July 10, 1915 



HORTICULTURE 



49 



Flower Market Reports 



The usual stagnation of 

 BOSTON business activity c u s- 



tomary to tlio fourth of 

 July week as the dead centre between 

 the past and the new season is the 

 condition which all have to face this 

 week. As to which particular flower 

 gets hit the hardest at this inevitable 

 juncture, years vary. This year it is 

 the carnation which suffers worst, and 

 this is all the more to be regretted be 

 cause the quality of the flowers of- 

 fered is so very good. However, there 

 is a bit of light ahead for the summer 

 resort florists are beginning to show 

 up and a few orders have been placed 

 already. So all eyes are turned toward 

 the rising sun of the new day and, 

 however disappointing the one just 

 gone may have been, yet we realize 

 it might have been worse. Look for- 

 ward now, not back. 



The market was rather 

 BUFFALO dull the past week, sum- 

 mer conditions prevail- 

 ing. There are any amount of roses, 

 carnations, lilies, peas and sales have 

 to be forced. Floral work has been 

 very light and weddings being about 

 over therefore very little business is 

 coming to the wholesalers. 



Real summer to a flor- 

 CHICAGO ist begins July 1st. This 

 year is no exception. 

 All the ear marks are to be seen ex- 

 cept in the stock which is fresh and 

 good. Customers were few' after the 

 two holidays, July 4th and 5th. and 

 the cut of the two days was brought 

 into a market almost devoid of buyers. 

 The first days of the month had seen 

 stock clean up fairly well though 

 prices were made very low on large 

 lots rather than consign them to the 

 barrels, but after the 5th, business 

 lagged sadly. The stock sold to the 

 big department stores for their special 

 sales, though it cleared the path of 

 the wholesaler, curtailed the oppor- 

 tunity of the retailer to move even 

 the scant amount his summer trade 

 usually calls for. Peonies are still 

 left in quantities in storage and the 

 daily sales are not heavy, still few are 

 lost. Carnations are remarkable for 

 their substance and stiff stems and 

 look more like the product of May 

 than July. Roses are of every length 

 and the stock is considered very good 

 indeed for the season. Garden flowers 

 are very much in evidence. 



Business taken as a 

 CINCINNATI whole Is rather 



quiet. Some of the 

 lines and the better grades of stock 

 move fairly well but the market is not 

 at all active. The offerings in the new 

 roses are large and good. The supply 

 of lilies Is so large that the market is 

 overloaded with them. Gladioli are in 

 a good supply and sell fairly well. 

 The first of the early asters came in 

 the early part of this week. Other 

 offerings include auratum and rubrum 

 lilies, Water lilies, carnations, snap- 

 dragons and hardy hydrangea. 



Business this past 

 CLEVELAND week has been fair. 

 Outside flowers ar- 

 riving In large quantities. Peonies are 

 about done and are now being used 

 from storage and some of the florists 

 ilaini they are not coming in very 

 good shape. From all reports, there 



GLADIOLI 



Splendid quality— good, long, well 

 flowered spikes, grown for cut 

 flowers and not the kind grown 

 for tlie bulb. Good Assortment. 



$3.00 per 100, $25.00 per 1000 



Per doz. $5.00 



VAI-I-EY 



Special $4.00 per 100; Extra $3.00 

 per 100. 



S. S. PENNOCKMEEHAN CO. 



Ihe Wholesale Florists of Philadelpliia 



PHILADELPHIA, 1608-1620 Ludlow St. 

 NEW YORK, 117 W. 28th St. 



BALTIMORE, Franklin and St. Paul Sts. 



WASHINGTON, 1216 H St.. N. W. 



WHOLESALE FLOWER MARKETS — 



TRADE PWCES-^Per^lOO^_^ ^^^^ 



Roses 



Am. Beauty, Special 



** " Fancy and Extra 



No. I 



Killarney, Richmond, Extra 



" '* Ordinary 



Hillingdon, Ward, Sunburst, Extra... 

 " " " Ordinary 



Arenberg, Radiance, Taft, Extra 



" " " (Ordinary . 



Russell, Hadley. Ophelia, Mock 



Camationa, Fancy 



•• Ordinary 



Cattleyas 



Dendrobium fonnOBun 



Lilies, Lon gif lorum 



" Rubrum 



Uly of the Valley 



Daisies 



Stocks 



Snapdragon 



Gladioli 



Peonies 



Sweet Peas 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax ; 



Asparagus Plumosus, Strings (lOo) 

 " " & Spren. (too Bchs.l 



have been more peonies put in cold 

 storage than ever before. A remark- 

 able fact is the presence of peonies, 

 gladioli, asters and dahlias on the 

 market in quantities at the same time. 

 Short Beauties and white roses have 

 been less than the demand at times. 

 Carnation plants suffered considerable 

 from rains early in the season, hut 

 are coming along all right now. 



As might be expected, 

 NEW YORK the past week has 

 been the dead low 

 tide of the flower business in this city. 

 There is no call for anything and 

 nothing of a business nature to cause 

 the faintest ripple on the apathy 

 which has settled down over the 

 wholesale district. Receipts of stock 

 are much lighter as it does not pay to 

 transport goods to a market which is 

 not a market and so the labor of the 

 wholesale people is materially light- 

 ened. No complaint can be found with 

 the average quality of the material re- 

 ceived, which is much better than we 



have been accustomed to see at this 

 date. There Is an abundance of really 

 nice stock from which to fill orders 

 if orders would only materialize. The 

 situation is no different otherwise 

 from other years. An upward move- 

 ment mav soon be looked for and even 

 if slight it will be heartily welcomed. 



Killarney, R i c h- 

 PITTSBURGH mond and Mrs. 



Aaron Ward roses 

 and llarrisii lilies are almost as of 

 good quality as in winter, although 

 nalurally selling at low prices in or- 

 der to meet the business demands. 

 Other stocks are shortening up, but 

 what is coming in is good. Carnations 

 are still coming in fairly well and 

 there are lots of outdoor sweet peas. 

 The fine quality of this late stock is 

 accounted for in the unusually cool, 

 rainy weather, which, however, un- 

 fortunately promises anything but 

 well for corn and grain. 



(CDKiinutl/ on /nge S') 



