January 1, 1910 



HORTICULTURE 



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WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



54 West 28th St. 

 NEW YORK 



Te/ephone 3569 Madison Sq. 



A. L. YOUNG & CO 



RECEIVERS & SHIP 



PERS OF CUT 



FLOWERS. 



CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED. 



MICHIGAN CUT FLOWER 

 EXCHANGE, Inc. 



WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORISTS 



Consigmmeats SoUdted 



Bardy Fancy Fern Our Specialty 



18-40 BROADWAY, DETROIT. MICH. 

 DO NOT BE FOOLED 



By imitators of the 



MEYER GREEN SILKILINE 



See that you get the original, hvi sale by 

 all reliable houses. 



JOHN C. MEYER & CO., 



Boston and Lowell, Mass. 



KRIGK'S FLORIST 

 NaVELTIES 



Manufacturer and Patentee of the Per- 

 fect Adjustable Fot Handle or Hanger, 

 Perfect Adjustable Plant Stands and 

 the riginal Genuine Immortelle Let- 

 ters, etc. Every Letter Marked. 



1164-66 Greene Av., Brooklyn, N.Y, 

 For Sale by all Supply Houses 



WILLIAM F.KASTING CO. 



WHOLESALE FLOR/STS 

 383-387 Ellicott Street 



BUFFALO, - N. Y. 



SOUTHERN WILD SMILAX 



Now ready In limited quantity. 



E. A. BEAVEN 



EVERGREEN, ALABAMA. 



GROWERS FOR NEW YORK MARKET 



Are 'nvlted to call or write. I can dispose of your flowers for 

 the coming season at top prices and guarantee prompt returns. 



106 W. 28th St. 

 New York 



Established 1887 

 Open 6 A. M Dally 

 lei. 167 Madison Sq. 



J. K. ALLEN 



Flower Market Reports. NEW YORK QUOTATIONS PER 100. To Dealers Only 



{Continued from page ig) 



Roman hyacinths, peas, daisies, nar- 

 cissi and other material. Some ex- 

 cellent carnations were had and a good 

 portion weie red, which brought the 

 best prices; white and light sold well 

 and not as many were had as in pre- 

 vious years. All green material was in 

 heavy demand and cleaned up better 

 than In years previous. The shipping 

 was good and the weather being mild, 

 very little trouble was had with frozen 

 stoclt, but as the express business was 

 so heavy many shipments were either 

 carried by their destination or lost, in- 

 conveniencing many out-of-town flor- 

 ists. 



Flower prices for the 

 CHICAGO three days preceding 



Christmas are reported 

 by the trade as more satisfactory to 

 the retailers who had not engaged 

 stock than to the wholesalers. On 

 Monday the idea prevailed that stocli 

 would be scare on account of the 

 snow and extreme cold of the past 

 week. Prices were accordingly high 

 and many placed orders for stock 

 bought fifty per cent, cheaper when 

 they were ready to use it. Some of 

 the largest growers were calling up 

 their customers and trying to get rid 

 of their stoclv that they had held on 

 to so tenaciously a few days before. 

 This was particularly true as to car- 

 nations, though everything in roses 

 was, more or less, suffering the same 

 fate. It was a case of more stock 

 than any one exjiected would be cut 

 and prices had to give way accord- 

 ingly. American Beauties held the 

 steadiest and the orchids, gardenias, 

 violets and other eastern stock showed 

 no change in prices. The shippers had 

 their troubles, much stocli reach- 

 ing here worthless. Owing to the un- 

 usual number of packages to handle, 

 and hampered by the snow which fell 

 steadily for twenty-four hours, the ex- 

 press companies could not handle the 

 consignments of flowers fast enough 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Cattleyaa 



UHee 



Lily of the Valley 



Narcis. Paper \%hlt<: 



Violets 



Sweet Peas (per loo bchs) 



Oardealas 



Adleniucn 



Smliai 



Asparasnt Plumoaus, strings 



" " & iipfefi. (loo bciis) 



First Half of Wwli 



baglnnlRgOec 27' 



1909 



40.00 



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6.00 



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 3.00 

 9.00 

 I. as 

 12. CO 

 30.00 

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13. 00 

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30,00 



and many shipinents were frozen. In- 

 spection showed the packages in many 

 cases to be properly wrapped and the 

 loss due entirely to long exposure. 

 Those who shipped out flowers had 

 more or less of the same difficulty and 

 the express people will have many 

 losses to adjust. Notwithstanding the 

 immense trade of Friday, Saturday 

 and Sunday, Monday, the 27th, found 

 the florists busy. If the cold weather 

 is the cause, let us all be thankful that 

 winter is here. 



The retail trade as 

 NEW YORK a rule, report a sat- 

 isfactory Christmas 

 business. As a general thing sales of 

 plants and flowers were but slightly 

 in advance of last year and those who 

 report otherwise (from 50 to 100 per 

 cent increase) are probably suffering 

 yet from the elation consequent upon 

 their narrow escape from the blizzard 

 and a deep sense of gratitude to the 

 weather man for the great favor he 

 conferred in holding off the furies un- 

 til the florist had his Christmas work 

 all nicely completed. "Things are 

 coming our way," it would seem. From 

 the viewpoint of the plant grower, 

 everything was also very satisfactory, 

 but from that of the flower grower 

 and wholesale dealer, not so much so. 

 With few exceptions the net returns 

 from their fluctuatiug product were 

 not up to expectations. A very large 

 quantity of stock was handled and 



sold, but there was only one item that 

 did sell out clean and that was violets, 

 the supply of which was not equal tO' 

 that of last year. With some growers 

 Beauty was in moderate supply and 

 many were sold at top figures. A con- 

 siderable number, however, were left 

 over and were finally disposed of at 

 nominal prices — very nominal. Only 

 the choicest stock commanded a price 

 and buyers did not need to overlook 

 quality. A bountiful supply of Kll- 

 lurneys, Marylands and Kichmonds 

 pressed for sale— the Killarney and 

 Maryland particularly. Thousands of 

 high-grade, long-stemmed roses were 

 shipped to this market from Pennsyl- 

 vania and the East and they had a 

 potent influence in depressing prices 

 generally. The home supply was not 

 too heavy to move at good prices, 

 were it not for foreign importations. 

 Richmond sold well, but at figures be- 

 low a year ago. Brides and Brides- 

 maids were too numerous to clean up 

 entirely, but did as well as could be 

 expected, considering the competition 

 with the long-stemmed white and pink 

 Killarney and Maryland. Carnations 

 brought a better proportionate price 

 than roses, though in general values 

 ruled lower than usual and much 

 stock was unsold — the supply being 

 heavier than estimates indicated. 

 Scarlet sold best of all and there were 

 plenty of them. Enchantress and Law- 



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