May 10, 1004. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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LRBANK'S EVER-BEARING CRIMSON WINTER RHIBARB 



IS THE MOST DELICIOTTS VEGETABLE THAT HAS EVER BEEN INTRODUCED. 



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

 READY NOW— $1 0.00 to $1 5.00 per 100. Express paid. Orders booked for Seeds, autumn delivery. Send for circular and Catalogue 



of Seeds, Plants 

 and Cactus. 



THEODOSIA B. SHEPHERD CO., VENTURA, CALIFORNIA. 



Hfpntlon Th*» Revlpw when yon wrltp. 



^raucaria Excelsa, 



From 2M-iiich pots, extra strone plaots, 

 with 2 and 3 tier, 6 to 8 inclies higli. 



at $16 per 100. 



^raucaria Imbricata, 



From 2-iiich pots, 4 to 6 inches high. 

 810 per 100 and from 2Hineh pots 

 6 to 8 inches high, 812.S0 per 100. 



F. LUDEMSNN, 



3041 Baker Street, 



San Francisco, Cal. 



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CARNATION 



ROOTED CUTTINGS 



ONLY FIRST-CLASS STOCK. 



White. lOO 1000 

 Queen Loui8e$1.20$10 00 

 Gov. Wolcott. .S.OO 25.00 

 White Cloud.. 1.00 9.00 



Scarlet. 

 America 1.00 9.00 



Pink. 100 1000 



Marquis $1.00 $9.00 



Mrs. Joost... 1.20 10.00 

 Varietrated. 

 Armazindy... 0.85 17.00 

 Prosperity... 1.40 2.50 



LOOMiS CARNATION CO. 



Lock Box 115. LOOMIS, CAL. 



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urbank's Shasta 

 Daisy Seed 



1 



New crop, 



20c per 100; 

 $1.25 per 1000; $9.C0 

 per ounce; Ji-ounce at ounce rate. 



LOOMIS FLORAL CO. 



LOOmiS, CAL. 



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occasionally that the Iwxes are opened 

 here and found in good order. The 

 shortest possible time that we can re- 

 ceive goods by freight is thirty days, 

 and it is considered a choice bit of lucli 

 if they arrive in thirty-five; it is usu- 

 ally about forty, so that dealers can fig- 

 ure on having the goods boxed up in 

 the neighborhood of six weeks. It is 

 necessary for the boxes to be well lined 

 to insure against cold weaUier sure to be 

 encountered en route. It is possible 

 to receive boxes from New York by way 

 of steamer to Galveston, but my expe- 

 rience with stock received that wa}- has 

 been that it invariabl.y gets too close to 

 tlie ship's boilers and I usually use the 

 joung plants for firewood as soon as I 

 have time to unpack them. 



Our American nurserymen, I must 

 confess, especially those who make a 

 specialty of shipping to Paeifie coast 

 points, can usually be relied upoa to 

 pack properly, but the French, Dutch 

 and Belgian growers have much to learn 

 before they arrive at anywhere near per- 

 fection in packing. As a sample let me 

 cite the case of the last two boxes I rr- 

 cived from one of the largest nurseries 



risparagus 

 ^•^"^ll Plumosus 

 Nanus. 



Plants from Flats, $15 per 1000. 



Express paid. 



California Carnation Company 



LOOMIS, CAL. 



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Violet Plants. 

 I'rincess of Wales, tield-grown. well 

 rooted, delivered at $15.00 per 1000. 

 or $2 00 per ICO. Cash with order. 

 Remember we prepay express charges. 



OCEAN PARK FLORAL CO. 



E. J. VAWTER, President. OCEAN PARK, Cal. 



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in France. Among the items I unpacked 

 were 500 Lawson cj'press, nice hardy 

 plants three years old. These were 

 crowded in the bottom of the boxes 

 T>ithout a particle of packing around the 

 roots. On top of them were 500 Cryp- 

 tomeria .Japonica, also without any 

 l>acking around the roots. There were 

 not over lialf a dozen live plants in the 

 lot where there should have been no 

 trouble whatever. In another box 1,000 

 English hollies were piled in a heap 

 without any moss and the foliage Dad 

 been moistened considerably because it 

 was all rotted off. They should have 

 been tied in bunches of 100 each, the 

 roots well wi'apped with moss and cleat- 

 cd in the boxes, so that there was a cir- 

 culation of air between the bundles, to 

 prevent damping off of the foliage. 

 There is never quite so much trouble to 

 levive stock that gets dry, providing the 

 roots are mossed, as when the conifers, 

 evergreens and young seedlings are piled 

 m heaps in the boxes and from the 

 natural moisture of the leaves get heated 

 en route, so that when unpacked they are 

 usually worthless. 



The only stock that we receive here 

 from foreign ports that is always prop- 

 erly packed is that from Japan. The 

 Japanese nurserymen are very particular 

 in this regard, as they cleat all the stock 

 in the boxes, pack plenty of moss 

 around the balls of earth or bare roots, 

 :.nd in addition cut square holes in the 

 boxes for ventilation, which are covered 

 jnside -nith fine mesh wire screening ti- 

 prevent the rats from getting in the 

 boxes. G. 



SAN FRANQSCO. 



The Market. 



I am inclined to think we are going to 

 have a superabundance of almost all 

 cla.sses of stock for the next few months, 

 and the retailers will have the privilege 



of fixing prices to suit themselves. The 

 large increase of the quantity of glass 

 that is now coming into bearing would 

 be enough in itself to make a big dif- 

 ference with the amount marketed, to 

 say nothing of the extra acres that have 

 been plantetl in hardy stocks. I fear 

 that the low prices will affect principally 

 the growers who handle the commoner 

 grades of stock, whether in roses, car- 

 nations or mixed flowers. The public is 

 getting more and more particular all the 

 time and only such growers as make a 

 specialty and can be depended on to 

 ]i-.oduce" a first-class article can hope to 

 get any return for their summer crops. 



Good roses seem to be as much in de- 

 mand as ever and there is not, although 

 wc are at the height of the season, any 

 surplus of fancy stock. The best Beau- 

 ties are bringing $2 per dozen and they 

 are as eagerly liought up as though we 

 were in the middle of winter. Fancy 

 Brides and Maids are netting the grower 

 .•t!! per dozen and Kaiserin, Testout and 

 Liljerty from 75 cents to $1. But I 

 saw a Japanese grower dump in one of 

 our largest retail stores today fifty doz- 

 en mixed Brides and Maids for $2 and 

 then offer twenty dozen Crocker carna- 

 tions for a dollar. These are very low 

 jirices, but the quality of the stock was 

 only fair and the grower doubtless con- 

 sidered he was very fortunate in being 

 able to sell it at all. The sweet-pea 

 growers have had splendid prices for 

 their stock for the past month, and it is 

 only within the present week that rates 

 have fallen below $1.50 per dozen 

 bunches. It has been a very peculiar 

 season for sweet peas. In ordinary years 

 it was no trick to have sweet peas in 

 market early in !Miarch, but this season 

 ii was only on high or exceptionally well 

 drained land that the peas survived the 

 winter. The Chinese have the bulk of 

 this business. Decoration day will soon 

 be here and there will be an abundance 

 of outdoor stock of all kinds to offer. 

 Some of our retailers have a good ship- 

 ping trade to interior towns and any sort 

 of hardy stock can bo utilized. 



Various Notes. 



Serveau Bros, are having a big demand 

 for bedding stock this month. They han- 

 dle a good quantity of general nursery 

 stock. 



Joseph Furtado, head gardener for 

 the Kealty Syndicate, of Oakland, is out 

 of the hospital, where he was confined 

 for several weeks with a severe case of 

 blood poisoning. 



Thos. Hooper, for many years fore- 

 man for Sievers & Boland, has taken 

 charge of the greenhouses of the late 

 Geo. Karmann, at Elmhurst. 



F. M. Frank has given up his San 

 Pueblo avenue store in Oakland and pur- 

 chased the flower stand at the narrow 

 gauge depot. 



J. E. Bamber. of Truekee, Cal., who 

 handles considerable flowers in his neigh- 

 borhood, is in town. G. 



Your paper is fine; sold small plants 

 all out. — GusTAV PiTZONKA, Bristol, Pa. 



