The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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of sea shells. When taken in the hand 

 it makes one think he is handling corn 

 meal. But it will grow anything that is 

 planted in it and it can be worked any 

 day in the year. It can be flooded with 

 water and a few hours later can be 

 spaded, plowed or cultivated. But 

 around Los Angeles the soils are too 

 heavy for carnations and need good 

 stable manure and sand to lighten them 

 up. 



San Diego is another good carnation 

 growing country, and a good field for 

 investment in that line. There is prac- 

 tically no frost and plants grow 3l 

 in the year. Poinsettia. stephanotis, 

 Bignonia venusta, bougainvilleas, etc 

 do as well in the open air in San Diego 

 as they do in stove houses elsewhere. 



The Los Angeles stores are looking 

 well. Carnations, roses and chrysanthe- 

 mums are the principal flowers at pres- 

 ent. Business was never better and the 

 city never more prosperous. The number 

 of new buildings in course of construc- 

 tion is amazing, and the prophecy of a 

 city of 250,000 by 1910 seems destined 

 to be realized. H. B. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market 



We have had a drizzling rain for the 

 past few days and it is playing havoc 

 with outside stock, much to the delight 

 of the rose and carnation growers, who, 

 by the way, have not fared any too well 

 the way prices have been for the last 

 month. Business is quiet all around and 

 stock is moving very slowly. Chrysan- 

 themums are still as plentiful as ever 

 and can be had at the lowest prices imag- 

 inable. Violets seem at last to be really 

 plentiful and the wholesale price has 

 fallen from $1 to 75 cents per dozen 

 bunches, during the last two days. Car- 

 nations are selling as follows: Portia. 

 Joost and Scott, 15 to 20 cents per doz- 

 en. Flora Hill. Crocker and Estelle 20 

 to 25 cents per dozen. Lawson and 

 Prosperity at 25 to 30 cents per dozen 

 and fancy stock at 3 dozen for $1. I 

 look for these prices to rise somewhat 

 during the next week if the weather con- 

 tinues unfavorable. Boses are getting 

 somewhat scarcer and good Beauties are 

 in very short supply at present. They 

 are bringing from $1.50 to $2 per doz- 

 en wholesale today and short stems at 

 about half that price. Brides and Maids 

 sell at from 50 cents to 75 cents, accord- 

 ing to quality. Kaiserin and Testout 

 are holding their own at about the same 

 price. Souv. du Pres. Carnot are worth 

 75 cents and Liberty 50 cents per dozen. 

 The best inside white, chrysanthemums 

 sell today at from $1 to $1.50 per dozen. 

 and best yellow varieties at about the 

 same figure. Outside grown flowers of 

 the same size, but of course not of as 

 fine texture or length of stem, can be 

 had at from 25 cents to 50 cents per 

 dozen, and smaller flowers at from $1 to 

 $1.50 per hundred. 



Smilax is very plentiful and brake 

 ferns are getting longer of stem. Val- 

 ley is not plentiful and is quickly bought 

 up. 



Notes. 



It is rumored that Mayor Schmitz will 

 appoint William J. Dingee, a son of the 

 founder of the Dingee & Conard Co., a 

 park commissioner. Mr. Dingee has done a 

 great deal for horticulture in California, 

 and for many years his grounds near 



500,000 Rooted Carnation Cuttings 



TRANSPLANTED AT SAME PRICE. 



Now 

 Ready. 



STRONGLY ROOTED CARNATIONS -■ Now Ready. 



NOVELTIES of 1903 



Harlowarden. crimson 



Marshall Field, red and white variegated. 5.00 



Lillian Pond, white t> 00 .v. on 



Enchantress, light Dink i'. 00 55 no 



President McKinley. pink fi.00 55.00 



Success, pink 



Adonis, rich scarlet 



Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, pink 



$45 nil 



45.00 



6.00 55.00 



INTRODUCTIONS, 1902 100 ioco 



Cressbrook. light pink $'-'.50 S20.00 



Got. Woleott. white 3.40 30.00 



Alba, white 8.40 30.00 



J. H. Manley. scarlet 3 50 30.00 



Apollo, brilliant scarlet 3.50 30.00 



i iaietv. white -triped scarlet 3.00 25.00 



Stella, variegated white 3.00 25.00 



Viola Allen, white 3.00 25.00 



STANDARD VARIETIES 100 



Norway, white $1.20 1 



Prosperity, white overlaid with pink.. 1.40 



Estelle. scarlet 1.50 



Mrs. Thos. Lawson, pink 1.40 



Gov. Roosevelt, crimson 1.20 



G. H. Crane, scarlet 1.40 



Flora Hill, white 1.20 



Mermaid, salmon pink 1.20 



Eldorado, white 1.20 



Queen Louise, white 1.20 



Chicot, white 1.20 



Armazindy. variegated 1.20 



Palmer, scarlet 1.50 



scarlet 1.20 



CASH WITH OBDEB. 



LOOMIS FLORAL CO. LOOMIS, CAL 



Mention Review when yon 



Piedmont Springs were among the show- 

 places of Alameda county. 



Mrs. G. P. Thomas, of Ocean View, is 

 cutting violets in large quantities at 

 present. She has a large trade both in 

 this city and Oakland. 



A suit for a breach of promise is now 

 on trial between Miss Lanagan ana 

 David Neely, one of San Francisco's pio- 

 neer florists, but now a resident of Berke- 

 ley. Miss Lanagan asks for $25,000 as a 

 balm to her wounded feelings. 



G. 



ROOTED CARNATIONS NOW READY 



ST. PAUL. 



With plants still in flower in the open 

 ground and with the greatest crops of in- 

 door bloom ever known, it is no wonder 

 that trade has been a little dull and 

 flowers have gone to waste. The stores 

 have all been filled to overflowing and. 

 while sales have been fairly good, they 

 could easily have been doubled without 

 exhausting the supply. Eoses are espe- 

 cially abundant and of fine quality. Car- 

 nations are also coming in quite freely, 

 though there is no apparent glut in the 

 market. Violets have suffered somewhat 

 from the warm weather. Even 'mums 

 are hanging their heads. 



Last week the annual flower show was 

 on and every one was busy. 



THE KNOLL NURSERIES. PENRYN. CAL. 



A. S. Swanson has opened a 'fine store 

 on East Sixth street. Wm. Speth,. for- 

 merly of Philadelphia, is in charge. , His 

 daily window is a very good advertise- 

 ment and quite a study in artistic ar- 

 rangement. 



E. F. Lemke. who has been on the 'sick 

 list for several weeks, is attending to 

 business once more. 



Chris Hansen is out again after sev- 

 eral weeks confinement by sickness. 



N. C. Hansen is cutting some extra 

 fine carnations, including Enchantress, 

 Gov. Woleott, Queen Louise, Lawson, 

 Bradt and other fancy sorts. 



Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Mav are in New 

 York city. X. Y. Z. 



