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The Weekly Florists' feeview. 



Apbil 15, 1909. 



Killariiey g^ Carnations 



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yellow, and Grunewald, pink. $1.00 per bunch. l^JiCHUS^ 



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an advance in price. It proved, howevei*, 

 that while the stock was pretty well 

 cleaned up, the demand also was pretty 

 well satisfied, so there was no special push 

 for lilies the last three days ; prices stiff- 

 ened, but did not go over, advance quota- 

 tions on best grade. Probably lilies were 

 never more satisfactorily handled, 



Thie supply of sweet peas proved to be 

 a surprise; there were many more than 

 had been expected. The quality of a 

 large part of the stock was superb and 

 they were used in great quantities, in- 

 stead of violets, but the short-stemmed 

 peas went with the violets to the street 

 fakers. It was in the violet department 

 that the greatest trouble came, outside 

 the slump in carnations. The best vio- 

 lets were shipped out of town on advance 

 orders at about $7.50 per thousand, and 

 of the balance a large part were so poor 

 the leading retailers would not touch 

 them, using long-stemmed sweet peas in- 

 stead. The result was a big proportion 

 of the receipts went to the Greeks on the 

 street corners at about $1 per thousand, 

 and there were scores of boxes of from 

 2,000 to 3,000 each that were so poor 

 even the Greeks would not buy them. 

 The wholesalers could not help them- 

 selves. The home grown singles did 

 rather better, but violet prices did not 

 average as well as they were averaging 

 before Easter. 



There was a good run on callas for 

 Palm Sunday, but for Easter no one 

 wanted them. Large numbers were left 

 unsold. Daffodils and jonquils were so 

 abundant that not all were cleaned out, 

 even though the street salesmen did an 

 enormous trade. Hyacinths were a pos- 

 sible exception to the general experience 

 with bulb stock. Not many were grown 

 this year, and still some houses had more 

 than they could sell Saturday night. 



On the whole the Easter business was 

 probably as satisfactory as anyone could 

 expect. "Where the business suddenly be- 

 comes four times as great as usual, it is 

 inevitable that some things will go awry. 

 So large a volume, with everyone work- 

 ing to the limit, cannot be handled with- 

 out mistakes. The shipping was excep- 

 tionally heavy. The express companies 

 liad to hire drays from the streets to 

 help the regular wagons take the flower 

 shipments to the depots. Pick-ups ceased 

 at six o'clock and the wholesalers had 



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to hire wagons to get the late orders to 

 the depots. 



The weather for the first two days of 

 the week was like midsummer, and the 

 rest of the week was cold and dark. It 

 snowed all day April 9. Some com- 

 plained that the change cost them much 

 money in reducing the Beauty crops, but 

 others say it saved the market being 

 glutted with soft flowers. The stock 

 traveled well. Few complaints have been 

 received. 



The retailers all had big business. 

 There was a large supply of plants and 

 they all sold more plant arrangements 



than ever before. Sunday was not a 

 specially good day, because of high 

 winds, but most of the stores were open 

 all day Sunday and did an active trade. 

 There are not many complaints, but quite 

 a number overbought on lilies and there 

 was enough stock left in retailers' hands 

 so they bought hardly anything Monday. 



This week opened with a quiet market, 

 with good supplies in all lines and prices 

 down, except on lilies. Beauties are com- 

 ing in heavily now. Fancy ferns are up 

 to $3 in several houses. 



White carnations again were good 

 property by the beginning of this week. 



