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Account of the convention of the Pa- 

 cific Coast Nurserymen's Association ap- 

 pears in the department of News of the 

 Nursery Trade in this issue. 



LOS ANGELES. 



The lAarket. 



Ketailers report better business dur- 

 ing the week just passed and say that 

 if the latter part of July is as good as 

 the first part it will be better than the 

 average. Shipping business has also 

 kept up fairly well at the wholesale 

 houses, the great difficulty being to get 

 the right kind of stock to ship over the 

 long-distance routes. 



Indoor carnations are among the 

 scarce items, also good quality roses. 

 The outdoor stock is good for the sea- 

 son, although the unusually warm weath- 

 er has not improved it any. Dahlias 

 are arriving in fine shape now, the newer 

 varieties and colors being popular. 

 Orchids are scarce and hard to obtain 

 at any price. 



Various Notes. 



A recent visit to the Montebello plant 

 of Roy P. Wilcox was certainly a sur- 

 prise and a pleasant one. In the short 

 time this place has been in Mr. Wilcox 's 

 hands the change is, to say the least, 

 remarkable. The immense lath house 

 apparently has been almost entirely re- 

 planted or at least a large part of it. 

 Large breadths have been cleared of 

 miscellaneous stock and hundreds of 

 thousands of young kentias planted. 

 Other large stock has been lifted, tubbed 

 and arranged in sizes, and is well on 

 the way to being reestablished. It was 

 apparent directly Mr. Wilcox took hold 

 that there was going to be a big change, 

 but it seems incredible that such an 

 improvement could have been brought 

 about in so short a time. Both Mr. Wil- 

 cox and his nursery manager, Paul 

 Staiger, have been oh the job early and 

 late and great credit is due them. One 

 of the large rose houses has been par- 

 titioned in the middle and the east end 

 filled with large and medium-sized ken- 

 tias, which are all established in green 

 tubs, a fine looking lot. George Ham- 

 burger presides over the rose houses and 

 the young stock. The old plants that 

 have been replanted promise exceed- 

 ingly well for the coming season. Prac- 

 tically the whole of the benches have 

 been refilled with new soil, an expen- 

 sive item, 'but one that will be well re- 

 paid in the near future. 



J. Dieterich has purchased a Stearns- 

 Enight auto and may be seen frequently 

 on the road between Los Angeles and 

 Wintersburg. It is said there was a tear- 

 ful parting between Mr. Dieterich and 

 the old Henderson. 



H. N. Gage is among the most regular 

 attendants at the market, but has been 

 \under the weather for a day or two. 



J. A. Axell, of San Francisco, was 

 with us last week looking over the situ- 

 ation in the south. As has been al- 

 ready reported in The Review, Mr. Axell 



is going into business for himself short- 

 ly. He figures on starting Septem- 

 ber 1 and has secured a large store and 

 suitable quarters at 461 Bush street, 

 not far from his old location in the 

 northern city. He will handle the prod- 

 uct of several of the larger ranges and 

 it speaks well for the esteem he is held 

 in when these growers of repute seek 

 him out to handle their goods. No one 

 ever went into this business with more 

 friends or better wishes than Mr. Axell. 



H. R. Richards. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market. 



The market was rather quiet last 

 week, but, while the growers were able 

 to slacken up on the work in the dis- 

 tributing depots, they were by no means 

 idle. The nurseries are keeping full 

 forces busy with preparations for winter 

 stock. Asters and chrysanthemums are 

 just coming into bloom, and in the fields 

 the work has been exceptionally heavy. 



a planting considerably larger 

 in previous years. Already there 



due to 

 than 



are indications of an unusually big de 

 mand for both chrysanthemums and 

 asters for shipping purposes, and varie- 

 ties which meet special requirements for 

 keeping are being produced in abun- 

 dance. 



Outdoor stock was in good condition 

 with the exception of sweet peas, which 

 have been poor during the entire sea- 

 son. There were plenty of delphiniums, 

 snapdragons, calliopsis, sweet sultans, 

 Prench and African marigolds, alyssum, 

 pansies, gaillardias and other hardy 

 stock to supply the demand for cut flow- 

 ers, for at present there is little in the 

 way of decoration which calls for a 

 great amount of blooms. Carnations 

 were plentiful, but, outside of one or two 

 varieties of which there is a scarcity, 

 the quality was none too fine. Good 

 roses, too, were scarce, although there 

 was an improvement noted over the cut 

 of the preceding few weeks. 



Orchids continued hard to obtain and 

 gardenias were rather small. Dealers 



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