December 30, 1911 



HORTICULTURE 



947 



BUY 



BOSTON 

 FLOWERS 



h. f. McCarthy & co., 



84 Mawloy St. 



BOSTON'S BEST 

 HOUSE 



MICHIGAN CUT FLOWER 

 EXCHANGE, Inc. 



WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORISTS 



Consignments Solicited 

 Hardy Fancy Fern Our Specialty 



38-40 BROADWAY, DETROIT, MICH 



WILLIAM H. KUEBLER 



Brooklyn's Foremost and Best 



WH0LE8ALE COMMISSION HOUSI 



A Pint Class Market tor all CUT FUBWEHt 



28 Wllloufhby St., Brooklyn, H. T 



T«l V581 Mala 



William F. Kasting Co. 



Wholesal 

 383-387 ELLICOTT ST. 



lorists 



BUFFALO, N. Y. 



Flower Market Reports NEW YORK QUOTA flOflS PER 100. To Dealers On ly 



market is easy 

 the Christmas 



Usually on the 

 "up against it." 

 the supply was 



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was white carnations and white roses. 

 Even these were sold at fair prices, 

 considering the stock. American Beau- 

 ties were scarce as had been antici- 

 pated, all other stock being abundant. 

 As one dealer remarked, "It was not 

 scarcity of stock, but abundance of 

 buyers that kept prices up." Carna- 

 tions were picked so close to meet de- 

 mand that at this writing (December 

 26), they are selling for $6.00 and $7.00 

 a hundred. All in all, it was a record- 

 breaking Christmas week, exceeding 

 all expectations. 



The 

 CINCINNATI after 

 rush. 

 20th the buyers are 

 This year, however, 

 easily adequate and promises to be so 

 for the balance of the week. Still the 

 successive rainy dark days make prog- 

 nostications as to the availability of 

 a certain flower or stock in general 

 more or less uncertain. Everyone says 

 that Christmas business was very sat- 

 isfactory. Red was in most demand 

 and outside of poinscttias the quanti- 

 ty of no other flower of this color was 

 sufficient. White tended to drag and 

 trail after its colored brethren. Nar- 

 cissus did not move near as fast as in 

 past years in spite of the general good 

 quality of the supply offered. AH 

 roses cleaned up. American Beauties 

 are in short supply and promise to con- 

 tinue so for a fortnight at least. Kil- 

 larney cleans up quickly each day. 

 The offerings of Bride and Ivory are 

 large and of good quality. Among the 

 carnations dark stock, in red and rose 

 pink shades scarcely filled the require- 

 ment, and even now clean up as fast 

 as they arrive. Enchantress, too, 

 moves well but some white, however, 

 were left over at the close of Christ- 

 mas business. Lilies of quality are 

 good property while the seconds find 

 a slow market. Callas are selling well. 

 Violets did not quite clean up entire- 

 ly. 



The market tor 

 NEW YORK Christmas was well 

 supplied with every- 

 thing in seasonable cut flower stock. 

 With the exception of the inevitable 

 holiday demand for red carnations and 

 red roses and the corresponding ad- 

 vantage to any other flower approach- 

 ing this color there was an abundance 

 of every variety and .made to suit the 

 buyer and prices were fairly satisfac- 

 tory to all parties concerned; although 

 moderate on some lines as compared 

 with previous similar occasions. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Cattlayas 



Dendrobiutn formosum 



Pha.aenopsls 



ui •«.. Loagntoruai 



Callas 



Lily el the Vallav 



Narcis , Paper White 



Roman Hyacinths 



Chrysanthemums 



Vlof.ts 



St e via 



Mignonette 



Daises 



Sweet Peas 



UaroanUs 



AdUatnsa 



•aallai 



Asparar*. Plaaaoaas . String 1 



•' * Spten. (100 behi) 



First H-tffffffM* 



beginning Tec. 25 

 1111 



3 < i.OO 

 3O.OO 

 20.00 



5.00 to 



10,00 to 



3.00 tO 



1.00 to 



.25 to 



t'.OO 



40.00 

 25.00 



- 



12.00 



4.00 

 X.50 



1.00 



Weather conditions suited the trade 

 exactly. It will be many years in all 

 probability before a situation equally 

 satisfactory to all interests will pre- 

 sent itself. It had been expected that 

 there would be, as in the past, an un- 

 wieldy glut of violets but this was not 

 so. The quality, however, was not up 

 to expectations. The plant trade took 

 care of itself nicely. The growers 

 were all cleaned out well in advance 

 and the retailers made a splendid rec- 

 ord in this department, there being al- 

 most nothing left as a reminder of 

 Christmas on the morning of the 26th 

 except empty shelves and stands. This 

 week finds the market in healthy 

 shape, supply not heavy, quality 

 good, prices steady and the weather 

 outlook good for a continuance of 

 these conditions for a week at least. 



The Christmas cut 

 PHILADELPHIA flower market 

 here was very 

 good, and we think we can safely say 

 that it was considerably larger in vol- 

 ume than last year. This applies not 

 only to local trade but also to ship- 

 ments to interior points — indicating 

 that the cut flower business in general 

 held its own and more, not only here 

 but in our smaller tributary cities and 

 towns. The general disposition was 

 to make prices a little lower than last 

 year, rather than to insist on higher 

 prices and take chances— so that per- 

 haps the actual cash returns were 

 probably no larger than last year; but 

 a much larger quantity of stock was 

 moved. 



Roses went over well indeed and 

 everything fit was cleaned right. Pink 

 Killamey was good as to size but a 

 little off as to color on the early ship- 

 ments due not to holding but to the 

 cloudy weather, but the later arrivals 

 were good. Riehmonds were excep- 



tionally good. Beauties also were very 

 good and sold well although at slight- 

 ly lower figures than last year. The 

 demand for while roses although not 

 extra was enough to take care of all 

 the stock that arrived. Carnations 

 sold exceptionally well. The quality 

 was probably the best ever seen here 

 at Christmas and the prices realized 

 were satisfactory. Beacon was of 

 course the leader in the favorite red 

 section and much of the stock brought 

 as high as fifteen while very few reds 

 of any variety brought less than ten. 

 Orchids were a little more plenty this 



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Dagger and Fancy Ferns, Moss, 



Galax, Laurel Roping, Southern 



Smilax, Boxwood. Etc. 



Hartford & McDonough 



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 You might forget my name. 

 And say that I am to blame. 

 If you do not get the best. 



Spruce or llul-um tree*, from one foot 

 to thirty, in any quantity; Baled Spruce, 

 and Balsam, Hemlock BourIis, Laurel 

 •tnd Evergreen Eestoolng- and Wreaths, 

 Sphagnum Moss, llarilr Cut Fancy and 

 liaeerr Frrna. Yearly Contracts Made 

 Send for Price List. GET THE BEST. 



H. J. SMITH, Hinsdale, Mass. 



