EBBBUARY 25, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



665 



RETAIL FLORISTS. 



tCONTINUED.) 



WM. SCOTT, 



Olain and Balcom Sts. 



Buffalo, N. Y. 



S. B. Stewart, 



40. leth street, OMAHA* NEB« 



PACIFIC COAST. 



It is stated that the V. 8. Department 

 of Agriculture has decided upon Chi- 

 eo, Cal., as the site of the Pacific coast 

 station soon to be established. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



I'he Market. 



A ,-k * .4^ w« ^•'2 calling the attention of 



/\Q^||| all discerning florists to the 

 <9 merits of the RIGHT RIB- 



BONS. Ribbons perfectly woven, and in colors 

 matching nature's moods. The Rose, the Vio- 

 let, the Carnation, the Foliage shades are al- 

 most perfection. 



And yet— the RIGHT RIBBONS cost you less 

 than the usual sort, for , you buy direct from 

 the mill, and " save all between profits." 



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Pllilabrlpljia 



We have had an almost continuous 

 downpour of rain for the past week ami 

 it is beginning to have the effect of 

 shortening our supply of flowers, espe- 

 cially roses and carnations. Business, 

 with the exception of funeral orders, 

 has been quiet and as Lent has arrived 

 the situation is not likely to improve 

 to any extent. Beauty roses are few 

 and far between and the only really goo<l 

 flowers I notice are Bridesmaid and 

 Bride, and they are not abundant. Car- 

 nations are scarce and the best Lawson 

 are selling today at 60 cents per dozen 

 wholesale. Fancy varieties bring 75 

 cents and Hill, Estelle, Sehwerin and 

 Cressbrook 50 cents. Tulips are in their 

 prime and the yellow and red sorts arc 

 being handled in large quantities. Rem- 

 brandt seems to be in the best demand 

 and most of the flowers shown are of 

 good quality. Valley is plentiful ami 

 sells fairly well, although some growers 

 complain they are having a little dif- 

 ficulty in keeping their stock moving. 

 Owing to the fact that many violets are 

 grown on low ground and the rain has 

 been so heavy that many of the growers 

 have been unable to get on the field to 

 pick, on several days of this week they 

 were impossible to procure; however, we 

 received an avalanche of them the past 

 few days and the price has dropped. A 

 few Marie Louise are seen but they will 

 not be plentiful until next month. The 

 wild maiden-hair fern, although a very 

 poor keeping article, has had to take the 

 place of the cultivated and it is a poor 

 substitute. SmOax is about out of the 

 race. Azaleas are displayed everywhere 

 and they make an elegant showing. K. 

 Sehwerin has had the finest specimens 

 I have seen in market this season and 

 they are a splendid advertisement for his 

 ability to handle them. 



Notes. 



H. B. McGowan has been appointe.l 

 deputy superintendent of parks for the 

 city of Oakland. Mr. McGowan was 

 for many years with the Thermal Vale 

 Nursery and is well known to the gar- 

 dening fraternity. 



There is some talk that our municipal 



"Quality Counts' 



("THAT'S ALL") 



This stock can be had only direct from the 

 Introducers or their agents. 



J. B. DEAMCD, Chicago, lU. 



W. F. KASTING. Buffalo, N. T. 



LEO NIESSEN, Philadelphia, Pa. 



J. M. McCULLOUGH'S SONS, Cincinnati, O. 



REED & KELLER. New York City. 



HOLTON & HDNKEL CO., Milwaukee, Wl«. 



BARTELUES * CO., Denver, Colo. 



(i. M. KELLOGG, Kansas City, Mo. 



H. G. BEKNING, St. Louis, Mo. 



A full supply always on hand at these 



points and prices same as ours — 



plus cost of carriage 



Qaldweli Jlie Vlfoodsman Qo. 



EVERGREEN, ALABAMA. 



authorities will regulate the peddling 

 of flowers by the Italian venders on our 

 public streets and compel them to move 

 to less busy thoroughfares than they at 

 present monopolize with their baskets. 

 The Chronicle corner, one of the busiest 

 spots in San Francisco, is a favorite 

 place for them to congregate and some 

 of the merchants as well as the florists 

 are complaining. It is a long existing 

 nuisance and it "is probable that they will 

 be driven comnletely off the streets along 

 with the sandwich men and bootblacks 

 who have all had to remove their stands 

 inside the property line. 



C. W. Scott, of Chicago, arrived in 

 town this week. G. 



FLORISTS' GREENS. 



The florists of the Pacific coast are 

 depending more each season on our na- 

 tive green stuff, both for background 

 and trimming in flora! designs and to use 

 in bunches, or in the making of fes- 

 tooning for larger decorations. It is 

 only within the past few years, that the 



wild dagger ferns were made any use 

 of and now they have become almost in- 

 dispensable to the florists. We formerly 

 used smilax for the edges of our set 

 pieces and when that was not in season 

 pittosporum tips or something of that na- 

 ture. But now smilax is used almost 

 entirely for festooning and several va- 

 rieties of ferns have taken its place. 



The cutting and marketing of the 

 wild huckleberry, however, has become 

 quite an industry among our Italian 

 woodsmen and many tons of this beau- 

 tiful native shrub are sent into the San 

 Francisco market yearly. The demand 

 is still growing so that the gatherers are 

 pushing farther each year into the moun- 

 tainous country in pursuit of this ever- 

 green. The huckleberry grows in Cali- 

 fornia to the height of eight feet and 

 inhabits the coast ranges from Monterey 

 to Vancouver island. Its leaves are of 

 a particularly rich shining green and in 

 the spring the stems are covered with 

 white, waxen beUs. It grows most lux- 

 uriantly on the higb mountain ridges 



