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The Florists' Review 



Apbil 6, 1916. 





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Pacific Coast Department 



San Luis Obispo, Oal. — William 

 . Zoeker has started a florists ' business 

 here and is busily stocking up his 

 place. 



Berkeley, Cal.— W. H. Wolters, of 

 the Ashby Nursery, who has grown a 

 general line of nursery stock, plans to 

 erect a greenhouse this summer and 

 grow pot plants, especially ferns and 

 cyclamens. 



Qlendale, Cal. — Miss Margaret Ellen 

 Boal has about 7,500 plants of Ulrich 

 Brunner roses and plans to specialize 

 in this one variety as an outdoor rose 

 for cut flowers. It is her ambition to 

 have her place known as the Million 

 Rose Farm. 



PocateUo, Idaho— W. A. Staley, for 

 many years a member of the S. A. F. 

 and in business here during the last 

 seven years, died February 27, at the 

 age of 53. He was born in Pennsyl- 

 vania and conducted a business at 

 Meadville, Pa., before moving to Po- 

 cateUo, where he established the Poca- 

 teUo Floral Conservatory. Mrs. Staley, 

 who survives him, has sold the business 

 to J. E. Tarr, who will continue it un- 

 der the same name, with C. Wester- 

 gaard as manager. 



LOS ANGELES. 



The Market. 



A scarcity of outdoor flowers, espe- 

 cially carnations, developed in the lat- 

 ter part of last week, owing to the ef- 

 fect of a hailstorm. Hail is not com- 

 mon here and the size of the hailstones 

 was above anything seen in southern 

 California for a great many years. 

 Early in the present week an unusual 

 amount of funeral work, developed, ow- 

 ing to the death of several prominent 

 citizens. Taken altogether, the week 

 must be classed as good, though not 

 much above the average for this time 

 of year. 



Roses are still coming Hn nice shape 

 in all the hybrid tea varieties. Beau- 

 ties are not quite as good as they were. 

 Spanish irises and fine tulips are among 

 the best new offerings in the bulbous 

 line, while a number of Easter lilies 

 are in. Much of the Easter stock will 

 be over this year before the day ar- 

 rives, especially if the weather should 

 turn hot, as it is liable to do at any 

 time. Orchids are somewhat on the 

 scarce side; so are valley and other 

 flowers suitable for corsage bouquets. 

 Sweet peas are beginning to come in 

 more plentifully. \Crood plants are 

 scarce, though some early spiraeas are 

 helping out a little. 



Various Notes. 



•A visit to the establishment of H. 

 W, Turner showed everything in the 

 best possible shape and stock plentiful, 

 though selling as fast as produced. The 

 newer types of baby roses are espe- 

 cially interesting, as almost every day 

 brings out some new phase of their 

 beauty. Replanting has begun earlier 

 than usual this season, in order to get 

 some of the newer kinds well established 

 early in the season. Mr. Turner has 

 practically rebuilt his dwelling house; 



the improvements include new hardwood 

 floors, a new bathroom with all modern 

 electrical fittings, an electric cooking 

 stove and all new decoration^ through- 

 out. 



At the store of the L. A. Floral Co. 

 business is reported brisk. Fred Sperry 

 has been a little under the weather 

 with stomach trouble, but is around 

 again and has started on a circular trip 

 to Pomona, Redlands, San Bernardino 

 and other points. As seen on the map 

 this does not look like much of a circle, 

 not even two-thirds of a circle, but Mr. 

 Sperry did not say when or by what 

 means he would return to the Angel 

 City. 



The California .Cut Flower & Ever- 

 green Co. is evidently out for business. 

 Not only has this firm secured the out- 

 put of some of the largest growers of 

 cut flowers in this section, but it has 

 gone largely into the supply end of the 

 business. A look through the recently 

 arrived shipments from Europe and the 

 east reveals a wealth of novelties in 

 baskets and other supplies seldom seen 

 in this vicinity. Spirited buying and 

 an unequaled facility for handling large 

 stocks have had the effect of locating 

 under one roof practically everything 

 that a retail florist needs. 



Passing the Bradbury home at 

 Duarte the other day, I looked in at 

 this fine place, which is now in charge 

 of John Robertson, recently nursery 

 foreman for the Germain Seed & Plant 

 Co. Much of the planting is of a semi- 

 natural style and some excellent ef- 



fects have been obtained by blending 

 wild and cultivated shrubs. There are 

 a number of choice foliage plants in 

 the greenhouses, including rare forms 

 of marantas, philodendrons, anthuriunis," 

 dracaenas and others. In other houses 

 melons, tomatoes and other crops are 

 grown in the European style. Lilacs 

 are in fine shape on the grounds; so, 

 also, are many conifers. 



The Armstrong Nurseries, at Ontario, 

 are always interesting and Mr. Arm- 

 strong reports an excellent year's busi- 

 ness. There is a choice collection of 

 conifers, while all classes of young 

 stock for lining out are in good shape. 



The Germain Seed & Plant Co. has 

 the contract for planting the home 

 grounds of Miss Kathryn Williams, 

 the noted moving picture actress. 



Wright's Flower Shop is showing an 

 unusually fine lot of stock, including 

 many of the newer roses. A splendid 

 showing is also made with the white 

 forms of moth orchids, or phalsenopsis, 

 which are becoming more and more 

 popular as corsage flowers. 



W. Armacost & Co., of Sawtelle, are 

 going to double their stock of orchids 

 this year. H. R. Richards. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market. 



The flower market still is glutted 

 with most kinds of stock, the demand 

 being comparatively light. Counter 

 trade with the downtown florists is dull 



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