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The Florists^ Review 



JULT IJ, 1917. 



Pacific Coast Department~1$ 



A REPORT of the fifteenth annual con- 

 vention of the Pacific Coast Association 

 of Nurserymen, held at Tacoma, Wash., 

 July 11 to 13, will be found in the 

 Nursery Department of this issue. 



LOS ANGELES, CAL. 



The Market. 



It was another quiet week, with prac- 

 tically nothing but funeral work to clean 

 up the stock. The shipping business has 

 been better, but it would have been 

 lieavier had good shipping stock been 

 obtainable. As it is, many complaints 

 are made. 



Carnations remain poor, and roses are 

 of fair quality only. Gladioli are fine 

 and ship well. Centaureas are good, but 

 sweet peas are poor. Cornflowers of 

 satisfactory quality may be had; asters 

 ar6 of medium grade. Dahlias are ar- 

 riving more plentifully and have im- 

 j/roved in quality. Orchids and valley 

 are scarce. 



Various Notes. 



S. Murata & Co. received a carload 

 of sphagnum moss this week from Wis- 

 consin, the first to arrive in Los An- 

 geles this season. On account of the 

 .scarcity and the consequent high prices 

 of this article, green moss has been sell- 

 ing well, but the bog moss is more 

 popular with the florists and there- 

 fore is moving freely. The firm also 

 reports the arrival of the new crop of 

 field carnations. 



Frank W. Nelson, of the California 

 Cut Flower Co., returned from his east- 

 ern trip July 3. He reports an inter- 

 esting time on his journey, but on the 

 way home he was held up by a big wash- 

 out on the Denver & Eio Grande. His 

 mother, whom he hardly expected to see 

 iilive, fortunatelv has recovered her 

 lioalth. 



O. M. Morris, of the Morris & Snow 

 Seed Co., and a party of friends left 

 July 6 for a camping trip to Bear val- 

 ley, going by way of the desert. This 

 is an old stamping ground of Mr. Morris, 

 who likes to get back to his old haunts. 

 lie leaves behind an able lieutenant in 

 his son, Albert. Since recovering from 

 the fire many improvements have been 

 made in the store and fixtures, and the 

 establishment now is one of the best and 

 most up-to-date in the city. 



Arthur Cleave, proprietor of Gleave's 

 Flower Shop, Santa Barbara, is paying 

 us a visit this week. He reports stock 

 scarce on account of the hot weather and 

 tlie recent brush and forest fires, which 

 have decimated hundreds of acres of 

 forest and other plantings there and in 

 Ventura county. Business is quiet, says 

 Mr. Gleave, but tliis is to be expected at 

 this time. 



W. J. Treadup, of the A. L. Randall 

 Co., Chicago, is in town calling on the 

 trade. 



Fred Sperry, of the L. A. Floral Co., 

 has returned from a trip to Wheeler's 

 springs. 



J. Dioterich is busy repairing the 

 greenhouses at Montebello. A good 

 deal of the piping in the heating system 

 has to be renewed and the pipe sup- 

 ports repaired. The whole place will be 

 put in thorough running order during 



the summer and will be ready for next 

 season's work. 



The Bauer Pottery Co. has purchased 

 the entire stock of pots of the Standard 

 Pottery, and the latter concern will 

 cease to make flower pots after this 

 date. The Bauer people are considering 

 the purchase of the pot-making machin- 

 ery of the Standard Pottery. 



W. W. Felgate, of Sierra Madre, sent 

 a small but choice collection of vege- 

 tables and fruit to the meeting of the 

 Los Angeles County Horticultural So- 

 ciety July 11, at which President James 

 Taylor read a paper on vegetable grow- 

 ing. 



Robert Newcomb, of the American 

 Bulb Co., Chicago has been suffering 

 from a severe cold, but stuck to busi- 

 ness gamely. He reports a good call for 

 baskets. 



A. J. Verhelle, of the Kentia Nurs- 

 eries, Santa Barbara, is in town for a 

 few days calling on the trade. He drove 

 down and is using his machine to get 

 around with. Business has been excel- 

 lent, he says. H. R. Richards. 



SPOKANE, WASH. 



Hot weather has brought the usual 

 condition of medium and poor stock, but 

 as business most of the time simply 

 "isn't," it does not seem to matter 

 much what tlie quality of stock is. 

 Roses are not plentiful and the quality is 

 only fair. Carnations are generally poor 

 in quality, though markedly plentiful. 

 Good sweet peas arrive from the out- 

 door growers. 



July weddings have been many and 

 have supplied the occasions for some 

 original decorations. During the last 

 week the Spokane Florist Co. and 

 Eugene's Flower Shop have had elabo- 

 rate creations for society nuptials. 



W. S. Hoyt and Samuel Younkin were 



partners in an auto trip through the 

 southern part of the state last wetu. 

 They report extremely dry conditions ui 

 the regions visited, with the crops bacily 

 in need of rain. 



Under the skillful hand of Alfr (1 

 Jacobson the new range of the H. !,. 

 Olsson Co., Inc., is rapidly nearing co: i- 

 pletion. No finer piece of greenhou ,e 

 building can be found in this secticn. 

 The range consists of two houses, ea !i 

 29x200, and one propagating house l.".\ 

 90. Another house similar to the proj. ■ 

 gating house will be constructed later ].\ 

 the fall. Carnation planting will begin 

 in the new houses this week. 



Frank Nawrochi, who only a f c v 

 weeks ago accepted a position with tlie 

 Martin & Forbes Co., of Portland, w;;i 

 called back to this city by a message 

 from his wife, telling him that their 

 home here had been burned to the 

 ground, a complete loss. No one was nt 

 home at the time of the fire. Mr. Naw- 

 rochi left for Portland with his family 

 after spending a few days here arrang- 

 ing business affairs. 



E. Stapleton and family have removed 

 to Duluth, Minn., wliere Mr. Stapleton 

 has a position as designer with the 

 Duluth Floral Co. 



E. A. Hedger, generally known to the 

 trade as "Ted," acquired a son-in-law 

 last week when his daughter, Luella, 

 was married to C. W. Buchanan. 



L. B. H. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market. 



July usually is the quietest month of 

 the year, and this year probably will 

 be no exception to the rule, although the 

 midsummer dullness does not seem to be 

 so acute as in previous years, judging 

 from the light accumulations of stock 



Valley 



Yalley 



We are now receiving regular shipments of choice Valley. 

 Roses, Gladioli and all other seasonable flowers and greens. 



California Cut Flower Co. 



433 West 7th Street, LOS ANGELES, CAL. 



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|L. A. FLORAL CO.| 



m The House of QUALITY and SERVICE ^ 



m LONG DISTANCE SHIPPING A SPECIALTY ^ 



I 407 So. Los Angeles Street, LOS ANGELES, CAL. 1 



Southern California Ffower Harket. Inc. 



421-423 Wall Street, LOS ANGELES, CAL 



LARGEST WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



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BAMBOO STAKES 



4 ft. Plain per 1,000, $ 4.00 



4 ft. Plain per 10,000, 35.00 



C. KOOYMAN CO., Inc., 



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