June 19, 1915 



HORTICFLTUEE 



825 



Flower Market Reports 



As the season of com- 

 BOSTON mencements and gradua- 

 tions which means so 

 much to florists in the New England 

 states approaches its close there is 

 abundant evidence that this flower 

 market is in for a low tide experience 

 shortly. Already the carnations, lilies, 

 roses, snapdragons, sweet peas and 

 other regular stock appears in accumu- 

 lated surplus on all the wholesale 

 counters while local grown peonies are 

 Just beginning their onslaught. "The 

 beginning of the end" is with us, un- 

 questionably, and a general tearing up 

 and throwing out will soon be under 

 way in the flower growing establish- 

 ments of this section. 



There was any amount 

 BUFFALO of anything in the line 



of cut flowers the past 

 week. Ideal summer weather has 

 brought on stock faster than could be 

 handled to advantage, especially roses, 

 which were in enormous supply, also 

 lilies and carnations. Floral work was 

 quiet and weddings were hardly notice- 

 able and all wedding material lacked 

 the demand. Peonies are plentiful and 

 sell only at low figures. Good Festiva 

 maxima were had and those sold at 

 fair prices. 'Outdoor material in great 

 variety is being loaded on the market. 



The street car strike 

 CHICAGO had an immediate effect 

 upon the business of 

 the Chicago florists. The last cars 

 ran on Sunday evening and on Mon- 

 day morning there was no way for 

 florists to get their usual supply of 

 flowers, except to come after them with 

 their delivery cars or wagons, and a 

 rain made this inconvenient. Then 

 too, the demand on the wholesale mar- 

 ket was naturally lighter as the re- 

 tailers had no reason to expect the 

 usual number of customers when 

 street car service was suspended. The 

 latter half of last week was not very 

 encouraging. The cold damp weather 

 put a check on local trade and were 

 it not for a fairly good shipping trade, 

 stock would have accumulated serious- 

 ly. Weddings and commencements 

 have kept the shipping orders coming 

 and there has been plenty of a high 

 grade of stock to fill them with. 

 American Beauty roses have been as 

 much a favorite for these occasions 

 as in former years and the demand 

 has been good. Mrs. Russell leads the 

 market in other roses and its color is 

 just as good as in bright weather. 

 Sunburst, the pride of so many grow- 

 ers during the winter, is nearly faded 

 out this week for lack of sunshine. 

 Carnations are of excellent quality, 

 the cool weather of the last six weeks 

 keeping them firm. Tliere is a good 

 supply of lily of the valley and a con- 

 siderable quantity changes hands each 

 day. Lilies seem to be in excess of 

 demand. Many vases filled with them 

 are seen in every store. The daisies 

 in both white and yellow, always pop- 

 ular in commencement time, are espe- 

 cially good now and can be had in any 

 quantity. Peonies are at the height of 

 their season this week. Tlie quality is 

 not extra but is considered fair. 



f For Tlie 

 June Girl 



A decoration of Rambler 



sprays, pink, white or red ; 



beautiful, graceful and 



effective ; some long, some 



medium and some short 



sprays. The first cuts will come 



from our Washington store, then 



Baltimore, Philadelphia and New 



York, thus giving an unusually 



long season. 



$5.00 to $20.00 per 100 sprays, according to 

 length of sprays 



S. S. PENNOCK-MEEHAN CO. 



The Wholesale Florists of Philadelphia 



PHILADELPHIA, 1608.1620 Lodlon Si. 

 BALTIMORE. FrankllD 8 Si. Paul Sis. 



NEW YORK, 117 We.t 28ih «t. 

 WASHINGTON, 1216 H Si.. N. W. 



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WHOLESALE FLOWER MARKETS — "^^^^^^-Zo'VeSlers only 



Roses 



Am. Beauty, Special 



** " Fancy and Extra 



" No. 1 



Killamey, Richmond, Extra 



*' " Ordinary 



HillingdoDt Ward, Sunburst, Extra.... 

 ** " *' Ordinary. 



Areoberg, Radiance, Taft, Extra 



" '* *' Ordinary .. . 



Russell, Hadley, Ophelia, .Mock 



CamadoiiSt Fancy 



*• Ordinary 



Cattleyaa ■ 



Dendrobiufxi formosun 



Lilies, Longtf lorutn 



Rubrum 



Lily of the Valley 



Daisies 



Stocks 



Snapdragon 



Gladioli 



Peonies 



Sweet Peas 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax 



Asparagus Plumosus, Strings (loo)... 

 *' ** &5pren. (loo Bchs.) .... 



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Never in the history 

 NEW YORK of the flower trade in 



New York has the 

 business been so completely stagnated 

 as during the past week. It has gone 



to pieces completely and without a 

 vestige of comfort of any sort. We at- 

 tempt to quote prices to keep up long- 

 standing custom, but they really mean 



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