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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



Apiiil 23, 1901. 



10 cents; Perles, 10 to 25 cents; Carnots, 

 50 cents, Liberty, $1 per doz. Carna- 

 tions: Crocker, 35 to 50 cents; mixed 

 fancy, 25 to 50 cents; Hill, 20 to 25 

 cents; Scotts, 16* to 25 cents; Portias, 

 12.J to 20 cents per doz. llarrisii, $1 to 

 $2.50; violets, 75 cents; sweet peas, $1.50 

 to $2.00; callas, 50 to $1 per 100; valley, 

 25 cents per doz.; asparagus, 10 cents; 

 smilax, 5 cents. 



Various Items. 



Jacquemet has sold out his business to 

 Dominie. 



J. A. Nelson, a member of the firm of 

 Morse & Nelson, Oakland, Cal., died on 

 the 14th of March after a lingering 

 illness. Mr. Nelson leaves a widow and 

 one child to mourn his loss. 



The California State Floral Society 

 will hold its annual exhibition on May 

 16, 17 and 18, in the Ferry building, San 

 Francisco. Exhibits are expected from 

 all parts of the state and an effort will 

 be made to hold a floral congress of the 

 Pacific states during the week of the 

 show. 



C. Ferrari & Sons will erect six new 

 houses for roses. Some fine Liberties 

 are now being cut at this establishment. 



C. Hasselbaeher, Oakland, Cal., is mar- 

 keting some extra fine buds of Papa 

 Gontier roses of splendid color. 



Thomas Sheppard, 13th street, Oak- 

 land, did a great shipping business for 

 Faster. 



C. C. Abrams, Western Nursery, sold 

 out a batch of azaleas for Easter that 

 might be classed the finest ever seen in 

 San Francisco. They were well done. 

 Sievers & Boland got the bulk of them. 



Sievers & Boland made the finest dis- 

 play in San Francisco for Easter. Boxes 

 of valley and tulips done up in crape 

 paper in colors were fine; also the aza- 

 leas, two in a pot, red and white, made a 

 handsome present. 



Shanahan, Powell street, had a grand 

 display of orchids, in variety, for Easter. 

 They were arranged on a wire stand 

 and never failed to draw admiring 

 crowds to his window. And such rubber- 

 necking at his vase of Hobarts! Buy- 

 ers hardly knew which to choose, the 

 orchids or the Hobarts. J.»N. 



NEW BOOKS. 

 Plums and Plum Culture. A Mono- 

 graph of the Plums, cultivated and in- 

 digenous, in North America; with a 

 r.iiii|ilrlr :M iiiiiiit of tlicir propagation, 

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 'l^'ili. <ii;iiiMO, Judd Company, New 

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 Our American business of fruit grow- 

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 years, and with this expansion has neces- 

 sarily come specialization. We have 

 reached the stage of specialties and spe- 

 cialists in pomology. Plum culture is 

 one of the most complicated of these 

 specialties; and Professor Waugh is one 

 cf the best known of the specialists. The 

 book is a complete monograph of the 

 plums cultivated and indigenous in North 

 America. It will be found indispens- 

 able to the scientist seeking the most re- 

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 cerning this group, to the nurseryman 

 who wishes to handle his varieties accu- 

 rately and intelligently, and to the culti- 

 vator who would like to grow plums suc- 

 cessfully. 



The New Riilb.vrb Culture. A com- 

 plete Guide to Dark Forcing and Field 

 Culture. How to prepare and use rhu- 

 barb. By J. E. Morse and G. Bur- 

 nap Fiskc. Illustrated. 130 pp., cloth. 

 Orange Judd Company, New York. 

 Price, postpaid, 50 cents. 

 The forcing of vegetables under glass 

 during winter monih- l.:i~ iMkni great 

 strides within the pi-i l.r.i.lr and 

 grown to be a busim-- • i l.nji' jmipor- 

 tions. One of the latc-t \< -jrhiMr^ to re- 

 ceive attention in this line is the com- 

 mon pie-plant or rhubarb. Unlike most 

 of the vegetables used for winter forcing, 

 no expensive structures are required. 

 Cheap board structures are put up and 

 heated with an ordinary stove. In these, 

 rhubarb roots are closely packed and then 

 forced into growth. The resulting prod- 

 uct is very handsome in appearance, 

 quality and' flavor. The best product is 

 grown in absolute darkness. Mr. Morse, 

 w'ho is an expert gardeiier, gives in de- 

 tail the commercial method of forcing, 

 together with the actual cost, yield, and 

 prices which have ruled for several sea- 

 sons. In part second Mr. Fiske treats of 

 other methods of forcing, as well as sys- 

 tems of outdoor cultivation. 



LEGENDS OF THE LILY. 



The lily is rich in folk lore and the 

 sacred associations connected with it add 

 not a little to its charm. It has been 

 introduced into many religious cere- 

 monies from the earliest time of the 

 Hindoos and Persians. In the flower lore 

 and legends of the Greeks, Romans and 

 Huns, the lily plays an important part. 



One version of the birth of the white 

 lily is that the Virgin Mary, on her way 

 to the temple, plucked a yellow lily 

 growing by the roadside, which became 

 pure white when she pressed it to her 

 heart. "Madonna Flower," "Lily of the 

 Virgin," and "Fleur de Marie," names 

 for the white lily, have reference to this 

 legend. It has always been the emblem 

 of purity, and it figures in the pictures 

 of the various saints who were famed 

 for the purity of their lives, and in near- 

 ly all pictures of the angel Gabriel, who 

 is frequently alluded to as the Angel of 

 the Lily. 



A German tradition points to the ro- 

 mantic Hartz mountains as the birth- 

 place of the white lily. Another quaint 

 German legend tells of the transition of 

 the lily from white to red in the garden 

 of Gcthseniane. 



The lily so largely grown for Easter 

 originally came from China. An inter- 

 esting tale regarding the departure of 

 the lily from its native soil to Japan and 

 later to other countries is as follows: 



The Emperor Chow, who reigned over 

 the flowery kingdom 1,000 years ago, was 

 a cruel ruler. Indeed, he often resorted 

 to the most barbarous cruelties for no 

 other reason than to satisfy some passing 

 whim or mood. Finally the closest ad- 

 viser of the emperor, Li Chung, grew 

 fearful of his life. 



Li Chung had in guarded language 

 delicately liinted upon a broader and 

 more charitable treatment of the sub- 

 jects, but of such reforms the Emperor 

 Chow would have none, and the sugges- 

 tion only angered him to still greater 

 deeds of violence. Feeling assured that 

 his efforts were fruitless. Minister Li 

 Chung became concerned as to his per- 

 sonal safety and forthwith began to 

 prepare a mode of escape. 



He communicated to the emperor a 

 message he had received from the gods in 

 which a great sacrifice of men, women, 

 beasts and fruits was demanded. This 

 sacrifice was to take place upon a distant 

 island and was to bring great prosperity 

 to the nation. This appealed to the em- 

 peror's superstitions and bloodthirsty 

 nature and Li Chimg was given full au- 

 thority to carry it into effect. He ob- 

 tained the finest ship in the royal fleet. 

 He selected a hundred of the strongest 

 young men and most beautiful young 

 women, beasts and fowls of the finest 

 breeds, and for the feast all the delicacies 

 the land afforded, among them the lily 

 bulb "Bak-hap." Then he sailed away 

 and that Vas the last the emperor ever 

 saw of Li Chung. He sailed to what we 

 know as Japan, and the men and women 

 instead of being sacrificed inhabited and 

 populated this beautiful island. Some of 

 the lily bulbs were planted to reproduce 

 their kind, and in this way the lily be- 

 the island. 



TOMATOES UNDER GLASS. 



Will someone kindly answer this 

 through The Review? I have made rais- 

 ing hot house tomatoes a specialty for 

 three years with the following success, 

 the ground used being taken side by side 

 from same place fresh every year. 



The first year I used only fresh horse 

 manure in preparing the soil and had 

 strong, healthy plants, with no disease, 

 that yielded about 11 lbs. tomatoes to 

 plant for the season. The second year 

 I used only cow manure with bone meal 

 for top dressing and had some diseased 

 plants; yield about 7i lbs. tomatoes to 

 plant for the season. The third year I 

 used cow manure in preparing the soil, 

 with cow manure for top dressing. Plants 

 were diseased much earlier in the sea- 

 son with more diseased plants, leaves 

 of plants becoming brown spotted, of a 

 sickly color, stems brittle, breaking like 

 glass; yield about 5 lbs. tomatoes to 

 plant during season. 



What manure would you advise me to 

 use and what is the cause of the disease? 

 B. K. Hedrick. 



BUFFALO HOTELS. 



who expect to attend the convention of 

 the S. A. F. in Buffalo. 



"While it is true that hotel rates will be 

 higher than usual, there are any number of 

 apartment houses that have been fitted out for 

 the accommodation of Pan-American visitors; 

 also private houses in the residence portion of 

 the city, where rooms can be had for $1 and 

 up for each person, and In many breakfast 

 will be served if desired, while other places 

 will give all meals, the latter not so plen- 



accommodatlons at hotel. 

 I- house, with or without 

 ;umber of persons desiring 

 ;.'ther. It will be neces- 



commlttee early, as they 



wRh the above desirable apartments and pri- 

 vate houses every one will be taken care of 

 If they notify the committee In time. 



THE COMMITTEE. 



