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The Florists' Review 



NOVEMBEB 30. 1916. 



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Pacific Coast Department 



Seattle, Wash. — The Aabling-Boyce 

 Seed Co. has added a new and exten- 

 sive flower department to its establish- 

 ment at 89 Pike street, where for many 

 years the company has sold seeds and 

 shrubbery. 



SAN DIEGO, GAL. 



The Market. 



Business along all lines has been 

 steadily improving of late, and the re- 

 port that San Diego is to have the new 

 railway has given everyone a more 

 optimistic feeling. More stock is grown 

 around the city than formerly; conse- 

 quently retailers are less dependent on 

 Los Angeles and San Francisco. 



Some of the carnations are excellent 

 and there are still a few mums left. 

 Violets, locally grown, look pretty and 

 fresh, but they are smaller, both 

 bunches and flowers, than the northern- 

 grown stock. Plants and greens are 

 scarce. 



Various Notes. 



The parks and exposition grounds are 

 splendid now, and just how Superin- 

 tendent John Morley does it, with his 

 more or less depleted force, is difficult 

 to say. When one looks back over a 

 few years and thinks of the wilderness 

 that now is a magnificent park, it is to 

 wonder at the skill and persistence of 

 this clever and capable man, who makes 

 two trees grow where there were rocks 

 and gravel. Already signs of the end 

 of the big show are near, the Utah 

 building having already been emptied. 

 The big wind-up celebration is to be 

 New Year's day. 



Boyle & Darnaud report fine business. 

 The stock at the greenhouses is look- 

 ing well. They grow most of the stock 

 sold and are showing some beautiful 

 cyclamens, orchids and other items, 

 which come fresh from the nursery 

 daily. 



George Otto always has an attractive 

 store and his large bunches of house- 

 grown stevias are fine. While he says 

 funeral work has been the mainstay, 

 there also ha's been a good deal of 

 transient business. 



The seedsmen are making good show- 

 ings of bulbs, but all say that a rain is 

 needed to help business. 



Miss A. Rainford has given up her 

 store at the Coronado hotel, in order to 

 center her whole force at the city place, 

 where she reports business good. 



H. E. Richards. 



LOS ANGELES. 



The Market. 



It was an exceptionally busy week for 

 high-class funeral work, several promi- 

 nent people having died. There is not 

 sufficient really good stock in the mar- 

 ket to go around, though there always 

 is plenty of third-rate stock. Indoor 

 carnations were rough for a week or 

 so, but now are much better. There are 

 plenty of whites, pinks and reds, but 

 good rose-pinks are scarce. Roses ap- 

 parently become shorter all the time and 

 everything is snapped up as soon as 



it reaches the market. Orchids are on 

 the scarce side, not particularly good 

 and in great demand. There is practi- 

 cally no valley to be had. Other flow- 

 ers are about equal to the demand. 



Mums are about over. A popular 

 green called wild lemon is useful for 

 backing up funeral pieces and for deco- 

 rations. Plumosus is good, but not so 

 plentiful as it has been. Common ferns 

 and adiantum are plentiful and good. 

 Plants are being more freely shown and 

 it looks as though there will be plenty 

 of stock for Christmas, even if the 

 azaleas do not make the holiday. 



Various Notes. 



George W. Smith and Mrs. Smith 

 were in Ventura during the week, at- 

 tending the funeral of Mrs. Smith's 

 uncle. Business keeps up well in the 

 flower department at the store and 

 there also is a large sale of Dutch bulbs. 



C. 'F. Clausen, who grows those fine 

 big gladioli for the E. C. Amling Co., of 

 Chicago, is in the city on a business 

 and pleasure trip. Mr. Clausen is more 

 or less interested in vegetable culture 

 out there. 



The Abbey Flower Shop says tFat 



business has not been particularly good 

 of late, but that it is picking up. 



The windows of the Germain Seed & 

 Plant Co. are always attractive and 

 during the week they contained large 

 bunches of fine cut roses from the nur- 

 sery on the Whittier road. Well known 

 indoor varieties that do well also out- 

 doors were noted. Radiance, Mrs. 

 George Shawyer and Christie-Miller be- 

 ing exceptionally good. 



P. Matraia, of San Francisco, was a 

 visitor this week, en route to San Diego. 



At the funeral of an old inhabitant 

 and pioneer F. Liehtenberg had a mag- 

 nificent spray of Prima Donna roses 

 that was the admiration of everyone. 



J. Wallace, representing F. B. Pem- 

 berton, holly grower of Victoria, B. , 

 was in town this week calling on the 

 trade. 



The L. A. Floral Co. surely is keeping 

 its reputation with regard to pompons 

 and mums, really good shipping stock 

 being noted here when other houses 

 were short of it. 



Among those going into greenhouse 

 building are G. W. Smith and Fred 

 Hills. Mr. Smith is erecting propagat- 

 ing houses at his new nursery in Holly- 



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I L. A. FLORAL CO. I 



= FRED SPERRY, Mgr. E 



= HOUSE OF QUALITY AND SERVICE BUSIEST PLACE IN TOWN i 



I Large cuts of ROSES, CARNATIONS, VIOLETS, I 

 I CHRYSANTHENDNS and aU Greens I 



I 407 So. los Angeles Street, LOS ANGELES, CAL. | 



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WHOLESALE EVERGREENS 



WREATHS Per Doz. 



Redwood and Holly lO-in.-12-in., $3.50 



Redwood and Holly 14-in.-16-in., 4.50 



Wild Cherry lO-in.-12-in., 4.00 



Wild Cherry 14-in.-16-in.. 6.00 



California Holly lO-in.-12-in., 5.00 



California Holly 14-in.-16-in., 6.50 



Larger sizes, prices on application. 



Redwood. 100 lbs.. f3.50. Garland Roping, per yard. 8c and up. California Peppers, boughs 

 well berried, 3c-5c per lb. California Holly, best Quality, 6c per lb. English Holly, 75c per 

 lb. Special prices on large quantities, 



SANTA CRUZ EVERGREEN GO,, ioi Winston St., LOS ANGELES, CAL. 



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CAN YOU USE THESE PUNTS IN YOUR BUSINESS? 



Streptosolen Jametonfi. elegant 2-lnch itock, $2.00 per 100. 



Creepina: Colens, Alao grand for baskets or wall pocketa, 2-lnch pot stock, $3.00 per 100; larger, $S.00 



per 100. 

 Besonia Lnminosa, Temon and Prima Donna, strong transplanted stock, $1.60 per 100. 

 Prlmala SlnenHis, 2>2-lnch, extra strong, ^.00 per 100. 



Rose Geranlams. Grand, bushy 4-Inch stock plants, $4.00 per 100— worth doable. 

 OeraninmB. All colors, rooted cuttings, $10.00 per 1000; unrooted, $S 00 per 1000. 

 Salvias. Stock plants, 9-lnch to 12-lnch, busby. A snap at $4.00 per 100. 



GERMAIN SEED & PLANT CO. 



NURSERIES, MONTEBELLO 326-328-330 South Maia Street, LOS ANOKLES. CAL. 



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