July IT, 1915 



HORTICULTURE 



81 



Flower Market Reports 



Summer quietude still 

 BOSTON rules. "Nothing doing" 

 in either wholesale or 

 retail circles although there are faint 

 zephyrs which promise to work up 

 into a good blow shortly. It is full 

 time that the shore resorts should be 

 heard from and we hope to have a 

 more interesting report to send out 

 next week. The glut of carnations 

 has been of unusual volume up to the 

 present time but they are beginning 

 to shorten up now and values which 

 have been too absurd to quote will 

 quickly rebound to a reasonable fig- 

 ure. Roses continue good, but sale- 

 able in quantity only at prices too low 

 for the quality. Gladioli are quite a 

 feature of the market now being ex- 

 tremely plentiful, and some of them 

 are of splendid quality. Pink Beauty 

 is really the aristocrat of the gladi- 

 olus field at present and sells at a 

 substantial advance over the price 

 obtainable for other sorts. Sweet 

 peas are not very good as a rule, ow- 

 ing to the unfavorable weather but 

 the finer varieties are in evidence in 

 most of the cuts. Lilies are very 

 cheap. 



The past week has 

 BUFFALO been a very quiet one, 



and the cut flower sales 

 are not very flourishing, the surplus 

 being carried along from day to day. 

 Roses are still good. Some excellent 

 Shawyer, Maryland, Double White Kil- 

 larney, Taft. Sunburst and .Alock are 

 had although there is too much of the 

 ordinary mildewed quality. A good lot 

 of carnations are still in sight but 

 with prices very uneven. Beauties 

 have no sale and lilies are still plen- 

 tiful. Gladioli are coming in more 

 plentiful each day, the southern stock 

 shipping very unsatisfactorily. Out- 

 door peas, candytuft, sweet william 

 and other stock has had only very 

 small demand. 



Never did a better qual- 

 CHICAGO ity of summer flowers 

 come into this market 

 than is coming now. Customers have 

 every inducement to buy, for the as- 

 sortment is large and every conces- 

 sion is made to please and prices are 

 very low. Each day brings a new cut, 

 heavier than the demand calls for, 

 while leftover stock remains on the 

 counters and in the ice boxes. How 

 to move it to advantage is a question 

 no one can answer. Peonies are still 

 in storage and daily sales are too slow 

 to warrant the taking out of many at 

 a time. Gladioli are selling very poor- 

 ly this summer, though the stock of- 

 fered is extra fine. Carnations are 

 near the top in quality and near the 

 lowest notch in price. Oi fasional 

 liunches are received in a sleepy con- 

 dition, but the great bulk of them are 

 firm and of good color. All kinds of 

 roses are offered in large quantities, 

 Mrs. Russell still holding the lead in 

 price. The sensational prices, this 

 week, 8 cents per doz., at which roses 

 are offered at the big department 

 stores, is cutting heavily into the reg- 

 ular sales of florists. 



SUMMER ROSES 



Both Russell and Mock are 

 holding up well, two of our 

 very best hot weather roses. 

 In quantity with us at $5.00 

 to ?10.00 per 100, with some 

 long special Russell at ?12.00 

 I'cr 100. 



S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co. 



The Wholesale Floriats 

 of Philadelphia 



PHILADELPHIA 



1608-16-30 Ludlow St. 



NEW YORK 



117 W. 28tU St. 



BALTIMORE 



Franklin and $t. Paal Sts,. 



W.4SHINGTOX 



1316 H St. N. W. 



WHOLESALE FLOWER MARKETS — ^'*^'*^™^^-/o 'dealers only 



Roses 



Am. Beauty, Special 



** " Fancy and Extra 



No. I 



Killamey, Richmond, Extra 



" " Ordinary 



Hillingdon, Ward, Sunburst, Extra 



" *' " Ordinary. 



Arenberg, Radiance, Tait, Extra 



*' " *' Ordinary... 



Russell, Hadley, Ophelia, Mock 



Carnations, Fancy 



'* Ordinary 



Cattleyas 



Dendrobium formosun 



Lilies. Longiflorum 



Rubrum 



Uly of the Valley 



Daisies 



Stocks 



Snapdragon 



Gladioli 



Sweet Peas 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax 



Asparagus Plumosus, Strings (xoo). 

 •• " & Spren. (too Bchs.l .. 



BOSTON 



July 15 



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PHILA. 



July 12 



xa.oo 

 10.00 



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 3.00 



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x.oo 

 6.00 

 2.00 

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 8.00 

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50.00- 



Plenty of good stock 

 CINCINNATI that would have 

 been welcome in 

 other years is coming into the market, 

 but the business is so slow that only a 

 part of it sells. Locally at the time 

 of this writing there is little business. 

 Shipping business holds up fairly well. 

 The rose supply is good and generally 

 able to more than take care of present 

 needs. The market is glutted with 

 lilies and gladioli, neither of them is 

 finding the sale they should find for 

 this time of the year. Asters are 

 plentiful and up to this time meet 

 with no especially strong demand. 



It is not easy to find 

 NEW YORK anything to say that 

 is worth saying con- 

 cerning the wholesale flower trade as 

 it exists at present. It is. indeed, a 

 very feeble existence and there is no 

 movement worth chronicling. Gener- 

 ally speaking the supply is lessening 

 from day to day, but the average 

 quality of material coming in is un- 

 usually good for this date. The out- 

 ing of the Florists' Club and the ex- 

 cursion to the Sweet Pea Show at 

 Newport, have interjected a little vari- 

 ety into the monotony of the listless 

 days this week. Preparations for San 



Francisco will next ensue and in the 

 meantime let us hope that the market 

 will wake up once more. 



The week after 

 PHILADELPHIA the Fourth turned 



out, as was to be 

 expected, pretty slow. Business was 

 at a very low ebb and much more 

 stock came in than there was any use 

 for. This was particularly true of 

 low-grade material, which covered 85 

 per cent, of the arrivals. In roses, 

 the market was well stocked with 

 American Beauty, which was of good 

 quality and went fairly well. After it 

 the best sellers were Russell, Jonk- 

 hicr and Double White Killarney. 

 There are a few good cuts of carna- 

 tions still coming, but most of these 

 aro poor and buyers seem to prefer 

 good asters instead. The asters are 

 better than usual for so early, the 

 copeous rains having been very favor- 

 able to their development. Gladioli 

 aro fine but redundant, far more than 

 the market can absorb. Centaurea 

 imperialis continues abundant and of 

 fine quality: C. cyanus also. Plenty 

 of other outdoor stock: hydrangea, 

 inreopsis gaillardia, phlox, feverfew, 



{Conlinufd on fage S3) 



