 

 vacation. Fortunately the past season 

 has been so prosperous that the nec- 

 essary wherewithal is there to make 

 it possible. 



In consequence of 



INDIANAPOLIS the warm weather 

 more flowers are 

 arriving than for a long time. Social 

 events are few and far between. Roses 

 of all sorts are showing plainly the 

 effects of the heat. Outdoor flowers 

 are in heav\ suppl\. Sweet peas are 

 in good demand and an abundance of 

 splendid stock is to be had. Lilies 

 and peonies are here in almost any 

 quantity. Lily of the valley is fine 

 but difficult to dispose of. Carnations 

 in all grades are in excess of the de- 

 mand. Greens of all kinds are more 

 abundant and have a good call. 



Summer languor pre- 



NEW YORK vails all over the 

 flower markets. Noth- 

 ing doing and apparently everybody 

 taking the situation in philosophical 



manner, for one hears no complaint. 

 Quality of stock goes down as the mer- 

 cury goes up, and the hot air period 

 is on in earnest. This latter remark 

 has no bearing on the picnic which is- 

 to take place, rain or shine, next 

 Tuesday. The street will not miss the 

 boys for one day, and the U. S. Ex- 

 press wagons are a hollow mockery. 

 Wait a few weeks. 



Mysterious disap- 

 PHILADELPHIA pearance! Ahand- 



some reward will 

 be given to any one who will find the 

 cut flower market of this locality 

 which mysteriously disappeared last 

 week, and of which after the most dili- 

 gent search by all concerned no trace 

 has been found to date. One or two 

 of the growers and distributers found 

 a few of the ca.st-off garments of the 

 flight — and fondly imagined they were 

 almost in sight — but outside of these 

 false alarms nothing has materialized. 

 The flowers to supply the animal were 

 here in abundance — in fact in such 

 quantity as has never before been seen 

 here within the memory of the oldest 

 inhabitant — but they might have as- 

 well been kept at home, as they were 

 not wanted. Anxious parents, the im- 

 mediate relatives and retainers, as 

 well as the general trade, eagerly 

 await any news of the fugitive, and It 

 is needless to say that no prodigal son' 

 ever received a warmer welcome than 

 will be accorded the wanderer on its 

 return. 



Continued on page S6j. 



N.B. NO POSTPONEMENT 



of Weddings or 

 Graduations 



on account of cold 

 wciUher. 



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The Florists Supply House of America. 



