. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 120 The Florists' Review Junk 22. 1922 stock and are busy replanting. Amer- ican Beauties are of good quality for summer. Scott Key is good, Columbia holds up well, and there are some nice Ward, but the Killarneys, Ophelia and Butterfly are not at all up to the mark. There are some nice Crusader, Hadley and Premier, but good quality flowers are now scarce. Outdoor roses cut but little figure in the wholesale market, but at present they are of splendid quality and such hybrid perpetuals as Brunner, Laing, Druschki, Magna Charta, Jacqueminot and Luiz
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 120 The Florists' Review Junk 22. 1922 stock and are busy replanting. Amer- ican Beauties are of good quality for summer. Scott Key is good, Columbia holds up well, and there are some nice Ward, but the Killarneys, Ophelia and Butterfly are not at all up to the mark. There are some nice Crusader, Hadley and Premier, but good quality flowers are now scarce. Outdoor roses cut but little figure in the wholesale market, but at present they are of splendid quality and such hybrid perpetuals as Brunner, Laing, Druschki, Magna Charta, Jacqueminot and Luizet quite outclass any indoor roses coming in. The outdoor hybrid teas also, like Lady Ashtown, Caroline Testout, Duchess of Wellington, Los Angeles, J. B. Clark and Kadiance, are fine. Carnations are being pulled up on all hands, and while large numbers still come in, they realize low prices. Last week one sale of 10,000 realized $21 for the grower. Good flowers bring $2, but a great many, if sold at all, make exceedingly low prices. Quality is now down to a low ebb. There are as yet only limited supplies of outdoor sweet peas, and the recent heat wave spoiled the indoor crop in great measure. Most of the flowers seen are poor. For white and yellow marguerites there is no great demand. Bachelor's buttons of good quality sell well, as does also del- phinium, now available in quantity from outdoors. Peonies continue to straggle in, but they are practically over; the season for them has been ainusually short. ('alias are still coming in, but arc not much wanted. There is a fine supply of Lilium longiflorum, and to this is to be added Lilium regale, which is seen in considei'able numbers for the first time. The flowers now seen are grown under glass, but the outdoor crop will appear in a few days. There are small lots of snajidragons, feverfew, stocks, candy- tuft, digitalis, gaillardia, gypsophila, aquilegia and other miscellaneous flowers. With the numerous weddings, there has be
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