January 2S. 1904. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



481 



PACIFIC COAST. 



San Jose, Cal. — The frosts have been 

 as severe as last year. Callas have been 

 cut to the ground and some bulbs entire- 

 ly lost. And the outdoor beds of Paper 

 White narcissus are producing no flowers 

 of value. But the cut flower trade seems 

 to be good. C. Xavlet's store is contin- 

 ually filled with customers, and G. A. 

 Lehmann is bus}' at both store and green- 

 houses. Mr. Braslan, the seed grower, is 

 still in the east. Some very fine Princess 

 of Wales violets are being received from 

 Colma. The violets of local growers have 

 all been hurt by the frosts. 



NiLES. Cax.— John Rock, of the Cali- 

 fornia Nursery Co., says that the sea- 

 son 's business so far shows a satisfactory 

 increase over that of last 3"ear. The sell- 

 ing season extends from October to May. 

 In fruit trees there has been a run on 

 cherries this season, and prunes have 

 sold better than for some years past. 

 Olives are less in demand each year. The 

 large amount of labor required in gath- 

 ering the fruit extracts about all the 

 profit from the crop. Mr. Rock believes 

 there is a great future for the Jordan 

 almond, which he is now introducing to 

 CsJifornia growers. It has a very large 

 kernel of fine quality. The nursery con- 

 tains 500 acres and is strong in orna- 

 mentals. There are many acres of palms 

 and ornamental trees that are never seen 

 planted outside in the east. An avenue 

 of immense Phoenix canariensis is a sight 

 to remember. There are greenhouses for 

 some of the tender plants and an im- 

 mense earth house for plants and shrubs 

 in pots. Mr. Rock is not an old man, 

 but he has been in the nursery business 

 in California for forty-one years. 



PLANT NOTES. 



Although the plant buyers in Califor- 

 nia do not devote as much space to car- 

 pet bedding and annual flowering plants 

 as is given in the east, there is some 

 demand in the vicinity of our large cit- 

 ies and in many of the better class of 

 country residences for showy, soft- 

 wooded stock. We have not had a very 

 severe winter and geraniums and helio- 

 tropes in the neighborhood of San Fran- 

 cisco are still growing, although in some 

 exposed places they have been bitten 

 somewhat. 



AehVranthes, alternantheras, gerani- 

 ums and salvias can be easily rooted 

 here, at this time of the year, in cold 

 frames and kept in flats until the middle 

 of March or the first of April and they 

 will be ready for sale. We are planting 

 seed of Golden Feather and Lobelia 

 Crystal Palace Gem today and giving 

 the boxes a little bottom heat and they 

 will be ready at the same time. The 

 dwarf blue ageratum is one of the njost 

 delicate bedding plants here and i'" 

 grown from seed also. Coleus is not 

 much used for outside planting in Cali- 

 fornia, being grown principally in pots 

 for house decoration. 



In geraniums, the best selling sorts are 

 Mme. Salleroi, Mme. Pollock, Mountain 

 of Snow, Marechal McMahon and Happy 

 Thought. Both the yellow and red al- 

 ternanthera, variegated alyssum, dwarf 

 lobelia, achyranthes in three colors and 

 scarlet salvias are about all that are 

 used in quantity. The eanna. although 



STRONGLY ROOTED CARNATIONS - NOW Ready. 



OROWir OUT OF DOOBS AND KOOTED WITHOUT HEAT. 



White lUU 



Queen Louise $1.20 



Flora Hill 1.21) 



Alba 3.40 



Gov. Wolcott 3,40 



Norway 1 20 



Lillian Pond 6 00 



Chicot 120 



Viola Allen 3.00 



Fink 



Mrs. Tbomas Lawson 140 



Mrs. Joost 1 20 



Mermaid 1.20 



Mrs. Roosevelt f^ 00 



Enchantress ti 00 



Success 4 00 



Pres. McKlnley 5.00 



Cressbrook 2 50 



Scarlet 



J. H. ManJey 3.50 



G. H. Crane 1.20 



America 1 20 



Estelle 1.00 



Scarlet 100 1000 5000 



Mrs. Palmer $1.20 $10 00 $40 00 



Apollo 3..50 30.00 12500 



Adonis T.OO 65.00 300.00 



Crimson 



Harlowarden 5.00 4500 200.00 



Gov. Roosevelt 1.20 11.00 60.00 



Yellow 



Eldorado 1.00 9.00 36.00 



Tarlegrated 



MarshallPleld 5.00 45 00 200.00 



Stella 300 26.00 lOOOU 



Armaiindy l.W 9.00 35.00 



Prosperity 1-40 1200 6000 



Gaiety..... 3.00 26.00 11600 



UNROOTED CUTTINGS at one-half the 

 above prices. 



35 at 100 rate. 250 at 1000 rate. 2600 at 5000 rate. 



WC DDPDAV EYDDCCQ PUARPFQ and wiU ship C. O. D. with the priv- 

 WC rntrMI CArnCOO bnHnUCO n^g^ „£ examination; we assum- 

 ing all responsibility of Cuttings arriving in good condition and proving satisfactory. 



LOOMIS FLORAL CO., LOOMIS, CAL. 



Mention Review wbeo you write. 



'"^ CARNATIONS '"' ^ 



Ready 



Shipment. 



Best and most strongfly rooted Carnations on the market. 



Fink. Per 100 1000 5000 



Uwson $1.40 $12.50 $60. 00 



Marquis J. 00 



Mrs. Joost 1.20 



Crimson. 



Gov. Roosevelt ... J • 20 



9.00 

 10 00 



35.00 

 40.00 



J J. 00 50 00 



* White. Per 100 1000 .5000 



1 Oueen Louise ....$1.20 $10.00 $40.00 



I Wolcott 3.40 30.00 125.00 



I White Cloud J. 10 9.00 3500 



^ Scarlet. 



I America 1. 20 10.00 40.00 



S Variegated. Per 100 1000 .5000 



i Armazindy $1.00 $9.00 $35.00 $ 



5 Prosperity J 40 J2.50 60.00 ^ 



5 Express prepaid to any destination. Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back g 



I Loomis Carnation Co., '"ns^"" Loomis, Cal. I 



Mfnrlon Rt'vlHw when you write. 



in great favor in the eastern states, is 

 not planted generally in California. Ow- 

 ing to the long, dry season they do not 

 make as much growth or attain such 

 showy proportions as they do elsewhere. 

 We use instead the giant Abyssinian 

 banana (Musa ensete) and various hardy 

 palms, either as a background for 

 smaller plants or as individual clumps in 

 the lawn. The bananas have not been 

 frost bitten to any extent this season 

 and unless we have some very severe 

 weather they will begin a new season's 

 growth with plenty of foliage on hand. 



G. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market. 



We are having fairly cold weather 

 during the present week. The ther- 

 mometer registered 28 last night, and 

 that has been about the average for the 

 past ten days. All kinds of flowers are 

 somewhat scarcer than they were last 

 week, and the price of good roses has 

 gone up a step. I do not think the qual- 

 ity of Brides and Maids is improving, 

 as almost everything offered is weak in 

 stem and small in flower. Carnations 

 are holding their own, and there is no 

 surplus of any variety. Chrysanthe- 

 mums are still in the ring, but they are 

 getting smaller and soon will be a thing 



of the past. Bulbous stock of the nar- 

 cissus tribe is very plentiful, but daffo- 

 dils are scarce yet and bring very fair 

 prices. It will be a couple of weeks 

 before they are handled in quantity. 

 Valley is plentiful and sells at $5 per 

 hundred wholesale. Much of it is soft 

 from over-forcing. Tulips are to be had 

 only in limited quantities, but in a 

 week or two we may expect a deluge of 

 them. All sorts of green stuff is scarce. 

 Freesias are somewhat easier, but there 

 have been no large quantities brought 

 in yet. Ldlium Harrisii are not up to 

 the standard with most of the growers, 

 many short-stemmed flowers representing 

 either poor quality of bulbs or improper 

 handling. 



Notes. 



H. Eowland Lee, the well-known land- 

 scape architect of Los Angeles, is in 

 town for a few days, and so is Chas. 

 Olaine. of Palo Alto. 



The Holland Floral Co. has purchased 

 an acre of ground in Elmhurst, and is 

 contemplating the erection of several 

 more greenhouses. G. 



Beatrice, Neb. — While the Nebraska 

 State riurliciiltural Society was in ses- 

 sion S. H. Dole & Sons took advantage 

 of the advertising opportunity to deco- 

 rate the dinner tables and distribute bou- 

 tornicres. 



