December 21, 1918 



HOETICULTUBE 



619 



Flower Market Reports 



(Costinxied from page 617) 

 funeral work likewise artificial flow- 

 ers. A record breaking holiday busi- 

 ness is unanimously predicted. 



The supply of cut 

 NEW YORK flowers is very light 



so far this week. 

 Rose prices are firm with a steady 

 tendency upward, and trade buyers 

 are taking what is offered, with many 

 protests and deprecatory gesticula- 

 tions. With clear weather the cut of 

 carnations bids fair to be very good 

 and it' is a question whether the gen- 

 eral results as to market value will 

 be any better next week than they 

 are this week. Business is not brisk 

 and price changes from last week are 

 slight. 



Very little change 

 PHILADELPHIA in the cut flower 



market since last 

 report. Prices remain about the same 

 and everything in short supply. The 

 prices for Christmas week, which 

 commences on Dec. 19, as announced 

 by the wholesale houses, are very 

 high in nearly all staples, about double 

 last year's figures. Flowering plants 

 are all in retailers hands; nothing left 

 with the growers now, except palms, 

 crotons and other foliage plants. 

 Holly, lycopodium, boxwood and other 

 greens are scarce, and about 25 per 

 cent, higher than last year. 



Trade during 

 ROCHESTER, N.Y. the past week 



has been very 

 good. Roses are the mainstay of 

 the market. Violets are good and the 

 supply meets the demand. Chrysan- 

 themums although soft still sell 

 readily. Calla and lilies sell well. 

 Carnations are very scarce. Good 

 holly is on the market but will bring 

 a higher price than last year owing to 

 the labor shortage in gathering it. 

 Christmas trade will suffer a loss of 

 the bulbous stock owing to the belated 

 shipment of the Holland bulbs. 



Retailers have been kept 

 ST. LOUIS busy since last report 



and high prices for flow- 

 ers continues and in all lines. Greens 

 are in demand at good prices. It 

 would seem that Christmas prices 

 cannot go much higher. 



Cincinnati — Otto H. Hoffmeister has 

 been down with the Influenza. Fortu- 

 nately for him he is getting better. 

 Miss Christine Bossmeyer, of C. B. 

 Critchell's, is also confined to her 

 home. 



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CHICAGO. 



Miss Beatrice Asmus, daughter of 

 Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Asmus, is now in 

 the office of Schiller the Florist, on 

 West Madison street. 



The present high prices of cut 

 flowers are putting the growers in 

 better position to pay their coal bills. 

 The after effect on the trade may not 

 be desirable but it is something to 

 have the present taken care of. 



The plant trade has needed no ex- 

 tra stimulus in Chicago for several 

 years and especially at the Christmas 

 season, when the plant growers have 

 generally sold out well in advance. 

 But this year several things have com- 

 bined to make the returns of the plant 

 grower more gratifying than ever. 

 First, the space devoted to growing 

 plants was not cut down as was that 

 of cut flowers, and second, the plants 

 were in bloom before the heavy fog of 

 the two weeks preceding Christmas, 

 which decreased the cut of flowers so 

 greatly. The growers of plants have 

 had no special difficulties to encounter 

 this season except that of obtaining 

 the imported stock, and without any 

 effort on their part the demand for 

 plants has greatly increased, probably 

 more than doubled. The lack of aza- 

 leas has been so impressed upon the 

 trade that no great disappointment 

 was felt and the magnificent cyclamen 

 are gradually taking their places as 

 show plants, as well as in hampers. 

 There are a few azaleas which were 

 carried over, and some of them are 

 fine, but the stock as a whole is very 

 limited and cyclamen are practically 

 taking the lead as a Christmas plant. 

 The stock of begonias is large and 

 though more difficult to handle shows 

 up well and sells readily. Poinsettias 

 as ever are favorites and many more 

 would have sold had the growers haa 



them. Among the novelties offered 

 by the retailers is a little decorated 

 table tree of small branches of natu- 

 ral fir closely wired together and 

 placed in a flower pot. It originated 

 at Schiller's West Side store. 



Gardner, Mass.— The large green- 

 house bought a few months ago by 

 Mrs. Addle E. Colburn on Lower Park 

 street, has been closed owing to ina- 

 bility to secure coal. Mrs. Colburn 

 purchased the property from Carl 

 Erickson and operated it in conjunc- 

 tion with her greenhouses on Gra- 

 ham street. Owing to government re- 

 strictions, it was necessary to curtail 

 the growing of flowers and raise veg- 

 etables instead. With a shortage ot 

 help on account of the war, it was im- 

 possible to go into the vegetable-grow- 

 ing proposition very extensively and 

 the two houses which remain idle 

 represent a loss of income for the 

 owner. 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO. 

 Manufacturers and Importeri 



1129 Arch St., PHIUDELPHIA. PA. 



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