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The Fforists^ Review 



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ROSES FOB CALIFOBinA. 



Please tell me which roses are best 

 for outdoor growing for cut flowers on 

 the southern coast of California. I wish 

 to have three red, three light pink, three 

 dark pink, three yellow or apricot, and 

 three white. 



Can you tell me how to treat muslin 

 in order to make it transparent for the 

 purpose of covering hotbeds f 



A. F.— Cal. 



The roses named below are those most 

 grown for cutting outdoors in southern 

 California: Red, Hoosier Beauty, Ul- 

 rich Brunner and General MacArthur; 

 dark pink. Bed Eadiance, Shawyer and 

 Lady Battersea; light pink. Radiance, 

 Pink Cochet and Winnie Davis; yellow. 

 Sunburst, Lady Hillingdon and Mrs. 

 Aaron Ward. In mixed shades the Los 

 Angeles is the finest coming to market in 

 California. 



Some growers paint muslin with 

 boiled linseed oil to preserve it and 

 make it more or less transparent. It 

 should be given several coats and al- 

 lowed plenty of time to dry. 



H. R. R. 



LOS ANGELES. 



The Market. 



There is little to add to recent re- 

 ports on the situation, except that busi- 

 ness is perhaps a little duller and stock 

 has improved a little in quality. Double 

 African marigolds are arriving in good 

 shape and are useful for decorations 

 and for long-distance shipping. The 

 outdoor carnations are better in quality, 

 but roses are still poor. Dahlias, late 

 gladioli and tall larkspurs make a fine 

 show in many of the retailers' windows. 

 Funeral work has been the mainstay 

 and there has not been a great deal of 



that. . 



All the wholesalers report business 

 slow, but not more so than is usual at 

 this season. Business was good through- 

 out the month of June. 



Various Notes. 



The exodus to the mountains has 

 started and among the first to go was 

 Jack Allen, of the Alexandria Flower 

 Shop, Since his attack of "flu" he has 

 not been feeling particularly well, but 

 has stuck to work gamely and now 

 Mrs. Allen and he are taking a month 

 off, driving to Yosemite by easy stages 

 and back by the coast route through 

 San Francisco. 



E. H. Cushman, formerly a famous 

 gladiolus grower in Ohio, has been call- 

 ing on friends in the trade here this 

 week. He is living in Redlands, where 

 he brought an orange grove just after 

 the big freeze in 1913, and he says that 

 this is the best year he has had so far 

 as a citrus grower. He also purchased 

 land at Point Loma, near San Diego, 

 which he still holds. His son Ralph, he 

 says, longs to come out to the coast 

 again. . 



The H. N. Gage Co. is sending in fine 

 new-crop gladioli from the El Molite 

 grounds. 



C. Gutting, of the Superior Nursery 



& Dahlia Gardens, is again to the fore 

 with some exceptionally choice new 

 dahlias and he is cutting several hun- 

 dreds of the choicer novelties daily. He 

 is also preparing for a series of exhibits 

 of his favorite flower in several of the 

 near-by towns and cities. At the nursery 

 on Slauson avenue, fine lots of young 

 stock, such as crotons, pandanus, ferns, 

 cyclamens and others, are coming along 

 in the houses recently cleared of vege- 

 table plants. 



Julius Baer, the well known retailer 

 of Cincinnati, O., has been calling on the 

 trade this week. Mr. Baer attended the 

 Rotarians' convention at Salt Lake City 

 and has made a combined business and 

 pleasure trip, stopping off at various 

 cities en route. After a few more days 

 in Los Angeles, he intends to go back 

 over the northern route via the Cana- 

 dian Pacific. Mrs. Baer accompanies 

 him. 



Peter Perkins, of Visalia, was a visi- 

 tor last week. 



Frank Lichtenberg reports the biggest 

 June business in the history of his 

 store. 



Purdie & Co. are making a nice dis- 

 play of aquatics in their window. Wa- 

 ter plantains, sagittarias and other 

 growing stock are displayed with the 

 cut flowers of water lilies and lotus. 

 This gives a natural appearance which 

 is highly attractive. 



Wright's Flower Shop has purchased- 

 the stock of cattleyas from Dr. Schiff- 

 mann, of Pasadena, and taken them to 

 the growing quarters. Tom Wright is 

 putting in a good deal of his time now 

 at the range, superintending the filling 

 of the houses for winter stock. 



C. A. Brazee, of Wilmington, has 

 just returned from a southern trip of 

 about ten days. He drove into Mexico 

 and had a good look over the situation 

 south of the line, returning by way of 

 San Diego, where he visited the nurser- 

 ies and a few other places. He reports 

 a most enjoyable trip. Mr. Brazee is 



SUMMER FLOWERS 

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 LOS ANGELES, CAL. 



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