. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Hollister, California. cinths. Tills was the price paid, or supposedly paid, by all middlemen, ne- gotiants, or shippers, who are the real distributers of the fine product of the region to American dealers. Prices for the finer varieties and the larger di- mensions ran as high as 120 francs ($) for bulbs 15 centimeters in circumference. The comparatively high prices of recent years were caused as much by the relation of supply and demand as by anything else, though there has been a manifest shortage of bulbs
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Hollister, California. cinths. Tills was the price paid, or supposedly paid, by all middlemen, ne- gotiants, or shippers, who are the real distributers of the fine product of the region to American dealers. Prices for the finer varieties and the larger di- mensions ran as high as 120 francs ($) for bulbs 15 centimeters in circumference. The comparatively high prices of recent years were caused as much by the relation of supply and demand as by anything else, though there has been a manifest shortage of bulbs of the largest dimensions, as well with'respect to narcissus as hyacinths, the specialties of the region. The rul- ing prices to United States buyers in 1910 were as follows: the prices per 1,000 being those averaged from the figures given on a series of invoices presented at this consular agency for certification (centimeter equal inch) : White Roman hyacinths—12 to 15 centimeters, $15,574; 13 to 15 cen- timeters, $18,445; 14 to 16 centimeters, $21,712. Narcissus grandiflora—13 to 14 centimeters, $3,898; 14 to 15 centimet- ers, $4,941; 15 centimeters, $5,597 The 1911 crop in the region promises to be more than ordinarily good, owing to favorable late winter and spring- time conditions, and unless undue hu- midity occurs between now and the middle of May or the first of June there will be an abundance of bulbs of one sort or another, the growers always hoping for an excess of the larger dimensions, the existence of which, or the lack thereof, really mak- ing the market price on those of all dimensions. As a matter of record, the 1910 sea- son closed with a considerable stock of smaller sizes left on the growers' and shippers' hands, whereas this was not the case in 1909, when the stocks of all dimensions were completely closed out. This argues, if anything, that the larger and finer varieties are those chiefly in demand, above all by Amer- ican buyers. Just how high
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