August 12, 1911 



horticulture: 



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' is extended to all local and visiting florists and their friends to COME and SEE 



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A CORDIAL INVITATION 



our stock of 



; Crotons, Palms, Dracaenas, Ficus, Pandanus, Araucarias, Boston Ferns 



AND OTHER DECORATIVE STOCK. 



Also our Ferns for Dishes or Ferneries, Poinsettias, Primulas, and other stock for growing on. 



FRANK OECHSLIN. SliiflSSS*- 



GREEN GALAX - rV,- ".,. "»T"1 y *.* *':"' 



Fresh front the Mountain Forests 



Prices f. o. b. Galax. Va. (From this place freight and express rates are less than from North Carolina points.) 



Green Galax, small size $3.50 per case of 10,000Dagger Ferns, any quantity from 



Green Galax, medium (Standard) size... 4.00 per case of 10.000 2000 up 65c. to 75c. per 1000 as to size 



Green Galax, large size 4.50 per case of 10,000 Laurel Leaves (green) 40c. per 1000 



Half case lots — trial order — at same rates; less quantity, Laurel Branches $2.25 per cose of 100 lbs. 



50c. per 1000 — any size. Terms: Cash with first order or reference and time to Investigate. 



We will be ready with New Crop Bronze Galax about Nov. 1st. Prices same as quoted above on Green Galax. Booking 

 orders for Bronze now, "first to come — first served." Let us have the order and we know you will be well pleased. 



Galax is our specialty — we get it good — and have been pleasing people — hundreds of them — with "Better Galax for less money" 

 for years. If not a customer it will pay you to get in line. Do it now. If not in the market for Galax at this time and will be in- 

 terested in what we have to offer later on, drop us a card that we may get you 'on our mailing list. We guarantee satisfaction. 



W. M. WOODRUFF & SON, *^fc^Vfh£$ft£&ig Lowgap, North Carolina 



Flower Market Reports. WHOLESALE FLOWER MARKETS.- TRADB PR ' c fr D p ^ L E ° K 



TO DEALERS ONLY 



Trade has been decided- 

 BOSTON ly good in some lines of 



demand, especially the 

 summer shipping trade to points north 

 and on the coast. There is an enor- 

 mous accumulation, however, of low 

 grade flowers such as roses from 

 young plants recently set out. asters, 

 gladioli, etc. American Beauty of 

 fairly good quality are in good supply 

 but demand has fallen off very sudden- 

 ly and it is the opinion of wholesalers 

 that crops from points more or less 

 distant are being at present diverted 

 heavily in this direction which would 

 indicate that outlets elsewhere are 

 congested. Killarney roses are not 

 selling proportionately as well as last 

 year and it is in evidence that the 

 trade are beginning to look with espe- 

 cial favor on those varieties which 

 have shown points of superiority as 

 "summer roses." Mrs. Taft (Prince 

 de Bulgarie) and Radiance are 

 among the popular newcomers in 

 this line and the good old President 

 Carnot is not losing a bit of its unique 

 popularity. Kaiserin would be equally 

 fortunate in the white class if only it 

 did not bruise so readily. There are 

 absolutely no buyers for the small 

 flowers from stock in winter blooming 

 rose houses. Very few carnations are 

 seen and those are poor. In gladioli, 

 Shakespeare. Lafayette and America 

 hold the admiration of the trade be- 

 yond all others. In the main, how- 

 ever, gladioli in this market are un- 

 precedentedly low in quality, due to 

 the effects of dry weather. The worst 



ROSES 



CINCINNATI 

 Aug. 



DETROIT 



Aug- 8 



BUFFALO 



Aug. 8 



Am. Beauty, fan. and Sp. 



" Extra 



No.i 



" Lower grades 



Richmond, Chatenay, Fan. &Spl. . . 



" " Lower Grades 



Killamey, Maryland, Fan. & Spl.. . 



" Low. Grades. 



Bride, 'Maid 



Kaiserin, Carnot, Taft 



CARNATIONS), First Quality 



" Ordinary 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Cattleyas 



Lilie*, Long iftorum 



Lily ol 'he Galley 



Gladioli 



Stocks 



Asters 



Daisies 



Sasrpdragon 



Sweet Peas 



Gardenias 



Adlantum 



Smllax 



Asparagus Plumosus, strings (loo) 

 " & Spren. (too bchs.) 



PITTSBURG 



Aug. 8 



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failure is the asters. The market 

 places are clogged up with bushels of 

 asters — small, twisted, half developed 

 freaks, showing the terrible results of 

 the roasting and drying up which they 

 have suffered except where they 

 happened to be planted in low wet 

 ground. Of the latter there are only 

 a few; the aster crop, as a whole, may 

 be pronounced a dismal failure this 

 year. Lilies and lily of the valley 

 normal in all respects. 



The first week in August 

 CHICAGO was not a very satisfac- 

 tory one to either the re- 

 tail or the wholesale trade. There has 

 been a decided falling off in the local 

 demand, owing partly to the number 



of people now out of the city, and also 

 a diminishing of the shipping business. 

 More out-of-door flowers, which are 

 thriving as a result of the recent rains, 

 are doubtless being used by flower 

 lovers, and from now till frost comes 

 the chances are that the demand will 

 be lighter than in July, which was a 

 particularly good month with most 

 florists here. Asters are now here in 

 quantity, and the first really long 

 stems were seen this week. They were 

 consigned to the J. A. Budlong Co., 

 and were nearly three feet long. In- 

 dications are that the late crop will 

 be all that can be desired. Carnations 

 cut from the field plants are of course 



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