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The Florists^ Review 



Makch 22, 1917. 



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LOS ANGELES, CAL. 



The Market. 



While the Lenten season does not 

 make so niucli difference here as in some 

 sections, there was some falling off this 

 week, not only in local but also in ship- 

 ping business. The business lacked snap 

 and some stock had to be dumped. White 

 carnations sold well for St. Patrick's 

 day, the custom of dyeing these and 

 other flowers green seeming to gain 

 in popularity, rather than lose. Re- 

 garding stock, it is in much the same 

 condition as last reported. Violets 

 have dropped off, both in supply and 

 demand, and Cocile Brunner roses are 

 coming in more heavily and are useful 

 for corsage bouquets. 



Indoor roses are better than they 

 were and the quantity in the market is 

 more commensurate with the demand. 

 Prices may rule a little lower for a 

 time, but Easter, of course, will have 

 a hardening effect on the market. So 

 far it looks as though Easter lilies 

 will be about equal to the demand, 

 there being about enough good stock to 

 supply it. The poorest stock, no doubt, 

 will be in aVjundance. Spiraeas and 

 azaleas also will be to the fore, but 

 there will be no great surplus of either, 

 according to present appearances. 

 Greens of the better kinds are still on 

 the scarce side. 



Various Notes. 



W. Armacost & Co. have purchased 

 five acres of additional land to the cast 

 of their greenhouses. This, with the 

 two acres rocoiitly covered with lath 

 houses for growing ])luniosus, brings the 

 total area up to seventeen and one-half 

 acres. The new land at first will be 

 used as a dump for the old soil and 

 providing new soil for the rose houses, 

 but the intention is to build on it. 



The Redondo Floral Co. force is work- 

 ing overtime on decorations. Will Lin- 

 senbard, who lias been witli the firm 

 for several years, has the sympathy of 

 all in the death of his fatiier, who 

 passed away this week at the ripe age 

 of 80 years. Prima Donna roses arc 

 great favorites here and large numbers 

 of them are handled daily. 



F. Borden puts on quite a few frills, 

 thanks to his ability to reduce the H. C. 

 L. He is a vegetable grower and a 

 non-smoker. 



Alwaj's looking for opportunities to 

 better its service, the H. N. Gage Co. has 

 secured seven and one-half acres of the 

 rich bottom land in the San Gabriel 

 valley, not far from Covina, for bulb 

 growing. Great as their success has 

 been at Montebello, the Gage brothers 

 realize that there arc some soils better 

 suited to certain classes of bulbous 

 stock, and this has led to the new addi- 

 tion. The ground has a house on it and 

 pipes for irrigating it have already 

 been laid. II. N. says that the com- 

 ])any is completely sold out of the big 

 lot of ferns grown in the new houses, 

 but that their men are constantly 

 bringing in new stock and will soon 

 have plenty of finished plants again. 



After filling an important position 

 in the art department of one of the 



large film companies here, C. Lewis has 

 returned to L. H. Freeman's store, 

 where he will remain probably over 

 Easter, unless he is called back to his 

 work in the pictures. 



J. D. Meriweather, manager of the 

 Fancher Creek Nurseries, at Fresno, was 

 in the city this week. 



Emil Buettner, of Park Ridge, 111., 

 has arrived here for a short visit, 

 looking well and hearty. 



J. Onishi, of the United Flower & 

 Supply Co., of San Francisco, is in the 

 city. 



Forced bulbous stock in pots is espe- 

 cially good now at Wright's Flower 

 Shop, the Darwin tulips showing fine 

 color and length of stem. A large de- 

 mand for baskets has been noted here 

 of late. 



S. Murata, of S. Murata & Co., is go- 

 ing around with a smile these days, the 

 occasion being the arrival of a 10- 

 pound baby girl at the Murata home at 

 Montebello. At the store the usual 

 large shipments of cut flowers and 

 plants are leaving daily. 



As usual, the Hillcrest Nursery, in 

 South Ardmore, has a fine lot of Easter 

 lilies, timed apparently to the day and 

 full of blooms. Grown wide apart, the 

 plants have held every leaf and are 

 dwarf and most satisfactory in every 

 way. A nice stock of Begonia Rex also 

 is on hand here. 



Though not saying much, the L. A. 

 Floral Co. is doing a good shipping 

 business these days, considering the 

 fact that it is Lent. P. Miller, of this 

 concern, reports quite a run on indoor- 

 grown giant African marigolds, which 

 sell at a good price. 



Arnold Ringier and Mrs. Ringier, of 



Chicago, left here March 15 for va- 

 rious points by slow stages, en route 

 to Chicago. Mr. Ringier was feeling 

 fine and said the rest and change had 

 done him much good. Mrs. Ringier, who 

 was unfortunately confined to her bed 

 for a good deal of the time while they 

 were here, has quite recovered her 

 health. 



Everyone feels sorry for the well 

 known members of the firm of Morris 

 & Snow, seedsmen, whose place of busi- 

 ness on Main street was completely gut- 

 ted by fire on the morning of March 15. 

 The fire was in the old Rosslyn hotel 

 building and, as nearly as a spectator 

 could judge, Morris & Snow's store 

 seemed to have. the worst of it. Comiig 

 as it did, right in the middle of the 

 firm's busiest season, makes it all the 

 more regrettable. Apparently nothing 

 but a few bags of seeds were saved. 



The Broadway Florist establishment 

 is a busy place these days. Since taking 

 hold of this, the enterprising proprietor, 

 D. Stathatos, has made a wonderful 

 change in the appearance of the place, 

 and, judging by the appearance of 

 things and the large staff that is kept 

 busy all the time, he does a large busi- 

 ness. 



Albert Beverley, of the Mission Oak 

 Nursery, of Santa Barbara, drove down 

 to Los Angeles this week and returned 

 March 15. He is a considerable buyer of 

 stock, both here and elsewhere, and this, 

 as well as his genial personality, always 

 assures him a welcome. 



Hills' Nursery had the contract from 

 a local bank for several thousand sham- 

 rocks in small pots. These are given 

 away the day before St. Patrick's day 

 to all comers. 



H. W. Turner is cutting extra fine 



EASTER LILIES 



FOR EASTER 



Cut and Potted 



Also Carnations, Roses and other seasonable cut flowers. Greens. 



DOMOTO BROS. Tr^o-^Irs" 



Nurseries: 78th to 79th Aves., East Oakland, Cal. 



440 Bush Street - SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 



ROSE PLANTS 



of the following varieties, from 3-inch pots : 



September Norn, Prima Donna, Francis Scott Key, 

 $6.0O per 100, $50.00 per 1000 



WALTER ARMACOST & CO. 



Sawtelle, Cal. 



