June 26, 1915 



HORTICULTUKE 



859 



Flower Market Reports 



(Continued from page Si~) 



There was no 

 SAN FRANCISCO special activity 

 in the flower 

 market here the past week, but gen- 

 eral business seems to be keeping up 

 a little better than usual for this time 

 of the year on account of the in- 

 creased travel through the city and 

 the large number of special events in 

 connection with the exposition, which 

 follow each other in rapid succession. 

 Several downtown shops have been 

 featuring baskets, especially arranged 

 as "Bon Voyage" gifts or favors to 

 arriving guests, and a considerable de- 

 mand is reported for such pieces. 

 There is little change in the nature 

 of the stock offered since the last re- 

 port, with the exception of sweet peas 

 and carnations being in somewhat 

 lighter supply, with quality hardly so 

 good. First-class carnations are really 

 scarce and bring high prices, while 

 ordinary stock is hard to move even 

 at low figures. Gladioli are plentiful. 

 but the offerings clean up nicely from 

 day to day. Panama, America and 

 Mrs. Francis King are the principal 

 favorites. Dahlias are improving in 

 quality and next week promises to be 

 still better. A few very fine Delice 

 are coming in. A liberal supply of 

 gardenias finds a ready outlet, the 

 specimens being of fine quality. All 

 varieties of roses are exceptionally 

 plentiful except long-stemmed Amer- 

 ican Beauties. The latter are scarce 

 and are readily absorbed. Many of 

 the staple lines are above average 

 quality. Oplielia rose is very fine: 

 Hadley is popular, and Aaron Ward 

 has a good call. Rambler rose sprays 

 are a strong feature for decorative 

 work. 



The wholesale market 

 ST. LOUIS has plenty of every- 

 thing in season and 

 prices are unchanged. The biggest 

 day in the wholesale district since 

 Easter was on Saturday, .June 19. 

 when it was announced that the mar- 

 ket would close on Saturday at noon 

 and remain so until Monday morning. 

 This announcement brought a protest 

 from the local growers and some of 

 the retailers but it was enforced just 

 the same. Great cuts of carnations, 

 roses, sweet peas and gladioli have 

 been coming in. The demand was 

 much better than for some time, still 

 there is quite a lot of stock left over 

 daily. Lily of the valley and white 

 flowers sold best all last week. 



The retailers have 

 WASHINGTON been having things 

 pretty well their 

 own way during the past week or ten 

 days as the coming of hot weather has 

 caused a marked depression in the 

 local flower market and those selling 

 flowers at wholesale would feel very 

 well satisfied could they but move a 

 fourth of the heavy supply of stock of 

 all kinds which is coming in. Tlie dull 

 season has set in in earnest. Lily of 

 the valley was the week's best seller, 

 but even this did not clean u|). Peo- 

 nies are at an end. Roses and carna- 

 tion of local production are getting 

 very poor. Some excellent slock is 

 being received from the north but is 

 not being purchased to any great ex- 

 tent. Plenty of exceptionally fine 

 Cattleya gigas are to be had but the 

 demand is limited. The gross amount 



PATRICK WELCH, WHOLESALE FLORIST 



262 DEVONSHIRE STREET, BOSTON, MASS. 



TELEPHONE MAIN 2fi98 

 American Beauties, Orchids, Valley, Carnations. All the novelties In the Cut FIowot 

 Marliet furnislied on short notice. Prices quoted on application. No retail orders 

 accepted. Flowers sliipped out of BoBton on early trains. 



STORE OPEN FOR BUSINESS AT 6 A. M. 



NEW YORK QUOTATIONS PER 100. To Dealer^Only^ 



MISCELLANEOUS 



last Half of Week 



ending Jnne 19 



1915 



First Half of Week 



beginning June 21 



1915 



CattleyaB ■ 



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" Rubrum 



Lily of the Valley 



Daises 



Stocks 



Snapdragon 



Iris. • 



Gladioli 



Peonies 



Sweet Peas 



Com Flower 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax 



Asparagus Plumosus, stnngs (per loo) 



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of business done in any one line is 

 small as compared to the earlier weeks 

 of the month. The florists' however, 

 have had a much longer season this 

 year than last. 



note endorsements and does not In- 

 volve florist trade people to the num- 

 ber and extent that such affairs usual- 

 ly do. The greenhouses comprise 

 about 38,000 square feet. 



PERSONAL. 



Ex-Senator Len Small of Kankakee, 

 111., has been elected president of the 

 111. State Board of Agriculture. 



Wm. H. Dildine. treasurer of James 

 Vick's Sons, Rochester, N. Y., who was 

 operated on recently for appendicitis, 

 is rapidly improving. 



Henry Grindrod, formerly of Green- 

 wich, Conn., has assumed the superin- 

 tending of the Dr. Clarence Fahne- 

 stock at Cold Spring. N. Y. 



Rose Frances, daughter of Joseph 

 Schneider, of Schneider & Noe, Con- 

 gers, N. Y., and Henry F. Hensey were 

 married on Sunday, June 20. 



The marriage intentions of Frank 

 Nelson, florist, 147 Cedar street. New 

 Bedford, ilass., and Florence Wilde, 

 aiso of New Bedford, have just been 

 filed. 



The wedding of Miss Edna Ganz- 

 niiller to Frank Kyrk took place on 

 Tuesday evening, June 22, at the Pop- 

 lar street Presbyterian Church, Cin- 

 cinnati, O. 



Miss Clara Wilson, daughter of 

 James S. Wilson, of Des Moines, la., 

 and Irving Randolph Branner also of 

 Des .Moines were married in Chicago, 

 Saturday. June 19. 



VISITORS' REGISTER. 



San Francisco — George Roeding, 

 Fresno; Harry Harrington, Los An- 

 geles, Cal. 



New York — Wm. M. Post, of Post & 

 Gray. New Bedford, Mass.; Col. W. W. 

 Castle, Boston. 



Philadelphia— W. H. Vance, Wil- 

 mington. Del.: George W. Hess and 

 W. F. Gude, Washington, D. C. 



Boston — B. H. Farr, Wyomissing, 

 Pa.: Prof. A. B. Saunders, Clinton, 

 N. Y.; Prof. R. W. Curtis, Ithaca, N. 

 Y.; W. R. Cobb of Lord & Burnham 

 Co., New York: Charles Schwake, New 

 York: Leonard Barron and J. J. Lane, 

 Garden City, N. Y. 



Chicago — Roy Blessing, with Henry 

 Cusik Co., Kansas City, Mo.: James S. 

 Wilson, Des Moines, la.: Mr. and Mrs. 

 Thos. Best, St. Joseph, Mo.; Roy T. 

 Millis with the Alpha Floral Co., Kan- 

 sas City, Mo.; Thos. Joy, Jr., Nashville, 

 Tenn.: Wm. G. Miller, Peru, Ind.; Ed- 

 ward Frayling of the Wealthy Ave. 

 Floral Co.. Grand Rapids, Mich.; F. 

 S. Henry, Watseka, lU.; Jas. Mandes, 

 of the Sunshine Florists, Minneapolis. 

 Minn.; Van S. Rogers, Saugatuck, 

 Mich. 



BUSINESS TROUBLES. 

 Columbus, O. — .\rt Floral Co., Keith's 

 Theatre Bldg.. Hugh Dugan, receiver. 



Edmonton, Alberta.— A. K. Potter 

 has made an assignment to J. A. Mac- 

 kinnon. 



Samuel Lum. for many years a well- 

 known rose grower of Chatham, N. J., 

 has gone into bankruptcy. Schedules 

 of liabilities are not yet available but 

 the amount is said to be more than 

 $40,000. Harry O. May, as re|)resent- 

 ing the Chatham Trust Co. and Sum- 

 mit Trust Co., has been appointed tem- 

 porary receiver. Two wholesale 

 houses in New York City have claims 

 for cash advanced, we understand, but 

 the failure is said to be due to un- 

 profitable oil stock investments and 



Natural Green Sheet Moss 

 Dyed Green Sheet Moss . . 



$1.75 

 3.00 



Delivered by Express 



Huckleberry Foliage $2.00 Per Case. 



KNUD NIELSEN 



Evergreen, Ala. 



STUART H. MILLER 



WHOLESALE FLORIST 



Nearly 14 yenrs' experience. First year 

 on our own. Wnti-h us grow. 



1617 Ranstead Street, PHILADELPHIA 



Telephones 

 Keystone— Race 27 Bell— Spruce Bllt 



