August 19, 1911 



Flower Market Reports 



(Continued from page 

 the advantage of all. Asters are also 

 coming in bettor and more ol them, 

 still their inferior quality as compared 

 to former seasons ought to give Gladi- 

 oli a better show than last year. Many 

 retailers report the hooking of wed- 

 ding decorations for next September, 

 indicating quite an activity in early 

 fall weddings. 



Trading last week 

 PHILADELPHIA was rather life- 

 less and on the 

 whole did not compare favorably with 

 the week before. There was a distinct 

 falling off in volume, and there were 

 few if any bright spots to make the 

 situation cheerful. Asters show no 

 improvement in quality. Usually by 

 this date we have fine Crego's and 

 Yick's Upright and Branching but 

 none of these have materialized so far. 

 Even the quantity of the regular 

 stock has fallen off. Low prices pre- 

 vail. Gladioli have also diminished 

 in volume, and while they sell fairly 

 well the prices are anything but sat- 

 isfactory. In the rose market the 

 American Beauty is still by far the 

 best value. Some very superior stock 

 is coming in from the cooler climate 

 of down east: very good as to size 

 and stem and excellent deep color, 

 still, even these feel the effect of the 

 sluggish market, and are not going out 

 any too briskly. Marylands are pretty 

 good; so are Killarneys. It is rather 

 a remarkable thing that pink roses 

 are going off better than white while 

 it is mid-August when there is little 

 going on except memorial work. But 

 so it is. White roses have been very 

 sluggish for the week. There are not 

 so many white Killarneys but there 

 are plenty of good Kaizerins. Practi- 

 cally nothing doing in carnations. 

 We used to have some good outside 

 flowers about now. This seems to 

 have been abandoned and appears to 

 be a mistake on the part of the grow- 

 ers. Orchids are off crop and there is 

 great difficulty in filling what few or- 

 ders are coming in. Lily of the Valley, 

 Gardenias, and Easter Lilies are in 

 fair demand and are of excellent 

 quality. Ferns and all kinds of 

 greens too plentiful. 



The wholesale market 

 ST. LOUIS as well as the retail 

 business is mighty 

 dull just now. The market is crowd- 

 ed with all kinds of stock and a great 

 deal is going to waste for want of 

 demand. Roses are selling at cheap 

 prices. Carnations are still small and 

 short-stemmed. A correct price on as- 

 ters is hard to get. as any old price 



HORTICULTURE 



MICHIGAN CUT FLOWER 

 EXCHANGE, Inc. 



WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORISTS 



Cowl {Salients Solicited 

 Hardy Fancy Fern Oar Specialty 



38-40 BROADWAY, DETROIT, MICH 



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WILLIAM H. KUEBLER 



Brooklyn'* Foremost and Best 



WH0LE8ALE C0MMI8SI0N H0U8I 



A First Out Market for all CUT PLOWBtft 



28 WUIoof hby St., BrooMja* H. T. 



TnL 4691 Kale 



William F. Kasting Co. 



Wholesal 

 383-387 ELLICOTT ST. 



lorists 



BUFFALO, N. Y. 



NEW YORK QUOTATIONS PER 1 00. To Dealers Only 



MISCELLANEOUS 



C* tl le mm 



Lilies, LongtlloruiM 



Lily of tho Valley 



Gladioli 



Stocks 



Daisies 



Snapdragon 



Asters 



Sweet Peas (per xoe bunches). 



Oardenlas 



Adlantum 



Lait Half of Week 



ending tug. 12 

 1911 



Flrrt Half of Week 



beginning Aug. 14 



1911 



Asparagus Planaoeas. striaf i 



" ft Soren. (ioo bche). 



90.00 

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 to 5.00 

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 to 3.00 

 to .75 

 •25 

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3.00 

 3.00 



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8.00 



35.00 



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will buy. A few hundred gladioli and 

 single tuberose stalks are in the same 

 boat. The hot weather has returned 

 and thp business seems duller than 

 ever. The retailers say that only 

 funeral work keeps them alive nowa- 

 days. The market is also over-crowd- 

 ed with a lot of small out-door stock 

 which is hard to dispose of at any 

 price, this state of affairs, plenty of 

 stock and no business is likely to 

 continue throughout the month. 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



Mr. Strohlein of Dreer's is now in 

 Europe. He left August 8th on the 

 Kaiser Wilhelm II. Expected back 

 home end of September. 



B. Eschner and a corps of able as- 

 sistants did themselves proud at the 

 convention for our great Philadelphia 

 supply house, Mi. Rice & Co. 



The sympathy of the trade is with 

 Frank L. Polites — suffering from a 

 broken shoulder. The accident oc- 

 curred July 28th, at a children's 

 picnic. Mr. Polites broke the fall for 

 some children, in a swing which 

 proved insecure; but in doing so got 

 the worst of it himself. On the 14th 

 inst. he was reported to be on the 

 mend all right. 



Clarence Watson, of the Leo Niessen 

 Co., has returned from his vacation at 

 Wildwood, X. J., and Bucks Co., Pa., 

 looking invigorated and fit. Mr. Wat- 

 son has had some bad spells in recent 

 years. Fine instruments are easily 

 deranged, unless they get exquisite 

 care. The tuneful little fiddle is in 

 tune again. Glory be. 



"Mae," an unknown correspondent 

 of one of our more or less esteemed 

 contemporaries says the "Bard of Phil- 

 adelphia" (whoever he may be), made 

 a sermon on locality and cabbage! On 

 the contrary, one writer talked of 

 locality and brains. Who ever heard 

 of brains in a cabbage. And as for 

 the "Bard of Philadelphia" — our dear 

 friend Wm. K. Harris went to his last, 

 reward in 1010 — and he has had no 



successor. He never had a rival. If 

 Viae" can't distinguish the difference 

 between brains and cabbage, he is a 

 fit subject for Dr. Wiley. Or, shall 

 we leave him to the tender mercies of 

 McCabe! The "Mac's" seem to be in 

 the Dutcb class this August. 



Arthur Niessen and Clarence Wat- 

 son represented the Leo Niessen Co. 

 at the Baltimore, convention. 



The glass manufacturers and deal- 

 ers are still bewailing low prices. 

 This amusing card emanating from 

 the office of E. H. Flood greeted us in 

 the mails the other morning, and 

 shows clearly the state of mind they 

 are in at present: 



"Count thai d.-iy lest 



u hose low descending sun 

 Sees prices shot to h— 11 

 And business done for fun." 



Tley all wail that prices have gone 

 to the bow-wows, and that there are 

 no profits in the business any more. 

 And you may go bail, as Tom Daly- 

 says — "You may go bail, they make 

 the talc wid fanciful adornin." By 

 all means let us have higher prices for 

 glass; then we won't build so much 

 and maybe there will be less compe- 

 tition for the cut flower market. 



Visitors: E. A. Seidewitz, Baltimore, 

 Md.; Daniel E. Gorman, Williamsport, 

 Pa.; Mr. McCallum, McCallum Co., 

 Pittsburg, Pa.; Philip Breitmeyer, 

 Detroit, Mich.; Percy Barnard, North- 

 brook, Pa.; I. B. Coles, Woodstown, 

 N. J. 



INCORPORATED. 



New York, N. Y. — Leikens, florists 

 and nurserymen, capital $15,000. In- 

 corporators, Jerome C. Leikens, Na- 

 than Schwab, John B. Coppola, all of 

 New York. 



Ashtabula, O. — The Tong & Weeks 

 Co., capital stock $20,000. This is a 

 consolidation of Ashtabula Green- 

 house Co. and Tong & Weeks. H. 

 Tong will take charge of the green- 

 houses and De Forest Weeks will take 

 charge of the store. 



