August 14, 1915 



HORTICULTURE 



211 



Flower Market Reports 



(Continued from page ~ m)) 



receipts for it all are easily counted. 

 Cattleyas are scarce but have no regu- 

 lar call, the demand being only Inter- 

 mittent. Lilies continue very abun- 

 dant. Small roses from young planted 

 houses come in by myriads but are 

 hardly worth the time required to pack 

 them which might easily be spent to 

 better advantage. Asters are of all 

 types and sizes and degrees of qualitj', 

 many being badly bedraggled by ex- 

 posure to wind and weather. Much 

 rain has fallen, which has been very 

 injurious to all outdoor flowers. 



There was a 

 PHILADELPHIA slight improve- 

 ment last week 

 in the general situation here. The 

 overdose of outdoor stock has eased 

 up a little and the demand is rather 

 better. There is a noticeable shorten- 

 ing up in the gladiolus crop which 

 helps very considerably in improving 

 the tone. The early asters are now 

 about over, and as these were more 

 notable for quantity than quality as a 

 rule their demise will not be regretted. 

 They are being followed by the mid- 

 season sorts, which are much superior 

 and all that can be asked for as to 

 quality. In the rose market, American 

 Beauty is in fine supply and is selling 

 right well, the northern-grown stock 

 still having a little the best of it as 

 against the new crop locals. Other 

 roses are not so plentiful as they were 

 and as a rule are but medium as to 

 quality. Carnations are few and poor. 

 Cattleyas and other orchids scarce. 

 Plenty of lilies of fine quality. These 

 are showing up as a summer flower 

 better than ever and are being more 

 and more appreciated by the retailer. 

 They are splendid shippers and keep- 

 ers and are useful and appropriate for 

 many purposes. The second crop of 

 delphiniums is now in and meets with 

 favor. P'ine flowers but not so long- 

 stemmed as the first cuts. 



Li i 1 1 1 e change 

 SAN FRANCISCO lias taken place 

 in the local 

 flower market either in conditions, 

 prices or outlook. All seasonables are 

 plentiful, but supplies clean up closely 

 from day to day. German Day at the 

 Panama-Pacific exposition. Thursday, 

 created an unusual demand for corn- 

 flowers, which stripped the market 

 early in the day. When the supply 

 began to run short offers of $1 were 

 made for bunches that brought only 

 25 cents in the morning. Chrysanthe- 

 mums are more plentiful, Monrovia 

 and Golden Glow being offered in con- 

 siderable quantity, and a few October 

 FYost have appeared during the last 

 day or two. The supply of asters 

 shows good quality, and tliouKh abun- 

 dant, finds a ready market. The large 

 majority of dahlias show the effect of 

 hot weather, but a limited supply of 

 excellent stock is still arriving from 

 Marin County. Gladioli are a little 

 more plentiful than they were last 

 week and the really fine offerings 

 bring high prices. Francis King Is 

 most in evidence and shows best aver- 

 age quality. America is on the down 

 grade and Panama appears sparingly. 

 Sweet peas are scarce and f-'w of the 



PATRICK WELCH, WHOLESALE FLORIST 



262 DEVONSHIRE STREET, BOSTON, MASS. 



TELEPHONE MAIN «6»8 

 i^merlcan Beaatles, Orchids, Valley, CarnatloDi. All the ooveltles In the Cot Flowv 

 Market funilsbed on short notice. I*rIreJ» quoted on appllctktion. No retail order* 

 accepted. Flowers sliliipe<l out of Boston on early trains. 



STORE OPEN FOR BUSINESS AT 6 A. M. 



NEW YORK QDOT A TIONS PER 100. To Dealers Only 



Ust Half of Weeli First Half of Wiik 



ending Aug. 7 beginning tug. 9 



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arrivals are up to standard. The same 

 is true of carnations, the supply being 

 very light, as growers are pulling up 

 their old plants. Roses are quite good 

 for this time of the year, especially 

 Ophelia, and no difficulty is experi- 

 enced in cleaning up the best and 

 moderate offerings. Lilies continue to 

 dominate the market. Very fine speci- 

 mens of rubrum and auratum are 

 shown everywhere, and some cold 

 storage giganteum appeared the last 

 few days. Neither orchids or gar- 

 denias are in very heavy supply, but 

 the offerings come nearer filling the 

 demand than they did a week or so 

 ago. 



The market was all to 



ST. LOUIS the bad last week. 

 Buyers were few and 

 those who did buy bought little. The 

 weather was remarkably cool all week 

 and stock at the wholesale market 

 looked better than at any time this 

 summer. Prices are very low in all 

 grades, especially in outdoor grown 

 stock, including tuberoses and gladi- 

 oli, which are coming in daily in big 

 lots from our home growers. Roses 

 are many and in big lots sell cheap. 

 Carnations are not so many, but asters 

 take their place. 



The local market, 



WASHINGTON as is usual at this 

 time of the year, 

 is overstocked with all sorts of flowers 

 and although the quality in the main 

 is good, it is impossible to find an out- 

 let for much more than one-fourth of 

 the supply. Nothing is scarce except 

 orchids and these are at a premium. 

 Asters show the effect of the recent 

 rainstorms, which have beaten down 

 the plants and spotted the flowers. 

 Some very good stock brings a fair 

 price, but the bulk of the asters go to 

 the street venders at five cents per 

 hundred and less. New crop roses are 

 naturally very short-stemmed and 

 worthless except for funeral work, but 

 there are plenty of good roses to be 

 had, especially in Ophelia, Taft, 

 Kaiserin and American Beauty. 

 Dahlias are not yet quite up to stan- 

 dard. The market can get along very 

 well witliout them, however, and this 

 same may be said of carnation.'*. 



BELGIAN PLANT SHIPIVIENTS 



WILL BE PERMITTED. 

 With reference to fall shipments of 

 azaleas and other Belgian plants, 

 which were under embargo by the 

 British authorities, we are pleased to 

 bo able to now advise definitely that 

 shipments will arrive this fall on 

 schedule time from Belgium, unless 

 the German authorities intervene or 

 the progress of the war disrupts the 

 present arrangements. 



The plan worked out is that per- 

 mits are given by the British authori- 

 ties to individual Belgian shippers, 

 when proof is submitted that the stock 

 is of Belgian origin and production, 

 for Belgian interests, and that the 

 enemies of Great Britian do not get 

 any revenue or benefit from the sales. 

 The proceeds of the sales remain in 

 control of the British authorities so 

 long as the Belgians remain under 

 control of the Germans. 



It was largely by reason of the pres- 

 sure brought to bear on the British 

 authorities by the Belgian shippers 

 that permission was given. The Bel- 

 gian shippers through their powerful 

 organization — "The Chambre Syndi- 

 cale des Horticulteurs Beiges"— pro- 

 tested direct to the British authorities, ' 

 and in this protest we understand they 

 were assisted by the British National 

 Organization of Florists. 



From our side, protest to the em- 

 bargo was made through the Slate De- 

 partment by the N. Y. Horticultural 

 Importers' Association, assisted by in- 

 dividual importers and backed by the 

 powerful Merchants' Association of 

 N. Y. The combined pressure, strong 

 but just, caused the British authori- 

 ties to investigate, with the result that 

 Belgian shippers who have secured 

 p.rmits can ship their orders to the 

 I'nIted States. 



This decision Is important to florists 

 who depend largely upon azaleas for 

 their Christmas and Easter sales, but 

 still more so to the Belgian shippers, 

 since the United Stales is practically 

 the only market left open to them. 



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