May 18, 1918 



HORTICULTURE 



495 



Flower Market Reports 



(Continued from page JflS) 



material. Of the standard things that 

 are always with us perhaps the roses 

 are doing the best of any. There are 

 plenty of them but they usually man- 

 age to clean up at some price, which 

 cannot be said of the lilies, callas, 

 sweet peas, snapdragons, lily of the 

 valley and cattleyas. 



The early antici- 

 PHILADELPHIA pations for Moth- 

 ers' Day week 

 were not realized. Up to Wednesday 

 prices kept firm, but after that, sup- 

 plies came in with such a rush the 

 market went all to pieces. "Fifty" 

 stock in carnations on Wednesday 

 went down to "ten" on Thursday, and 

 to "five" and less on Friday and Sat- 

 urday. That tells the story in a nut- 

 shell. Who is to blame? The weather, 

 the war, the woman or the jinx? 

 Hard to tell. Probably a combination 

 of all tour. This of course applies to 

 "Mothers' Day flower, the carnation," 

 but conditions were below the aver- 

 age in roses and other flowers, of 

 which there were too many. There 

 was no great break in prices on regu- 

 lar trade,_ but a good deal of surplus 

 was held over that could not be 

 moved. 



The Mothers' 

 ROCHESTER. N. Y. day trade was 

 very good al- 

 though business was held back by 

 the unpleasant weather and most of 

 It had to be done on Saturday with 

 the Rochester street railroad strike 

 on, which made business very diffi- 

 cult. The chief demand was on car- 

 nations which were plentiful and 

 good, although roses and assorted 

 flowers sold well. There is some out- 

 door bulbous stock, but the quality is 

 very poor. There is an abundance of 

 sweet peas and lilies, also some very 

 good snapdragon, cattleyas and baby 

 gladiolus. Good plants of spirea, 

 rambler roses, hydrangea and rhodo- 

 dendron sold well for Mothers' Day 

 trade. 



Mothers' Day was a 

 ST. LOUIS good one notwithstand- 

 i n g the inclement 

 weather, Saturday an all day drizzling 

 rain and Sunday down pour. Flowers 

 were plentiful. Carnations and roses 

 sold at slightly advanced prices. 

 Southern cape jessamines came in and 

 sold from 75c to $4 per 100. 



Mothers' Day 

 WASHINGTON business exceeded 

 a 1 1 expectations. 

 Carnations came into the market in 

 enormous quantities but the added de- 

 mand caused them to be cleaned up. 

 The prices ran from $,5 to $10 per 

 himdred at wholesale, the stores mak- 

 ing sales at from $1 to $3 per dozen. 

 The higher prices caused criticism 

 from the people who could not see 

 the need for an increase within the 

 week of several hundred per cent. 

 Some of the stores held their prices 

 down to $1 a dozen and that price pre- 

 vailed largely in the Center Market 

 stands. Klllarneys sold well and 

 Hadleys brought good prices. Ameri- 

 can Beauties are scarce. Peonies have 

 made their appearance along with 



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"A IBAOBR IS TAB WHOLBSilB GOMHUSIO!! TRADE FOR OVER THIRTI IBARS '" 

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



118 West 28th St. IME\A^ VORK r^^^^»T^f%>u 



NEW YORK QUOTATIONS PER 100. To Dealers Only 



MISCELLANEOUS 



CatUeru 



Lilies, Lonififlorum- 

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CalUa 



Lily of th« Valley 



SnapdrwoD 



Gladioli 



Pansies 



Daffodil! 



Tulips 



Calendula ' 



Stocks 



Wall Flowers 



Mignonette ■ 



Sweet Peas 



Marguerites 



Gardenias. 



Adiantum 



Smilax 



Aaparaffus Plomosoa. & Sprem (loo bunches) . 



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WE WANT MORE SHIPPERS 



W« hBTe « Dumeroui cUcDtac* of New York City buyer* and tb» da 

 •a*d* onr ■opply. TbU U eapcolally true of Ro«r*. We have erery facility aB4 

 abondant meaDa and beat retorna are aaaared for atock conalgned to ua. 



Addreaa Tour Sblpmenta to 



UNITED CUT FLOWER CO. Inc. 



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



D. J. Pappaa, Praa. 



Baby gladiolus. Sweet peas sell well. 

 Cattleyas are excellent, gigas having 

 just arrived. 



NEW CORPORATIONS. 



Butte, Mont. Columbia Floral Com- 

 pany, capital stock, $10,000. Incor- 

 porators, C. R. Leonard, A. C. Wil- 

 helm and N. F. Leonard. 



"T. N. McCloskey, Inc.," of the Bor- 

 ough ot Queens, New York City, has 

 been chartered to carry on the florist's 

 business, with a capital of $10,000. 

 The directors are Elizabeth R. Mc- 

 Closkey and Frank Fellhauer of Rich- 

 mond Hill. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Sergeant John H. Earl and Corpor- 

 al Douglas Earl, bade good bye to 

 their folks at Camp Upton on the 

 4th inst, and are now on their way 

 across the water. John has been as- 

 signed as second Lieutenant and will 

 receive his commission on his ar- 

 rival on the other side. 



They call him "Judge" now, when 

 they meet Howard M. Earl. He re- 

 ceived his appointment from the Gov- 

 ernor of Pennsylvania on May 8th as 

 a justice of the peace for Bucks 

 ('runty. Pa. As a comeback he tells 

 all those would-be witty old bachelors 

 (of the Bellevue-Stratford and other 

 gay and festive centers of the Rialto) 

 that he will marry them off at half 

 price if they will drive out to Doyles- 

 town with the fair and fond enamor- 

 nta at any hour of the day or night. 

 A word to the thrifty. 



BUSINESS TROUBLES. 

 Thomas J. Clark, Inc., Boston, pe- 

 tition in bankruptcy; liabilities $2,922; 

 assets $1,400. 



R. W. Macnlff, horticultural auc- 

 tioneer and dealer in seeds and poul- 

 try supplies on Vesey street, New 

 York City, has had a petition in bank- 

 ruptcy filed against him. His liabili- 

 ties are stated to be about $40,000, 

 and assets about $15,000. Failure to 

 get his Holland goods for last fall 

 sales is the reason ascribed for the em- 

 barrassment. 



William Elliott & Sons, seedsmen. 

 New York City, are financially em- 

 barrassed. At a preliminary meeting 

 ot the largest creditors recently a 

 committee was appointed to super- 

 vise and investigate the business. A 

 meeting of the creditors was then 

 called for Wednesday of this week at 

 the office of Joseph T. Brown, Jr., to 

 hear the report of the committee and 

 take such action as may be deemed 

 best to conserve the interests of all 

 concerned. This is one of the old es- 

 tablished seed houses of New York, 

 originally doing business as Young & 

 Elliott and conducting a plant auc- 

 tion business as an adjunct. 



HENTZ & NASH, Inc. 



WhQlesale Commision Florists 



55 and 57 We*t26th Street 



Telephone No. 755 ^^W YORK 



Farraffut 



