December 6, 1913 



HORTICULTUKE 



785 



Flower Market Reports 



The market here is sus- 

 BOSTON taining itself nicely. 

 Chrysanthemums are rap- 

 idly passing and the receipts of other 

 staples are not heavy. Carnations are 

 in rather light supply and bringing 

 better prices. Roses are enjoying a 

 good strong call, maintaining pub- 

 lished quotations with pleasing regu- 

 larity. As to Beauties, the story has 

 been as witli other roses up to present 

 time, but there are now some evi- 

 dences of cutting shipping rates on 

 this specialty by dealers in other mar- 

 kets and some unsteadiness is noted 

 as we go to press. Violets are scarce 

 — that is, the singles. Of the doubles 

 there are not many but they are too 

 many at that. Cattleyas are scarce 

 but this market does not take kindly 

 to any serious advance in price on 

 that account, so they stay at old fig- 

 ures. 



There were four very 

 BUFFALO busy days in last week 



and in which a gooQ 

 quantity of flowers was consumed, es- 

 pecially chrysanthemums. It almost 

 cleaned up all the growers had. 

 While prices were not advanced to any 

 great extent the sales were more in 

 quantity and prices were within the 

 reach of every one. There was • a 

 shortage in roses also colored carna- 

 tions. White carnations had no call. 

 Beauties were scarce early in the week 

 and the price quoted a sharp advance 

 but there was no demand, consequent- 

 ly the finest Beauties which have been 

 seen for some time remained with 

 the wholesaler and were carried along 

 as an item on hand. Violets have had 

 very little demand. Many dealers are 

 not even handling them as there was 

 no call. 



Chicago market is liter- 

 CHICAGO ally under a cloud. Not 



a ray of sunshine for 

 many days, but continued fog. mist or 

 rain, and nothing better promised by 

 the weather bureau. Roses are feeling 

 the need of a change for they are apt 

 to be kept too warm in the attempt to 

 ward off mildew. The Christmas sup- 

 ply is causing considerable anxiety to 

 the growers, but there is no accumula- 

 tion left over from day to day. trade 

 keeping up quite well, Violets are 

 away down at this writing. Dec. 3, 

 singles coming in ruined by the wet 

 weather, and doubles, though many 

 very good, finding no demand the past 

 two days. Carnations are holding up 

 well as to price and so far quality has 

 not suffered so much as might have 

 been expected, but a change in weath- 

 er conditions would be a great relief 

 at this time. Some large chrysanthe- 

 mums and a few pompons are about 

 all that are left in this line. The mar- 

 ket has a larger proportion of white 

 flowers this week than is desirable. 



Thanksgiving b u s i- 

 NEW YORTK ness as a whole, was 



quite satisfactory to 

 everybody. There was a suflicient sup- 

 ply of about everything to fill all de- 

 mands. Top Beauty roses sold up to 

 50 cents. Lower grades were not so 

 plentiful and cleaned up well. All col- 



Killarney 

 Brilliant 



Probably no Rose has won the laurels 

 this Rose has — silver medals, certificates, 

 honors, wherever shown. The best commer- 

 cial Rose of the future. 



OWN BOOT. ?30.00 per 100, $250.00 per 1000. 

 CRAFTED. $30.00 per 100, $300.00 per 1000. 



(iB.\rTING EYES. .$200.00 per 1000, Janu- 

 ary delivery. 

 Special Quotations on larger quantities. 



MATCHLESS. The peerless White Carna- 

 tion for 1!I14. Rooted Cuttings, $12.00 per 

 100, $100.00 per 1000. 



VAtLET. Special, $4.00 per 100. Extra, 

 $3.00 per 100. 



per 



HEADQUARTERS FOR GREENS 



Lycopodium. $10,00 per 100 lbs. 



Hardy Dagirer Ferns. Best quality, 



large fronds, $1.50 per 1000. 

 Wild Sniila.v. $5.00 per case. 

 Cut Hrniloclt. $2.50 per bundle. 

 Green Sheet Moss. $3.50 per bag. 

 Smilax. 20c. and 25c. per string. 

 Asparagus Strings. 50c. each. 

 .Asparagus and Sprengeri bundles. 50c. 



each. 

 Spliagnum Moss. Burlapped, 10-bbl. 



bales, $3,75 each; 5-bale lots, $3.50 



each ; 10-bale lots, $3,25 each. 



Boxwood. $S.00 per case of 50 lbs. 

 Galax, bronze and green. $1.00 



1000; $7.50 per case of 10.000. 

 Natural Magnolia Leaves. $1.00 per 100 ; 



.$7.50 per 1000. 

 Bronze and Green Mahonla. $1.50 per 



lOO; .1:12.50 per 1000. 

 Leucothoe, green and bronze. $1.00 per 



100; $7..50 per 1000. 

 Mexican Iv.v. $1.00 per 100; $7.50 per 



lOCK). 

 Laurel Boping, Extra heavy. $6.00 per 



100 yards. 



BIBBOSS iVND SUPPLIES. Many new patterns in exclusive ribbons. If you have 

 not .vet received one of our new catalogues, advise us at once and we will mail 

 you a copy, 



BUSINESS HOURS, FROM 7.30 A. M. TO 6 P. M. 



S. S. PENNOCK-MEEHAN CO. 



The Wholesale Florists of Philadelphia 



PHIL.\DELPHIA NEW YOBK BALTIMOBE 



1G08-103O Ludlow St. 117 West 28th St. Franklin & St. Paul Sts. 



WASHINGTON 1216 H. St. N. W. 



In Writing Advertisers Kindly Mention HORTICULTURE. 



90Av.^'<* 



WHOLESALE FLOWER MARKETS — "^"^ """^^ll^M.^NLy 



PMILA. 



December a 



Roses 



Am. Beauty, Special 



" " Fancy and Extra. 



No. I. 



December 4 



ST. LOUfS 



December 



3<i.oo to 



30.CX> to 



j 10.00 to 



Killarney, Ejctra 1 6.00 to 



" Ordinary , 3.00 to 



Richmond, Hillingdoo, Extra ■ 6.00 to 



*' " Ordinary ' 3.00 to 



Maryland, Ward, Taft, Sunburst, Extra 8.00 to 



*' " " " Ordinary 3.00 to 



Russell , Shawyer to 



Camatioois, Fancy 3-00 to 



" Ordinary 1.50 to 



Cattleyas 40.00 to 



Cvpripediuus I to 



unes, LoDgiflorum i 6.00 to 



Callas ; to 



U)y of the Valley ' -'.oo to 



Paper Whites, Kom&n Hyacinths ., ; to 



Freesias 1 to 



Chrysanthmums 8 .00 to 20.00 



Violets 75 to 1. 00 



Daisies to 1.00 



Sweet Peas to i .00 



Gardenias j 25.00 to BS'OO 



Adisntum .75 to x .00 



Smilax I 10.00 to ia.oo 



Aspantgus Plmnosus, Soing^ (xoo) \ i6-<>° ^^ 50-00 



" " & Spren. (100 Bdi».) I 2o.«» to 30.00 



I2.00 

 5.00 



16.00 

 6.00 



20.00 

 4.00 

 3.00 



50.00 

 15.00 

 8.00 

 12.00 

 4.00 

 3.00 



35.00 



xS.oo 



6.00 

 4.00 



to 



to 



5.00 to 



to 40.00 



to 20.00 



to 15.00 



to 10.00 



5.00 



I2.00 



6.00 

 10.00 



1. 00 



12.00 

 3S-00 

 15.00 



1-25 



i5.cx> 

 50.00 

 25.00 



30.00 

 15-00 



5.00 



8.00 

 3.00 



25.00 



12.50 



■75 

 15.00 

 35.00 

 3500 



to 

 to 



to 50.00 



ored roses were in brisk demand espe- 

 cially. Tlie surprise was in tlie big 

 receipts of violets and carnations. Col- 

 ored carnations sold at excellent 

 prices but. as usual at this time, white 

 ones were a burden and the owners 

 ought to be mighty well pleased that 



they finished up even as well as they 

 did. The retail stores, wlien closing 

 up time came, were still overloaded 

 with white carnations, white chrysan- 

 themums, white roses, stevia, paper 

 whites, lilies, etc. Lily of the valley 



(Continued on fiagf 7S7) 



