December 29, 1917 



HORTICULTURE 



689 



Flower Maxicet Reports 



Boston florists enjoyed a 

 BOSTON real lively and very sat- 

 isfactory Christmas. The 

 retail stores did a rushing business on 

 plants, cut flowers and the green and 

 dried Christmas specialties, purchases 

 being generally of moderate size and 

 the medium-priced flowers having the 

 best of it all through. The little rustic 

 baskets filled with spruce tips, box- 

 wood, cones, berried twigs, scarlet-dyed 

 ruscus and such material had an enor- 

 mous sale wherever shown, throwing 

 far into the shade the once popular 

 laurel "roping" and laurel and holly 

 wreaths. The amount of laurel in 

 market was the smallest in many 

 years and this was also true of holly, 

 which cut an insignificant figure as 

 compared with a few seasons back. 

 Mistleto, too. was in very light supply 

 and was confined to the native variety 

 entirely. 



The plant trade had a big week. 

 Every store was stocked up to the 

 limit of its capacity and when busi- 

 ness closed on Tuesday there was lit- 

 tle left In most places except empty 

 shelves and debris. There were many 

 more azaleas in evidence than anyone 

 expected to see. The supply of begon- 

 ias, Lorraine, Cincinnati. Melior and 

 Mrs. Peterson — was enormous and in 

 every gradation of size. These with 

 cyclamen and poinsettias were far in 

 the lead as to quantity and none of 

 them have ever been finer in quality. 

 Euphorbias, ericas and primulas, with 

 a fair sprinkling of red berried plants 

 constituted the principal stock in 

 trade. Red ribbon still is a strong fea- 

 ture in connection with the holiday 

 plant business. The wholesale flower 

 markets were rather slow in getting 

 "into the swim" but once started busi- 

 ness went with a rush and it was a 

 glorious clean-up, the only laggards 

 being the paper white narcissi, which 

 were far in excess of the require- 

 ments, and white carnations, and even 

 these latter held strong in price and 

 even sacrifice sales were astonishingly 

 remunerative— a boon indeed to the 

 harrassed growers who have been 

 hard hit by the coal scarcity and long- 

 continued severe cold. Red carnations 

 took a big flight to twelve dollars a 

 hundred and in exceptional cases up 

 to sixteen. Roses sold out very satis- 

 factorily at an estimated average on 

 the entire crop of about five dollars 

 per hundred under last year's aggre- 

 gate. The top notch was one dollar 

 apiece for a few de luxe Hadleys and 

 on the other hand large quantities of 

 small stuff were unloaded at two dol- 

 lars a hundred. Violets made the best 

 price they have reached in years. 

 Stevia was a fine seller. There were 

 very few chrysanthemums. Sweet 

 peas of unusual beauty were offered 

 and a moderate quantity of freesia. 

 The flower shipping trade found a se- 

 rious set back in supplying customers 

 at a distance especially "down east" 

 where a number of through trains had 

 been discontinued on account of coal 

 shortage and connections were so dis- 

 arranged that shipments were held up 

 for one or two days in some cases. 

 The Sunday intervening added to the 

 embarrassment. There are very few 

 flowers In market at present time. 



PAPER WHITES 



Of the Choicest Quality 

 $4.00 per 100 



Special prices in quantify 



YELLOW NARCISSUS 



(Solell d'Or) 



Wonderfully v/eW grown stock 

 $5.00 per 100 



S. S. PENNOCK CO. 



IK "Vtel:., PHIUDEIPHI* 



NEW TORK 

 117 W. 28ib St. 



BALTIMORE 



Frantlla 8 Sf. P.ol $M. 



PBILADEIFBLA 

 Ii08-1'620 LodloK Sf. 



WASBINGTON 

 1216 H St.. 8. W. 



WHOLESALE FLOWER MARKETS - ™^""^"-/^D*£iLERs om.> 



Am. Beauty, SDcda) 



'* " r ancy and Extra 



" " No. I and culls 



Russell, Euler, Mock 



Hadlcy 



Arenbcrg, Hoosier Beauty 



Ward 



Killamey , Radiance, Taft 



Ophelia, Sunburst^ HiUingdon 



Carnations 



Cattleyas 



Dendrobium f onnoaum 



Lilies, Longiflorum 



Lilies, SpecioBum 



Lily of the Valley 



Snapdrason 



Bouvardia 



Violets 



Chrysanthemums 



Narcis. Paper White 



Roman Hyacinths 



Stevia 



Sweet Peas 



Marguerites 



Gardenias 



Adiantum - 



Smilax 



Asparasiu Pla. A Spren. (looBbs.) 



CINCINNATI 



Xmas Quot. 



to lOO.OO 



to 



I CHICAGO 



I Dec. 19 



BUFFALO 



Dec. 3 



60,00 



15.00 to 



8.00 to 



8.00 to 



6.00 to 



6.00 to 



6.00 to 



6.00 to 



8. CO to 



80,00 

 50,00 

 20.00 

 20.00 

 18.0a 

 15.00 

 15.00 

 20.C0 

 10.00 



75.Q.0 to 100.00 



50.00 

 30.00 

 6.00 

 6.0a 

 6.00 

 6.00 

 4.00 



5.00 



6,00 



3.00 



60.00 



6c.oo 



to 



to 15.00 I 10,0c to 



10.00 t 

 6.00 I 



25.00 



6.00 



3.00 to 



15.00 

 15.00 



4.00 

 2.00 



x.oo 



20.00 

 35-00 



5.00 

 4.00 

 I 2. CO 



1-50 

 I 3.00 



3.00 



1,50 



1.50 



75.00 

 40.00 

 10.00 

 50.00 



35.00 



30.0c 

 30.00 

 30.00 



35.00 

 8.00 

 75-00 

 75.00 

 12.00 



8.00 

 6.C0 

 3.00 

 3.00 



4.00 

 4. o 

 a. 00 

 a.50 



40.00 



30.00 

 3.00 

 4.00 

 4.00 

 «.oo 

 3.00 

 3.00 

 4,00 



8.00 



4.00 

 8. 00 

 3.00 



15-00 



35-00 



to 

 to 

 to 



1.00 

 20.00 

 to 100.00 



6.00 

 3.00 

 3.00 



1.25 



•75 

 1. 00 



t.oo 

 15.00 



35.00 



50,00 

 40.00 

 1 5.0c 

 10.00 



8.CO 

 13.00 



5.00 



8.00 

 12.00 



5.00 

 75.00 



10.00 

 6.00 



5*00 



25. CO 



4.C0 

 5.00 



1.50 



1.50 



1.25 



30.00 

 50 00 



PITTSBURG 



Xmas Quot . 

 80,00 



60.00 tc 

 35, to to 

 ao.oo to 

 20.00 to 

 to 



IS. 00 to 



10.00 to 

 10.00 to 

 12.00 to 



8.00 



to 



to 

 to 

 to 



50.00 



30.00 

 30.00 



20.00 

 20.00 

 20.00 

 25.00 

 12.00 



16.00 

 13.00 



X.50 to 2,CK> 



3.00 



4.00 



1.25 

 35.00 

 40.00 



It has again been dem- 

 CHICAGO onstrated that it is nev- 

 er safe to predict what 

 the quantity of holiday stock is going 

 to be, even a few days in advance. As 

 usual, the sun played a very important 

 part in the opening of the flowers. 

 Two days of bright sunshine the week 

 before Christmas hurried open the 

 buds and when a limited cut had been 

 anticipated a very generous one took 

 its place, with the result that no out- 

 of-town orders had to be refused for 



lack of stock. This increase was prob- 

 ably felt most in carnations and the 

 extreme prices which had seemed 

 probable a week before were not real- 

 ized and eight cents was considered 

 the "top." In roses the American 

 Beauties were not in large supply and 

 there was plenty of room for eastern 

 stock which, however, did not reach 

 the proportions of other years. Mrs. 

 Russell took the place of Beauties in 

 one large wholesale house and custom- 



{C^ftHntttJ OH pagt Ogi) 



H. BAYERSDORFER & CO. 



Manufacturers and Importers 



1129 Archest. PHILADM.PHIA, PA. 



Fed I Novelties Now On Display New Show Rooms Added 



THE LEADING FLORISTS' SUPPLY HOUSE OF AMEKICA 



