January 24, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



127 



GEORGE B. HART 



WHOLESALE FLORIST 



24 Stone St., Rochester, N.Y. 



Flower Market Reports 



(Ceniinued front pnge t^=:) 



The unsettled weatli- 

 NEW YORK ei- conditions have 

 not been conducive 

 to either flower production or flower 

 selling. The receipts in the wliole- 

 sale houses are generallj' light and, 

 although there is a little more activity 

 in the market this week, as compared 

 with last, yet it cannot he s;iid that 

 trade is up to what it should be at 

 this date. It the demand were at all 

 rushing there would be some scrim- 

 mages in the rose line, as the quan- 

 tity being received is very limited. Of 

 other things there are enough and of 

 some there are too many. Indications 

 point to a lightening up of the cat- 

 tleya supply. The bulbous flower re- 

 ceipts are not yet unwieldy but the 

 quality on some lines will have to 

 be better before they become a com- 

 petitive feature. Violets are still a 

 disappointment in every way. 



Conditions have 

 PHILADELPHIA improved consid- 

 erably — a larger 

 volume of business and everything 

 selling out clean at fairly good prices. 

 As the new week starts in prices have 

 gone up a notch or two. Beauties are 

 particularly scarce, with demand ex- 

 cellent. Other roses are not so scarce 

 except in the shorter grades and the 

 call seems to run more on these than 

 the long-stemmed. Carnations have 

 been too plentiful since the new year 

 but they are over the hump now and 

 the prices are more like what they 

 ought to be. Orchids are moving more 

 freely, and while still plentiful there 

 is a much better tone to this market. 

 Gardenias have shortened up and are 

 in better shape as to demand. Sweet 

 peas selling well; quality fine. These 

 are in excellent supply except in the 

 orchid-flowering varieties. The latter 

 are picked up very promptly on ar- 

 rival and few are to be seen except 

 early mornings. Violets are suffering 

 from the severe weather which hurts 

 their sale probably more than any 

 other flower. Mignonette and daffodils 

 are strong features of the market and 

 are bringing fair prices. Camellias are 

 in limited supply; they are being 

 used more as a novelty than for in- 

 trinsic merit — as compared with roses. 

 Quite a scarcity of 

 WASHINGTON flowers has been 

 reported during 

 the week. Prices remain much the 

 same as they were during the holidays 

 and in some grades and varieties the 

 florists are almost glad to pay any 

 price. The annual shortage of roses 



B. S. SUNN, JR. 

 \f I O LETS 



CARNATIONS, ROSES 



55 and 57 W. 26th St., New York 



Shipping Orders Carefully Filled 



EDWARD REID 



WHOLESALE FLORIST 



1619-21 RaasludSL, PUUdelphit, Pa. " 



CHOICE BEAUTIES, ORCHIDS, VALLEY, ROSES 

 anJ all Seasonable Varieties of Cut Flowers 



William F. Kasting Co. 



\A/Holo8al. 



383-387 ELLICOTT ST. 



lorisiis 



BUFFALO, N. Y. 



NEW YORK QUOTATIONS PER 100^ To Dealers Only 



is already apparent; red roses are 

 not being received in quantities large 

 enough to fill other than a small de- 

 mand. On narcissi paper white and 

 Roman hyacinths the production far 

 exceeds the call. Carnations are still 

 selling at .$4 and $5 per hundred. A 

 moderate amount of gar(}enias are be- 

 ing received but orchids are quite 

 scarce again.. The business during the 

 past week has been quite satisfactory. 

 The word "satisfactory" as here used 

 means that the florists are doing 

 slightly more business than they ex- 

 pected but the volume done is nothing 

 to boast about. 



There was quite a 

 ST. LOUIS good market last week 



as far as demand was 

 concerned. The market was not 

 crowded with anything except carna- 

 tions. These have been coming in 

 abundance as all the local growers 

 are on crop, but it is just opposite 

 with roses as they are all off crop now. 

 As to other stock such as violets, sweet 

 peas, Roman hyacinths, paper whites, 

 etc., the market affords just enough 

 except in violets, which have been off 

 all season. Good smilax is somewhat 

 scarce. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Wm. .T. Muth. representing the King 

 Construction Co. for this territory has 

 moved his oflice to 112 North Lans- 

 downe avenue, Lansdowne. Pa. (a 

 nearby suburb of Philadelphia). 



A new figure has appeared in our 

 midst who promises to loom large in 

 the affections of those who have ad- 

 vertising to sell. We refer to W. F. 

 Therkilson. who has joined the Bur- 

 pee staff. A big, pleasing personality, 

 who looks good to your correspondent 

 oven if he has not yet handed out to 

 him a good contract for Horticut.tube. 



Mr. and Mrs. .John Burton have 

 been resting at Atlantic- City since 



their recent family bereavement. Mrs. 

 Lee (mother of Mrs. Burton) who 

 has been a member of the Burton 

 household at Chestnut Hill for many 

 years and who was well known to 

 visiting members of our craft from 

 far and near, passed away January 

 2nd, aged 97 years. 



W. Atlee Burpee addressed the sales 

 managers' Association of America at 

 their annual meeting and banquet at 

 Kugler's on the 19th inst. As the larg- 

 est mail order seedsman in the world 

 his words carried weight and were 

 listened to with great attention. 

 Stress was laid on the cumulative ef- 

 fect of continued advertising and also 

 on the great importance of truthful- 

 ness of statements. One of the great- 

 est handicaps to legitimate business 

 he considered to be the fake adver- 

 tizer, who destroyed confidence all 

 along the line and much care should 

 be taken in selecting mediums that 

 rigidly exclude everything that looked 

 the least overdrawn or shady. 



Visitors— .Tohn Young. N. Y. City; 

 Chas. H. Totty, Madison, N. ,T.; 

 George Cruickshank, rep. R. & 

 .T. Farquhar & Co.. Boston, Mass.; A. 

 B. Clark. Milford, Conn.; H. L. 

 Holmes, Harrisburg, Pa.; N. B. Keney, 

 Le Roy, N. Y.; J. B. Agnew, Pacific 

 Seed Growers' Co., San Francisco, 

 Calif.; F. R. Pierson and J. R. Foth- 

 eringham, Tarrytown, N. Y.; F. H. 

 Rogers. Alpena, Mich. 



The following officers of the Roches- 

 ter Florists' Association were re-elect- 

 ed for the third consecutive term at 

 the annual meeting of the organiza- 

 tion on .Ian. 12: President, John Dun- 

 bar; vice-president, George Arnold; 

 treasurer, W. L. Keller; secretary H. 

 B. Stringer. Professor E. A. White, 

 of Cornell University, spoke on the 

 course that is offered at Ithaca in 

 flower culture. 



