June 24, 1911 



HORTICULTURE 



927 



Flower Market Reports 



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supply, the market is way short on 

 pink roses. The Taft rose is superior 

 in quality to any of the other pink 

 sorts. There being only a couple of 

 growers ■ that are growing Taft for 

 summer forcing the supply is limited 

 and all orders are usually placed two 

 or three days in advance. Quite a 

 few growers are already throwing out 

 carnations, preparatory to benching 

 for indoor culture, but supplies all 

 during the week up to Saturday were 

 greater than the market requirements. 

 Saturday found the retailer skirmish- 

 ing for carnations and grabbing up 

 anything that looked anyway fair. 

 Outdoor peas are not as plentiful as 

 in other years owing to the hot and 

 dry weather the latter part of May and 

 the early part of June. Shasta daisies 

 are in heavy crop. Gladioli continue 

 good property. There was an im- 

 provement in the demand and prices 

 for lilies. The call for lily of the val- 

 ley has been good and supply light. 

 Smilax continues scarce while other 

 green goods are plentiful. 



The summer hush has 

 NEW YORK already begun to set- 

 tle down over the re- 

 tail flower marts of the city. The "cor- 

 onation" festivities have drawn away 

 a very large number of the florists' 

 patrons, and earlier than is custom- 

 ary for the annual European exodus. 

 Saturday before last there were over 

 2000 such passengers on outgoing 

 steamers. But the call for gradua- 

 tions and weddings has helped the 

 situation for the time being and the 

 shortening up of supplies has brought 

 a gratifying resumption of activity in 

 the wholesale district. Storms have 

 made havoc with outdoor flowers and 

 peonies and garden roses are all done. 

 Beauty is the best seller in the rose 

 line. Small roses are of poor quality 

 generally, particularly Bride and 

 Bridesmaid. There are some excel- 

 lent Maryland, Testout and White Kil- 

 larney coming in. Carnations are 

 holding out in good shape considering 

 the season. 



So much stock 

 PHILADELPHIA came in last week 

 it made the whole- 

 salers tired to look at it. Then the 

 warm weather made it open so quickly 

 that altogether there was a terrible 

 mess. The most plentiful item of all 

 was carnations, .and very little of this 

 stock ■nas any good. There were 

 roses galore and piles and piles of 

 such things as cornflower and coreop- 

 sis. The demand early in the week 

 was good for American Beauty roses 

 in the shorter stemmed grades, but 



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the fancies did not sell so well. More 

 good white roses could have been used. 

 Very good demand for sweet peas. 

 Orchids went only fair. Lily of the 

 valley has suffered in quality from 

 weather conditions, but the demand 

 has been all right. Peonies are over. 

 Lilies — including candidum — are good 

 and meet with ready sale. The gladi- 

 olus market is confined mostly to 

 America which cleans up all right. A 

 few early asters have made their ap- 

 pearance. Yellow daisies sell pretty 

 well, but will not be a feature much 

 longer. The water lily market is good 

 in spots — very erratic; our local 

 stores do not seem to make nearly as 

 much of this item as is done in other 

 cities. Plenty of greens of all kinds 

 and market for same anything but 

 brisk. 



The last week of the 

 ST. LOUIS flower season here was 

 a busy one with most 

 of our retailers. The work was most- 

 ly for school graduates and weddings 

 which have been plentiful all week. 

 The social folks have mostly all left 

 the city for summer vacations, so, prac- 

 tically speaking, the flower season is 

 ended until September. The market 

 was a busy one all week and stock 

 scarce in all lines except carnations. 

 The big call was for sweet peas and 

 lily of the valley. Roses and gladioli, 

 too, sold clean up. Carnations were 

 most plentiful and cheap, but of very 

 poor quality — poorer than at any time 

 this year. The dry, hot weather is re- 

 sponsible for all this and a good soak- 

 ing twenty-four-hour rain is needed. 



Local stock is very 

 WASHINGTON small and poor. 

 This is attributed 

 to the state of the season. Buds do 

 not develop properly befoie they open. 

 The rains have also affected stock. 

 Sweet peas are getting poor. Some 

 good roses are coming in from Con- 

 necticut and other northern points. 

 Good stock is bringing fair prices, but 

 poor stock is low. "Even the best 

 stock is poor," says one dealer. 



ST. LOUIS NOTES. 



Wild Bros, and Gilbert H. Wild of 

 Sarcoxie, Mo., made good peony dis- 

 plays at the Nurserymen's Convention 

 held here last week. 



Two carloads of visiting nurserymen 

 left over the Burlington R. R. on Sat- 

 urday morning, June 17th. for a visit 

 to Stark Bros.' Nursery at Louisiana, 

 Mo. 



On June 1st, J. F. Ammann of Ed- 

 wardsville. turned over his Edwards- 

 ville greenhouse plants to the new 

 owners. Mr. Ammann has also adver- 

 tised his Alton and East St. Louis 

 stores for sale. 



Secretary Beneke of the Florist 

 Club reports that President Geo. As- 

 raus and Secretary H. B. Dorner of 

 the S. A. F. and O. H., have accepted 

 their invitations and will be present at 

 the club's 25th anniversary banquet, 

 June 28th. 



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 Sunday especially in their honor. Evi- 

 dently they feel that they might have 

 to go to church. — American Cultivator. 



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