December 28, 1912 



HORTICULTURE 



911 



Flower Market Reports 



tCimtinued from page qoq) 



Any attempt, at this 

 NEW YORK early moment, to 

 make an average es- 

 timate ot the extent and character 

 of the holiday trade in this widespread 

 market would be abortive. Each indi- 

 vidual in the vast aggregation has his 

 own experience, his own views and 

 his own criticisms — some apparently 

 justifiable and others simply chronic 

 from year to year. Suffice it to say, 

 for the present, that the plant grow- 

 ers and the plant dealers found the 

 retail people ready to meet them "on 

 the ground floor," and the public, on 

 their part, v/ere equally on the Job 

 with the retailers, so that the plant 

 trade was a record-breaker. The cut 

 flower supply was ample in most 

 items and in quality was the best, 

 probably, ever offered. There was 

 some "cold storage" stock, of course, 

 which brought only "cold storage" 

 prices, but, as a general proposition, 

 the stock sent in to the wholesale 

 market was excellent and good prices 

 were maintained until Tuesday, when, 

 as might be expected, the tendency 

 was decidedly downward. All the 

 late received shipments had to submit 

 to this reaction and some things — 

 American Beauty, for instance — had 

 shrunk in value about 50 per cent by 

 Thursday A. M. 



At this writing 

 PHILADELPHIA (Dec. 2 4) the 

 market is bare 

 ot everything except pink roses. There 

 is a plethora of Marylands and Killar- 

 neys, especially in the better grades, 

 fancies and specials. Last year it was 

 the lower grades. A complete turn 

 around this year. Flower growing cer- 

 tainly is a queer proposition. No man 

 can ever tell from past experience 

 what is going to happen next year— 

 which fact pleases your scribe. There 

 is a glorious and delightful uncertainty 

 about it that makes the know-it-alls 

 shut up for at least a little while any- 

 way. Carnations very scarce. Where 

 they were cutting 2000 last year they 

 are cutting 200 this American Beauty 

 has held its own better than last year. 

 Instead of going down as expected, it 

 keeps firm at starting prices. Cattleyas 

 also have made a noise like a bang and 

 have doubled up in value. The heavy 

 snowfall which began on the 23rd in- 

 terfered greatly with transportation, 

 but, on the whole, it was a great 

 Christmas, both for the cut flower and 

 the plant men. Very little went to 

 waste in any line and good prices were 

 realized — in fact, better than was ex- 

 pected. Among the retail flower stores 



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 226 Pevon«hlre Street, Boeton, Maes. 



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383-387 ELLICOTT ST. 



BUFFALO, N. Y. 



—MONTREAL FLORAL EXCHANGE, LTD.-, 



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MISCELLANEOUS 



Cattleyas 



Lilies, Longlflorum 



Lily of the Vadey 



Paper While Narcissus 



Stevia 



Violets 



Daises . 



Sweet Peas , 



Mignonette 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



5mllax 



Asparagus Plumosus, strings (per loo) 



'* •* & Spren (loo bunches) . 



Last Half of Week 



ending Dec. 21 



1912 



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the Cliristmas trade was fine up to the 

 day before — when the storm came and 

 hurt things considerably; kept the 

 follis indoors and hampered deliveries. 

 We have heard it on all sides: "Oh, If 

 that old blizzard had only held off one 

 more day!" There is generally some 

 "fly in the ointment" and perfect bllsa 

 is seldom vouchsafed — even to the Tam 

 O'Shanters. "Kings may be blest but 

 Tam was glorious, O'er all the ills of 

 life victorious!" 



The market for Christ- 

 ST. LOUIS mas has all the indica- 

 tions of being a good 

 one. With fine weather stock could 

 not be held back, so during the last 

 week extra good consignments came 

 in every day and the demand used it 

 all up. There is an abundance of most 

 things for the Christmas call. Prices 

 are high but doubt is expressed as to 

 whether they can be maintained. Next 

 week's report will tell the tale. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



We have been favored this week by 

 a visit from John Walker of Youngs- 

 town, Ohio, an old-time Philadelphian 

 whose laugh is still perennial and as 

 hearty as ever. No trolley wreck can 

 knock that laugh out of John. 



Another welcome visitor was our 

 good friend Brown from Richmond, 

 Va., who was intercepted by George 

 Anderson — the best shot of this vicin- 

 ity. And by all accounts he had a 



royal good time. The bald heads, ac- 

 cording to George, are the people with 



brains. 



Dennis T. Connor is back to his old 

 love — the Lord & Burnham Co. We 

 wish him well — and bespeak for him 

 and his good firm, the respectful con- 

 sideration of the trade in all their 

 new enterprises. 



The Rice Company request us to 

 say that they cordially appreciate the 

 splendid support they have received 

 from the readers of HORTICULTURE 

 during the past year and that they are 

 one and all on the job to do bigger 

 things during 1913. 



Ernest Thomas, late of Girard Col- 

 lege, late of Craig's, late of Lompoc, 

 Cal.. is now at Buena, N. J., having 

 had to come East again for family rea- 

 sons — and is now open for new worlds 

 to conquer. We hear ot various firms 

 who are eager for him. Ernest will 

 make good whoever gets him. All his 

 old employers and associates think a 

 lot of Ernest — with good reason. 



Never in our journeys around the 

 flower stores of Philadelphia have we 

 found them busier or better deco- 

 rated than this year. Pennock Bros., 

 especially, were to the front with a 

 most magnificent display of made-up 

 baskets. They were one glorious 

 dream — and one of the finest exhibits 

 of how to separate the wealthy Phila- 

 delphian from his money that we have 

 seen in our twenty-four years' sojourn 

 in this good old burg. 



