March 



11)U4. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



727 



RETAIL FLORISTS. 



tCONTINUED.) 



WM. scon, 



Main and Balcom Sts. 



Buffafo, N. Y. 



S. B. Stewart, 



Wo. 16 tb street, OMAHA, NEB. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



San Francisco, Cal. — The Board of 

 Public Works has granted the petition of 

 the Retail Florists' Association and or- 

 dered the flower peddlers off the streets. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market. 



We have had an almost continuous 

 downpour of rain for the past tuo weeks 

 and the eflfeet on business is very marked. 

 Outside of funeral orders, which have 

 been fairly steady, there is very little 

 doing, and stocks of flowers have piled 

 up at a tremendous rate in all the stores. 

 Violets have become so plentiful that 

 many of the growers have ceased to 

 pick any, or only a small portion of 

 the crop. The fact that the basket ped- 

 dlers have been driven off the public 

 streets adds to the quantity that is 

 dumped daily in the stores. Bunches 

 containing 200 fine blossoms are sold 

 Avholesale at 50 cents per dozen, and 

 there is no prospect of the supply dimin- 

 ishing. All kinds of outdoor bulbous 

 stock, and especially narcissi and dafl'o- 

 dils, are a glut. The former sell at from 

 25 to 50 cents per hundred and the lat- 

 ter at about 50 cents per hundred for 

 the best quality of flowers. Many of 

 the dealers handle considerable fruit 

 blossoms and almond, peach and cydonia 

 ■are at their best at this time. Carna- 

 tions remain stationary in price and, 

 although not very plentiful, there are 

 more than enough to lill requirements. 

 Roses are about the same iu price as 

 they have been for the past three weeks 

 and about enough to supply demands. In- 

 •door freesias are coming in good lots 

 and find a very ready sale. There has 

 been a gi'eat improvement in the quality 

 - of this popular flower over those of the 

 past few years. There is a freesia spe- 

 -ciali-st in Oakland who grows his flow- 

 ers on stems two feet long and over and 

 stiff as carnations, and he has found a 

 splendid sale for them at $3 per hun- 

 dred spikes. Valley is very plentiful 

 and Lilium Harrisi is becoming more 

 plentiful. I think most of our growers 

 will have a good supply for Easter, judg- 

 ing by the condition of the plants in 

 some of the nurseries I have visited. 

 Dutch hyacinths in 6-inch pots and tu- 

 lips, especially Keizerskron and Yellow 

 Prince, help to make windows especially 

 ■ attractive at this time. Some very fair 

 samples of Crimson Rambler in 7 and 

 8-inch pots and in full bloom are be- 

 ginning to come in and everj-thing here 



Your Easter 



display should 

 be different ; 

 above the 

 average. The RIGHT RIBBONS will help to make it 

 so. You will be surprised at the elegance and distinction 

 which these ribbons of quality give to your plants and 

 flowers. Woven with especial reference to florists' use, the 

 textures a-e firm and lustrous, and the colors are as near the 

 shades of flowers and foliage as can be produced. 



-■ind yet— till- Hight Eibbons cost vou lest- than the usual sort, 

 for "you save all betw«en profits" by buying direct from the mill. 



5plttlabrl^l|ia 



R-'viow Tvhon you 



99 



A Wee Wail from the woods (man)" 



"Quality Counts 



("THAT'S ALL") 



This stock can be had only direct from the 

 introducers or their agents. 



J. B. DEAMUD, Chicago, 111. 



W. F. KASTING. Buffalo, N. Y. 



LEO NIESSEN, Philadelphia, Pa. 



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



REED ,6 KELLER, New York City. 



HOLTON * HCNKEL CO., Milwauliee, Wl8. 



BARTELUES & CO., Denver, Colo. 



G. M. KELLOGG, Kansas City, Mo. 



H. G. BERNING, St. Lonis, Mo. 



A fall supply aln'ays on hand at these 



points and prices same as oars — 



plus cost of carriage 



(jaldwell Ik Woodsman (jo. 



EVERGREEN, ALABAMA. 



is as merry as a marriage bell, except 

 business, and this is. as I stated before, 

 "on the bum." 



Notes. 



Apropos of the fact that the Italian 

 flower venders have been ordered off the 

 streets by the city authorities, the Mer- 

 chants' Association of San Francisco has 

 sent a lengthy communication to our 

 Board of Supervisors, in which they 

 state that as the flower peddlers were 

 distinctively a feature of San Francisco 

 life, and that they were not detrimental 

 to the florists' trade in general, but that 

 it cultivated a taste for flowers with 

 many who do not ordinarily visit the 

 stores, and that in the end trade at 

 large was much benefited. This is ex- 

 actly the opposite of what is contended 

 by the Retail Florists' Association, 

 which secured the abolition of the free 

 flower mart. The florists all over the 

 city claim that all the peddlers should 

 be driven off the streets, as it is an un- 

 fair proposition to allow them to sell 

 their goods in front of the stores and 



on the most popular thoroughfares with- 

 out charging them a heavy license to 

 even matters. The war goes merrily 

 on and we will know in a week or two 

 whether the venders will be permitted to 

 resume their usual vocation or not. 



G. 



THE MAKING OF LAWNS. 



Although the making of lawns does 

 not come strictly within the province of 

 the florist or nurseryman, our advice is 

 constantly sought regarding their plant- 

 ing, care and re-seeding. The practice 

 in California is somewhat different from 

 that of other places. To begin with, let 

 me say a few words regarding the variety 

 of grasses used. Kentucky blue grass 

 makes the best sod unless it is planted 

 either in the shade of trees or houses or 

 on very sandy soil. It is used more than 

 any other giass because it is easy to cut 

 and makes a very velvety sward. Where 

 there is much shade and a deficiency of 

 water Australian rye grass is found to be 

 much more serviceable than blue grass. 

 It roots very deeply, grows luxuriantly 



