September 19, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



435 



Flower Market Reports 



( Vontiriiifii from f^ge 4- f) 



■of rain. Carnations are a little more 

 plentiful and the quality is improving 

 very rapidly. Mr. Charles Russell is 

 •one of the leaders in the rose world, 

 very fine at present and very popular. 

 In general, busi- 



SAN FRANCISCO ness is picking 

 up, but has not 

 yet gathered much headway. Probably 

 the matter of most interest is the be- 

 ginning of the chrysanthemum season, 

 offerings in this line at the wholesale 

 flower market being larger every 

 morning. The earlier varieties are 

 now quite plentiful, and October Frost 

 is beginning to show up well. The de- 

 mand is improving, but prices are low. 

 Roses are rather "between seasons," 

 and offerings of most varieties are not 

 very attractive. Very few really good 

 American Beauties can be had; Mary- 

 land, Killarney and Cecil Brunner, 

 however, are beginning to show up 

 fairly well. Large plantings of roses 

 have been made, as growers believe 

 that the winter demand here will be 

 unusually strong; and there is always 

 a good shipping business to the north 

 Pacific states. Orchids are temporari- 

 ly scarce, but few of them are needed. 

 Violets are appearing a little more 

 freely, but show the effects of the pro- 

 longed dry weather. Carnations have 

 not yet developed very well. Lilies 

 are abundant and very fine, album, 

 giganteum and formosum being shown 

 in all the shops, and there will be no 

 shortage of lily of the valley for the 

 next few months. 



Trade has not as yet 



ST. LOUIS shown any improve- 

 ment, as was expected 

 at the commencement of the fall sea- 

 son. The retail business is very dull 

 and the wholesale markets have great 

 difficulty in disposing of their stock 

 at anything like the prices they 

 should bring at this time of the year, 

 and it looks as If we need cold 

 ■weather and a few frosts to stimulate 

 the business. The market has any- 

 thing the season affords and in great 

 .abundance. To quote correct prices 

 is out of question. Roses are so plen- 

 tiful that many have to be dumped 

 daily at extremely low prices; the 

 same may be said of all other stock. 

 Chrysanthemums are beginning to ar- 

 rive and a nice lot of Golden Glow 

 were seen last week. 



The coming of the 



WASHINGTON cool weather had 

 the effect of clean- 

 ing up the market of cut flowers. 

 Where roses came in the previous 

 week by the thousands they are now 

 coming in by the hundreds and the 

 •quality necessarily suffers because of 

 the sudden change. The only rose in 

 the market of which there is enough 

 to go the rounds is the American Beau- 

 ty; the other varieties are sold down 

 close, and the demand for the Ameri- 

 can Beauty is not very great. Prices 

 have shown few advances. Chrysan- 

 themums and dahlias are beginning 

 to be seen in the stores and the quali- 

 ty is quite good. Although some very 

 , fine asters are still to be had, the sea- 

 son for these in this market is over. 

 The gladiolus is also now practically a 

 flower of the past and the cannas in 

 the public parks are on the wane. Tri- 

 tomas are seen in fair quantities and 

 are being used mainly for display pur- 

 :poses. 



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 .75 per 1000 



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Bronze and Green Oalax, $1.00 per 1000; 



?7.,J0 per case of 10,000. 

 Sphaimum MosB, large sack, only 40c. 

 I'lne l>j- the pound, 8c., or by the yard. 

 Branch Laurel, 35c. for a large bundle. 

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

 Green and Bronze Leucothoe Sprays, $3.00 



per 1000. 

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CROWL FERN CO., Millington, Mass. 



SEW YORK QUOTATIONS PER 100. To Dealers Only 



Ust Half ol Week First Half of Wu* 

 ending Sep. 12 beginning Sep. 14 

 1914 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Cattleyas 



Lilies, Longiflorum 



" Rubrum ■* 



Uiy of the Valley 



Asters 



Gladioli 



Com Flower 



Cbrvsantheinums 



Dahlias 



Sweet Peas (per loo bunches) 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax 



Asparagus Plumosus, strings (per loo) 25.00 



" ** & Spren (100 bunches) 1 X5.< 



1314 



3.00 



•so 



12.00 



•75 

 10.00 

 35.00 

 20.00 



5.00 

 •50 



25.00 

 15.00 



15.00 

 •75 

 10.00 

 35.00 

 as-oo 



SOME GOOD GROWERS. 



We had the pleasure of a brief call 

 at the Mathison Greenhouses at Wal- 

 tham, Mass., recently and were pleased 

 to find our old friend Jos. Lamb, form- 

 erly at the Hentz rose houses in Madi- 

 son, N. J., "making good" in the man- 

 agement of this place. The roses cer- 

 tainly show that they have not an idle 

 moment. The various Killarneys. 

 most ot them second-year plants, bris- 

 tle with young buds and so does Rich- 

 mond, but this latter is seeing its last 

 year here, as Hadley is beating every- 

 thing else in sight in vigor, stem, col- 

 or, fragrance and all other desirable 

 qualities and bids fair to become the 

 reigning crimson. 



demonstrate their good qualities. Two 

 seedlings of more than ordinary merit 

 now three years old, are worthy of 

 special notice. One is soft pink, on 

 the order of Fisher's Alice, and the 

 other is bright dark pink. 



One of the most rapidly developin,^ 

 establishments in the neighborhood of 

 Boston is that of C. B. Johnson at 

 Woburn. Mr. Johnson has had pos- 

 session of the place only one year 

 and it is already transformed. Two 

 new houses have been built within 

 that time, 40 by 200 feet., new heat- 

 ing apparatus installed and a 50 foot 

 chimney of white pressed brick is now 

 going up. There is some miscellaneous 

 stock outdoors and in but carnations 

 are the main crops. Here is a chance 

 to compare the qualities of the sev- 

 eral antirrhinums that are being ex- 

 ploited. Ramsburg's variety shows to 

 best advantage, its color tint being 

 decidedly preferable. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



The .\Iii-helI Seed Store announces 

 ■A dahlia show Sept. 22 to 26 inclusive 

 at 51t> Market street. 



('has. Henry Fox arrived home on 

 the S. S. Finland Sept. 14. He will 

 address the Florists' Club on his Euro- 

 pean experiences first Tuesday in Oc- 

 tober. 



("has. L. Seybold. superintendent of 

 parks. Wilkesbarre, Pa.. passed 

 through this city en route for Balti- 

 more, accompanied by his wife, who 

 .goes there for medical attendance, 

 having been quite ill since the Boston 

 convention. 



Visitors — Charles W. Kdgar, B. F. 

 Barr & Co.. Lancaster, Fa.; James 

 Brown, Coatesville; Mr. and .Mrs. John 

 Walker, Youngstown, O.; Sam Mc- 

 Clemonts, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Mrs. Thos. 

 McClintock, Scranton, Pa.: Mr. and 

 Mrs. Bogart, Greensboro Floral Co., 

 Greensboro, N. C. 



Boston — Fire starting probably from 

 spontaneous combustion in the floral 

 wire design factory of J. Jansky on 

 Province St. did a slight amount ot 

 damage and incidentally created a 

 small panic in an adjoining cafe. 



The Backer carnation houses at 

 Billerica are again to the front as 

 evidence of the skill of that clever 

 carnation grower Gustav Thommen. 

 We are safe in repeating what we 

 have often heard asserted that Thom- 

 men has no superior in his specialty 

 anywhere. Matchless, Champion and 

 several other recently introduced sorts 

 are here getting an opportunity to 



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