August 15, 1914 



H R T I C U L T U E E 



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Flower Market Reports NEW YORK QUOTATIONS PER 100. To Dealers^nly 



(Continued from page 2=^=;) 



white ones are apparently enjoying the 

 best call. Gladioli continue plentiful. 

 The market in both asters and gladi- 

 oli is more or less crowded. 



As the season ad- 

 NEW YORK vances the unsatis- 

 factory market condi- 

 tions become more wearisome and un- 

 manageable. The shipments of gladi- 

 olus blooms and asters are this week 

 enormous, beyond all past experience. 

 A large proportion of the stock cannot 

 possibly be disposed of. other than to 

 throw them away daily to make room 

 for the oncoming avalanche. Lilies 

 are again overplentiful and values 

 have dropped back into the discard. 

 Of carnations very few are seen and 

 the whites are the only ones that sell. 

 No change in roses since last week, 

 quantities of little ones from young 

 plants being received but good stock 

 in white being quite scarce. Other 

 material is about normal for mid-sum- 

 mer. Southern asparagus continues to 

 make a fine record. It arrives in ex- 

 cellent shape and finds an active de- 

 mand. 



We are in the 

 PHILADELPHIA midst of the usual 

 summer dullness; 

 buyers are very conservative and sales 

 are small and few. Lots of poor asters 

 — probably fifty per cent — are under 

 grade, especially of the older crop. 

 The newer crop is much better. Gla- 

 dioli are still fairly plentiful but not 

 so much of a glut as heretofore. The 

 high tide is past. Roses are coming 

 rather more freely. Some of the new 

 crop are now appearing. White and 

 pink Killarney are among the latter, 

 short-stems but very good flowers. 

 There are some nice Hadley and 

 Ophelia, also rather short-stemmed as 

 yet. Carnations are not a factor. Bel- 

 ladona and other delpheniums of that 

 type are again in good form from the 

 second crop, although not so long- 

 stemmed as earlier in the season. 



The market has been 

 ST, LOUIS very weak as far as 

 demand was concerned, 

 but as to receipts it is in fine condi- 

 tion. Anything wanted and as much 

 of it as wanted are to be had at prices 

 that are much lower than any summer 

 heretofore. Gladioli, roses and asters 

 have been crowding the market all 

 ■week with the demand so light that 

 much of the stock had to be dumped. 

 The young roses are coming in heavily. 

 Asters are in abundance with only the 

 light colors selling. Gladioli have 

 choked up the market and $10 per 

 1,000 is considered a fair price for 

 them. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



No decision has yet been rendered 

 in the damage suit brought by Frank 

 P. Myers and George Burton against 

 the local Smelting Co. This being va- 

 cation season the County Court judges 

 need more time than usual. The case 

 was tried last week. 



Robert Craig Co. will have -three 

 beds of crotons at the outdoor exhibi- 

 tion in the Back Bay, Boston. These 

 will be well worth seeing and will em- 

 phasize what a superb effect can be 

 produced with this subject. They will 

 be mostly American grown seedlings 

 as yet but little known. 



Cattleru 



Lilies. Longiflorum 



Rubrum 



Lily of the Valley 



Asters 



Gladioli 



Com Flower 



Daises, white and yellow 



Sweet Peas (per loo bunches) 



Gardenias 



Adiantum • 



Smilax 



Asparagus Plumosus, strings (per loo) 



" *• & Spren (loo bunches). 



last Half of Week 



ending Aug. 8 



19U 



15.00 

 2.00 



1. 00 

 1.00 



x.oo 



1. 00 

 25,00 



,50 



6.00 

 25.00 

 X5.00 



35-00 

 3.00 



3.00 

 3.00 

 1,00 



2,CO 

 ■25 

 .50 



5.00 

 35.00 



•75 

 12.00 

 35,00 

 20.00 



First Half of Week 



beeinning Aug. 10 



1914 



15,00 



2.00 

 2.00 

 1. 00 



•25 

 .50 



1. 00 

 35.00 



6.00 

 25.00 

 15.00 



40.00 

 3.00 

 3.00 

 3.00 

 1,00 

 1,00 



•»5 

 •50 

 5,00 

 35.00 

 .5° 

 12,00 

 35.00 

 30.00 



A FLORIST FARMER. 



Up at Chappaqua, N. Y., once famous 

 as the home of Horace Greeley, lives 

 a successful Long Island florist who, 

 while desiring to retire from the bur- 

 den and exactions of business life yet 

 could not bring himself to abandon 

 hard work so he moved to Chappaqua. 

 acquired a farm of seven acres and 

 settled down to the enjoyment of plow- 

 ing, digging, hoeing, planting and 

 other liglit relaxations of like charac- 

 ter. And now the wilderness on the 

 hillside begins to blossom as the rose 

 and the trees are bending under their 

 weight of luscious fruit and the neigh- 

 bors all about are commencing to take 

 notice, and wonder why they can't do 

 likewise, and so Chappaqua may soon 

 become famous again — this time be- 

 cause of its beautiful gardens, and an- 

 other monument may sometime be 

 erected — this one to commemorate W. 

 H. Siebrecht, because instead of saying 

 "Go west, young man," he said, "Stay 

 right here, young man. and develop the 

 land you have at home." 



Besides fruit of every description 

 and an extensive vegetable garden, 

 large numbers . of ornamental trees, 

 shrubs, conifers, etc.. have been set out 

 and beauty and utility have been 

 agreeably combined. Bee culture is 

 also carried on to the extent of about 

 a ton of extracted honey a year. The 

 real eye-opener, however, for the com- 

 mercial florist is the contents of a 

 greenhouse 40x17.5, crowded to the 

 limit with Acacia pubescens. We doubt 

 if there is anywhere in the world a 

 house to equal it. The old plants are 

 trained to cross trellises, five plants 

 and six plants alternately to a trellis, 

 the centre ones rising to a height of 

 15 feet and spreading out in great um- 

 brellas of lacy green that almost ob- 

 scure the roof and will produce their 

 pendant showers of golden yellow in 

 great profusion from Christmas to 

 Easter. There are 39 of these cross- 

 trellises, so that the number of trees 

 in the house is over 200. Between 

 them stand as many more young 

 plants in pots of various sizes and an- 

 other large house will soon be erected 

 to accommodate these. Mr. Siebrecht 

 is still working away on the old prob- 

 lem of the propagation of Acacia pu- 

 bescens and witli a considerable suc- 

 cess. Many diniculties are encoun- 

 tered but tiie solution seems to be on 

 the way. "Ye editor" had a glorious 

 holiday" visiting this interesting place 

 and In the society of its genial com- 

 panionable ow^ner. We hope he may 

 have many years yet in which to enjoy 

 his farm and its charming outlook over 

 the green hills and valleys of Chappa- 

 qua. "They are happy men whose na- 

 tures sort with their vocations," 



GREENHOUSES BUILDING OR 

 CONTEMPLATED. 



Canton, 111.— Geo. Jacobs, additions. 



Warwood. W. Va, — Albert Last, one 

 house. 



Catonsville, Md.— T. W. Gray, two 



houses. 



Morris, III. — Morris Floral Co., 125 

 ft. house. 



Thorsby, Ala. — Howard Bros., Mon- 

 inger house. 



Waterloo, la. — ('has. Sherwood, 

 three houses. 



North Taunton, Mass.— A. R. Field, 

 60 ft. addition. 



Mt, Joy, Pa. — E. H. Zercher, King 

 house. 30 X 150. 



Mt. Carroll, la. — Ed. Margileth & 

 Son. one house. 



New Canaan. Ct.— S. B. Hoyt. Main 

 street, one house. 



Horseheads, N. Y. — Earl Shults, 

 King house. 18 x 50. 



West Rindge, N. H. — Miss M. L. 

 Ware, house 16x120. 



Moscow, Idaho — Scott Bros., propa- 

 gating house, 9 x 125. 



Wilmette, III,— Pyfer & Olsem, addi- 

 tions and alterations. 



Woburn. Mass.— C. B. Johnson, two 

 houses, each 40 x 250. 



Creston, la. — Creston Greenhouses & 

 Floral Co.. one house. 



Fairhaven. Mass.— Peter Murray, ad- 

 ditions and alterations. 



Kalamazoo, Mich. — City Green- 

 houses, range of houses. 



Stoughton, Mass — Robert Hutcheon, 

 Grove street, one house. 



Shenandoah, la. — Stevens Floral Co., 

 three houses, each 25 x 100. 



Fall River, Mass.— Wm. Wilkinson, 

 Grove avenue, addition, 20x50. 



Brooklyn, N. Y. — Peter Wagner, Mid- 

 wood stre.^t, three houses, each 20 x 72. 



Indianapolis, Ind. — Roepke Floral 

 Co., E. Washington street, one house. 



Rockville Center, N. Y. — Geo. T. 

 Schunemann. Hitchings house, 65 x 300. 



New Bedford, Mass. — James F. 

 Smith, 196 Hawthorn street, house 

 22x60. 



Germantown, Pa.— E. H. Weiden- 

 bacher, 4516 Germantown avenue, 

 house 16x50, 



PATENTS GRANTED. 



1 105,674. Weed-Killing Device. Jo- 

 seph Lytle, Jr., Pormby. Liverpool, 

 England. 



1.105,684. Weed Puller. Daniel E, 

 Xuttall, Emsworth, Pa. 



