August 24, 1912 



HOKT I CULTURE 



283 



Flower Market Reports 



There is quite a d^f- 

 BOSTON ference in tlie quality of 

 early and late asters re- 

 ceived at the present time. The early 

 variety having piactically gone by 

 and the late variety although not 

 fairly started, are showing injuiy from 

 the recent storms. Small roses are 

 plentiful and hard to move at any 

 price. Taft, Queen and Carnot s.ill 

 remain the best sellers and while from 

 young plants and small are prefeiable 

 to any other. Beauties are in good 

 supply but are not up to the standard 

 of former years. Lily of the valley 

 are fairly good but under shipment do 

 not stand up well owing to the humid- 

 ity of the weather. Sweet Peas are 

 not as numerous nor quality as gocd 

 as formerly at this season of the year. 

 Gladioli are abundant and quality 

 fairly good but hard to move. 



For the past week 

 BUFFALO while the market has 

 been more or less in- 

 active there has been a sprinkling of 

 weddings and floral work to keep 

 things moving. Asters and gladiolus 

 are plentiful with home-grown stock 

 in abundance. Prices have held well, 

 though now on a decline. Only a 

 few of the late branching asters are 

 seen but no end of the short early 

 variety, mostly in dark colors. Roses 

 have regained new life and Killarney, 

 both pink and white from new plants 

 have arrived; also Bon Silene, Mel- 

 ody, Richmond and Perles. Lilies are 

 still in good supply and have shared 

 in the small demand for stocks, though 

 the out door tiger lily has been hard 

 to dispose of. There are plenty of 

 greens, especially adiantum, which has 

 had little or no call. 



Things are apparent- 

 CINCINNATI ly improving when 

 everything is taken 

 into consideration. The market is 

 steady and holding up very nicely, 

 and most everything good cleans up 

 well. Shipping continues steady and 

 regular and proves quite a factor in 

 the day's business. American Beau- 

 ties, in the face of larger receipts, 

 clean up every day. Other roses are 

 coming along in fine shape, but many 

 of the blooms are short stemmed; 

 the choice being disposed of as fast 

 as they come in. The best varieties 

 offered are Taft, My Maryland, Kai- 

 serin. White Killarney, Richmond and 

 Sunburst. Late asters are now the 

 principal ones in the market. Most 

 all of them are of good quality. The 

 early varieties are about done. Fancy 

 gladioli sell well, while the others find 

 hardly no market. This glut, if the 

 history of past summers repeats itself, 

 will continue until the end of the sea- 

 son. The lily cut, both of giganteums 

 and auratums, has shortened some- 

 what and as a result better prices pre- 

 vail on the better stock. 



If anything, the 

 PHILADELPHIA market last week 

 was about the 

 most discouraging we have had so far 

 this season. Good judges assert that 

 it was really worse than usual for this 

 period of the year. The percentage ot 

 "good" flowers arriving was very 

 small. The great bulk of the stock 

 was away under average. This was 

 especially true of asters, of which 

 there was a big supply. Ninety per 



A MAGNIFICENT LOT OF FIELD GROWN 



CARNATION PLANTS 



We ;iro now Ijortking itrders for im- 

 mediate delivery from stock selected 

 and grown especially for us, whii h Is 

 in extra fine sbape. The Dorothy 

 Gordon and Rose Pink Enchantress 

 are exceptionally fine, strong plants, 

 splendid value. Our guarantee goes 

 with every carnation plant we ; end 

 out, thus insuring to you the viry 

 liest <t quality and satisfaitii n. 



1 1000 



COMFORT $S.oo ?7."i.O0 



BEACON 8.00 70.00 



H.4RI,0 WARDEN 6.00 50.00 



AVHITE ENCHANTRESS. 8.00 75 00 

 WHITE PERFECTION... 8.00 



WHITE WONDER 9.00 



ALM.A W.ARD 8.00 



GLORIOSA 9.00 



MRS. C. W. WARD 8.00 



W.4SHINGTON 10.00 90.00 



ENCHANTRESS 7.50 60.00 



ROSE PINK ENCHANT- 

 RESS 6.00 ro.oo 



PRINCESS CHARMING.. 10.00 



DOROTHY GORDON 7.00 60.00 



WINONA 7..=i0 60.110 



BROOKLYN 12.00 100.00 



QCEEN 5.00 40.00 



BOSTON M.\RKET 5.00 40.00 



0.00 

 .S5.00 

 70.00 

 S5.00 



'5.00 



A SF>EOIAI_ OF-F-ER 



NEW AND STANDARD ROSES 



Extra Large, Very Choice Stock 



OWN ROOT. :; iLch: lnO lOiiO 



White Killarney $'<.00 $70.00 



Double Pink Killarney. S.OO 70.00 



I'ink Killarney S.OO 70.fX) 



KillarneT Queen 12.00 100.00 



Double White Killarney 12.00 100.00 



GR.4KTED, 3 inch: 



100 OOO 



White Killarney 15.00 120 00 



Douliie White Killarnev. 20.00 130.00 

 Killarney Queen 20.00 150 00 



RIBBONS AND SUPPLIES. Many new patterns in exclusive Ribbons 

 Write us for prices on these and on Supplies. 



During July and Augutt tee will close ot S P. M. 



S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co. 



THE "To'rYs^I of PHILADELPHIA 



PHILADELPHIA 

 1608-1620 Lodlow St. 



NEW YORK 

 1 17 W. 28th St. 



WASHINGTON 

 1212 New York Ave. 



WHOLESALE FLOWER MARKETS — "'^•'^"""^^Sd^Wers only 



ROSES 



CINCINNATI 



August 20 



Am. Beauty, Fancy and Special. . . . 



*' *' Extra 



No. I 



" " Lower Grades 



Killarney, Richmond 



My Maryland, Kaiserin, Carnot. - . - 



Bride, 'Maid 



Taft, Hillingdon.Ward 



CARNATIONS 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Cattleyas 



Lilies, Longiflorum 



'■ Speciosum 



Lily of the Valley 



Gladioli 



Asters 



Daises . 



Sweet Peas 



Gardenias , 



Adiantum 



Smilax 



Asparagus Plumous, Strings (loo) 

 ^^ " & Spren. (loo bchs.) 



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1. 00 

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 50.00 

 35 -oo 



DETROIT 



August 20 



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1.50 



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BUFFALO 



August 20 



I PITTSBURGH 



I August 20 



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40.00 

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cent of the asters brought hardly any 

 price at all. The gladioli market was 

 not so overloaded with poor quality, 

 and the situation in this summer 

 staple was distinctly better than in 

 asters, although here also there was 

 very little doing if the spikes were 



poor or the colors muddy. New crop 

 local American Beauty roses are now 



arriving, in limited quantity and are 

 about the best sellers in the rose mar- 

 ket. The northern grown Beauties 

 that have held the front of the stage 



(Continued on f'ag'f 3S^) 



