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The Florists^ Review 



Mat 15, 1919. 



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Pacific Coast Department 



Biverside, Cal. — The California Asso- 

 ciation of Nurserymen meets here May 

 26 and 27 and the largest attendance 

 on record is expected. 



Boise, Idaho. — The Bayhouse Floral 

 Co., which has a store on Main street 

 and a range of glass on O'Farrel street, 

 is adding another house 50x104 feet. 



Watsonville, Cal. — H. A. Hyde, local 

 grower, shipped over 15,000 Godfrey 

 callas during the week preceding Eas- 

 ter. He found sethiopica a drug on the 

 market, but Godfrey sold well. Most of 

 the flowers in one field of Godfreys came 

 from bulbs one-half to five-eighths of 

 an inch in diameter. 



Walla Walla, Wash.— Clarence F. 

 Jones, who recently returned from 

 France, where he served as a Y. M. C. 

 A. worker for over a year, has pur- 

 chased the business of the Blossom Flo- 

 ral Co., located here. He is well pleased 

 with conditions. His store is known as 

 the Jones Flower Shop. 



LOS AKGELES. 



The Market. 



Each year the business for Mothers' 

 day improves and the call for carna- 

 tions was especially good. The pub- 

 licity given the carnation for this oc- 

 casion is not an unmixed good, be- 

 cause it leads everyone to think that 

 this flower is the only one and it creates 

 a run on this stock to the detriment of 

 other kinds. Shipping business was 

 fine and the extra facilities given by 

 the express companies helped consider- 

 ably. Greenhouse carnations were es- 

 pecially scarce and the dull weather 

 kept the outdoor crops down in number, 

 though the quality was good. Roses 

 took a little finding towards the last — 

 that is, stock fit for shipping, but there 

 were few orders unfilled. 



The demand from the east and the 

 middle west for statice and other 

 "everlastings" was a surprise to the 

 local market. Probably to some extent 

 this was in preparation for Decoration 

 day rather than for present use, but 

 immense numbers of flowers were 

 cleaned up. Orchids were about even 

 with the demand, the plentiful supply 

 of Cecile Brunner roses cutting this 

 down a little. Sweet peas were of 

 medium quality only, but in fair sup- 

 ply. Spanish iris has been plentiful 

 and good and small flowers generally 

 about up to the demand. Greens are 

 plentiful, but of medium quality, the 

 plumosus being hardly ripe enough for 

 shipping. The brake is the poorest 

 seen in the market for a long time. 

 Plants of all kinds are scarce. 



Various Notes. 



Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Hills have just 

 returned from a motor trip north and 

 report having an extra nice time. They 

 took the route via Bakersfield and 

 Fresno to Oakland and San Francisco, 

 calling on friends and members of the 

 trade en route. 



It is pleasing to note that E. B. Wash- 

 burn has quite recovered his health and 



usual activity and is around the nurs- 

 eries again. Mr. Washburn says they 

 will begin to ship some kentias this 

 season, but it will be another year be- 

 fore they will ship them in large quan- 

 tities. In the meantime they are build- 

 ing a greenhouse for propagating pur- 

 poses and considerably enlarging the 

 lath houses. Large quantities of seeds 

 are being imported again this year. 



Eoy F. Wilcox is getting encouraging 

 reports back from New York on his 

 carload shipments of kentias and re- 

 ports another big middle west order. 

 The -nursery at Montebello is already 

 showing signs of activity and the signs 

 are for development. Mr. Wilcox in- 

 tends specializing in certain lines of 

 nursery stock and to this end is making 

 attractive offers to the trade in other 

 lines. 



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

 returned from a short trip to the moun- 

 tains just in time for the Mothers' day 

 trade. It was a big rush. Most of the 

 staff worked several nights to get 

 shipments off in time. The refrigera- 

 tor service on the Salt Lake Line helped 

 out these and other wholesalers for the 

 day. 



Big shipments of nursery stock are 

 leaving the Beverly Hills Nursery and 

 the landscape department is working 

 full time. J. J. Reeves, superintendent 



of the nursery, is in far better health 

 than he was. Ted is back into har- 

 ness again after his service. He was 

 made lieutenant during the time he was 

 in the army. 



Friends of J. Gordon, manager at 

 Darling's Flower Shop, are glad to note 

 his improved health. Apparently he will 

 soon be the "same old John." 



Wright's Flower Shop is adding 

 another greenhouse to the establish- 

 ment at Moneta. H. R. Richards. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market. 



Flowers are plentiful, but they are 

 either not in so heavy supply as usual 

 for this time of the year, or business is 

 a little more brisk than usual. At no 

 time between Easter and Mothers' day 

 was there any great accumulation of 

 stock and prospects are considered fa- 

 vorable for the remainder of May, at 

 least. 



The heavy shipping demand for flow- 

 ers for Mothers' day brought the price 

 of roses up to about the same as pre- 

 vailed at Easter, which reflects an ex- 

 tremely large call for this particular 

 flower, as receipts have been increasing 

 steadily since the April holiday. The 



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 and >^-inch bulbs. 



Asparagus Plumosus Seed — Hand-picked, fresh, plump seed, $1.00 per 



1000; $7.50 per 10,000. 

 Asparagus Sprengeri Seed— 75c per 1,000. 

 Asparagus Sprengeri Seedlings— Good strong plants, $7.00 per 1000. 



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HARRY BAILEY, Nurseryman, ^ £;.?3^^^ Los Angeles, Cal. 



