September 18, 1915 



HORTICULTURE 



391 



Flower Market Reports 



(Continued from page 38q) 



The early violets are very popular and 

 the limited supplies are readily ab- 

 sorbed. A good many asters are still 

 appearing, but they offer no difficulties, 

 as everything in this line cleans up 

 closely. Chrysanthemums show more 

 variety and better quality. Unakas 

 are appearing quite freely in addition 

 to October Frost, Golden Glow, Mon- 

 rovia, Crocker and some of the small- 

 er varieties which have been in for 

 several weeks. Amaryllis is still plen- 

 tiful and cheap. The supply of dah- 

 lias is abundant, but the demand seems 

 to equal it every day. Small outdoor 

 stock is decreasing in supply a little 

 and the offerings find a ready outlet. 

 Lots of flowering plants were brought 

 in the past week which met with great 

 popularity. Roses continue rather 

 scarce with good stock demanding 

 high prices. Orchids and gardenias 

 are in light supply. 



The wholesale market 



ST. LOUIS received some hard 

 knocks the past week 

 owing to the hot weather when the 

 demand slow-ed down and consign- 

 ments came in bad shape. The retail- 

 ers, too, say that trade was beginning 

 to look up when along came the hot 

 wave and stopped the demand. Roses 

 are so plentiful that a great many are 

 dumped. The great majority of them 

 are of the KiUarney varieties. Carna- 

 tions, loo, are away too many. There 

 is also a lot of outdoor stuff still com- 

 ing in, including a great raft of asters. 

 Business during 



WASHINGTON the past week has 

 been exceptionally 

 flat. This is due in part to the return 

 of hot weather. There has not been 

 near enou.s?h business to clean up even 

 a fraition of the flowers with which 

 the market is flooded. The supply of 

 gladioli has lessened considerable. 

 Dahlias are improving to some extent 

 and more of them are coming in but 

 these, as well as asters, have been hit 

 by the heat and their sales are draggy. 

 A decrease in the receipts of lily of the 

 valley was reported but this did not 

 cause much of a hardship and allowed 

 the dealers to clean up better on that 

 which they received. Cattleyas still 

 remain very scarce and high of price. 

 Roses are very plentiful and some of 

 them are exceptionally good. Carna- 

 tions are increasing in quality and im- 

 proving slightly in quality, but for 

 them there is very little call. An od- 

 dity of the week was the receipt by a 

 local firm of an order calling for 17.5 

 callas which, of course, could not be 

 filled. 



NASSAU CO. HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



At the meeting of this society at 

 Glen Cove on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 

 awards were made as follows — Musk- 

 melon, 1st J. Robinson; celery, 1st R. 

 Jones: tomatoes, 1st F. Hitchman. 



Nephrolepis Smithii exhibited by J. 

 W. Everitt was awarded a certificate 

 of culture. Early flowering chrysan- 

 themums by H. Goorlband and outdoor 

 fruit by .J. Holloway received the ^ 

 thanks of the society. 



The Dahlia Show will take place on 

 Thursday, October 7. Schedules may 

 be had by applying to Harry Jones, 

 secretary. 



James Gi,.\nsTONE, Cor. Sec'y. 



PATRICK WELCH, WHOLESALE FLORIST 



262 DEVONSHIRE STREET, BOSTON, MASS. 



TELKPUONB MAIN t6e8 

 American B«antle«, OrolUds, Valley, Carnstlon*. AU the noveltlM In the Cnt FI*w« 

 Market (urnlnlied on short notice. Price* quot«d on application. No retail ordoi 

 accepted, riowrrs shipped out of Boston on early timlns. 



STORE OPEN FOR BUSINESS AT 6 A. M. 



NEW YORK QUOTATIONS PER 100. To Dealers Only 



MISCELLANEOUS 



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Lilies, Lonffiflonim • 



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Lily of the Valley- •• 



Dai»ea 



Snapdragon • 



Gladioli 



Asters 



Sweet Peas 



Com Flower 



Gardenias 



Ailiantum 



Smilax 



Asparaffus Plumosus* strings (per loo) • 



Last Half of Week 



ending Sept. 11 



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NEW YORK. 



Frank Dinda of Farmingdale, Long 

 Island, N. Y., is cutting flowers of his 

 new orchid tinted seedling chrysanthe- 

 mum, which Guttman & Raynor in- 

 form us they are selling at the excep- 

 tional price of $5.00 a dozen, whole- 

 sale. Frank Dinda has also a new 

 seedling carnation, Olive Whitman, 

 which is very fine at this early date. 



Charles Millang is satisfied that he 

 has solved the problem of the bundle 

 boy and the street car restrictions 

 with his Ford delivery car. Labor 

 Day afternoon he spent in getting 

 1000 hydrangea heads in Bayside and 

 distributing them in upper Broadway 

 to the stores of the Colonial Florist. 

 We had the pleasure of making the 

 trip with him and could see plainly 

 how impossible the transaction would 

 have been without a motor wagon. 



George Polykranas. the well-known 

 manager for the United Cut Flower 

 Co., has leased the store at 104 West 

 28th street for a wholesale and com- 

 mission flower shop. He resigned 

 from the United last December but re- 

 mained with the firm until they were 

 able to find a man to take his place. 

 Mr. Polykranas has been in the retail 

 flower trade for the past 25 years. Of 

 his five sons two of them are his able 

 assistants. 



Bayside, N. Y. —Among the florist 

 establishments of Bayside, one of the 

 most interesting is that of Charles 

 Thienel. Mr. Thienel has just had a 

 new Lord & Biirnham carnation house 

 finished. A new boiler house and coal 

 cellar ingeniously constructed under 

 the concrete walk outside the houses 

 has just been completed. Chrysanthe- 

 mums and carnations are indoor spe- 

 cialties and outdoor the asters and hy- 

 drangeas, which are very fine, hold 

 supremacy. 



Frank Finger is another prosperous 

 Bayside florist. Outdoor sweet peas arc 

 his leading siiecialty. There are 

 three houses of carnations, very early, 

 blooming quite profusely, and lots of 

 chrysanthemums coming on. Branch- 

 Ing asters have been grand for several 

 weeks. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



Adolphus E. Gude of Washington, 

 D. C, and E. G. Hill of Richmond, Ind., 

 returned to San Francisco a few days 

 ago after visiting other parts of the 

 state. 



Just before his departure tor the 

 South. Wallace R. Pierson was guest 

 of honor at a dinner given by a num- 

 ber of local florists. Mr. Pierson's 

 friends will be glad to learn that he 

 has fully recovered from the opera- 

 tion for appendicitis performed at a 

 local hospital during the S. A. F. con- 

 vention. 



Angelo J. Rossi was chairman of the 

 parade committee on Admission Day, 

 and his house decorated one of the 

 finest floats. It was a float for the 

 Native Sons and Native Daughters, the 

 main body of which, 26 feet long, was 

 done with yellow chrysanthemums, 

 while the lettering around the top was 

 made of coreopsis and African mari- 

 golds. A big bear flag appeared on 

 the sides, white carnations being used 

 for the field. Minnie Burgle dahlias for 

 the base, scabiosa tor the bear and 

 red carnations for the star. 



NEW CORPORATIONS. 

 Joplin, Mo. — Joplin-tlalena Green- 

 house Co., capital stock $15,000. 



Buffalo, N. Y. — Kenmore Floral Co., 

 capital $10.iMHt. W. G. Tyler. C. W. 

 Donoghiie and W. Smith, directors. 



Buffalo, N. Y.— Kenmore Floral Co., 

 243 Walden avenue. Incorporators, H. 

 W. Smith, S. W. Donaghue and W. G. 

 Tyler; capital. $10,000. 



Youngstown, O. — The Kay-Dimond 

 Co. has been incorporated at $10,000. 

 George Kay. K. W. Dimond. Blanche 

 Kay, T. M. Fontaine and Elizabeth 

 Fontaine arc named as Incorporators. 



Bridgeport, Conn. — Patrick Byrnes, 

 ."ill. landscape gardener, who has hoard- 

 ed at the home of Miss Mary L. Staf- 

 ford at 4.'?9 Kairvlew avenue for sev- 

 eral years, shot Miss Stafford last Fri- 

 day morning in a fit of jealous rage. 

 He is now held in bonds of $2,500 pond- 

 ing the recovery or death of the girl. 



