October 24, 1914 



HOBTICULTUBB 



599 



Flower Market Reports 



( Continued from fiaffe J^r) 



Stock is plentiful in all 

 ST. LOUIS grades except the ex- 

 tra fancy. The rainy 

 weather during the past week has 

 caused the retailers to buy sparingly 

 and stock is piled up in the wholesale 

 markets. Chrysanthemums are com- 

 ing in heavy and the demand is not 

 any too good for high priced stock. 

 Roses, carnations and other seasonable 

 stock are suffering in consequence. 

 There is still a plenty of outdoor ma- 

 terial. The best violets and lily of the 

 valley sell well. Lillies are plentiful 

 and prices are low. 



The retail flower 

 SAN FRANCISCO business is show- 

 ing a little im- 

 provement each week. There are in- 

 dications that the close of the month 

 will bring much greater all-round 

 activity and a few good orders have 

 already been placed for social affairs. 

 The wholesale shipping business is 

 picking up fairly well. Chrysanthe- 

 mums still overshadow everything 

 else, being very plentiful and in large 

 variety, fully up to expectations as to 

 quality, and finding a very large de- 

 mand. Aside from the local trade, 

 large shipments are being made to all 

 parts of the state, and a good many 

 east of the mountains. Bonnaffon re- 

 mains among the leading varieties, 

 Hunter, Maud Jeffries and Portola 

 also being abundant. There has been 

 just enough rain to put the violet gar- 

 dens south of San Francisco in fine 

 shape, and the flowers are plentiful 

 and of very good quality. A good 

 many are being shipped to points 

 throughout the middle west, where the 

 demand seems to be picking up. There 

 are roses enough for local needs, but 

 no oversupply, and few are being 

 shipped. The quality, on the whole, 

 is just fair, with nothing new for the 

 week as to variety. Carnations are 

 becoming more plentiful, and include 

 some very nice offerings. Orchids are 

 coming in freely and in good variety. 

 As for lilies, some giganteum are ap- 

 pearing, but there is no great amount 

 of new stock coming in. Offerings of 

 lily of the valley are decreasing, and 

 this flower has stiffened up consider- 

 ably as to price, as the trade is holding 

 them back for the holidays. 



A marked change 

 WASHINGTON in the temperature 



served to shorten 

 up on an overstocked market and to 

 bring sales more nearly to normal. It 

 has not been expected that this year 

 the dahlia crop would be so heavy, as 

 earlier in the season there were more 

 blind eyes than flowers and the stems 

 were so brittle as to make the stock 

 almost worthless. This changed in 

 due time and the supply became 

 heavier than ever. Roses could be 

 had at almost the buyer's own price 

 but in this respect conditions have 



Tel. Office, New Salem, Mass. 

 L. D. Phone Connection. 



FANCY OR DAGGER FERNS 



New Crop Fancy Ferns - - $0.75 per 1000 



Dagger Ferns ..... .75 per 1000 



Discount on large orders 



USE OUR LAUREL FESTOONING 



For your decorations, made fresh daily from the woods. 4c, 5c and 6c per yard 



Bronze and Green Galax, $1.00 per lOM' 



$7.50 per case of 10,000. 

 Splmgiiuni Mo(>8, large sack, only 40c. 

 I'ine by the pound, 8c., or by the yard. 

 Branch Laurel, 33c. for a large bundle. 

 Southern Sniilax, 50-Ib. cases, $5.00. 

 Green and Bronze Leucothoe Sprays, $3.M 



per lUOO. 

 Fine Boxwood, $7.50 per SO-lb. case. 

 Or<Ier in advance. 

 Write, wire or telephone 13 H4. 



CROWL FERN CO., M illingt on, Mass. 



NEW YO R K QUOTA TIONS PER 100. To Dealers Only 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Cattleyas 



Lilies, Lonffiflorum 



Rubrum 



Lilsrof the Valley 



Violets 



Com Flower 



Chrysanthemums 



Dahlias 



Sweet Peas (per loo bunches) 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax 



Asparagrus Plumosus. strings (per lOo) 



& Sp*'en (loo bunches). 



last Half of Week 



ending Oct, i7 



1914 



First Half of WMt 



beginning Oct 19 



1914 



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 25.00 

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16.00 

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 •75 

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 35.00 

 35.00 



changed and there is a little better 

 demand. Carnations are daily improv- 

 ing in quality and a good crop is in 

 promise. Orchids have stiffened 

 slightly in price and there is a limited 

 demand and similar supply of violets. 

 Palms and ferns are meeting with 

 ready sales in most of the stores and 

 a good business in these has been re- 

 ported. 



Philadelphia: J. G. Horton. rep. 

 H. W. Doughteu, Moorestown, N. J.; 

 A. W. Smith and his landscape archi- 

 tect. Mr. Pinney, Pittsburgh, Pa.; 

 \V. C. Langbridge, Albany, N. Y.; 

 John B. Nugent, of Young & Nugent, 

 .N'. Y. Citv. 



VISITORS' REGISTER. 



Newport, R. I. — H. A. Bunyard, New 

 York. 



St. Paul, Minn.: A. Clausen, Albert 

 Lea, Minn.; E. F. Kuroski, pres. .John 

 C. Monniger Co., Chicago. 111. 



Lancaster, Pa. — D. T. Connor, repre- 

 senting Lord & Burnham Co., Phila., 

 Pa.; George Marshall, representing 

 MoCallum Co., Pittsburgh, Pa. 



Lenox, Mass. — Wm. Duckham, Madi- 

 son, N. J.; F. H. Traendly, and H. A. 

 Bunyard, New York; Jos. A. Manda, 

 West Orange, .\. J.: Henry Penn. 

 Boston. 



Kansas City, Mo.: M. Adler, New 

 York City; J. Dillhoff, representing 

 Schloss Bros., New York City; Mr. 

 Hughes, representing S. A. Weller Co., 

 Zanesville, Ohio. 



St. Louis — Julius Dillhoff, represent- 

 ing Schloss Bros.. New York; C. Ford, 

 S. Seligman, M. Adler and M. Le Vine, 

 representing New York houses; Guy 

 Reyburn, representing A. Henderson 

 & Co., Chicago. 



Chicago— E. G. Hill, Richmond, 

 Ind.: F. M. Smith, of Smith & Fetters, 

 Cleveland, O.; S. W. Pike, St. Charles. 

 111.; Theodore Kienahs, La Crosse, 

 Wis.; Wm. Brise, Supt. of Edw. Lowe 

 estate. Grand Rapids, Mich.; R. R. 

 Davis. Morrison. 111.; Roy Kemble, 

 Oscaloosa, la. 



New York.— Paul Berkowitz, of H. 

 Bayersdorfer & Co., Phila., Pa.; R. F. 

 Lyon, representing H. G. Hastings & 

 Co., Atlanta, Ga.; B. F. White, Terry- 

 ville. Conn.; Mrs. W. W. Edgar, 

 Waverly, Conn.; B. Hammond Tracy, 

 Wenham, Mass. 



Boston: George Hampton, repre- 

 senting Neidinger, Phila., Pa.; J. J. 

 Karins, representing H. A. Dreer, 

 Phila.; V. W. Sherwood, Charlestown, 

 N. H. ; Robert Greenlaw, representing 

 S. S. Pennock-Mephan Co.. Phila.; 

 Thomas J. Gibson. Newport, R. I. 



Washington, D. C: J. A. E. Haugh 

 and family, Anderson, Ind.: Charles 

 Hochstedt. Hamilton, Md.; J. Harrison 

 Dick, New York; L. J. Seiger, repre- 

 senting Robert Craig & Co., Philadel- 

 phia, Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. 

 Doyle, Lockport, N. Y.; Robert Shoch, 

 representing M. Rice Co., Philadelphia, 

 Pa.; Walter C. Cook, representing 

 Stumpp & Walter Co., Roselle Park, 

 N. J.; Howard Aschmann. of Asch- 

 mann Bros., Philadelphia, Pa.; I. Ros- 

 nosky. representing H. P. Michell Co., 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



ROBERT il. DYSART 



PUBLIC ACCOrNT.4NT .VND AUDITOR 



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