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The Florists^ Review 



Septembbr 16, 1920 



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Pacific Coast Department 



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LOS ANGELbI, CA^.,' ^'" - " 



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Large ahipmen^fl o|#c]^y*antheraum8 

 from San Francisco &rid- other places'' 

 around the Isay have helped ouV the 

 locally grown stock. Most of tnes# 

 are yellow and arrive in good condi- 

 tion, but the pinks and whites are podr 

 as yet. Local Golden Glow is fine and 

 some Monrovia is in. October Frost is 

 poor, even for this kind, and there will 

 be a scarcity of good shipping stock 

 for some time. " 



Dahlias are still arriving in good 

 condition and arc useful for decorative 

 work. The new-crop carnations are an 

 improvement on those recently arriv- 

 ing and, with the cooler weather in the 

 desert sections, shipping trade will 

 doubtless improve. 



Retailers all report good business and 

 say that they have not felt the summer 

 dullness nearly so much as in former 

 years. Plants are scarce and poor in 

 quality, biit the demand is slight. 



Various Notes. 



It is always a pleasure to look around 

 Ed. Eust's nursery, at South Pasadena, 

 the air of cleanliness and order being 

 always apparent. Just now Mr. Bust 

 is busy with Phoenix carfariensis, of 

 which he has a big stock in all sizes. 

 He is shipping two carloads of palms 

 to New York this week, the demand 

 from the cast, as well as locally, being 

 good. His stock of Cocos plumosa in 

 large sizes for landscape work is one 

 of the finest on the coast. 



Several useful greenhouses have been 

 added to the ecjuipment at Grocn's 

 nursery, at Montebello, and they are 

 already filled with choice young stock 

 of ferns, cyclamens and other plants. 

 Outdoors the gladioli, delphiniums and 

 other varieties of cut flowers are look- 

 ing well and the whole place is neat 

 and well kept. W. Clark has his resi- 

 dence finished and is living in it. 



Fred Wostrem, who ha? been asso- 

 ciated with Wright's Flower Shop for 

 fifteen years, is going into business for 

 himself at 404 South Hill street, having 

 purchased the business run for several 

 years by Brown the Florist. This is a 

 fine location near one of the Pacific 

 Electric depots and Mr. Westrem 

 should do well, even with transient 

 trade. He intends to make some im- 

 provements in the store and to put in 

 a choice line of stock. Well knowp 

 and respected in the trade, Mr. Wes- 

 trem goes into business with the best 

 wishes of everyone, including his pres- 

 ent employers. He will open there 

 October 1. 



The Alexandria Florist reports fine 

 business. Manager George Eischen 

 says that the quality of the chrysan- 

 themums and roses coming from the 

 north is extra fine. 



The L. A. Floral Co. is handling big 

 consignments of green moss from Wash- 

 ington and Oregon. 



Besides their "Suntosted" .seeds, R. 

 G. Fraser & Son, of Pasadena, are 

 handling the florists' end of the seeds 

 for J. Bodger & Sons Co., thus having 

 the almost unlimited supply of fine 



seed, flftiiea by the latter well known 



:; ; ^fi4i9 &"^'.: hl^(9, made several 

 l&||^^ej^}ons in ;1il(eir store ^|^d |business 

 *•# 'i;<>od.,-i,JEliOTif'' wipdow^are always 



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.f ^'^Wko-pthti^ ifei^^ed to !iis desk 

 gyjl^ iB'Cinfflcep of thJji'Bedondo Floral 

 CoV atni l«bks jfit aii,d sunburned after 

 his va»a.iaon. . He and',*A. F.; Borden 

 agree that they never Kkd such a sum- 

 mer '$ business in the history 'of their 



firm^. 



H. R. R. 



S^;^/ SAN FEANOISCO, CA|-. 



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' - The shippiiig of chrysanthemums is 

 , the f»ig factor ia the - San Francisco 

 market at present, jyhe first refriger- 

 ator' car, Whieh left 'September 1, car- 

 ried a nurfibe* of' consignments of 

 •mums, as well aa vegetables. The date 

 of the weekly car service has been 

 changed by the express company. Here- 



after, if the present schedule continues, 

 the refrigerator car will leave this city 

 every Friday evening. The car goes 

 via Ogden, Cheyenne, Omaha and Chi- 

 cago, to New York. It leaves at 6:40 

 p. m. -and - is attached to the second 

 section of the Union Pacific fast train. 

 It is hoped that enough flowers may 

 soon be shipped to secure a semiweek- 

 ly service. 



Roses l*ttve gone up somewhat in 

 price. The cost of chrysanthemums 

 will, it is expected, come down in about 

 a week. Dahlias have been having 

 their day in display windows, as the 

 dahlia show at the Palace hotel has 

 given them much publicity. Their lack 

 of shipping qualities, however, confines 

 dahlias chiefly to the local market. 



Dahlia Show. 



The best dahlia exhibits ever seen in 

 California drew record crowds to the 

 fifth annual dahlia show, which was 

 held at the Palace hotel under the 

 auspices of the California Dahlia Asso- 



MUMS 



MUMS 



The usual high quality shipping 

 stock that we always handle. 



PACKED RIGHT. 



ALL OTHER STOCK IN SEASON. 



Greieh and SpHagnum Moss 



l:a. floral CO. 



The Hotue of Quality and Service 

 236 EAST FOURTH ST., LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 



Chrysanthemums 



GEORGE J. HALL & CO. 



423 East 5th St. 



Los Angeles, Cal. 





