May 9, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



716 



Flower Market Reports 



{CfiniinMed from page 7/j) 



brisk, with the prospect of higher 

 prices towards the end of the week. 

 Lily of the valley is selling well and 

 is more consistent as far as regular 

 price is concerned. The hot spell has 

 rushed in quantities of outdoor tulips 

 and daffodils and the supply of these 

 will soon be over. Lilies are once 

 more getting in demand and the best 

 are clearing out nicely at prices quoted 

 in market report. There are still ship- 

 ments of violets arriving, selling at 

 $1.50 to $2.00 per 1000. Roses have 

 shortened up in supply and $10 per 

 1000 is about the lowest quotation up 

 to 6c. for the novelties and better 

 grades of some of the standard vari- 

 eties. Carnations arriving from Long 

 Island, as a general rule, seem to be 

 of better quality than those from other 

 sections of the country. Quantities of 

 cherry and peach blossoms have been 

 used in recent decorations, which fact 

 does not help the wholesale flower 

 markets so you'd notice it. There are 

 some tine gladioli. Sweet peas are re- 

 ceived in enormous quantities and all 

 grades of quality. 



The tone of the 

 PHILADELPHIA market last week 

 was considerably 

 improved over the previous two weeks 

 and while there was no great advance 

 in quotations the final results were 

 better. There was a large supply of 

 everything and prices ruled low. The 

 excess of shipments to demand, how- 

 ever, ^ was not so great and with the 

 fine weather, the week end business 

 was better, so that there were no such 

 enormous sacrifices as we have been 

 having. American Beauty roses are 

 not so plentiful and it anything the 

 demand has been better. Other roses 

 are very plentiful. Russells are fine 

 now and sell well. This newcomer 

 has all the earmarks of taking rank 

 as a great warm weather rose in ad- 

 dition to its other good qualities. In 

 the orchid market cattleya Jlossiae 

 now rules — the Schroederae crop be- 

 ing entirely cut out. There are also 

 some nice Dendrobiums to be had in 

 both the pink and the white forms of 

 nobile. The gardenia demand is rather 

 half-hearted, while snapdragon is 

 very plentiful. The retailers are push- 

 ing it as they can make such a good 

 showing for little money. Lilies are 

 still far too plentiful and below normal 

 as to price. The first shipment of peo- 

 nies came in on Monday and were 

 quickly picked up. Outdoor lilac is to 

 be had in quantity, especially the lav- 

 ender — there is very little white to be 

 seen. The big wholesalers have been 

 at pains to advise customers to keep off 

 white carnations for Mothers' Day. We 

 trust it will bear good fruit, but it is 

 hard to stop a big wheel after it has 

 been started in a wrong direction. 



Telephoae 3860 MadUon Square 



WOODROW & MARKETOS 



WlIOLK.S.\l,K 



Plantsmen and Florists 



37 and 39 West 28th St., NEW YORK 



EDWARD REID 



WHOLESALE FLORIST 



1619-21 Ranslead St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



CHOICE BEAUTIES, ORCHIDS, VALLEY, ROSES 

 and ail Seasonable Varieties of Cut Flowers 



William F. Kasting Co. 



\A/^Hole8al< 



383-387 ELLICOTT ST. 



loris-ts 



BUFFALO, N. Y. 



NEW YORK QUOTATIONS PER 100. To Dealers Only 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Cattleyas--* 



Lilies, Lx>ngiflonim 



Calla. 



Lily of the Valley 



Wallflower 



Snapdragon • 



Daffodils 



Tulips 



VioleU 



Pansies ■ 



Mignonette 



Daises, ^vhitc and yellow 



Sweet Peas (per loo bunches) 



Lilacs (per bunch) Southern 



Gardenias 



Adiantum 



Smilax 



Asparagus Plumosus, strings (per loo) 



" " & Spren (loo bunches) 



Last Half of Week 

 ending May 2 



First Half of Week 



beginning May 4 



1914 



2.00 

 •50 

 16.00 

 20.00 

 15.00 



■33 



15.00 



1.00 



25.00 



50.00 

 50.00 



15.00 



3.0c 



4.00 



2.00 



•75 



a.oo 

 x.oo 

 1.00 



• 15 



• 15 

 1.50 



•50 



4.00 



•25 



2.00 



•50 



15.00 



35.00 



15.00 



35.09 

 5.00 



6.00 

 3.00 

 1.00 

 4.00 

 3.00 



2. 00 



■»5 



■»5 



3.00 



I. CO 



8.00 



.35 

 16.00 

 1.00 

 25.00 

 50.00 

 35.00 



There are far more 

 WASHINGTON flowers on the mar- 

 ket at the present 

 time than the demand can possibly 

 take care of and prices have dropped 

 clear out of sight. Business lias been 

 comparatively good, but almost with- 

 out profit for the wholesalers and 

 growers are practically accepting the 

 retailers' bids for tlie stock and the 

 latter find it hard to get anything like 

 a price from the consumers. The sup- 

 ply of roses and carnations is so great 

 that it is said that tens of thousands 

 of those are being thrown away daily. 

 The call is almost entirely for spring 

 blossoms at the present time and li- 

 lacs and dogwood are very popular. 

 These are supplanting all greenhouse 

 stock. As previously reported, the 

 present Mexican uncertainty continues 

 to have a marked ill effect on business 

 in general, more especially on that of 

 flowers, for society folks are cancelling 

 a number of entertainments of various 

 sorts. A decrease in the number of 

 street vendors of flowers was very grat- 

 ifying to the store men who hope that 

 some day this sort of competition will 

 be entirely done away with. During 

 the past week a large number of ar- 

 rests were made of florists doing busi- 

 ness without licenses, many of these 

 men being of the street vending type 

 and all unknown to the Horticultukk 

 correspondent. The police are proving 

 unusually vigilant along this score, or- 

 ders having been given them to see 

 that all so required are properly sup- 

 plied with licenses. 



The market is dull 

 ST. LOUIS and very much over- 

 crowded with every- 

 thing in season. There is a big glut 

 of sweet peas, carnations, callas and 

 roses, prices suffering greatly in all 

 classes. Even prime stock is selling 

 lower than ever before. Weather con- 



ditions are favorable to bringing out 

 blooms of all kinds of out-door stock. 

 Smilax and all other green sell well, 

 ferns are scarce and up in price. 



VISITORS' REGISTER. 



Chicago — Mr. and Mrs. J. Manusos, 

 Mason City, la.; Wm. Jaap. of the Les- 

 ter Park Greenhouses, Duluth, Minn.; 

 Arthur Schutz, Hammond, Ind.; E. 

 Everett, Madison. Wis. 



St. Louis: Guy Reyburn, of Hender- 

 son & Co.. and Fred Lembke, of Bar- 

 nard Co.. Chicago: J. J. Karins, of 

 Dreer's. arid F. .J. Farney, of Rice Co., 

 Philadelphia; Charles Ford and Sajn 

 Seligman, New York. 



Boston — H. C. Neubrand, represent- 

 ing A. N. Pierson. Inc., Cromwell, 

 Conn.: A. E. Thatcher, Bar Harbor, 

 Me.: F. R. Pierson, Tarrytown, N. Y.; 

 L. J. Reuter, Westerly, R. L; Wm. 

 Plumb, New York, Superintendent 

 Floriculture, Panama-Pacific Exposi- 

 tion; H. Langeler and W. A. Philippo, 

 representing M. Van Waveren & Son, 

 Hilegom, Holland; G. L. Freeman, Fall 

 River, Mass. 



Cincinnati — Peter Weiland, New Cas- 

 tle, Ind.; Martin Reukauf, represent- 

 ing H. Bayersdorfer & Co., Philadel- 

 phia, Pa.: Sam Seligman, New York, 

 and Wm. Sanders, representing Poehl- 

 mann Bros. Co., Chicago. Heavy buy- 

 ers in this market last week from 

 nearby points were J. F. Herdegen, 

 Aurora, Ind.; Walter Gray, Hamilton, 

 Ohio; Lodder's Sons, Hamilton, Ohio 

 and Fred Ruff, Lawrenceburg, Ind. 



ROBERT J. DYSART 



PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT AND AmiXOK 



Simple methods of correct a«counlin>f 



especially adapted for florists' use. 



BOOKS BALANCED AND ADJUSTED 



Merrhants Bank Buildioc 



40 STATE ST. BOSTON 



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