March 20, 1915 



HOETICULTUEE 



401 



Flower Market Reports SEW YORK QUOTATIONS PER 100. To Dealers Only 



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rush! Crops are coming in heavily 

 under the impetus of long sunny days 

 and moderate temperature and much 

 of it must be sold at greater or less 

 sacrifice. Demand by the retail stores 

 is very light and if it were not for the 

 street vendors and other floating dis- 

 tributors the situation would be vastly 

 more embarrassing for the growers. 



There was a 

 PHILADELPHIA s I i g h t improve- 

 ment in the cut 

 flower market here last week but noth- 

 ing to brag about. Conditions still re- 

 main far from what they ought to be to 

 make it worth while for the grower to 

 stay in business. The bright weather 

 experienced was the main factor in the 

 slight betterment. This was especially 

 the case with the clean-up on Friday 

 and Saturday. Not nearly so much 

 went to the dump although prices were 

 almost at the vanishing point. The 

 rose market was abundantly supplied 

 — the sunny days being just what the 

 rose likes. Carnations a little off crop 

 but quite enough for the demand. The 

 two Wards, Matchless, Gloriosa, Pink 

 Delight and Enchantress Supreme are 

 the leaders at present. St. Patrick 

 sent up the^ price of white carnations 

 for a few days but the influence of the 

 saint otherwise was not appreciable on 

 the market. Sweet peas are very 

 plentiful but the sale is good too. It 

 is certainly astounding to see the im- 

 mense quantities being used now com- 

 pared with a few years ago. Violets 

 moved a little better but that isn't say- 

 ing much. The price is still far too 

 low and they are a heartbreak to the 

 producer. 



St. Patrick's Day 

 PITTSBURGH caused somewhat of 



a break in the quiet 

 of Lent ("Praise be to Allah," irrev- 

 erently ejaculated a retailer evidently 

 dissatisfied with his spoils for the sea- 

 son). Mainly in demand were cunning 

 little pots of shamrock, together with 

 carnations and sweet peas so vividly 

 dyed that their reflection alone was 

 enough to turn a Burbank green with 

 envy. Conditions promise favorable 

 tor the Easter trade, the wholesale 

 firms "cleaning up right along," with 

 prices proportionately fair. Recent 

 weather conditions have been favor- 

 able for stock, as regards both quan- 

 tity and quality. In addition to the 

 bulb plants, which now go without say- 

 ing, heather and roses, especially baby 

 ramblers, are reported particularly 

 fine. Notwithstanding adverse foreign 

 conditions and attendant prospects of 

 nothing doing, the town has been flood- 

 ed with commercial Hollanders and 

 Belgians of unpronounceable and un- 

 spellable names, who report more aza- 

 lias, rhododendrons, palms, evergreens 

 and bay trees than ever. Apropos of 

 this condition, it is interesting to note 

 that one of these Belgians, although 

 overflowing with bitterness for Ger- 

 many, was fair enough to admit that 

 the enemy had left the greenhouses 

 and lands of Belgium unmolested. Also 

 from Germany has come an unusually 

 large importation of baskets, all in 

 good shape, to the McCallum Com- 

 pany. Reports of selling conditions 

 vary in the Allegheny and city market 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Cattleraa - 



Lilies, LoDsiflorum 



Rubrum 



Lily of the Valley 



Daises 



Violets 



Snapdragon 



Narcisus, Paper White 



Freesias 



Daffodils 



Tulips 



Sweet Peas 



Com Flower 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax 



Asparagus Plumosus. strings (per loo) 



" & Spren (loo bunches). 



proper. While one reports his sales as 

 one-third better since the holidays 

 (which "were bad"), than during the 

 same time last year, another nearby, 

 discouragingly says, "not making ex- 

 penses." 



The flower trade 

 SAN FRANCISCO is moderately ac- 

 tive this week, 

 but conditions are not satisfactory, 

 either to growers or retailers. The 

 fashion show at the department stores 

 has taken a good many flowers, both 

 cut and potted stock being used rather 

 extensively in store decorations, white 

 a good many people are attracted to 

 the stores by new offerings and excep- 

 tionally fine displays. The small trade 

 from strangers in town, however, is 

 largely taken by street venders, who 

 are handling a larger variety of flow- 

 ers than usual. Practically all sea- 

 sonable flowers are offered in great 

 abundance, and as the average quality 

 is good, it takes something better than 

 usual to bring satisfactory prices. The 

 market is glutted with short and or- 

 dinary stock of all descriptions, good 

 American Beauty roses being about 

 the only popular flowers at all scarce. 

 The cut of all other roses is very 

 large, and bulb stock of all sorts is 

 cheap, tulips now sharing the general 

 weakness. Anemones are still some- 

 thing of a novelty and clean up fairly 

 well, and some very nice lots of 

 ranunculus have found ready sale. A 

 good many peonies have come in this 

 week, and some forced amaryllis has 

 appeared. The orchid situation shows 

 little change. Gardenias are still fine, 

 but only the best offerings receive 

 much attention. Rhododendrons are 

 coming out nicely, and will probably 

 be quite plentiful for Easter. There is 

 a good supply of primroses, with only 

 moderate demand. There is no longer 



any great call for violets 

 freely offered. 



The 

 ST. LOUIS dull 



which are 



market is rather 

 with plenty of 



stock for any size or- 

 der and at rather low prices. White 

 carnations have taken a rise this Mon- 

 day going up to 4 cents for the best. 

 The demand was larger, these being 

 wanted for coloring for St. Patrick's 

 Day. Roses are in plenty and bulb 

 stock is a glut since the southern daf- 

 fodils are coming up by the ten thou- 

 sands daily. Sweet peas sell well, also 

 violets. 



Business last week 

 WASHINGTON showed some little 



improvement. 

 There is plenty of stock and at reason- 

 able prices. The violet and sweet pea 



supply is far in excess of the demand. 

 Roses and carnations are more plenti- 

 ful than they have been. Snapdragon 

 is being produced in larger quantities 

 and better qualities. Pink seems to be 

 tlie most popular and meets with a 

 fairly ready sale amongst the better 

 class of trade. White and yellow is 

 also to be had. Practically all of the 

 Easter flowers now have representa- 

 tion in the market. There are quanti- 

 ties of tulips, jonquils, narcissi, at al- 

 most the buyer's own price, Easter 

 lilies, both cut and potted, and fine 

 first shipments of spirea and rambler 

 roses. There are fully enough Cattle- 

 yas to meet all demands. 



Stoughton, Mass. — F. E. Swett & 

 Son, florists, have dissolved partner- 

 ship. Raymond M. Swett wishing to 

 devote his whole time to the growing 

 and selling of gladiolus bulbs of high 

 quality. For this purpose lie has se- 

 cured forty acres of ideal bulb soil and 

 will plant it this spring. 



STUART H. MILLER 



WHOLESALE FLORIST 



Opened for business on 

 Munduy, March Ist, at 



1617 Ranstead Street, PHILADELPHIA 



Where he hopes to see all his old friends 

 and many new ones. 



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