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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



The Market. 



The good rains of last week ha il a 

 beneficent effect on all outdoor stock and 

 livened things up wonderfully. There 

 was also a welcome change in the tem- 

 perature, the last few nights being very 

 cool. The summer trade is about as 

 usual. The past week it was fairly 

 good on account of funeral work, which 

 seemed to be pretty well distributed 

 among the retailers. The market here 

 has its ups and downs; one day there is 

 plenty of everything in the market and 

 the next day everything seems scarce. 

 White flowers have the greatest call and 

 very often all colored stock is left over 

 for want of demand. 



The roses that came in last week 

 showed the effects of the hot weather 

 that we have been having, and the bulk 

 of them are very poor indeed. Of these. 

 Bride and Kaiserin sell the best, with 

 Golden Gate and Bridesmaid next in or- 

 der. There is not much call for red 

 roses just now. The price is not over 

 $5 per 100 when good. A few fairly 

 good American Beauties from young 

 stock are in the market and sell well. 

 Asters are becoming more plentiful eaeli 

 week and will soon rival the sweet peas 

 of a few weeks ago. The bulk of tliein 

 are very small and do not sell so well as 

 the larger ones. Good ones go at $1.50 

 per 100. Tuberose stalks are coming in 

 better and are very much in demand at 

 present. Armstrong's Everblooming arc 

 the best sellers. There are plenty of 

 gladioli at the wholesale houses, but the 

 demand is somewhat slow and a great 

 many of them are going to waste. A. 

 Berdan's valley is very fine and the 

 demand good. Hydrangeas are in at 

 $4 per 100 for the large heads and $2 

 and $3 for the smaller ones. Good 

 smilax has been in good demand rigl r 

 along, with the supply only fair. This 

 sells at the regular price. 



Various Notes. 



"During the past week everybody was 

 talking of the good time he had at the 

 club's recent picnic and complimented 

 the committee on the way it handled 

 the affair. Those who did not go were 

 sorry after reading the account and 

 hearing the compliments passed. 



Only two weeks more and we will be 

 among friends whom we are all glad 

 to meet. No doubt Brother Pollwortl. 

 and his colleagues have everything in 

 readiness to give us a good time. State 

 Vice President Juengel says St. Louis is 

 going thirty-five strong. Everybody who 

 can possibly go should send his or her 

 name to Mr. Juengel. As St. Louis is 

 out for the next meeting, during our 

 great World's Fair, we should have a 

 large delegation at Milwaukee. 



Don't forget the club meeting next 



Thursday, August 13, at Brother Jab- 



Ionsky's place at Wellston. Take the 



r ears to Suburban Park. This 



meeting is the most inif. : m of I lie 



rear. Election of officers will be held 

 and all arrangements for "he Milwaukee 

 trip will be made. Henry Emmons will 

 read his essay on "How ta Keep Down 

 Greenfly." As Henry never has any 

 greenfly about his place, it will be worth 

 your while to hear how he keeps them 

 down. With all these important feat- 

 ures on the program. President nunford 

 expects that every member jvill be pn - 

 ent and enjoy one of thus.' pleasai I nut- 

 door meetings. Mr. Jab'ouski i 



aK florists on this occasion and assures 

 them a good time. 



Mrs. M. M. Ayers is reported as being 

 dangerously sick at her home on Linden 

 boulevard. Will Adels and Charles Schon- 

 elle have charge of her place in her ab- 

 sence and report trade as fairly good 

 for this time of the year. 



Mrs. William Ellison, of the Ellison 

 Floral Co., is spending the summer 

 months up north, accompanied by her 

 daughter Alice. Mr. Ellison is running 

 the store during their absence, with 

 fairly good business in funeral work. 



Kobert F. Tesson returne ! last week 

 from St. Joseph, where he spent a week 

 in encampment with Battery 11, of which 

 he is a member. Kobert is taking things 

 easy out in Clayton these hot flays and 

 very seldom comes to town. He will be 

 at the convention, as he is down for a 

 paper on "A System of Accounts for 

 Greenhouses." 



The Kalish boys on Delmar boulevard 

 are making some good improvements on 

 their place for next fall's trade. Both 

 of the boys will take in the Milwaukee 

 convention. 



Mr. Gorley, on Fifteenth street and 

 Cass avenue, is making some improve- 

 ments on his store. The new show house 

 in the rear of his store looks fine. Mr. 

 Gorley says business has been good with 

 him the past season. 



Henry Berning is making prepara- 

 tions to move about August. 15 into his 

 new place at 1402 Pine street, which is 

 much larger than the old an 1 has a bet- 

 ter light. This will make the third lime 

 that this store has been occupied as a 

 wholesale house, first by William Ellison 

 and later by F. M. Ellis. 



Mrs. The'o. Miller and daughter will 

 return this week from their six weeks' 

 stay in Europe, and Theodore is happy, 

 as he says this bachelor life is not what 

 it is cracked up to be. Mr. Miller is put- 

 ting in a large new ice box, which' .-ill 

 put him in good shape fo- ihe coming 

 season. 



C. C. Sanders has just finished build- 

 ing a new residence for the help at his 

 place on the Henly road. Mr. Sanders 

 has some of the finest young nursery 

 stock about here, which will make good 

 this fall when (he big orders come in. 



R. J. Mohr has left the employ of the 

 landscape department at the World's 

 Fair grounds. Mr. Mohr is out with a 

 new enterprise. He will take care of 

 any of the exhibits in plants, trees or 

 seeds that come to the fair. He can be 

 addressed in my care. 



H. M. Earl, who represents the seed 

 house of W. Atlee Burpee & Co., Phil- 

 adelphia, was a visitor last week, as was 

 young Mr. Siebrecht. of Siebrecht & Son, 

 of New York. Both of these firms exnect 

 to make his displays at the World 's Fair 

 next year and were here selecting space 

 for same. 



Bowline. 



The bowlers had a hot night of it last 

 Mi nday and some very fair scores were 

 made. ' The boys are confident that they 

 will come out on top at Milwaukee. Carl 

 Beyer. C. A. Kuehn and J. J. Beneke 

 need new hats and will again take on 

 that Chicago big three if they so de- 

 sire. The following scores were made 

 Monday night: 



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SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market. 



Good flowers are really scarce. I have 

 not seen any first-class roses or carna- 

 tions for the last week. Everything 

 appears to be off crop and there is a 

 very fair demand for indoor stock. 

 Prices are about the same as they have 

 been for the last two months and any- 

 thing good is very easy to dispose of. 

 First-class American Beauty roses are 

 not to be had, and Maid and Testout are 

 all weak and wobbly. Some fairly good 

 Kaiseiins are seen and they bring 50 

 to 75 cents per dozen, which is a very 

 fair price for summer. I spoke to-day 

 to one of our most successful carnation 

 growers and he told me he had not cut 

 ten dozen good Lawsons in the last ten 

 weeks. Sievers & Boland have a very 

 nice showing of fancy carnations; about 

 the best in town, I think. Shibeley is 

 exhibiting some very fine Estelle and 

 Flora Hill. We will have plenty of 

 long-stemmed asters in a few days, how- 

 ever, and they will fill a long-felt want. 



Various Notes. 



Chas. E. Navlet, of the C. E. Navlet 

 Company, of San Jose, has been sued 

 by his wife, in the Superior Court here, 

 to recover property valued at niore than 

 $25,000. Judge Murasky issued an in- 

 junction restraining Mr. Navlet from 

 doing anything further with the prop- 

 erty pending the trial. 



A visit to the nurseries of E. Gill, at 

 West Berkeley, at this time of the year 

 is an interesting sight. They are in the 

 middle of their budding season and one 

 block of roses covering about thirty-five 

 acres and containing about a quarter of 

 a million stocks to be budded is in splen- 

 did shape. About eight budders are at 

 work and it will be about the middle of 

 August before the ground is covered com- 

 pletely. The demand for budded roses 

 for forcing purposes is greater than ever 

 and already a large part of next sea- 

 son's stock is sold, to be delivered dur- 

 ing the coming autumn. This firm also 

 has about thirty acres devoted to orna- 

 mental and deciduous trees and several 

 acres to greenhouse and smaller shrub- 

 bery. 



R. P. Jennings, the well-known hor- 

 ticulturist, has received the following let- 

 ter from J. H. Bingham, Assistant Sec- 

 retary of Agriculture: "Appreciating 

 most highly the itinerary arranged by 

 you for the German agriculturists, the 

 Department of Agriculture extends to 

 you its most cordial thanks for the effi- 

 cient, successful and hospitable manner 

 in which as many of the resources of 

 California in agriculture, horticulture 

 and forestry as the time would allow 

 were brought to the attention of this 

 party. We congratulate you on impress- 

 ing them with the magnitude, liberality 

 and hospitality of your state. " G. 



Kindly take our adv. out of the Re- 

 view as we are getting more orders than 

 we can fill. Yours is the best paper to 

 advertise in.— Bentzen Floral Co.. St. 

 Louis, Mo. 



The Proceedings of the First Annual 

 Meeting of the Chrysanthemum Society 

 of America has reached us, a well-printed 

 pamphlet of 76 pages, the greater part 

 of which is given to the papers read at 

 the Art Institute, Chicago, November 12 

 and 13, 1902. The frontispiece is a 

 portrait of Presidenl Arthur Herring- 



