August 18, 1917 



11 () i;'r UT LTUliE 



203 



Flower Market Reports 



The flower market is 

 BOSTON very dull again this 



week. There is no ac- 

 tivity worth mentioning on any line. 

 The main stock now offered consists 

 of gladioli and asters. Gladioli are of 

 fine quality but entirely too abundantly 

 supplied and sales are made only at 

 low figures. Asters are not as good 

 as they were and there are of these 

 too many for the market requirements. 

 Lilies have resumed their former dig- 

 nity and prices are now quoted at a 

 living standard. Roses are still small 

 hut improving and are clean and of 

 good color, as a rule. Other than the 

 above mentioned there are only a few 

 "odds and ends" in sight. 



The supply of roses is 

 CHICAGO suffering from mid-sum- 

 mer heat and drought. 

 The demand is confined mostly to the 

 longest of the cuts and the shortest, 

 but customers are glad to get any good 

 roses now. The closing days of last 

 week cleaned up the market of most 

 of the first-class asters, leaving any 

 quantity of poor ones, and there will 

 soon be nothing else unless rain comes. 

 The ground is hard and dry, making 

 a poor outlook for late asters. Miscel- 

 laneous stock is shortening up de- 

 cidedly. Calendulas, which have been 

 coming since cold weather, are looking 

 fine, but do not keep so well as for- 

 merly, so demand is limited. Very 

 few carnations are seen. Gladioli 

 have less competition just now than 

 usual and there are many good ones 

 coming In which sell readily. The 

 small ones of less desirable coloring 

 stand waiting for buyers as usual. 



Little interest at- 

 NEW YORK taches to the attenu- 

 ated activities in the 

 flower trade section just now. Nothing 

 transpires that is worth recording. 

 Clerks are off on vacation or holiday 

 jaunt, buyers are rare and growers 

 are making but few excursions to the 

 ■city. Only those who have something 

 on their mind or some duty connected 

 with the coming Convention are to be 

 seen either up-town or down. As the 

 time goes along roses are gradually 

 improving in quality but not yet in 

 price, asters are still overstocked but 

 they are a little better as to quality, 

 gladioli are a burden on all sides and 

 lilies are doing somewhat better than 

 has been the case of late. Cattleyas 

 are very tew and far between but there 

 is no clamor for them and prices stay 

 at a moderate figure. 



ASTERS 



The Midseason varieties 

 are commencing to arrive, 

 giving us better quality, and a 

 much better variety. 



$1.00 $1.50 and $2.00 per 100 

 Extra choice, $3.00 per 100 



S.S.PENNOGKCO. 



THE^Vt."l:cf PHiLftDELPHIA 



NEW YORK 

 117 W. 28th Si. 



BALTIMORE 



Franllln 8 St. Paal Sis 



PBILADELPBU 

 1608-1620 UJIoitSi. 



WASHINGTON 

 1216B. St., N W 



WHOLESALB FLOWER MARKETS - 



TRADE PRICES -^PjTjlOO^^^^^^ 



Rotes I 



Am. Beauty , Special | 



** " Fancy and Extra 



" ** No. I and culls 



Russell, Euler, Mock 



Hadley 



Arenberg, Hoosier Beauty 



Ward 



Killamey, Radiance, Tait 



Ophelia, Sunburst, Hillingdon 



Camatioiu 



Cattleyaa 



Dendrobium formosum 



Lilies, Longif lorum 



Lilies, Speciosum 



Gly of the Valley 



Snapdragon 



Gladioli 



Asters 



Sweet Peas 



Marguerites 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax ■ • • ■ ■' ' *' *. 



Asparagus Plu. & Spreo. (looBhs.) 



CINCINNATI 1 



Aug. ij I 



CHICAGO 



Aug. '3 



BUFFALO 



Aug. 6 



PITTSBURG 



Aug. 7 



15.00 

 8.00 

 3.00 



to 

 to 



3.00 



3.00 to 



3.00 to 



3.00 to 



1. 00 to 



6.00 

 5.00 



5.00 



6.CO 

 2.00 



7 5. CO 



3.00 

 4.00 



1. 00 



to 



to ■ 



to xo.oo 



to 



to 7.00 



to 4-00 



to 5.00 



to 3.00 



2.00 



9.00 

 2.00 



■50 



60.00 



25.00 

 20.00 

 10.00 

 20.00 



8.00 



6.00 

 6.00 



3.00 

 75-00 



5.0c to 8.CO 



6.00 

 6.00 

 6.00 

 3.00 



•75 

 1,00 



4.00 



3.00 



t.oo 



• 50 



■ 25 



■ as 



20.00 

 15.00 

 2.00 

 2.00 

 3.00 

 3.00 

 2.00 

 2 00 

 3.00 



•50 

 40.00 



6.0c 

 3.00 



2.00 

 a. CO 

 1. 00 



Rather dull busi- 

 PHILADELFHIA ness, but fair for 

 midsumirrer. Lit- 

 tle change in quotations except that 

 cattleyas doubled up suddenly and 

 there has also been a slight firming in 

 the rose market consequent on de- 

 creased supplies. Asters are coming 

 in of better quality but there are still 

 too many of the Inferior early-flower- 

 ing sorts arriving. Gladioli have 

 worked out of the bad condition the 

 hot spel! threw them into and are 

 now pretty good. Second crop del- 

 phiniums now available. Also early 

 cosmos and tuberoses — the latter very 

 good quality. 



The most pessimis- 

 PITTSBURGH tic could not have 



foretold a duller 

 week than the one just past. Monday 

 morning opened fairly well, but the 

 following days were practically equiva- 



lent to nothing. Asters and gladioli 

 continue plentiful, the latter being of 

 superb quality, while the asters are 

 only fair. There is now a plentiful 

 supply of short roses. The local seeds- 

 men report the best season in the his- 

 tory of the trade, even the present 

 time being far from dull, which is un- 

 precedented in the history of the trade. 

 Landscape men continue to "plod 

 along" as best they can in the absence 

 of laborers, the same condition apply- 

 ing alike to private firms, park and 

 railroad supervisors. Foreman John 



{CmtiinHld on pttgl 20$) 



H. KUSIK & CO. 



I.VKGKST SHiri" KKS OF FKESII COT 

 FLOWK KS AT KANS .\S CITV 



Florints' Supplies 

 ManufacturerH of Wire IJeBigns 



M/c^el^si. KANSAS CITY, MO. 



