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The Florists' Review 



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I Pacific Coast Department 



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LOS ANGELES, OAL. 



The Market. 



Business is picking up finely and al- 

 ready there is a shortage of stock in 

 many lines. The growers of chrysanthe- 

 mums put the price of the earliest cuts 

 too highj and this has had the effect of 

 retarding business in them, a feature 

 which will do harm later in the season 

 when stock is more plentiful. Even 

 local customers, the retailers say, are 

 satisfied to take dahlias rather than 

 pay the big prices asked for mums and 

 the dahlia has the advantage of being 

 presented in a greater variety of colors. 

 Fine gladioli continue to come in, but 

 asters have passed the meridian. Car- 

 nations are improving weekly and are 

 bringing prices which are at least fa- 

 vorable to the grower. The showy Bud- 

 dleia variabilis is making a great hit 

 in the retail stores, associating well 

 with dahlias, chrysanthemums and 

 other heavier flowers. 



Funeral work has kept up well. The 

 continued warm weather still militates 

 somewhat against the shipping busi- 

 ness, although every week shows an 

 advance over the previous one. Busi- 

 ness to cities and towns within 100 

 miles or so of Los Angeles has more 

 than doubled from that of a month 

 ago, but over the longer, more danger- 

 ous routes there is still a weakness. 

 The call for plants is increasing and 

 some good cyclamens are helping out 

 along this line. 



Various Notes. 



F. B. Wagner, of Bell, is steadily im- 

 proving his nursery and has a nice 

 stock of ferns ready, besides plants for 

 florists and landscape work. He has 

 just added a new lath house 40x96 feet, 

 a greenhouse 22x65 feet and a new 1- 

 ton delivery truck to his equipment. 

 Hard work and continually sticking to 

 it are the reasons. 



The seed ranch of the J. Bodger & 

 Sons Co., at El Monte, is always an 

 attractive place and never more so 

 than when the zinnias are in bloom. 

 Acre after acre of these showy annuals 

 in every imaginable shade is a sight 

 not soon forgotten, while the asters are 

 almost as showy and almost more inter- 

 esting. The American Beauty strain 

 here, with long individual stems need- 

 ing no disbudding, is just at its best, 

 immense flowers in every popular shade 

 meeting the eye. The Queen of the 

 Market and other early strains, while 

 past their best, show what they have 

 been, while stocks, petunias, cosmos 

 and other flowers are grown in large 

 quantities. The roguing has been 

 quite carefully done, as indicated by 

 the blanks and the dead plants lying 

 close by and the even appearance of all 

 the beds. 



Wright's Flower Shop is showing 

 elegant roses, a large cut coming from 

 the greenhouses daily. T. Wright is at 

 the store each day now and business is 

 picking up rapidly. 



S. Purdie, of Purdie & Co., has just 

 returned from a week-end fishing tripl 

 at Bear creek and brought the evidence 

 back with him. 



The Westrem Garland Florists have 

 made a good start at 404 South Hill 

 street and both partners express them- 

 selves as well' pleased with the busi- 

 ness done the first week. They are 

 carrying a nice line of stock and the 

 store is bright and attractive. 



Albert Knopf, of the Bedondo Floral 

 Co., was not feeling in particularly 

 good health last week, but was more 

 than usually enthusiastic about busi- 

 ness. To use his own words, they 

 "have had no summer," meaning, of 

 course, that the business has kept up 

 well all through the season which is 

 usually dull. 



The meeting of the Los Angeles Flo- 

 rists* Club at Christopher's September 

 16 was not particularly well attended 

 and consequently not much business 

 was done. Only nine members were 

 present. 



W. Armacost has returned from his 

 trip to the mountains. 



Large shipments of palms continue 

 to leave the establishment of Boy F. 



Wilcox & Co., at Montebello, much of 

 the made-up kentia stock beings excep- 

 tionally fine. A good cut of roses is 

 already being taken from the new 

 plantings, which promise well for the 

 coming season. 



The stock of baskets at the store of 

 S. Murata & Co. is most complete and 

 varied. Many of the newer designs 

 are unique and have not been seen in 

 the city before. Some brass ware is 

 especially choice and attractive and 

 the customer would be hard to please 

 who could not find something to suit 

 all requirements here. Excellent ship- 

 ping mums are being handled and Mr. 

 Murata says that his growers are in 

 fine shape for the season. W. L. Morris 

 is now with this firm, in the shipping 

 department. Albert Znojil has returned 

 from his vacation in the mountains and 

 at San Biego, after a most enjoyable 

 time. 



Darling's Flower Shop, always at- 

 tractive, is exceptionally so now, fine 

 showings of choice stock of everything 



MUMS 



MUMS 



The usual high quality shipping 

 stock that we always handle. 



PACKED RIGHT. 



ALL OTHER STOCK IN SEASON. 



Green and Sphagnum Moss 



L. A. FLORAL CO. 



Thm Houtm of Qaality and Smrviem 

 236 EAST FOURTH ST., LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 



Chiysanthemuins 



GEORGE J. HALL & CO. 



423 East 5th St. 



Los Angeles, Cal. 



