July 30, 1910 



HORTICULTURE 



151 



BUY 



BOSTON 

 FLOWERS 



N. F. McCarthy & go., 



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 EXCHANGE, Inc. 



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38-40 BROADWAY, DETROIT, MICH. 



SOUTHERN WILD SMILAX 



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John C. Meyer & Co. 



1500 Middlesex Street, Lowell, Mass. 



Takt So Otktr. 



Flower Market Reports 



{Continued front page 149) 



the day still awaiting them — that of 

 passing away the time till another 

 day brings the same story. All admit 

 that the month has compared favor- 

 ably with former years. Another 

 week is expected to Ijring asters into 

 the market in quantities. 



The market here this 

 CINCINNATI week was exception- 

 ally good for this 

 season of the year. All kinds of 

 flowers were very scarce early in the 

 week with possible exception of 

 gladioli and lilies, which helped to re- 

 lieve the shortage of the market to 

 a considerable extent. The latter 

 part of the week found stock a little 

 more plentiful, due partly to increased 

 supply of asters, the demand cleaning 

 up the market nicely from day to day. 

 Of Lilium longiflorum and auratum 

 a good supply is forthcoming and are 

 the mainstays of the market on ac- 

 count of their keeping qualities. Lili- 

 tim speciosum are received in limited 

 quantities. Calla ethiopica nana are 

 largely in evidence in funeral work. 

 Beauties head the list in roses and 

 sell well. Some of the growers are 

 cutting nice stock from the plants 

 especially grown for summer. Tatt 

 and My Maryland are easily the lead- 

 ers in pink roses. What White Kil- 

 larney are received are very short- 

 stemmed and can only be used for 

 funeral work. Other white roses are 

 of very poor quality. The few carna- 

 tions that are seen are small and 

 poor, many having the appearance of 

 being affected by spider. Green goods 

 In fair supply and demand. 



Cut flowers are very 

 DETROIT poor and show the ef- 

 fect of hot dry weather 

 Tefy much. As predicted before, early 

 asters are a complete failure and such 

 growers as Pautke and Damerow who 

 could be interviewed on the subject 

 estimate the cash loss on seeds and 

 labor for asters alone at from $400 to 

 $600. This causes a very heavy de- 

 mand for carnations, and flowers which 

 in winter would not be looked at are 

 bringing now from $1.50 to $2.00 per 

 hundred. Robt. Klagge is now ship- 

 ping some very good Kaiserins, which 

 helps the rose situation a good deal. 

 Of cour.se there are a good many short 

 roses coming in, but they are only fit 

 for funeral designs, for which there is 

 little call. 



The past week has 



NEW YORK witnessed a radical 



change in the aspect 



of the flower market. The surpluses 



that worried and perplexed no longer 



NEW YORK QUOTATIONS PER 100. To Dealers Only 



MISCELLANEOUS 



exist and instead we see bare counters 

 and general emptiness in the whole- 

 sale marts. Roses are conspicuously 

 scarce and carnations are seldom seen. 

 This does not particularly affect mar- 

 ket values, however, as there is very 

 little urgent demand for either. The 

 most prominent feature at present is 

 the crop of longiflorum lilies which is 

 very heavy with some operators and 

 sets one to wondering at the digestive 

 powers of a market which can con- 

 sume the enormous daily cut of this 

 flower. One wholesaler, P. J. Smith, 

 for instance, is receiving from seven 

 to nine thousand blooms every day 

 and they are all disposed of. Natu- 

 i-ally the prices realized seem low in 

 comparison with the figures we have 

 come to regard as normal for lilies, 

 but it is pointed out that the flowers 

 are produced at this season of the 

 year at a fraction of the cost under 

 intensive forcing conditions in winter 

 and the net result shows a profit for 

 the grower. Cattleyas are few and 

 far between just now. The selling 

 price is what the possessor chooses to 

 make but the wholesalers generally 

 seem disposed to waive the present 

 advantage in the desire to cultivate 

 and maintain the popularity of the 

 cattleya as a standard market flower, 

 in view of the very large increase in 

 production which is assured for the 

 coming season. 



There was an im- 

 PHILADELPHIA proved tone to 



the market last 

 week — not so much because of any 

 increase in demand, but because flow- 

 ers were in shorter supply. The old 

 stocks are getting pretty well flowered 

 out and there is not much of the new 

 crops yet in evidence. Asters are im- 

 proving right along both in quantity 

 and quality. Gladioli were never finer 

 and are selling 0. K. There are some 

 right good American Beauty roses ar- 

 riving — a good many of the best being 

 new crop. There is a noticeable im- 



Last Half of Week 



ending July 23 



1910 



Cattleyas 



Llllei 



Lily ol the Valley 



Stocks 



Daisies 



Snapdragon 



Sweet Peas (per loo bchs) 



Qardenlas 



Adlantum 



Smilax 



Asparagus Plumosus, strings 



" " & Spren. (joo bchs) 



■25 

 1. 00 



• 73 

 8.00 



• 30 

 4.00 



10.00 



.50 

 2.00 

 1.50 

 15.00 



■75 



8.0a 

 35.00 



15.00 



First Half of Week 



beginning Julv 25 



1910 



■25 



1 00 

 ■73 



8.00 

 ■ 50 



4.00 



.50 



3.00 



■ ■50 



to 15.00 



to .73 



to 8.00 



to 3S^oo 



to 13.00 



provement in Richmond and Liberty 

 over the low ebb of a week or two 

 ago. Maryland is holding its own as 

 the best summer rose in pink. Kil- 

 larney and White Killarney only fair. 

 Kaiserins have improved slightly and 

 are easily the best white at present. 

 Carnations are a little better than 

 they were, but that is not saying 

 much. Cattleyas and lily of the val- 

 ley normal. Sweet peas— locals about 

 done; a few fair ones coming from 

 northern points. Gardenias are all 

 right yet — some right nice ones ar- 

 riving. Water lilies a strong feature. 



Fond du Lac, Wis.— A range of 

 houses here have been leased by Leon 

 Sawicki. 



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