July 20, 1912 



HORTICULTURE 



93 



ASTERS 



The ability of our growers to 

 properly handle their ASTERS 

 during this dry weather is giving: 

 I usstockof the very best quality; 



>. any quantity, white, pink, purple and lavender. 

 ^ -i' First, $1.00; Fancy, $1.50; Special, $2.00 per 100. 



9Cal.%-^'* 



HEADQUARTERS FOR GREENS 



Galax (green and bronze), $1.50 per ICKX); $7.50 per 10,000. 



Leuootboe Sprays (bronze), $1.00 per 100; .$9.00 per 1,000. 



(ireen .Sheet Moss; $."j..50 per bag. 



8pliaKnum Moss: ten bbl. bales, burlappefl, per bale, $4.00; 5 bale 



lots. ,$:3.75 per bale: 10 bale lots, $:S.5<1 per bale; 25 bale lots, 



.^3.25 per bale. 

 Dagger I'erns. extra line selected stock, .$2.00 per 1,000. 



RIBBONS AND SUPPLIES. Many new patterns in exclusive Ribbons. Write us for 



prices on these and on Supplies. 



During July and AuguMt tee will close at 5 P. M. 



S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co. 



THE "^TLo'lifis OF PHILADELPHIA 



PHILADELPHIA 

 1608-1620 Ludlow St. 



NEW YORK 

 117W.28tli St. 



WASHINGTON 

 1212 New York Ave. 



Flower Market Reports WHOL^ALE FLOWER MARKETS. 



TRADE PRICES— Per 100 



TO DBALBIS ONL-Y 



ROSES 



As elsewhere, Boston has 

 BOSTON been stiuggling since July 



came in with a surfeit of 

 flowers and a famine on buyers. Buy- 

 ers are not very plenty yet but there 

 is a drop in the supply and things 

 move less clumsily. Carnations are 

 scarcer and of miserable quality. 

 Short roses are in abundance; good 

 ones seldom seen. Asters are coming 

 in plentifully and of fair quality. 

 Gladioli are not a factor yet in this 

 market. Sweet peas plentiful enough 

 but soft and shortlived on account of 

 damp weather, whites especially. 

 There is a little better call for lilies. 



Only a slight improve- 

 BUFFALO ment in market condi- 

 tions during last week, 

 the receipts being heavy and business 

 practically at a standstill. Carnations 

 continued to fill the market, also roses. 

 Asters have made their appearance, 

 though only in light shipments, the 

 stem being short and can only be used 

 for floral work. The severe hot weather 

 has caused a shortage in sweet peas 

 and there is only one-half of the sup- 

 ply we had a week previous, lollies 

 have moved up with a little better 

 demand. Other stock in normal sup- 

 ply. 



Stock moved rapidly this 

 CHICAGO week— by the garbage 

 route — and slowly by the 

 more profitable ways. A few days of 

 almost intolerable weather brought 

 stock to the market in poor condition 

 for shipping and local demand was al- 

 most at a standstill. On July 15th the 

 extreme heat suddenly changed to a 

 low temperature and trade picked up 

 using up what good stock was to be 

 had and the little flurry was very ac- 

 ceptable to the trade. Carnations 

 have, perhaps, suffered the most and 

 sleepy flowers are more plentiful than 

 fresh ones, but the fact remains that 

 there are some very fair carnations to 

 he had for July. Peonies still come 

 from the storage houses with a fair 

 proportion in good condition and bring 



Am. Beauty, Fancy and Special 



" *' Extra 



No. I 



■' " Lower grades 



Richmond, Fancy and Special 



*' Lower Grades 



Killarney, Maryland, Fan. & Spl.. 

 '* '* Low. Grades 



Bride, 'Maid 



Taft, Hillingdon, Ward 



Kaiserin, Carnot 



CARNATIONS, First Quality . 

 " Ordinary 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Cattleyas 



Lilies, Longiflorum 



Lily of the Valley 



.Asters 



Gladioli 



Snapdragon 



Mignonette 



Daisies 



Sweet Peas 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax 



.\sparagus Plumosus, Strings (loo) 

 " " & Spren. (loo bchs.) 



CINCKNINATI 



June 



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June II 



BljhhALO 



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a satisfactory price. On roses, sales 

 are made by the lot and a little money 

 buys many. Quantities of field daisies 

 are coming in. Gladioli of all varieties, 

 some good and some good for nothing, 

 are filling the counters. The usual 

 miscellaneous summer flowers are to 

 be had and green seems more abundant 

 than can be used. Some very fair 

 Beauties are seen and several varieties 

 of lilies, good stock but slow sales. 



The market is in its 

 CINCINNATI usual early summer 



condition. The car- 

 nations are going out and asters are 

 just beginning to come in. Neither is 

 a very important factor right now. 

 Roses are the one flower that is good 

 and in more than a sufficient quantity. 

 Others are either inadequate in 

 amount or of poor quality. The glad- 

 ioli, particularly the large varieties, 

 are fine and for the past fortnight have 

 been snapped up quickly. The sweet 

 pea season is about at an end. While 

 it lasted the average quality of the 

 blooms and stems was very high; in 

 fact, better than the usual run of out 

 of door blooms of other years. Some 

 very fine giganteum and auratum lilies 



are included in the offerings Indica- 

 tions are that the cut of the former 

 will soon shorten considerably. 



Regul a r mi d-summer 

 DETROIT conditions are prevail- 

 ing with very little busi- 

 ness oil hand and stock plentiful but 

 of very poor quality. The rank and 

 file of steady workers is more or less 

 broken through vacations. Prices for 

 flowers are so unstable as to be be- 

 yond quotation possibilities. Gladio- 

 li are coming in very good. Lilies 

 are plentiful, all kinds. 



Half the people 

 PHILADELPHIA are at the sea- 

 shore, the other 

 half are at the mountains; but the 

 flowers keep on blooming just the 

 same. If some nobody gives a recep- 

 tion, meantime, there are enough 

 flowers in the backyard. Even the 

 mortuary channel seems to be down 

 to the lowest ebb. There's neither 

 life nor death in the market. It is 

 the usual summer dullness — only more 

 so than usual. If it were not fear of a 

 protest from Judge Hoitt we would 



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