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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Dbcembbb 10, 1903. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



PLANT NOTES. 



Two Worthy Natives. 



Among the most beautiful of our na- 

 tive flowering plants is the California 

 azalea. It is a wonaor that more of 

 them are not used by our landscape 

 gardeners. During the latter part of 

 May and during June and July our 

 mountainous country from Oregon on 

 the north to southern California on the 

 south, especially along the banks oi 

 mountain streams, is covered jcor miles 

 with the bushes, the rich green foliage 

 of which is often obscured from view 

 by the magnificent clusters of white 

 and yellow, or sometimes pinkish, flow- 

 ers. The shrubs grow from two to ten 

 feet high and flowers and leaves cluster 

 at the ends of the branches, as is the 

 case with all the azalea family. 



They are very easily handled in the 

 winter season. Last year I transplant- 

 ed about two dozen of them from the 

 Santa Cruz mountains and planted 

 them in the neighborhood of San Fran- 

 cisco. They commenced to bloom earlv 

 in June and during that month and 

 through July they were the wonder ;.. 1 

 admiration of the neighborhood. 



Farther north we have the California 

 vose bay, Rhododendron Californicum, 

 also a gorgeous native flower. Unlike 

 the azalea, to which it is closely re- 

 lated, it inhabits the higher lands and 

 is often found on bleal- mountain sides. 

 It is also an evergreen and grows from 

 three to fifteen feet in height. The 

 leaves are from six to eight inches 

 long, resembling, somewhat, those of 

 the Magnolia gr&ndiflora. The flowers 

 are rosy pink in color and are borne in 

 very large clusters. 



To see a mountain side covered with 

 this gorgeous mass of flowers is a sight 

 never to De forgotten, and I doubt if it 

 can be rivaled anywhere else in Amer- 

 ica. I do not find them quite so easy 

 to transplant as the azaleas, but thev 

 are such a grand shrub that it is well 

 worth the trouble to try to use them as 

 a garden flower. These azaleas and 

 rhododendrons are not fragrant, but 

 they have the odor of the woods around 

 the flowers and foliage that is verv 

 suggestive of our beautiful California 

 mountains. G. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market. 



Although it is now the first week in 

 December we have had no cold weather 

 yet. The temperature has been from 55 

 to 60 degrees during our long nights for 

 the past week. We have had considera- 

 ble fog and roses have not been very 

 plentiful, but carnations can be had in 

 any quantity, although the prices are 

 gradually climbing. Fancy Lawson and 

 Prosperity are selling wholesale at from 

 60 to 75 cents per dozen, Cressbrook and 

 Estelle at 50 cents, Crocker and other 

 varieties a shade cheaper and Portia and 

 Scott at 25 cents per dozen. American 

 Beauty can be had at from $2 to $3 

 per dozen and short-stemmed cheaper. 

 Bride, Maid, Testout, Kaiserin and Lib- 

 erty are selling at about 75 cents, al- 

 though some fine stock brings $1 and 

 short and weak-stemmed about half that 



500,000 Rooted Carnation Cuttings r':;. 



White. 



Queen Louise tl.20 t.OOO 



Flora HIU 1.20 1000 



Alba 3.40 30.00 



Woleott 3.40 30.00 



LfsAuBeles 3.00 26 00 



Norway 1 .20 10 00 



Lillian Pond (1 HO 61..OO 



White Cloud l.OD ».00 



Fink. 



L,aw80n fl40 112.50 



MarqulB 101) 9.00 



Genevieve Lord l.oo 9.01) 



Argyle 100 9 00 



Mrs. Joost 1.20 1000 



Mermaid 1.20 1000 



Guardian Angel l.OJ 9 00 



Mrs. Hlglnbotham 2 tO 2ii.00 



Cressbrook 2 60 20.00 



Mrs. Roosevelt 6tO 65.U0 



Enchantress 6.00 65 00 



Success 400 3600 



McKinley 0.0) 65 00 



Triumph 120 1.00 



Wm.Scott 12U 11.00 



26 at 100 rate. 



TRANSPLANTED AT SAME PRICE, 



Per 100 Per lOUO 



Per 5UU0 

 (40.C0 



4).O0 

 126 00 

 125,00 

 lOO.OJ 



40.00 

 226.00 



35.00 



(60.00 



35 00 

 .36.00 



36 0(1 

 40.L0 

 40 00 

 35.10 

 90 00 

 90.00 



2511.00 

 26010 

 1.50.(0 

 2aO 00 

 60.00 

 60.00 



Scarlet. Per 100 



G. H. Crane 11.20 



America 1.20 



Estelle 160 



Mrs. Palmer 1.20 



Apollo 3.60 



Adonis T.OO 



Crimson. 



Harlowarden 15.00 



Gov. Roosevelt 1.20 



Gen. Gomez 1.00 



Yellow. 



Golden Beauty tl.75 



Eldorado 1.00 



Gold Nug&et 1.50 



Variegated. 



Vlolania (4-lnch bloom). $12.00 



Marshall Field 6.00 



Tiger (Fancy) 5.00 



Stella 3.00 



Bradt 1.76 



Armazindy 1.00 



Per 1000 

 $10.00 

 10.00 

 14.00 

 10.00 

 30.00 

 65.00 



146.00 

 11.00 

 9.00 



116.00 



9.00 



14.00 



tuo.oo 



46.00 

 46.00 

 26.00 

 16.00 

 9.00 



Per 5000 

 (40.00 

 4u00 

 66.00 

 40.00 

 126.00 

 300.00 



(200.00 

 60.00 

 35.0U 



(76.00 

 33.00 

 66.00 



(450 00 

 200 00 

 200.00 

 lOO.UO 

 70.00 

 33.00 



250 at 1000 rate. 



2500 at 5000 rate. 



Unrooted Cuttings at half price. 



TERnl S : — Spot CaNh. No discount given, no matter how large the order. We prepay 

 express charges at above figures to your city. If on arrival they are not satisfactory 

 return at once and money will be returned at once; we cannot vary from these terms. 



California Carnation Co./to3° Loomis, Cal. 

 STRONGLY ROOTED C4RN4TiONS - NOW Ready. 



OBOWIT OUT OF DOOSS AND BOOTES WITHOUT HEAT. 



White 



lUO 



Queen Louise (1 20 



Flora Hill 120 



Alba 3.40 



Gov. Woleott 3 40 



Norway 120 



Lillian Pond 5 00 



Chicot 120 



Viola Allen 3.00 



Fink 



Mrs. Thomas Lawson 1.40 



Mrs. Joost 1 20 



Mermaid 1.20 



Mrs. Roosevelt 00 



Enchantress 6 00 



Success 4 00 



Pres. McKinley .5.00 



Cressbrook 2 50 



Scarlet 



J. H, Manley 3.60 



G. H. Crane 1.20 



America 1 20 



Estelle 1.50 



We prepay express chargrea and guarantee satisfaction. We have as fine rooted cuttings as were 

 ever grown. If our cuttings are not satlsfaolorv n'turn at once and your money will be refunded. 



LOOMIS FLORAL CO., LOOMIS, GAL. 



MentloD Review when yoo write. 



price. Business, outside of funeral 

 work, iias been very quiet since Thanks- 

 giving. The funeral of Samuel Eaiuey 

 a week ago was a big occasion for many 

 of our florists. There were countless de- 

 sisins and some of them were very elabo- 

 rale. The Shanahan Floral Co., F. Shib- 

 eley, Sievers & Boland, Podesta & Baldoc- 

 chi, F. Pelicano and Thomas H. Steven- 

 son had the bulk of the orders. 



Violets do not seem to be as plentiful 

 as we expected after so much rain as 

 we have had and I cannot account for 

 their scarcity. The.v still wholesale for 

 $1 per dozen bunches, which is about 

 twice their usual price at tliis time of 

 the year. Mums are not quite so plenti- 

 ful, but they are still of fair quality. 

 Sonie very fine oiitdoor grown Bonnaf- 

 fons and several late white sorts are in 

 good supply. Smilax is very plentiful 

 but maiden-hair fern seems to be in 

 rather short Supply at present. Wild 

 ferns and red berries are used in large 

 quantities for decorating in the store 

 windows and everything except the weath- 

 er makes one think of Christmas. 



Various Notes. 



A. Mann, Jr., has just received a large 

 consignment of Christmas goods. The 



ROOTED CUTTINGS NOW READY. 



mil iiiiiii I Hill 11100 



Q. LoulSH,... $120 $111.00 I Mrs.Hlg-bo'm 1.30 $12 00 

 Flora Hill.... 1.20 10 0(1 | Mrs P.Palm'r 1 30 12 00 



MrsT.Laws'n 1 40 11.00 1 Eldorado 1.20 10.00 



Mermaid 1.00 10.00 | Prosperity... . 1.40 12 60 



Unrooted cuttings half price. Cash with order, 

 express paid. 



THE KNOLL NURSERIES. Penfyn. Cal. 



fact that his brother is out of town at 

 present makes him doubly busy. 



Domoto Bros., of Elmhurst, have com- 

 pleted their preparations of installing 

 their eighty horse-power boiler. 



The Frank & Parodi Co. has the finest 

 show of flowers in their vicinity. They 

 report business very good. 



Sievers & Co. have a splendid show of 

 carnations at their nurseries, and, judg- 

 ing ^y appearances, they will have an 

 extra big holiday crop. G. 



OcEANSiDE, Cal. — F. P. Hosp, who is 

 gardener for the railroad, has a carnation 

 garden as an individual enterprise, from 

 which he is shipping about 1,000 carna- 

 tion blooms a day to Los Angeles deal- 

 ers, where they bring about $1 per hun- 

 dred. 



YouK paper does the work, all right. — 

 J. C. Schmidt. Bristol, Pa. 



