October 7, 1911 



HORTICULTURE 



511 



Flower Market Reports, 



(Continued from fia?e ;<x)) 



pert underglass growers tiave at the 

 same time become more expert in the 

 production of early crops. With such 

 a congestion as prevailed here last 

 week it could hardly be expected that 

 any great change for the better could 

 come so long as heavy, killing frosts 

 hold off. Yet the unexpected has 

 happened, and there is a sudden 

 clamor on all sides which has put joy 

 into the hearts of the grower and 

 stiffness into the wholesaler's back- 

 bone. Hope it will last a little while. 

 There was a 

 PHILADELPHIA distinctly im- 

 proved tone to 

 the market here last week. Business 

 has really set in at last. Stocks con- 

 tinue plentiful in nearly all lines, and 

 on the whole are of excellent quality. 

 We have not seen the dahlia in better 

 shape than it has been this year, and 

 they have sold surprisingly well. The 

 asters suffered from the drought early 

 in the season, and the fall rains did 

 not come in time for them tas they 

 did for the dahlias), so that the qual- 

 ity of the crop was below previous 

 standards. Polly Rose has made its 

 appearance, and this with the two pre- 

 vious varieties, Golden Glow and 

 Montmort, gives enough variety to 

 make them a factor. These have been 

 going in many cases where choice 

 stock was required, in place of Ameri- 

 can Beauty roses which have been 

 rather scarce the past week. Heavy 

 supplies are arriving of cattleyas, 

 dendrobiums and oncidiums. The de- 

 mand is rather spasmodic, and the 

 price tendency is much in favor of the 

 buyer. Gardenias have ceased for the 

 time being. Heavy arrivals of lily of 

 the valley of most excellent quality. 

 Cosmos now at its best. Bouvardia 

 is in. 



The between-season 

 PROVIDENCE lull was never more 



strikingly felt than 

 during the past week and the market 

 has been practically dead. Very fine 

 roses are now being shown and the 

 prices range from $10 to $12. Carna- 

 tions stiffened in price the middle of 

 the week with a strong demand. The 

 supply is short and quality fair, choice 

 flowers bringing as high as $2.50 per 

 100. The chrysanthemums, although 

 very limited in quantity, have been 

 of fine quality for the early season. 

 The better grades are bringing from 

 $2 to $:! per dozen. Violets have been 

 coming rather slow and the quality 

 has not been such as to excite trad- 

 ing in this particular line. Asters 



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MISCELLANEOUS 



Cattleyaa 



LUIes, Longifloruro . 

 Lily ot the Valley.. 

 Chrysanthemums. . 



Asters 



Daisies 



Dahlias 



Violets , 



Uardenlai 



Adiantum 



Aipiraru Plumosns, strings 



" " & Spton. (too bchs). 



have bid farewell and the market is 

 bare. 



The flower market last 



ST. LOUIS week was quite good 

 in both demand and 

 consignments. Some of our leading 

 retailers say that they expect the busi- 

 ness to improve daily from now on 

 and that this week there have been 

 a lot of orders booked for work of all 

 kinds. What should be of some help 

 to all in the trade is that the market 

 affords most anything the buyer 

 wants and reasonable prices. There 

 are very few asters. Gladioli and tube- 

 rose stalks are still coming in but the 

 season on them is about ended. 



Stock was very 



WASHINGTON plentiful in the 

 local market last 

 week, so much so that the demand 

 was great enough to allow of the dis- 

 posal of all offered. The latter part of 

 the week was somewhat livelier than 

 has been the case lately, due in part 

 to cooler weather. Roses are im- 

 proving in quality but the output 

 greatly exceeds the demand. Cattle- 

 yas remain about the same. Greens 

 are moving well and the prospects 

 for increased sales look good. Early 

 yellow chrysanthemums (Golden Glow) 

 seem to be at an end, and the early 

 white ones have not as yet made 

 their appearance in any great quanti- 

 ties. Carnations are improving in 

 quality. The public seem to be shy 

 on the reds as this color moves much 

 more slowly than the other varieties. 

 Dahlias are more plentiful, but there 

 is much poor stock among the ship- 

 ments. Cosmos is plentiful, but does 

 not sell well. Business in the Center 

 Market the latter part of last week 

 showed a slight increase. A. S. Burns 

 & Co., of Spring Valley. N. Y., are 

 shipping some exceptionally good lines 

 into this market. 



Monday, has been postponed to Octo- 

 ber 16th, a scarcity of flowers being 

 responsible for the change at the last 

 minute. With the exception of roses 

 there is very little on the market and 

 the growers decided that it was use- 

 less for them to attempt to start the 

 new project unless they had sufficient 

 stock to make a good showing. The 

 sale of the stalls was opened last 

 Saturday afternoon with W. E. Chap- 

 pell, Secretary of the Florists' and 

 Gardeners' Club, as auctioneer. There 

 are 28 stalls completed and the rental 

 fee was fixed at $52 per annum, pay- 

 able in advance. A premium of $21 

 was paid by O. H. Williams & Sons 

 for the first choice. The bidding at 

 first was brisk, but soon ceased and 

 the minimum was reached at $3. 



The purchasers of stalls were: O. 

 H. Williams & Sons, Wm. Hoffman, F. 

 Macrae & Sons, W. S. Nichol, Geo. 

 Jansen, J. A. Macrae, Burke Rose Co., 

 Inc., G. H. Cushing, H. A. Burlingame, 

 Jos. Kopelman & Co., Albert Holscher, 

 E. E. King and John Marshall. 



Four applications have been made 

 for the position of manager. The mar- 

 ket will be open from 7 a. m. to 5 

 p. m. 



PROVIDENCE FLOWER MARKET. 



The opening of the Wholesale 

 Flower Market at Providence, R. L, 

 which was to have taken place last 



BOSTON MARKET NOTES. 



George McAlpine who started rose- 

 growing at Exeter, N. H., early this 

 year, is already cutting some fine 

 stock. 



William Patterson of Wollaston, 

 Mass., has an excellent supply of the 

 hardy chrysanthemum Brown Betty, 

 which has been especially popular with 

 the trade in this vicinity. 



A. Leuthy, proprietor of Perkins 

 Street Nursery, Roslindale, Mass., has 

 just received a shipment of over 20,000 

 azaleas and among them are many 

 novelties that will be shown for exhi- 

 bition purposes this year, and which 

 will later be offered to the trade. He 

 also states that the kentias he has 

 received are about the best he has 

 ever placed upon the market. 



