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The Florists^ Review 



NOTBHBEB 28, 1918. 



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PACIFIC Coast DEPARtMENT I 



SEATTLE, WASH. 



The Market. 



Flowers are scarce this week. Mums 

 from California are a big help. -There 

 has never Deen such a shortage of mums 

 in Seattle as there is this year, where 

 at this time the market usually has been 

 flooded. This year there is nothing, 

 growers demanding almost twice as much 

 for a poorer grade of stock. It looks at 

 the present time as though the retailers 

 will have the holidays on top of them 

 with about half enough cut stock to meet 

 an expected heavy demand. The de- 

 mand for funeral work has got back to 

 normal once more, but it was a long, 

 hard grind for everybody in the trade 

 for about six weeks. 



Various Notes. 



George Bosaia returned last week 

 from a month's vacation in California. 

 He reports business on the boom in the 

 sunny south 



The Stuber-Eichardson Co. has added 

 a new house to its range at Bryn Mawr. 

 The house is 37x200 feet, with hot 

 water heat. The initial crop will be 

 cucumbers. 



Bosaia Bros, have a fine lot of pot 

 plants and novelties for the holidays, 

 at their range at Thomas, Wash. 



Mrs. Ghilarducci, of the California 

 Florist, Tacoma, was a visitor in the 

 city. She reports business good. 



Hollywood Gardens report a fine busi- 

 ness generally. W. S. G. 



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YAKIMA, WASH. 



The Market. 



Business in general is good, owing to 

 the large number of cases of influenza, 

 resulting in heavy funeral work, which 

 cleans up all stock daily. Large ship- 

 ments of California mums are arriving. 

 Violets are in good demand, although 

 the quality of the stock is not the best. 

 Greenhouse violets from Spokane are 

 offered, but they move slowly. Local 

 sweet peas find a ready sale at fancy 

 prices. The supply is limited, but the 

 quality is fine. Mums are in fine form 

 and the growers look for a big cut for 

 Thanksgiving. 



Various Notes. 



The State Floral Co. has opened an 

 attractive shop on North Second street 

 in charge of W. E. Cord, who is a mem- 

 ber of the firm, having come here a year 

 ago from the State Nursery Co., Helena, 

 Mont., where he had years of experience 

 in the florists' business. A good future 

 is predicted for the new venture. Mrs. 

 Murphy, formerly of Victoria, B. C, is 

 assisting in the store. 



Fred Young, of Portland, Ore., is visit- 

 ing in the city this week. Mr. Young 



is planning to take down the green- 

 houses he purchased recently in Port- 

 land and rebuild them on his tract of 

 land on Sixteenth avenue. He is as- 

 sured of a welcome from the trade. 



The force at the flower shop of Bourn 

 & Sons has been working overtime get- 

 ting out funeral orders from neighbor- 

 ing towns. Vernon Bourn has gone to 

 Seattle, where he expects to go to work 

 in the shipyards, leaving J. L. Bourn 

 sole representative of the firm, Harold 

 Bourn having enlisted in the navy at the 

 beginning of the war. J, L. B. 



LOS ANGELES. 



The Market. 

 A peculiarity of the market this week 

 has been the large number of orders sent 

 in from distances too great for satis- 

 factory shipping. Canadian orders and 

 orders from the northern points of Wis- 

 consin, Minnesota and Michigan can 

 hardly be taken care of without great 

 risk and, as there is a big local de- 

 mand, such orders in most cases have 

 been refused. It is impossible, in fact, 

 to fill all the orders that come through 

 from what might be termed legitimate 

 territory. Carnations have been partic- 

 ularly short some days and other days 

 there has been a scarcity of mums or 

 roses. There has hardly been a day 

 when something was not in overdemand. 

 Orchids are practically out of the mar- 

 ket since labiatas have been over. There 

 are some Percivaliana, but they are 

 small and Triana) will be the next to 



come in good supply. Sweet peas are 

 arriving in small lots and the little 

 Brunner roses from under glass are nice 

 for corsages. There is no valley on the 

 market. Camellias are coming in and 

 there is some demand for them. Gar- 

 denias are in short supply. Heather is 

 beginning to make its appearance and 

 while it has not yet come to its best 

 color, it is useful in funeral work and 

 for choice baskets. The price keeps up 

 well, especially for Erica melanthera, the 

 most attractive and best form for winter 

 use. 



Towards the end of the week every- 

 thing shortened up still more and it has 

 been impossible for wholesalers to fill 

 the orders that kept pouring in from all 

 parts. The shortage of violets and mums 

 is felt keenly. Local ferns gathered in 

 the mountains in Los Angeles county 

 are largely taking the place of the 

 brake shipped in from Oregon and other 

 northern points. 



Various Notes. 



. Harry C. Morgan, of the force of F. 

 Lichtenberg, announced the arrival at 

 his home November 12 of a son. Bert 

 Bateman, of the same store, is back at 

 work after a seven-day siege of influ- 

 enza. 



J. Gordon has been down with influ- 

 enza, but is reported better and all hope 

 to see him back in his place at the store 

 soon. 



Mrs. Gutting, wife of C. Gutting, of 

 the Superior Nursery, is down with in- 

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