April 29, 1911 



rt O K T 1 C U L T U R E 



651 



BUY 



BOSTON 

 FLOWERS 



N. F. McCarthy & co., 



84 Hawley St, 



BOSTON'S BEST 

 HOUSE 



Flower Market Reports 



(Continued ^rom page o^q) 



ity. The first out-door lilacs were seen 

 jn the market this week but did not 

 sell readily. Iris so far has been a 

 disappointment, the price being low 

 and sales slow. The probable cause 

 is the great abundance of all other 

 kinds of stock. 



The first days of the 

 DETROIT week were extremely 

 quiet, being right after 

 Easter and carnations accumulated to 

 the danger point. Towards the middle 

 of the week things began to enliven 

 perceptibly so that very little was left 

 over at the wholesale houses and re- 

 tailers had a chance to look back to 

 a successful week. Lilies at present 

 are a glut on the market. Smilax, on 

 the other hand, has reached highest 

 price for many a month. While flor- 

 ists throughout the country are report- 

 ing a very prosperous Easter, it seems 

 a rather uncertain way of judging busi- 

 ness conditions. Not disputing the re- 

 ports at all the real point is — what 

 was the concrete result or in other 

 words the actual profit made? That, 

 these reports do not show. Neither 

 individually nor collectively can we 

 judge the benefits derived from Easter 

 nor the prosperity of the tide at large 

 unless the percentage of profit is 

 given. FRANK DANZER. 



The long delayed 

 NEW YORK warm sunny spring 

 weather which has 

 now come is not likely to have any 

 beneficial effect on the flower busi- 

 ness. If the production has been far 

 in excess of the demand through the 

 cold and dismal days which have been 

 the rule up to the present time, what 

 is the outlook for the benign summer 

 days that we are now experiencing? 

 There have been avalanches of flowers 

 of all kinds and an outlet at any rea- 

 sonable rate was out of the question. 

 The situation is now intensified. 

 Roses of all varieties and grades, car- 

 nations, lilies, violets, etc., are all ac- 

 cumulated in every wholesale estab- 

 lishment. Sweet peas, lily of the val- 

 ley and smilax and other greens bring 

 the only ray of sunshine to the whole- 

 salers' daily grind just now. 



Movings are in order, and 28th 

 street especially will in a few days 

 have undergone another transforma- 

 tion. Growers' Cut Flower fompany 

 and A. H. Langjahr migrate to the 

 next block, west. James SIcManus 

 moves from No. 42 to No. 55. which 

 Langjahr vacates, and if you want 

 orchids don't forget the number. 



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 EXCHANGE, Inc. 



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Sauer moves up one flight in the Coo- 

 gan Building. Among the retailers 

 there is also something doing, Mc- 

 Connell, Thorley and Leikens all go- 

 ing to new locations as recently noted 

 in this paper. 



The volume of 

 PHILADELPHIA business for the 

 past week was 

 larger than the post-Easter period, 

 but the quantity of stock arriving was 

 also greatly in excess — especially in 

 roses — and prices sagged consider- 

 ably. Roses of all kinds, American 

 Beauty included, were in immense 

 supply. Towards the end of the week 

 vast accumulations of unsold surplus 

 went to the speculators at any absurd 

 figure they were willing to give. Car- 

 nations, while bad enough, did not 

 reach these lowest depths. They were 

 plentiful, but not so much so as the 

 week before. American Beauty is as 

 fine now as at the height of its winter 

 glory and can be had in all grades — 

 long, medium and short, all top-notch. 

 On this item a few of the new crop 

 flowers are already to be seen on the 

 market. In the midst of the general 

 gloom as to prices there were three 

 little sunshiny places occupied respec- 

 tively by the sweet peas, the orchids 

 and lily of the valley. These three 

 were in great demand and were the 

 only items on which the dealers could 

 stand by their guns and get quoted 

 rates. The market held stiff on them 

 and everything was cleaned up. In 

 sweet peas the long stems went best 

 and although there was a good per- 

 centage of shorts, even these found a 

 market before all was over. Gar- 

 denias and white lilac are still in fine 

 shape and hold their own with other 

 seasonable staples. Lilies are still 

 plentiful and as is usual after Easter 

 are going slow in the wholesale cen- 

 ters. Many of the retailers are still 

 cutting from the left-over plants. 



Greens are none too plentiful. Wild 

 smilax being over causes a better de- 

 mand on other decorative greens and 

 this situation will probably continue 

 for some time. New crop dagger 

 ferns made their appearance this 

 week. 



(,Contitnii'd on page b^~.) 



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