October 20. IWIS 



HORTICULTURE 



4'^3 



Flower Market Reports 



(Coutiuucd from ixkjc 42 1) 

 shortage all the more acute. Leucothoe 

 aiul Mexican ivy are now tu lie had 

 resularly but sood adiantuni is scarce. 

 The followins lines 

 NEW YORK regarding the cut 

 flower situation were 

 written for insertion last week, but 

 ihrough mail delays failed to reach 

 the office of publication in time. 

 Tliey apply in the main to the present 

 week, except that heavy frosts have 

 curtailed the outdoor product and 

 chrysanthemiuns of all classes are 

 rapidly increasing every day with 

 prices somew-hat easier on some 

 things. This market still enjoys a 

 lively call for flowers but prices are 

 somewhat lower than last week, al- 

 though far from normal tor the sea- 

 son. Many chrysanthemum growers 

 are beginning to cut this week and 

 the wholesale windows are gay with 

 the queen of autumn. Fortunately, 

 roses have been very abundant and at 

 the high prices prevailing of late they 

 liave brought in the shekels to the 

 i-'rowers at an unprecedented rate. 

 There are some very fine American 

 Beauties; in fact, the rose supply is of 

 excellent quality. Large quantities of 

 dahlias are still arriving and are sell- 

 ing better than in any previous sea- 

 son. Tuberoses have made their ap- 

 pearance, also an abundance of very 

 good double violets. 



There is still a bit 

 PHILADELPHIA of a rush on here 

 but the crisis 

 seems to have been reached and it is 

 now easier to fill ordei-s with some kind 

 of satisfaction. By the end of the 

 week dahlias became a good deal of 

 a drag. Nobody seemed to want them 

 at any price. It was only a few days 

 before when the best were bringing as 

 high as ten and glad to get them, even 

 at that. This condition has largely 

 come about by an influx of chrysan- 

 themums of fine quality and all sizes, 

 colors and prices. These have 

 driven the dahlia completely into the 

 background. Roses continue very 

 good, and while prices have eased up 

 slightly they still clean up well at 

 remunerative figures. Carnations 

 move in evidence and a little better 

 as to stem. No change in tlie cattleya 

 market. Still plenty of these at mod- 

 erate prices. The double flowering 

 cosmos seems to take pretty well and 

 brings a rather better price than the 

 single. Both are quite plentiful and 

 good. 



Conditions are about 



ROCHESTER the same as those 



of a week ago. Stock 



is remarkably scarce and the de- 



New York Business Is Good 



I NEED MORE FLOWERS. Send your stock here and get 

 the holiday prices now prevailing 



HERMAN WEISS, 130 W. 28th St.. New York 



.V<iE.\T lOK CARILLOS CATTLEYAS 



J. K. 



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"A LBADBR IS THE WBOLBSILB G )»V!ISSION TRADB FOR OVER TBIRTI TEARS " 



Have a demand for more than I can supply. Rose Growers Call or Write. 



118 West 28th St 



IME:\A/ YORK 



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NEW YORK QUOTATIONS PER 100. To Dealen Only 



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mand is unusual, caused by the num- 

 ber of deaths In this vicinity and also 

 of lighter shipments. The demand 

 for fiowers for out-of-town trade 

 shows no let-up at all and continues 

 to be as large as it was three weeks 

 ago. Prices have advanced consid- 

 erably. The supply of chrysanthe- 

 mums is at present small. There is 

 a fair supply of roses of good quality. 

 Carnations and lilies are are scarce. 

 Violets are in season and sell fairly 

 well. 



The market is well 

 ST. LOUIS supplied at the present 



time, the only excep- 

 tion being carnations. Dahlias are 

 still coming in. Violets with few ex- 

 ceptions are poor owing to the warm 

 weather. Ferns are still scarce. 



With the abate- 

 WASHINGTON ment of the in- 

 fluenza plague 

 business is becoming more normal. 

 The stores are now able to dispense 

 with much of the inexperienced help 

 it took on during the emergency. 

 Flowers continue scarce, but show a 

 notable improvement in quality with 

 the continued cold weather. Every- 

 thing sells up quickly. Pansies. 

 scobia. summer lilac and violets help 

 fill out in funeral work. 



Mamaroneck, N. Y. — The Darlington 

 estate now that its proprietors have 

 died, has been sold and P. W. Popp. 

 president of the local horticultural 

 society who has won so many honors 

 for it at numerous exhibitions is pre- 

 paring to vacate his old home. The 

 dahlias have been very fine this fall, 

 especially. The estate has been bought 

 by Mrs. Constable whose place adjoins 

 it, and a small strip of ground ex- 

 tending to the sea wall will be added 

 to the domain so efficiently managed 

 by that widely known expert James 

 Stuart. With the exception of this 

 small area the fine estate will be dis- 

 posed of otherwise and It is to be 

 hoped that it may fall into the hands 

 of owners who will maintain its horti- 

 cultural pre-eminence of the past. 

 Everything on the Constable estate, In- 

 cluding the out door garden, the green- 

 houses and the farm bespeaks de- 

 voted care and culture but Mr. Stuart 

 says that most of the glass houses will 

 be shut down for the winter in com- 

 pliance with orders from the Fuel Ad- 

 ministration and much valuable ma- 

 terial must be sacrificed. 



Montclair, N. J. — The Dixon range 

 of greenhouses is being taken down 

 by George Pearce for removal to the 

 estate of a Mr. Kelly at Madison. 



<H.\LITY QUANTITY 



CHARLES MILLANG 



WhoieMoU Florist 



.-..-j-57 West 26th St., NEW YORK 



.VTTENTION V.VKIETY 



