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The Florists^ Review 



January 20. 1917. 



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I I Pacific Coast Department 



Pasadena, Cal. — At the recent meet- 

 ing of the Pasadena Horticultural So- 

 ciety George F. Nelson was elected 

 president in place of W. Shields, George 

 Kennedy still holding his position as 

 secretary. 



LOS ANGELES. 



The Market. 



Another cold snap has materially 

 checked outdoor carnations and other 

 flowers just as they were getting into 

 their stride; but, fortunately, both wind 

 and rain accompanied the cold and pre- 

 vented its settling down to a frost. 

 Nothing grows except violets, and these 

 appear to like the cool, moist conditions 

 now existing. Even the hardy blue 

 cyanus, or cornflower, does not open 

 freely and there is some shortage. Sweet 

 peas are scarce and only of medium qual- 

 ity, while outdoor roses at present are 

 practically out of the market. A scar- 

 city of indoor roses, or rather a reduced 

 supply, has again come to pass, several 

 growers being more or less off crop. Good 

 Cecile Brunner roses are nearly as scarce 

 as orchids, and corsage flowers generally 

 are short, with the exception of violets. 



Callas are coming in slowly, the earlier 

 ones being somewhat damaged by frost. 

 There is a nice supply of Easter lilies, 

 both in pots and cut, but the demand for 

 potted stock is extremely light. Aspara- 

 gus plumosus is in much smaller supply, 

 the cold weather having checked the 

 growth and the frost browned the tips of 

 much of it, making it unsalable. The de- 

 mand for maidenhair ferns, brakes and 

 Mexican ivy is better than for .some 

 time. 



Plants are coming in more freely, aza- 

 leas that were late for Christmas, cycla- 

 mens, begonias and ferns making a good 

 showing. The fruit branches and boughs 

 of Acacia Baileyana and other shrubs 

 and trees prove effective in the store 

 windows. 



Various Notes. 



A. F. Levy, representing the McCallum 

 Co., of Pittsburgh, Pa., is in town taking 

 orders for supplies. 



John Bodger, Jr., last week said he 

 intended to start on his eastern trip 

 January 16. 



The L. A. Floral Co. is shipping a dis- 

 tinctive looking carnation, a sport of 

 Mrs. Welch. The color just now is not 

 so good, Fred Sperry says, as later in 

 the season, but even now it is so different 

 from other carnations on the market 

 here that it meets with a fine demand. It 

 lasts well, is a good shipper and the color 

 is described as an American Beauty tint. 



Darling's Flower Shop reports busi- 

 ness excellent, better than at the begin- 

 ning of the montli. The windows have 

 been exceptionally attractive of late, 

 some novel ideas having been worked 

 out. 



Although I knew of tlie addition of 

 new greenhouses at the H. N. Gage Co. 

 nursery at Montf;l)ollo, I was surprised 

 to see what a groat improvement had 

 been made all around. Tlie two new 

 houses, each 200 feet long, are filled with 

 ferns, palms and other stock, and out- 

 doors the bulbous stock looks cxception- 



W« arc muck pleased with' the 

 results ef 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. 



ally well. II. N. Gage in the selling de- 

 partment, and his brother, L. Gage, in 

 the growing end, seem a i)retty strong 

 combination. 



Friends of H. W. Turner will be sorry 

 to hear that he broke his right arm Janu- 

 ary 15, thus more or less incapacitating 

 him at a busj' time. Evervone knows 



that the temporary loss of an arm will 

 not keep Mr. Turner out of business, but 

 it makes it a little awkward just the 

 same. 



A big shipping business and the job 

 of moving has kept all hands on the 

 jump at the S. Murata & Co. store this 

 week. Purity freesias have met with 

 an exceptionally fine demand,' the 

 Fischer quality doing the trick. 



At Wolf skills' & Morris Goldenson's 

 this week there has been a large de 

 mand for the better class of funeral 

 work. 



Friends of Arnold Kingier, secretary 

 of the W. W. Barnard Co., Chicago, will 

 be glad to hear that Mrs. Kingier is 

 progressing favorably at the Clara 

 Barton hospital. 



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I L. A. FLORAL CO. | 



E FRED SPERRY, Mgr. E 



I HOUSE OF QUALITY AND SERVICE I 



LARGE CUTS OF- 



Lilies — Freesias — Daffodils 

 Roses — Carnations — Violets 

 Novelties and Greens of all kinds 



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



E LONG DISTANCE SHIPPING OUR SPECIALTY = 



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VIOLETS = CARNATIONS 



ROSES 



And Other Seasonable 

 CUT riOWERS 



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ASK FOR SPECIAL QUOTATION 



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



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 GROWERS 



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CYCLAMEN PLANTS 



READY FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY 



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5-inch 35 @ .50 



6-inch 50 @ .75 



7-inch 75 @ i.oo 



8-inch 1.00 @ 1.25 



Large sizes 1.50 @ 2.00 



Large, well flowered plants, mostly salmons and reds.' 



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