Mabch 10, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



783 



RETAIL FLORISTS. 



(CONTINUED.) 



WM. SCOTT CO. 



Main and Balcom Sts. 



Buffalo, N. Y. 



S. B. Stewart, 



4o. leth street, OMAHA* NEB* 



PACIFIC COAST. 



SAN FRANCISCO; 



The Market. 



We are having bright weather again, 

 after an almost unprecedented siege of 

 rain, and we are all glad of the change. 

 Business, outside of the usual work for 

 funerals, is nothing to brag of, but the 

 funeral design portion of it has been 

 good for the past two weeks. Flowers 

 in genera! seem to be a bit more plenti- 

 ful, except roses. American Beauties are 

 selling wholesale at from $1.50 to $3 

 per dozen and very few good blooms of- 

 fered. Brides and Maids bring 50 cents 

 to $1 for fancy stock, which is a good 

 price. Liberty are 50 to 75 cents per 

 dozen and a few Testouts fetch 75 cents, 

 which completes our supply of roses. 

 Carnations are held at the same figure 

 as they have been for the past six weeks, 

 although I expect prices will fall some- 

 what in the next few days. Violets are 

 iiardly worth picking — they are so cheap 

 and since they are not being handled by 

 the hucksters on the street corners they 

 are a perfect glut. Great bunches con- 

 taining 200 blooms are sold wholesale at 

 50 cents per dozen. 



A few mums are holding on remark- 

 ably well but the stems are almost de- 

 void of foliage and the flowers are used 

 principally in designs. The early daf- 

 fodils are beginning to disappear and 

 some of the later varieties are coming 

 in to take their place. They sell at from 

 50 cents to $1 per hundred. Valley is 

 plentiful and a few growers are bring- 

 ing in fair Harrisii. Freesias are get- 

 ting scarce but tulips are still holding 

 their own. The last few days of sun- 

 shine have brought out a wealth of nar- 

 cissi and they can be had at any price, 

 but their season is almost over. 



Notes. 



A. Ringier, of W. W. Barnard & Co., 

 Chicago, has arrived in town. He re- 

 ports everything along the road in good 

 shape and business ahead of last year. 



The agitation regarding the right of 

 street venders to sell on the public side- 

 walks has been the topic among the San 

 ' aneisco florists for the past week. 

 The Retail Florists' Association is to 

 appear before the supervisors on Thurs- 

 iltv night of this week and renew the 

 fight to have the ordinance recently 

 adopted made permanent. For some un- 

 accountable reason one of our largest 

 daily newspapers has championed the 



DO YOl 



know how much you s 

 when you buy Ribbons direct 

 from a manufacturer ? "You 



save all between profits," the profits of the jobber, the 



wholesaler, the commission house. 



And yet, the Ribbons are the Right Ribbons for you. 



Ribbons of quality and of careful weave. Colors woven 



to match the Violet, Rose, Carnation, Foliage. Ribbons 



different from the ordinary kind, and a postal wiU bring 



you samples. 



®l|^ fxnt Q^vn g'tlk MxUb OInmpang 



44 



"a Wee Wail from the Woods (man)" 



Quality Counts" 



("THAT'S ALL") 



Tills stock can l>e had only direct from the 

 Introducers or their agents. 



J. B. DEASIUD, Chicago, lU. 



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



I,EO NIESSEN, Fhlladelphla, Fa. 



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



REED & KELLER, New York City. 



HOLTON * HCNKEL CO., Mllwaakee, Wis. 



BARTELDES * CO., Denver, Colo. 



G. M. KELLOGG, Kansas City, Mo. 



H. G. BERNING, St. Louis, Mo. 



A full supply always on hand at these 



points and prices same as ours — 



plus cost of carriage 



(jaldwell Tli6 W^o^^'^^" G^- 



EVERGREEN, ALABAIHA. 



cause of the basket men and devotes sev- 

 eral columns each day to records of inter- 

 views it has with our prominent mer- 

 chants who pretend to say the town will 

 go to the dogs if the street peddlers 

 are not allowed to resume business. Such 

 rubbish is very disgusting to our city 

 florists and to the trade in general, and 

 it is to be hoped that the supervisors 

 will make the license high enough so that 

 the hucksters will be compelled to charge 

 a fair price for their stock. G. 



WAYSIDE JOTTINGS. 



At Golden Gate park, Peter Rock is a 

 vary busy man just now. He has a crew 

 of men lifting trees, etc., to beautify the 

 small parks of San Francisco, especially 

 those located south of Market street, 

 where there is an element that not only 

 gets away with the shrubbery, but occa- 

 sionally some of the statuary and por- 

 tions of the fountains disappear. This 

 is a growing locality. The stock in the 

 nursery rows look fine after the rain we 

 have had and does credit to Mr. Rock, 



the painstaking superintendent. He has 

 a block of Erica persoluta alba that is 

 particularly noticeable. 



H. Rodfish, of Dwightway, Berkeley, 

 has a grand display of Enchantress. His 

 Lawson and Queen Louise are well 

 grown, "assuming the God-like attitude 

 of freedom" from carnation diseases. 

 His roses, on Baltimore Belle stock, are 

 vigorous and clean. 



A. Massey, of Elmhurst, is busy get- 

 ting his carnation cuttings into the sand. 

 He propagates from selected stock. The 

 houses are neatness itself. A new range 

 has been installed and there seems to 

 be but one thing lacking about this 

 place, viz., "Highland Mary." 



At Ocean View the hillsides are beau- 

 tiful with thousands of violets, and the 

 pansies from this locality are perfectly 

 grand. 



In San Francisco violets) are being re- 

 tailed m large bunches at 10 cents per 

 bunch "all over town." The camellias 

 are a sight. We measured some five 

 inches across the back of the flower. 

 Bride and Maid roses are unusuall.v 



