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The Florists^ Review 



April 1G, 1914. 



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BOSTON, 



The Market. 



The general verdict is that if Easter 

 business did not equal the best previous 

 record, it came near it. There was less 

 call for high-priced plants, but the vol- 

 ume of business surprised everyone. 

 Fortunately we had clear skies on 

 Good Friday and Holy Saturday, al- 

 though on the latter day the wind blew 

 almost a gale. 



Plant business again broke all rec- 

 ords. . Easter, of all the holidays, is 

 recognized as one when plants easily 

 lead cut flowers in popularity, and this 

 year's Easter made this fact doubly 

 certain. Lilies sold out clean and many 

 more could have been disposed of. 

 Prices varied from $8 to $12.50 per 

 hundred buds, according to quality. 

 There were complaints from many pur- 

 chasers that plants had few flowers 

 expanded; the cold spring made it diffi- 

 cult to flower the laggards. Rambler 

 and other roses came next in popular- 

 ity. Tausendschon was the leader, fol- 

 lowed by Dorothy Perkins, Lady Gay, 

 Hiawatha, White Dorothy, American 

 Pillar and Excelsa. Few Crimson Ram- 

 blers were seen, but a lot of baby ram- 

 blers, Clothilde Soupert and hybrid per- 

 petuals were sold. Azaleas sold well, 

 but Van der Cruyssen was overdone, as 

 usual. People who have seen it since 

 Thanksgiving tire of it by Easter. 

 French hydrangeas sold well; Otaksas, 

 indifferently. Bougainvilleas, metrosi- 

 deros, acacias, genistas, lilacs and ericas 

 all had a good sale; also such rhododen- 

 drons as Pink Pearl and White Pearl. 

 In more expensive plants, Queen Alex- 

 andra spirosa sold better than Gladstone 

 or astilboides. Dutch bulbs in pans had 

 a large sale. There was a fine sale for 

 English primroses. Few marguerites ap- 

 peared, and no one seemed to want any 

 but the yellow. There was a fair sale 

 for table ferns, palms and other foliage 

 plants. 



Coming to cut flowers, roses had a 

 somewhat better market than at Easter 

 191.3. The best American Beauty made 

 $50 per hundred. There was an ample 

 supply. Richmond was fine and sold 

 well. Milady was not popular, but Car- 

 dinal, Radiance, Killarney Queen, Taft, 

 Sunburst, Hadley, Russell and Ward 

 were in excellent demand. Killarney, 

 White Killarney and Hillingdon also 

 cleaned up well, short stems making $3 

 per hundred. Carnations lacked their 

 old-timo popularity and rather dragged. 

 The ruling rates were $S to $5, with 

 many good white at $2. Single violets 

 made their final ])0w. Those easily rea- 

 lized $1.25 and $1.50 per hundred; 

 doubles, $1 and $1.25. 



Sweet peas sold at from 60 cents to 

 $1.50 and cleaned up well, as did valley. 

 Snapdragon, strange to say, hung fire, 

 even the pink being hard to move. 

 Average ]>riccs were $6 to $12 per hun- 

 dred. Dutch bulbous stock sold remark- 

 ably well. There was a good number of 

 Spanish iris. Cut lilies made $8 to $10 

 j>er hundred, and candidums $5 and $6. 

 Gardenias of the best quality made $3 

 and $4 per dozen and cattleyas averaged 



Wholesale Cut Hower Prices. 



$6 per dozen. Asparagus plumosus sold 

 much better than Sprengeri. Smilax 

 moved well. Hardy ferns were decidedly 

 scarce. There was a good sale for moun- 

 tain laurel. 



Trade since Easter has held up well, 

 and will, no doubt, keep so unless a hot 

 wave knocks the bottom out of business. 

 Up to this time we have had a decided- 

 ly cold spring. 



Various Notes. 



B. K. Farr, of Stoneham, had a fin© 

 pick of Spencer sweet peas for Easter. 

 His Pink Delight, Beacon, Fenn, White 

 Wonder and other carnations are fine. 

 The old Queen here produces flowers 

 three and one-half inches across. Pink 

 snapdragons also are found a paying 

 crop. A King construction house 45x275 

 never caused a moment's uneasinesa 

 during the heavy snowstorms in March, 

 not a square of glass being broken. 



Welch Bros. Co. had a banner Easter 

 trade in cut flowers. Roses led in pop- 

 ularity. Carnations and snapdragons 

 went more slowly than other flowers. 

 Laurel, plumosus and hardy ferns sold 

 well. 



The Montrose Greenhouses had a good 

 cut of Killarney, Ward, Richmond, Rus- 

 sell and Killarney Queen for Easter. 

 Milady is not liked here. 



Otto Range, salesman for the West 

 Street Greenhouses, Reading, cleaned 

 out all the firm's giganteum lilies. 

 Their bachelor's buttons, calendulas, 

 double stocks and White Wonder carna- 

 tions were of the best quality. 



Peter Hylen, of Randolph, sold an 

 immense number of bulbous flowers for 

 Easter, chiefly Golden Spur, Von Sion, 

 Emperor, Victoria and ornatus narcissi, 

 and Murillo, Rose Luisante and Couleur 

 Cardinal tulips. 



Oswald Ralph, of South Weymouth, 

 has his carnations in fine shape this sea- 

 son. Enchantress, White Enchantress, 

 Beacon and Fenn are his leaders. 



rOINSETTIA STOCK PLANTS 



Which we offer for quick sale at $6.00 per 100, $55.00 per 1000. 



F. J. DOLANSKY, LYNN, MASS. 



ORCHIDS and GARDENIAS a Specialty 



Mention The ReTlew wbcn yon write. 



WELCH BROS. CO., 226 Devonshire Stmt, BOSTON 



THE LARGEST WHOLESALE HOUSE IN AMERICA 



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