April 22, 1911 



HORTlCULTURi: 



613- 



BUY 



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 FLOWERS 



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 HOUSE 



Easter Market Reports 



(Continued 'nm page 57q) 



all flowers compared with that of 

 many former years was in favor of 

 an increased total when sales are 

 footed up and made work easier for 

 the salesman also. All in all, the sea- 

 son that tries the patience and makes 

 a florist wish he was anything else, 

 passed without any serious happenings 

 and the prices pleased the people, and 

 only poor stock, with few exceptions, 

 was left unsold. The retail florists are 

 all pleased with the comparatively low 

 prices for Easter and are not experi- 

 encing the sudden cessation of busi- 

 ness that usually occurs after a holi- 

 day. 



Reports concerning 

 CINCINNATI business for Easter 

 vary. Some report 

 business as good and better, while 

 others say it was not quite up to last 

 Easter. Owing to the absence of 

 Beauties the call for Riclimond was 

 far in excess of the supply. Killarney 

 and White Killarney were next in 

 line. While the supply was good still 

 a good many more could have been 

 sold. Other roses cleaned up nicely 

 with no orders too large and price 

 very reasonable considering the qual- 

 ity. Good fresh carnations cleaned 

 up at good prices, the call for di^er- 

 ent colors being evenly balanced. As 

 is usual around a holiday there was a 

 noticeable evidence of pickled stock 

 on the market and these were sold for 

 whatever they would bring. About 

 ten days before Easter the local pa- 

 pers came out with an article stating 

 that according to several of the local 

 growers, lilies would be scarce in this 

 market for the Easter trade. Un- 

 doubtedly by this time the boys who 

 were responsible for this item are 

 thoroughly convinced, for never be- 

 fore were there so many lilies to be 

 had as this year. There being only a 

 limited amount of bulbous stock of- 

 fered it moved to good advantage. 

 Snapdragon, stocks and sweet peas 

 met with a ready sale. Many were 

 the complaints regarding New York 

 double violets, for when exposed to 

 the air they went all to pieces. All 

 green goods were in good supply with 

 the exception of smilax. 



Detroit florists are slow- 

 DETROIT ly recovering from the 



biggest Easter trade 

 ever. Work was considerablly ag- 

 gravated by inclement weather Fri- 

 day and the prevailing tendency of 

 ordering late; in fact, hardly any 

 Easter orders were booked before 



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Thursday. There was an abundance 

 of stock and everything cleaned up 

 nicely at the same prices as prevailed 

 last year. No particular preference 

 was noticeable, but considering violets 

 one is justified in calling it a cut 

 flower Easter. 



The supply of flow- 

 NEW YORK ers on hand for the 



Easter trade in this 

 market was something unprecedented. 

 Knowing this in advance and fullv re- 

 alizing how disproportionate the East- 

 er cut flower demand has been in re- 

 cent years as compared with that for 

 plants, the flower wholesalers, gener- 

 ally, expected a slump. They got it. 

 As to lilies there were untold thous- 

 ands of them and thousands were left 

 over unsold, although six and eight 

 dollars a hundred would have been a 

 welcome offer. As to roses — every- 

 body seemed to be exactly on crop. 

 Beauties — there seemed to be cords of 

 them and the growers were frantic in 

 their efforts to unload. Nobody 

 thought of asking over $20 a hundred 

 for the finest specials and lots of sucli 

 were let go at half that figure. Spe- 

 cials of other varieties of roses could 

 not be moved at $8.00 per 100. The 

 severity of the break in roses is be- 

 lieved by some to be due largely to 

 the advent of the Killarneys, which 

 produce so much heavier crops than 

 the older favorites and as to the 

 Beauty at the present time it undoubt- 

 edly suffers from the presence of an 

 abundant supply of splendid Brunners. 

 Brunner always administers a black 

 eye to the jjeauty during its few 

 weeks of prominence. Carnations 

 shared in the general shrinkage and 

 had to bear the unenviable repute of 

 being practically the only line of flow- 

 ers in which any evidence of "holding 

 back" was seen. Violets cleaned up 



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1911 



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