August 6, 1916 



HOBTICULTTJBE 



181 



Flower Market Reports 



Production is now at its 

 BOSTON lowest limit and benches 

 are bare in the wholesale 

 marts excepting for a moderate show- 

 ing of gladioli and asters and a 

 rather stagnant crop of longiflorum 

 lilies. Roses are very tew and quality 

 Is not worth mentioning. Asters are 

 arriving slowly. Of these and gladioli 

 it is expected that a few days later 

 will see a surplus. Several very large 

 mortuary occasions are making an in- 

 sistent call just at present for which 

 the white lancifolium lilies are well 

 adapted and are finding a good sale as 

 a result. 



Trade is very good and 

 CHICAGO both local and outside 

 business is using up 

 every bit of good stock that is com- 

 ing into this market. The supply has 

 been greatly curtailed by the protract- 

 ed hot weather which covered all of 

 July and at this writing there are far 

 more inferior flowers than good ones. 

 The first day of August found the 

 wholesale houses thronged with buy- 

 ers, anxious to get their share of what- 

 ever choice stock came in. Carnations 

 nearly dropped out of the race last 

 week. Sweet peas did the same some 

 time ago. Roses are showing the ef- 

 fect of a high temperature by being 

 soft and somewhat faded in color but, 

 even so, they sell readily and are no 

 worse than usual in midsummer. Of 

 outdoor flowers the supply has been 

 decidedly cut down. Asters run all 

 the way from the few first-class ones 

 to the many of very inferior grade. 

 Some fine spikes of gladioli are of- 

 fered and sell quickly. 



The present condition 

 NEW YORK in this market is not 

 different from that of 

 corresponding date heretofore. Grow- 

 ers have largely ceased to send in 

 daily shipments — some contenting 

 themselves with a weekly or semi- 

 weekly plunge, and others shut down 

 completely. The stock that does come 

 to market has little to commend it. 

 Roses are very flimsy, carnations are 

 rags and gladioli are entirely too 

 many. Sweet peas have disappeared. 

 Cattleyas have also gone almost out 

 of sight and prices of same have fol- 

 lowed suit. If you want cattleyas now 

 and must have them you'll have to 

 talk big money. 



The hot weather 

 PHILADELPHIA has taken all the 

 ambition out of 

 both buyers and sellers here. The lat- 

 ter seemed willing enough to take 

 what little came their way unasked, 

 but as for getting up and hustling for 

 it — nix. Still the situation is no 

 •worse than usual for this time of year 

 and is just about what might be ex- 

 pected. Roses are not very plentiful 

 and real good ones are very scarce 

 indeed. Carnations are hardly worth 

 mentioning. What few are coming In 

 are very poor quality. Asters con- 

 tinue to Improve a little, but the real- 

 ly fine sorts are not here yet. The 

 best flowers on the market at present 

 are the gladioli. They are very 

 fine and more plentiful and .ibout the 

 only bright and cheering feature in a 

 hot, muggy and gloomy situation. 



Business continues 



PITTSBURGH unchansed " itli the 



demand more than 



balancing the supply. The greatest 



ASTERS 



:■ In all colors, white particu- 

 Ni^ larly plentiful, splendid for 

 funeral work, 



The mid-season varieties are 

 commencing to come in, 

 much better quality than the 

 early ones. 



$1, $2 and $3 per 100 



S.S.PENNOCK-MEEHANCO. 



THE ^^',r'.^.„f PHILADELPHIA 



Florists 



NEW YORK 

 117 W. 28lh St. 



PHILADELPHIA 

 1608-1620 Ludlow St. 



BALTIMORE WASHINGTON 



Franklin & St. Paul Sts. 1216 H St., N. W. 



WBOLESALE FLOWER MARKETS - "^'^^ ^^^-/o'p'giixRs only 



Rotei 



Am. Beauty, Special 



" ** Fancy and Extra 



No.i 



Russell, Hadley 



Killarney, Richm'd, Hill'don, Ward 



•• " " *' Ord. 



Aienburg, Radiance, Taft, Key, Ex. 



" " '* •' Ord. 



Ophelia, Mock, Sunburst, Extra . - . 



•' •* '* Ordinary 



Carnations. Fancy 



'* Ordinary 



Cattleyaa 



Dendrobium f ormosum 



Lilies 



Uly of the Valley 



Snapdragon 



Gladioli 



Asters 



Sweet Peas 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax 



AsparasrusPlu.&Spren. (looBhs.) 



CINCINNATI 



CHICAGO 



July 3' 



BUFFALO 



July 31 



PITTSBURG 



July 34 



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call is for asters, which are not nearly 

 enough to supply the wants of the re- 

 tail trade. Lilies are sufficient and 

 good. On the other hand roses and 

 carnations are very scarce, and in- 

 ferior at that. 



Dry weather and ex- 

 ST. LOUIS treme heat has caused 

 a shortage in outdoor 

 stock, which is always in large demand 

 in this market, but the buyers have 

 been showing little activity of late. 

 Roses and carnations are showing the 

 effects of the heat wave for fhe past 

 three weeks, as in fact all other stock 

 has. Gladioli are in steady demand 

 and are used in all kinds of work. 

 Shasta daisies and lilies have sold well 

 all week. Lily of the valley is scarce. 

 There has been a 

 WASHINGTON scarcity of good 

 roses and more 

 white ones could have been used last 

 week. Carnations are doing very well 

 considering the time of year. The mar- 

 ket is full of gladioli. The aster crop 

 this year will be something of a fail- 

 ure on account of the continued wet 

 weather, and dahlias also have been 

 hard hit by the rotting of the roots. 

 Lily of the valley is very poor and un- 

 desirable. 



NEW YORK. 



The New York delegation to the S. 

 A. F. Convention at Houston are hope- 

 ful of securing the 1917 convention for 

 their city. The last convention in 

 New York was sixteen years ago. The 

 late Edmund M. Wood, of Natick, 

 Mass., was president that year. 



Crates of Holland rose bushes, fifty 

 bushes to a crate, were washed ashore 

 by dozens at Long Beach, L. I., 

 last week and everybody turned out 

 to salvage this novel flotsam of the 

 sea. It is said that the crates had 

 been dumped from a ship that had 

 been unable to land them, on account 

 of quarantine restrictions. 



The party from New York — conven- 

 tion bound— will start ne.\t Wednes- 

 day, August 9, on the S. S. Momus of 

 the So. Pac. S. S. Line arriving at New 

 Orleans, Monday, August 14. So, it 

 you wish to join them, hurry up and 

 notify J. R. Lewis, secretary of the N. 

 Y Florists' Club Transportation Com- 

 mittee, 448 West 37th street, New 

 York City. 



