September 20, 1913 



HOETICULTURE 



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E.G.HILLCO. 



Wholesale Florists 



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GEORGE B. HART 



WHOLESALE FLORIST 



24 Stone St„ Rochester, N.Y. 

 Flower Market Reports 



Stock has shortened 

 NEW YORK up greatly in this 

 market and for a lit- 

 tle time express charges will be very 

 light. If a good demand would ma- 

 terialize now things would hum, but 

 there is little doing and, even with the 

 reduced receipts, the wholesalers have 

 to work to unload what comes in. 

 American Beauty roses are tending 

 towards normal values and specially 

 good grades of other roses enjoy a 

 fairly steady price. Carnations are 

 improving and with the improvement 

 comes the possibility of getting a lit- 

 tle better figure for the top grades. 

 Dahlias and asters are the Jonahs just 

 now. The sooner .Tack Frost swallows 

 them the better it will be for all the 

 rest. Lily of the valley good and in 

 fair demand. 



Beauties sold up 

 PHILADELPHIA clean by end of 

 week. High 

 grade white roses are also in good 

 demand. Radiance is the best seller 

 among the pink roses. There are a 

 good many low-grade among the pinks 

 and these hang fine. Some excellent 

 Richmonds are now to be had. Asters 

 are rather sluggish except in the extra 

 fine qualities. Much of the medium 

 and lower grades remained unsold at 

 the wind-up last week. The advancing 

 season and the cooler weather has 

 greatly improved the dahlia and from 

 now on the stock ought to sell well. 

 Lily of the valley is cleaning up nicely. 

 Carnations are improving and pretty 

 good prices are being realized for all 

 the high grades. Of course a large 

 percentage is short stemmed. Orchids 

 and gardenias, demand and supply 

 both improved and both about on an 

 even keel so that prices remain about 

 the same. Early chrysanthemums go- 

 ing very well. The market could use 

 more white but the yellow one seems 

 the most plentiful. 



Since the cool weath- 

 ST. LOUIS er with good rains 

 which broke the long 

 dry hot spell, business has seemed to 

 pick up. The local trade have had 

 quite a busy week and the last few 

 days cleaned up the market on all the 

 good grades of stock that came in. 

 Beauties had a. large demand, so did 

 other roses and carnations but only 

 of the better grades at any time. Smi- 

 lax is scarce and other greens have a 

 big run. 



A drop in temper- 



WASHINGTON ature of about 



forty degrees has 



necessitated the firing up of boilers In 



Prepared IVIAGNOL.IA Leaves 



Red, Bronze and Green, Finest in the Country 

 Try a Sample Order and be Convinced 



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112 Arch Street, 

 31 Otis Street, 



BOSTON, MASS 



William F. Kasting Co. 



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383-387 ELLICOTT ST. 



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BUFFALO, N. Y. 



NEW YORK QUOTATIONS PER 100. To Dealers Only 



ROSES AND CARNATIONS 



American Beauty, Fancy and Special 



'* " Extra 



No.i 



*' *' Lower Grades 



Klllarney, Extra 



*' Ordinary 



Richmond, hillingdon. Extra 



'• " Ordinary.... 



Maryland, Ward. Taft. Sunburst. Extra . 



" " " '* Ordinary. 



Carnations, Fancy Grade 



** Ordinary 



the local greenhouses and last week 

 caused a shortage of locally-grown 

 roses. Tbere is, however, plenty of 

 stock of all kinds to be had. Carna- 

 tions are improving in quality as are 

 .A.merican Beauty rrses. Dahlias are in 

 heavy supply. Business seems to be 

 on the pick-up as many of the depart- 

 ment stores, and millinery and other 

 establishments are holding fa'I open- 

 ings and using quite a quantity of cut 

 flowers. Many of the florists are also 

 busy with fall palm and tern sales and 

 report a good demand for this stock. 



Personal 



David Welch, of Welch Bros., Bos- 

 ton, is on a brief trip southward. 



The daughter of Thomas P. Galvin, 

 of Boston, was married at their sum- 

 mer home in Nantucket, Mass., on 

 September 17. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



A. R. .Jones and C. H. Grakelow are 

 back safe and sound, from a month's 

 sojourn through the West Indies and 

 Panama. 



Robert Schoch, of the M. Rice Co., 

 rotund and rosy, has returned from 

 his western trip and is greeting friends 

 at the store with his usual smile — and 

 bragging about the fine lot of good 

 orders that came his way. It does one 

 good to look at him. 



Visitors: G. Hiekenson, secretary 

 Hammond Greenhouse Co., Richmond, 

 Va.; Miss Rena Bester, Hagerstown, 

 Md.; Julius Ruzitka, New Bedford, 

 Mass.; Clifford L. Flint, San Luis 

 Obispo, Cal. 



Herman Waldecker of Bralntree. 

 Mass., sailed on the Imperator, Au- 

 gust 30, for an extended visit to his 

 old home in Germany. 



Miss Grace Goldring, daughter of 

 Fred Goldring, and Clarence E. Os- 

 trander were married at Slingerlands, 

 N. Y., on September 3. 



.John C. Young, son of W. B. Young 

 of C. Young & Sons, florists, and Miss 

 Hazel I. Lanigan. a telephone operator, 

 were married in Clayton, Mo., on Mon- 

 day, Sept. 8. 



Boston visitors: Paul Berkowitz of 

 H. Bayersdorfer & Co., Philadelphia, 

 Pa.; Wm. Anderson, So. Lancaster, 

 Mass.; Mr. Marquardt, representing 

 R. M. Ward, New York; A. E. Thatch- 

 er, Bar Harbor, Me.; Leonard Barron. 

 Garden City, N, Y.; Mr. Don, of 

 Weeber & Don, New York. 



ROBERT J. DYSART 



PUBLIC ACCOIINTANT AND AUDITOR 



Simple iiiethodH of correct accounting 



especially adapted for florists' use. 



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Mrs. Beatrice Moss, of the P Street 

 store of P. H. Kramer, Washington, D. 

 C. has returned from Ridge, Md.. 

 where she spent a very enjoyable va- 

 cation. Among the visitors in town last 

 last week were Robert Schoch, of M. 

 Rice Co., Philadelphia; Charles Mc- 

 Carthy, Boston, Mass,; and William 

 Rehder, Wilmington, N. C. 



John Etchingham of the firm of 

 Etchingham Bros., florists of Wayne, 

 Pa., severed an artery in his left wrist 

 while doing some glazing work on the 

 roof of the greenhouses. When push- 

 ing a pane of glass into its place, the 

 glass broke and his arm passed 

 through. Inflicting a cut of such depth 

 as to sever an artery. The flow was 

 stopped by Dr. E. F. Miller, of Wayne, 

 who was summoned. 



