May 29, 1915 



HORTICULTURE 



729 



Flower Market Reports 



The cut flower market 

 BOSTON has improved very slowly 



and with but little ad- 

 vance in prices. The trade in arti- 

 ficial Memorial Day goods is cutting 

 into the sale of fresh flowers. The 

 local retail stores have stocked up 

 heavily in prepared wreaths and are 

 creating a great demand for their 

 product. Carnations are the only nat- 

 ural flowers that are securing satis- 

 factory holiday prices, the poorer 

 goods being in greater demand for 

 bouquets, flat sprays, etc. Roses are 

 in moderate supply: but only special 

 grade blooms are realizing 10 cents. 

 Peonies are coming in in large num- 

 bers from Southern sources and se- 

 cure about 8 cents. Present indica- 

 tions point to heavy supply of these 

 for Memorial Day. Orchids, especi- 

 ally C. Mossiae are in fair demand, 

 but do not enter much into the holi- 

 day trade. Gardenias meet with little 

 or no demand. None of the southern 

 ,out-of-door crop are seen here yet. In 

 miscellaneous flowers the market is 

 well supplied with Easter lillies, mig- 

 nonette, callas, daisies, irises, gladioli, 

 snapdragon, pansies, etc. Green goods 

 are plentiful and of rather mediocre 

 quality. Altogether the cut flower 

 market is not^what it should be at this 

 season. 



A rainy week and busi- 

 BUFFALO ness was not flourish- 

 ing. Receipts are heavy 

 on roses and quantities of outdoor 

 stock such as lilacs, tulips, lily of the 

 valley, irises, etc., are offered. The 

 carnation supply has shortened up 

 again. Lilies were plentiful enough 

 and find fair sales, but short white 

 and pink roses have been accumulat- 

 ing. Peonies are coming in Init the de- 

 mand is not any too brisk as yet. With 

 the coming of Memorial Day indica- 

 tions point toward a good week's trade 

 especially in the peony line. 



If the flowers that could 

 CHICAGO not be sold at a satis- 

 factory price after the 

 holidays could only be available now, 

 they would make Chicago florists hap- 

 py. With orders pouring in from all 

 over the country and hardly enough 

 stock to take care of the daily trade, 

 it Is a sure thing that there will be 

 many disappointed people, wholesal- 

 ers, retailers and customers. It is safe 

 to say that there is not a wholesale 

 house in Chicago that can fill all the 

 orders now received and this is Tues- 

 day with four more days to be taken 

 into account. Some of the plants are 

 off crop and all have had cold and wet 

 to contend with. Since Ma.N 1st, 21 

 days have had a rainfall at some time 

 of the 24 hours and very little sun- 

 shine has helped open the buds, Amer- 

 ican Beauties are considered good and 

 there is a fair cut, but they are used 

 up each day. Carnations and roses 

 are both scarce. Peonies are coming 

 in. in proportion to the size of the 

 crop, but that is small. Miscellaneous 

 flowers help out and there is a very 

 good supply of sweet peas, lilies and 

 lily of the valley. 



A good many of the 

 CINCINNATI outdoor flowers in 



the gardens that usu- 

 ally compete with those of the florists 

 for Memorial Day business will have 



PEONIES 



in all shades, the newer and belter 

 varieties, splendid quality. For 

 .lune Wedding and Commencement 

 work, a choice lot of Princesse 

 Nicolas and Festiva Maxima, two 

 of the best decorative Peonies on 

 the commercial market today. 

 $6.00 to $8.00 per 100. 



Plenty of other choice varieties at 

 $3.00, $4.00 and $5.00 per 100. 



S. S. PENNOCK-MEEHAN CO. 



The Wholesale Florists of Philadelphia 

 PHIIJADELPHI.A, KiOS-lCaO I.uillow Street 



NEW YOKK, 117 West 38tli JStreet 



B.4LTIMOBE, Franklin and St. Paul Sts. 



W.ASHINGTON, 1316 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, Elxtra 



Ordinary.. 

 Hillingdon, Ward, Sunburst, Extra. 



Ordinary . . 



Maryland, Radiance, Taft, Extra 



• ' " *' Ordinary .. . 



Russell, Hadley, Ophelia, Mock 



Carnations. Fancy 



•• Ordinary 



Cattleyas - - 



Lilies, Longif lorum 



" Rubrum 



Uly of the Valley 



Daisies 



Stocks 



Snapdragon 



Iris ■ 



BOSTON 



May 27 



15.00 

 10.00 

 4.00 

 4.00 

 1. 00 

 6.00 

 2.00 

 6.00 

 3.00 

 4.00 

 ?.oo 



2. 00 



Peonies 



Gladioli 



Calendulas 



Sw^eet Peas 



Com Flower 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax ; 



Asparagus Plumosus, StrinsB (loo). 

 " ** & Spren. (100 Bchs.) .. 



I .50 



10.00 



1 .50 



10.00 

 25-00 

 25.00 



30.00 

 12.00 

 10.00 

 10.00 



3.00 



10.00 



4.00 



10.00 



4.00 



12.00 

 5.00 

 3.00 



50.00 

 8.00 

 6.00 

 3,00 



1.50 

 1.50 



4.00 



2.00 



8.00 



J. 00 



1. 00 



1. 00 



-75 



15.00 



z.oo 



12.00 



50.00 



50.00 



ST. LOUIS 



May 24 



PHU-A. 



May 26 



20.00 

 10.00 

 5-00 

 4.00 

 1.00 

 4.00 



2. 00 

 4.00 

 2.00 

 5.00 

 1.00 

 .50 

 35.00 

 6.00 



3.00 

 1. 00 

 Z.OO 



2.00 



4.00 



•15 



1.00 

 10.00 



35-00 



15.00 



35.00 



15.00 



8.00 



6.00 

 2.00 

 8.00 

 3.00 

 6.00 

 3.00 



10.00 



2.00 



•75 



40.00 

 8.00 



4.00 

 2.00 

 3.00 

 3.00 



5.00 



2.00 



.40 



2.Q0 



1-25 



15.00 

 50.00 



20.00 



20.00 

 12.00 

 5.00 

 6.00 

 2.00 

 4.00 

 2.00 

 5.00 

 2.00 

 5.00 

 3.00 

 2.00 

 25.00 

 5.00 



2.00 



-50 



1. 00 



2.00 



2.00 

 2.00 



.50 



■75 

 10.00 



20.00 



25.00 



30.00- 



20.00 

 10.00 

 10,00 ■ 

 5.00. 

 6.00 

 3.00 

 8.00 

 4.00 

 15.00 

 4.0c- 

 3.00 

 50.00 

 8.00 



6.00 ' 



4.00 

 1.50 



I.OO- 



20.00 

 i.oo- 

 25.00- 

 50.00 

 50.00- 



finished blooming and will leave the 

 way clear for the florists' stock. Ad- 

 vance orders for this day are iinusn- 

 ally heavy. Roses are plentiful includ- 

 ing everything from Killarney to 

 American Beauties. Carnations are not 

 quite so plentiful as they were. The 

 cut of peonies is very heavy and un- 

 less the unexpected happens should 

 easily take care of all Decoration Day 

 demands. The lily cut, too. is lan:e. 

 They have been selling rather indif- 

 ferently. Lily of the valley and or- 

 chids have only a fair market. Gladioli 

 and miniature gladioli are in a p-otty 

 good sup|)ly. 



As a usual thing tli-' 

 NEW YORK New York city trade 



are not burdened 

 witli much Memorial Day work, the 

 main disturbance in the wholesale 

 markets being caused by the out-of- 

 town call, especially so by the demand 

 for carnations from New England cen- 

 ters. The prospects are the prices in 

 general will be very much higher for 

 Memorial Day than they have been in 

 foinur seasons. Stock of all kinds to- 

 day has shortened up very much, and 



prices in consequence have advanced 

 all along the line. If any of this ad- 

 vance is based on the New England 

 trade, however, disappointment may 

 lie in store tor some of the operators 

 for the artificial wreath man is bav- 

 ins his innings in and aroinul Boston 

 with a vengeance and there is no- 

 telling just how much of his popular- 

 ity is due to the rapacious prices 

 placed upon pickled carnations for' 

 Memorial Day in the past. However, 

 we hope that the apparently better 

 balanced wholesale market now pre- 

 vailing will continue and that all will 

 benefit by the change from the unsat- 

 isfactory conditions of past years. 

 Southern asparagus continues to ar- 

 rive in large quantities, and is clear- 

 ing out at about the usual prices. If 

 anything the quality of this asparagus 

 is better just at present than it has 

 been for some time. Smilax is scarce. 

 Peonies are arriving from the South, 

 and those that are of good quality 

 meet with a ready demand at 4 and 

 8c. If there is anything that is mov- 

 ing unsatisfactorily it is orchids. It 



{Cotitinufd OH /•o£r 731) 



