May 30, 1914 



HOETICULTUBE 



815 



Flower Market Reports 



{C*Minvtd from page Si 3) 



move rather slowly. The antirrhinums 

 that come in are not as large and fine 

 as they were. Orchids are in good 

 supply. Other offerings include iris, 

 gladioli, corn flowers, daisies and fev- 

 erfew. Business in new ferns is very 

 good. 



The deluge of flowers 



NEW YORK which overwhelmed 

 this market last week 

 has heen heavily reinforced this week 

 t;, the action of the sudden high tem- 

 peratures and the market is complete- 

 '.y stagnated. In addition to the usual 

 standard varieties there are peonies in 

 f:reat heaps, stocks ditto, lilacs in bar- 

 rel lots, etc., etc., but whether outdoor 

 cr indoor product, nobody wants to 

 buy. Cattleya Mossiae and gigas of 

 superb quality are quoted as low as 

 $15.00 to $35.00 but they stay in whole- 

 salers' possession. Roses, carnations, 

 lily of the valley, sweet peas and lilies 

 are in big accumulation on all sides, 

 and there is not much confidence in 

 the outlook for a Memorial Day un- 

 loading. There may be a famine later 

 on, though. 



There is little of 



PHILADELPHIA change to report 

 on last week's 

 market. Material of all kinds is ar- 

 riving in immense quantity with de- 

 mand anything but brisk. This being 

 Memorial week promises better things, 

 but it is too early yet to prophecy. 

 This particular holiday is more largely 

 a bedding plant and wreath festival 

 than a cutflower occasion, so it is need- 

 less to look tor any boom in cut flow- 

 ers, especially with the market over- 

 stocked as it is. Of course, there will 

 be the usual demand for decorative 

 material such as peonies, for suburban 

 and distant points. The only thing 

 the market is asking a better price for 

 is the carnation. Kverything else is 

 offered at normal. And it is open to 

 question if much more can be got for 

 carnations. There seems to be a 

 larger supply of these this year than 

 in other seasons. In greens, dagger 

 ferns and smilax seem to be the only 

 items on the scarce side. The new 

 crop dagger ferns are arriving slower 

 than usual, probably on account of the 

 late season. 



The local market is In 



ST. LOUIS about the same condi- 

 tion as reported in the 

 last issue, everything plentiful and the 

 demand for large lots slow. The re- 

 tail business is nothing to boast of. 

 The present week should mark a good 

 business as two great events will take 

 place — the Pageant and Decoration 

 Day. Stock of all kinds has been com- 

 ing in heavy and prices are low. The 

 offerings comprise everything that is 

 accustomed to be in bloom outdoors or 

 indoors at this date. Fancy ferns are 

 scarce but in other greens everything 

 is plenty. 



Telephone 3860 Madison Square 



WOODROW & MARKETOS 



WHOLESAX.E 



Plantsmen and Florists 



37 and 39:West 28th St., NEW YORK 



EDWARD REID 



WHOLESALE FLORIST 



1619-21 Ranstead St., PhiUdelpkia, Pa. 



CHOICE BEAUTIES. ORCHIDS, VALLEY, ROSES 

 and all Seasonable Varieties of Cut Flowers 



William F. Kasting Co. 



^A/Hole8^ll• 



383-387 ELLICOTT ST. 



loris-bs 



BUFFALO, N. Y. 



NEW YORK QUOTATIONS PER 100. To Dealers Only 



MISCELLANEOUS 



CattleyaS' 



Lilies. Longiflorum 



Calla» 



Lily of the Valley 



Wallflower 



Snapdragon 



Daffodils 



Tulips 



Pansies 



Mignonette 



Daises, white and yellow 



Sweet Peas ( per loo bunches) 



Lilacs (per bunch) 



Gardenias 



Adiantum ■ • 



Smilax 



Asparasrxis Plumosus, strings (per loo) 



'* " & Spren C>oo bunches). 



Last Half of Week 



ending May 23 



1914 



First Half of Week 



beginning May 25 



1314 



2.00 

 1. 00 

 1. 00 



5.00 

 2.00 

 3.00 



10.00 to 



4.00 to 



4.00 to 



2. 00 to 



to 



3.00 to 



35.00 



5-00 



8.00 



3.00 



5.0» 



There are more 

 WASHINGTON flower.s of all kinds 



than the market 

 can readily handle. During the past 

 week business in the retail stores has 

 been much better than for some time, 

 as this is the graduation season in the 

 many private schools. From the out- 

 look of the early part of the present 

 week, there will be plenty of flowers 

 for the Decoration Day business. The 

 supply of peonies has greatly in- 

 creased. Roses are very plentiful and 

 fair for this season. Carnations are in 

 good supply and more gardenias are 

 appearing on the market than can be 

 utilized. There is but a very moder- 

 ate demand for orchids and the sup- 

 ply is limited. Gladioli are somewhat 

 more plentiful and of better quality, 

 and the price has decreased slightly. 

 Good America gladioli can be had at 

 from $6 to $8. Daisies are in but 

 little demand and the bulk of the re- 

 tail sales are being made by the street 

 men. 



VISITORS' REGISTER. 



Boston — U. Cameron, representing F. 

 Sander & Sons, New York; D. F. Roy, 

 Marion, Mass. 



New York. — Ed. Jenkins, Lenox, 

 Mass.; Will Rehder and Mrs. Rehder, 

 Wilmington, N. C; Peter Murray, 

 Manomet, Mass. 



Chicago: Miss Kate Harris, Mem- 

 phis, Tenn.; Mrs. E. H. Hitchcock, 

 Glenville, Mich.; Mrs. Woodcock, 

 Spencer, Iowa; Mr. Crouch, Chatta- 

 nooga, Tenn.; L. Chrisman, of Iowa 

 Floral Co., Des Moines, Iowa; Robt. 

 Zetlitz, Lima, Ohio. 



Philadelphia — P. D. Barnhart, editor 

 of "The Pacific Garden," Los Angeles, 

 Cal.; Jno. W. Coy, representing Chas. 

 Sharpe & Co., Steaford, England; F. 

 Apt, The Hammond Co., Richmond, 

 Va.; Will Rehder, Wilmington, N. C; 

 William F. and Adolphus Gude, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



Bar Harbor, Me. — Edward Kirk, the 

 well-known manager of the George W. 

 Vanderbilt estate, has purchased the 

 Northeast Harbor branch of the Mount 

 Desert nurseries, consisting of three 

 acres of land, with greenhouses, office 

 building, outbuildings, implements, 

 tools, etc. The greenhouses are full of 

 bedding plants of many varieties. The 

 business has been established at 

 Northeast Harbor 15 years as a branch 

 of the Bar Harbor concern. Mr. Kirk 

 will carry on a general nursery busi- 

 ness as well as doing outside contract 

 work. Mr. Kirk has been manager of 

 the Vanderbilt property here for the 

 past 23 years. 



FIRE. 



The entire settlement known as Cum- 

 mingsville, two miles from Woburn, 

 Mass., was threatened with destruction 

 just after midnight this morning by a 

 lire that wiped out a large barn and 

 three greenhouses and damaged the 

 house of Everett C. Cummings and of 

 William Connolly, an employee. Mr. 

 Cummings declared that he is certain 

 the fire was incendiary, as there was 

 nothing in the barn, where it first 

 broke out, that could have started it. 

 For an hour the whole city of Wobum 

 was lighted up by the burning build- 

 ings. The loss is estimated at $12,000. 



Determined to check the ravages of 

 the tent caterpillar, Calvin H. Huson, 

 N. Y. state commissioner of agricul- 

 ture, at Albany, has issued a forma! 

 order requiring all owners or persons 

 in possession of plants infested by tent 

 caterpillars to destroy the nests be- 

 fore June 1, 1914. 



