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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



March 10, 1904 



LOOK THIS ADV. OVER 



Asparagus Plumosus Nanus, 



The true Nanus. There's lot of difference, per looo, S6.50; 

 per 5000, S30.00. 



IMPROVED SHASTA DAISY SEEDS, per 1000, $1.00; 

 per 5000, S4 00. 



IMPROVED SHASTA DAISY PLANTS per 1000, 



$20.00; per 5000, $50.00. 



HAND HYBRIDIZED CARNATION SEED, per 100, 

 $1.00: per 1000, $9.00. 



SMILAX SEED per oz, 25c; per lb., $2.00 



GIANT PANSY SEED per oz., 4.00 



WASHINGTON NAVEL ORANGE, specimen plants, 4 ft. 

 high, $2.00 each. Try a few. 



NEW PHENOMENAL RASPBERRY. From 12 plants 

 last year we sold $24.00 worth of berries. 20 berries fill a 

 quart box. It ships 2000 miles safely. They are the best 

 paying fruit in California to-day, giving over Sizooanacre. 

 Only a few 1000 to spare. Tips, doz , $2.00; per ioo,$io.oo. 



CALIFORNIA POPPY CLUMPS — Golden Yellow, better than any tulip, hardy. 

 Different from any other poppy grown clumps, per doz., $2 00; per 100, Sio.oo 



Cash or C. O. D., with privilege of examining. 25 seeds or plants at 100 rate. 500 at 1000 rate. 2500 at 5000 rate. 



Express prepaid at above prices. 



California Carnation Company, Loomis, Cal. 



LOCK BOX 103^ 



large and perfect. Smilax is very cheap, 

 except on special occasions. One fine 

 lot sold (in bloom) at 5 cents per string, 

 strings five and six feet long. Other 

 green goods are getting more plentiful, 

 but good quality is still in demand. 



Frank & Parodi, of 33 Geary street, 

 have leased another building a little far- 

 ther up the street. Eents are advanc- 

 ing in the vicinity of the old stand. 



A "war of roses" exists around Lot- 

 ta 's fountain, the stores acting on the 

 defensive and the basket men driven 

 to the streets. 



In Alameda county the horticultural 

 bug hunter would be rewarded by visit- 

 ing some of the Asiatic establishments. 

 This county is doing some good work in 

 street tree planting. In the coast coun- 

 ties of this state shade trees are not so 

 desirable as ornamental trees, palms, etc. 



In the southern part of California, the 

 weather has been so favorable to out- 

 side carnations this winter that they are 

 not using near as much bulbous stock as 

 thev did last season. 



The Cox Seed Company reports a good 

 demand for nursery stock. Mr. Cox 

 thinks this will be "their heaviest ship- 

 ping season, but complains of the freaks 

 of the trade on this coast in having to 

 stock up one month with things that are 

 not in demand a few months later. This, 

 however, has always been characteristic 

 of the Pacific coast. People seem to go 

 to extremes in everything. 



W. E. King, of Santa Cruz, has been 

 making a trip around the nurseries and 

 reports business generally good, but de- 

 layed by the late rains. 



Can anyone tell why so many camel- 

 lias have dropped their flower buds this 

 year? Mutu.vl Friend. ' 



STRONGLY ROOTED CARNATIONS - NOW 



GSOWIT OUT OF DOOBS AND BOOTED WITHOUT HEAT, 



White 100 lOOU 



Queen Louise $1.20 $10.00 



Flora Hill 1.20 1000 



Alba 2.50 2500 



Gov. Wolcott 340 SO.OO 



Norway 100 1)00 



LllUanPond 6 OO 46.00 



Chicot 100 H.OO 



VlolaAllen 3.00 25 00 



Fink 



Mrs. Thomas Lawson 1 40 12 60 



Mrs. Joost 1 20 10 00 



Mermaid 1.20 10.00 



Mrs. RooseveU 6 00 66 00 



Success 250 20.00 



Pres. McKlnley 3.00 25,00 



Cressbrook 2.60 20.00 



TeUow 



Eldorado I.OO a.OO 



Scarlet 100 lOOO 



Mrs. Palmer $1.20 $10.00 



Apollo 3.60 30.00 



Adonis 7.00 65.08 



J. H. Manley 3.50 30.00 



G. H. Crane 1.20 10.00 



America 120 10 00 



Crimson 



Harlowarden 5.00 46.00 



Gov. Roosevelt 1.20 11.00 



Variegated 



Marshall Field 3.00 26 00 



Stella 3.00 26.00 



Armazlndy 90 8.00 



Gaiety 2.00 18.00 



Prosperity .1.40 12 00 



25 at 100 rate. 260 at 1000 rate. 2500 at 5000 rate. 



WE PREPAY EXPRESS CHARGES ^^fjt'l^^^^^^J^. 



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



LOOMIS FLORAL CO. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



Loomis, Cal. 



A GOVERNMENT STATION. 



The horticultural authorities at Wash- 

 ington have been contemplating for 

 some time the establishment of a great 

 outdoor nursery in California. This is 

 quite a distinction in favor of our glori- 

 ous climate, as it has been demonstrated 

 in several of the agricultural sub-sta- 

 tions already started that we are able 

 to grow and ripen in perfection many 

 of the tropical fruits that are of great 

 commercial value and for which the 

 country pays many hundreds of thou- 

 sands of dollars yearlj' for its imports. 

 The great trouble has been that such 

 portions of the Pacific coast as are 

 adapted to the growth of tropical fruits 



are not blessed with the copious rain- 

 fall that makes such vegetation of natu- 

 ral growth. But by the systems of 

 irrigation that have recently been in- 

 troduced many thousands of acres can 

 and will be brought under cultivation. 



G. 



No. ToNAWANDA, N. Y.— The King 

 Construction Co. recently shipped the ma- 

 terial for two greenhouses to a point in 

 California to which the freight rate was 

 $1.67. It looks as though someone thinks 

 a good thing worth going a long way to 

 get. 



We cannot afford to do without the 

 Review. — G. M. Thost, De Soto, Mo. 



