June 10, 1911 



HORTICULTURE, 



855. 



Flower Market Reports 



This week is "between 

 BOSTON liay and grass," Memorial 

 Day liaving passed and 

 scliool graduations not yet started. All 

 flowers have dropped off in demand 

 and price, and as there are lots of 

 them the sale of stock at wholesale 

 calls for the exercise of much sagacity 

 in order to realize anything for the 

 grower. American Beauty roses arc in 

 most active demand, with Richmond, 

 Maryland, Killarney and WTiite Killar- 

 ney following in order as named. Bride 

 and Bridesmaid are the most difficult 

 to move. Carnot is i oming in now and 

 will soon occujjy a front scat. Kaiscrin, 

 on account of its liability to bruise in 

 handling, is not making much head- 

 way. Carnations are reduced in qual- 

 ity but not in quantity. Many of the 

 blooms now coming in arc puny and 

 indicate that the plants are about used 

 up. In addition to the flowers listed in 

 regular table, peonies from $4. no to 

 $8.00 stocks from ?2.00 to $3.00 and 

 ostilbe at Jl.CO and $2.00 should be 

 mentioned. 



The trade was well sat 

 BUFFALO isfied witli memorial 

 week's business. Things 

 were a little quiet at beginning of the 

 week but lost time was made up on 

 Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The 

 severe hot weather a week previous 

 cut off a good portion of out-door ma- 

 terial, but peonies of eastern and 

 western shipment were a good help- 

 out. Carnations, together with lilies, 

 roses, iris and deutzia helped to make 

 up what was needed. No complaint 

 can be made regarding the following 

 week, cut flowers being in good sup- 

 ply on most lines except peas, which 

 were scarce for a few days. Home- 

 grown peonies are coming in more 

 plentiful and things cleaned up fairly 

 well at the end of the week. Wed- 

 dings are beginning to be noticeable 

 since June 1st, and the demand for 

 lily of the valley and white roses is 

 daily on the increase. 



June opens with an 

 CHICAGO abundance of stock but 

 the quality does not av- 

 erage up to that of former years. 

 There are plenty of roses but the long- 

 stemmed ones, so much in demand for 

 commencements, are scarce, while 

 there is more short stock than can be 

 handled to advantage. Many soft 

 roses that will not bear shipping are 

 turned over to the street fakirs and 

 by this means the actual quantity 

 thrown away is less than that of two 

 weeks ago. Beauties are of good 

 quality but the hot weather has made 

 them small. Carnations are poor and 

 fancy stock hard to find. A good de- 

 mand exists for good shipping stock 

 and when it can be found it sells 

 readily. Size has rapidly diminished 

 during the past three weeks. Iris is 

 about gone and the season has been 

 a disappointment to many. Peonies 

 are selling slowly and much of the 

 stock taken from cold storage for Me- 

 morial Day opened up poorly. All in 

 all the extreme heat has changed mar- 

 ket conditions and made a record not 

 to be desired. New ferns from Michi- 

 gan and Vv^isconsin are in and sell 

 from $2.50 to $3.00 per 1000. Smilax 

 continues very scarce. 



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NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA WASHINGTON 



109 W. 26lh Street 1608-1620 Ludlow Street 1212 New York Ave. 



WHOLESALE FLOV/ER MARKETS.- 



TRADE PRICE5-Per 100 



TO DEALERS ONLY 



ROSES 



CINCINNATI 



May 25 



DETROIT 



J line 6 



BUFFALO 



June 6 



PITTSBURG. 



June 6 



Am. Beauty, Fan. and bp 



" Extra 



No.i 



" Lower grades 



Bride/Mald. F. & S. 



" " Low.gr 



Richmond, Chatenay, Fancy & Special 



*' " Lower Grades. - 



Killarney, My Maryland, Fan. & Spl. 



" " •' Low. Grades 



CARNATIONS, First Quality 



" Ordinary 



niSCBLLANEOUS 



Cattleyas 



Liltea, Longifloruni.., 



Lily of the V alley 



Peonies 



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Snapdragon 



Sweet Peas 



Gardenias. 



Adiantum 



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The recent heated spell 

 DETROIT seems to have cooked 



all the life out of the 

 flowers and while the demand for 

 Decoration Day was very brisk indeed 

 the poor quality drove many a lot of 

 carnations and roses into the dump 

 cart. Last week was much cooler and 

 all stock shows a great improvement, 

 but even a very heavy demand would 

 not cope with the enormous quanti- 

 ties shipped into this market. It was 

 a blessing for the growers that a lo- 

 cal society held a flower sale for the 

 benefit of a hospital for crippled chil- 

 dren. Some 200 high school girls sold 



30.000 carnations, 20,000 roses and 

 many peonies for whatever the pur- 

 chaser would give, netting thereby 

 some $2,000 for their institution and 

 disposing of goods which without this 

 sale would have been lost. Peonies 

 are coming in very fast and many of 

 them are being put into cold storage 

 for future use. Local growers have 

 an assortment of peonies which it is 

 difhcult to beat. Lilium longiflorum 

 are more than abundant at present. 

 Most of the plant growers have com- 

 pleted their bedding and report a 

 complete clean-up at good prices. 



(Continued on page S57) 



