August 8. 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



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Flower Market Reports SEW YORK QUOTATIONS PER 100. To Dealers Only 



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is the direct cause for slow sales. The 

 American Beauty cut has shortened 

 considerably. Limited quantities of 

 good Lilium auratum and rubrum may 

 be had. Other stock includes tuberoses, 

 dahlias and hydrangeas. 



The flower market 

 NEW YORK seems to interest no- 

 body at the present 

 time and these notes will probably 

 meet with the same fate. The impres- 

 sion one gets in passing along the 

 wholesale stores is a sensation of tomb- 

 like silence and desertion, relieved by 

 miniature mountains of gladioli and 

 asters. These two items constitute 

 about nine-tenths of the entire bulk of 

 each day's receipts. As to quality, 

 the are both excellent. There is a 

 moderate supply of roses— mostly 

 small stuff. The yellows seem to pre- 

 dominate but whites are scarcely in 

 evidence. Hadley shows up well and 

 is evidently a great acquisition as a 

 summer rose. Cattleyas have reduced 

 in numbers, but that does not help 

 much as there is no demand foi them. 

 Carnations are very few. 



The irregularity of the 

 ST. LOUIS local market is caused 

 by the summer dull- 

 ness, and the conditions are such that 

 it is hard to quote correct prices as the 

 market has stood during the past week. 

 Demand is light and ordinary stock of 

 all kinds is plenty, but really first-class 

 stock is hard to find in any quantities. 

 Carnations are completely off crop, and 

 the few coming in are several points 

 shy of first-grade stock. Gladioli and 

 asters are now received in large quan- 

 tities, also good Shasta daisies and 

 lilies. 



Business during 

 WASHINGTON the month of July 

 was about normal, 

 tor when summer comes there is little 

 doing in the National Capital and the 

 florists arc not at all disappointed. A 

 lew flowers are sold each day, just 

 enough to keep some little activity. 

 The weather last week was very vari- 

 able. Hail storms did some little dam- 

 age, particularly at Mount Vernon 

 v.here lightning injured some of the 

 o'.d trees and the wind broke down 

 some of the plants. The cold wave 

 stopped the inrush of flowers to a cer- 

 tain extent but with the mercury ris- 

 ing the market is again being flooded. 

 Lovv prices generally prevail and more 

 often the grower or jobber is glad to 

 accept what the retailer offers. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



George E. Stone, 

 Randall and M. A. 



VISITORS' REGISTER. 



New York— Robert Craig. I'hiladel 

 phia. 



Atlanta. Ga.— Dr. 

 Amherst. Mass. 



St. Louis.— W. W 

 Ltyanger, Chicago. 



Boston— Thomas Knight, New York; 

 •John Y'oung, New York. 



Haines' Falls. N. Y.— Frank McMa- 

 hon and wife, Seabright, N. ,T. 



Cincinnati— Joseph Hill, Richmond 

 Ind.; R. C. Chase, Chase, Ala.: F. J 

 Farney of Rice Co., Philadelphia, Pa 



Cattleyal • • 



Lilies, Longiflorum 



*' Rubrum 



Uly of the Valley 



Ast«-rs 



Gladioli 



Com Flower 



Daises, white and yellow 



Sweet Peas (per loo bunches) 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax *.•"■' .* 



Asparagus Plumosus, strings (per lOo) . . . . . 



•• •' & Sp'en (loo bunches). 



Ust Half of Week 



ending Aug. 1 



1914 



Fint Half of Week 



beginning Aug 3 



1914 



The Montreal Flora! Exchange re- 

 ports trade completely paralyzed in 

 that city, most of the business houses 

 being closed and the streets filled with 

 marching soldiery. The harbor is 

 closed also the entire St. Lawrence 

 liver li-fv-Tn Quebec and .Mo-.itreal. 



CHICAGO NOTES. 



The Chicago special park commis- 

 sion lost a valuable member and chair- 

 man in the death of Alderman Beil- 

 fuss, July 30. Under his leadership 

 Chicago's system of small parks de- 

 veloped rapidly and has become a 

 source of pride to the city. He had 

 been a member of the council ten 

 years. 



The trials of the retailers during the 

 dull summer months, when expenses 

 must be met, are not a few, and not 

 the least is the competition of the ten- 

 cent stores. This week the writer 

 saw bunches of nine Sunburst roses, 

 six to eight inches in length, with 

 plenty of ferns, offered for ten cents 

 and wondered where the stores secured 

 them. 



Fred Lautenschlager of Kroeschell 

 Bros., leaves Chicago, Aug. 10, for Bos- 

 ton, where he will see that the Kroe- 

 schell exhibit is in perfect order. A 

 car load, including a greenhouse boiler 

 and all the necessary fittings, left this 

 week. The space taken this year by 

 the firm is unusually large and the dis- 

 play will be the most complete one ever 

 made by this firm, whose boilers are 

 known all over the world. 



A. Henderson, of the A. Henderson 

 Seed Co.. left Chicago last week, and 

 sailed from New York on the Ryndam. 

 of the Holland-America line, on July 

 25th. He should reach Amsterdam 

 Aug. 6 and expected to spend a little 

 time looking into the bulb situation. 

 Mr. Henderson has a father in Aber- 

 deen, Scotland, and a visit to his old 

 home is the real object of the trip. 

 The foreign complications since his 

 leaving home are causing Mrs. Hender- 

 son much anxiety. 



There is much speculation among 

 Chicago growers as to the effect of the 

 European war on azaleas and bulbous 

 stock. If the countries of supply can- 

 not ship into the United States and we 

 are cut oft much of the winter's busi- 

 ness will be lost. If, on the other 

 hand, these countries can ship here 

 and not elsewhere, there will be 

 thrown on the market such a quantity 

 of stock as will demoralize prices. An- 

 other probability would be the in- 

 jury to stock from transportation de- 

 lay for any length of time. 



Last week the city hall was 

 added to the long list of down-town 

 buildings, whose first floor windows 

 have been decorated with well-filled 

 plant boxes. The cost is said to have 

 been $375.00. If another year brings 

 an equally large advance in the win- 

 dow-box movement, as has been made 

 this year over the small beginning of 

 a year ago, the "loop" will no longer 

 be the barren stretch of burning walls 

 but an inviting place for the summer 

 visitor as well as a less trying place 

 for the summer worker. 



Lester E. Partridge, of Sharp, Par- 

 tridge & Co., and Mrs. Partridge, have 

 returned from an eastern trip, includ- 

 ing a stop at Atlantic City, where a 

 meeting of the Glass Manufacturers' 

 Association was in progress. In dis- 

 cussing the glass situation, Mr. Par- 

 tridge expressed himself as feeling cer- 

 tain that the outlook shows no possi- 

 bility of lower prices during the tall. 

 As no glass can be imported from Bel- 

 gium at present, there will be extra 

 demand to supply California and Can- 

 ada, which have been getting their 

 supply largely from Belgium. 



CINCINNATI NOTES. 



Wm. Sunderbruch has just returned 

 from a trip to New Mexico. 



The floral exhibit at the Carthage 

 Fair will be held on Thursday. Au- 

 gust 13. The entrants have not as yet 

 been announced but it is probable that 

 T. Ben. George, who has a habit of 

 winning most first prizes will again be 

 among those exhibiting. 



Dan Carmichael of J. M. McCul- 

 lough's Sons Co., has announced his in- 

 tention of attending the S. A. F. Con- 

 vention in Boston. Other Cincinnati- 

 ans who will be present are Mr. and 

 Mrs. C. E. Critchell, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. 

 Kyrk, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Peterson. The 

 last four named will go in one of their 

 motor cars. 



PERSONAL. 



A. Henderson. Chicago, sailed for 

 Europe on the Rhyndam last week. 



Miss Winkelhouse, Wm. Elliott & 

 Sons' winsome and ever-courteous 

 office clerk at 42 Vesey street. New 

 Y'ork. has returned from her vacation. 



Julius A. Wolff, son of Julius Wolff, 

 florist, of Philadelphia, surprised his 

 parents on July 30 with a telegram 

 from St. Louis, announcing his mar- 

 riage to Miss Marjorie Adams, that 

 city. Neither the young man's friends 

 nor his family had any idea that he 

 was even engaged. The telegram said 

 he was on his way with his bride to 

 visit his parents at their summer cot- 

 tage at Avalon, N. J. Wolff is about 25 

 years old, and has lived in St. Louis 

 four years. 



John Donaldson, who has now got 

 well settled down in his new home at 

 Patchogue, Long Island, had a visit 

 from the board of directors of the Cut 

 Flower Exchange, from which he has 

 jtisr retired, one day last week. They 

 came in autos. the party numbering 

 fitieen and everybody had a royal time. 

 A fine field glass was presented to Mr. 

 Donaldson as a token of esteem. He 

 can now sit on top of his house and 

 spy out what is going on in New York 

 without having to make the trip. 



