August 12, 1911 



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BOSTON 

 FLOWERS 



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Flower Market Reports] 



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very short of stem, but many have fine 

 color and good size. Roses are of all 

 kinds and conditions, small ones pre- 

 dominating as usual at this season. 

 There are some very satisfactory 

 Beauties in the market, lily of the val- 

 ley as good as ever for the season, and 

 a fine lot of miscellaneous stock for 

 variety. Golden Glow marks the pass- 

 ing of the first half of the summer. 

 Tritoma seems to have lost its powers 

 of endurance in this market and drops 

 almost invariably the day after arrival. 

 A profusion of lilies of many kinds 

 helps with the window displays, and 

 combined with green make an artistic 

 effect. There is plenty of all kinds of 

 green. 



Business is only fair. 



CINCINNATI Flowers of all kinds 

 are plentiful. Beau- 

 ties, considering the season, could not 

 be improved on. Tea roses are again 

 coming in heavy crop and only the 

 better grades move with any degree 

 of regularity. Asters are becoming 

 too numerous for the market de- 

 mands. The majority of those re- 

 ceived are of an inferior quality. 

 There is an over abundant supply of 

 gladioli, light and bright tints having 

 the best call, the dark shade moving 

 slowly. Longiflorum, auratum and 

 speciosum lilies find a fair market. 

 Green goods in ample supply. 



The situation as it 



NEW YORK exists here is not no- 

 ticeably different from 

 what it has been in previous years ex- 

 cept that asters, field carnations, glad- 

 ioli and other things dependent large- 

 ly on outdoor weather conditions run 

 much lower in grade than ever before. 

 The only real good stock in this line 

 is that from growers who have used 

 water unsparingly or have planted on 

 land at water level. Quality runs low 

 on very many specialties, particularly 

 roses. While there is a reasonable 

 demand for such occasional first class 

 stuff as may be obtainable yet the con- 

 ditions generally are those of mid- 

 summer and there is nothing that can 

 be done to change them. The main 

 satisfaction lies in the fact that they 

 cannot get any worse. There is prac- 

 tically no out of town shipping trade 

 in this market and the little agitation 

 which other centres enjoy in these 

 otherwise indolent times is denied the 

 New Yorker, who must look to his 

 own home market for flower buyers 

 or else commit hari kari. 



For the first three 



PHILADELPHIA days of last week, 



the market was 



all that could be desired. Then— every- 



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 1911 



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thing went to pieces. The demand in 

 all lines seemed to vanish into thin 

 air. On top of this latter situation 

 stocks came piling in more than usual. 

 Especially was this the case with the 

 important summer crops such as as- 

 ters and gladioli. These latter were 

 unusually plentiful and when Saturday 

 came there was a big unsold pile which 

 went with difficulty. There was a lot 

 of other outdoor stock: such as hy- 

 drangeas, golden glow, phlox, gaillar- 

 dia and so forth. Consequently — there 

 is no clapping of cymbals in our midst; 

 but on the other hand we are not as 

 yet altogether playing the Dead March 

 in Saul. Our high hopes were shat- 

 tered; but we are not quite yet in the 

 Slough of Despond! American Beauty 

 sold well — so did My Maryland — and 

 Killarney is getting better. A pleasing 

 novelty in pink roses has appeared — 

 Prince de Bulgarie — from local sources. 

 A fine summer rose of a pleasing sil- 

 very pink. All greens are too plenti- 

 ful. Stephanotis is a refreshing nov- 

 elty. Orchids are scarce and dear. 

 Carnations are down and out. Garde- 

 nias are small but good and clean. 

 Lilies good — never saw them better. 

 The market all through 

 ST. LOUIS the last week was in ex- 

 cellent condition, all 

 the wholesalers having plenty of stock 

 of everything in season, and a glut was 

 on in asters and gladioli, many more 

 of these coming in from our local 

 growers than the trade could handle, 

 and the price went down, almost cut 

 to half of the week previous. Asters 

 are also low. Roses are coming better 

 and sold low also. Long Beauties are 

 very cheap. Carnations are scarce and 

 will be for a time. The retail trade 

 is very dull, and on many days it is 

 the dullest in years. They expect it 

 to be so for this month at least. 



Detroit. — During the early part of 

 the week flowers were exceedingly 

 scarce, but towards the end hot 

 weather and lessened call brought 

 about a great surplus in all lines. 



CHICAGO NOTES. 

 A Progressive Place. 

 The Edgebrook Nurseries of The 

 Geo. Wittbold Co. are well worth a 

 trip of inspection to anyone interest- 

 ed in plants. Everywhere in the 

 greenhouses are cement benches, even 

 the high benches under the glass be- 

 ing of cement and all can be taken 

 down and moved about at will. The 

 regular benches are many of them 

 "doubledecked." The lower one rests 

 on feet that are short and wide at 

 the bottom and the upper bench has 

 four foot posts resting on the first 

 bench. This arrangement greatly adds 

 to the capacity of a house and affords 

 a fine place for forcing and storing 

 bulbs. The stock looked so uniform- 

 ly good that it is hard to particular- 

 ize but some Dracena Massangeana, 

 Cibotium Schiedei, and cycas were es- 

 pecially noted. A bed of 8000 thriving 

 young Asparagus plumosa are worth 

 mention. The eighty acres of nursery 

 stock must be seen to be appreciated 

 and it is a credit to Otto Wittbold 

 who has had charge of it since the 

 place was first started and who helped 

 fell the timber which originally cov- 

 ered the ground. 



Some Foley Greenhouses. 



The Wm. E. Lynch Co. have their 

 1 ange of greenhouses on Harlem Ave. 

 ready for glazing. The material was 

 furnished by the Foley Manufacturing 

 Co., with their channel iron gutters 

 and maleable iron bar fasteners. 300 

 feet of continuous ventilation are 

 secured by their apparatus. A similar 

 plant by the Heller Bros, of New Cas- 

 tle, Ind., is now being erected, and all 

 material for this is also furnished by 

 the Foley Manufacturing Co. An ex- 

 tensive exhibit of greenhouse material 

 has been shipped to Baltimore, and a 

 greenhouse will be shown having all 

 the latest Foley improvements, and if 



