March 13, 1915 



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Flower Market Reports NEW YORK QUOTATIOSS PER 100. To Dealers Only 



(Continued from page j-tg) 



let through the hole-in-the-wall stands 

 and similar means. Cattleyas are still 

 suffering from lack of appreciation, 

 we regret to say. A bright spot in the 

 situation is the crimson rose Hadley, 

 which some growers are producing in 

 size and form rivaling the best Amer- 

 ican Beauty. A. S. Burns is one of the 

 successful growers of this rose and his 

 representative, P. J. Smith says that 

 the choice specimens bring 40 cents. 

 Flower prices 



NEW BEDFORD during the past 

 week have held 

 about at last reported. Violets are plen- 

 tiful, and sell well. There is a great 

 deal of good bulb stock, particularly 

 tulips and hyacinths, and it moves 

 slowly. Much of the Easter stock is 

 in forcing now, and every one is 

 looking forward to a good Easter trade. 

 Too much stock 



PHILADELPHIA and business none 

 too good is the 

 gist of the situation here at present. 

 The wind-up last week was particu- 

 larly bad on account of the big storm 

 which comes along every year about 

 the first week in March. Don't tell me 

 that you never can tell about the 

 weather. Old J. Pluvius is a pretty 

 consistent kind of cuss, I think. Did 

 you ever know him to miss with a 

 good old blizzard about the first week 

 in March? Bulbous flowers were the 

 worst sufferers, and next to them came 

 yiolets and lily of the valley. Some 

 of the wise ones claim that the extra- 

 ordinary improvement and importance 

 as a commercial cut flower attained by 

 the sweet pea in recent times has cut 

 up the lily of the valley as well as the 

 Tiolet market — not only in design 

 work but in corsage and general floral 

 decorations. This may be true as to 

 lily of the valley in designs where a 

 white Spencer will make a better show 

 for less money; but not as to violets 

 for corsage wear. There, 1 think, it 

 is largely a change of fashion — and 

 perhaps to some extent the increasing 

 use of the artificial flower as a cor- 

 sage — which is a deplorable sign of 

 degeneration in the human — for which 

 cheap sensation, the movies, and lads 

 like Billy Sunday are largely responsi- 

 ble. Trailing arbutus from the south 

 — hail and welcome. 



C o n s id ering the 



PITTSBURGH mid-Lenten season, 

 the market condi- 

 tions are just about as to be expected, 

 with practically no change since St. 

 Valentine's day. Roses and carnations 

 remain steady, and generally speaking, 

 the supply about i)arallels the demand, 

 with the exception of sweet peas and 

 bulb flowers, especially tulips, which 

 are somewhat overloading their pro- 

 ducers. It almost goes without saying 

 that it is the exclusive so<'ial caterer 

 in flowers who feels the dearth in 

 business most at this season, as funer- 

 als and the banquets and dinners of 

 commercial and professional organiza- 

 tions and the various secret orders are 

 prone to move along as though there 

 were no such thing as penance with 

 sackcloth and ashes. Charle.s Penek, 

 the manager for Mitchell Kronls' shops 

 in the stations of the P.' R. K., reports 

 their branch of business "picking up a 

 little," and is optimistic for a contin- 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Cattleyas - 



Lilies, LoDsiflorum 



Rubrum 



Uly of the Valley 



Daises 



VioUu 



Snapdragon 



Narclsiu, Paper White 



Freeiiais 



Daffodils 



Tulips 



Sweet Peas 



Com Flower 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax 



Asparagus Plumosus, strings (per loo) 



** & Spren (loo bunches). 



Last Half of Week 



ending Mar. 6 



1915 



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beginning Mar. B 



1915 



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nance of good, although he frankly ad- 

 mits that business this season has not 

 been half what in was in former years. 

 The wholesale flower 



ST. LOUIS market has been dull. 

 Dark weather and 

 snow has curtailed business somewhat 

 and the commission houses had 

 plenty of stock, especially in carna- 

 tions, violets, sweet peas and all kinds 

 of bulbs both home grown and South- 

 ern shipped stock. Prices have 

 slumped somewhat in all grades. 



Business has 



SAN FRANCISCO been further 

 curtailed this 

 week. There is some activity in spe- 

 cial decorative work for Exposition 

 events, but many florists say that the 

 San Francisco people are simply spend- 

 ing their time at the Exposition, with 

 the result that ordinary retail trade is 

 very slack. The great abundance of 

 bulb stock and other spring flowers 

 also has a depressing effect. Wild flow- 

 ers — buttercups, eschscholtzias, native 

 iris, etc., are blossoming freely, and 

 home plantings of bulb stock, violets, 

 etc.. are coming out so as to interfere 

 with purchases. Fruit blossoms are 

 not so early as in former years, but 

 are becoming rather plentiful. Daffo- 

 dils are exceptionally fine, but the de- 

 mand is dropping off and prices are 

 very low. Hyacinths also are over- 

 abundant, and tulips are less eagerly 

 sought, while the market is fairly 

 glutted with lily of the valley. More 

 anemones are offered, and some ranun- 

 culus has appeared. Beauty roses have 

 been poor all along. Russells are very 

 fine, and so is Sunburst, and there is 

 a large cut of Aaron Ward. Kilarney 

 Queen is also well received, and Bril- 

 liant is doing nicely. Milady is not 

 much favored, and some growers are 

 cleaning it out. Gardenias continue to 

 improve, some being shown this week 

 with stems 18 inches long; but a new- 

 element of competition in these flow- 

 ers has caused a cut in ])rices for or- 

 dinary stock, the better offerings being 

 still held up to %'i per dozen, as usual. 

 Cattleyas are holding fairly well in 

 price, but there are more than will 

 move readily. Rhododendrons and 

 azaleas are fairly plentiful. 



The usual "Inau- 

 WASHINGTON guration Weather" 

 prevailed the latter 

 part of last week when Washington 

 was visited by a heavy snow and hail 

 followed by rain and cloudy weather. 

 As a result stock has slackened up 

 considerably. Sweet peas are still very 

 plentiful, the supply being nearly 



three times as heavy as it was two 

 weeks ago. There is an oversupply of 

 Easter lilies for those who grow them 

 for the Easter business have com- 

 menced shipping their first cut while 

 those who grow them the year round 

 are cutting increased quantities. Ru- 

 brum lilies are also hanging fire. Daff- 

 odils from Georgia when received in 

 small quantities clean up readily. Con- 

 signments from a number of Northern 

 growers have been discontinued, but 

 there is still an oversupply. The de- 

 mand for daisies has been good all 

 winter. Carnation sales are easier and 

 there are plenty to go around. Early 

 last week there was a glut of roses but 

 weather conditions have caused the 

 supply to lessen greatly. Northern 

 American Beauty roses are more 

 plentiful. The demand for cornfiow- 

 ers is increasing. .Adiantum is scarce. 

 .\sparagus is also slackening up. There 

 is a good demand for gardenias. Or- 

 chids are getting cer.v scarce. 



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