February 14, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



243 



Flower Market Reports 



(Ctmiimutd from pagt ?4l ) 



Stock continues 

 PHILADELPHIA to arrive in large 



quantities and 

 there has been some recession in price 

 here and there. The downward ten- 

 dency is especially noticeable in sweet 

 peas and carnations. Violets, also con- 

 tinue too plentiful as they have been 

 for several weeks back. American 

 Beauty roses are largely neglected, 

 consequently on short supply and high 

 price. There is always a limit. If 

 they go too high there are other good 

 things to tall back on. A feature of 

 the week was the large amount of me- 

 morial work. This had a marked ef- 

 fect on white flowers — white roses, 

 lilies, lily of the valley, etc. Prices on 

 roses generally are in most cases 

 rather easier. As St. Valentine's Day 

 approaches a pulse beat for advance 

 can be heard by the iron-faced and 

 stone-deaf buyers. To ordinary people 

 these mild pulse l)eats are very notice- 

 able. By ordinary people we mean the 

 mild-faced growers with ears attuned 

 to spiritualistic forces. Orchids are 

 shortening up and hope dawns. The 

 market of their dreams — like smiling 

 morn whose rosy fingers already gilds 

 the hills with joy. Cattleya Trianje, 

 Phal»nopsis Scliilleriana and Onci- 

 dium splendidum are the most con- 

 spicuous at present. 



The market has been 

 ST. LOUIS good in supply and de- 

 mand, although the re- 

 cent cold weather made things some- 

 what dull in retail circles and this of 

 course, affected the wholesale market 

 somewhat. Prices have been station- 

 ary, but are expected to go up a few 

 cents for St. Valentine's Day. Sweet- 

 peas, violets and carnations are most 

 plentiful, with prices low all week. 

 Roses are looking up somewhat now, 

 and in another week all will be in crop. 

 Other regular market staples are 

 equal to all demands. 



The supply of 

 WASHINGTON flowers of all va- 

 rieties shortened 

 up materially the latter part of the 

 week due to a sudden drop in the tem- 

 perature. The month opened up with 

 the mercury reaching the 70 degree 

 mark and above; flowers began to 

 bloom in the public parks and it was 

 feared that the azaleas, held back for 

 the Easter business, would bloom pre- 

 maturely, some of the growers being 

 forced to whitewash their houses to 

 deaden the rays of the sun. As a re- 

 sult, there is a grave possibility of a 

 shortage of locally grown azaleas for 

 Easter. The lily crop will be excep- 

 tionally good from all reports. With 



B. S. SUNN, JR. 



\i I o i-Einrs 



CARNATIONS, ROSES 



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



Shippins Orders Carefully Filled 



EDWARD REID 



WHOLESALE FLORIST 



1619-21 Rautud St., PbiUdelpkia, Pk." 



CHOICE BEAUTIES, ORCHIDS, VALLEY, ROSES 

 aim all Seasonabli Varieties of Cut Flraan 



William F. Kasting Co. 



\A/Hole8al< 



383-387 ELLICOTT ST. 



>rl8-fcs 



BUFFALO, N. Y. 



NEW YORK QUOTATIONS PER 100, To Dealers Only 



Last Half of Week 



ending Feb. 7 



19)4 



First Half of Week 



beginning Feb. I 



19U 



Cattleyas 



Lilies. Longiflorum 



Catlas • 



Lily of the Valley 



Paper Whites. Roman Hyacinths 



Freesias ■ 



Daffodils 



Tulips 



VioleU 



Mi^onette - . 



Daises - 



Sweet Peas (per loo bunches) 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax 



Asparagus Plutnostis, strings (per loo) 



" & Spren (loo bunches). 



lO.OO 



6 oo 

 lo.oo 

 i.oo 

 i.oo 

 I.oo 

 I.oo 



2.00 



■ IS 



2.00 



I.oo 

 4.00 



4.00 



.50 



6.00 

 25.00 

 10.00 



40.00 



10.00 

 12.00 

 3.00 

 2.00 

 2.00 



10.00 

 6.00 



10.00 

 I.oo 

 I.oo 



40.00 

 10.00 

 13.00 



3.00 



7.00 

 2.00 



3.00 

 3.00 

 ■50 



6.00 

 2.00 

 12.00 

 16.00 

 •75 

 12.00 

 50.00 

 50.00 



the temperature below freezing, the 

 sale of violets and sweet peas on the 

 streets has decreased to a marked ex- 

 tent. The latter flowers could be 

 bought at as low a figure as ?5 per 

 thousand, but the price has since ad- 

 vanced. Spencer type is bringing 

 $1.50 to $2.00 per hundred. The ma- 

 jority of the jonquils and narcissi 

 offered in the local market are being 

 shipped in from other places. The 

 growers hereabouts have come to the 

 conclusion that the production of 

 these flowers can only be accom- 

 plished at a loss and are devoting 

 their houses and labor to other pur- 

 poses. Gardenias are still holding 

 their price of $3 per dozen. American 

 Beauty roses are poor in quality and 

 are meeting with but a very nominal 

 demand. Carnations brought $5 per 

 hundred the earlier part of the week 

 and it is expected that .|4 will be the 

 bottom price for some time to come. 



PERSONAL. 



.John Clark, for many years assis- 

 tant superintendent of the U. S. Bo- 

 tanic Garden at Washington, D. C, 

 resigned his position on Jan. 31. His 

 present address is 400 Fulton St.. 

 Riverton, N. J. 



VISITORS' REGISTER. 



Visitors in Cinrinnafi: Karl Heiser, 

 Hamilton, Ohio; Ferd. Keller, Lexing- 

 ton, Ky. 



Visitors in Boston— W. A. Manda, 

 South Orange, N. J.; Chas H. Vick. 

 Rochester, N. Y. 



Visitors in St. Louis— G. M. Thost. 

 De Soto, Mo.; E. .7. Fancourt, repre- 

 senting S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co , 

 Phila. Pa. 



Visitors in Chicago — A. Schutz, 

 Hammond. Ind.; H. M. Frank, Day- 

 ton, 0.; F. C. Moore, Dayton, 0.; C. 

 Loveridge, Peoria, 111.; J. F. Ammann, 

 Edwardsville, 111.; Geo. Taglaar, Hol- 

 land. 



Visitors in Buffalo — Prof. E. A. White 

 of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.; 

 George Vanzyverden, Lisse, Holland; 

 Bob Schock. of Rice & Co., Philadel- 

 phia, Pa.; F. Alberts of Rochester. N. 

 Y.; John Von Zonneveld and wife; 

 Enos B. Sage and wife of Bradford, E. 

 C. Campbell of Rochester; Emil The- 

 man of Rochester; S. J. Goddard, Pres- 

 ident of the Carnation Society; Mr. 

 Grullerman of Holland; W. J. Stewart, 

 Boston. 



After 38 years of service with the 

 McLean Hospital, 20 in Somerville 

 and the last 18 at the Waverley site, 

 Mr. Coldrick has been forced to re- 

 sign as florist and superintendent of 

 the grounds because of ill-health. 



NEW CORPORATION. 



Piqua, O. — French Seed Products 

 Company, capital stock. $60 000. In- 

 corporators, J. W. Brown, A. M. Leon- 

 ard, A. M. Fry, Wm. Cook Rogers and 

 A. W. French. 



OBITUARY. 

 W. A. Daggett. 

 W. A. Daggett, a life member of the 

 S. A. F., died at his home in Boston, 

 Mass., on February 9, aged 73 years. 

 While not directly engaged in horticul- 

 tural work Mr. Daggett was in close 

 touch with the florist trade and an in- 

 timate associate of the late Edmund 

 M. Wood of Natick, through whose 

 influence he became a life member of 

 the S. A. F. The cause of his death 

 was pneumonia. 



