January 2, 1915 



HORTICULTURE 



23 



Flower Market Reports 



{Continued/ rent page 21) 



ably disappoiuted. The business out- 

 look had been very blue but a £evv days 

 before Christmas the sunshine of pros- 

 perity came out in the rifts between 

 the clouds and we had a much more 

 satisfactory trade than we expecjed. 

 The cut flower trade was satisfactory 

 and the stock certainly good. Exotic 

 plant baskets were purchased in pref- 

 erence to those composed of flowering 

 plants." From a leading wholesale firm 

 we learn that they found their "rose 

 business satisfactory and the Beauty 

 business was a surprise to us. Our 

 shippers gave us their stock as we 

 wanted it and profited by this course 

 to the extent of $1.00 or $2.00 per 100 

 over and above what could have been 

 realized had the stock been held back 

 until the 24th." Other than the above 

 the market report from this firm and 

 from all others in the wholesale sec- 

 tion are far from favorable and many 

 of the retailers also confess to a fall- 

 ing off of 25 to 35 per cent from the 

 normal Christmas business. But it is 

 true that this was not unexpected and 

 most of them acknowledge that they 

 might easily have been much worse 

 off. 



All stock seemed to be of excep- 

 tionally good quality. Of course, there 

 was the usual "pickling" by some of 

 the growers who will not learn, and 

 there was nothing that was really 

 scarce. On Thursday morning busi- 

 ness looked very promising in the 

 wholesale district and considerable 

 business was done but at about mid- 

 night Thursday, business shut off com- 

 pletely until Saturday, the 26th, and 

 then there was only a moderate busi- 

 ness done. As was expected, carna- 

 tions flooded the market. They seemed 

 to be just on crop. The highest price 

 asked for the red varieties was 6c., the 

 majority of this color selling for 3c. 

 Other varieties of fine quality sold for 

 $10 to $40 per thousand. Violets were 

 equally plentiful. While some very 

 best, 100 in a bunch, sold tor 75c., 

 quantities were sold for $3.50 to $5 per 

 thousand and box after box was car- 

 ried over and even today remain un- 

 sold. Never before probably had there 

 been so many roses in this market. As 

 in the case of violets and carnations, 

 thousands were carried over and are 

 still visible in the ice boxes. Red 

 roses sold from $4 per hundred to $15 

 per hundred; but as is always the case, 

 some especially fine blooms sold for 

 25c. or more. Yellow roses were 

 abundant. The highest price on Sun- 

 burst was 20c. More sold at 15c. and 

 from that down to 4c. The same with 

 Aaron Wards. Arenbergs were in lim- 

 ited supply and while some of these 

 were of poor quality, some higher 

 grade blooms met with ready sale, 30c. 

 being the very top. Ophelia, in limited 

 supply, sold well. Rostands were a 

 disappointment and did not clear out 

 well. Irish Fireflame, not so plentiful, 

 sold at $3 and $5 per hundred. Killar- 

 neys everywhere, 12c. being an excep- 

 tionally high figure for the pink varie- 

 ties, down to 3c. for the smaller 

 grades. About the same price pre- 

 vailed for Taft and Killarney Brilliant. 

 White Killarneys and other varieties 

 of white 'roses were almost unsalable 

 and were carried over in large quanti- 

 ties and will have to be cleared out 

 this week at ridiculously low prices. 



FANCY OR DAGGER FERNS 



$0.75 per 1000 

 .75 per lOOO 



New Crop Fancy Ferns 



Dagger Ferns - . . . . 



Discount on large order* 



USE OUR LAUREL FESTOONING 



For your decorations, made fresh daily from the woods, 4c, So and 6c per yard 



Tel. Office, New Salem, Masa. 

 L. D. Phone Connection. 



Bronze and Green Galax, $1.00 per lOM; 



$7.50 per case of 10,000. 

 Sphagnum Moss, large sack, only 40c. 

 Pine by the pound, 8c., or by the yard. 

 Branch Lanrel, 35c. for a large bundle. 

 Soutiiern Smilax, tSO-lb. cases, »500. 

 Green and Bronze Lencothoe Sprays, IS.M 



per 1000. 

 Fine Boxwood, J7.50 per 50-lb. case. 

 Order In advance. 

 Write, wire or telephone 13 K4. 



CROWL FERN CO., Millington, Mass. 



NEW YORK QDOTATIONS PER 100. To Dealers Only 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Cattleyas 



Lilies, Long[iflorum 



" Rubrum 



Lily of the VaUcy 



Violets 



Snapdragon •• ■ • 



Narcisus. Paper White, Roman Hyacinths ■•- 



Com Flower 



Stevia 



Mii^nonetts 



Lilac (.per bunch) 



Sweet Peas (per loo bunches) 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax 



Asparagus Plumosus. strings (per lOo) ...... . . . 



" '• & Spren (loo bunches). 



Last Half of Week 



ending Dec. 26 



13U 



15.00 



6.00 

 2.00 

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 •50 

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4.00 



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15.00 



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50.00 

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•75 



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2.00 



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8.C0 



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10.00 



35.00 



•75 



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30.00 



35.00 



First Half of Wufe 



begiRiiing Dec. 28 



1S14 



15 .00 

 6.00 

 2.00 

 1.00 

 .50 

 4.00 



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4.00 



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to 50.00 



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 35.00 



American Beauties seemed to be tlie 

 one briglit spot in the marljet. Earlier 

 in tlie weeli the asking price was 60c. 

 to 75c. and it is safe to say that the 

 majority of the blooms of good quality 

 cleared out at this figure, but on 

 Christmas eve and Christmas morn, 

 the supply having shortened up, $1 

 was asked and obtained. Shawyers 

 ranged in price the same as Pink Kil- 

 larneys. Russells were only in lim- 

 ited supply. There were a few Hadleys 

 which sold well. Richmond was unques- 

 tionably in oversupply and did not be- 

 gin to realize the prices of former 

 years, 25c. being the outside figure for 

 a very special bloom, while there were 

 several thousand that were sold from 

 $5 to $12 per hundred. Many of the 

 Richmonds seen on the market were 

 small flowers with weak necks and the 

 retailers were shy in giving orders for 

 them. 



Another disappointing feature in 

 the market were the orchids. The re- 

 port had gone abroad for some weeks 

 that there would be practically no sup- 

 ply of orchids for Christmas, but the 

 contrary was the case, and they ar- 

 rived by the hundreds on Thursday, 

 with the result that today many whole- 

 salers' windows have cattleyas of fine 

 quality carried over from Christmas 

 which will be compelled to be sold at 

 low figures, Lily of the valley, too, 

 was overplcntiful. Lilies were very 

 abundant at $6 and $8 per hundred. 

 Gardenias quite equal to the demand at 

 moderate prices. The novelty of 

 Christmas with one of the wholesalers 

 was a large display of gladiolus 

 blooms. Rubrum lilies did not go at 

 all. There were still a great many 

 chrysanthemums in the market which 

 met with only a moderate demand. 

 Asparagus cleared out nicely, but the 

 Southern was rejected on account of 

 its dropping off. Mignonette of the 

 best quality that was very fine indeed 



sold from 75c. to |1 per dozen. There 

 were a few yellow Trumpets in the 

 market bringing 75c. per doz. A lim- 

 ited supply of daphne. $3 per doz. 

 Poinsettias had a very light demand at 

 $2 per doz. 



A great many shipments of flowers 

 were received frozen stiff; in fact, the 

 damage from frozen flowers this 

 Christmas was much more than in any 

 previous vears, and the loss on this 

 account will be very extensive. One 

 of the wholesalers had a shipment of 

 several hundred sprays of pure white 

 lilac from Holland that had been 

 shipped on Dec. 10, but owing to the 

 delay of the steamer getting in, the 

 lilac" when unpacked was unsalable, 

 but the grower of this lilac who ac- 

 companied the shipment claims that 

 they can be shipped to reach here in 

 good shape. 



In the plant line ardisias and aza- 

 leas were a drug and many of them 

 were loft over unsold in the stores. 



Nineteen hundred 

 PHILADELPHIA and fourteen was 

 distinctively a re- 

 tailers' Christmas week. On the 2'ird, 

 when they saw stock coming in freely 

 they began to hammer things. And 

 thev got it their own way. Tbey 

 could buy at their own figures and 

 they did it— relentlessly. Prices 

 broke badly all along the line and at 

 the wlndup there was a big lot of stuff 

 left unsold— no takers at any price. 

 We have heard nothing of the retail- 

 ers abating their prices. So far as we 

 can learn— they gobbled It all. and 

 let nothing go to their customers. 

 The only bright spots are American 

 Beauties, lilv of the valley and violets, 

 Beauties here, through the good Judg- 

 ment of the growers and wholesalers, 

 were listed reasonable — and much 

 outside business came along. Specials 



t (Continued on ^agf 2S) 



