231 HORTICULTURE AND 



THE MARKET 



picking off all blooms in the evening, cutting 

 the new flowers early in the morning and plung- 

 ing them immediately into deep water, they are 

 made to keep fairly well. 



Mr. Powell, of Fairhope, Alabama, the single 

 tax colony, has shipped some gladiolus " spears " 

 to New York in the winter, when they readily 

 bring ten cents each wholesale, though they sell 

 in the Spring at five. He says that fine bulbs 

 will sell better still. 



In flowers, as in all garden products, it is 

 the thing out of season that pays best. In sum- 

 mer when gardens are all a-bloom, there is a 

 smaller demand for greenhouse flowers, but 

 Fleischmann of Fifth Avenue quotes the follow- 

 ing winter prices for cut flowers in New York: 



Chrysanthemums, $2.00 to $5.00 per dozen; 

 American Beauty Roses, $1.50 to $5.00 per 

 dozen; Violets, $1.00 per hundred; Carnations, 

 Killarney Roses, Brides and Maids, Richmonds, 

 $1.00 per dozen; Lilies of the Valley, $1.25 per 

 bunch of 25. 



Flowers that are sold cheaply in the streets 

 are the discarded stock of swell florists. You 



