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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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1004. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



AMERICAN ASSOCUTION Or NURSERYMLN. 



Pres., N. W. Hale. KnoxvlUe. Tenn.: Vlce-Pre8. 

 f. A. Weber, St. Louis; See'y. Geo. C. Se.lger, 

 Rochester, N. Y.; Tre^s., C. L.Yates, Rochefter, 

 N. Y. The twenty-eighth annual convention 

 will be held at Atlanta. Ga.. June. 11W4. 



Bangs, Tex. — W. .). Scliulzc, tlio 

 imrsoryman, has a smi, l)orii Dcpcmbei- IS. 



Wm. E. Cheruy, Sk., of Roi-liester, X. 

 Y., for many years eiigageil in the nursery 

 business, died Deeember 29, ixgcd 71 

 years. 



Pkok. ( '. S. S.\i;(;ext, of Arnold Arboif 

 tuni, Boston, and liis son, A. R. Sargent, 

 have retnrntHl from a six niontlis' botani- 

 cal eolleoting tonr of Russia witli more 

 than 8,01)0 speeimens. 



Two nursery agents, E. A. Ogden :ind 

 R. F. Bonniwell, of Des Moines, liave been 

 indicted liv the grand jury in Clayton 

 County, Iowa, for "conspiraey to de- 

 fraud in the sale of nursery goods. ' ' 



Prof. F. A. W.\ui;ii, of the .Vgricid- 

 tural Cidlege, Amherst, ilass., addresse.l 

 the Kan.sas State Horticultural Society at 

 Topeka, New Year's eve on "Trading 

 Fruit for Money." Prof. Waugh was 

 formerly a Topeka newspaper man. 



The fruit growers of the states just 

 west of the Xli.ssis.sippi have become con- 

 vinced that the railroads are grossly dis- 

 i-riminating against them in the matter of 

 freight rates oast. Several nurserymen 

 are members of committees apjiointed to 

 seek to correct the injustice. 



Greenville. N. C. — Oliver A. Schlos- 

 ser, .30 years old, proprietor of the Mills- 

 flale nursery and i^xjiert landscape gard- 

 ener, who came to this state from Massa- 

 cliusi>tts, has mysteriously disappeared 

 from his home. He loft on December 1r>, 

 promising to return in three days to 

 meet his business associati>s and has not 

 been heard from since. Some of them 

 fear ho has met with foul play, as his 

 Inisiness was appanmtly in excellent 

 shape. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



PLANT NOTES. 



Frost. 



XurserymeiL all (i\cr this secti(ui of 

 the coast are asked \i\ intending plant- 

 ers many times a yciir whether this or 

 that plant shrub or climbing vine is 

 hardy all the year and whether it will 

 stand such frosts as are liable to \'isit ns 

 during the winter montiis. .Many of our 

 customers have spent a greattr portion 

 of their lives in the ejistern states, where 

 soft-wooded plants will not survive the 

 winter and have to be cart fully housed 

 to keep them alive until sjiring time. 



Generally sptaking all soft-wooded 

 plants are hardy in central and south- 

 ern California and many of them in 

 the northern part of this state as w'ell 

 as in OVegou. By this I do not mean 

 that all plants that are natives of the 

 tropics can be acclimated here, but we 

 have ma<le use of a large assortment of 

 the most desirable kinds and they have 

 helped most Avonclerfully to advertise our 

 grand climate. In the neighborhood of 

 San Francisco can be found in the mid- 

 dle of winter growing Inxuriantly the 

 llnsa ensete. Ficus eUistica, Pho'nix ean- 

 ariensis and P. tenuis, Grevillea rotnista, 

 liibiscus in various colors, azaleas, pelar- 

 goniums and cinei'arias. Further s(mtli 

 kentias and latanias of giant size, rep- 

 resenting many years' growth, are stand- 

 ing witnesses to our salubrious climate. 



On Christmas day in the Pacific ocean 

 at San Francisco we liail a series of 

 swimming matches while our eastern 

 cousins in the same latitude were many 

 degrees below freezing point. We had 

 several severe frosts in .lanuary a year 

 ago but we have had no coM weather to 

 siie.'ik of since then. Geraniums lost a 

 few leaves and heliotropes, about the 

 most delicate of our garden plants, were 

 somewhat frost bitten, bat with the re- 

 turn of warmer weather in March or April 

 thev will come (uit most beautifully from 

 below the surface of the ground .mihI 

 'nakc a siilendid shrub in a very short 

 time. All roses are hardy in California 



etc.. have been tbentaiidiinl of nzcHlIence lor half a 

 ceDtury. The bent alwajs i'h*.iii>eHi. ll^ve hundreds 

 ot carluadcof 



Fruits and Ornamentals. 



40 acres of Hardy KoHes iDcludinti 45.fl00 of the 

 famuu^CrimeoQ Kamblor. 44 KreeabouBesof PalmB, 

 Firns, FernB. Roues, etc. Correspondence solicited. Catalogue free. &Jth year. lOOU acre-s. 



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Sample Colored Plates free— Send for Catalogue 

 tV UNEQCALLED FACILITIES 

 UentloD the Berlew when joo write. 



anil the iiiost dcliiato tea varit'tii-'s at- 

 tain a wonderful size when planted in 

 the open ground and on account of their 

 freeiiess of bloom they are more desir- 

 able witli us tlian the pure liybrid or 

 hybrid te;i sorts. In clinibiuj; vines all 

 the passirtoras, bignonias, lioneysuckles, 

 teconiaa, etc., <'an be safely left outside 

 over winter, 



I am writing this 011 the last day if 

 Deeember and from my window I ciiri 

 count a dozen varieties of plants in the 

 carpet bedding line, uaiuelv lobelia, half 

 a dozen varieties of geraniums, thrto col- 

 ors of achey anthus, echcverias and al- 

 ternantheras, and unless we get sonic 

 very sevtre weather next month they 

 will carry over nicely with just a little 

 of the yonng foliage ripped. G. 



SAN FRANOSCO. 



The Market. 



This is Xew Ve;ir's day and althougii 

 the stores have not had a Cliristmas rush 

 they have ke|)t comfortably busy. We 

 haii a very dull week after Christmas but 

 the price of flowers has not cheapened 

 to any extent, ilost of our growtrs cut 

 so closely last week that many of them 

 have had little to oft'er. The weather is 

 warm again and in a few days we will 

 have an abundance of stock of all kiu'^..^. 

 ("'arnations are good and the prospects 

 are for a fair su])ply indefinitely. Fancy 

 stock is ijuoted wholesale today at from 

 .50 to 75 cents per dozen. This price 

 includes Lawson, Prosperity, (.'ressbrook, 

 Estelle and other large-flowered varieties. 

 Crocker, .Toost and Triumph average 

 about 3i) cents and smaller kinds 2'> cents 

 per dozen. Roses are still in short sup- 

 ply excejit short-stemmed Brides and 

 Maids. Good Biauties sell at from $3 to 

 $4 per dozen auil short-stemmed flowers 

 at loss than half that price. Kaiserin 

 and Pres. Carnot sell at 75 cents to $1 

 and Liberty at 75 cents per dozen. 

 Plenty of Koman hyacinths, both in 

 pots and as cut blooms, and valley is in 

 good supply. Romans sell at three dozen 

 for •$] ami valley at 50 to 75 cents per 

 dozen. Single yellow daffodils are of- 

 fered in small ijuantities and sell at 50 

 cents per dozen. Poinsettias at $2 per 

 dozen and Lilium Harrisii at -$3 are 

 in good demand. Violets have dropped 

 somewhat in price during the past week 

 and they can be bought for $1 per dozen 

 bunches. Xone of them go begging, as 

 the supjily has been unusually short this 

 season. Chysanthemums, owing to the 

 favorable weather, remain with us a 

 remarkalile length of time t'nis season. 

 Good outside yellows and whites can be 

 bought today at .1;3 to $4 per hundred 

 Thiy are of good color and substance and 

 the indications are that they will be In 

 season for sineral weeks yet. 



Notes. 



Tin- Wliittlcsev Floral Garden, of Los 

 .\ngeles, .^hipiied a great ijuantity of 

 noinsittias to San Francisco for the hol- 

 iday trade. The flowers were rii'eived 

 in good sha|)e and the dealers handling 

 them made a handsome ]irofit on the 

 stock. 



Clarke Bros., of Portland, Oregon, who 

 .irrow the bulk of tlifir cut flowers "t 

 Fruitvalc. I'al.. Iia\e been having consid- 

 erable trouble tliis sea.son with their ship- 

 ments. The express cars are heated .at 

 this time of tin' yiar to a degree that 

 is mil in kei'|iini; witli the coid cMinili- 



