Decbmbeb 5, 1918. 



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NEW ORLEANS, LA. 



The Market. 



The "flu" and the war, with their 

 dreadful vicissitudes and hardships, are 

 things of the past, we are thankful to 

 say. Although the former kept the re- 

 tailers more than busy, gladness over its 

 eradication reigns throughout the trade. 

 From the beginning of November, with 

 All Saints' day, to its close, including 

 Thanksgiving day, every home-grown 

 flower was used, besides big shipments 

 from Chicago and other cities. The 

 usual social functions of the winter 

 months are beginning to be in evidence 

 and, although there will be no official 

 carnival season, with accompanying 

 balls and parties, it is an assured pros- 

 pect that the social season this year will 

 demand the services of the floral artists 

 to a far greater extent than last year. 

 With Christmas only three weeks away, 

 the growers are getting their stock in 

 shape. Although last month's weather 

 conditions were inauspicious for the flo- 

 rists, the general line of holiday stock 

 is as fine as ever and not a single plant 

 of poinsettias, palms or ferns needs to 

 be bought out of town. Many of our 

 private gardens are now shining in their 

 new dress of rye grass, but, owing to 

 the high cost of the seeds, the use of this 

 grass is not so general as usual. Up to 

 now we have had no killing frost. 

 Coleus, croton and chrysanthemum beds, 

 although the worse for continual heavy 

 rains during November, are still seen. 

 The general planting of pansies and the 

 usual line of spring flowers will not take 

 place until the middle of December. The 

 first outdoor-grown sweet peas are in the 

 market. It is hoped that the great quan- 

 tities grown here will be cut before the 

 heavy frosts kill them, as happened last 

 year. E. E. 



KNOXVILLE, TENN. 



The Market. 



The demand continues greater than 

 the supply. Chrysanthemums are gone. 

 Mistletoe carnations are coming in, but 

 there are not nearly enough to go 

 around. Eoses are off crop,. A few Eas- 

 ter lilies are seen. Sweet peas and vio- 

 lets are in limited supply. Prices are 

 as follows: Chrysanthemums, $5 to 

 •$7.50 per dozen; roses, $1.50 to $6 per 

 Jozen; carnations, $2 per dozen; violets, 

 ^^ingle, $2 per hundred; %weet peas, $3 

 I'er hundred; Easter lilies, $5 per dozen; 

 orchids, $1.50 to $2 each. Cyclamens, 

 peppers and Christmas cherries have 

 !nade their appearance and are selling 

 readily, cyclamens from $1.50 to $10, 

 peppers and cherries from $1 to $3 each. 



A number of Christmas orders have 

 ^)een received and the prospects are for 

 the heaviest Christmas trade on record, 

 with less stock than ever. Immprtelle 

 Wreaths and all stock of this character 

 sell well and all the florists hope to 

 ■lave them cleaned up before the cut- 

 flower rush begins. Stock of all kinds 

 cleaned up well for Thanksgiving and 



brought top prices. Weather conditions 

 have been bad for the last two weeks, 

 dark and cloudy with rain. We have 

 had practically no cold weather at all, 

 only a few frosts, with ice. But this 

 conserves fuel. The coal ban, however, 

 has been lifted and florists can buy all 

 they want; in fact, the coal men are 

 endeavoring to sell coal. 



The florists who usually store quanti- 

 ties of galax, ferns, etc., will not be 

 able to do so this year, as there are no 

 available storage houses here this year. 

 They closed on account of the coal and 

 ammonia shortage, and will not open 

 until next spring. 



Various Notes. 



A. H. Dailey is showing some choice 

 sweet peas, roses and cyclamens. 



A. J. McNutt is preparing for Christ- 

 mas with some choice immortelle 

 wreaths. He is showing the finest 

 Christmas peppers on this market, also 

 choice roses. 



The force at Baum's Home of Flowers 

 has been busy, with stock unusually 

 scarce. They have been cutting choice 

 carnations, but not nearly enough to go 

 around, and they had to turn down or- 

 ders. This concern now has a full force 

 on the job. One of its White trucks 

 caught fire this week, causing an esti- 

 mated damage of $200. The local S. A. 

 T. C. has received orders to demobilize, 

 which will release Eoy and Floyd Baum, 

 who will resume their work at the 

 greenhouses. K. P. B. 



NASHVILLE, TENN. 



The Market. 



It has been a long time since we have 

 been able to find time to report for 

 Nashville. But this has not been, by 

 any means, because there was nothing 

 to report. The facts are that the last 

 summer has been a record-breaker for 

 the florists of Nashville. The only 

 trouble the florists have had here has 

 been to find sufficient stock. There has 

 been hardly a day this summer or fall 

 that there have been enough good flow- 

 ers to meet the demand. Had it not 

 been that some of the growers planted 

 outdoor stock, it is hard to say what 

 the florists would have done. 



The season was so hot and dry that 

 there were few outdoor flowers of any 

 kind after the middle of the summer. 

 Asters were a failure and roses from 

 the open were almost as bad. Dahlias 

 have been a large item in the fall here 

 for some years, but this fall they were 

 scarce. They sold well, of course, and 

 were a great help, but we longed for the 

 loads of them that often have been 

 thrown on the dump in other years. 



Carnations were late in arriving this 

 year, but have been plentiful for weeks 

 now. The quality is excellent. There 

 are few novelties here this year, as the 

 latest introductions have not proven all 

 that could be desired. 



Eoses are plentiful now. It is noted 

 that American Beauties are occupying 

 less space than ever before and that 



the days of Sunburst and Ward also are 

 numbered. Eussell holds its popularity. 

 Ophelia, Kaiserin and White Killarney 

 also hold their own. But Columbia is 

 the sensation of the season. It is 

 snapped up as fast as it appears and 

 easily commands the highest price of 

 all pink roses. In fact, a goodly pro- 

 portion of the blooms have sold for $5 

 per dozen at retail. Our growers went 

 in pretty heavily on this rose, but every 

 one of them says it was a good invest- 

 ment, and we predict that Columbia will 

 have more bench space next year than 

 any other rose, unless it shows some un- 

 expected weakness between now and 

 propagating time. 



Various Notes. 



The yellow sport of Ophelia grown by 

 Geny Bros, still is making good, and 

 so far shows up better than any yellow 

 sport of this rose we have seen. Another 

 year they will be able to grow it in suf- 

 ficient quantity to prove its worth. 



Speaking of novelties, Nashville has 

 more than its share of promising new 

 things at present. In carnations, the 

 white sport of Mclntyre Bros, continues 

 to be the best white we have, and the 

 most fragrant of carnations. A sport 

 of White Enchantress, it has all of the 

 good qualities of its parent, with in- 

 creased productiveness and general 

 quality. 



Mr. Smith, carnation grower for the 

 Joys, has been crossing carnations and 

 growing seedlings for some time, and has 

 three or four that have been propagated 

 in sufficient quantities to test with the 

 older varieties. One of his yellows is 

 probably the best of its color, but being 

 a color that will never be popular, we 

 pass it. He has a red that looks like a 

 winner, but the cream of his collection 

 is a pink, larger than any good com- 

 mercial pink we know, well doubled, 

 fragrant, and fringed on the outer 

 petals. 



Charles Trichler has a sport of Coleus 

 Trailing Queen which shows some of the 

 characteristics of the original Trailing 

 Queen, but is better in every way, es- 

 pecially in that it does not fade in the 

 winter or in the shade. But his pride 

 is a fern which he has named Victory, 

 a sport of Veronia. It is fully as strong 

 a grower as the old Boston, with fronds 

 that seem to stand any amount of han- 

 dling or wind. Also the fronds are ruf- 

 fled and frilled better than those of its 

 parent. In fact, we have never seen so 

 pretty a fern as a specimen of Victory 

 that Mr. Trichler exhibited at the state 

 fair this fall. 



Thanksgiving trade was as heavy as 

 could be. By this we mean that every- 

 one sold everything he had to sell. 

 Prices, of course, were better than usual, 

 and we are told that an unusually large 

 proportion of the sales were cash. 

 Mums have been fine this fall, especially 

 Mr. Trichler 's pot plants, and they 

 were cleaned up closely for Thanksgiv- 

 ing. 



Bulbs are selling slowly thus far this 

 season. Everyone has a full supply of 

 bulbs of all kinds and an oversupply of 

 Paper Whites. It happened in this way: 



