Dkcembeu 17, 1903. 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



203 



portion of California are in whitp». 

 Flora Hill ; reds, America and Portia ■ 

 pink, Ethel Crocker and Scott; and 

 yellow, Eldorado. Most of the varie- 

 gated varieties burst the calyx badly, 

 and some of our finest greenhouse sorts 

 are of little value when planted in the 

 garden. G. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market, 



We have had clear, cold weather all 

 the week and considerable frost at night. 

 Business is very quiet. Several of our re- 

 tail men have had considerable funeral 

 work the last two days but outside of this 

 there is little doing. Carnations are more 

 plentiful than they were a year ago and 

 they are somewhat cheaper. Fancy va- 

 rieties can be bought wholesale at three 

 dozen for $1 and most of the other sorts 

 at 25 cents per dozen. This is ridiculous- 

 ly cheap but we have many more growers 

 this season than ever before and, as busi- 

 ness is not rushing at present, there is 

 plenty of stock to go around and low 

 prices are the rule. Good roses are scarce, 

 however, and fancy stock is not in evi- 

 dence at all. Good American Beauties 

 sell wholesale at from $2 to $3 per dozen 

 for the best, and short stemmed can lio 

 had at about half that price. Bride>s- 

 niaid. Bride, Testout and Kaiserin are 

 selling at 50 cents per dozen for the 

 shorter stemmed flowers and 75 cents per 

 dozen for fairly good stock. Maiden hair 

 fern is scarce with most of the gi-owers, 

 but there is plenty of asparagus and 

 smilax. Violets are still scarce; in fact, 

 1 have never seen so few of them ■''^r 

 sale on the streets at this season of the 

 year. The cold, frosty weather seems tu 

 keep them back so much that most nt 

 the growers who usually cut from ten to 

 twenty dozen bunches per day have to be 

 satisfied with half that quantity. Tiie 

 best flowers sell at from $1 to $1.25 pe- 

 dozen bunches and the bunches are nnt 

 very large either. It will be necessary 

 to have another good spell of rainv 

 weather before violets become plentiful. 

 Roman hyacinths are being brought in 'ii 

 fair quantity and Paper White narcissi 

 are more plentiful. They are used b.v 

 the smaller dealers in large quantities 

 in funeral work and sell wholesale at $1 

 per hundred stems. Chrysanthemums a;'" 

 daily getting scarcer and more sliahln : 

 that is, those grown outside. Some very 

 fine Bnnnaffon and Mrs. .Terome Jones 

 are exhibited by Sievers & Boland, but 

 they are about the last of the season. 



Notes. 



James Skinner, of Portland, Oregon, is 

 in town. He ships large quantities of 

 Oregon graperoot leaves (Mahonia acjui- 

 folium) to the dealers in green good^ 

 here and is .iust now making arrange- 

 ments to deliver several car loads of 

 Christmas trees to the dealers. G. 



LOS ANGELES, CAL. 



Business in the stores and nurseries 

 is excellent. The local carnation growers 

 have been unable to fully meet the de- 

 mand, and consignments have been re- 

 ceived from San Francisco. 



Captain Gray, of the Ingleside Floral 

 Co., has placed his nursery in charge of 

 J. Gilmore, who was formerly with E. 

 W. McLellan & Co., of Burlingame, Cal. 



The Ocean Park Floral Co. is at pres- 

 ent busy planting carnations out in the 

 field, direct from the propagating bench. 



500,000 Rooted Carnation Cuttings 



TBANSPIiANTED AT SAME PRICE. 



Now 

 Ready. 



Per 100 Per 1000 Per 6000 



White. 



QueenLouise »1.20 tlOOO S40.C0 



FloraHlll 1.20 1000 lO.OO 



Alba 310 :«.00 1260O 



Wolcott 3.40 30.00 126.00 



LosAneeles 3.00 26 (JO lOO.OB 



Norway 1.20 1000 40.00 



Lillian" Pond li.OO 45.00 200.00 



White Cloud 100 a.OO 35.00 



Fink. 



Lawson »1.40 112.60 160.00 



MarqulB l.OU 9.00 35.00 



Genevieve Lord 1.00 0.00 35.00 



Argyle 100 900 35.00 



Mrs.Joost 1.20 1000 40.00 



Mermaid 1.20 10.00 40 00 



Guardian Angel l.OU 9 00 35.00 



Mrs. Hlginbotham 2.60 20.00 90 00 



Creasbrook 250 20.00 90.00 



Mrs. Roosevelt 500 45.00 2no.OO 



Enchantress 6.00 50 GO 250 00 



Success 400 3600 150.00 



McKinley 6.00 56.00 2.50 00 



Triumph 120 11.00 60.00 



Wm.Scott 12(1 11.00 60.00 



Dorothy 2.10 15.00 



26 at 100 rate. 250 at 1000 rate. 



Scarlet. Per 100 



G. H.Crane 1120 



America 1.20 



Estelle 160 



Mrs. Palmer 1-20 



Apollo 3.60 



Adonis 7.00 



Crimson. 



Harlowarden 16.00 



Gov. Roosevelt 120 



Gen. Gomez 1.00 



Tellow. 



Golden Beauty tl.76 



Eldorado 1.00 



Gold Nugget 1.50 



Variegated. 



Vlolania (4-lnch bloom) (12.00 



Marshall Field 5.00 



Tiger (Fancy) 6.00 



Stella 3.00 



Bradt 1.T5 



Armazindy 101 



Viola Allen 3.00 



2500 at 5000 rate. 



Unrooted Cuttings at half price. 



TERMS : — Spot Cash. No discount given, no matter how large the order. We prepay 

 express charges at above figures to your city. Jf on arrival tley are not satisfactory 

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



California Carnation Co., °io3° Loomis,Cal. 

 STRONGLY ROOTED C4RN4TI0NS -- NOW Ready. 



OBOWN OUT or DOOBS AND BOOTED WITHOUT HEAT. 



White 100 1000 6000 



QueenLouise $120 $10.00 $4000 



FloraHlll 120 1000 40 00 



Alba 3.40 3000 12500 



Gov. Wolcott 340 30,00 125,00 



Norway 120 10 00 40.00 



LllUau'Pond 60O 45.00 225 00 



Chicot 120 11.00 5000 



VlohlAllen .....3.00 3500 100.00 



Pink 



Mrs. Thomas Lawson 140 12 50 I'.O 00 



Mrs.Joost 120 1000 40 00 



Mermaid 1.20 10 00 40 00 



Mrs. Roosevelt 6 00 65 00 22.) 00 



Enchantress 6 00 50.00 225.00 



Success 400 35.00 1.50 00 



Pres. McKinley 5 00 .45 00 200 OO 



Cressbrook 2 50 20.00 90.00 



Scarlet 



J. H. Manley 3.50 30 00 14000 



G.H. Crane. 120 10 00 40 OO 



America 120 10 00 40 00 



Estelle 1.50 14.00 6500 



Scarlet 100 



Mrs. Palmer $1.20 



Apollo 3.50 



Adonis 7.00 



Crimson 



Harlowarden — 

 Gov. Roosevelt.. 



5.00 

 1,20 



1,00 



5,00 

 3 00 



9 00 



),00 



Yellow 



Eldorado 



Variegated 



Marshall Field 



Stella 



Armazindy 100 



Prosperity 1-40 



Gaiety 300 



DNBOOTED CUTTINGS at one-half the 

 above prices. 

 25 at 100 rate. 2.S0 at lOUO rate. 2500 at 5000 rate. 

 CASH WITH OBDEB. 



We prepay express charges and guarantee satisfaction. We have as fine mooted cuttings as were 

 T growiv If our cuttlng.s are not satisfactory return at once and your money w ill be letundea. 



ever grown 



LOOMIS FLORAL CO., LOOMIS, CAL. 



Mention Review wbeo yoa write. 



Dietricli it Huston, nurserymen, nre 

 putting np two new lath houses and a 

 largo propagating house. 



A good many eastern gardeners have 

 arrived in Los Angeles during the last 

 two months, and I believe this is due to 

 an article signed ' ' Poppy ' ' in another 

 trade paper last August, stating that 

 there was not a competent gardener in 

 southern California. There are and al- 

 ways have been gardeners of the best 

 type in southern California. ' ' Poppy ' ' 

 was driving a hotel bus not long ago. A 

 few years in the nursery business would 

 be a benefit to him. 



There is plenty of room here for prac- 

 tical growers with capital enough to en- 

 gage in business. Of the other kind the 

 supply more than equals the demand. 



Considerable has been said and writ- 

 ten about stem-rot in eai-nations. It can 

 be avoided by proper treatment. When 

 planting out in the field plants for later 

 use under glass, use a hoe and open a 

 furrow as deep as your hoe. Fill this 

 furrow two-thirds full with as good soil 

 as you will use on your bench, and then 

 rake in enough of the field soil to fill up 

 the trench. Then with the hoe chop the, 

 length of the trench, after which tread 



ROOTED CUTTINGS NOW READY. 



lUO 1000 

 MrsHlgbO'm 1,30 $12,00 

 Mrs P,Palm'r 1,30 12 00 



Eldorado 1,20 10,00 



Prosperity.,,, 1,40 12,50 

 price. Cash witii order. 



100 1000 



Q. Louise $1 20 $10,00 



FloraHlll,,,, 1,20 10 00 

 Mr8T,Laws'n 1 40 11,00 



Mermaid 1,00 10 00 , 



Unrooted cuttings hall 

 express paid, 



THE KNULL NURSERIES, Penryn, Cal. 



Mention Review when you write, 



the trench with both feet, stepping side- 

 waj-s, and rake off to even it. This re- 

 sults in concentrating the roots, the sides 

 of the trench being harder than the soil 

 in it, and the roots run in the trench 

 instead of over the field. This enables 

 you to lift a ball of fibrous roots in- 

 stead of merely a main root and a few 

 branches. Plant as deep as your plants 

 will allow. When lifted for the bench 

 you will find a stem at least three inches 

 long. Plant in bench to the top of the 

 ball, and the stem, if the plant is not 

 vsfaterlogged at the first watering, w-ill 

 harden so there will be no danger of stem- 

 rot or other rot attacking them. 



For field blooming stock I advise plant-, 

 ingas shallow as possible, thereby keep- 

 ing the stem well up in the light and air. 



H. B. 



