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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



Mat 24, 1906. 



ROSES and CARNATIONS 



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on his ilichigan fruit farm will be the 

 lightest in j-ears. 



K. H. Hunt counts on plenty of cape 

 jasmine for Decoration day, in spite of 

 reports of a late crop. 



E. F. Winterson Co. is doing a big 

 business in wholesaling bedding plants. 



The Chicago Rose Co. reports the rush 

 for seeds and plants in a retail way as 

 falling off. They have done quite a 

 business in this department. 



k C. W. McKellar says orchids are sell- 

 ing well and many orders booked for 

 early June. 



J. A. Budlong is drying off Beauties 

 and replanting in the new houses to get 

 the room for grafted Brides and Maids. 



White, pink and yellow antirrhinum 

 of specially good quality are seen at 

 Poehlmann 's. 



F. F. Benthey says the weather at 

 New Castle is even warmer than here. 

 L. Coatsworth is still there, putting the 

 finishing touches on the new houses. 



John Sinner says it's good weather 

 only for fishing, and he is impatiently 

 awaiting June. 



Will Kyle, vice-president of the J. B. 

 Deamud Co., says he will be the last 

 man to kick at the volume of business. 



NEV YORK. 



The Market. 



These be "record days" in the cut 

 flower market. The heat has been abnor- 

 mal, 90 degrees in the shade on Satur- 

 day, with several days of excessive tem- 

 perature. The result is a flood of stock, 

 especially roses, and quality retrograd- 

 ing, crops coming in ahead of their legit- 

 imate time looking pale and premature 

 and sales of necessity far below pub- 

 lished quotations. Buyers are the inde- 

 pendent ones these days and dictate 

 values. Still the market cleans up at 

 some price and better business and bet- 

 ter figures are confidently expected in 

 the month of June. 



The surplus of roses on Saturday was 

 closed out at unheard of sacrifices. One 

 wholesaler sold 7,000 for $3. Carna- 

 tions dropped to $2 a thousand. Such 

 stock, of course, was accumulations and 

 had to go to the bargain hunter or the 

 barrel, but it indicates something of the 

 condition the wholesalers have to meet 



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and make the best of. Very few of the 

 growers complain who come to the city 

 to seek the why and wherefore, for they 

 realize how useless it is to kick against 

 the inevitable. The first of the present 

 week shows little, if any, improvement. 

 There is no shortage of anything, and 

 lilac, peonies, and the usual outdoor 

 summer blooms, are now abundant, espe- 

 cially valley, and sweet peas and stocks 

 are shown in uncountable profusion. 

 May will probably go on record as the 

 least profitable spring month the whole- 

 salers ever experienced. 



The extreme heat of the last of the 

 week has again been followed by severe 

 cold and frost. Much damage is re- 

 ported up the state, especially at Utica 

 and vicinity. Here in New York over- 

 coats were a necessity on Monday even- 

 ing. 



Quite a number of the craft find the 

 daily equine exhibitions in the vicinity 

 a healthful and profitable change from 

 the regular cares of the day. These 

 exhibits are made in the open air and 

 are very popular and occasionally inex- 

 pensive. 



