December 26, 1914 



HORTICULTUBE 



923 



Flower Market Reports 



{Continutdfrom page Q2r) 



Christmas week at this writing, 

 Monday the 21st, are quite rosy. If 

 the weather proves favorable, we will 

 have a good story to tell in next 

 issue. 



Retailers report 

 SAN FRANCISCO, an improvement, 

 due to the in- 

 creasing number of social events. 

 Wholesalers, however, find it neces- 

 sary to go out actively after business 

 instead of having it come in as usual. 

 There is more shipping demand for 

 violets, which are still rather scarce, 

 as the temperature accompanying the 

 rain has been too cold to bring out 

 the flowers. It looks as it the shortage 

 may continue through the liolidays. 

 Many advance orders are being re- 

 ceived. Shipping orders for roses are 

 also increasing. The stock is very 

 fair, and in ample but not in excessive 

 supply. Ophelia and Hadley are well 

 received, the limited daily offerings 

 being closely cleaned up, and it is 

 probable that planting of these, as 

 well as of Russell, will he more ex- 

 tensive next year. Red roses and car- 

 nations are expected to run a little 

 short at Christmas, as usual, though 

 the stock is being held back for that 

 time as much as possible. Carnations 

 of fair quality are plentiful and rather 

 cheap, but an advance is expected. 

 Lilium giganteum is appearing In 

 many of the shops, and a good many 

 Roman hyacinths are coming in. Gar- 

 denias are showing up nicely, and still 

 improving, with prospects of a fine cut 

 for Christmas. The supply of orchids 

 is improving, both in quantity and 

 quality, and is pretty well absorbed. 

 Chrysanthemums are showing the ef- 

 fects of the rain, but the smaller varie- 

 ties are still fairly plentiful and cheap, 

 and some of the Chinese varieties are 

 of very good quality. English holly is 

 coming in more freely and promises to 

 be fairly plentiful, with offerings from 

 California as well as northern points. 

 Southern California poinsettias are be- 

 coming more of a feature and a good 

 Christmas demand is expected. Azalea 

 plants are appearing everywhere, and 

 are very fine. 



Business has been 

 ST. LOUIS quiet as usual just be- 

 fore Christmas, with 

 stock not any too plentiful among the 

 commission houses with prices rather 

 high. As to Christmas supply it is 

 not possible to say this early how it 

 is going to be. but there will be a de- 

 cided scarcity in peas and violets and 

 Beauties will come high. The dark 

 weather for the past three weeks has 

 surely got our growers up in the air 

 as to Christmas stock and if business 

 is going to be brisk there will not be 

 enough stock coming in to go to fill 

 advance orders. 



According to state- 

 WASHINGTON ments made to the 

 Washington corres- 

 pondent of HoKTitri.Tiiu:, the Christ- 

 mas business for 1914 will surpass that 

 of last year to quite an extent. The 

 advance orders for cut flowers and 

 blooming plants have been exception- 

 ally heavv, giving a feeling of confi- 

 dence to the growers. Conditions are 

 such that Uie people of Washington 



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 .75 per 1000 



FANCY OR DAGGER FERNS 



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Bronze and Green Calux, $1.00 per 10»»; 



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 Brnnch Laurel, i".. . for u large hundle. 

 Soutuern ^imllax, 50 ll>. <«BeH, t.1.00. 

 Green and Bronle Leucothoe 8pr»y», ♦»•'»' 



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NEW YORK QUOTATIONS PER 100. To Dealers Only 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Cattleyas ■ ■_ 



Liliea, Longiflonim 



" Rubrum 



Lily of the V alley 



Violets 



Com Flower 



Chrysanthtfmuras ■ 



Narcisus, Paper White, Roman Hyacinths . - • 



Mignonetts 



Snapdragon 



Lilac U>cr bunch) 



Sweet Pea» (per loo bunches) 



Gardenias 



Adiantum ■ - 



Smilax 



Asparagus Plumosus, stnngs (per loo) . . . . . 



•• & Speen (loo bunches). 



Ust Half ol Week 



ending Dec. 19 



1914 



\\\%\ Half of We«l 



beeinnin; Dec. 21 



1914 



are not spending the money that they 

 have in previous years for jewelry and 

 other luxuries of that type and thus 

 the demand for cut flowers and plants 

 will be increased to no little extent. 

 American Beauty roses are coming 

 into Washington in large quantities 

 and this has had a tendency to force 

 down prices to some extent. Roses of 

 other varieties and carnations in all 

 colors are plentiful. There will be 

 more than enough orchids and gar- 

 denias to fill all demands. Single vio- 

 lets have been meeting with a very 

 ready sale since first coming in. Some 

 exceptionally fine sweet peas are of- 

 fered at reasonable prices. The ex- 

 pected shortage of Christmas trees 

 and greens has not materialized and 

 the production of blooming plants is 

 heavier than in recent years. 



NEWS NOTES. 

 Alton, III.— The Alton Floral Co. has 

 purchased the greenhouse property of 

 O. B. Rynders, and will shortly erect 

 another greenhouse. 



Plymouth, M ass. — Fritz Schlecht, 

 proprietor of the Allerton street green- 

 houses, has opened for the holiday 

 season a store at 11 Court street. 



Kyck, Avondale Floral Co., E. G. HiU 

 Floral Co., Hardesty & Co., Fred Gear, 

 Max Rudolph and Julius Baer. 



VISITORS' REGISTER. 

 New York— L. W. Wheeler. Pieters- 

 Wheeler Seed Co., Palo Alto, Cal. 



Cincinnati — Miss Fannie White, 

 Lexington, Ky.: E. J. Fancourt, rep- 

 resenting S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co., 

 Philadelphia, Pa.; Fred Rupp, Law- 

 renceburg, Ind. 



Cohasset, Mass.— Ernest Howes, who 

 bought the Col. Albert A. Pope estate 

 on Jerusalem road, is preparing ground 

 for a $25,000 flower garden, besides 

 several greenhouses. It is said the 

 estate will become the floral show 

 place of Jerusalem road. 



Washington.— Charles E. Meehan. of 

 the S S Pennock-Meehan Company, 

 Phila, Pa.; Julian Uilhoft, of Srhloss 

 Bros . New York, N. Y.; Robert Shoch, 

 with Rice & Co.. Phila, Pa.; J. E. 

 Peterson, Westwood. Cincinnati. Ohio; 

 G. G. Stumpp. of Stumpp & Walter 

 Co.. New York; Joseph J. Goudy. with 

 H. A. Dreer, Philadelphia, Pa^ 



New York— I-ecakes has opened a 

 wholesale .greens and cut flower estab- 

 lishment in the store formerly occu- 

 pied by Guttman & Raynor, at 10^ 

 West 28th street. 



New Bedford, IWass.— John J. Leal, 

 a florist, who lives at Ash and Union 

 streets, was found in his bed last bat- 

 urdav morning overcome by coal gas. 

 He was revived by the pulmotor and 

 rushed to St. Luke's hospital. 



Cincinnati-Among the local retail- 

 ers having very attractive w'lndow dis- 

 plays tor the holidays are Miss Ldi'.h 



GUTTMAN & RAYNOR, Inc. 



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Wholesale Florists 



101 W. 28th St. 



NEW YORK 



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