June 1, 191S 



HORTICULTURE 



541 



Flower Market Reports 



The flower market here 

 BOSTON is in a most unusual con- 

 dition for Memorial Day 

 week. The outdoor flowers usually 

 abundant for this occasion are already 

 gone by. The indoor flowers which 

 generally fill a large place tor the Me- 

 morial demand are backward because 

 of the winter's retarding; white carna- 

 tions swamp the market as never be- 

 fore and the shipments of peonies from 

 Pennsylvania and other points south 

 are beyond all precedent. So the mar- 

 ket is surfeited with white carnations 

 and peonies while bright colored mate- 

 rial is well cleaned up and the volume 

 of business done has outstripped in 

 all probability that of any previous 

 Memorial Day trade. The call has 

 been heavy from all over Xew Eng- 

 land and New York state and the ex- 

 press companies have had a big hustle. 

 Prices have not advanced materially 

 beyond what might be called normal 

 figures, although they are somewhat 

 highef than quoted during the con- 

 gested period of the past two weeks. 

 There are quantities of astilbe, fever- 

 few, stocks, etc., specially forced for 

 the occasion but the preponderance (.i 

 white material is a bad overweight and 

 a clean-up on this class of material is 

 evidently out of the question. 



The wholesale flower 

 NEW YORK market here is in a 



very chaotic condition 

 still, with heavy supplies coming in 

 and an insufficient outlet for even a 

 fraction of it. Naturally there is much 

 disappointment for the growers, whose 

 income from the present crop is cut 

 far below what they had reason to 

 count upon receiving. Wholesale deal- 

 ers are in a similar quandary. The 

 heaviest shipments just now are peo- 

 nies which are actually coming in by 

 tons from all sections and for which 

 demand is totally inadequate. Receipts 

 of roses and carnations are also out of 

 all proportion to the outlet and, re- 

 gardless of the Memorial Day call, 

 have to be sold, if sold at all, in quan- 

 tity at very low sacrifice figures. It is 

 distressing to think of the congestion 

 here while other places not very dis- 

 tant are really short of the material 

 which is stagnated here. The lack of 

 proper transportation facilities is 

 largely the cause of this abnormal sit- 

 uation. 



last week was 

 PHILADELPHIA nothing to brag 

 aliout. In fact, 

 according to one of the big whole- 

 salers, it was one of the most disas- 

 trous we have ever experienced. The 

 supplies were enormous and the de- 

 mand very poor. The same authority 

 said: — "that is one of the after-claps 

 of a short supply of coal during the 

 winter. Belated crops come in with a 



S. S. PENNOCKJCOMPANY 



TK<» Wholesale 

 •1 1**5 Florists of 



Philadelphia 



NEW YORK 

 1 1 7 W. 28th St. 



PHILADELPHIA BALTIMORE 



1 e08- 1 620 Ludlow St Franklin & St Paul St*. 



WASHINGTON. 1 2 1 6 H. St, N. W. 



WHOLESALE FLOWER MARKETS - 



TRADE 



PRICES — Per 100 



TO DEALERS ONLY 



Roaes 



Am. Beauty, Special 



" *' Fancy and ELxtra 



" " No, I and culls 



Russell, Euler, Mock 



Hadley 



Arenberg, Hoosicr Beauty 



Ward 



Killaniey, Radiance, Taft 



Ophelia, Sunburst, Hillingdon 



Caraatioiu 



C«ttlerM 



Lilies, LoBgiflorum 



Lilies, Speciosum 



Iris 



Callas 



U\r of the Valley 



Snapdrason 



Gladioli ■ 



Pansies- 



Peonies ■ 



Tulips 



Calendula 



Stocks 



Wall Flowers 



Miffnonette 



Sweet Peas 



Marvuerites 



GarJenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax 



AfparaffDsPla. ASpren. (looBhs.) 



CINCINNATI 



May 27 



CHICAGO 



May to 



BUFFALO 



May 17 



PITTSBURG 



May 13 



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rush and swamp the spring business." 

 We believe this is very true, and on 

 top of that comes the early spring 'of 

 this year, rushing in the outdoor 

 flowers on top of the already oversup- 

 ply. Regular business could liardly 

 be seen in the avalanche of wagon- 

 load stuff that was everywhere going 

 out on the street — for a son?, — from 

 Thursday till Saturday. 



Stock is abundant 

 ROCHESTER and little activity 



has been noticed for 

 more than a week, as is always the 

 case when outdoor flowers bake 

 their first big appearance. The chief 

 demand has l)een plant bedding stock 

 of which an unusual quantity has been 

 disposed of, at least a week or ten 

 days earlier than common. Carnations 

 are in abundance. Roses are 



very plentiful and are cleared at 

 buyers' price in box lots. A few 

 peonies have made their appearance 

 and with a few good days should be 

 plentiful. 



Peonies hampered 

 WASHINGTON the sale of all oth- 

 er cut flowers dur- 

 ing the past week. They came in 

 earlier this year than was desired and 

 the fear was expressed that the:\^ 

 would not be sufiicient for Memorial 

 Day sales. The placing of huge 

 quantities in cold storage and in- 

 creased production changed conditions 

 Carnations and roses are getting 

 smaller and undesirable. Lily of the 

 valley is poor. Sweet peas are nearl / 

 off the market. Business is. good and 

 there has been no slackening up as 

 yet. 



