April 7, 1917 



HORTICULTURE 



467 



SWEET PEAS 



For after Easter Weddings Sweet Peas in all their splendor, 

 wonderful quality Spencers, all shades, plenty of the delicate 

 pinks, including- the popular Yarrawa. 



$1.00, $1.50 and $2.00 per 100, with a limited supply of 

 extra long at $2.50 per 100 



GARDENIAS, $2.00 and $3.00 per dozen 



VALLEY, $5.00 and $6.00 per 100 



S. S. PENNOCK-MEEHAN CO. 



THE ^'•te'So, PHILADELPHIA 



NEW YORK 

 117 W. 28th St. 



-PHILADELPHIA 

 1608-1620 Ludlow St. 



BALTIMORE 

 Franklin & St. Paul Su. 



WASHINGTON 

 1216HSt., N.W. 



Flower Market Reports WHO LESALE FLOWER MARKETS - ^'^^ 



The market is slow and 

 BOSTON has been slow all week 



and there is nothing at 

 the time of going to press to indicate 

 what effect the Easter trade will yet 

 have on the heavy surplus with which 

 the market is iiooded. Only one item 

 has changed since our report last week 

 — that is carnations. Where they have 

 disappeared to is not in evidence but 

 they are out of sight and the market 

 price has doubled for the time being. 

 Callas have advanced slightly. Other 

 than that nothing has transpired. 

 There are many lilies of inferior qual- 

 ity and they are hard to move at any 

 price. 



Trade has been fairly 

 CHICAGO good for the closing 

 weeks of Lent and it is 

 generally conceded that that event now 

 makes little difference with the sale of 

 flowers. Stock is still too plentiful for 

 prices to be high and every one expects 

 more or less to go to waste, but by tar 

 the greater part is sold and to fairly 

 good advantage. The street venders 

 are again at the corners and the ten- 

 cent stores are doing a thriving count- 

 er business with flowers, while great 

 trucks of lily plants are seen going to 

 the department stores for the special 

 Easter sales. There is so much offered 

 that is not good enough for shipping 

 trade that every avenue is needed to 

 move the stock coming into this mar- 

 ket, and there are flowers enough to 

 supply all branches of the trade, the 

 high grade stock not being lowered in 

 price because of the poorer grades. 

 Southern shipments now coming are 

 confined to poeticus narcissi, daffodils 

 and tulips and tend to lower the prices 

 o( corresponding home-grown stock. 

 Common ferns now sell for $3.50 per 

 1,000 to out of town customers and 

 J3.00 for local trade. 



Easter business 

 CINCINNATI promises to be good. 



The supply is large 

 and is meeting with an active demand. 

 Roses are fairly plentiful, also sweet 

 peas and carnations. The Easter lily 



Race* 



Am. Beauty, Special 



" '* Fancy and Extra 



*' " No. I and culls 



Russell, Eulcr, Mock 



Hadlcy 



Arenbcrg, Hoosier Beauty 



Ward 



Killamey, Radiance, Taft 



Ophelia. Sunburst, Hillingdon 



„Key 



C«matioBS 



Cattleyu 



Deodrobium formosum 



Lilies. Longif lorum 



Lilies. SpecioBum 



Callas 



Lily of th« Valley 



Snapdrason 



Daffodils 



Narcissi Paper White 



Roman Hyacinths 



Freesia • * ■ 



Tulips 



Calendulas 



Sweet Peas 



Violets 



Marguerites 



Gardanias 



Adiantum 



Smilax 



AsparasvsPlu.ASpreD. (xooBhs.) 



CINCINNATI I 



April 2 I 



CHICAGO 



April 2 



BUFFALO 

 Msr. 36 



50.00 



30.00 



8.00 



6.00 



5.00 

 4.00 

 6.00 



, 300 



I 60.00 



10.00 



10.00 



I 8.00 



6.00 

 2.00 



3.00 



3.00 



3.00 



3.00 



75 



.75 



•75 



60.00 

 40.00 

 35.00 



15.00 

 10.00 

 15.00 



15.00 



5,00 

 75.00 

 15.00 



15.00 



15.00 

 6.00 



13.50 

 4.00 

 3.00 

 400 

 4.00 

 5.00 

 4.00 

 1.50 

 1.50 



I. CO 



15.00 

 25.00 



1. 00 



20.00 



50.00 



50.00 

 30.00 

 4.00 

 5.00 



4.00 

 4.00 

 4.00 

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40.00 



to 

 to 

 to 



60.00 

 40.00 

 15.00 

 40.00 



15.00 



12.00 



1 3. 00 



15.00 



6.00 

 60.00 



PRICES — Per 100 



TO DEALERS OHLY 



PITTSBURG 



Mir. 16 



6o.oe 

 40.00 

 35.00 

 35.00 

 25.00 

 15.00 



13. 00 

 15.00 

 15.00 



10.00 to 18. to I 



10.00 

 5.00 

 5.00 

 2.00 



3.00 



2.00 



2. 00 



.75 



■50 



15.00 



.75 



15.00 

 35.00 



15. CO 

 6.00 

 10.00 



4.00 



4.00 

 4.00 

 3.00 



2.00 



1.00 



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1,00 



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50.00 



40.00 

 30.00 



5.00 



10.00 

 6.00 

 6.00 

 3.00 

 3 00 



4.00 



5.00 



a. 00 



40.00 



10.00 

 4.00 

 8.00 

 6.00 

 5.00 

 9.00 

 2.00 

 3.00 

 3.00 

 s.oo 

 a. 00 

 .60 

 .30 

 1. 00 



15.00 

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15.00 



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to 

 to 

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50.00 

 40,00 

 25.00 



15.00 



12.00 

 10.00 



6.CO 

 10.00 

 10.00 

 12.00 



3.00 

 50.00 



12.00 

 6.00 



12.00 

 7.00 

 8.00 

 3.00 

 3.00 

 3.00 



3-00 

 3.00 

 4.00 

 I 50 

 .50 

 a. CO 

 25.00 

 1.35 



30.00 

 30.00 



50.00 

 30.00 

 15.00 

 10.00 



10. to 

 10.00 

 6.00 

 6.00 

 6.00 



4.00 



60.00 



to 



to 



6.00 



75.00 



10. CO to Kt.OO 



4.00 

 4.00 



3.00 

 3.00 



•75 



.50 



3.00 



6.00 

 8.00 

 3.00 



5.00 



4.00 



a. 00 

 1.00 

 3.00 



1.35 



30.00 

 50.00 



cut is very large. A fair amount of 

 daffodils, tulips and hyacinths is avail- 

 able and gladioli now are regular 

 factors in the day's market. Excellent 

 snapdragons are coming in. Blooming 

 plants for Easter are in an unusually 

 good condition this year and the sup- 

 ply is large. 



There has been very 

 NEW YORK little business done 



this week in compari- 

 son with the heavy receipts of flowers 

 in the wholesale district and the con- 

 sequent congestion makes the booking 

 of local Easter orders on anything ex- 

 cept the rarer specialties a slow proc- 

 ess. The retailers are not worrying 

 much about their cut flower stock for 

 the big day but are giving their atten- 



tion and their store space almost ex- 

 clusively to the plant business, which 

 promises to be fully up to previous rec- 

 ords. A scarcity of plants at the wind- 

 up is looked for by many but he would 

 be a bold optimist who would predict 

 a cut flower famine or talk advanced 

 prices on general stock. 



Stock came in 

 PHILADELPHIA in greater abun- 

 dance during the 

 past week but the demand is pretty 

 good and everything moved off well 

 although at moderate prices. The 

 quality all around is high grade. In 

 roses the Russells, Hadleys and Shaw- 

 yers are especially fine. Ophelia is 

 also very good. The carnation mar- 

 ket is in healthy condition but prices 



{C0m4$nu^ti 0M Page ^dg^ 



For the Retailer or for the Grower 



KENNICOTT BROS. CO. 



Whoiesaie Cut Flowers 



IN CHICAGO 



a. B. KENNICOTT. Pre.ld.iii. 



). E. POLLWORTH, S«.V "i Gen'l Mar. 



