November 28, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



769 



Flower Market Reports 



As we go to press activity 

 BOSTON in the market is almost 

 what it should be at this 

 time of the year. Retailers have been 

 holding bafk until today, Wednesday, 

 and are now buying in large quantities. 

 The supply just about meets the demand 

 and there is consequently no marked 

 raise in prices. Carnations and roses 

 are the only crops that have shortened 

 up to any considerable extent, good 

 roses and carnations securing satis- 

 factory figures. Chrysanthemums are 

 still plentiful, yellows and whites sell- 

 ing in large quantities, although quo- 

 tations are only normal. It is only 

 the exceptional lot here and there 

 that is receiving more than $3.00 per 

 dozen. Violets continue to be scarce, 

 as well as sweet peas. Orchids and 

 gardenias have advanced sliL-htly. 



The middle of the week 

 CHICAGO before Thanksgiving 

 brought a shortening up 

 of the chrysanthemums. Tliis was 

 partly accounted for in the probable 

 holding back of stock that there might 

 be no shortage for Thanksgiving week. 

 Shipping began to distant points on 

 Monday and the supply of the largest 

 chry.;anthemnms was used up to good 

 advantage. The week of cold weather 

 had made the flowers firm and the 

 large shipping houses were rejoicing 

 in the fact that orders could be filled 

 with good stock. It is expected that 

 each day will bring in a sufficient 

 amount of the big favorites to 

 care for all orders but there is a 

 possibility of running short. Local 

 trade at this writing is slow. Home 

 grown gardenias are coming now and 

 some fine pink and white bouvardias 

 are also offered. Sweet peas are now 

 seen again, with rather short stems 

 but they are of the butterfly varieties 

 and sell well. The rose supply is very 

 good and all kinds are now in the mar- 

 ket. The carnation will soon come 

 into its own again with the passing of 

 the chrysanthemums and some splen- 

 did stock is offered this week. Some 

 especially fine Mrs. Ward were noticed 

 at Poehlmann Bros. 



Tardy but all the 

 NEW YORK more welcome comes 

 the improvement in 

 flower trade conditions. Seasonable 

 weather has helped. Thanksgiving Day 

 has helped and the gradual retirement 

 of the chrysanthemum has helped. 

 Anyway, it is high time that everybody 

 "got a move on" and most of the tal- 

 ent — retail, wholesale and speculative, 

 as well as the patient and unobtrusive 

 grower — has started to do what he re- 

 garded as the proper thing to do on 

 this auspicious occasion. Xot everybody 

 was looking for this revival; it is al- 

 most the happening of the unexpected, 

 for the interim of hoping against hope 

 has been long drawn out. But it's here 

 — for long or for short duration — so let 

 everybody make the best of it while it 

 lasts, pray that it may never end and 

 then — lay in a good substantial 

 Thanksgiving Day dinner, with grati- 

 tude that things are not half as bad as 

 they might be. 



End of last week 

 PHILADELPHIA here witnessed 



quite a revival in 

 the tone of the market. Roses all 

 along the line advanced — not only one 

 or two varieties but the twenty or 



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lOO 1000 



Mrs. f. Kilward .\kehurst $12.00 $100.00 



Uivc (Fisher) 12-00 100.00 



Pink Seiihation (l)orner) 12.04) KMKOO 



(ioo.l riu.r (Dorner) 12.00 lim.OO 



.\li<e CooiiibK (Koper) 12.00 100.00 



.Vviator. S<arlet 12-00 100.00 



M.VTCHI.E.SS, the best White. «.00 50.00 



ENCHANTUESS SUPKEME.. 6.00 40.00 



Peerless rink «0« 50.00 



Philadelphia 5.00 40.00 



r.orceous fiOO 50.00 



CHAMPION, the coming Reil. 6.00 50.00 



INK DELIGHT 6.00 40.00 



rineess DaRTinar, Crimson.... 6.00 60.00 



Our Cuttings are all propairated from 

 stoek plants grown for Cuttings only thus 

 insuring the very best quality obtainable. 



Complete list with prices on application. 

 Send for our complete list of Plants. 



S. S. PENNOCK-MEEHAN CO. 



The Wholesale Florists of Philadelphia 



NEW YORK 



117 W. 28th St. 



PBIUDEIPHU 



1608-1620 liiaiow St. 



BALTIMORE 



FraoLliD and St. Faal Sts. 



WASHINGTON 

 l216BSi.,N.W. 



WHOLESALE FLOWER MARKETS 



TRADE PRICES -Per 100 



TO DEALERS ONLY 



Roses 



Am. Beauty, Special ■ 



'» " Fancy and Extra 



No. I 



Killamey, Richmond, Extra 



" " Ordinary. 



Hillingdon, Ward, Sunburst, Extra.... 

 <• " '* Ordinary. 



Maryland, Shawyer, Taft, Extra 



" •' " Ordinary .. . 



Russell. Hadley, Ophelia 



Carnations, Fancy 



'■ Ordinary 



Cattleyas 



Lilies, Longif lorum • 



Lily of the Valley 



Violets 



Com Hower. 



Chrysanlhemuas '• • 



Sweet Peas • • ■ ■ 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax •• • " 



Asparagus Plumosus. Strings (loo)... 

 " " & Spren. (loo Bchs.) 



BOSTON 



Nov. 35 



ST. 



N. 



LOUIS 



ov. 23 



PHILA, 



Nov. 16 



35.00 to 



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.40 

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40.00 



20.00 



8.00 



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10.00 



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15.00 



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45.00 



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.60 



.75 



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25.00 



15.00 

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20.00 

 12.50 

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3-00 

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more which now dominate. Every one 

 of these varieties felt the effect, but 

 it was especially noticeable in four or 

 five of the newer sort. It would ap- 

 pear that in these latter the growers 

 are using the stock for wood instead 

 of for flowers. Carnations also went 

 up — probably twenty-five per cent, on 

 an average — and it certainly was about 

 time, for these have been far too low 

 all through this season. Even now 

 they are twenty-five per cent, behind 

 last year. Most other staples felt the 

 stimulating effect of the improved mar- 

 ket — not so much in the increase of 

 quotations as in the better clean-up 

 at quoted rates. The flush of the 

 chrysanthemum crop will be over by 

 the end of this week. After that there 

 will be Nonin and the other late ones — 

 and ihey usually bring better prices. 

 Bouvardia, mignonette, lilies, lily of 

 the valley and paper whites remain 

 normal. For Thanksgiving the price 



asked for on violets in advance was 

 about equal to last year but whether 

 it will pan out that way is doubtful. 

 Sweet peas are improving; some fairly 

 good Spencers are now to be had. The 

 improved demand mentioned for stocks 

 in general is gratifying of course, but 

 the better prices may be due also to 

 some extent to the dark, rainy and 

 cold weather we have had recently — 

 which has undoubtedly reduced pro- 

 duction. 



The local cut 

 SAN FRANCISCO flower market 

 has stiffened up 

 materially within the last few days. A 

 rather abrupt increase in the general 

 demand has coincided with a falling 

 off of supplies in several popular lines, 

 with the result that the daily offerings 

 are cleaning up well at better prices 

 than have recently prevailed. Supplies 

 of chrysanthemums are much lighter, 



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