April 9, 1910 



HORTl cu lture; 



563i 



Flower Market Reports. 



So far as quotations are 

 BOSTON concerned, tliere is little 

 change to report from 

 last week excepting in the case of gar- 

 denias which after traveling along all 

 season on parlor car rates have now 

 come to the place where they must 

 take a tumble. They are coming in 

 from many sources and the question 

 now is — as with other and more plebe- 

 ian flowers — how to dispose of them. 

 There is a heavy influx of material 

 and it is not all unloaded easily, al- 

 though all things considered, there is 

 little to complain of. Much of the 

 daily receipt is sold very cheap — to 

 department stores and street stands or 

 any other way to keep down the ac- 

 cumulation. Carnations are of splen- 

 did quality as a rule. Roses show 

 little effect so far from the hot weath- 

 er, but violets have practically siic- 

 cumbed. Among the roses Carnot 

 shows up in beautiful form and looks 

 enticingly summery. Sweet peas are 

 seen in quantity, but in widely vary- 

 ing quality, the ordinary run selling 

 slowly, the low-grade selling not at 

 all and the fancy quality with stems 

 a foot long and big luscious tlowtrs 

 being in quick demand at a figure 

 from two to four times what is asked 

 for average grade. As to lilies, the 

 market is swamped with them and 

 so it has been ever since Easter, many 

 of them being sacrificed in tjie effort 

 to maintain schedule rates. 



The condition of the 

 CHICAGO market at the close of 

 the week following 

 Easter was about as bad as could be 

 and the week following showed no im- 

 provement. Many of the old-time flor- 

 ists assert that never in their experi- 

 ence has trade so entirely dropped off 

 at this time of the year. Stock in 

 enormous quantities stands untouched 

 upon the tables or accumulates in the 

 ice boxes only to be carried off in bar- 

 rels. Buyers no longer ask for prices, 

 but state what they will give. South- 

 ern stock sells ahead of home-grown 

 because if It comes through in good 

 shape it is of better quality. Many 

 large -shipments, however, have come 

 through heated and soft and have been 

 a total loss. Many lay the conditions 

 of the market largely to the early 

 Easter which, like all other holidays, 

 is always followed by a lull in busi- 

 ness. Callas are in abundance and sell 

 well for showy funeral work; but at 

 a low figure. Mossae cattleyas are 

 just coming into crop and gardenias 

 are being shipped in considerable quan- 

 tity. Spanish iris is now in the mar- 

 ket. Last year it made its appearance 

 a trifle later, though as Easter also was 

 late it was in time for that event. 

 Mr. Weiland of Evanston has grown 

 it for the Chicago market for the last 

 four years and Maywood growers also 

 send in considerable quantity. It is 

 very beautiful and sells readily when 

 anything will sell. Trailing arbutus 

 from the Michigan woods is in. It is 

 not especially good quality, but no 

 other flower has quite so much of the 

 breath of spring in it for the Chicago 

 people. Greenhouse stock has not only 

 the excessive heat to endure, but this 

 week has outdoor northern bulbous 

 Btock to compete with. Daffodils, tu- 

 lips, jonquils, etc., home-grown, are 



(Reports cOMtinued on page >55) J ^i , 



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