May 12, 190ti 



HORTICULTURE 



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SAN FRANCISCO NOTES. 

 Lack of money wherewith to rebuild 

 San Francisco is not in evidence. Al- 

 though our losses are gigantic, the re- 

 sources available are still more gigan- 

 tic. It is probable that Government 

 aid in this direction will not be 

 needed, for the financial interests that 

 are now exploring this field from their 

 standpoint calculate that the money 

 received from insurance companies 

 {provided that all pay their losses), 

 estimated at about $105,000,000, with 

 the street railroad reconstruction, city 

 bonds of 1904 still available, etc., will 

 in themselves aggregate some $207,- 

 '000,000 in round numbers. In addition 

 the regular commercial income of 

 the port, domestic and foreign, will 

 amount to a vast sum. Furthermore, 

 Eastern syndicates with huge cash re- 

 sources are already being projected 

 for investment in the New San Fran- 

 cisco. One alone of these syndicates 

 is said to have already $100,000,000 

 ready for investment here. This will 

 probably be applied in the form of 

 secured loans to property owners, c6r- 

 porate and individual. Then there are 

 thousands of capitalists all over the 

 country who will be attracted to this 

 inviting field for good interest-paying 

 investments. Last, but by no means 

 least, San Francisco itself, always a 

 city of great cash resources, will re- 

 build largely with its own already ex- 

 isting capital, and indeed this capital 

 is even now turning into the new 

 work without any reference whatever 

 to what outside capital is or is not 

 going to do. Therefore we are thor- 

 oughly optimistic and believe not only 

 in the speedy return of the all-around 

 excellent ante-calamity normal con- 

 ditions we enjoyed, but that the land- 

 scape gardeners will soon have plenty 

 to do at remunerative prices, and the 

 flower and plant growers who are 

 daily bringing in wagon-loads of stock 

 and freely distributing it to the in- 

 mates of scores of tented hospitals, 

 and thousands of destitute tent- 

 covered fire refugees, will ere long re- 



CATTLEYA KINKORA. 



This is a new hybrid cattleya re- 

 cently bloomed at the greenhouses of 

 C. G. Roebling, J. Goodier gardener. 



The parents are Cattleya intermedia 

 and Cattleya Mendelli Morganiae. 



cover the domestic trade that former- 

 ly made them well-to-do. 



William Kettlewell. the chief land- 

 scape gardener and propagator of 

 fancy bloom for the extensive Pope 

 estate at the Burlingame suburb of 

 San Francisco, drove into the un- 



At 



HOUSE OF PHALAENOPSIS 

 Mrs. B. B- Tuttle's, Naugatuck, Conn. 



burned section of the city this week 

 just in the nick of time to delight 

 Claude H. Smith, a wealthy citizen of 

 Ithaca, N. Y., who had just arrived. 

 He is one of the principal proprietary 

 members of the Smith Premier Type- 

 writer Company of Ithaca. He was 

 engaged to be married next month 

 to Miss Bessie Wilson, a San Fran- 

 cisco belle, whose brown-stone man- 

 sion was reduced to ruins by the great 

 tire After receiving no answer to re- 

 peated telegrams of inquiry he has- 

 tened to this city, and after seven 

 days of diligent searching he found 

 his destitute sweetheart and her pa- 

 rents in an army tent on the Presidio 

 grounds near the Golden Gate, and an 

 arrangement to have the June wed- 

 ding take place immediately was con- 

 sumated. Mr. Smith is an up-to-date 

 man and wanted flowers for his wed- 

 ding. He searched for them in vain 

 .!!.■ day this week among the few 

 tlmists left in the unburned district. 

 Next morning early he was at the 

 earthquake-damaged store of Serveau 

 Bros., when the Kettlewell wagon 

 drove up loaded with American Beau- 

 ties, teas and violets and not a few 

 orchids. When Mr. Clark's full desire 

 became known the entire wagonload 

 was turned over to Serveau Bros., who 

 immediately transported the supply to 

 the wedding tent and decorated it ex- 

 travagantly for the afternoon wed- 

 ding, and at 6 o'clock the happy 

 couple boarded a train for Ithaca. 



