April 9, 1910 



HORTICULTU RE 



565 



MICHIGAN CUT FLOWER 

 EXCHANGE, Inc. 



WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORISTS 



Consignments Solidted 



Barxiy Fancy Fern Our Speciallp 



18-40 BROADWAY. DETROIT. MICH. 



SOUTHERN WILD SMILAX 



Now ready In limited quantity. 



E. A. BRAVEN 



EVERGREEN, ALABAMA. 



For Sale By 



John C. Meyer & Co. 



1500 Middlesex Street, Lowell, Mass. 



Taie Ne Othrr. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



54 West 28th St. 

 NEW YORK 



Telephone 3559 Uadlson Sq. 



A. L YOUNG & CO. 



RECEIVERS & SHIP- 



PERS OF CUT 



FLOWERS. 



CONSIBNHENTS SOLICITED. 



Flower Market Reports 



{Continued from page 563) 



adding tlieir presence to the southern 

 stock and the counters are filled to 

 overflowing. Outdoor lilacs from Alton 

 are also being received. They sell for 

 35 cents per bunch as against 50 cents 

 last year. E. A. Hunt of Evanston is 

 showing fine daisies oi- what he calls 

 the California Giant variety for want 

 of a better name. The stock was in- 

 troduced by A. W. Myles three years 

 ago, who grows it very successfully, 

 but he has never named the variety. 

 It blooms freely, comes on good long 

 stems and sells readily. 



Easter week turned 

 INDIANAPOLIS out all that could 



be desired. From 

 all accounts of the leading florists it 

 was somewhat better than last year. 

 The increasing demand was for flower- 

 ing plants and some claim it was fifty 

 per cent better than last year. The 

 cut flower dealers claim that they did 

 much better than the previous year. 

 The month of March being warm and 

 clear helped lilies, which it was feared 

 would be scarce. But everybody had 

 plenty and the sale was heavy. Other 

 plants that were in heavy demand were 

 azaleas, rhododendrons, hydrangeas, 

 genistas, bulbous stock and various 

 kinds of pot roses. The decorators say 

 that the church decorations were the 

 poorest in years. 



Business at Easter 

 NEW ORLEANS this year was good 

 and showed an ad- 

 vance over 1909. Buying during the 

 early part of the week was very slow, 

 but Saturday and Easter morning were 

 a continuous rush. Lilies were scarce 

 and a good many more could have been 

 handled. The local supply as a rule 

 was a little late and the flowers — most- 

 ly Formosum — shipped from the North 

 were very mediocre in quality. The 

 foliage was all brown at the tips and 

 altogether not up to standard. A sharp 

 advance in price was noted at the fin- 

 ish. Hydrangeas and rhododendrons 

 were fine and met a ready sale. Many 

 more light colored ones of the latter 

 could have been sold. Azaleas, spiraea, 

 Dutch hyacinths in pans, am! lily of 

 the valley were good and had a brisk 

 call. Nice plant arrangements also 

 caught the popular fancy. This mar- 

 ket has never heretofore been strong 

 on pot plants, but is improving great- 

 ly every year. Cut lilies were in short 



FLOWER GROWER OR BUYER 



Whichever you are, you are Invited to call or write. I can be of 

 service to you the entire season. WHOLESALE FLOWERS ONLY. 



BstablUkied 1887 

 Open 6 A. M Dally 

 Tel. 167 Madison Sq, 



J. K. ALLEN 



106 W. 28th St. 

 New York 



NEW YORK QUOTA nONS PER 100. To Dealers Only 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Cattleyas 3S.o° 



Lille... 



Lily of tbe Valley 



TrumpetNarcIs 



Tulips 



Violets 



nignonette 



Sweet Peas (per too bchs) 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax 



Asparagus Plumosus, strings 



" " & Spren. (loobcht). 



supply, but roses and carnations were 

 plentiful and of fine quality. Lily of 

 the valley, sweet peas and freesias 

 were good sellers. Nice flowered or- 

 chids were much in evidence and sale 

 for same was fair. A great many bou- 

 quets were placed in the cemeteries. 



The flower market of 

 NEW YORK the past week has 



been simply a rout 

 for the sellers. The unprecedented 

 summer conditions continuing without 

 a break has brought about a situation 

 which has driven the wholesale deal- 

 ers almost to distraction and furnished 

 the street fakirs with inspiration for 

 great deeds in the line of barter. 

 Never before has such an experience 

 been forced upon the flower trade and 

 the street fakir is the only one who 

 wants ever to see a repetition of it. 

 But with all his pestiferousness it 

 must be acknowledged that he is the 

 right man in the right place in times 

 such as these. He makes the price as 

 he pleases, to be sure, but he does 

 carry off the stuff, turns it to some 

 account and it melts in his hands with 

 a rapidity which astonishes and con- 

 vinces the onlooker of the exhaustless 

 consuming capacity of this great city. 

 AVherc it all goes is beyond compre- 

 hension. On the other hand the reg- 

 ular store people buy less, instead of 

 more, at such times and retail pi ices 

 within the portals of the fashionable 

 marts remain about as they were be- 

 fore the deluge. 



This market con- 

 PHILADELPHIA tinues as it has 



been ever since 

 Easter — buried under a perfect ava- 

 lanche of flowers of every imaginable 

 variety and quality. The larger whole- 

 sale marts are almost overwhelmed 

 and a suflficient outlet seems an im- 

 possibility. The staple goods find the 

 slowest sale, odds and ends of unusual 

 things being snapped up when good. 

 Perhaps the greatest sufferer in the 

 slump is the gardenia. It has broken 

 badly in price and is moved with dif- 

 ficulty at that. 



New York. — Real estate changes and 

 rebuilding necessitate the removal of 

 several well-known wholesale flower 

 establishments from the locations 

 which they have occupied for many 

 years. Among them are Walter F. 

 Sheridan and Traendly & Schenck, who 

 have taken the entire floor and base- 

 ment in the new building at 131 and 

 133 West 2Sth street. These stores are 

 very large — giving each firm double 

 the area they have had heretofore. 

 They will move before May 1. At the 

 same time the Growers' Cut Flower 

 Company will remove from 39 to 41 

 W. 28th' street. 



SOUTHERN WILD SMILAX 



Fully Guaranteed. 



LOUISVILLE FLORAL CO. 



Louisville, Ala. 



