January 16, 1915 



HORTICULTURE 



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Flower Market Reports 



The flower markets are 

 BOSTON dull and if business does 



not take a quick jump 

 cobwebs will begin to appear in the 

 stalls. Nothing is moving easily — 

 that's the whole story. Roses are 

 plentiful, so are carnations. Carnation 

 prices are hardly better than those re- 

 ceived during the summer. Pink De- 

 light, Beacon, Matchless and Alice 

 Coombs are the best selling varieties. 

 The supply of orchids is more than suf- 

 ficient. Greens are fairly plentiful. 

 Plants are moving better than the cut 

 flowers. Narcissi, hyacinths and snap- 

 dragons are moving slowly. The de- 

 mand for yellow marguerites still con- 

 tinues. 



The week which has 

 BUFFALO just past was quite un- 

 satisfactory. Trade was 

 very dull and receipts were heavy in 

 the rose and carnation line. Beauties 

 are in good supply and the quality 

 good, though the demand lacks. The 

 same holds true with carnations and 

 violets. White Killarney has been very 

 plentiful but a shortage is soon looked 

 for. Some good Formosa and Japan 

 lilies have had a fair sale. All other 

 flowers very good and overstocked. 



Rose stock is shorten- 

 CHICAGO ing up and the buyer 



finds that a given 

 amount of money buys a smaller bun 

 die than last week. Three cents is 

 the lowest this week while roses 

 could be bought for two last week. 

 American Beauties have had another 

 dollar added to the price per dozen 

 and all growers report that flower as 

 going off crop and this would be felt 

 more were trade up to normal. Sweet 

 peas are on the gain, both in number 

 and size, some of the cuts now being 

 of good stem. Spring flowers are be- 

 ginning to be seen on the counters, 

 daffodils, tulips and pussy willows be- 

 ing first arrivals. Trade is not at all 

 brisk. Even with the big call for 

 funeral work reported quite generally, 

 the trade is in a depressed state and 

 the aggregate for the first half of Jan- 

 uary is going to be small. Carnations 

 are the most overdone of all stock. 

 The amount coming into the market 

 is entirely beyond its need and it is 

 impossible to sell them. .4mong the 

 more fancy flowers, cattieyas are also 

 in excess of the demand, and retail 

 florists are making leaders of them at 

 35c. each in their advertisements. 



It were a waste of 

 NEW YORK time and printers' ink 



to attempt to give in 

 detail the market condition as apply- 

 ing to each and every specialty now 

 listed in the wholesale flower marts. 

 Suffice it to say that the market is 

 overloaded with an excess crop of 

 everything and we know of no excep- 

 tion to this. Carnations at $5.00 a 

 thousand and cattieyas at $10 a hun- 

 dred are a January fact which we 

 think is unprecedented even in the 

 records of mid-January gluts, for, al- 

 though equally low selling values may 

 have been known heretofore yet the 

 quality of the stock so quoted has 

 never been so high. Business is very 

 unsatisfactory and there is little ac- 

 tivity in any direction at present. 



CATTLEYAS 



Splendid quality, mostly 

 the higher colored ones — 

 a few almost pure white . 



Doz. 100 



Specials, $6.00 $35.00 



Fancy, 4.00 25.00 



PERCIVALIANA, 3.00 20.00 



VALLEY 



Special, $4.00 per 100 

 Extra, 3.00 per 100 



EVERYTHING IN RIBBONS 

 ASD FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 



S. S. PENNOCK-MEEHAN CO. 



NEW lORR 

 117 W. 28th St. 



The Wholesale Florists of Philadelphia 



PBILADELPHU BALTIMORE WASHINGTON 



1608-1620 Indlow St. Fr.nklill ind St. P.ol S». 1216 B St.. N. W. 



WHOLESALE FLOWER MARKETS 



TRADE 



PRICES -Per 100 ^„ _ 



TO DEALERS ONLY 



Roses 



Am. Beauty, Special 



*< " Fancy and Extra 



No. I 



KiUamey , Richmond, Extra ■ 



'* '* Ordinary. 



HilUngdon, Ward, Sunburst, Extra 



" " " Ordinary.. 



Maryland, Shawyer, Taft, Extra 



<• " " Ordinary... 



Russell, Hadlcy, Ophelia 



Carnations, Fancy 



*• Ordinary 



Cattieyas 



Cypripediums 



LUies, Longiflorum 



Lily of the Valley 



VioleU 



Snapdragon 



Narcisus. Paper White 



Com Flower 



Freesia 



Daffodils 



Stevia 



Sweet Peas 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax ; 



Asparagus Plumosus. Strings (loo)... 

 " " & Spren, (loo Bchs.l .... 



BOSTON I 



January 14 | 



ST. LOUIS 



January 11 



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10.00 

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General c n d i- 

 PHILADELPHIA tions here were 

 about as usual 

 for the first week after the new year, 

 perhaps a shade less satisfactory -than 

 last year if anything, on account of 

 the lower prices. Stocks of all kinds 

 still very plentiful especially carna- 

 tions. Roses have slackened up a lit- 

 tle in quantity. 



Since the holi- 

 SAN FRANCISCO days * business 

 has naturally 

 quieted down a little, though a good 

 many large social affairs are planned 

 between now and the Exposition 

 opening, and the local market is by 

 no means dull. Shipping business also 

 is holding up fairly well. The violet 

 situation has been unsatisfactory: 

 with a large acreage, drought, disease 

 and cold weather left scant supplies 

 for the holidays, while now stock is 



coming in even too freely and is being 

 sold by street venders as low as 5c. 

 per bunch. A good deal, however, is 

 being shipped. The chrysanthemum 

 season is about over, and poinsettias 

 are well cleaned up. There is an ex- 

 cellent cut 6f roses, and some very 

 fine displays are appearing about 

 town. The white varieties are getting 

 much more attention. Killarney 

 Queens are very nice, but neither they 

 nor Richmonds are moving very well, 

 while Beauties are unusually fine and 

 bring good prices. The same is true 

 of Sunburst and Mrs. Aaron Ward. 

 There is a fine crop of Cecil Bruner. 

 but dealers hesitate to pay the prices 

 asked. Short roses, in general, find a 

 good market. Carnations are very 

 fine and plentiful but continue to 

 bring good prices. Lilium formosum 

 is getting fairly plentiful and is well 



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