March 14, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



385 



Flower Market Reports 



Trade seems a wee bit 

 BOSTON brighter as we go to 

 press. Carnations have 

 gone up a point and roses also show 

 a slight improvement in demand. Vio- 

 lets are In great abundance and are 

 sold by the thousand as a rule, few 

 caring to bother with a hundred or 

 two. Sweet peas are also very abun- 

 dant but there are many of low grade. 

 Spencers are not so much in evidence 

 as they were. Orchids continue to 

 drag. The utter stagnation on cattley- 

 as seems unaccountable. Lily of the 

 valley and. in fact, all bulbous mate- 

 rial are received in enormous quan- 

 tities. There are some very poor tu- 

 lips and even the extra good ones find 

 difficulty in getting moved. Daffodils 

 are also badly congested. Lilium spe- 

 ciosum is offered for the first time 

 this season by Welch Bros. 



Market conditions have 

 BUFFALO changed but little dur- 

 ing the past week. Stock 

 is plentiful and the outlet blocked. It 

 was very quiet the early part of last 

 week, but the ending was much more 

 satisfactory than looked for. There 

 was plenty of everything and prices 

 were at a low ebb. Roses and carna- 

 tion crops are on, as well as lilies and 

 other stock, and the days have been 

 such that a bargain sign during the 

 week amongst the merchants was 

 not noticeable. Social affairs have 

 practically ceased. Violets have moved 

 slowly, even at the very low prices 

 asked. Lilies had no demand until 

 Saturday, when good sales were re- 

 ported. 



Shipping trade seems to 

 CHICAGO be rather ahead of local 

 trade. The tailing off of 

 a large proportion of the run of busi- 

 ness, which had kept up steadily from 

 the holidays till Lent began, shows no 

 signs of diminishing so far as local de- 

 mand is concerned. Counters and ice 

 boxes show an amount of stock that 

 would have delighted salesmen a few 

 weeks ago and the quality in most 

 lines is excellent. American Beauties 

 are reversing earlier conditions, as 

 they near the end of a crop, for now 

 the shortage is on the long-stemmed 

 flowers and there are plenty of shorts. 

 Roses are in good supply and sales 

 hardly brisk enough to use them to 

 advantage. Violets are a proposition 

 now. Hudson River doubles are arriv- 

 ing in various conditions, mostly bad, 

 and there is a big supply of locals, 

 both double and single. Sales are con- 

 fined almost exclusively this week to 

 singles. Some very fine carnations are 

 seen in the market, but there are 

 quantities of a poorer quality also. 

 Bulbous stock contains much that is 

 poor and much also that is excellent. 

 Some fine sprays of orange flowers 

 from Florida were seen at Zech & 

 Mann's, Tuesday. 



The general supply 

 CINCINNATI has increased to such 

 an extent that the 

 market is easy in every line except 

 American Beauties. The demand for 

 stock, while fair, is not quite all it 

 might be and this fact coupled with 

 the large supply gives the buyers a 

 chance to get their blooms at low 

 prices. Roses have shown very large 

 increases in the receipts. The carna- 



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Roses 



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'* *' Fancy and Extra 



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Killarney, Extra 



" Ordinary 



Richmond, Hillingdon, Extra 



" " Ordinary 



Maryland, Ward, Taft, Sunburst, Extra 

 '* *' *' " Ordinary 



Russell, Shawyer 



Carnations, Fancy 



" Ordinary 



Catdeyas 



Lilies. Longiflorum . 



Callas 



Lily of the Valley 



Paper Whites, Koman Hyacinths . . . 



Freesias 



Daflodils 



Tulips 



Violets 



M ignonette 



Daisies 



Sweet Peas 



Gardenias 



Adianlum 



Sinilax 



Asparagus Plumosus, Strings (loo) . 

 '* " & Spren. (loo Bchs.) . 



tion supply is large but most all good 

 ones have been able to find a market. 

 With heavy receipts the sweet pea 

 prices have gradually fallen, until now 

 they have reached the lowest point 

 at which they have sold this season. 

 A good many of the smaller blooms 

 find no market at all. About the only 

 persons from whom there is an active 

 demand for violets are the street fak- 

 irs. Very many fine single blooms are 

 offered. Lily of the valley; orchids 

 and primroses all sell slowly. The 

 Giganteum lily supply is decreased 

 considerably. Callas are in good sup- 

 ply. Some very fine bulbous stock is 

 offered, btit the sales are not overly 

 large. 



There is little of in- 

 NEW YORK terest or value to any- 

 one that can be said 

 about the flower market at the pres- 

 ent time. Every flower known to the 

 spring season is in evidence in quan- 

 tity — all the well known roses and 

 some not so well known, all the carna- 

 tions famous or obscure, tulips and 

 daffodils in generous assortment, vio- 



lets, cattleyas, lilies and lilacs — all 

 these and more, but they are far in 

 excess of the demand, which is very 

 light, and naturally interest lags when 

 any stock accumulates and becomes 

 unsalable. There are now some forty 

 or more wholesale flower concerns, but 

 no more goods are sold than would be 

 if there were only one-fourth as many. 

 It makes a lot of people among which 

 to divide the limited gross profits and, 

 of course, the situation is unsatisfac- 

 tory to all. Next year we shall prob- 

 ably have fifty wholesalers if present 

 rate of multiplication continues. Even- 

 tually one for each grower? Each 

 with the most spacious and well 

 equipped store, of course. 



Medium to bad 

 PHILADELPHIA is the verdict for 



last week. First, 

 they couldn't get the flowers in, and 

 then they couldn't get them out. It 

 was some blizzard all right. Commu- 

 nication was pretty well blocked up 

 except to points south. When stocks 

 did come they came with a rush and 



