April 6, 1918 



HORTICULTURE 



351 



Pbwer Market Reports 



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somewhat short of requirements. Since 

 Easter business has been fair and 

 supply is good. Roses are rather light 

 but the few that are coming in are of 

 good quality. Carnations are in a 

 heavy supply. Outdoor bulbous stock 

 is now coming in and taking the 

 place of the forced stock. Excellent 

 lily of the valley and orchids may be 

 had and both of these sold very well 

 tor Easter. Sweet peas generally find 

 a good market. Other offerings are 

 snapdragon, mignonette and pansies. 



This market was ful- 

 NEW YORK ly supplied with 



about everything in 

 the cut flower line for the Easter de- 

 mand with the exception of lilies 

 which, as had been foreseen for some 

 time, were far short of requirements. 

 'Callas, on account of the lily scarcity 

 sold clean at advanced prices. The 

 sales earlier in the week were very 

 moderate even the expected call for 

 white and red roses for Holy Thursday 

 being quite insignificant and, with the 

 warm weather pushing things along 

 the supply accumulated for the Satur- 

 day and Sunday business was lieavy on 

 everything except the lilies as already 

 stated. Stock in general was of ex- 

 cellent quality, prices were advanced 

 but little and a tremendous business 

 was done in every section of the city 

 and suburbs. The fine variety of 

 sweet peas offered was especially 

 notable. Carnations were somewhat 

 in excess and there were quite a 

 few of the lower grades left over to 

 be sold for a song on Monday or 

 thrown away. Altogether both retail- 

 ers and wholesalers were agreeably 

 surprised at tlie lively demand and 

 enormous quantity of flowers disposed 

 of and all express much satisfac'ion. 

 Ideal weather and more hopeful news 

 from the theatre of war were influenc- 

 ing factors in malting this a generally 

 ■satisfactory Easter for the florist. The 

 retailer was inclined to be conserva- 

 tive in his buying but evidently be- 

 came aware that the public wanted 

 ■flowers and bought quite liberally. 

 Roses were in good demand. Beauties. 

 Hadleys and Ophelias especially, but 

 nearly all the good roses found an 

 outlet and for the best grades a satis- 

 factory price prevailed. Beauties sell- 

 ing around 60 cents for the longest, 

 with Hadley as an equal favorite and 

 it is reported that this rose brought 

 more than the Beauty, where flower 

 and stem was of top grade. Some es- 

 pecially fine stock of Ophelia realized 

 25 cents. Orchids and gardenias were 

 in good demand but probably the most 

 popular flowers were sweet peas, all 

 first-class stock of which cleaned up. 

 Snapdragon was not desired and much 

 •of it was left over. A ready sale was 

 found for desirable colors in iris. 

 Daisies, pansies and other small flow- 

 ers sold only fairly well. Bulbous 

 stock cleaned up and good tulips and 

 Victoria, Spur and Emperor dafodils 

 were In demand late in the (-ay, 

 though they had been dragging all 

 the week long. All Easter plants sold 

 well and at good prices. Thf plant 



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"A LEADER H TSB WH9LeSlLB OMVIISSIOI TKADB FOR OVER TBIRTI TEARS" 



Have a demand for viore than I can supply. Rose Growers Call or Write. 



TELEPHONES 

 Farrasut 161 and SOU 



118 West 28th St. IME:\A/ YORK 



NEW YORK QUOTATIONS PER 100. To Dealers Only 



MISCELLANEOUS 



CattleTaa ■ • • 



Lilieft, Longiflorum' • 



Lilies, Specioium 



Iri* 



Calla. 



LUy of the Valley 



Snapdragoo 



Gladioli 



Pansies 



Freesia 



Narcis. Paper White 



Roman Hyacinths 



Daffodils 



Tulips 



Calendula 



5tockft 



Wall Flowers 



Mignonette 



Sw^eet Peas 



Marinierites 



Gardeniast 



Adiantum 



Smilax 



Asparagus Plumosus. A Spren (loo bunches) . 



WE WANT MORE SHIPPERS 



W* bare a Dumernui clIrataKe of New York City buyers and the deniKBd es- 

 eeed* oor aupply. This Is eapreUIIy tme of Rotei. We have every facility and 

 abDDdaDt meana and beat returoa are aiaured for atock conalKned to ua. 



UNITED 



Addreas Tear Sblpmenta to 



CUT FLOWER 



1 1 1 W. 28th St., NEAV YORK 



CO. Inc. 



D. J. Pappaa, Prea. 



Bosfon Floral Supply Co. 



341-S£7 Cambrldee 6t., Bostoa 



HeiKlquartera for 



CTCA8, BASKETS, WIRE DESIGNS 



and WA.X FLOWERS 



Send for price Mat If you bave not re- 

 ceived one. 



growers were completely cleaned out 

 on everything salable early in the 

 week and very jubilant in consequence 

 but we are sorry to say that many of 

 them lost heavily by not being able to 

 have their stock far enough advanced. 



The Easter trade 

 PHILADELPHIA in this city was 



better than the 

 most hopeful of us could have expect- 

 ed. This was largely owing — not to 

 increased demand, but on account of 

 the fine weather. Supplies in every 

 line were smaller for two reasons — 

 namely, the war conditions and the 

 very severe winter. So that, while the 

 trade was not so enormous as in or- 

 dinary seasons, it was enough to 

 clean up everything in sight. There 

 were no big profits, neither were there 

 any big losses. The weather gods 

 were certainly kind to us for once. 

 This sunmiing up applies to both cut 

 flowers and plants. 



Easter trade was 

 ROCHESTER extra good. Roses 



were very scarce, so 

 much so that it was necessary to sub- 

 stitute other flowers. Fine weather 

 brought a great demand for flowers, 

 but the. supply was insufficient Car- 



RCED (SL KELLER 



123 West 25th St.. New York 



Florists' Supplies 



We manufiH-turf nil our 



««tal DssiEns, Baskets, Wire Werk & Novelties 



and itn- de.ilers iu 



Ueooratlve Glassware, tirowors ftn«l 



FlorietN' KtHjuiNiteN 



nations were very good, also violets 

 and freesia. The fuelless days in. the 

 winter are largely to blame for the 

 scarcity of lilies and callas. both of 

 which brought high prices. Azaleas 

 were very scarce, but tulips, hya- 

 cinths, daffodils and cinnerarias were 

 plentiful. 



With real spring weath- 

 ST. LOUIS er Easter business was 



good, wholesalers and 

 retailers agree. Lilies were scarce. 

 Sweet peas were short also. Greens 

 sold well and blooming plants had a 

 heavy call. 



VISITORS' REGISTER 



Albany, N. Y.— Patrick Welch, Bos- 

 ton, Mass. 



Philadelphia— Albert Seidewitz, Bal- 

 timore, Md.; Wm. Comfort, Grosse Pt., 

 Mich. 



Chicago — Ralph Roth, So. Pasadena. 

 Calif.; A. L. Glaser, Dubuque, Iowa; 

 D. Vogt, Coldwater, Mich.; .Tames Mc- 

 Hutchison and Mrs. McHutchisoin, New 

 York City, and Miss Emily Edgar, 

 Waverley. Mass. 



