June 23, 1917 



HOKTICULTURE 



799 



Flower Market Reports 



Trade has been quite 

 BOSTON brisk at times during the 



past week, thanks to the 

 school affairs and nuptial festivities. 

 Particularly good has been the call 

 for red flowers — roses, carnations, 

 peonies, etc. White material is heav- 

 ily overstocked, especially lilies and 

 white carnations and now that peonies 

 are beginning to pile up the situation 

 promises to get worse. There are still 

 some Spanish irises to be seen also 

 quantities of feverfew, candytuft, as- 

 tilbe, baby gladioli and other material 

 which missed Memorial Day. Outdoor 

 lily of the valley has finished up and 

 once more the indoor brand is in con- 

 trol and with price stiffened up accord- 

 ingly. Carnation quality is still very 

 good but sweet peas and snapdragons 

 are decidedly down in the scale. Amer- 

 ica and other large gladioli are excel- 

 lent and sell for a fair price. Baby 

 gladioli are too plentiful for the lim- 

 ited demand. 



The market is full of 

 CHICAGO flowers and summer 



conditions have come 

 almost over night. The cold, back- 

 ward spring has held back the local 

 peonies, but now they are coming in 

 so rapidly that some are being put 

 into cold storage. There was a 

 short time between the southern crop 

 and the northern one when the de- 

 mand used them all, but with this ex- 

 ception the market has not been par- 

 ticularly strong so far, though com- 

 paratively few peonies were thrown 

 away. The special sales of flowers in 

 the department stores show the con- 

 dition of the market, and also make 

 matters hard for the retail florists, 

 who cannot compete with the prices 

 in the big stores. The buyers of the 

 stores secure stock much lower than 

 the retail florist can purchase it. The 

 street corner merchant appears to be 

 doing a good business also. Shipping 

 trade is the real standby of the large 

 houses. 



The flower market is 

 NEW YORK steadily drifting to- 

 wards the customary 

 summer dead level of inactivity. Some 

 desultory buying due to the character- 

 istic festivities of Merry June still 

 ser\^s to keep things moving but the 

 snap is rapidly disappearing and va- 

 cations will soon be in order. The re- 

 ceipts of flowers are still much too 

 heavy for the requirements of the mar- 

 ket and quantities of good stock go to 

 loss for lack of a purchaser at any 

 price. As a rule quality holds up well, 

 especially on roses. There are some 

 superb cattleyas to be seen. Peonies 

 are heaped high on all sides but their 

 stay will soon come to a close. 



There was a 

 PHILADELPHIA deluge of flowers 

 in this market 

 last week, the peony crop being par- 

 ticularly in evidence. The glut in the 

 latter is now about over, however, as 

 local stocks are mostly all cut and 

 there is less than usual in cold storage. 

 They came all in a rush this year and 

 a couple of weeks late so that the 

 ridlcucusly low price they realized was 

 to be expected. Rose market rather 

 overstocked but the good ones sold 



DELPHINIUM 



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 llie r.elludoiina Rliaile. Wonderfully at- 

 tracthe in any klml of work. 



$5.00 and $6.00 per 100 



RAMBLER SPRAYS 



Diii-otliy I'erklns, Kxcelea, American 

 Pillar, Ktc. 



$5.00 to $20.00 per 100 sprays 



S.S.PENNOCKMEEHANCO. 



THE ^V.^;i'„, PHILADELPHIA 



PHILADELPHIA 

 1608-1620 Ludlow St. 



NEW YORK 

 117 W. 28th St. 



BALTIMORE WASHINGTON 



Franklin & St. P.ul Su. 1216HSI.. N. W 



WHOLESALE FLOWER MARKETS — ™^^ 



Roae* 



Am. Beauty , Special < 



" " Fancy and Extra 



*' '* No. 1 and culls., 



Russell, Euler, Mock 



Hadley 



Arenberg, Hoosier Beauty 



Vizard 



Killarney, Radiance, Taft ] 3.00 



Ophelia, Sunburst, Hillingdon 3.00 



Key j 



Camatioiu a-oo 



Cattleyu 



Deodrobium formocuin 



Lilies, Longinomm 10.00 



Lilies, Speciosum 

 Cly of the Valley 



Snapdragon 4.oo 



Peoniee 



Gladioli 400 



Calendulaii "«> 



Sweet Peaa. 

 Marguerites 

 Gardeniaa 

 Adiantiun 



Smilax ■ • • • • ■ 



AiparasusPln.&Spren. (100 Bhs.) 



PRICES — Par 100 



TO DEAIJR3 OJC-Y 



BUFFALO I prrrsBURG 



I June 19 



fairly well. Bright spots were Hadley, 

 Beauty and Russell. These three were 

 very good and were in excellent de- 

 mand. Carnations are still very plenti- 

 ful and unusually good— probably the 

 best ever handled at this season of the 

 year. Sweet peas still pretty good al- 

 though a little soft during the warm 

 spell. These and roses seem to be the 

 favorites for June weddings and com- 

 mencements. Delphiniums are a promi- 

 nent feature of the market and are 

 wonderfully good this year. Gladioli 

 in strong supply and selling fair. 



Orchids plentiful and splendid quality. 

 Snapdragon nearly over. Indoor lily 

 of the valley is in good demand and 

 excellent quality but the outdoor from 

 Eastern points is poor and draggy. 

 Lilies slow but now that peonies are 

 about past they should pick up some. 



Owing to the 

 PITTSBURGH season of weddings 



and school com- 

 mencements, l;usiness has kept up 

 fairly well, notwithstanding the gen- 

 eral war economy agitation. Good 



(Cantrnutd o« faff lOl) 



For the Retailer or for the Grower 



KENNICOTT BROS. CO. 

 Wholesale Cut Flowers 



IN CHICAGO 



a. B. KBfiSICOTT. PrB.ia«". 



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