January 31, 1914 



horticultur: 



167 



~-^^ WHOLESALE 



GEORGE B. HART 



WHOLESALE FLORIST 



24 Stone St., Rochester, N.Y. 



Flower Market Reports 



(Ctmiinued from pti^e lb\) 



this is not very marked as yet. Gol- 

 den spur and others have been added 

 to the French Trumpet Majors. A 

 few double von Sions are to be seen. 

 Acacia pubescens has just made its 

 annual bow to an admiring if select 

 audience. Its cheerful golden smile 

 is like a burst of sunshine in a gloomy 

 world. 



There was good busi- 

 ST. LOUIS, ness at all the com- 

 mission houses and 

 the demand was more than the 

 market could supply any day last 

 week. Roses and carnations are not 

 any too many. Violets are coming in 

 much better than any time this sea- 

 son and the trade is more hopeful for 

 next month, as St. Valentine's Day 

 demand is always big. Sweet peas, 

 too, are in good supply and the de- 

 mand large. Bulb stock is not any 

 too plentiful and the market cleans 

 up almost daily on Paper Whites and 

 Roman Hyacinths, also lily of the val- 

 ley and lilacs. 



There is what 

 WASHINGTON might be termed 

 a near-famine in 

 the local flower market. Climatic con- 

 ditions have been very unfavorable 

 during the month. American Beauty 

 roses are the hardest hit and it is 

 almost impossible to pick up a dozen 

 of these at times in any one iilace. 

 The only variety in roses that is plen- 

 tiful is Killarney. Carnations, instead 

 of being a drug on the market as was 

 expected some weeks ago, are bring- 

 ing high prices. The double violets 

 are rapidly being supplanted by the 

 singles and the latter are now being 

 received in extra fine condition. Har- 

 risii lilies are in good demand. Orchids 

 are much more plentiful. Gardenias, 

 too, are plentiful. 



NEWS NOTES. 



Monroe & Rcyrwlds is the name of 

 a new wholesale florist firm at 111 W. 

 28th St., New York. 



A new wholesale flower establish- 

 ment is to be opened in Indianapolis, 

 Ind., by A. Brandt. 



James Coyle has removed from 101 

 West 28th street to 104, on the oppo- 

 site side of the street. 



PATENTS GRANTED. 



1,084,414.. Flower-Box.. Mary Eger, 

 Syracuse, N. Y. 



B. S. SLINN, JR. 



\i I o L-Einrs 



CARNATIONS, ROSES 



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



Shipping Orders Carefully FiUed 



EDWARD REID 



WHOLESALE FLORIST 



1619-21 Ranstud St., PiiiUdelpkia, Pa. 



CHOICE BEAUTIES, ORCHIDS, VALLEY, ROSES 

 and all Seasonable Varieties of Cut Flwsn 



William F. Kasting Co. 



\A/^Hole8al< 



383-387 ELLICOTT ST. 



lorEs-ts 



BUFFALO, N. Y. 



NEW YORK QUOTATIONS PER 100. To Dealers Only 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Cattleyas • 



Lilies. Longiflorum 



Callas 



Lily of the Valley 



Paper Whites, Roman Hyacinths 



Freesias 



Daffodils 



Tulips 



Violets . . 



Miemonette 



Daises 



Sweet Peas (per loo bunches) 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax 



Aaparagtu Plumosus, strings (per loo) 



" & Spreo (loo bunches). 



last Half of Week 



ending Jan. 24 



1914 



20.00 



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50,00 

 10.00 

 15.00 



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3.00 



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 5.00 

 4.00 



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beginning Ian. 26 



1914 



lo.oo 



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8.00 



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400 



3.00 



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4.00 



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300 



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16.00 



•75 



12.00 



50.00 



50.00 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



J. Otto Thilow, of Dreer's, left on 

 the 24th iiist. for Jamaica and ad- 

 jacent points. Object: recreation, in- 

 vestigation and potentiality. He is 

 due back in Philadelphia February 12. 



Frank Polites has opened a new 

 branch at the ferry terminus of the 

 subway. The fittings are refined and 

 elegant and the show space is unusu- 

 ally ample for this kind of location. 

 This bids well for a large and profit- 

 able outlet for cut flowers and plants. 



S. S. Pennock, of the Pennock- 

 Meehan Co., headed the Philadelphia 

 delegation for the Cleveland conven- 

 tion of the A. C. S. He bore with him 

 a showing of a new carnation Mrs. 

 Akehurst, a fine pink, distinctively 

 fringed, which looks like a future 

 winner. 



Among other evidences of progress 

 in the Michell business tliis season is 

 a new department specially devoted 

 to advertising and promotion. It is 

 in charge of E. A. Pettitt. who has 

 been for the past five or six years with 

 X. W. Ayer & Sons. Mr. Pettitt is 

 young and bright and enthusiastic, 

 brimming over with new ideas and 

 thoroughly imbued with the axiom 

 that advertising is the art of com- 

 pelling aijpreciation of the goods one 

 is offering. We extend greetings and 

 welcome. 



PERSONAL. 



Among the private bequests of El- 

 bridge Torrey of Dorchester, Mass., 

 who died on Jan. 2, was the sum of 

 $2500 to Frank Farrell, his gardener 

 for many years. 



W. A. Manda, South Orange, N. J., 

 has just returned from England on the 

 Majestic after the worst shaking-up at 

 sea he ever experienced. He says 

 that the horticultural part of the An- 

 glo-American Exhibition will be an 

 assured success. 



John J. Hunter, formerly of the firm 

 of Kennedy & Hunter, seedsmen of 

 New York, has accepted a position as 

 special traveling representative for 

 the Consumers' Fertilizer Company 

 of New York. Mr. Hunter has had 

 many years of experience among the 

 greenhouse men and florists, and is 

 well known and popular with the 

 trade. The Consumers' Fertilizer 

 Company, which has an up-to-date 

 factory at Farmingdale, N. J., is man- 

 ufacturing, in addition to their regu- 

 lar grades of farm fertilizers, special 

 fertilizers for greenhouse work, and 

 Mr. Hunter will devote his energies 

 chiefly to this end of the business, for 

 which work he is particularly well 

 quiilified. 



Boston visitors— Mart. Boks, Ghent, 

 Belgium; E. M. Parmelee, represent- 

 ing J. H. Allen Seed Co., Sheboygan, 

 Mich.; Walter Mott, representing 

 Benj. Hammond, Beacon, N. Y.; Jas. 

 McGregor, Dublin, N. H, 



Philadelphia visitors: C. Percy 

 Barnard, Northbrook. Pa.; Howard 

 Thompson, Kennott Square, Pa.; L. B. 

 Coddington, Murray Hill, N. J.; W. G. 

 Badgley of Badgley, Reidel & Meyer. 

 Now York City; W. C. Langbridge of 

 Jerome B. Rice Co.. Cambridge, N. Y.; 

 Jasper Lorimer, Bridgewater. Pa.; D. 

 Cameron of Sander & Sons, St. Albans. 

 England; James Harrlgan, represent- 

 ing Peter Henderson & Co., New York 

 City. 



Editor of HORTICULTURE: 



Dear Sir: — I enclose a postoffice 

 order for one dollar for HORTICUL- 

 TURE. Could not think of doing with- 

 out it. The illustrations alone would 

 be more than good value to say 

 nothing of the feast of good things 

 every week found in its pages. I 

 read every page with interest; It 

 could hardly be better. 



Illinois, Jan. 22. 1914. J. 8. F. 



