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The Florists^ Review 



December 28, 1916. 



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Baker, Ore. — W. A. Sisson now is 

 manager of the City Greenhouses, W. A. 

 Weeks, the proprietor, having decided 

 to take a vacation. 



Seattle, Wash. — The Aabling-Boyce 

 Seed Co., in connection with its seed 

 store, has opened a retail flower store at 

 89 Pike street under the name of the 

 Market Flower Shop. It is the inten- 

 tion to do a general florists' business. 



Coeur d'Aleue, Idaho. — Adolph Don- 

 art, who has been located here about 

 seven years, has built up an establish- 

 ment of good size and is branching out. 

 Recently he purchased, with-H. E. Sta- 

 pleton, the House of Flowers, of A. J. 

 Burt, of Spokane, Wash. Mr. Stapleton 

 has been employed as manager by Mr. 

 Burt for about a year. He has been in 

 the business upwards of twenty-five 

 years. He will have active charge of 

 the store, while Mr. Donart will remain 

 at Coeur d'Alene growing the stock. He 

 has been supplying this house ever since 

 it started in Spokane. 



LAWN TROUBLES IN OREGON. 



I made a new lawn last spring, but the 

 first part of the season was so wet and 

 cold that the new grass did not make 

 much growth until late in the summer. 

 Then, toward the end of August, after a 

 nice sod was formed, part of the lawn 

 started to turn brown. This was not 

 caused by lack of moisture, for I had 

 an abundant supply of water and used 

 all that was needed. I also fed the grass 

 with lawn fertilizer, but still there were 

 black spots on the leaves, somewhat sim- 

 ilar to the black spot on roses. The 

 grass now seems to be killed to the 

 ground and some of the roots also are 

 gone. 



The part of the lawn referred to was 

 seeded with blue grass. One cause of 

 the trouble, no doubt, is the poorness of 

 the soil, but adjacent parts of the lawn, 

 seeded with other kinds of grass, look 

 fairly well. Only the blue grass is in 

 really bad condition. Also, there are a 

 great many unusually large angleworms 

 in the soil and they appear to be a se- 

 rious pest, working up numerous little 

 humps in the soil and putting the lawn 

 in poor shape. Can you tell me how to 

 get rid of them? Lime seems to kill 

 them when it hits them, but if I use too 

 much of the lime it may harm the lawn, 

 as the soil is somewhat sandy. 



F. W.— Ore. 



The behavior of the biue grass and the 

 presence of angleworms of unusual size 

 would indicate that the soil is sour, and, 

 as it is somewhat sandy, the drainage 

 must be poor. If not well drained and 

 well fertilized, the soil will not grow 

 blue grass satisfactorily. It will be dif- 

 ficult to hurt the grass by applying 

 ground lime rock, at the rate of at least 

 two sacks to the lot, but first be sure of 

 good drainage. Apply the lime dust 

 now. To fertilize, use pulverized sheep 

 manure in the spring, say 400 pounds to 

 the lot. 'By "lot" is meant the average 

 lawn area on a lot 50x100 feet, with a 

 residence on it. 



It will be useless to try to exterminate 

 the angleworms. They are not harmful 

 and bad lawns are not caused by the 



We are muck pleated with the 

 results of our plant advertisements 

 in The Review ; orders have come 

 in freely and from a wide range of 

 territory. 



Germain Seed & Plant Co. 



Los Angeles, By M. L. Germain, Pres. 



worms. They appear in great numbers 

 when the soil is sour and their presence 

 is a pretty sure indication of acidity. 

 Try the litmus paper test and then there 

 will be no question about it. Blue grass 

 is sensitive to acidity of the soil and 

 will not do well where other grasses may 

 thrive. Get the soil in good condition 

 and the worms will not cause any 

 trouble. S. W. W. 



LOS ANGELES. 



The Market. 



There probably never has been a 

 larger quantity of fine stock in the mar- 

 ket than at this Christmas, and yet the 

 demand has been so heavy that whole- 



salers have had to cut their orders in 

 half in many cases; of course, some of 

 them have had to cut out orders alto- 

 gether. The out-of-town demand has 

 been unprecedented and the same may 

 be said of the local. Among roses, long- 

 stemmed Russells have been fine and in 

 many cases have taken the place of 

 Beauties, which have been exceedingly 

 scarce. There has also been a fine lot 

 of long reds. Milady, Hoosier Beauty and 

 others, which have helped out with the 

 scarcity of good red carnations. "Hot- 

 house reds," as they are locally termed, 

 have been among the hardest of all to 

 get, and even white and light pink have 

 been short. In field carnations the case 

 was hopeless, the frost having checked 

 the flowers' opening. Until the last, 

 telegrams arrived at the wholesale 

 houses and hundreds of dollars of busi- 

 ness had to be turned down. Northern 

 shipments fell off at the same time, 

 which made matters worse. The same 

 conditions applied to all other outdoor 

 stock. Cecile Brunner roses from in- 

 doors helped a good deal with the smaller 

 flowers. 



There was a fair supply of orchids, 

 which sold well. Roman hyacinths were 



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= FRED SPERRY, Mgr. E 



= HOUSE OF QUALITY AND SERVICE BUSIEST PLACE IN TOWN = 



I Large cuts of ROSES, CARNATIONS, VIOLETS, I 

 I CHRYSANTHENUNS and aU Greens I 



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



I LONG DISTANCE SHIPPING OUR SPECIALTY 5 



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Mention The Review when yon write. 



ROSE PLANTS 



We are now booking orders for spring delivery of the leading varieties of 

 forciDg roses : Prima Donna, September Mom, Milady, Mrs. George 

 Shawyer, Sunburst, Ophelia, Francis Scott Key, Hoosier Beauty, My 

 Maryland, White Killamey. 



LET US KNOW YOUR WANTS 



WALTER ARMACOST & CO. 



Sawtelle, Cal. 



Mention The HeTlew when yon write. 



CAN YOU USE THESE PLANTS IN YOUR BUSINESS? 



Streptosolen Jameaonli, elegant 2-lnch etock, t2.00 per 100. 



Creepine Coieas, Also grraad for baskets or wall pockets, 2-lDch pot stock, $3.00 per 100; larger, ^.OO 



per 100. 

 Beeonla Lamlnosa, Vernon and Prima Donna, stroog transplanted stock, $1.60 per 100. 

 Primnia Sinensis, 2V2-incb, extra strong, $3.00 per 100. 



Rose Geraninms. Grand, bushy 4-lnch stock plants, $4.00 per 100— worth donble. 

 Geranlnms. All colors, rooted cattlngs, $10.00 per 1000; unrooted, $6.00 per 1000. 

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



GERMAIN SEED A PLANT CO. 



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



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