March 31, 1917 



HORTICULTURE 



433 



EASTER LILIES 



For Easter a magnificient lot of cut Lilies. Splendid 

 well-grown stock 



$10.00 and $12.00 per 100 



VIOLETS 



Hudson River Doubles, in splendid shape and any quantity 



$1.00 and $1.25 per 100 



Write For a Copy of Our Easter Cut Flower Price List 



S. S. PENNOCK-MEEHAN CO. 



NEW YORK 

 117 W. 28th Si. 



XI4F Wholesale 

 1 ni-i Florists of 



-PHILADELPHIA 

 1608-1620 Ludlow St. 



PHILADELPHIA 



BALTIMORE 

 Franklin & St. Paul Sts. 



WASHINGTON 

 1216HSt,. N.W. 



Flower Market Reports WHOLESALE FLOWER MARKETS - 



TRADE PRICES — Per 100 



TO DEALERS ONLY 



The wholesale trade here 

 BOSTON is in a bad predicament 

 with an enormous accu- 

 mulation oi stock far beyond any pos- 

 sibility of disposal. The flower mar- 

 Ivets are loaded down with diftodils, 

 sweet peas, tulips, carnations, violets 

 and roses for which a bidder at any 

 price cannot be found. There is no 

 likelihood of a change tor tlie better, 

 either, until the welcome Easter call 

 begins to come to the front. We see 

 but few cattleyas but there seems to 

 be no other flower common to the mar- 

 ket at this season which is not "in the 

 doldrums." 



Stock has been coming 

 BUFFALO in quite freely for the 

 past two weeks There 

 has been a heavy supply of roses, car- 

 nations and sweet peas and business 

 has fallen backward. Design work, 

 which has been lightly distributed, is 

 about the only thing that has kept 

 things moving. The surplus lias been 

 heavy and is carried along from day 

 to day. Lilies, too, are very plentiful 

 also violets and all bulbous stock. 

 Trade has been very uneven, but a 

 change is looked tor soon. 



Chicago wholesalers are 

 CHICAGO facing the proposition of 

 moving a great quantity 

 of stock at this time and they are do- 

 ing it in a way thaj; speaks well for 

 their salesmanship. Of course a very 

 large proportion of the stock is sold at 

 concessions far below quotations and 

 the nearby retailers find it very much 

 to their advantage to visit the market 

 in person, but a much better feeling 

 prevails than if prices were held at a 

 iiigber figure and much stock lost 

 thereby. Even in this case of sell at 

 anj' price, totals liave reached a good 

 mark the past week. Southern daffo- 

 dils, tulips and poeticus in quantity 

 are flooding the market, with home 

 grown ones still coming. Roses are so 

 plentiful that it is feared by some that 

 with the probability of warmer weather 

 the Easter stock may be shortened. 



Roses 



Am. Beauty, Special 



Fancy and Extra 



*' " No. 1 and culls 



Russell, Euler, Mock 



Hadley 



Arenberg, Hoosier Beauty 



Ward 



Killarney, Radiance, Taft 



' Iphelia, Sunburst, HlUingdon 



Key 



Carnations 



Cattleyas 



Dendrobium fonnosain 



Lilies, Longiflomin 



Lilies, Speciosum 



Callas 



Uly of ths Valley 



Snapdragon 



Daffodils 



Narcissi. Paper White 



Roman Hyacinths 



Freesia 



Tulips.. 



Calendulas 



Sweet Peas 



Violets 



Marguerites 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax ■ ■ • 



Asparagus Plu. & SprsD. (looBhs.) 



CINONNATI I 

 Mar. 26 I 



CHICAGO 



Mar, 26 



BUFFALO 



Msr. 26 



PITTSBURG 



Mar, 36 



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Carnation conditions have not changed 

 any and the market is weak. Sweet 

 peas and violets are both moving 

 slowly. Green is not ahead of demand 

 which has been uniformly good all the 

 season. 



Supply is sufficient 

 CINCINNATI and demand gener- 

 ally is steady and 

 active. The supply for Easter prom- 

 ises to be large. Among others some 

 particularly excellent Ophelia roses 

 are coming in. The carnation cut 

 promises to be good for Easter. Lilies 

 are excellent and plentiful, also good 

 bulbous stock. 



Watchful, wistful 

 NEW YORK waiting is the whole- 

 salers' lot nowadays 

 unless he handles Easter plants as a 

 side line. The retail stores give the 

 most of their attention to the plant 

 growers' products and the plant grow- 

 ers are not worrying for they are all 

 aliout cleaned up on Easter stock. In 

 the meantime the buyer has the mat- 

 ter of cut flower prices pretty near as 

 he chooses, except in the case of the 

 aristocratic Hadley rose and the elu- 

 sive cattleya. A better layout next 

 week — perhaps. 



iConiinufd on page 43'i} 



For the Retailer or for the Grower 



KENNICOTT BROS. CO. 



Wholesale Cut Flowers 



IN CHICAGO 



H. B. KENHICOTT, President. 



J. B. POltWORTB, SeoV and Qen'l Mir. 



