February 13, 1915 



HORTICULTURE 



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Flower Market Reports 



{Continued from page J2t } 



Taking iuto con- 

 PHILADELPHIA sideration what 

 the trade has 

 been up against all through this sea- 

 son, last week was on the whole one 

 of the best we have had so far. While 

 the prices were not as good as this 

 time a year ago, still they held their 

 own with the improvement noted the 

 past few weeks, and in some cases 

 firmed up considerably. Not nearly as 

 many carnations. Crops seem to have 

 let up a little with all the growers. 

 But there were more roses — except 

 Apierican Beauty. The latter still con- 

 tinue as scarce as ever. A few more 

 Russells were in evidence, and some 

 nice Hadley and Ophelia are again to 

 be seen. The recent darR weather 

 seems to have affected the swee; pea 

 crop a little. There are fewer of these 

 arriving but the quality is fine. Lily 

 of the valley is a little bit sluggish. 

 Violets pretty good stock and moving 

 all right. Not so many cattleyas and 

 demand rather better. Plenty of daffo- 

 dils, paper whites, freesia, tulips and 

 other spring items — all going well at 

 moderate prices. There does not seem 

 to be much advance booking for St. 

 Valentine's Day at this writing, but 

 the trade seems quite hopeful and is 

 putting its beat foot forward. There 

 are some fine retail window displays. 

 That of Pennock Bros, is especially 

 good. 



There is some 

 SAN FRANCISCO complaint among 

 retailers, who say 

 that decorative work for the pre- 

 Lenten social affairs is of a less ex- 

 pensive nature than usual. A good 

 deal of stock is being used, however, 

 and with some lines rather scarce, 

 prices are fairly maintained. Ship- 

 ments of violets east for the Valentine 

 trade are increasing rapidly but fall 

 short of last year; while some very 

 nice shipments of roses are going to 

 Portland, Seattle, etc. Spring flowers 

 have responded quickly to a few days 

 of good weather, and prices are drop- 

 ping, with liberal offerings of daffodils, 

 freesias, China lilies, hyacinths and 

 narcissus; though some of the stock 

 shows the effect of too much rain. 

 Tulips are still rather scarce, but 

 there is a fine crop coming on. Lilies 

 and lily of the valley are both abun- 

 dant. Quite a lot of flowering peach, 

 quince and almond blossoms have been 

 offered. The first cinerarias of the 

 season are shown this week and have 

 received considerable attention. Sweet 

 peas are still very scarce. A lew early 

 anemones have also appeared. Cat- 

 tleyas are over-abundant, and a sharp 

 break in prices is feared. Phalacnop- 

 sis also is in good supply, but very 

 fine, and cleans up fairly well. There 

 is still a good cut of gardenias, which 

 are very well received. Roses are very 

 scarce just now, though a week of 

 clear weather would bring them out in 

 abundance. It is hard to get enough 

 Cecil Bruners, and Beauties also are 

 much sou.ght after. Carnations remain 

 quite firm, with moderate offerings. 

 Violets are much better in quality but 

 the supply is excessive. 



The cut tlowor market 

 ST. LOUIS was short all of the 

 last week and the com- 

 mission men had little trouble in dis- 



NEW YORK QUOTATIONS PER 100. To Dealers Only 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Cattleyas . 



Lilies, Longiflorum 



Rubrum 



Uly of the Valley 



Violets 



Snapdragon 



Narcisus. Paper White, Roman Hyacinths •• • 



Freesia 



Daffodils 



Tulips 



Mi^nonetts 



Lilac (per hunch) 



Sweet Peas 



Gardenias 



Adiantum — • - 



Smilax 



Asparagrus Plumosus, strings (per loo) 



& Sp**en (loo bunches). 



Last Half of Week 



ending Feb. 6 



1915 



First Half of'Week 



beginning Feb. 8 



1915 



lO.OO 

 6.00 

 2.00 

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•35 

 4.00 



I.OO 

 I.OO 

 2. CO 



2.00 

 3.00 



•50 



10.00 



.50 



10.00 



35.00 



to 

 to 



to 



25.00 



I.OO 



12.00 

 50.00 

 35.00 



.50 



10.00 



.50 



10.00 

 25.00 

 20.00 



20.00 



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i4.oo 



2.50 



. .50 



6.00 



1.50 

 3.00 



3.00 

 4.00 

 6.00 



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2.00 

 25.00 



1.00 

 15.00 

 50.00 



35.00 



posing of their stock at good prices. 

 Trade among the retailers was good. 

 All light colored stock cleaned up 

 each morning. Lent and the coming 

 on of large crops should change the 

 situation greatly in about another 

 week. Prices obtained for some of 

 the stock was "sky high." especially 

 so in carnations and roses. Of other 

 flowers there were enough for the de- 

 mand. Cattleyas are in slow demand. 

 There is plenty of good smilax, aspara- 

 gus and other greens. 



Although there is 

 WASHINGTON a plentiful supply 



of bulbous stock, 

 sweet peas, violets and other flowers, 

 it appears that the present serious 

 shortage of roses and carnations is 

 creating no little inconvenience in the 

 stores. This, however, is declared to be 

 largely a question of salesmanship; 

 whether, when these flowers are de- 

 manded, an effort is made to sell other 

 varieties instead. It is said that gar- 

 denias and lily of the valley are the 

 only flowers holding their prices; the 

 prices on the roses and carnations are 

 but slightly higher than they have 

 been, but those of other classes are 

 very low. Some extra fine tulips are 

 now to be had and these are in fair 

 demand. 



NEW FLOWER STORES. 



Glendale, Cal. — C. H. Woolsey, Grand 

 Boulevard. 



Hartford, Ct.— Geo. G. McClunie, 165 

 Main street. 



Elizabeth, N. J.— J. W. Blakely, 80 

 Broad street. 



Plymouth, Mass. — Chas. E. Stevens, 

 fl Court street. 



Boston, Mass.— Ed. MacMulkin, 381 

 Boylston street. 



Olympla, Wash. — H. Ernest Rees, 

 1(17 Kilth street. 



Burlington, la. — Bock's Flower Shop. 

 N. Tliird street. 



Chicago, III.— Wm. Lubliner, 36 So. 

 Wabasli Ave. (About March 1.) 



John M. Hunter of Englewood, N. 

 J., is in Darlington, S. C, recuper- 

 ating from a severe nervous attack. 

 He is evidently enjoying himself, for 

 Charlie Millan.g. who is one of his 

 warm friends, has been eating quail 

 from South Carolina of late. On his 

 return .Mr. Hunter will make a trip 

 to California where his son-in-law, 

 Chas. Rice is doing landscape work. 

 In the meantime business is being 

 pushed along by young Mr. Hunter at 

 I'Jnglewood. J. M. Hunter is a past 

 president of the Gardeners' Associa- 

 ation and has many friends who wish 

 him a speedy restoration to health. 



WASHINGTON. 



Adolphus Gude is recovering from a 

 bad scalding received while endeavor- 

 ing to blow out a section of a boiler at 

 the Anacostia houses. 



Bernard J. McCabe, brother of M. J. 

 McCabe, of the Centre Market, passed 

 away last week at the United States 

 Soldiers' Home in this city. 



William F. Gude has been appointed 

 chairman of the membership commit- 

 tee of the Washington Chamber of 

 Commerce. Adolph Gude has been 

 chosen to serve on the retail trade 

 committee as has Edward S. Schmid. 



J. H. Small & Sons furnisheo one 

 of the handsomest and most unique 

 decorations of the season at the Hotel 

 Willard on the occasion of the ball 

 and bazaar for the benefit of French 

 artists in the battle lines abroad. The 

 whole scene was made up to represent 

 a Parisian thoroughfare lined on either 

 side with flower and other shops. Dur- 

 ing the evening flower girls sold bout- 

 tonieres for the benefit of the cause. 



The first home garden club to be or- 

 ganized in the public schools of this 

 city has been formed at the Brook- 

 land school. Back of this movement 

 is the Parent-Teachers' Association of 

 tliat school. The object of the club 

 is to stimulate interest in both flower 

 and vegetable gardens in tlie homes as 

 well as the schools of tlie city and to 

 increase the love for flowers. A show 

 is to be held next fall and suitable 

 prizes offered to the budding florists. 



The National Lime Manufacturers' 

 Association voted to exploit a substi- 

 tute for ix)tash essential to plant 

 growth, at the closing session of their 

 convention in this city. The substitute 

 is lime treated with chlorine. J. J. 

 Porter, of Hagerstown, Md., is the dis- 

 coverer of this new process. He pro- 

 poses to treat the soil with the prepa- 

 ration in such manner as to liberate 

 properties necessary for plant growth, 

 and so taken with the scheme are the 

 manufacturers that they voted $18,000 

 to give it publicity. 



New York — The Greek-American 

 Florists' Association will hold their an- 

 nual ball at Terrace Garden, on Thurs- 

 day night, February 25. C. Sakdos is 

 chairman of the committee of arrange- 

 ments. 



Anyone desiring to join the New 

 Vork party to the S. A. F. Conven- 

 tion in San Francisco, next August 

 can now book for the trip with T. B. 

 DeForest, care Lord & Burnham Com- 

 pany, N. Y., who is chairman of the 

 transportation committee. Other mem- 

 bers of the committee are C. W. Scott, 

 R. .1. Irwin, Jos. Fenrich, John Donald- 

 son. J. Miesem and Jos A. Manda. 



