July 12, 1913 



HORTICULTURE 



57 



BUY 



BOSTON 

 FLOWERS 



N. F. MCCARTHY & CO., 



112 Arch St., 31 Otis St. 



BOSTON'S BEST 

 HOUSE 



Flower Market Reports 



Stock is tolerably good. On Monday 

 the buyers grabbed everything in 

 sight. This condition may only have 

 been for the day and it may be for a 

 longer time for on the opening day 

 of the weel\ at this time of the year 

 there is little to be had but stocl< from 

 local growers. On Tuesday outside 

 shipments arrive. Last weelt began 

 with a very large supply and ended 

 with a light market. If the present 

 call keeps up unless receipts increase 

 considerably, the market is bound to 

 be in a more or less tight condition. 

 Asters are due to come in this week. 

 Pond lilies are plentiful. The cut of 

 smilax is at present rather short. 



When it comes to re- 



NEW YORK porting the New York 

 wholesale market, the 

 stereotyped form is to refer to the 

 awful condition presented last week 

 and then assure the reader that it is 

 still worse this week. Keeping that 

 system up for a succession of weeks 

 is bound in time to exhaust one's vo- 

 cabulary of words to describe the woe- 

 ful state of affairs. Still, the great 

 trio — grower, wholesaler and retailer — 

 seem to pick up a very fair existence 

 and a few of them, at least, manage to 

 own high-power automobiles without 

 visibly crippling their resources and 

 no doubt all will survive the present 

 "worst ever" conditions and come to 

 the scratch alert and well-groomed 

 ">vhen the next whistle blows. We ac- 

 knowledge we haven't here revealed 

 much about the market and what it 

 offers. But if you want anything real 

 good in New York flowers just tele- 

 graph or write us and we'll tell you 

 where you can get them. 



Hardly worth re- 



PHILADELPHIA porting. Many of 

 the retail stores 

 closed for three days — so that the last 

 week wasn't really a week, .\bout all 

 that can be said is that the business 

 done was about as good as could be 

 expected. Early cosmos has appeared, 

 also single tuberoses. The asters are 

 fair, but short stemmed. Good lilies 

 have a good demand. About nine hun- 

 dred out of every thousand roses re- 

 ceived from the growers are poor 

 stock and have to go in the discard 

 for little or nothing. Gladioli are 

 very good and one of the best sellers 

 on the market. This will probably 

 continue until the bulb people butt in 

 with their short-stemmed, cheap flow- 

 ers. Centaurea imperialis is very fine 

 at present — pink, lavender and white. 

 Kaiserins are the best in white roses 

 and at that they are nothing very ex- 

 tra. 



William F. Kasting Co. 



\A/^Holesal< 



383-387 ELLICOTT ST. 



>ris-ts 



BUFFALO, N. Y. 



NEW YORK QUOTATIONS PER 100. To Dealers Only 



Last Half of Weak ; Fint Half of Waak 



endin; July 5 beginning loly 7 



1913 1913 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Cattleyas 



Lilies, Longlllortim 



Lily of the Valley 



aiadloll 



DaUeA 



Snapd ration 



Sweet Peas (per xoo bunches 



Gardenias » 



Adlantum 



Smilax 



Asparagus Plumosus, strings (per loo) 



" ** A 3pren (loo bunches) 



15.00 

 1. 00 



I. CO 



2.00 



2.00 



1. 00 



5.00 



.50 



6.00 



35.00 



X0.00 



to 30.00 



15.00 

 1.00 

 1. 00 



2. 00 



3.00 



1. 00 



5.00 



•50 



8.00 



3500 



10.00 



30.00 

 3.00 

 3.00 

 6.00 

 ■50 

 4.00 



a. 00 

 B.oo 

 1. 00 

 10.00 

 40.00 



The market is in any- 

 ST. LOUIS thing but good condi- 

 tion as far as quality 

 of the stock is concerned. Among the 

 retailers extreme dullness now reigns. 

 The wholesale houses afford roses in 

 plenty of the Killarney type but of 

 I)oor quality and very short stems. 

 There are plenty of asters and carna- 

 tions coming in and these, too, show 

 the effects of the hot weather. Sweet 

 peas are very poor. Easter lilies fine 

 and selling well, and gladioli have a 

 good demand. Fancy ferns are again 

 easy. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 

 Herbert V. Pearce. Detroit, Mich. — 

 Descriptive pamphlet of the Pearce 

 Return Steam Traps. 



M. Herb. Naples, Italy. — General 

 Catalogue of Bulbs and of Seeds for 

 Autumn Sowing. Printed in three 

 languages. 



A. G. Greiner. St. Louis. Mo. — Gen- 

 eral Price List of Cacti. Euphorbias 

 and Succulents. A very extensive list 

 of these odd plants. 



The Hercules Powder Co.. of Wil- 

 mington. Del., have issued an 80-page 

 book, well illustrated, under the title 

 of Progressive Cultivation Facts for 

 Farmers. It deals with the digging of 

 ditches and drains, breaking up hard 

 pan and clearing lands of stumps and 

 boulders by the use of dynamite. As 

 a medium for publicity and business 

 getting it seems to fill the bill, but it 

 contains also very much of otherwise 

 instructive value on agricultural and 

 hortioiltural lines. 



Little Ads Bring 

 Big Returns 



Little ads. In our Classified Calumns bring 

 big returns to both advertiser and par- 

 rbaser. 



Anything that can he sold to florKsts, gar- 

 deners, park and cemetery superintendents, 

 etc., can be sold through this medium Id 

 this department, and at very small co«t. 



Don't fall to read them each Issue, for yon 

 will find one or more that will prove profit- 

 able to you. 



I They Cost Only One 

 Cent a Word Undlsplayed 



Personal 



The conservatories of C. M. Jarvis 

 of Berlin. Ct., will be closed after 

 July 18th. 



A. Leuthy of Roslindale, Mass., 

 sailed for France on La Provence, 

 Thursday, July 10. 



Percy E. Hicks formerly at Long- 

 shore Farm Saugatuck, Conn., is now 

 located at Oceanic. N. J. 



Martin Samtnian. of Myers & Samt- 

 man, Chestnut Hill. Philadelphia, left 

 last week on a visit to Germany. 



Charles A. Dards. of Madison avenue 

 and 44th street. New York City, sailed 

 for Europe June 28th on the Carmania. 



T. R. Mullins, formerly gardener for 

 C. M. Jarvis. Berlin. Ct., is now em- 

 ployed by R. B. Viets, New Britain, 

 Ct. 



Charles Russell of the Jones-Russell 

 Company. Cleveland, Ohio, and Miss 

 May McGorray, were married on June 

 30th. 



Edgar A. Nock is contemplating the 

 purchase of a large farm in East Prov- 

 idence. R. I., and erecting a large 

 range for the growing of orchids. 



P. Welch of Boston has gone to Old 

 Orchard Beach for the summer. A 

 few days after he had closed up his 

 home in Dorchester, the the house was 

 slightly damaged by fire, evidently the 

 work of an incendiary. 



H. V. P. de Thestrup has resigned 

 his position as superintendent of the 

 Yonkers (N. Y.) Nursery Co., and ac- 

 ce|)ted to take charge of the private 

 estate at Shelter Island, N. Y., known 

 as Never-Never-Land Farm. 



Mrs. J. B, Freeman, successor to 

 George A. Heinl. of Toledo. Ohio, and 

 Walter H. Crause of Cincinnati, were 

 married June 30th, Mr. Crause will 

 go into business with his wife, but the 

 firm name will remain unchanged. 

 30th. 



Boston visitors — Dr. George E. Stone, 

 Amherst, Mass; Wm. Cotter, Montreal, 



P. Q. 



PATENTS GRANTED. 

 1,065.417. A|)paratus for Forming 

 Benches for Greenhouses. 

 John Wilson, Short Hills, 

 N. J., assignor by direct 

 and mesne assignments, 

 to Wilson-Hoyt Company, 

 Short Hills, N. J., a Cor- 

 poration of New Jersey. 



