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The Florists'^ Review 



OCTOBBB 16, 1910. 



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LOS ANGELES. 



The Maxket. 



Prices all around have taken an up- 

 ward turn, especially on carnations. 

 Business, while good, has not been rush- 

 ing and stock of most kinds has just 

 about cleaned up daily. The smaller 

 flowers, as is usual in the mum season, 

 drag a little, while high-class roses, 

 orchids and other such flowers do not 

 appear in sufficient quantities to meet 

 the demand. Several good decorations 

 and an unusually large funeral demand 

 have kept the retailers busy. The in- 

 crease in express rates and the high 

 cost of labor for picking have put up 

 the prices of all kinds of greens, 

 plumosus having jumped about twenty- 

 five per cent. The market in all. lines 

 favors the growers, and this is as it 

 should* be, for their expenses have in- 

 creased so materially that the old 

 prices were no longer profitable. 



Various Notes. 



Alois Frey is busy planting freesiaa 

 on his newly acquired ranch in the San 

 Fernando valley. 



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

 was on the sick list last week, suffer- 

 ing from a severe cold. Shipping busi- 

 ness has opened up finely here. 



Fred Gerkin is cutting freely on 

 leptospermum for greens. He has taken 

 the nursery and store recently run by 

 a fertilizer company and previously by 

 John Fincken, on West Washington 

 street. This and his nursery at Lomita 

 will probably keep Mr. Gerkin busy. 



Carl Brose, of the Lichtenberg force, 

 lis showing pictures of a fine buck he 

 (shot on a recent hunting trip in the 

 Cuyamaca country. 



C. B. Knickman, of McHutchison & 

 Co., New York, has been in town a few 

 days, in the interest of his firm. He 

 visited the palm-growing establish- 

 ments of Bassett & Washburn, at 

 Sierra Madre, and Roy F. Wilcox, of 

 Montebello. His trip to Japan was 

 successful and enjoyable, but he was 

 not there long enough to become pro- 

 ficient in Japanese. 



Frank Lichtenberg is in San Fran- 

 cisco on a buying trip. 



The new greenhouses of the San 

 Fernando Gardens, being built by the 

 Lampert interests, of Ohio, are well 

 under way and Mr. Lampert hopes to 

 have sweet peas and other stock by 

 Christmas. It is pleasing to see another 

 firm of repute coming to this locality, 

 for the demand for stock of superior 

 quality is never filled and quality is to 

 be the watchword here. The L. A. 

 Floral Co. shipped a carload of humus 

 here this week, to be mixed with the 

 soil for the benches. The Evans ven- 

 tilating machinery is being used for 

 the new houses. 



Frank Eeymond, of the Bedondo Flo- 

 ral Co., is always among the first on 

 the job at the market in the morning. 

 He believes in beginning the day right. 



Charles Wiffen and his son, Sidney, 

 formerly of Des Plaines, HI., are visit- 

 ing here this week, intending to spend 

 the winter in southern California. 



After buying out the stock of most 

 of the wholesale hardware people in 

 the city, W. Armacost & Co. eventually 

 procured enough corrugated iron to 

 cover their new boiler houses, as re- 

 quired by law. Mr. Armacost says they 

 have great difficulty in obtaining de- 

 livery of steel and iron products used in 

 construction, but he is well satisfied 

 with the progress made. 



Mr. Smith, of Smith's Flower Shop, 

 at Modesto, is making a tour of the 

 wholesale houses and growers' estab- 

 lishments around the city this week. 



Geo. Hall & Co. got away to a good 

 start and report all hands busy. There 

 is every probability that these young 

 men will work up a good local as well 

 as shipping business. 



A call at the Superior Dalilia Gardens, 

 on Figueroa street, witlr C. Gutting 

 showed a fine lot of bloom for so late 

 in the season. Real improvements on 

 Golden West and Mina Burgle sound 

 like an impossibility, but they are there, 

 besides many other novelties. 



H. R. Richards. 



SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 



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The Market. 



Stock in the local market was more 

 plentiful last week than it had been for 

 some time. While chrysanthemums were 

 still high, their quality was excellent. 

 The demand for shipping has been so 

 strong that local retailers have found it 

 an effort to secure enough for their 

 needs. Later varieties, such as the 

 yellow and white Turner, Portola, 

 Hunter, Jeffries and Bonnaffon, are now 

 in, and some beautiful blooms of these 

 varieties were seen in the market and 

 shops. The smaller chrysanthemums 

 were more plentiful last week than in 

 the previous week and slightly lower in 

 price. While the shipping of these va- 

 rieties does not equal the volume of the 

 larger blooms, still there has been re- 

 ported a fair demand for the Chinese 

 mums. 



The rose cut is much improved in 

 quality and quantity and prices are 

 somewhat less. Some good specimens of 



Chrysanthemums 



If you seek good stock and 

 good service— stock and ser- 

 vice second to none in Cal- 

 ifornia, send today's order to 



George J. Hall & Co. 



423 East 5th Street, LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 



S. MURATA & CO. 



Oldest and Most Experienced Shippers in Southern California 



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



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