FEBnuABi 4, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



529 



PACIFIC COAST. 



San Francisco. — A public exhibition 

 of spring flowers with bulbous bloom as 

 the leading feature, will be given by the 

 California State Floral Society in the 

 grand nave of the Ferry building, March 

 24 to 26. 



PLANT NOTES. 



Budded Roses. 



Some years ago there were many large 

 rose growers who advertised their rose3 

 as being grown on their own roots and 

 made much of the fact that they did not 

 grow nor handle grafted stock. As a 

 consequence the general public, when it 

 became necessary to visit any of our 

 local nurseries in quest of roses with 

 M-hich to adorn their gardens, generally 

 insisted that they be given plants that 

 were grown on their own roots. Although 

 in almost all cases the buyers had not the 

 sliglitest idea why roses grown this way 

 were more desirable than the grafted ar- 

 ticle, still they had that idea in their 

 heads and as a consequence generally 

 bought little plants with hardly enough 

 life in them to stand transplanting. 



All rose growers know that many of 

 our finest varieties, especially among the 

 tea family, make very few and very poor 

 roots even under the best conditions and 

 it takes usually at least three years be- 

 fore they grow as large as the same vari- 

 ety would grow if budded on some vari- 

 ety of wild stock that is suited to it. In 

 the first place the reader will bear in 

 mind roses are grown outside in Cali- 

 fornia entirely. In the second place also 

 make a note of the fact that we do not 

 graft roses to any extent on this coast. 

 I used the term grafted roses merely 

 because roses are grown that way both in 

 Europe and in our enstorn states, but 

 strictly speaking three-fourths of the 

 plants handled here are budded stock. 



My leasons for preferring budded roses 

 to those gTown on their own roots (ex- 

 cept for some strong growing kinds 

 and a majority of the climbing varieties) 

 are that, first, they grow stronger; sec- 

 ond, they are longer lived; third, they 

 are easier transplanted ; fourth, the roots 

 are not subject to borers and other root 

 pests. In our large rose growing estab- 

 lishments about six different varieties of 

 wild stocks are used on which to bud the 

 different sorts of roses. This represents 

 the results of many years of experience, 

 for we have found that certain varieties 

 do well only when budded on certain 

 varieties of wild roses and to have the 

 most satisfaction from your plants they 

 must mate properly. This is really the 

 most important item in growing budded 

 roses. 



Another feature that must not be over- 

 looked is the disbudding of the wild 

 stock. By this I mean the cutting out 

 of all the eyes below where the bud is 

 inserted. This is done after the cuttings are 

 made and before they are planted. This 

 removes the objection that has heaped 

 odium on roses that were grown in any 

 other way than on their own roots. We 

 grow Marechal Niel on this coast five 

 feet high from the bud the first season, 

 and Climbing Niphetos five to six feet 

 high. Such varieties as Caroline Testout, 

 Liberty, Belle Siebrecht, Kaiserin, Me- 

 teor and Perle des Jardins, average three 

 feet high the first season and entirely 



STRONGLY ROOTED C4RN4TI0NS -- NOW Ready. 



GROWN OUT OF SOOBS AND BOOTED WITHOUT HEAT. 



White 



lUU 



Queen Louise $l 20 



Flora Hill i 2i) 



Alba :i40 



Gov. Wolcotl 3 40 



Norway 120 



Lillian Pond 5 oo 



Chicot 120 



Viola Allen 3.00 



Pink 



Mrs. Tliomas Lawson 140 



Mrs. Jooat 120 



Mermaid 1.20 



Mrs. Roosevelt 6 00 



Success 4 00 



Pres. McKlnley 5.00 



Cressbroolj 2 60 



Tellow 



Eldorado ].00 



lUUU 

 SIO.OO 

 10 00 

 30 00 

 30.00 

 10 Oil 

 46.00 

 ll.OU 

 25 OU 



12 60 

 10 00 

 10 00 

 65 00 

 35.00 

 46 00 

 20.00 



9 11(1 



Scarlet 100 lOOO 



Mrs. Palmer $1.20 $10.00 



Apollo 3.50 :i0.00 



Adonis 7.00 6600 



J. H. Manley...., 3.60 30 00 



G. H. Crane 1.20 10.00 



America 120 10 00 



Crimson 



Harlowarden 5.00 146.00 



Gov.Roosevelt 1.20 ^ 11.00 



Variegated 



Marshall Field 6.00 45.00 



Stella 300 25.00 



Armazlndy 1.00 9.00 



Gaiety 3.00 26.00 



25 at 100 rate. 2.50 at 1000 rate. 2.500 at 5000 rate. 



WE PREPAY EXPRESS CHARGES t^^f^^^^JLl^^J^ 



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



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Mention RpvIp-w when yoa write. 



i&, CARNATIONS ISUnt. 



5 Best and most strongly rooted Carnations on the market. 



White. Per 100 1000 5O0O 



White Cloud $J.JO $ 9.00 $35.00 



Variegated. 



Armazindy J. 00 9.00 35.00 



Prosperity J. 40 J2.50 60.00 



Pink. Per 100 lOCO ,5000 



Marquis $1.00 $ 9.00 $35.00 



Mrs. Joost 1.20 10.00 40.00 



Scarlet. 



America J. 20 10.00 40.00 



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



I Loomis Carnation Co./°n5^" Loomis, Cal. I 



Mpiitlnn Ui'vtpw when yon write. 



without irrigation. This is as much if 

 not more than any of these kinds will 

 grow in three years under the same con- 

 ditions if grown on their own roots. This 

 accounts for the fact that our rose grow- 

 ers who force for cut flowers under glass 

 are falling in line and year by year are 

 planting less stock on its own roots and 

 insisting on big strong plants grown with- 

 out irrigation on some vigorous wild 

 stock. G. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market. 



Warm weather during the past week 

 is bringing flowers into market in some- 

 what larger quantity than for some time 

 past. Freesias are now at their best 

 and are a good selling article for the 

 florists. They are wholesaled at 75 

 cents to $1 per hundred spikes and re- 

 tail at about three times that price. 

 Valley is plentiful at $4 per hundred 

 and tulips are selling rapidly at $3 per 

 hundred wholesale. Daffodils are not 

 as plentiful as they should be at this 

 season and they will not be offered in 

 quantity for several weeks yet. The 

 single Trumpet Major is the only vari- 

 ety in bloom at present. All sorts of 

 narcissi are plentiful and cheap. Vio- 

 lets in abundance, the Princess of Wales 

 variety, at 75 cents per dozen bunches 

 are retailed by the thousands daily by 

 the street venders and remind us that 

 spring will be here very soon. Carna- 

 tions are fairly plentiful except good 

 whites. The best red and pink sorts 

 are selling at $3 per hundred and just 

 about enough to fill the demand nicely. 

 Roses are not in over-supply, but are 



getting more plentiful daily. The prices 

 rule about the same as those quoted the 

 past two weeks. Lilium Harrisii are 

 not up to the standard in length of 

 stem. They wholesale at $2 to $3 per 

 dozen. Wild maidenhair fern, owing 

 to our continued dry weather, is very 

 scarce and the cultivated variety is 

 short and soft, so that green stuff is 

 not up to the standard. Business out- 

 side of funerals is very quiet, nothing 

 except a little wedding work at present. 



Notes. 



E. Gill, of West Berkeley, has just 

 finished planting thirty-five acres of rose 

 cuttings. Mr. Gill is the largest rose 

 grower on the coast and his sales thus 

 far this season foot up close to half 

 a million plants. 



Miss A. Sherling and Miss V. W. 

 Stevens, of Oakland, have formed a 

 partnership to engage in decorating of 

 all kinds. Both ladies are well known 

 on both sides of the bay and have had 

 considerable experience in the florists' 

 line. 



Geo. A. Duhem, formerly in the florist 

 business here, is now located in Napa, 

 Cal. G. 



The Eeview is all right. — ViCK & 

 Hill Co.. Rochester, N. Y. 



The Review is as necessary to the suc- 

 cessful florist, as air and water to his 

 plants. — W. W. Nash, Montrose, Pa. 



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 business without The Review's weekly 

 visit. — Oak Hill Greenhouses, Evans- 

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