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The Florists^ Review 



Mat 20, 1926. 



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 Memorial Day 



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ROSES and CARNATIONS 



Choice stock in large supply. Fine quality in all leading varieties. 



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 Richmond, Double White Killarney, besides Nesbit and Brunner, the Miniature Roses 



CARNATIONS— Red, White, Deep Pink and Light Pink. 



All co/ors— PEONIES— >*'' good 



Easter Lilies, Callas, Snapdragons, Sweet Peas, Daisies, 



Calendula, Pansies, Lupines 



and all other seasonable Cut Flowers, including Greens of all kinds. 



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ting the usual quantities for this time 

 of year, but they are getting much bet- 

 ter than the usual prices and doubtless 

 are taking in more money than ever 

 before was the case in May. The 

 strength of the present market is mak- 

 ing dealers cautious about booking 

 orders for Memorial day. All thought 

 of 6-eent carnations is abandoned and 

 some houses will not book orders at less 

 than 10 cents, though the majority will 

 agree to deliver assorted colors at $80 

 per thousand. 



The sweet pea is enjoying a season of 

 great prosperity. It has the corsage 

 trade almost to itself, in addition to 

 other fields of usefulness. Jonquils are 

 practically gone. The only bulbous 

 stock now seen is Darwin tulips. There 

 are increased supplies of snapdragon, 

 but the demand is not so strong as it 

 might be. Easter lilies are contin- 

 uouily available and selling steadily; 

 many of them are fine. There are oc- 

 casional shipments of lilac and other 



outdoor stock, but the weather has 

 been against all such. 



Greens of practically all kinds are 

 scarce. Between transportation trou- 

 bles and spoilage, ferns are in irregular 

 supply; some days hardly any are to be 

 had and the price has gone to $6 per 

 thousand, a figure not reached in many 

 years. Smilax and asparagus strings 

 have practically disappeared from tl^is 

 market; a little smilax is to be had at 

 50 cents per string, but there is scarcely 

 any asparagus. Plumosus and Sprengeri 

 are available only in small quantity, 

 the former coming almost exclusively 

 from Florida. Adiantum, too, now 

 comes principally from Florida and 

 there has been little of it all wint«r. 

 Mexican ivy, which comes from Cali- 

 fornia, where it grows wild, arrives so 

 irregularly and keeps so well that buy- 

 ers scoop it up at sight. 



Peony Prospects. 



Weather conditions have bsen ex- ' 



tremely unfavorable for the peony crop 

 and there is quite a little difference of 

 opinion as to what Memorial day ■will 

 bring forth. The Tennessee crop Las 

 come and gone. Sarcoxie is out of it 

 for the season, because of the heavy 

 hail storm. At Carbondale and Alton, 

 whence come large quantities of peonies 

 in a normal season, it is said the 

 weather has resulted in blasting nearly 

 half the buds. Evansville and Gray- 

 ville report large crops, but there is 

 a labor shortage and it will not be pos- 

 sible to cut and ship the usual number 

 of flowers. The season is at least two 

 weeks late at most of the points men- 

 tioned and, instead of this being right 

 now the height of the peony season, 

 only small quantities are coming in- 

 Some of the largest growers have not 

 yet cut a flower. 



From these facts wholesalers think 

 that the supply for Memorial day is 

 likely to be much smaller than usu.al. 

 Of course a great deal depends on the 



