August 5, 1905 



H ORTI CULTURE 



CUT-FLOWER MARKET REPORTS 



The shortening up of receipts 

 BOSTON has helped the flower market 

 materially. There is no heavy 

 business on and no more stock is needed 

 than is in evidence. A little enquiry for 

 Beauty roses is noted. Carnations run very 

 small in size and but few good ones are seen. 

 .Asters are beginning to accumulate and 

 prices are scaling down. The early crop 

 of these is very much better than in any 

 previous year. 



During the past two weeks 

 BUFFALO a fair amount of business has 

 been done and the increased 

 demand helped to stiffen up prices somewhat. 

 Lilies, carnations, and out-door flowers 

 moved satisfactorily, and the glut on roses 

 seems to be about over, .\sters have found 

 an excellent reception at good prices. Smil- 

 ax and other green stock are in over-supply. 

 Conditions have changed but 

 CHICAGO slightly during the past week. 

 Roses are coming in more 

 briskly, especially the young stock. .Ameri- 

 can Beauties are more plentiful and in good 

 demand. Richmond Gem is appearing in 

 light quantities. Most of the growers have 

 thrown out their old stock of carnations and 

 are now replanting their benches, conse- 

 quently, the majority of carnations in market 

 are field-grown. But these, as well as asters, 

 and all other out -door plants, show the effect 

 of the heavy rains that have been abundant 

 of late. Lilies, both auratum and Harrisii, 

 are to be had in moderate quantity, the 

 latter being especially fine. Sweet peas are 

 nearing the end, the best bringing fifty cents 

 per hundred. 



Scarcity of flowers and 

 CINCINNATI still greater scarcity of 

 orders are the character- 

 istics of the market at present. Good carna- 

 tions and roses are not impossible to obtain, 

 but there are very few of them. Gladioli 

 and asters are the most satisfactory items in 

 the Ust. 



There is Uttle de- 

 INDLANAPOLIS mand for the abun- 

 dant stock with which 

 the market is supplied and the buyer can 

 make his own price. Asters brought from 

 $}. to $5. per thousand. A few good roses 

 are in evidence; also gladioli and tuberose 

 stalks; green goods of all kinds are plenti- 

 ful. 



Business conditions last 

 LOUISVILLE week were very favorable. 

 Carnations are no longer 

 demanded to any great extent. Roses sell 

 well, are of good quality, and there is 

 an abundant supply. Asters have been 

 welcomed. They can be had in satisfactory 

 quantities, the quality being up to expecta- 

 tions, and the demand very good. The 

 weather has been very warm. 



The florists of Newport are 

 NEWPORT working these days. The 

 season is on in full blast — 

 balls and dinners nearly every night. One last 

 week given by Mrs. Fish had some startling 

 innovations in the decorations. Hodgson 

 had the work and it was well done. Affairs 

 like this gladden the hearts'^of the florists, 

 of improvised ball rooms by 

 s in Newport necessitates the 



use of large numbers of ])lanls in executing 

 their .schemes of decoration; but it is whin 

 garlands of roses are strung to the roof and 

 side walls are hidden with flowers that tin- 

 decorator smiles the broadest and works thi- 

 harde.st. The season may be short but it 

 is certainly a hummer while it lasts. 



The cut from vouiig roses 

 NEW YORK is making an' imiMvssion 



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liniil.-<l and wi-ak market. With the atlvcnl 

 of August, le.ss maybe expected of its power 

 to use up the amount of stock which we are 

 likely to have. Asters are sufficiently plenti- 

 ful to affect the sale of roses. There an- 

 few carnations, but more than usual for the 

 season. The volume of business is small 

 at best. 



There is but little of a special 

 PHILA- nature to report in regard in 

 DELPHIA the market the past week. 



A few more growers hav<' 

 been sending in new crop Beauties, and 

 Liberties still remain of fair quahty con- 

 sidering the season. Kaiserinsare also good, 

 but Brides and Bridesmaids are only medium. 

 The carnation market is dull and featureless 

 with stock at a low ebb as to quality, and the 

 demand corresponding. Lily of the valley 

 has been plentiful and of good quality; de- 

 mand for same good. .A.sters are now a 

 .strimg feature of the market, the Xiilori.i 

 tvpe in pink, blue, and white taking the- 

 lead. Dahlias are earlier than usual lliis 

 year and are improving in i|ualily as llir 

 more desirable varieties become .ivailable 

 Sweet peas, water lilies, gladioli, and various 

 other summer subjects are plentiful and 

 bring fair returns. The market as a whole 

 is in the doldrums, but a good trade wind 

 will he here very soon now to move Ihiiif^'s 

 along. 



The smart trade a. livilv 

 SAN prevailing this mid-sum 



FRANCISCO mer season is a mattn 

 of general comment. All 

 agree that there has been no July dropping 

 off in business this year. The three or foui 

 days of bhstering temperature during tin 

 first week of the month were imnieiliali l\ 

 followed by perfect weather, the good cffei is 

 of which arc displayed in the iniprovrd 

 (|uahty of the flowers being marketed, ami 

 for the critical demand, there is an abuii 

 dance of good flowers showing none of llu 

 effects of the heated term. The better 

 class of .American Beauties are in gnoi! 

 demand. Gladioli and asters are coming 

 in freely. The double sunflower .seems to 

 have caught the popular fancy as never 

 before and they are used for show window 

 and vestibule decoration, flowers on six to 

 seven-foot stalks preferred. It is rejjorted 

 that the King of Italy has appUed t(j Luther 

 Burbank for information regarding the 

 blooming cactus that has no thorns. 



A. f^euthv of Roslindale, Mass., arrivic 

 at Dover, England, on S. S. Finland, Jul; 



Inclosed find an order for one dollar iur 

 HoRTfCtTLTUHE. Am very much pleased 

 with it. I like it for the illu.strations more 

 than anything else, as a good illustrated 

 fl<iral magazine is hard to find. - |. S. 



J.A.BUDL0NG 



37-39 Randolph Street, CHICAGO 



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