July 24, 1915 



HORTICULTURE 



113 



Flower Market Reports 



There is still a heavy 

 BOSTON excess supply of flowers 

 in this market and the 

 growers have to be content with a very 

 meagre return for their product. Hot 

 weather last week affected many 

 things unfavorably and quality, on the 

 average, shows a falling off. Roses, 

 carnations, sweet peas and lilies are 

 all more or less off in color, size and 

 form. The great elephant for the 

 wholesale markets just now is the 

 gladiolus. The influx has lianily got 

 under way yet, either. What it will 

 mean when the height of the crop is 

 on may, perhaps, be imagined. 



Asters are the latest ad- 

 CHICAGO dition to the stock of 



summer flowers. The 

 blooms are small, but have so far met 

 with better sale than could reasonably 

 be expected in a market already glut- 

 ted. Peonies are still liere and some 

 of the wholesalers have a large quan- 

 tity still in storage. They are said 

 to be keeping well — too well as one of 

 the dealers remarked. Roses are a 

 shade less in evidence this week. The 

 hot sun following so much cloudy and 

 wet weather burned the plants in some 

 houses badly and some are sufferin.s; 

 more or less from mildew. There is no 

 danger, however, of orders being 

 turned down for lack of stock. Every 

 kind of summer flower that grows out- 

 of-doors is in crop and competes with 

 the products of the greenhouses. Ferns 

 are selling tor $1.00 per 1000. 



July business has not 

 CINCINNATI been an>-thinK to 



brag about. The sup- 

 ply has continued very heavy while 

 business has not been good enough to 

 bring about anything like a substantial 

 price. Prices on all flowers are rela- 

 tively lower than at this time last year. 

 Lilies are in a glut and there is no sign 

 of immediate relief from this condition 

 of the market. Only the outdoor roses 

 are having any kind of sale and this 

 is because of their keeping qualities. 

 Other roses including American Fieau- 

 ties, even though very good in quality 

 are having a very poor market, .\sters 

 are now coming in heavy. So far they 

 have been selling pretty well. For a 

 few days last week ferns were rather 

 scarce owing to the difficulty in getting 

 shipments through on time. 



All the wholesale 

 NEW YORK places are still tarry- 

 ing large surpluses of 

 flowers the sale for which is so light 

 that the income from many shipments 

 will scarcely cover express charges, 

 packing, etc. Roses and carnations 

 show the effect of the recent hot days 

 and sweet peas the effect of the heavy 

 rain storms. Receipts of carnations 

 are falling off rapidly. Asters are 

 seen on all sides now, but quality is 

 yet larking. Some dahlias are already 

 in evidence. Of gladioli there is an 

 overwhelming supply and the varieties 



GLADIOLI 



In splendid quality, mostly the 

 newer kinds — America, King, 

 Panama and varieties of that 

 character; and in any quan- 

 tity at 



$3.00 per 100, $20.00 per 1000 



ASTERS 



Per UH( Per UWHI 



Special $2.00 $17.50 



Fancy 1.50 12.50 



First 1.00 7.50 



S.S.PENNOCK-MEEHANCO. 



The Wholesale Florists of Philadelphia 



PHII..VDEI.PIII.\. I«08-lfi30 Ludlow St. 

 NKW VOHK, 117 W,. a«tli St. 



B.VLTimORE, Frauklin & St. Paul Sta. 

 \V.\SHINGTON, 1216 H St. N. W. 



WHOLESALE FLOWER MARKETS 



TRADE PRICES -Per 100 



TO DEALERS ONLY 



Roses 



Am. Beauty, Special 



'* " Fancy and Extra 



No. I 



Killamey, Richmond, Extra 



" " Ordinary. 



Hillingdon, Ward, Sunburst, Extra.... 

 '* " " Ordinary. 



Arenberg, Radiance, Taft, Extra 



" " *' Ordinary .. . 



Russell, Hadley, Ophelia, Mock 



Carnations, Fancy 



" Ordinary 



Cattleyas 



Dendrobium formosun 



Lilies, Longif lorum 



Rubrum 



Lily of the Valley 



Daisies 



Stocks 



Snapdragon 



Gladioli 



SlVeet Peas 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax 



Aspsragus Plumosus, Strings (loo) • 

 " " & Spren. (loo Bchs.l .. 



BOSTON 



July 22 



ST. LOUIS 



July la 



I coo 

 6.00 

 i.oo 



2.00 



.50 



2.00 



.50 



2.00 



.50 



2.00 



1.00 



■ 35 



1 2.0c 

 8.00 

 3.00 

 4.00 

 1.00 

 4.00 

 1.00 

 4.00 

 1.00 

 8.00 

 1.50 

 •50 



I2.00 to 15.00 



I.OO 



-.50 



1.00 

 .50 



.15 



10.00 



.50 



10.00 

 25.00 

 25.00 



4.00 



2,00 



3.00 



x.oo 



3.00 



2.00 



.50 



ta.oo 



1.00 



12.00 



50.00 



35.00 



20.00 

 10.00 

 5.00 

 3.00 

 2.00 

 5.00 

 3.00 



5.00 

 2. 00 



■75 



to 

 to 

 to 



30.00 

 15.00 

 8.00 

 5.00 

 3.00 

 6.00 

 4.00 



3.00 

 1.00 



3.00 

 .30 



2.00 



3.00 



•»5 

 10.00 

 x.oo 

 10.00 



35.00 

 15.00 



4.00 

 •50 



4.00 



4.00 



■50 



12.00 



1.25 



12.00 

 50.00 

 20.00 



PHILA. 



July 19 



15.00 

 10.00 

 2.00 

 2.00 

 1.00 

 3.00 

 1.00 

 4.00 

 2.00 

 2.00 

 1.00 

 •50 



to 



10.00 

 25.00 

 6.00 



to 

 to 

 to 

 to 

 x.oo to 



to 



to 



1.00 to 



2.0O 



.20 



■75 



35.00 



35.00 



20.00- 

 12.00 

 6.00 

 S.oo 

 2.00 

 6.00 

 2.00 

 8.00 

 4.00 

 10.00 

 2.00 

 1.00 



25.00 

 3500 

 10.00 



2.0O 

 4.00 



■35 



1.00 

 20.00 

 50.00 

 35.00 



are of a liigher type than this mar 

 ket has been acctistoined to in former 

 years. Lilies are also in heavy supply 

 and have to be sold very low to un- 

 load. Cattleyas are still in excess of 

 requirements. Coreopsis, centaureas, 

 hydrangeas and a variety of other gar- 

 den flowers all help to load up the 

 tables and ice Ijoxes. 



Business s 1 o w. 

 PHILADELPHIA Enormous o V e r- 



supply, especial- 

 ly of outdoor stock. Asters and gladi- 

 oli never so plentiful as this year. All 

 Kurope must have been dumped on the 

 glodiolus growers, to judge from the 

 quantities coming in. I'rices down out 

 of sight and carloads for the dump on 

 Saturday. Roses of all kinds have 

 receded in quality since the hot spell 

 set in. Carnations, also, are running 

 down rajiidly both in quality and quan- 

 tity. Asters are very plentiful and the 



ill iiiaiid is fair. Lily of the valley and 

 longifloruni lilies move off about as 

 usual. The quality is a little under 

 standard. 



The local wholesale 

 ST. LOUIS market is still over- 

 crowded and the retail- 

 ers cannot possibly consume a quarter 

 of the consignments that are coming 

 iu daily. Roses are mostly small and 

 short stemmed and sell as low as $5 

 per thousand. Very few fancies are to 

 be had with the exception of Beauties. 

 Gladioli are a great glut. Common 

 mixed colors go at $i per thousand, 

 while selects bring only $1 per hundred. 

 Kcvcr was there a season when so many 

 glailioll were seen in this market. Car- 

 nations go slow and low. Asters, sweet 

 lii'us, Illy of the valley, lilies and tube 

 roses are all in plenty witlr small de- 

 mand. 



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