February 8, 1919 



HORTICULTUEE 



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Flower Market Reports WHOLES ALB FLOWER MARKETS - nADEFnca -^^i5^ Ki only 



The market has taken 

 BOSTON quite a slump during the 

 past week and trade has 

 fallen oft to a marked extent for the 

 first time since last September. With 

 a more abundant supply of flowers of 

 every description appearing in the 

 market each day and a shortening up 

 in the demand the inevitable result 

 has followed and prices have reached 

 a level that in former years would be 

 called normal. The quality of stock 

 being received is excellent and roses 

 still remain the popular favorite. Car- 

 nations are also about the best that 

 have been seen and violets have also 

 improved. Lilies are scarce and with 

 gardenias are the only items in the 

 list that have held to their former 

 prices. Sweet peas and bulbous stock 

 ■while becoming more plentiful still 

 continue to move slowly. 



Prices are holding firm 

 CHICAGO with a tendency to in- 

 crease rather than de- 

 crease as Valentine's day approaches, 

 bringing increasing demand for high 

 grade stock. Last year the florists 

 were unanimous in calling this holi- 

 day the greatest of its kind that the 

 trade had ever known and with the 

 return of peace and the thousands of 

 boys home again, and the special ad- 

 vertising campaign in its behalf, 

 the indications are for even larger 

 results this St. Valentine's day. 

 The shortage of stock in practically 

 all lines continues a marked feature. 

 Roses are off crop and the reduced 

 space devoted to carnations makes 

 these two staples fall below the regu- 

 lar demand. Spring bulbous stock in 

 pans make a good showing in the re- 

 tail windows and add to the cut flower 

 sections. The cooler weather has been 

 in favor of the violet growers. Lilies 

 are more plentiful but not yet suffi- 

 cient for the demand. The funeral 

 trade continues to be exceedingly ac- 

 tive and every particle of stock is 

 used up each day in the great demand 

 for sprays, designs, etc. 



Business is excellent. 

 CINCINNATI The supply is rather 

 short while the de- 

 mand is heavy and all receipts are 

 bringing top prices. The call for stock 

 from out of town is heavy. Roses have 

 become very scarce. Receipts are far 

 below normal and do not begin to care 

 for all demands for them. Carnations 

 are becoming scarce and all that come 

 into the market clear readily. The cut 

 of lilies has shortened somewhat dur- 

 ing the past week. The receipts in 

 sweet peas, however, are on the in- 

 crease and many excellent blooms are 

 finding their way into the market and 



Roiel 



Am. Beauty, Special 



11 '* Fancy and Extra. 



" " No. i and culls.. . 



Russet! 



Haaley 



Euler, Mock 



Arenberg, Hoosier Beauty 



Ward, Hillingdon 



Killarney, Key, Taft 



Ophelia. Sunburst 



Carnations 



C.ttley.i 



Lilies, Longiflorum 



Lilies, Speciosum 



Lily of th. Valley 



Snapdragon 



PITTSBURG 



Feb. J 



Violate 



Narcissus 



Calendula 



Sweet Peas 



Gardenia* 



Adiaatum 



Smilax 



Asparaa-us Plu. or Spren. (too Bhs. ) 



meet with an excellent demand. Bul- 

 bous stock sells well and includes daf- 

 fodils, paper white narcissus, freesias, 

 yellow narcissus, Dutch hyacinths and 

 a few tulips. Other offerings are snap- 

 dragon, callas, a few rubrum lilies, or- 

 chids, violets, calendula, forget-me-not 

 and wallflower. 



Stock still con- 

 ROCH ESTER, N. Y. tinues scarce in 

 some items. 

 Carnations are good but none too 

 plentiful. Lilies are among the short 

 items. Some good callas are seen. 

 Roses have been scarce. Violets are 

 good and sell well. Freesias and pa- 

 per whites are in light supply. Tulips, 

 daffodils, Roman hyacinths, baby prim- 

 roses, calendulas and snapdragons 

 sell well. Smilax is off crop and as- 

 paragus is very scarce. 



The market holds up 

 ST. LOUIS well. Carnations and 



roses still holding up 

 in prices. Violets and sweet peas are 

 increasing in quantity but as yet in 

 no great over supply. There is also a 

 good demand for all greens and flor- 

 ists' supplies. 



Market here 

 PHILADELPHIA remains on a 

 pretty even keel 

 — about the same as it has been for the 

 past three of four weeks. Carnations 

 were rather more plentiful on Monday 

 and Tuesday but at the end of the 

 week the market was back to its old 

 neat and thrifty condition. Roses 

 generally are scarce, some pretty nice 

 stock in American Beauty coming in. 

 Cattleyas are still very good — the dark- 

 er forms of Trianae being the feature 

 — and go well. The daffodil has made 

 its appearance with the first cuts of 

 the early French Trumpet Majors — 

 very good flowers, both as to size and 

 substance. 



Baltimore, Md. — John G. Vincent, 

 the youngest son of R. Vincent, Jr., 



has recently undergone a serious oper- 

 ation, but we are glad to say he is 



now improving rapidly. 



NEW YORK. 



Robert Whitaker has taken the po- 

 sition in charge of the flower stand 

 of the new Hotel Commodore on East 

 42nd street. 



The 12th annual ball of the Greek- 

 American Florists' Association will 

 be held at the Palm Garden on Feb. 

 27th. The usual good time is prom- 

 ised. 



Jasper R. Lewis, for the past two 

 and one-half years with Ralph M. 

 Ward & Co., 25 Murray street, New 

 York, announces the severance of his 

 connection with that house this month. 

 He has not yet made definite plans for 

 the future. 



The leading commercial orchid 

 growers in the vicinity of New York 

 had a meeting on Jan. 25th in the 

 store of George C. Siebrecht, West 

 28th street, to consider the serious 

 menace of the impending plant em- 

 bargo and what could be done by the 

 orchid growers to secure a reversal 

 of the ruling. 



John Scheepers has been appointed 

 by the Horticultural Society of New 

 York to represent that organization in 

 the State Federation of Horticultural 

 Societies and Floral Clubs at the 

 meeting in Ithaca on Tuesday, Feb. 

 11th. at which the matter of the ex- 

 clusion of plants by the Federal Hor- 

 ticultural Board is to be taken up. 



The annual dinner of the New York 

 and New Jersey Association of Plant 

 Growers will take place at the McAl- 

 pin Hotel, on Tuesday, February 18th. 

 at 7 p. m. The committee has ar- 

 ranged the details for an enjoyable 

 evening for which this association's 

 banquets have always been noted. 

 Dancing will be provided for as usual. 

 The committee consists of John H. 

 Fiesser, Herman C. Steinhoff and Wil- 

 liam H. Siebrecht, Jr. 



