Ai)ril 24, 1915 



H R TI C U L T U E E 



569 



Flower Market Reports 



Tlie markets are begin- 

 BOSTON ning to recuperate from 

 the set-back caused by 

 the big storm. Business is by no 

 means up to normal, but conditions are 

 better than they were last week. Stock 

 of all kinds is plentiful, more than 

 enough to meet the rather weak de- 

 mand. There is a heavy supply of all 

 varieties of roses and it is this class of 

 goods that is suffering most. The warm 

 weather has brought on a veritable 

 flood of carnations, tulips, nanissi, 

 snapdragon, jiansies, etc.. in quantities 

 too large to secure reasonable prices. 

 The supply of sweet peas is exceed- 

 ingly large. A few violets are still 

 hanging on. The "mushroom" stores 

 and department stores have taken ad- 

 vantage of the large amount of cheap 

 stock and help to clean up the market, 

 although but slowly. Spanish iris and 

 Roman anemones are being called for 

 in limited quantities. The local trade 

 is hopefully expectant of brisk busi- 

 ness after May 1st. The wholesale 

 houses are stocking up with Memorial 

 Day supplies and anticipate good 

 trade. 



The past week's receipts 

 BUFFALO have been the heaviest 

 of the season. While 

 the trade was not on the very quiet 

 side, there was too much of everything 

 and no outlet for the heavy surplus 

 and not one item touched the quota- 

 tion mark. Roses, lilies and carna 

 tlons were very plentiful. Sweet peas 

 were abundant — in fact, there was no 

 shortage on anything and no orders 

 were short of any item that was in any 

 way ordered. The bargain signs were 

 largely scattered on Saturday and a 

 fair amount was disposed of. 



Some wholesalers use 

 CHICAGO the word "demoralized" 

 when they express their 

 opinion of the market as it is today 

 and as it has been since Easter. They 

 have learned to meet the conditions to 

 an extent, however, and last week 

 closed with the market iiractically 

 cleaned up. There is no such thing as 

 getting old prices for stock but it 

 seemed wiser to take what could be 

 had for it and let it go. Then with 

 Sunday, April 18th. came a hot wave 

 when the thermometer started up and 

 on Monday it registered 83 degrees at 

 the Government Station. It was ac- 

 companied by a strong breeze and all 

 kinds of stock were hurried along on a 

 market already over-supplied. The 

 newest varieties of roses are selling 

 for the former prices of older sorts. 

 Carnations are sharing the fate of 

 roses. The best can be bought for two 

 cents and in quantities at a much 

 lower price. Southern jonquils are 

 coming now in large quantities. Bul- 

 bous stock, home grown, is nearing 

 the end and after so many months of 

 it, growers are not sorry to see it go. 

 Lilies are accumulating. There seems 

 to be no demand for them and vases 

 of Easter lilies and callas are on every 

 counter. Very good lily of the valley 

 is offered. Sweet peas are coming fast 

 and prices are not at all steady, vary- 

 ing with the word of the wholesaler. 

 It seems to be the fear of a glut rather 

 than the existence of one that makes 

 prices fluctuate so rapidly. There is 

 plenty of smilax. Asparagus plumosus 

 and Sprengeri. Common ferns are 

 quoted at $2.00 and $2..^)0 per 1000. 



SNAPDRAGON 



To-day no florist can afford 

 to be without Snapdragons in 

 all their variety of colors and 

 shades — decorative, showy 

 and attractive. 



Special per doz. .75 and $1.00 

 First " .50 



DELICATE PINK " 1.50 



Everything in Ribbons and 

 Florists Supplies. vSend for 

 our catalogue. 



S. S. PENNOCK- 

 MEEHAN CO. 



The Wholesale Florists of Philadelphia 



NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA 



117 W. 28th St. 1608-1620 Ludlow St. 

 BALTIMORE WASHINGTON 



Franklin & St. Paul St». 12 1 6 H St.,N. W. 



WHOLESALE FLOWER MARKETS 



TRADE PRICES — Per 100 



TO DEALERS ONLY 



Roses 



Am. Beauty, Special ■ 



'* " Fancy and Extra 



No. I 



Killamey , Richmond, E:(tra 



" '* Ordinary 



Hillingdon, Ward, Sunburst, Extra...- 

 " " " Ordinary. 



Maryland, Radiance. Taft, Extra 



" " " Ordinary .. . 



Russell, Hadley, Ophelia, Mock 



Carnations, Fancy 



** Ordinary 



Cattley as 



Lilies, Longiflorum 



" Rubrum 



Lily of the Valley 



Daises 



VioleU 



Snapdragon 



Iris... 



Freesias 



Daffodils 



Tulips 



Sweet Peas 



Com Flower 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax 



Asparagus Plumosus, Strings ( loo) . . . 

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



BOSTON 



April 22 



ST. LOUIS 



April 19 



PHILA. 



April 20 



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From the wholesal- 

 CINCINNATI ers point of view 

 tiie present market 

 is more or less of a niglitmare. Busi- 

 ness is rather slow while the inrush 

 of heavy cuts is unabated and the glut 

 continues. Roses and carnations are 

 the worst sufferers, principally hecause 

 in a normal market they are the more 

 numerous flowers and adding to this 

 their proportionate share of the gen- 

 eral increase in quality that we are 

 having, makes the supply of each seem 

 unusually large. Their average qual- 

 ity, except in the cases of dumped 

 stock is pretty good. Sweet peas con- 

 tinue in a large supply, bilics and 

 callas are plentiful. The call for or- 

 chids and lily of the valley has picked 

 up somewhat. 



There is really noth- 

 NEW YORK ing in connection 



with the cut flower 

 wholesale market situation that is 



worth recording as of interest to any 

 of our readers, whether they be grow- 

 ers, wholesalers or retailers but there 

 are lessons to be learned by anyone 

 who is disposed to take a sensible view. 

 The traffic has reduced itself at the 

 present time to a "catch-as-catch-can" 

 basis and l!ie sole aim of the seller 

 is to unload whatever stock may come 

 in, regardless of published quotations. 

 In short, this market is overloaded 

 with flowers of every description in 

 quantity far beyond the capacity of 

 ordinary i-hannels to assimilate and 

 even after every conceivable alterna- 

 tive has been made use of there still 

 remains a surplus stock for which no 

 trade outlet exists. This is the con- 

 dition that confronts every dealer — 

 whether the goods are patrician or 

 plebeian — and there appears no pos- 

 sible expedient for immediately im- 

 proving the situation. Simply "grin 



( Contin ned on page 571) 



