August 7, 1915 



HORTICULTURE 



177 



Flower Market Reports 



Both shipping in and 

 BOSTON shipping out have been 



seriously impeded by the 

 storms of the past few days. We can- 

 not recall a parallel at this season of 

 the year. We even hear of snow- 

 storms in western Pennsylvania and 

 the lowest temperatures in tifty years 

 at a corresponding date. There is a 

 great abundance of asters, gladioli and 

 sweet i)eas in market. Most of the 

 latter are badly injured by the heavy 

 and continuous rain and will have to 

 make a new growth before the flowers 

 are marketable. Prices are maintained 

 about as quoted last week, with some 

 stiffening in the case of white roses. 

 Carnations run very small and asters 

 are called for as a substitute for the 

 forlorn specimens coming in at pres- 

 ent from the old plants. Lilies are 

 quite abundant. Lily of the valley in 

 adequate supply. 



The demand caused by 

 CHICAGO the Eastland disaster 

 used up practically all 

 the flowers that the Chicago mar- 

 ket could supply during the clos- 

 ing week of July. There were more 

 or less of garden flowers, of the less at- 

 tractive varieties left over, but so 

 great was the demand that the market 

 cleaned up every day all roses, carna- 

 tions, etc. August opens with the 

 prospect of a quiet month and with the 

 usual summer stock curtailed by the 

 continued damp and cloudy weather. 

 Roses have been particularly affected 

 and many of tlie growers are having 

 their troubles with mildew, as well as 

 having their cut limited. Carnations 

 are being replanted and the limited 

 amount of really good ones is not 

 larger than is needed daily. Asters 

 are more plentiful each day and the 

 stems getting longer. No real fancy 

 stock is offered as yet. Gladioli in the 

 best three varieties are selling slowly 

 and the poorly colored sorts not at all. 

 Miscellaneous stock and green are 

 not coming as fast as earlier in the 

 summer. 



Rusiness is very quiet. 

 CINCINNATI The supply is not as 

 large as it was but at 

 that is still more than sufficient to 

 take care of all present demands. Rel- 

 atively speaking the shippin.s; liusiness 

 is better than the local business. The 

 cut of roses continues heavy but as a 

 whole they are not as good as they 

 were. Some pretty good American 

 Beauties may be had. The cvit of as- 

 ters and gladioli has shortened con- 

 siderabl.v but is still more than needed. 

 Lilies too have shortened but are still 

 plentiful. They include many blooms 

 of the highest quality. Auratum and 

 Rubrum lilies meet with a limited call. 

 Other offerings include dahlias, snap- 

 dragon, iiond lilies and carnations. 



The market is labor- 

 NEW YORK ing under the burden 

 of bad weather, and 

 an over abundance of gladioli, asters 

 and other field-grown flowirs which 

 have no fixed value, cannot be cleared 

 out, and are a burden to the whole- 

 saler. Carnations are still coming in 



WHOLESALE FLOWER MARKETS 



TRADE PRICES -Per 100 



TO DEALERS ONLY 



Roses 



Am. Beauty, Special 



" " Fancy and Extra 



No. 1 



Killamey, Richmond, Extra 



" *' Ordinary 



Hillingdon, Ward, Sunburst. Extra 



'* " " Ordinary.... 



Arenberg, Radiance. Tait, Extra 



" " '* <")rdinary 



Russell, Hadley, Ophelia, Mock 



Carnations, Fancy 



" Ordinary 



Cattleyas 



Dendrobium formosun - • • - 



Lilies, Lonffiflorum 



Rubrum 



Lily o^the Valley 



Daisies ■ 



Snapdragon 



Gladioli 



Asters 



5x\'eet Peas 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax 



Asparagus Plumosus, Strings (loo). 

 ** & Spren, (loo Bchs.) .. 



BOSTON 



Aug. 5 



ST. LOUIS 



Aug. 2 



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and meet with an indifferent demand. 

 The supply of roses of all varieties is 

 more than ample to meet the meager 

 requirements of the retail trade. Amer- 

 ican Beauties are very plentiful and 

 cheap. Of the smaller varieties good 

 white roses and some long stemmed 

 colored roses are selling moderately 

 well but there is a limit to the num- 

 ber that can be disposed of at a price 

 and the surplus goes for anything that 

 can be realized. Orchids are few in 

 number and the best of them are sell- 

 ing. Lily of the valley is moving very 

 slowly and if carried over has no stay- 

 ing Qualities, but goes to pieces. On 

 the whole, there is little in the way 

 of business to look forward to this 

 mfuith, for the prospects are good for 

 a full supply of roses and outdoor 

 stock with a falling off in business. 



Conditions have 



PHILADELPHIA not 1 m p r o V e d 



any since our 



There is far too much 



last report. 



outside stock coming in for what lit- 



tle business there is. All the growers 

 seem to have been doubling up on 

 their production this year and yet they 

 apparently expect the wholesalers to 

 got as good prices tor it as last year 

 and also to sell it all. They just 

 break the market, that's all, and get 

 little or nothing for themselves or any- 

 body else. Local new-crop American 

 lirauty roses have commenced to ar- 

 rive sparingly. They are of good qual- 

 ity but the northern-grown flowers still 

 lead the procession. Other roses are 

 in fair supply, but of course most of 

 them have suffered from the hot 

 weather. Asters are very, very plenti- 

 ful, with prices much in the buyers' 

 favor. Carnations poor in quality and 

 getting scarcer. There are a few tube- 

 rose arrivals — mostly soutliorn-grown. 

 I':arly cosmos, statice and lialris are 

 among the new items noted among 

 this week's arrivals. 



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