October 17, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



561 



Flower Market Reports 



Business has Lieeii very 



BOSTON unsteady, fluctuating 

 from day to day in re- 

 sponse to the temperature — prices go- 

 ing lO pieces on tiie advent ot a warm 

 day and swinging back into line again 

 under tlie influence of a couple of cold 

 nights. There is an abundance ot ma- 

 terial; too much, In fact, of some 

 things, such as carnations and ordina- 

 ry chrysanthemums. Violets are very 

 poor as a rule, and figure among the 

 accumulation"! of unsalable stock. 

 Roses aie not very good as a general 

 thing but some exceptionally fine ones 

 are seen here and there. The latter 

 bring their price, but the average run 

 of roses realize but little on a warm 

 day. According to the statements of 

 some of the leading wholesale and re- 

 tail dealers, business has fallen off 

 fully fifty per cent, as compared with 

 the corresponding period last year. 

 Oue retailer attributes this in part to 

 the crippling of the steamer trade up- 

 on which he greatly relied. 



A good hot summer 



BUFFALO week has made the 

 trade feel that vacation 

 days have returned again. Busi- 

 ness was practicplly at a stand- 

 still and any sales that were made had 

 to be forced. There was no shortage 

 on any one line, the rose stock coming 

 in very heavy and in open condition, 

 and enough good carnations for all 

 who wanted them. Dahlias, mostly not 

 good, cosmos, lily of the valley and 

 chrysanthemums are all in abundance. 

 In chrysanthemums yellow only are in 

 demand ard thes-e are but few. On 

 Saturday the retailers sold roses at 

 25c. per dozen, and anyone may judge 

 how conditions were for the week. A 

 very discouraging week was passed, 

 though improvements are looked for 

 soon. 



The market remains 



CINCINNATI crowded. Large re- 

 ceipts of dahlias and 

 cosmos as well as the end of the aster 

 crop have not given the market chance 

 to lighten at all and, in spite of a 

 good steady demand, prices remain at 

 a very low level. Shipping business 

 is good. The supply of roses is large 

 and good, and includes an ample cut 

 of American Beauties. Carnations are 

 coming in much stronger than before. 

 In chrysanthemums yellow has up to 

 this time predominated, hut enough 

 white and pink are to be had for im- 

 mediate requirements. Lilies continue 

 plentiful. Lily of the valley meets 

 with a fair market, but orchids are 

 selling rather slowly. 



We are hav- 



KNOXVILLE, TENN. ing fall 

 weather now 

 — warm days and cool nights — but so 

 far no frost. Stocks of all kinds is look- 

 ing good and some of the florists have 

 been cutting a few chrysanthemums, 

 but the main crop will not come in for a 

 few days yet. Carnations are coming in 

 and are very fine for the season of the 

 year; roses are fair. This has been a 

 very busy week and parties and recep- 

 tions have demanded flowers every 

 day; with a large number of weddings 

 coming off this month, society has 

 been on one continual round of parties, 

 which have been cleaning up stock 

 every day. 



FOR THE 



DEBUTANTE 



Extra 1st 2nd 



100 100 100 

 lish Fire I'liiiiie. $0.00 .$4.00 



.Mrs. .\ar<m War.l. COO 4.0O .$:!.00 



Olil tiolil 8.00 6.00 



Olihelht G.OO 5.00 3.00 



IriiiKis Siott Ke.v 6.00 4.00 3.00 



Ilaill.-v 6.00 5.00 3.00 



V.VLLEY. 



Special, S;4.00 per lOn. 

 Extra, .$:;.00 per 100. 



CATTLEY.VS. 



$4.00 tu $6.00 per doz. 

 WHITE ORCHIDS. 



ife.OO per doz. 

 VAXD.A, ONCIDIlUr 

 and other .SPRAY 

 OK( HIDS in variet.v. 



SiMul for Onr IMiint I'riee List. 



i:\KKYTHIXG IX RIBBONS 



and FLORISTS' SI I'l'LIES. 



SenO for Our <'utalosue. 



S. S. PENNOCK-MEEHAN CO. 



NEW YORK 



117 W. 28ihSi. 



The Wholesale Florists of Philadelphia 



PH1LADELPHI4 



1608-1620 lodlow St. 



BALTIMORE 



Franklia and St. Paal Sib. 



WASBINGTON 

 12I6HS1..N.W. 



WHOLESALE FLOWER MARKETS — ^'^^^^'^^^to'deI 



TO DEALERS ONLY 



Roses , . , 



Am . Beauty , Special 



" " Fancy and Extra 



" No. I 



Killarney, Richmond, Extra 



" " Ordinary. 



Hillingdon, Ward, Sunburst, Extra...- 



" " •* Ordinary. 

 Maryland, Shawyer, Taft, Extra 



" " " Ordinary .. . 

 Russell, Hadley 



Carnations, Fancy 



" Ordinary 



Cattleyas 



Lilies, Longinorum 



Lily of the Valley • 



Violets 



Corn Flower 



ChrysanthemuiDS '■ 



Dahlias 



Sweet Peas 



Gardenias 



Adiantum ■ 



Smilax 



Asparagus Plumasus. Strings ( loo) . . 

 *' & Spren. (100 Bchs.) .. . 



BOSTON 



Oct. 15 



ST. LOUIS 



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The market here is 

 NEW YORK again flooded with 



flowers for w h i c h 

 there is no adequate sale and vaiues 

 have taken another tumble in conse- 

 quence. It does not take much in the 

 present state of affairs to gorge the 

 channels of the flower trade and things 

 go to pieces on the first ripple of a 

 flood. Chrysanthemums are coming in 

 quite heavily and it is next to impos- 

 sible to enumerate the many different 

 varieties now on sale. Prices consid- 

 ered normal in past seasons are real- 

 ized in few cases only and the out- 

 look is not very reassuring. Lilies 

 are again over abundant and violets 

 are exceedingly plentiful although the 

 weather is not conducive to their free 

 blooming. Roses are the worst suf- 

 ferers from the present redundance. 

 They are arriving by the thousands 



and are being sold as low as $5 per 

 1,000 by the box as they come in. The 

 American Beauty market is in the 

 same fix. $10 per 100 for the finest 

 specials being gladly accepted by the 

 dealers. Carnations are having a 

 much better reception and good stock 

 sells out nicely. In the line of or- 

 chids there are plenty of cattleyas 

 and oncidiums, $2 per 100 flowers be- 

 ing about the average price for the 

 latter. There is still an immense quan- 

 tiiy of dahlias in the market, many 

 coming from R. Vincent. Jr., White- 

 marsh. Md., and these are really the 

 be.st dahlias received in New York this 

 season, but it is almost out of the ques- 

 tion to move them at even $1 a 100. 

 From the foregoing facts it will be 

 seen that market conditions this week 

 are decidedly unsatisfactory. 



C Continued on pa^e jbj) 



