January 23, 1919. 



The Florists^ Review 



67 



FREESIA PURITY 



We are now cutting Freesia Purity in large quantities 



We will have 60, 000 from our own greenhouses 



We have agfain purchased the entire cut of Mr. Rudolph Fischer's Freesia crop, which 

 Mr. Fischer estimates to be about one quarter of a million, including Purity, his magnificent new 

 white, Fischerii, and his exquisite Splendens, lavender, and many other new and rare seedlings in all shades 

 of pink, yellow and lavender. 



We can still furnish Cyclamen plants 



IN ALL SIZES AND COLORS 



We quote from our supply department: 



Violet pins, 3-inch, $1.10 per box, $4.00 per 10.0; 3^-inch, $1.25 per box, $1.50 per 1000: 



Corsage pins, 013, $1.75 per gross. 



CHIFFONS 



4-inch @ 7c yd. Ginch @ 9c yd. 8-inch i 



GREEN FLORIST THRE%D 



Box of 12 dpools. $1.35, 



CARNATION MENDERS 



4000 for $1 00 



STONE WIRE 



Per pound, 20c 



17^c yd. 



RIBBONEZB 



Si. 65 per spool of 500 yds. 

 No. 1 GOLD LETTERS 



$5.'0 per 1000 

 PLANT SPRINKLERS 



Scollay's, $1.35 each 



FLORISTS' CUT WIRE 



Per box, $2.50 



Write for prices today. 



WALTER ARM ACOST & CO. 



221 East 4th Street 



We Close Sundays 



Los Angeles, Cal. 



GOLDEN YELLOW 



CALLA ELLIOTTIANA 



1 to l><j-ln..$9.00 per 100; IJ^i-ln. up, $11.00; l=>4-ln. 

 up. $13.00; 2-ln. up. $15.00; 214-ln. up, $18.00; 2'a-ln. 

 up, $20 00; 2\lQ. up, $23.00; 3-Id. up, $25.00. 



GLADIOLUS BULBS 



Send for full list. 

 Panama, $3.00, $2.26. $1.60; America. $2.00, $1.60, $1.00; 

 Brenchleyensis, $2.U0, $1.60. $1.00; Lehman and 

 Alice Carey together, $3.60. $2.76. $1.76; Pendleton, 

 $5.00, $4.00, $3.00; Chlcafiro White. $3.00, $2.50, $1.70; 

 Mixed, 20 highest priced sorts, $2.50, $2.00. $1 50; 

 Mixed, all sorts, $2.00, $1.60. $1.00. 



CAPiTOLA, 

 CALIF. 



BROWN BILB RAHCH. 



and his many friends in the trade wish 

 him well in his new connection. Busi- 

 ness at the MacRorie-McLaren establish- 

 ment has held up well since the holidays. 



Joseph Lagomarsino, one of the larg- 

 est violet growers in this vicinity, says 

 weather conditions have been unfavor- 

 able for the last month to such an ex- 

 tent that the crop is now in poor shape. 

 He has not shipped flowers to far dis- 

 tant points for the last two weeks, on 

 account of the quality being poor. The 

 outlook is more promising this week, 

 however, the long spell of frost having 

 given way to a warm rain. From pres- 

 ent indications there should be good 

 blooms by the first of February, but 

 there is no chance of an oversupply, as 

 the acreage is much reduced this year. 

 In this connection Mr. Lagomarsino 

 points out that he has only seven acres 

 of violets this winter, whereas in the 

 last few years he has had up to twenty- 

 one acres. 



The Art Floral Co. has added two new 

 men to its staff in the persons of A. 

 Ouneo and Joseph Scatena. Both men 

 are well known in the local trade. Until 

 recently Mr. Cuneo was with B. M. 



S. MURATA & CO. 



Oldest and Most Experienced Shippers in Southern California 



380-386 So. Los Angeles St., LOS ANGELES, CAL. 



WE NEVER MISS 



Mention The ReTlew when jon write. 



Joseph, Grant avenue, and Mr. Scatena 

 formerly was with the E. W, McLellan 

 Co. for eight years. 



Jack Lavazzola, with Avansino Bros., 

 has been off duty for two or three weeks 

 on account of illness. Henry Avansino 

 reports business good, notwithstanding 

 the scarcity and high price of flowers. 



Peter Rosaia, until recently with the 

 Art Floral Co., has joined the force of 

 Pelicano, Rossi & Co. Around this 

 establishment it is hinted that Frank 

 Pelicano must have a way of making 

 Scotch heather grow overnight. For 

 days his associates claim he has been an- 

 nouncing that he had no more heather, 

 but each day he managed to bring in 

 enough to fill requirements. 



V. Podesta, of Podesta & Baldocchi, 

 has no complaints to make about the 



demand for cut flowers, but he is 

 anxiously awaiting the time when prices 

 get down to normal again. 



In his twenty-one years' experience in 

 the florists' business in San Francisco, 

 John Biachinni, buyer for B. M. Joseph, 

 claims he never saw prices so high as 

 they are now. 



Mrs. Copeland, proprietor of the Misses 

 Hannon florists' shop in Sutter street, 

 says that in addition to funeral work, 

 her force is kept busy with table decora- 

 tions, there being much entertaining in 

 honor of the returning soldiers and sail- 

 ors. 



C. B. Clancey, a florist of Salem, Ore., 

 has been visiting in San Francisco. He 

 expresses surprise to find flowers so 

 scarce in this market. 



M. H. Ebel, one of the leading florists 



