April 17, 1915 



HORTICULTURE 



539 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Cattleyu 



Lilies, LonKiflorum 



'* Rubrum 



Lily of the Valley 



Daises 



VioleU 



Snapdragon • 



Narcistis, Paper White 



Freestas 



Daffodils 



Tulips 



Sweet Peas 



Com Flower 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax 



AsparaRtis Plumosiu, strings (per loo) 



** ** & Spren (loo bunches) . 



Last Half tf Week 



ending Apr. 10 



1915 



15.00 

 1. 00 



1.00 



1. 00 



1. 00 



.10 



a.oo 



1. 00 



•50 



1. 00 



.50 



3.00 

 ■50 



6.00 

 35.00 

 10.00 



to 

 to 



75.00 



2 00 

 3.00 

 2.00 

 2.00 

 .20 

 4.00 

 1.50 

 1. 00 

 1. 00 

 2.00 



•75 

 i.oo 



Z2.00 



■75 



10.00 

 50.00 

 25,00 



First Half of Week 



beeinnine Apr. 12 



1915 



•50 

 8.00 



15.00 

 10.00 



10.00 

 ■75 

 10.00 

 35-0O 

 20.00 



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



(Continued from page SS7) 



quantities, but is being affected much 

 by the weather and drops very badly. 

 Snapdragon of very fine quality is mov- 

 ing very slowly, 35c. per bunch. Sweet 

 peas are almost as plentiful as in the 

 summer season, the finest Spencers be- 

 ing sold 25c. to 75c. per dozen bunches. 

 It is difficult to move sweet peas of the 

 older types. Veterans in the business 

 claim that they have never seen the 

 market so dull and overstocked as at 

 present. Easter lilies are seen every- 

 where, many houses still carrying over 

 stock from Easter and it not unusual 

 to see small lots sold as low as $1 per 

 hundred. 



We regret to have 



PHILADELPHIA to report one of 

 the worst weeks 

 on record for this city. Monday after 

 Easter the retailers were stocked up 

 with left-overs from the Saturday bliz- 

 2ard — and would not buy a cent's 

 worth. The daily supplies came in as 

 usual; no takers. Result — a glut for 

 the week. And it still continues at the 

 start of this new week and it looks as 

 if we were in for another bad one. 

 Enormous supplies of splendid flowers 

 and not enough business to absorb one- 

 half. We are not built right to write 

 right on a painful subject, so we cut 

 the painful story short. Spanish iris, 

 ixias and gladioli are the latest new- 

 comers. 



The usual post- 



SAN FRANCISCO holiday con- 

 dition of trade 

 prevails here this week. There is no 

 special activity in any line, but there 

 is little inclination to complain, as 

 Easter business on the whole was well 

 up to expectations and a reaction is to 

 be expected for a few days following 

 holidays such as Easter when flowers 

 are used in great abundance. Retail- 

 ers bought rather conservatively and 

 a little better than normal demand 

 cleaned up their stocks almost en- 

 tirely. The result was hardly so sat- 

 isfactory for the wholesalers, though 

 the surplus of good stock was not large 

 as compared to last year. Rambler 

 roses had a splendid call and the sup- 

 ply of potted lilies was barely sufficient 

 to meet the demand, while a good 

 many cut lilies were held over. All 

 kinds of cut flowers are in good sup- 

 ply. Some fine specimens of Amer- 

 ican Beauties have appeared since 

 Easter, also a good many short stems 

 which are being sold at easy prices. 

 Baby roses are being shown in abun- 

 dance, and there is a little shading of 

 prices, not to any extent, however, as 

 the demand is fairly good. Cecile 

 Brunner roses are more plentiful and 

 prices are easier than they were a 

 week ago. Tulips continue to bring 

 good prices in face of bountiful sup- 

 plies. Sweet peas and carnations are 

 the weakest items at present, both be- 

 ing in ample supply, with only a mod- 

 erate demand. The call for sweet peas 

 Is mostly for Spencers. Gardenias 

 cleaned up well at Easter time and 

 the supply has been limited since. 



The market during the 



ST. LOUIS past week was in bad 



condition, demand slow, 



great quantities of everything, and 



prices lower than for the past six 



months. Prices were quoted in thou- 



sand lots on which the down town re- 

 tailers could hardly resist if only 

 bought for show. Roses at $10 per 

 1000 — and good stock at that. Carna- 

 tions $7.50 per 1000. Sweet peas $2 

 per 1000, and so on down the line. 

 These conditions promise to continue 

 this week from the looks of the mar- 

 ket on this Monday morning, April 12. 

 Florists are unani- 

 WASHINGTON mous in the con- 

 viction that the 

 Easter business of this year proved 

 of greater success than for many pre- 

 ceding years regardless of all handi- 

 caps of competition and weather. Since 

 Easter the mercury has been climbing 

 and it is now like midsummer. This 

 has caused an overproduction of flow- 

 ers and added to the woes of this the 

 public is demanding the use of the 

 many spring blossoms such as for- 

 sythia and outdoor magnolias. There 

 is absolutely no market for such flow- 

 ers as American Beauty roses, snap- 

 dragon, and similar stock. Roses, car- 

 nations, sweet peas and bulbous flow- 

 ers are absolutely without price, al- 

 though some of the houses are endeav- 

 oring to keep the market more uni- 

 form. Lily of the valley holds its own. 

 and this same applies to orchids and 

 violets because of their scarcity, but 

 aside from these, the bidder's offer is 

 usually accepted. 



CREDIT PROTECTION. 



HoRTicuLTTJKE Publishing Company: 



Have just been reading Henry 

 Penn's very interesting article in your 

 columns entitled 'The protection of 

 credit." If all the retail florists held 

 the same liberal and fair attitude to- 

 wards the growers that Mr. Penn does, 

 there would certainly be a wonderful 

 inprovement in the florist business. 

 The question of credit is one of the 

 most pertinent ones we have to deal 

 with today. It is certainly an out- 

 rage the way unscrupulous dealers 

 have failed up, pay their creditors lit- 

 tle or nothing, and then start in busi- 

 ness again. Such men are the great- 

 est menace to our business. I think 

 every fair-minded person will agree 

 with Mr. Penn that the honest retailer 

 has nothing to fear from a protective 

 organization of growers. There is 

 plenty of competition in our business 

 today, and a man has to be a skilful 

 grower and hard worker to make his 

 business a success. He can ill afford 

 the losses caused by failures which we 

 have all too frequently. 



Yours very truly, 



Ernest Bokowski. 

 Roslindale, Mass. 



VISITORS' REGISTER. 



St. Louis — K. van Kleef, Boskoop, 

 Holland. 



PERSONAL. 



Alexander Cummings, who has been 

 employed in the Ethelwyn green- 

 houses, Springfield, Mass., has gone to 

 Elberon, N. J., to take a position as 

 foreman on the Guggenheimer estate. 



Boston — Prof. D. Lumsden, Ithaca, 

 N. Y.; Prof. J. H. Gourley, Amherst, 



Mass. 



New Bedford, Mass. — L. D. Bryant 

 representing A. H. Hews & Co., North 

 Cambridge, Mass. 



New Bedford, Mass., florists report 

 business since Easter as having been 

 good, using up satisfactorily the sur- 

 plus from the stormy Easter. 



Philadelphia — Fred Lautenschlager. 

 representins Kroeschell Bros., Chica- 

 go; A, Leuthy, Roslindale, Mass.; W. 

 C. Langbridge, Cambridge, N. Y. 



Pittsburgh: Jos. J. Goudy, repre- 

 senting Henry A. Dreer, Philadelphia; 

 W. F. Snyder, Edwards Folding Box 

 Co., Philadelphia; .lulius Dilloff, New 

 York; C. Colyn, Holland. 



Dr. G. R. Lyman, formerly professor 

 of botany at Dartmouth College, Han- 

 over, N. H., was recently appointed 

 pathologist of the Federal Horticul- 

 tural Board, and will assist Mr. Beat- 

 tie, the pathological inspector of the 

 board. 



STUART H. MILLER 



WHOLESALE FLORI6T 



Nearly 14 yenrs' experience. I'irst year 

 I on our own. Watch U3 grow. 



1617 Ranstead Street, PHILADELPHIA 



Telephones 

 Keystone— Kace 27 Bell — Spruce 611* 



Washington, D. C— S. S. Skidelsky, 

 Philadelphia, Pa.; Milton Alexander. 

 New York; Julius Dilloff, with Schloss 

 Bros., New York; I. Rosnosky, repre- 

 senting H. F. Michell Co., Philadelphia. 



ROBERT J. DYSART 



PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT AND ACDITOB 



Simple methods of correct acrounllnB 



especially adapted for florlNlH' use. 



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