August 6, 1910 



HORTICULTURE 



183 



Flower Market Reports 



{Continued front page i:Si) 



came in a little more plentifully along 

 most lilies. Beauties and other roses 

 especially more in evidence while 

 asters began to show up in earnest. 

 Unt-1 tljis writing asters have been 

 on very short stems and rather 

 unsatisfactory generally, but now the 

 stems are lengthening out and the 

 flowers are getting more nearly per- 

 fect. Kaiserins are generally off crop 

 and White Killamey is showing pink 

 from the warm weather, leaving a 

 ready market for good white asters. 

 Tuberoses are selling for 7.5 cents per 

 dozen stalks. A few peonies are still 

 seen and there are quantities of glad- 

 ioli. Carnations are as nearly out of 

 the market as they ever get. There are 

 quantities of Easter lilies. 



Business is all that 



CINCINNATI could be desired for 

 this time of the 

 year. Stock is coming in more plenti- 

 ful since last report, and moving to 

 ■good advantage. The local retailers 

 have bnen busy and this with a good 

 out-of-town demand lias helped to keep 

 the wholesaler fairly busy also. The 

 supply of Beauties is about equal to 

 the demand. Good pink and white 

 roses are cleaned up on arrival. Short 

 Toses are rnuch in evidence and sell 

 at a low figure. Gladioli are abundant 

 and of good quality; in these, light 

 shades have the call. The fancy colors 

 are mostly used for window decora- 

 tions. Lilium auratum, longiflorum 

 and speciosuni are about equal to re- 

 quirements. Hydrangea paniculata 

 ■has made its appearance and cleans 

 out at some price or other. The re- 

 ceipts of asters are very light for the 

 beginning of August and those that 

 are received are of an inferior quality 

 and bringing good prices taking the 

 -quality into consideration. There is a 

 fair sale for green goods, with an 

 ample supply. 



The month of July has 



DETROIT been the banner month, 

 being ahead of previous 

 ones by at least 60 per cent. The sup- 

 ply of flowers at present is the worst 

 ever seen. 



General business con- 



NEW YORK tinues very light in 

 the wholesale c u t- 

 flower section. Neither local nor out- 

 of-town trade has any noticeable life 

 and there is no reason to look for any 

 change in these conditions for the 

 present. American Beauty roses are 

 about equal in supply to the demand, 

 which is not saying much. The small 

 roses are all very poor and move slow- 

 ly. Asters are increasing rapidly in 

 quantity and in quality as well, there 

 being some excellent stock now in evi- 

 dence and they bring a fair price. 

 Lilies still a burden. 



Usual summer 



PHILADELPHIA conditions pre- 

 vailed here last 

 "week. Trade was rather sluggish and 

 did not pan out so well as the week 

 previous. This was notably the case 

 In the clean-up in which there was a 

 large amount of poor stock that went 

 for next to nothing — or was thrown 

 out. A good deal of the inferior stock 

 was composed of small short-stemmed 

 asters, and other out-door items. 

 Really first-class asters sold all right; 

 liut there were far too many of the 

 low grade. Good gladioli sold well 

 Ijut there were some poor ones among 



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MISCELLANEOUS 



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ending July 30 



1910 



Cattleyu 



Ullet 



Lily of the Valley 



Asters 



Daisies 



Snapdragon 



Sweet Peas (per loobchs) 



Gardenias 



Adlantum 



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these also. American Beauty roses: 

 fair demand; quality good. Not much 

 doing in Richmond and Liberty — and 

 they seem to be rather scarce. Car- 

 nations do not improve much, and 

 are selling only fair. The supply of 

 cattleyas is rather light but ap- 

 parently enough for the demand. 

 Gardenias ditto. Sweet peas, few and 

 poor. Water lilies are very good and 

 plentiful; but the demand is not extra 

 Iirisli. Among the new items noted 

 this week were: cosmos, zinnias, 

 tritonias and hydrangea heads. 



CHICAGO NOTES. 

 News of the Trade. 



The two century plants at Lincoln 

 park are blooming for the first time. 

 They were given by the late Potter 

 Palmer many years ago. 



Vaughan & Sperry had asters last 

 week, the stem of which, by actual 

 measurement, were twenty-eight 

 inches and carried proportionately 

 fine blossoms. 



O. J. Friedman had an aster win- 

 dow that was both simple and effec- 

 tive. The floor was massed and 

 three large vases holding the longest 

 stemmed asters the market afforded, 

 in harmonizing colors, occupied con- 

 spicuous places. 



There was a fire scare in the Flower 

 Growers' Market, Tuesday, when 

 flames suddenly leaped up to the 

 windows. Someone had dropped a 

 lighted cigarette from an upper win- 

 dow, igniting the awning. Manager 

 Linner soon had the blaze extin- 

 guished. 



Personal. 



Fred. Strail of Strail & Hahn, spent 

 a few days last week at his cottage 

 at Twin Lakes, Mich. 



John Kruchten has taken his 

 family to The Dells, Wis., for a 

 week's rest and recreation. 



Divorce proceedings has been start- 

 ed by Fred Stollery against his wife. 

 Both are well known florists, but the 

 Mr. Frees named is not O. W. Frese 

 in Poehlmann Bros, as your corres- 



pondent willingly states. The simi- 

 larity in the names might easily 

 cause embarrassment. 



Mrs. E. H. Hunt, president of the 

 E. H. Hunt Co., writes from the 

 Catskills that she is greatly enjoying 

 the summer's outing among the trout 

 streams. Mrs. Hunt leaves for Old 

 Hadley, Mass., this week. 



Mrs. Kochman. who operates the 

 stoie known as the Walter Kreitliug 

 floral store has been in the florists 

 business in Chicago twenty-seven 

 years Walter Kreitling was her 

 brother and since his death seven 

 years ago she has continued the busi- 

 ness which is in the Chicago Club 

 building. 



Visitors— Mrs. H. C. Hinchliff. Ra- 

 cine, Wis.; Robt. Newcomb, Brisbie, 

 Arizona. 



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