July 10, 1915 



HORTICULTURE 



51 



Flower Market Reports 



(Continued from page 49) 



The nearest ap- 

 SAN FRANCISCO proach to an 



over - supply o f 

 flowers experienced in the local mar- 

 ket in several months was felt the 

 past week, and the situation was due 

 more to increased product than to de- 

 creased demand. There was plenty of 

 stock showing excellent quality; much 

 ordinary stock, and a good many sup- 

 plies helow standard in quality, which 

 made it difficult to maintain prices on 

 medium stock, and next to impossible 

 to clean up inferior offerings even at 

 extremely low prices. Counter trade 

 seems to be keeping up better than 

 usual for this time of year. Carna- 

 tions and sweet peas are both plenti- 

 ful and cheap, and show a wide range 

 in quality. Some very fine dahlias are 

 appearing. The supply of gladioli con- 

 tinues to increase, much of the stock 

 being rather ordinary. Hydrangeas 

 are offered freely with a good demand. 

 Among the new outdoor stock coming 

 in late, in June was some very nice 

 godetia and cockcombs, which were 

 readily absorbed. The cut of roses is 

 as large as it was. and the shipping 

 demand keeps up well. Mildew is 

 causing some trouble, but complaints 

 are not very serious. The market is 

 well supplied with orchids. 



The remarkably cool 

 ST. LOUIS weather has caused 



the stock coming to 

 this market to be of the best quality 

 and the consignments are very large 

 every day. Roses and carnations are 

 looking well but the big cuts can hard- 

 ly be disposed of unless at very cheap 

 prices which have prevailed in this 

 market all the past week. The great 

 gluts in this market at present are in 

 sweet peas and gladioli. These are 

 very heavy each day. Outdoor stock 

 of these in all varieties is coming in 

 by the thousands and is hard to dis- 

 pose of at any price. Other outdoor 

 flowers have little if any sale. Every- 

 thing is cheap and business is dull. 



Stock is very plen- 

 WASHINGTON tiful and for the 



most part good but 

 even the best moves but very slowly. 

 It is the usual early July dullness. Out- 

 door sweet peas are replacing the 

 greenhouse stock which is fast disap- 

 pearing. A nice lot of Sylvia. Charles 

 Bruton and Delice were brought in 

 last week to open the dahlia season 

 and these moved fairly well because of 

 being newcomers. A few asters were 

 also shown but these were not wanted. 

 There has been an oversupply of Hy- 

 drangea arborescens which does not 

 find the ready sale of a few years ago 

 when their production was confined to 

 a few growers. The season is about 

 over for yellow daisies yet some are 

 still to be had. Lilies are good, but 

 they are in little demand. Gladioli are 

 holding their own. There are ijlenty 

 of good cattleyas but the demand is 

 fluctuating. Out-of-town business con- 

 tinues good and daily shipments are 

 made to all southern points. 



Detroit, Mich. — The Schroeter-Stahe- 

 lin Company have dissolved iiartner- 

 ship and the business will be liere- 

 after conducted in the name of Hugo 

 Schroeter. 



PATRICK WELCH, WHOLESALE FLORIST 



262 DEVONSHIRE STREET, BOSTON, MASS. 



TEILEPHONE .M,\IN 2698 

 ^Vinerican B«anties, Orcliids, Valley, CarnatioiiB. \\\ the novelties In the Cut Flower 

 Market furnisliert on short notice. Prices iiuuted on application. No retail orders 

 accepted. FJowers sixipped out of Boston on early trains. 



STORE OPEN FOR BUSINESS AT 6 A.M. 



NEW YORK QUOTATIONS PER 100. To Dealers Only 



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NEWPORT, R. I. 



What Robert Burns had to say 

 about the miscarriage ot "the best 

 laid plans of mice and men" would ap- 

 ply very aptly to the experiences of 

 the sweet pea growers in Newport. 

 Just as the plants had reached that 

 stage where a resplendent crop ot ex- 

 hibition flowers seemed assured there 

 came a week of fog— fog of the typical 

 Newport brand, that "one could cut 

 with a knife"— and when it was over 

 every bud was gone on most varieties. 

 We "visited Wm. Robertson, William 

 Gray, James Bond, J. Urquhart, AVil- 

 liam Maekaye and other bright stars 

 of the horticultural firmament and all 

 had the same hard experience. The 

 consequent postponement of the big 

 show may, however, prove advanta- 

 geous for the Lenox and Bar Harbor 

 growers, whose crop isi naturally later 

 than that of Newport, a fact which 

 their Newport rivals generously com- 

 ment upon with magnanimous satis- 

 faction. We hope that everything 

 will now conspire to produce a record 

 exhibition, but skillful and clever as 

 the gardeners are they all have to sub- 

 mit to that final dictator — the weather. 

 The rose garden in the Gov. Beek- 

 man place under the care of John 

 Urquhart was a sight, however, which 

 more than atoned for the denuded 

 sweet peas. At this place we saw 

 something of a novelty, gardenias 

 tliriving and blooming luxuriantly in 

 cold frames. 



The Newport retail florists — T. J. 

 Gibson, Leikens, Bunyard, Gibson 

 Bros., Armstrong, Wadley & Smythe 

 and Schultz— all except the first- 

 named ranged along Bellevue avenue 

 — are looking wistfully ahead to the 

 coming two months, hoping for a pros- 

 perous season and a share of that 

 money wliich in ordinary times would 

 prcsumaljly have been squandered in 

 Europe, but not daring to make any 

 rosy predictions. What lieautlful roses 

 they produce in that moist Newport 

 climate! We saw some garden-grown 

 Brunners in Gibson's that would 

 charm the heart of the most exacting 

 rose lover. Just now the delphiniums. 

 Spanish irises, foxgloves and calceo- 

 larias are the main decorative feat- 



ures of the avenue show windows. 

 Glorious beyond words was the Bun- 

 yard display of golden iris flanked by 

 great vases of blue larkspur and in- 

 deed, the displays by all the above 

 mentioned places were most attractive 

 and artistic. 



SAN FRANCISCO NOTES 



F. C. Jaeger, of the Fairmont Floral 

 Co., is spending a vacation in the 

 southern part of the state. 



Mrs. Yoch, landscape architect, of 

 Los Angeles, Cal., is in San Francisco 

 to study the landscaping of the Ex- 

 position. 



Daniel MacRorie, of the MacRorie- 

 McLaren Co., is entertaining his 

 father, Malcome MacRorie, of New 

 Jersey, who is here to attend the Ex- 

 position. 



Mrs. Steele, of Steele's Pansy Gar- 

 dens, Portland, Ore., is visiting the 

 Exposition, the pansy beds of which 

 are of particular interest to her as the 

 plants were supplied by her firm. 



At the next meeting of the local hor- 

 ticultural society the question of a 

 florists' picnic this month or next will 

 come u]) for discussion. The subject 

 has been agitated in the trade and 

 sentiment seems to favor an outing. 



A new flower shop is being opened 

 at 1806 Fillmore street under the 

 name of the Motroui Art Floral Co. 

 Mr. Motroui has just returned from 

 Sacramento, Cal., where he has been 

 since disposing of his business at Fill- 

 more and Washington streets some 

 months ago. He is having his new 

 place nicely fitted up. 



In anticipation ot an increased de- 

 mand for chrysanthemums on account 

 of the Exposition, growers supplying 

 this market liave planted a larger 

 acreage tlian in former years. The 

 United Flower & Supply Co. expects 

 to handle the output ot between 

 twenty-five and thirty acres, which is 

 nearly twice the amount planted by 

 the same growers last season. An 

 early cut is in sight as buds are al>- 

 pearing three weeks ahead of the nor- 

 mal development. 



