November 28, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



771 



Flower Market Reports 



{C»n$ittued from pagt "jbq) 



as the crop is about cleaned up in 

 sevoral sections. Tlie Japanese vari- 

 eties are playing out, and while the 

 Chinese are showing up well the sup- 

 ply is very moderate. Violets are 

 scarce. The acreage is larger than 

 last year, but the crop per acre is tar 

 short of normal, and nothing extra in 

 quality. A week of rain, however, 

 would bring them out in good shape. 

 Carnations are ivept well cleaned up, 

 with a much better demand from the 

 country, and prices have advanced 

 sharply. The supply of roses is still 

 limited, and offerings are quickly ab- 

 sorbed, the quality being very good. 

 There is practically nothing offered in 

 the way of lilies, except lily of the 

 valley, and they are increasingly 

 scarce. Some paper white narcissi 

 have been appearing for the last few- 

 weeks, and a few freesias have been 

 seen, with indications of an unusually 

 early crop. Supplies of California 

 holly are larger than usual at this sea- 

 son, and of very good quality. It is 

 finding some demand in the regular 

 trade, besides being used extensively 

 by retail merchants tor window decor- 

 ation. The entrance of a new retail 

 shop on a large scale has caused some 

 stir in the local market, and in addi- 

 tion to a stronger general demand 

 from outside towns, some good sized 

 Thanksgiving orders, especially for vi- 

 olets, have come from the east. 



Thanksgiving week ap- 

 ST. LOUIS peared with the first 



scarcity of the season 

 and just when the demand was grow- 

 ing better and from a retailers stand- 

 point it looks as if the shippers to 

 this market are holding back tor the 

 big day. This caused a scramble for 

 stock and prices are up a few cents 

 on all stock. Chrysanthemums are 

 still in abundance, but are nearing 

 their end. Bonnaffon is still the lead- 

 ing variety, with Chadwick, Mrs. 

 Jones and Eaton following. Carnations 

 and roses are up too. The wholesalers 

 say there will be plenty of stock at 

 reasonable prices and the retailers ex- 

 pect good business for this week. 



Cooler weather 

 WASHINGTON and curtailed pro- 

 duction has caused 

 prices to stiffen to a small extent. Busi- 

 ness continues poor and while the 

 growers are not so apt to accept what 

 is termed the "buyer's own price," 

 they will take anything that looks like 

 fair money for their stocks. The main 

 increase lias been on chysanthemums 

 which are always in exceptionally 

 good demand for Thanksgiving Day. 

 Orchids are by no means plentiful yet 

 they are in greater supply than neces- 

 sary. Sweet peas are more plentiful 

 and are good. In the lavender shades 

 these have been very popular and at 

 times have sold out to good advan- 

 tage. Violets continue scarce and the 

 few that are received move well. Paper 

 white narcissi are increasing both in 

 quantity and quality but some of the 

 growers having found that its produc- 

 tion costs more than its sale brings 

 have discontinued it. Carnations an^ 

 coming in good and some varieties of 

 roses are of exceptional quality. Gar- 

 denias are more plentiful and are 

 cheap. 



FANCY OR DAGGER FERNS 



$0.75 per lOOO 

 .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 10«»; 



$7.50 per case o( 10.000. 

 Sphagnnum Mosb, large sack, only 40c. 

 Pine by the pound. 8c., or by tbe yard. 

 Branch Laurel, 33c. for a large bnndle. 

 Southern Smilax, 50-lb. cases, $5.00. 

 Green and Bronze Leucothoe Sprftyt. |8.M 



per lUOO. 

 Fine Boxwood. $7.50 per 50-Ib. case. 

 Order in advance. 

 Write, wire or telephone 13 R4. 



New Crop Fancy Ferns 

 Dagger Ferns 



Tel. Office, New Salem. Mass. 

 L. D. Phone Connection. 



GROWL FERN CO., Millington, Mass. 



NEW YORK QUOTATIONS PER 100. To Dealers Only 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Last Half of Week 



ending Nov. 2i 



19M 



Cattleyaa 



Lilies, Lonffiflorum 



'* Rubrum 



Uly of the Valley 



Violets 



Com Flower 



Chrysanthemums 



Sweet Peas per loo bunches) 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax '. ' 



Asparanu Plumosus. stnngs (per loo) ...... . . . 



" •• & Spren (loo bunches). 



IS. CO 



3.00 



1. 00 

 1. 00 



-35 



2.00 

 3.00 

 5.00 

 .50 

 8.00 

 25.00 

 15.00 



25.00 

 5.00 

 2.00 



3.00 

 •75 



15.00 

 4.00 

 12.00 



•75 

 12.00 

 30.00 

 30.00 



Pint Nilf It WMk 



beginnine Nov. 23 



1914 



35.00 to 



4.00 to 



1. 00 to 



3.00 to 



• 35 W 



to 



5.00 to 



3.C0 to 



10.00 to 



.50 to 



8.00 to 



15.00 to 



15.00 to 



60.00 

 6.00 



3.00 



4.00 



1. 00 



35.00 



4.00 



25.00 



•75 

 13.00 



30.00 

 30.00 



"LITTLE BENNY" ON FLOWERS. 



The prinslpil way to tell wen sum- 

 mir is heer Is by the flowirs. Wen it 

 stops beeing cold and the furnace goz 

 out, peepil begin to think wintir is 

 ovir. and wen the herds fly back frum 

 the south and try to remembir ware 

 they bill thare nests, peepil begin to 

 think the seezons must be changing, 

 but wen they look erround and see 

 awl the different flowirs growing, they 

 say, G, summir is heer. 



Ony this is a funy time to rite about 

 flowirs, bekause if you wunt to pick 

 eny flowirs now you haff to go in a 

 florist stoar, and pick them, or elts 

 climb up and open sumboddys parlor 

 window and pick sum awf of the 

 flowir pots standing thare to be 

 showed awf. The 2nd way beeing the 

 leest ixpensive. 



Akkording to poetry, sum flowirs is 

 born to blush unseen, sutch as the 

 violet by a mossy stone wasting its 

 fragments awn the desert air. 



Uthir flowirs are born to blush 

 seen, awn akkount of costing so 

 mutch, sutch as the krisanthemum 

 awn a gerls chest. 



Sum flowirs are usefiU awn ak- 

 kount of there bewty. sutch as the 

 rose and the lilly in a pot. wile uth- 

 irs'are useflU awn akkount of thare 

 usefillniss, sutch as the buttircup, 

 wich you can tell by holding it undir 

 a persins chin weathir a persin likes 

 buttir or not. 



Most fellos dont think mutch of 

 flowirs, but awl gerls love them, wich 

 ixplanes wy most fellos haft to buy 

 them weather they like them or not. 



Wild flowirs is considered the most 

 bewtifill, the reezin they are not so 

 pupuler being bekause they dont cost 

 enything. — hiUlc Benny's Note Book. 

 in Boston Traveler. 



MITES ON MUSHROOMS 



I liavo a mushroom bed, already bearing 

 mushrooms, and I find they are covered 

 with something like a mite. I would like 

 to know what to do for them. 



J. M. S. 



Growers of mushrooms are often 

 troubled by flies or "mites" attacking 

 the fungi and unless prompt measures 

 are taken to rid the beds of them 

 serious trouble sometimes results. The 

 best method of getting rid of these 

 pests is by fumigation and hydro- 

 cyanic acid gas is the surest remedy, 

 but this gas has to be used with great 

 care and unless the building can be 

 made air-tight it is not advisable to 

 employ it. Two fumigations of a good 

 tobacco preparation, such as Nico- 

 Fume, with an interval of two or three 

 days between each, will put an end 

 to the flies and do no harm to the 

 crop. 



William Plumb, formerly represent- 

 ing the horticultural department of the 

 Panama-Pacific Exposition is now em- 

 ployed in a large development enter- 

 prise in Cuba. His address is Ingenio 

 "Santa Gertrudis" Banaguises, Cuba. 



GINKGO FROM SEED. 



Dear Sir: — 



I have one tree of Salishuria. or maiden- 

 hair tree, that has fruited this year for 

 the first time, and I have saved some of 

 the seeds. Will you kindly advise me as 

 to how I will grow those seeds — whether 

 I will plant them in the greenhouse or out- 

 side in the border? P. B. F. F. 



Wash the seeds and plant them in 

 a box and place in the cool end of a 

 greenhouse or other place where se- 

 vere frost will not reach them. About 

 the end of January or the first of Feb- 

 ruary bring them into a warm place 

 and they will germinate the first year 

 if they are properly fertilized which 

 is not always the case with seed from 

 young trees. 



ROBERT J. DYSART 



PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT AND AUDITOR 



Simple methods of correct accolintini; 



eNpeclally adapted for florist*** uhc. 



SOOKS BALANTED AND ADJUSTED 



Merchants Bank Bnildlnir 



♦0 STATE ST. BOSTON 



Telephona Mala H 



