November 23, 1912 



HORTICULTURE 



725 



THANKSGIVING 



Last week when we advertised Gardenias we expected to have 

 a fine supply for Thanlisgiving and we are glad to say that they 

 are the choicest and best lot ot Gardenias our growers have ever 

 sent in to us ~ quantity and quality both. Special, $4.00 per doz.; 

 Fancy, $3.00 per doz.; First, $2.00 per doz. 



VALLEY: Special, $4.00 per doz.; Extra, $3.00 per doz. 

 WHITE ORCHIDS: Dendrobium Formosum, $6.00 per doz. 



Doz.. 



Special $5.00 



Fancy 4.00 



Extra 3.00 



BEAUTIES: 



100 Doz. 100 



$40.00 First $2.50 $20.00 



30.00 Second 2.00 15.00 



25.00 Third 8.00 



hj:auquarters for greens. 



WILD SMILAX: $5.(K) per case. 



GREKN GALAX: .¥1.50 per 1.000; $7..50 per 10,000. 



BRONZE GALAX: $1.50 per 1,000. 



LEUCOTHOE sprays (Breen): $1.50 per 100; $7.50 per 1,000. 



GREEN SHEET MOSS: $3.50 per bag. 



SPHAGNUM MOSS: Ten bbl. bales, nicely burlapped, $4.00 each; 



5 bale lots, $:j.75 each; 10 bale lots, $3.50 each; 25 bale lots, 



$3.25 each. 

 MEXICAN IVY: $1.00 per 100; $7.50 per 1,000. 

 BOXWOOD: .50 lb. cases, .$7.50 each. 



RIBBONS AND SUPPLIES: Many new patterns in exclusive Ribbons. Write us for prices on these and on Supplies 



S. S. PennocK-Meehan Co. 



THE WHOLESALE FLORISTS OF PHILADELPHIA 



Al-l'^ 



PHILADELPHIA 

 1608-1620 Ludlow Street 



NEW YORK 

 117 West 28th Street 



WASHINGTON 

 1212 New York Avenue 



Flower Market Reports WHOLESALE FLOWER MARKETS — ^''^"^ "'^■^^-d^WbT 



TO DEALERS ONLY 



A slight improvement has 

 BOSTON been shown with stock 



plentiful. Roses, however, 

 are the only out in the market. Amer- 

 ican Beauties are of indifferent qual- 

 ity, some good and some bad, and are 

 not selling well. Killarneys are faded 

 In color due, no doubt, to sudden 

 changes in the weather. Chrysanthe- 

 mums are about over and this has had 

 a tendency to stiffen prices on other 

 stock. Carnations are demanding bet- 

 ter prices, but are scarce, while vio- 

 lets can be had in great abundance 

 and the prices are exceptionally good. 

 Lily of the valley is of fine quality and 

 Belling well. 



A slight falling off in 

 CHICAGO the shipping trade 



marks the business of 

 the past week. The chrysanthemums 

 and the pompons still hold chief 

 places in the market. A shortening up 

 of the daily receipts indicates that 

 stock is being held for Thanksgiving 

 week. Paper whites and stevia in 

 limited quantities are arriving now. 

 Rather large quantities of Ilex berries 

 are reminding florists that the time 

 for holiday preparations is at hand. 

 Roses are not coming in too heavily, 

 especially the better grades. Some 

 fine American Beauties are cut daily, 

 but in these, too. the supply is not 

 too large. Plenty of carnations, but 

 not enough first-class stock is the gen- 

 eral report. Single violets are excel- 

 lent, but the eastern doubles are alto- 

 gether too plentiful and many are not 

 sold. Lilies, as is usually the case, 

 are selling slowly during chrysanthe- 

 mum season. AH kinds ot green is 

 abundant. 



ROSES 



BOSTO^ 



November 21 



CHiCAao 



November 19 



dT. LOUIS 



November 19 



PHILA. 



November 19 



Am. Beauty, Fancy and Special... 



'* *' Extra 



No. I 



" " Lower Grades 



Killarney, Richmond, Maryland . . 



Bride, 'Maid 



Hillingdon, Ward, Melody 



Taft, Sunburst 



Carnations 



Cattleyas 



Lilies, Longiflorum 



Lily of the Valley 



Violets 



Chrysanthemums, Fancy 



" Ordinary 



Daises 



Sweet Peas 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax 



Asparagus Plumosus, Strings (100). 

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The larger part ot 

 CINCINNATI last week the market 

 was listless. Only 

 the opening day and the two closing 

 days showed anything like an active 

 demand and then the supply was so 

 large that in but very few lines were 

 real prices realized. The shipping 

 business took up its proportionate 

 share while local business fell down 

 somewhat. The rose supply is more 

 or less limited, many of the growers 

 being somewhat off crop. Even with 

 this state of affairs, however, there is 

 easily enough to go around. On last 

 Saturday everything in this line was 

 cleaned up. Beauties enjoyed a very 

 much smaller demand than is their 

 wont. Chrysanthemums have struck 

 somewhat of a toboggan and quite a 

 few found their way to the ash-barrel. 

 Most of those sold hardly brought 

 prices that measured their actual 

 value. The same applied to poirpons. 

 The carnation supply is only moderate 

 and is just about right for market re- 

 quirements. Lilies sold in very much 

 the same way as chrysanthemums. 

 Violets and sweet peas sold very well. 



Neither orchids nor lily of the valley 

 cleaned up with their tisual vigor. 

 New offerings are paper white narcis- 

 sus, stevia and pansies. 



Since the last report 

 NEW YORK business has consid- 

 erably improved. The 

 opera season is with us and it is Horse 

 Show week, which means a great in- 

 flux of visitors so that the demand for 

 cut flowers has been good and prices 

 are firmer, if not in the ascendant. 

 American Beauty roses are none too 

 plentiful; Tafts are scarce these days, 

 but there is no shortage of other va- 

 rieties. Chrysanthemums are very 

 fine, especially Bonnaffons, but we 

 have more than enough to go round, 

 considering which the prices realized 

 are good. Orchids are not so plenti- 

 ful, but we have an abundance of gar- 

 denias, which include many on the 

 small side. The football game at 

 Princeton on Saturday, the 16th inst., 

 made a lively call for yellow chrysan- 

 themums and helped to deplete the 

 heavy overstock with which the mar- 

 ket was burdened. 



(Cpt,t fined I'w J'tige 72y) 



