January 23. 1919. 



The Florists^ Review 



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Seattle, Wash.— W. S. Goldsbary, who 

 is with Bosaia Bros., has had his hands 

 full until recently. For several weeks 

 he had the "flu" in his family, now 

 happily recovered. 



Portland, Ore. — J. I. Robinson has 

 been able to give much of his time to 

 war work during the year just closed, 

 having able cooperation in his business 

 as a florist from his wife and Grower 

 Wedell. He reports a busy year, the 

 only drawback being insufficient supplies 

 of stock. Spring will find him back in 

 harness again, planning many improve- 

 ments. 



Los Angeles, Cal. — It is reported that 

 H. R. Richards will withdraw from the 

 firm of S. Murata & Co., becoming a 

 gentleman of leisure February 1. He 

 has a pretty place on rural free delivery 

 route No. 6; the box at the roadside 

 is labeled 368. Mr. Murata and Mr. 

 Richards are dissolving partnership 

 with mutual good wishes. It is probable 

 that Mr. Richards soon will be back in 

 the business, probably as the Pacific 

 coast agent of some well known eastern 

 firms. 



SEATTLE, WASH. 



The Market. 



Flowers of all kinds were conspicuous 

 by their absence last week in the local 

 market. Funeral work at present con- 

 stitutes the principal activity in the 

 retail shops. Decorations are only mem- 

 ories. 



Various Notes. 



The Hollywood Gardens are cutting 

 fine carnations. This concern reports 

 flowers scarcer than ever before and de- 

 mand strong. 



W. H. Hawkins, who recently left 

 Seattle for California, has purchased 

 Bassett's Floral Gardens, at Loomis, Cal. 

 He will specialize in carnation cuttings 

 and ferns. He expects to have 50,000 

 carnation cuttings ready for the mar- 

 ket by March 1. 



E. Rosaia, violet grower of Portland, 

 Ore., visited the trade during the week. 



The death of Frank Quillan, proprie- 

 tor of the Washington Floral Co., is 

 noted in another column of this issue. 



Rosaia Bros, are cutting roses and 

 orchids. W. S. G. 



SPOKANE, WASH. 



The Market. 



Trade is becoming more nearly normal 

 and the florists are enjoying the first 

 opportunity for rest in four months. 

 They all wear smiles of satisfaction, 

 but some complain that much more busi- 

 ness could have been done had they 

 been able to secure more stock. The 

 weather has become milder and we see 

 sunshine occasionally and therefore are 

 getting larger supplies of roses and 

 carnations. 



Club Meeting. 



The Spokane Florists' Club held its 

 monthly meeting January 13. This was 

 the first meeting since September 9, due 



to the influenza ban, in effect since 

 that date. The club met in the Stone 

 room of the Spokane hotel. After an 

 enjoyable dinner, routine business was 

 discussed. S. Younkin, of Hoyt Bros. 

 Co., Inc., acted as chairman. J. W. 

 Duncan was elected to succeed himself 

 as secretary. The question regarding 

 the embargo to be placed on plants, 

 bulbs and shrubs, which takes effect in 

 June, brought arguments both for and 

 against the bill. Bernson & Halley, of 

 Glenrose Greenhouses, decorated the 

 tables with a beautiful specimen of the 

 new carnation. Laddie. R. W. N. 



LOS ANGELES. 



The Market. 



Stock is still scarce and carnations 

 and other standard flowers are worth 

 more than ever before, or at least they 

 bring higher prices. Violets are more 

 plentiful, the cold nights apparently 

 having no effect upon their opening, 

 when followed by fine days. Scotch 

 heather, so-called (Erica melanthera), 

 is in fair shape, but the lack of rain 

 apparently is responsible for a lighter 

 coloring than is normal and it does not 

 attract buyers as usual. But its keep- 

 ing qualities and the fact that it ships 

 well over long distances insure it a wel- 

 come, especially at a time of scarcity. 

 The long shoots are fine for decorations 

 of all kinds and the shorter stock is ideal 

 for choice funeral work. Chinese lilies, 

 narcissi and Roman hyacinths help out 

 and a few daffodils have come in, but 

 not enough of the latter to affect the 

 market. Orchids are more plentiful, 

 Cattleya Trianse, C. Percivaliana and C. 



Schroederae all overlaping the season 

 as well as some hybrids that find their 

 way to the market from private collec- 

 tions. It is pleasing to note the in- 

 creased use of other orchids besides cat- 

 tleyas. Nearly all small flowers are still 

 below the demand and are bringing the 

 growers much better returns than usual. 

 There are some good cyclamens still on 

 the market, also ferns, but outside of 

 these the plants seen are of poor quality. 

 The frost damaged some of the plu- 

 mosus in the less favored localities, but 

 in warmer sections it was unharmed and 

 is possibly more plentiful than usual at 

 this season. Maidenhair ferns of good 

 quality are scarce and ferns from the 

 north are higher in price than usual. 



Various Notes. 



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

 has been under the weather for some 

 time, but has been sticking close to 

 business, nevertheless, until he finally 

 had to stay at home. He has been in 

 bed for several days, but everyone hopes 

 for his speedy recovery. 



H. N. Gage is usually first on the 

 market with outdoor daffodils. Mr. 

 Gage brought in his first flowers Jan- 

 uary 13. He also had fine ranunculus 

 flowers. They have come this year slight- 

 ly later than last, owing to the early 

 bulbs having been planted at the Bald- 

 win park ranch, where it is colder than 

 Montebello, though the soil there is par- 

 ticularly well adapted to bulbous stock. 



George Stewart has returned to work 

 at Wolf skills' after a severe cold. 



F. Wright is back at work after an 

 attack of influenza. 



A look around Angelo Tassano's nurs- 



\\l^ ARE keeping our 

 word and living up to 

 our motto. This is proved 

 by our being able to fill our 

 holiday orders with good 

 stock when others failed. 



L. A. FLORAL CO. 



FRED SPERRY, Manager 



236 E. Fourth St., LOS ANGELES, CAL. 



Long Distance Phone, Pico 518 



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