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The Florists' Review 



May 18, 191G. 



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Pacific Coast Department 



W« are much pleased with the 

 result* of our plant advertisements 

 in The Review ; orders have come 

 in freely and from a wide range ef 

 territory. 



Germain Seed &. Plant Ce. 



Los Angeles. BjI M. L. Germain. Pres. 



Feb. 25, 191G. 



Auburn, Wash. — Robert Filby, for- 

 merly grower for Jlopldns Bros., has 

 been succeeded by Roy E. Erb, who 

 until recently was propagator for Mrs. 

 L. W. McCoy. 



Seabright, Cal. — \V. R. Woodard is a 

 newcomer in the freesia bulb business. 

 He is pre])aring to inarket his first com- 

 mercial crop, with tlie intention of go- 

 ing in more extensively next year and 

 of adding gladioli and other bulbs to 

 his list. 



Los Angeles, Cal. — Announcement is 

 made of the marriage of Hilda Alice 

 Richards and Clarence Vandeburg, at 

 Montebello, ^May 11. The bride is the 

 (laughter of H. R. Richards, of the Ger- 

 main Seed & Plant Co., who has many 

 friends in the trade in the east as well 

 as on the coast. Mr. Vandeburg is a 

 rancher at Fullerton, where the couple 

 will reside after a hone.ymoon in the 

 mountains. 



A SELECTION OF VARIETIES. 



If you were planting 300 or 400 

 chrysanthemums, what varieties would 

 you use so as to cover the full season? 



C. F. B.— Wash. 



I would suggest the following varie- 

 ties: White — Smith's Advance, Early 

 Frost, jMrs. Rager, Wm. Turner, Lynn- 

 wood Hall and White Dean. Yellow — 

 Comoleta, Chrysolora, Robt. Ilalliday, 

 Lena Baum, Nagoya and Dolly Dimple. 

 Pink — Unaka, Chieftain and Maud 

 Dean. These will follow each other in 

 the order named and will cover the 

 season. A. F. J. B. 



A. V. AMET'S HEART. 



Nowadays the clever designer in pre- 

 paring a piece for any occasion tries 

 to have, if possible, some sort of motif 

 or idea embodied in his design that will 

 harmonize with the circumstances of 

 the occasion. This rather abstract 

 phase of the designer's art is clearly 

 typified in the design pictured in the 

 accompanying illustration, which shows 

 a heart-shaped piece made entirely of 

 wild flowers and shrubbery picked from 

 the hills around Santa Monica bay, in 

 California. The piece was one of the 

 floral tributes at the funeral of .Judge 

 J. J. Carrillo, who was the first mayor 

 of Santa Monica. The deceased was a 

 native of California and the idea w^as 

 to produce a funeral piece that would 

 bo truly representative of the Cali- 

 fornia outdoors near the late judge's 

 home. With this end in view, wild 

 flowers and shrubbery were gathered 

 from the country around Santa Monica, 

 and A. V. Amet, of Venice, Cal., made 

 from the material the heart-shaped de- 

 sign shown in the illustration. The 

 piece Avas 4x4i{. feet. The inner heart 



Heart Design of Indigenous Material for a Native Californian. 



was formed of bicolor lupines, blue, with 

 gray tips, and the outer whorl cou- 

 sisted of Indian paint brush (painted 

 cup, or castilleja?) The top of the heart 

 carried native maidenhair and bro- 

 dotias, and even the moss about the 

 frame was from the Santa Monica re- 

 gion. The piece undoubtedly was strik- 

 ingly appropriate as a floral tribute to 

 a well-known and much respected Cali- 

 fornian. Perhaps the only thing it 

 needed was better arcs at the top, in 

 order to conform more accurately with 



the lines of the proverbial St. Valen- 

 tine 's heart. 



LOS ANGELES. 



The Market. 



While there was plenty of stock for 

 local use last week, the extra demand 

 for Mothers' day and for shipping to 

 outside points cleaned up everything 

 and made the wholesalers anxious as to 

 filling orders. The star performer of 



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