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The Florists^ Review 



Mat 18, 1920. 



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Pacific Coast Department 



SPOKANE, WASH. 



The Market. 



Stock in seasonable lines is about in 

 keeping with the demand. The season 

 of coast daffodils is over, but a few arc 

 to be had from the local growers, though 

 the stock is not so good as the coast 

 daffodils, which were unusually fine this 

 year. Stocks and snapdragons are wel- 

 comed as a change. Bedding stock is 

 starting to move and the prospects for 

 big planting in all garden truck and 

 window boxes never was better. 



Carnations were scarce for Mothers' 

 day. Most of the growers were reported 

 as being off crop, but there was a good 

 rose cut and plenty of seasonable plants. 

 Prices were not raised to any great ex- 

 tent, as the florists do not want the 

 people to start wearing flags. 



Funeral work has been heavy. A 

 large number of out-of-town calls have 

 kept most of the establishments busy. 



Various Notes. 



The Spokane Greenhouses are cutting 

 some fine stocks, which find a ready 

 sale. 



Mrs. Day, of Overman's Nursery, re- 

 ports business good in spite of the fact 

 that prices are much higher than usual. 



Among the floral designs shipped to 

 Helena, Mont., for Senator Kennedy's 

 funeral was a large flag made almost 

 ontirely of carnations, and sent from 

 A. J. Burt's with a number of other 

 pieces. 



The Spokane Seed Co. reports busi- 

 ness good. The people are trying to 

 beat the high cost of living by planting 

 gardens. H. H. 



LOS ANGELES, CAL. 



The Market. 



The week before Mothers' day the 

 market was in the worst condition it had 

 been in for many months, owing to in- 

 sect trouble. The indoor carnations 

 were practically all ruined, while the 

 rose growers were about off crop, the 

 flowers coming from some of the grow- 

 ers being so badly infested with thrips 

 that they were unfit to ship. But, with 

 all their troubles, both wholesalers and 

 retailers were especially busy and it 

 its evident that Mothers' day is rapidly 

 becoming one of the best flower days 

 of the year. Other stock was in fair 

 supply. 



Various Notes. 



Paul .T. Howard opened a new store 

 May 1 at Seventh street and Union ave 

 nue and it is one of the finest in the 

 city. The floor has been sunk below the 

 street level, so that, for one looking 

 through the windows, a sunken garden 

 effect is obtained, with a fountain and 

 pool in the center. The store is 35x65 

 feet, with lath houses in the rear to take 

 care of plants, ferns and palms. E. 

 Vogel, formerly of Chicago, is with Mr. 

 Howard. 



Robert Miller, of the Miller Floral 

 Co., Salt Lake City, Utah, and Farm- 

 ington. Utah, has been visiting the 

 trade in this city. He says that he is 



Orders From All Over 



"Concerning the berry ad we have been runniiigr. we 

 expected to create some interest amone the Pacific 

 coast readers, but from the replies and orders re- 

 ceived from throughout the United States it would 

 appear that your journal is perused from cover to 

 cover." 



LOS ROBLES NURSERY & GARDEN 

 April 16, 1920 Santa Cruz, Cal. 



on a vacation, but he keeps pretty busy 

 visiting the growing establishments and 

 other places of interest. Of the Bas- 

 sett & Washburn palm growing estab- 

 lishment, at Sierra Madre, he says that 

 it is the cleanest and most up-to-date 

 place that he has seen in the United 

 States and probably everyone else will 

 agree with him. He intends to return 

 by way of San Francisco and Portland. 

 The Eedondo Floral Co. did a good 

 business in spring baskets and funeral 

 work last week. One funeral, for a 

 prominent oil man, kept the whole force 

 busy all night. Philip Hester, of the 

 staff, left this week for a three months ' 



vacation. He will take an extend d 

 trip in his new car, going as far is 

 Vancouver before returning. Will Lin- 

 senbart spent a few days at Catalijia 

 fishing and reported a good time. A. P. 

 Borden, having been missed from tiiP 

 store a few days ago, was diseovert^d 

 hoeing between those wonderful rows 

 of sweet corn at Hollywood. 



P. Matraia, of the Art Floral Co., San 

 Francisco, is a visitor in the city this 

 week. 



The L. A. Floral Co. is handling a 

 good crop of early America gladioli. 



H. R. Richards. 



SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 



The Market. 



Had Mothers' day come a week 

 earlier, this market would have been in 

 better shape on stock. As it was the 

 supply shortened up just in time to 

 cause a near-shortage in taking care of 

 a limited shipping demand, in addition 



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I Service that Advertises | 



I GEORGE J. HALL & CO. I 



I WHOLESALE I 



i FLORISTS I 



1 423 East 5th St. 



Los Angeles, Cal. | 



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Be in time for Memorial Day and send us your 

 orders for wreaths of Statice and Everlasting: 

 Flowers or Magfnolia and Strawflowers. We 

 have something: different— something: that will 

 prove a moneymaker. Let us describe them to 

 you or send you a sample shipment. 



Prices range from $1.50 to $10.00. 



L. A. FLORAL CO. 



236 EAST FOURTH ST., LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 



THE HOUSE OF QUALITY AND SERVICE 



