August 29, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



AMERICAN BEAUTIES 



The new crop are coming in freely. Quality is 

 improving:. No better value in a summer flower. 

 $1.00 to $3.00 per dozen. Special, $17.50 per 100. 



ASTERS 



The best varieties $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00 per 100; 

 extra fine Greenhouse grown at $3.00 per 100. 



GLADIOLI 



Very fine quality. $2.00, $3.00 and $4.00 per 100. 

 Special 500 lots at $7.50. Our growers are cutting 

 the finest spikes of this Grand Summer Flower. 



RIBBONS 



We invite your inquiries. Our stock is complete — 

 we have all the best shades. 



S. S. PENNOCR-MEEHAN CO. 



THE ^""^VtbWs OF PHILADELPHIA 



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NEW YORK 

 117 W. 28th St. 



PHILADELPHIA 

 1608-1620 Ludlow St. 



BALTIMORE 

 Franklin and St. Paul St. 



WASHINGTON 

 .1216 HSt., N. W. 



Flower Market Reports WHOLESALE FLOWER MARKETS — t«a'>^''"c^-/o*VIa 



still a very dull market. 



BOSTON with the lightest demand 

 ever experienced in Au- 

 gust. The wholesale marts are liter- 

 ally swamped with roses. Asters are 

 coming in plentifully and of splendid 

 <3uality. Gladioli are also still abun- 

 dant and good. Sweet peas are quite 

 scarce. The best demand is enjoyed 

 by American Beauty roses, lily of the 

 valley, adiantum and orchids. The 

 new crop of carnations has com- 

 menced to come in, short-stemmed but 

 good. White Perfection showing partic- 

 ularly fine form and fully justifying 

 its name. 



Trade has improved 



BUFFALO slightly the past week, 

 though there was a de- 

 mand last week for good asters and 

 double white Killarney roses. Wed- 

 dings are beginning to come on and 

 floral work has been more in evidence, 

 calling for lily of the valley and other 

 good flowers. Gladioli have been over- 

 flooding the market but it now seems 

 as if the heaviest crops are over. The 

 market is in much better condition 

 and things have brightened up some- 

 what. There are plenty of short roses, ^ 

 lilies and other stock. 



The hot weather which 

 CHICAGO has prevailed the entire 



week has had a very dis- 

 couraging effect on the market. Stock 

 in all lines has accumulated to such 

 an extent that It is impossible to move 



TO DEALERS ONLY 



Roses 



Am. Beauty, Special 



" " Fancy and Extra.. 



No. I 



Killarney, Richmond, Extra. .. 

 " " Ordinary 



HillingdOD, Ward, Sunburst, Extra 

 '* " " Ordinary 



Maryland, Taft, Extra 



" " Ordinary 



Russell, Shawycr 

 Carnations, Fancy . 

 *' Ordinary 



Caltleyas 



Lilies. Longiflorum . 



Lily of the Valley 



Asters 



Gladioli 



Com Flower 



Dasies, white and yellow 



Sweet Peas 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax 



Asparagus Plumosus, Strings (lOo) 

 "; Spren. (loo Bchs.) 



PHILA. 



August 34 



it at almost any price. Beauties and 

 other roses have suffered severely — 

 quality deteriorated to a marked de- 

 gree, most of the stock received be- 

 ing open and soft. At the present writ- 

 ing the weather has turned much 

 cooler and it is hoped that this may 

 continue. Carnations are more in 

 evidence each day: length of stem is 

 increasing somewhat, but the great 

 bulk of the stock is still short- 

 stemmed, however. Gladioli are back in 

 the rut again, receipts being very 

 heavy and demand slow. Asters are 

 plentiful but really first-class stock 

 is short of demand; the inferior 

 grades move slowly. Lilies and lily 

 of the valley are fairly active, supply 

 being about equal to demand. 



Gladioli and asters 

 CINCINNATI are at their best. The 

 first cosmos and 

 dahlias are in the market. With the 

 cooler nights the roses have improved 

 greatly. The first of the cuts from 

 the young carnations are on hand. It 

 is just the overlapping of the flowers 

 for the respective seasons. Business 

 is on the whole rather poor. There 

 is plenty of stock of all kinds, but 

 the demand is rather weak. A few 

 flowers such as choice asters sell read- 

 ily, but the great bulk of the week's 

 offering moves slowly it at all. Prices 

 are low, so that with the limited call 

 for stock the aggregate sales do not 

 run into large figures. 



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