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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



FEBRUARY 24. 189S. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



California Grown Harrisii. 



On a visit to Messrs. Grallert & Co.. 

 at Colma. I found they were trying 

 California grown bulbs of Lilium H,'.!'- 

 risii and L. longiflorum. and they com- 

 pared very favorably with Bermuda 

 grown stock, particularly the longi- 

 florum. They were grown near Los An- 

 geles. 



Mr. Grallert's specialty is carnations, 

 and the most profitalde variety with 

 him is Eldorado. M;ignet. Minnie 

 i!'ook and Princess Bonnie are also 

 largely grown. All the novelties of 

 lS!t7 are on trial, but with the excep- 

 tion of Flora Hill only a few will be 

 retained. 



Roses and Carnations at Builingame. 



The establishment of Mr. E. W. Mc- 

 Lellan. at Burlingame. is the best ap- 

 pointed and most modern place around 

 San Francisco. He is strong on roses. 

 Bridesmaid. Bride, Meteor. American 

 Beauty and Perle being extensively 

 grown. Carnot is on trial, but though 

 doing fairly well. Mr. McLellan ques- 

 tions whether it will pay to grow it for 

 the San Francisco market. In carn.n- 

 tions Poriia. Scott and Eldorado are 

 considered the most profitable. Of th3 

 new varieties. Flora Hill. Mayor Pin- 

 gree, and Victor will be planted in in- 

 creased numbers next season. 



The scenery between Burlingame and 

 Menlo Park is very picturesque. On one 

 side is San Francisco Bay. and on the 

 other rising ground with here and 

 there beautiful villas, parks, fields cf 

 grain and immense vegetable gai'dens, 

 some reaching up into the mountains. 

 The various colors of the vegetables 

 give in the distance the effect of an im- 

 mense parterre of carpet beds. 



At Mcnlo Park. 



Menlo Park is a park indeed, the 

 streets and grounds being overgrown 

 by immense live oaks. Here Mr. Sid- 

 ney Clack leases from the Sunset Seed 

 & Plant Co. their cut flower houses, 

 they retaining the plant houses, which 

 are filled with palms, ferns and decora- 

 tive plants. 



With Mr. Clack carnations are I he 

 money makers, and Portia seems to 

 head the list, closely followed by LTncIe 

 John. Mr. Clack believes the latter 

 variety rivals the former in number of 

 flowers cut. In roses he grows Beauty, 

 Bride, Maid, Meteor and Perle. But as 

 regards Perle he complains that it does 

 not go well in the San Francisco mar- 

 ket. 



At Mr. M. Lynch's I saw roses doing 

 grandly in solid beds, the soil l)eiug 

 on about a level with that outside, 

 looking as though the beds had simply 

 had a glass house placed over them. 

 Quality and quantity are surely com- 

 bined in the product of these houses 

 and there must be a great saving in la- 

 bor. Solid beds for Brides and Maids 

 are evidently the correct thing here 

 though I was shown bench houses in 

 good condition. » 



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Portia is the leader in carnations 

 here and Scott is also grown. In new 

 carnations, Mr. Kenneth Murray, the 

 able grower here, is much impressed 

 w,ith Flora Hill and will grow it 

 largely. 



Carnations of California Origin. 

 Nearer the city 1 called on Schwerin 

 Bros. They have about 2,000 plants of 

 the set of 50 California carnations that 

 originated with Mr. John H. Sievers. 

 These were sold by Mr. Sievers for 

 planting out in the garden only, but 

 many have been very useful as cut 

 flower producers. The blooms are 

 fancy and Schwerin Bros, have found 

 them very profitable. They intend to 

 plant 6.000 plants of varieties selected 

 from this set. Evidently Mr. Sievers 

 placed a too modest estimate upon the 

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 he has some better ones on the way. 



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