February 21, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



279 



Flower Market Reports 



iCtmtinutd from fag€ 277) 



Radiance, Killarney Queen and Double 

 White Killarney, were available and 

 crops generally were large and better. 

 There was a slight increase in arriv- 

 als of American Beauty, but nothing 

 enough to make any marked effect. 

 The carnation market also in excel- 

 lent shape. Demand keeps up with 

 supply very satisfactorily and the 

 quality is very high. Orchids are 

 holding their new pace very well and 

 there are none now to be had at sacri- 

 fice prices. Sweet peas plentiful and 

 good. Daffodils have dropped a notch 

 In price and at present are very rea- 

 sonable indeed for greehouse grown 

 stock. There are not so. many Roman 

 hyacinths around but tulips, freesias 

 and other bulbous items are very much 

 In evidence. 



The business done the 

 ST. LOUIS last week, which in- 

 cluded St. Valentine's 

 <lay was quite large. The demand 

 was large and especially on first 

 grade stock for which the wholesalers 

 had no trouble in cleaning up every 

 day. Roses are not too many yet and 

 there is some trouble in filling or- 

 ders. Carnations are plentiful. All 

 the leading varieties have advanced 

 a little in price. Violets had one great 

 demand all during last week and the 

 supply was short by several thousand. 

 Sweet peas also came in for an extra 

 demand, as well as bulb stock. 

 In this the market had a good supply. 

 There was a good demand for fancy 

 tulips, lily of the valley and lilies. 



The St. Valentine 

 WASHINGTON Day's business 



this year was ex- 

 ceptionally good and very welcome in 

 view of the slow business which has 

 prevailed for several weeks. Consid- 

 ■erable difficulty was experienced, 

 however, in making deliveries because 

 of the heavy snow storm. A marked 

 change in the temperature was instru- 

 mental in shortening up the supply 

 •of stock of all varieties, especially red 

 flowers, with the result that prices in 

 many instances soared to lofty 

 heights. Roses that had previously 

 sold at $4 per hundred reached as 

 high as $10. American Beauty roses 

 were practically, off the market and 

 those to be had were poor in quality. 

 Red carnations sold out quickly bring- 

 ing J6, while the other colors moved 

 very well at $4 and $4.50. Gardenias 

 were good in quantity but not over- 

 plentiful and orchids were about the 

 reverse, scarce and quality poor. The 

 bulk of the business was done in vio- 

 lets and sweet peas which cleaned up 

 well. Monday found the market a hit 

 draggy as far as sales were concerned 

 although there was no overstock of 

 flowers except of the bulbous type. 



B. S. SUNN, JR. 

 V I O LET S 



CARNATIONS, ROSES 



S5 and 57 W. 26th St., N«w York 



Shipping Orders CarafuUy Filled 



EDWARD REID 



WHOLESALE FLORIST 



1619-21 Rftnstud St., PUUdelpliit, Pk. 



CHOICE BEAUTIES, ORCHIDS. VALLEY, ROSES 

 and all Seasonabli Varieties ef Cut FIraen 



William F. Kasting Co. 



\A/holo8al< 



383-387 ELLICOTT ST. 



F^lorls-ts 



BUFFALO, N. Y. 



NEW YORK QUOTATIONS PER 100. To Dealers Only 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Cattley as ' 



Lilies, Longiflorum 



C&llas ■ 



Uly of the Valley 



Paper Whites, Roman Hyacinths 



Freesias 



Daffodils 



Tulips • 



Violets 



Mignonette 



Daises ' 



Sweet Peas (per loo bunches) - 



Gardenias 



Lilacs (pt^^r bunch) 



Adiantum* ■ 



Smilax 



Asparagus Plumosus. strings (per loo) 



" " & Spren (loo bunches). 



Last Half of Week 



endlDg Feb. 14 



1914 



20.00 



6 00 

 10.00 

 2.00 

 1. 00 

 1. 00 

 1.00 

 2.00 

 .50 



3. 00 



1. 00 

 4.00 

 12.00 



•50 

 6,00 

 15.00 

 10.00 



60 .CO 



8.00 



12.00 



3.00 



3. 00 

 2.00 



3-00 



3.00 



■75 



6.00 



2.00 

 12.00 



25.00 

 1.50 



•75 

 12.00 



35.00 

 20.00 



Fint Half of Wtik 



beginning Feb. IS 



1914 



30.00 

 6,00 



10.00 

 2.00 



1.50 

 2.00 

 .50 

 2.00 

 1. 00 

 4.00 

 15.00 



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 8.00 

 25.00 

 25.00 



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 8.00 



sa.oe 

 3.00 

 ?.oo 



2. 00 

 2.00 

 3.00 



■75 

 6.00 

 2.00 



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 25.00 

 1.50 

 1. 00 

 10.00 

 35.00 

 3500 



PERSONAL. 



L. J. Kervan, Sr., of New York, 

 left last week for his annual visit to 

 Florida, where he will remain until 

 May. 



Thomas Sakelos, proprietor of "The 

 Olympia Florist" in the Bronx district 

 of New York, a prosperous Greek 

 florist, is boomed as a wrestler of un- 

 usual ability. The wrestling instruc- 

 tor at the O. A. C. declares him to be 

 practically invincible. 



Robert A. Mitchell, Manchester, 

 Mass., has accepted a position as in- 

 structor at the Essex County, Mass., 

 Agricultural School. This being a vo- 

 cational school It Is their practice to 

 select practical men as teachers in 

 preference to college men. 



Harry F. Smith, formerly on the 

 Ames estate, North Easton, Mass., un- 

 der W. N. Craig, and for the past two 

 years foreman on the estate of Mr. 

 Percival Roberts at Narberth, Pa., 

 succeeds Sabin Bolton as superinten- 

 dent of that place. Mr. Bolton, who 

 has filled that position for the past 

 three years now goes as superinten- 

 dent on the Heinze estate at Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa. 



Police of Waltham, Mass., are trying 

 to find the home and relatives of George 

 Pulsifer. aged 50, a traveling sales- 

 man for a New York nursery concern, 

 who was stricken with heart failure 

 and died while running to catch a 

 street car, February 14. For some 

 days Pulsifer had been staying with 

 Nathaniel Stearns on Trapelo road. 

 He left the house at 8 o'clock to take 

 a Lexington and Boston car. Seeing 

 the car approaching the stop, he 

 started to run. Before he had gone 

 50 feet he fell and was dead when by- 

 standers reached him. Beyond the 

 fact that he came from Maine no one 

 knows anything of his history. 



VISITORS' REGISTER. 



Chicago— S. S. Skidelsky, Philadel- 

 phia: E. S. Miller, Wading River, N. 

 Y.; Robt. Karlstrom, representing W. 

 A. Manda, So. Orange, N. J.; J. J. 

 Karins, representing H. A. Dreer, Phil- 

 adelphia, Pa. 



Philadelphia— Ralph M. Ward, N. Y. 

 City; Edwin A. Seidewitz, Baltimore, 

 Md.; William Swayne, Kennett Square, 

 Pa.; Antoine Leuthy, Roslindale, 

 Mass.; L. W. Wheeler, Gilroy, Cal.; 

 Wallace R. Pierson, Cromwell, Conn.; 

 Robert Simpson, Clifton, N. J.; Robert 

 Pyle, Conard & Jones Co., West 

 Grove, Pa.; Harry O. May, Summit, 



St. Louis — J. J. Karins, representing 

 H. A. Dreer, Phila., Pa., F. Lauten- 

 schlager, representing Kroeschell 

 Bros. Co., Chicago; Harry Morgan, 

 representing Lord & Bumham Co., 

 Irvington, N. Y.; George Struck, of 

 Knight & Struck, New York; Jos. B. 

 Rolker, of August Rolker & Sons, 

 New York. 



Boston — Robert Shock, representing 

 M. Rice & Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; 

 Louis Sander, St. Albans, London, 

 Eng. ; D. Cameron, representing F. 

 Sander & Sons, St. Albans, Eng. and 

 Bruges, Belgium; F. E. Conine, Strat- 

 ford, Conn.; Winfried Rolker, New 

 York City; Louis Hanfling, with Rus- 

 sin & Hanfling, New York; John W. 

 Gibson, Newport, R. I.; Chas. Parker, 

 with Carl Jurgens, Newport, R. I. 



We have just had the pleasure of 

 perusing the first issue of the Orenco 

 Herald, a new monthly paper pub- 

 lished by the Oregon Nursery Com- 

 pany, who were the founders of Oren- 

 co and who have developed it into a 

 prosperous and happy community. 

 The company has about 1200 acres 

 under cultivation. 



