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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



Mat 12, 1904. 



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URBANK'S EVER-BEARING CRIMSON WINTER RHIBARB 



IS THE MOST DELICIOUS VEGETABI.E THAT HAS EVEB BEEN INTBODUCED. 



Plants Set Out Now will Bear Next Winter and Spring. We are Headquarters for Plants and Seeds of this Rhubarb. 

 PLANTS READY NOW— $10.00 per 100, Express paid ; Seeds $1.50 per oz. Send for circular and Catalogue. 



THEODOSIA B. SHEPHERD CO., 



VENTURA, CALIFORNIA. 



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PACIFIC COAST. 



THE SEASON'S TRADE. 



The nursery business begins in Cali- 

 fornia about the first of September 

 and ends about the first of May. By 

 this I mean that during this period all 

 our selling is done. But the greater 

 bulk of the handling of stock is done 

 during the rainy season which, in this 

 portion of California, begins generally 

 about the middle of November and lasts 

 until the end of February or middle of 

 March. In September and October the 

 roses are shifted from the field into the 

 greenhouses, and likewise the carnation 

 plants, although generally a little sooner. 

 All the rose growers had a big business, 

 the largest in the history of the state 

 for more houses are being put up each 

 year and the demand has been great for 

 hardy outdoor stock. Many flower grow- 

 ers have already placed orders with the 

 big nurseries for their roses for next 

 fall's planting and the demand, I think, 

 will be larger than ever. With carna- 

 tions many of the growers propagate 

 entirely from their own plants and do 

 not have as many places to buy out- 

 door stock as the growers, do in the east, 

 but many of our home places root a 

 great many more cuttings than they can 

 use themselves and other dealers get tlie 

 benefit. I do not think from present 

 indications that there will be as ciuch 

 building of carnation houses done this 

 coming summer as formerly; most of the 

 houses that are to be erected are for 

 roses. 



Now that I have disposed of the 

 months in which these bwo staples are 

 handled principally, I will mention the 

 state of trade for other articles that 

 the ordinary nurseryman handles. To 

 begin with, our season should have 

 opened about the middle of November, 

 but it was a dry month and business 

 was slow starting. Down in southern 

 California rain was very scarce and 

 planting was considerably retarded, 

 December was a cold, frosty month, with 

 a scant supply of water and it was Janu- 

 ary before we knew it. Dealers who 

 make a specialty of fruit trees found 

 very poor demand for anything outside 

 of apples, prunes and cherries. Apricots 

 and peaches went begging and plums and 

 pears were a close second. There was a 

 good demand for wine grapes, fair de- 

 mand for citrus fruits and none at all 

 for olives. Verily, the fruit tree busi- 

 ness is a "corker" in California. One 

 Fresno county nurseryman burned up 

 100,000 fruit trees last week because 

 they did not happen to be the varieties 

 called for this season, although they 

 were the only kinds that could be sold 

 last year and the year before. 



And now let me pass on to ornamental 

 stock in general. Our season begins 

 with this class of goods generally about 

 the middle of January. In the months 

 of February and March we had in cen- 

 tral and northern California only nine 

 days in which rain did not fall. The 



risparagus 

 ^'^"^H Plumosus 

 ^anus. 



Plants from Flats, $15 per 1000. 



Express paid. 



California Carnation Company 



LOOMIS, CAL. 



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Violet Plants. 

 Princess of Wales, field-grown, well 

 rooted, delivered at $15.00 per 1000. 

 or $2.00 per 100. Cash -with order. 

 Remember we prepay express charges. 



OCEAN PARK FLORAL CO. 



E. J, VANVTtR, President. OCEAK FABK, Cal. 



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Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys 

 were entirely submerged and fully three- 

 fourths of this state received such a 

 drenching that we will for years to come 

 refer to the winter of 1904 as that "wet 

 winter. ' ' The result on business can 

 hardly be appreciated unless one was in 

 the midst of it all, as was the writer. 

 It is now the middle of April, our season 

 is almost over and still the ground in 

 many places is too wet to plant. With 

 fruit trees in blossom a month ago, de- 

 ciduous trees full of leaves and every- 

 thing else far advanced, our planters will 

 postpone improvements until next fall. 

 With small flowering plants and shrubs 

 that are handled here late in the spring 

 there has been a good demand and the 

 balance of this month and the most of 

 next will find the smaller dealers busy 

 with this class of stock. The larger 

 nurseries do not cater to this trade. G, 



SAN FRANOSCO. 



The Market. 



Beautiful spring is here at last and 

 we are having ideal California weather. 

 Business has been very good for the past 

 two weeks and everj-thing ofiered has 

 been handled at a good margin. The 

 price of roses keeps up remarkably well. 

 Good Brides and Maids are bringing $1 

 per dozen wholesale, which price I con- 

 sider excellent for this season of the year. 

 Shorter and weaker-stemmed roses can be 

 had at low prices but there is a big de- 

 mand for fancy stock. Beauties are 

 selling wholesale today at $2.50 per dozen 

 for the best and $1 to $1,50 for the 

 poorer flowers. Liberty and Testout are 

 bringing 50 cents to $1 per dozen, with 

 a splendid demand for all the good 

 blooms. Cecil Brunner is grown exten- 

 sively by some wholesalers and they 

 claim it is one of the Ijest paying crops 

 that can be planted. The flowerssell at 

 $2 per hundred and, considering what a 



Qraucaria Excelsa, 



From 2M-ineh pots, extra strong plants, 

 with 2 and 3 tier. 6 to 8 inches high, 

 at $16 per 100. 



Qraucaria Imbricata, 



From 2-inch pots, 4 to 6 inches high, 

 810 per 100 and from 2j.^-inch pots 

 6 to S inches high, 912,50 per 100. 



F. LUDEMaNN, 



3041 Baker Street, 



San Francisco, Cal. 



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CARNATION 



ROOTED CUTTINGS 



ONLY FIRST-CLASS STOCK. 



White, 100 1000 

 Queen Louise$1.20$10 00 

 Gov. Wolcott. 3.00 a^.oo 

 White Cloud.. 1.00 9.00 



Scarlet. 

 America 1.00 9.00 



Pink. 100 1000 



Marquis Sl.OO $9.00 



Mrs. Joost ... 1.20 10.00 

 Varieerated, 

 Armazindy... 0.85 17.00 

 Prosperity... 1.40 2.50 



LOOMiS CARNATION CO. 



Lock Box 115. LOOMIS, CAL. 



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[gurbank's Shasta 



Xew crop. 



20c per 100: 

 Sl.25 per 1000; $9.00 

 per ounce; ^i-ounce at ounce rate. 



LOOMiS FLORAL CO. 



LOOBIIS, CAL. 



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prolific proposition this rose is, it must 

 be a money-maker in any place where 

 it thrives. Although many of the grow- 

 ers are having a siege of "off crop" at 

 present in the carnation line there has 

 been a great quantity of flowers brought 

 to market during the past few days and 

 the quantity is increasing daily. I saw 

 some extra fine Prosperity today from P. 

 C. Meyer, of Burlingame, that are bring- 

 ing 50 cents per dozen to the grower, also 

 some Estelle as fine as it is possible to 

 grow them, from A. Galloway of Fruit- 

 vale, selling at the same price. With 

 smaller sorts we have an abundance at 

 about $2 per hundred. L. longifiorum 

 is more plentiful than at the last writing 

 and selling at $2 per dozen for tlie best. 

 Valley is scarcer. A few Darwin tulips 

 are shown. Violets are out of season, 

 also narcissi. Bride gladioli are begin- 

 ning to come and sweet peas are more 

 plentiful although we are paying $1.50 

 per dozen bunches today. 



Various Notes. 



P. J. Nicholson, of Elmhurst, is send- 

 ing in the finest Maids I have seen this 

 season. Frank Pelicano handles his en- 



