March 14, W14 



HOETICULTUEE 



387 



Flower Market Reports 



{CtMinutd from p(tgi J^s) 



swamped the market. Everything too 

 plentiful all along the line. The num- 

 ber of "dull sickening thuds" in quota- 

 tions too painful to talk about. Let 

 us forget it. 



Trade and the market 



ST. LOUIS have not gone well to- 

 gether the past week, 

 trade being slow and the supply large 

 and prices are at low ebb. Plenty ot 

 good roses are coming in now as these 

 have been off crop for some time. Vio- 

 lets are coming in great quantities and 

 sold as low as $1.50 per 1,000. Sweet 

 peas, too, are cheap and most plenti- 

 ful; all fancy goods hold up well in 

 price but the common varieties are 

 very low. Bulb stock plenty and sell- 

 ing cheap. The leading retailers say 

 that trade since Lent has been slow. 

 Funeral work alone has kept them 

 alive the last week. 



The local florists 



WASHINGTON last week suffered 

 considerable addi- 

 tional competition at the hands of the 

 street vendors who offered large quan- 

 tities of violets, sweet peas and Rich- 

 mond roses at very low prices while 

 the store men were hunting high and 

 low for the latter, although there was 

 a vast difference between the quality 

 of the two types. A good sized bunch 

 of storage violets could be had at as 

 low as fifteen cents while the dealers 

 were paying $7.50 per thousand, but 

 were getting good quality. The same 

 could be said of sweet peas. Carna- 

 tions dropped down again to $2 and $3 

 per hundred. Gardenias were far 

 more plentiful than they have been 

 and many were sent to other cities. 

 The only real shortage was on orchids 

 of which there were not enough good 

 ones to fill the demand. Red roses 

 have been quite scarce during the 

 week and were subject to quite a 

 heavy call. Lilacs and other spring 

 flowers met with but a fair sale. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



The St. Louis County Growers' Asso- 

 ciation held its regular monthly meet- 

 ing on Wednesday night, March 4. 

 There was a good attendance of mem- 

 bers. 



The St. Louis Retail Florists' Asso- 

 ciation will meet Monday night, March 

 16. They have changed their meeting 

 place from Beers' Hotel to The Wash- 

 ington Hotel, where the next meeting 

 takes place. 



The first spring exhibition of the 

 Worcester County (Mass.) Horticul- 

 tural Society was held on the after- 

 noon and evening of March 5, at Horti- 

 cultural Hall. At 2.30 o'clock in the 

 library room, a special lecture was 

 given on "Insect Pests and Insecti- 

 cides" by E. D. Baker of Cornell Uni- 

 Tersity. 



At Cincinnati Florists' Society meet- 

 ing last Monday evening, R. Witter- 



B. S. SLINN, JR. 

 V I O LETS 



CARNATIONS, ROSES 



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



SKipping Orden CushiUy Filled 



EDWARD REID 



WHOLESALE FLORIST 



1619-21 Raastetd Sl, Philadelphia, Pk. 



CHOICE BEA'JTIES, ORCHIDS, VALLEY, ROSES 

 anJ all Saasonable Varieties of Cut Flowers 



William F. Hasting Co. 



^A/Hole8al• 



383-387 ELLICOTT ST. 



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 • 



Miffnonette • ■ 



Daises - 



Sweet Peas (per xoo bunches) 



Gardenias 



Lilacs (pt-r bunch) 



Adiantum 



Smilax • 



Asparagus Plumosus. strings (per loo) 



" " & Spren (loo bunches) 



Ust Half of Week 



ending Mar. 7 



1914 



15.00 



8 00 

 8.00 

 1. 00 

 1. 00 

 1. 00 

 1. 00 

 1. 00 

 •25 



2.00 



•50 



2.00 



6.00 



6.00 

 15.00 



50.00 



12.00 



12.00 



2.00 



3.00 



2.00 



2.00 



2.00 



.40 



6.O0 



1.00 



800 



35.00 



1.50 



1.00 



10.00 



35.00 



30.00 



First Half of Week 



beginning Mar. 9 



1914 



15.00 

 6.00 

 6.00 



1. 00 



I. GO 

 1. 00 



■5 

 3.00 



•50 



2.00 

 10.00 



20.00 

 20.00 



50.00 

 8.00 

 S.oo 

 3.00 



2.00 

 2.00 

 3.00 

 3.00 



•35 



6.oe 



t.oe 



8.00 



30.00 



1.50 



1. 00 



10.00 



40.00 



40.00 



staetter, chairman of the taxation com- 

 mittee, gave a report of the work of 

 that committee in getting funds to 

 aid in fighting the recent tax decision 

 in this state. S. S. Skidelsky of Phil- 

 adelphia was present and gave a little 

 talk. J. A. Peterson and Roger Peter- 

 son showed some colored plates of 

 some of their new begonias. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Lenox Horticultural Society was held 

 in the Town Hall, Lenox, Mass., on 

 Saturday evening, March 7, and was 

 the largest tor some time. A letter 

 was read from J. Everitt of Glen Cove, 

 N. Y., offering $5 for the largest chry- 

 santhemum bloom at the fall show. 

 Thos. Proctor exhibited a beautiful 

 pink seedling carnation, which was 

 awarded a certificate of merit and re- 

 ceived a certificate of cultural com- 

 mendation each for a vase of White 

 Wonder and Mrs. C. W. Ward. S. H. 

 Reed of Brookfield, gave a very in- 

 teresting lecture on ensilage. He 

 dealt with the best crops to grow for 

 ensilage and the best kinds of silo 

 pits, etc. 



/oiiN Mair, Ass't. Sec'y. 



BOSTON'S NEW FLOWER IVIART. 



The Boston Co-operative Growers' 

 Market moved into its spacious new 

 quarters in Winthrop Square on 

 March 9, and thus another great 

 wholesale mart has been added to Bos- 

 ton's rapidly growing commercial flow- 

 er business. Simultaneously with 

 this removal, the Boston Rose Com- 

 pany, which handles the Montgomery 

 Bros.' product moved from Somerset 

 street to quarters in the Boston Flow- 

 er Exchange. This leaves practically 

 only two wholesale places in the old- 

 time neighborhood — Waban Conserva- 

 tories and W. H. Elliott — and it Is 

 probable that they, too, will on the ex- 

 piration of their leases locate in the 

 new centre of activity. 



New York City — The Yokohama 

 Nursery Company have removed from 

 51 Barclay street to the Woolworth 

 Building where they have taken offices 

 on the eighth floor, rooms 856 and 858. 

 They will be pleased to have their 

 friends call. 



Last Friday a frightened deer 

 smashed its way into the Forest Hill 

 greenhouse of Philip A. Arzberger at 

 Pleasantville, N. Y., and smashed out 

 again, breaking thirty big panes of 

 glass. Game Warden Sutton, of Mount 

 Kisco, found its carcass in the posses- 

 sion of a gang of laborers. It had died 

 from its cuts. 



VISITORS' REGISTER. 



Boston — Louis J. Reuter. Westerly, 

 R. I.; William Currie, Milwaukee, 



Wis. 



St. Louis, Mo.: Guy Reyburn, of A. 

 Henderson Co., Chicago; Bert Chad- 

 wick, New York City; Frank Farney, 

 representing Rice Co., Phila.; M. Le 

 Vine, New York. 



Philadelphia: R. T. Brown, Cottage 

 Gardens Co., Queens. N. Y.; Alexander 

 Gumming, Center Square, Pa..; Ed- 

 ward H. Flood, Atco, N. J.; Stephen 

 Mortensen, Southampton, Pa.; E. G. 

 Hill, Richmond. Indiana. 



Chicago: Roy Wilcox, Council Bluffs, 

 la.; Wm. Desmond, Minneapolis, 

 Minn.; Ralph Latham, Minneapolis; 

 •Tos. E. Rolker, New York; Miss Beth 

 Youreman, Aberdeen, S. D.; A. C. 

 Roth, Joliet, 111.; Elof Holm of Holm 

 & Olsen, St. Paul, Minn.; O. H. Carl- 

 son, Minneapolis, Minn.; Frank 

 Stuppe, St. Joseph, Mo.; Mr. and Mrs. 

 Shotwell, Fargo, N. D. 



