November 25, 1911 



HORTICULTURE 



743 



The Man Who Has Tried It, 



IS THE MAN 

 WHO KNOWS 



I 



We don't need to explain to him the advantage of a Central Florists' Plant Supply 

 House in these busy days, when selected flowering- and foliage stock is assembled for 

 inspection and selection, saving time and expense of railroad trips to visit widely sepa- 

 rated growers. That's where we win. Packing and shipping facilities unsurpassed. Of 

 blooming plants we have for this week Cyclamen of best quality ever seen for Thanks- 

 giving ; Ericas; Lorraine Begonias; Camellias. In foliage plants All Palms, etc.; 

 Ivies and Holly Ferns ; Table Ferns ; Aspidistras ; Phoenix Roebeleni (elegant little 

 specimens) ; Araucarias ; Buxus Pyramids ; Scotti Ferns ; Dracaenas ; Oranges. 



WOODROW (Sb MARKETOS, 



Wholesale Plantsmen and Florists 

 41 WEST 28th ST., NEW YORK 



BUY 



BOSTON 

 FLOWERS 



N. F. MCCARTHY & CO., 



84 Hawley St. 



BOSTON'S BEST 

 HOUSE 



Flower Market Repor ts. 



CwKtin* eid front fiaft 741) 



this line are selling quickly. Lilies 

 move quickly but at only fair prices. 

 Violets, both doubles and singles are 

 good property. Callas have begun to 

 arrive and before long will prove a 

 very welcome addition to the stock on 

 hand. The market in lily of the val- 

 ley and orchids is easy. New bronze 

 galax are now on hand. 



A heavy supply of all 

 DETROIT grades of flowers made 



it comparatively easy 

 for retailers to supply their demand. 

 These latter patronized well enough to 

 keep the supply on a safe level, and 

 have made firm prices possible. The 

 football game at Ann Arbor demanded 

 everything in large yellow chrysanthe- 

 mums in sight. Besides this, young 

 women of the Ann Arbor Y. \V. C. A. 

 sold from large boxes standing on the 

 sidewalks which were apparently 

 shipped from Chicago. 



Since our last week- 

 NEW YORK ly report there has 

 been a very fluctua- 

 ting and generally disappointing mar- 

 ket. Foot ball games and horse shows 

 had been looked forward to as favor- 

 ing a spirited demand on certain 

 flowers and justifying a better schedule 

 of wholesale prices and a confident Up- 

 ward movement was generated which 

 at first seemed to present a hopeful 

 outlook but it sagged in the middle 

 and now with a spell of bright sun- 

 shine the augmented product is doing 

 its share towards the decline. Ameri- 

 can Beauty specials climbed to the 

 fifty-cent level for a few days, but 

 have now receded, under the pressure 

 of a freer supply, to forty cents as a 

 maximum. Violets were distinctly 

 disappointing. In a very small per- 

 centage of high-grade flowers they 



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MISCELLANEOUS 



I Lilt Half of Wssk 



Cattlsyas 



Dendroblum formosum 



Pbaiaenopsis 



LJiies, l.onKltlorunj 



Lily ol th. Vallev 



Narcls., Paper White.. 



Chrysanthemums 



Violets 



Mignonette 



OarJenlas 



Adt.Dtum 



Asparacas Plumoens, ttri.ji 



" " ft Spron. (100 bcht). 



First Half of Wssk 



beginning Nov. 20 



1911 



25.00 



30.00 



20.00 



3.00 



1. 00 



1. 00 



4.00 



.40 



12.00 



50 

 6.00 



75.00 



40.00 



25.00 



5.00 



2.00 



1.50 



20.00 



•75 



to 



to 



to 35.00 

 to .75 

 8.00 



35 00 

 20.00 



to 



reached the dollar mark, but seventy- 

 five cents was the prevailing maxi- 

 mum, and the demand falling away 

 below the supply, the street fakirs' 

 services were accepted, with the usual 

 resurt when the combination of violet 

 surplus and street fakirs is presented. 

 All other roses have settled back, 

 more or less, in sympathy. Chrys- 

 anthemums vary greatly in results. 

 some bright spots being noted here 

 and there, but the general tone is very 

 draggy. Lilies are again overstocked. 

 Orchids are seen in increasing variety 

 as the season advances, white phalaen- 

 opses, Dendrobium formosum and sim- 

 ilar things meeting with a fair sale, 

 while cattleyas run all the way from 

 twenty-five to sixty according to size 

 and finish, with an occasional seventy- 

 five cent maximum on something par- 

 ticularly fine. Gardenias are considered 

 low at present selling figures. Carna- 

 tions are waiting for the chrysanthe- 

 mums to make their adieu before they 

 make much adoo for themselves. 



A typical week. 

 PHILADELPHIA Things going 



along on an 

 even keel — very much as they have 

 done in previous years at same time. 



Of course the standard as to quality 

 is higher. The lad with twenty-five or 

 fifty thousand feet of glass finds it 

 harder and harder to make ends meet 

 in competition with fellows who can 

 work economies with half a million, a 

 million, or two million feet. How the 

 little fellows can work out and show a 

 profit goodness only knows. We are 

 very much afraid they don't, and we 

 are very sorry for it. When James 

 Watt invented the steam engine he 

 had no idea that the same would 

 in short order bring the world's na- 

 tions closer together — as it has done. 

 When Benjamin Franklin flew his kite 

 in Philadelphia in front of Dooner's 

 Hotel he had no idea that he was 

 going to make a "World Republic." 

 Yet he and James Watt have about 

 done that. The demand last week was 



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ROSENS 



18 \V. 29th Street, New York City 

 Telephone >'o. 1757 Mad. Sq. 



FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 



i.. MAX, bronze and green, fresh crop. 

 L00O; $7.50, 10,000. LEUCOTHOE 

 SPRAYS, 75c, 100. GREEN SHEET 

 Ml »SS, $2.00 large bag. 



