December 23, 



MORTICULTURE 



VICTORY 



THE BEST SCARLET CARNATION— Is a Fancy in the fullest sense of the word 

 Flower Market Reports. 



Christmas supply and 

 BOSTON Christmas prices all hang 

 upon the weather problem. 

 During the week the air has been balmy 

 as May. and bright sunlight has been 

 pushing things along at a rapid rate, 

 but at present writing a gloomy storm 

 of rain and mist prevails. Carna- 

 tions are strong and bid fair to 

 hold their own as far as colored vari- 

 eties are concerned. Violets are show- 

 ing evidences of weakness. Lower 

 values are freely predicted for the 

 wind-up. Last year violets made a 

 good record and maintained their price 

 throughout. American Beauty experts 

 seem undecided as to what the next 

 few days holds tor them. One hundred 

 dollars per 100 is the limit of certainty, 

 but the market is likely to be tested 

 on a twenty-five per cent, advance over 

 this figure. Other roses are also in the 

 doubtful column as to how high the 

 maximum price for choice material 

 may be pushed, but the $12 to $16 limit 

 is where most of the shipping trade, 

 and much of the local trade will take 

 its stand. 



Cut flower trade very 

 BUFFALO quiet since last report, 

 especially oil violets and 

 Beauties, violets dropping off in de- 

 mand, and a good many having to be 

 moved at low figures. Carnations move 

 readily and quality is excellent. Select 

 roses are somewhat scarce, and prices 

 are moving upward. Lily of the valley, 

 Romans, narcissi and other flowers 

 are coming in rapidly. 



Business conditions 

 LOUISVILLE the previous week 

 were about up to 

 expectations, however stock was hard 

 to get at the right price. Carnations 

 are heavily demanded, and the quality 

 is good but the supply is not adequate. 

 The demand and supply of roses is 

 normal, while the quality is good. 

 Violets have had an unusually good 

 demand, and are very scarce. Mig- 

 nonettes, lilies of the valley, bulbous 



Choice Stock for Xmas 



IN QUANTITY 

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Stock, etc., meet with a satisfactory 

 demand. Undoubtedly Christmas will 

 be up to expectations. The supply of 

 plants will be good, but cut flowers in 

 some lines will be very scarce. 



This market is, at the 

 NEW YORK present time, sparingly 

 supplied with Bride, 

 Bridesmaid and red roses; the latter 

 is in light supply because of natural 

 conditions, — other roses largely be- 

 cause of the cutting out by the grow- 

 ers of stock that will keep until Satur- 

 day or Sunday. Carnations are more ' 

 plentiful than roses, but price holds 

 steady on good sorts. Violet shipments 

 are lighter. Harrisii lilies have been 

 selling well and retain the advance in 

 price made during the past ten days. 

 Lily of the valley, hyacinths, paper 

 whites, stevia and green goods are 

 seen in every wholesale house, but do 

 not meet with ready sale. The general 

 demand for cut flowers is not by any 

 means brisk, but that is usual the week 

 preceding Christmas. Weather condi- 

 tions favor a good supply of carna- 

 tions, American Beauties and bulbous 

 stock, and a fair supply of small roses 

 except red. There does not seem to 

 be any question as to whether there 

 will be enough violets to go around; 

 there ought to be suflicient. 



Trading was fairly ac- 

 PHILA- five the past week, with 

 DELPHI A prices generally station- 

 ary at the advance noted 

 in our last report. Although there 

 was no drop in quotations, there was 

 quite a bit of the lower grade stocks 

 left without takers at the wind-up. 

 Friday and Saturday were stormy and 

 hurt some. The outlook for the 

 Christmas trade is good, and no 

 scarcity of stocks is anticipated unless 

 it may be in red roses. Even these 

 promise to be in better supply than 

 last year. In red carnations no scarci- 

 ty is looked for. as there are fine crops 

 coming in of Bliss, Crane, Crusader 

 and Flamingo. In crimson there will 

 be plenty of Harry Fenn, etc. Other 

 lines normal and without special fea- 

 tures calling for comment. 



Business in Toledo has 

 TOLEDO been going on in the usual 



way, Christmas bells and 

 holly and other greens filling the stores 

 and windows. Poinsettias, cyclamens, 

 primulas, azaleas and some Gloire de 

 Lorraine begonias help to make win- 

 dows gay and attract buyers, and the 

 outlook for a good Christmas business 

 is very promising. It is strange, in- 

 deed, that other business houses, such 

 as grocers and dry goods stores here 

 are the first to decorate their stores 

 and offer for sale such strictly florists' 

 goods as holly, wreathing, etc.. and in 

 this way take the cream of the milk, 



WHOLESALE QUOTATIONS ON 

 CHRISTMAS PLANTS. 



PHILADELPHIA quotes Lorraine 

 begonias, 6-in. pots, 75c. to $1.00 each; 

 8-in., $2.00; 10-in., $.3.00. Oranges, 6- 

 in., $1.00; 8-in., $3.00. Dracsena ter- 

 minalis, 6-in., 75c. to $1.00. D. Sanderi- 

 ana. 3-iu., $10.00 per 100. Areca lutes- 

 cens, 6-in., 75c. to $1.00 each. 



NEW YORK quotations are as fol- 

 lows: Lorraine begonias, 2 1-2-in., 

 35c.; 6-in. pans, $1.00 to $1.50; 7-in., 

 $2.00 each. Ardisias 5-in. $1.00 to 

 $1..50; 6-in. $2.00; 7-in. $3.00 to $4.00 

 each. Chinese primroses 4 1-2-in. 25c. 

 Kentias, 6-in. $1.00; 7-in. $2..50 to $3.00; 

 8-in. $3.00 to $5.00. Arecas 4-in. 50c.; 

 5-in. 75c.; large sizes $3.00 upwards. 

 Livistonia rotundifolia, 4-in. 50c.; 7-in. 

 $1.00 to $1.50. Cocos Weddelliana 

 3 1-2-in. 15c. Dracaena indivisa 5-in. 

 35c.; 6-in. 50c. 



BOSTON quotes Lorraine begonias 

 at 35c. to $1.50 each. Poinsettias. 50c. 

 per head. Ardisias $2.00 each. Oran- 

 ges $1.50 to $2.00 each. Cyclamens 50c. 

 to $1.00 each. 



NEWS NOTES. 



The new ofliicers of Music Hall Mar- 

 ket, Boston, are: President, Edward 

 Wood; clerk, Wilfrid Wheeler; treas- 

 urer, George Ayer; directors, H. A. 

 Stevens, John McFarland, Robert 

 Montgomery. Thomas Capers, Donald 

 Carmichael, N. F. Comley. 



At Horticultural Hall, Boston, Dec. 

 9, a certificate of merit was awarded 

 Oakes Ames, S. Bolton, gardener, for 

 Zygocolax Amesiana an interesting 

 cross between Zygopetalum brachype- 

 talum and Colax jugossa, and a silver 

 medal for Cypripedium tonso Charles- 

 worthi, a form of this cross with extra 

 large flowers showing Charlesworthi 

 blood in the upper portion of the dor- 

 sal sepal, the rest of the flower rather 

 closely resembling C. tonsum. 



A certificate of merit was also 

 awarded A. H. Fewkes for a new varie- 

 gated form of Stevia serrata. 



FIRES. 



The greenhouses of Fred Holland at 

 Highland, 111., were totally destroyed 

 by fire on December 7. No insurance. 



Fire started in the boiler house and 

 partially destroyed the greenhouse of 

 Mrs. Lizzie Davis at Linton, Ind., on 

 December 5. No insurance. 



An overheated furnace in the green- 

 houses of Henry Hoelscher, Vine St.. 

 Hamilton, O., on December 7, destroyed 

 a quantity of valuable plants. 



Delos Bros, were among the suffer- 

 ers in the fire in the Cooper Building, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., on the morning of 

 December 14, to the extent of $700- 

 which was covered by insurance. 



