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The Florists' Review 



November 27, 1919. 



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Pacific Coast Department 



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LOS ANGELES, GAL. 



The Market. 



There has been another sharp rise in 

 the price of , mums and growers are 

 holding their stock higher than at any- 

 time since the earliest flowers were 

 over. While the nights are cool, the 

 days are hot and it will be hard to 

 keep flowers in good condition for 



tie while, but the snow was drifted into 

 the roads up there, making them im- 

 passable for hunters that were getting 

 good sport. Other people could get by 

 all right. The head of the Superior 

 Nursery Co. said he ' ' had a swell time. ' ' 

 Frank says he did, too, but next trip 

 he is going to take precautions and 

 have an extra gas tank along. About 

 six miles is as far as any car can be 

 expected to run without either tank or 



C. Gutting and F. Licbteoberg Display tbeir Ba); of Ducks. 



Thanksgiving. The stems are harder 

 now and do not take water so freely, 

 which is also a disadvantage. Carna- 

 tion growers are also holding out for 

 higher prices, but the quality of the 

 flowers is better. Indoor-grown stock 

 is scarce. Roses are coming in nice con- 

 dition, the foliage clean and the flowers 

 of good substance. Brunners are plen- 

 tiful in the cheaper grades, but first- 

 class stock is still hard to get. Sweet 

 peas are practically oflf the market, only 

 a few bunches being seen. Orchids are 

 scarce and high in price. All small 

 flowers are good for the season, owing 

 to the early rains and the bright, open 

 weather since. Judging by the way in- 

 quiries are coming in, there is going to 

 be a great shipping business for Thanks- 

 giving, wholesalers reporting that their 

 customers are already doubling up on 

 their orders. 



Local retailers say business is good 

 and that their customers are spending 

 more money than formerly. Funeral 

 work of higher price is the rule and 

 basket and box trade is good. Several 

 large decorations have been carried out 

 that helped to clean up a lot of stock. 

 Taken altogether, business is quite sat- 

 isfactory. 



Various Notes. 



For the last few weeks there have 

 been a good number of prominent men 

 missing from their business, but they 

 are returning in ones and pairs. F. 

 Lichtenberg and C. Gutting blew in 

 from the Owens lake country the end 

 of the week, with a big bag of ducks. 

 They had been expected for quite a lit- 



gas and not on too steep a grade at 

 that. 



At the Broadway Florist store large 

 funeral orders are reported, both local 

 and from out of town. A large and 

 handsome wreath being delivered caused 

 a sensation on Broadway recently, the 

 piece being about eight feet high and 

 quite out of the ordinary. 



Mrs. W. Clark, wife of W. Clark, now 

 with C. J. Groen, at Montebello, is se- 

 riously ill at their home at Boyle 



Heights. At the time of writing Mrs. 

 Clark was feeling a trifle better and 

 more cheerful. All their friends hope 

 she is on the way to a speedy and com- 

 plete recovery. 



J. Dieterich is under the care of the 

 doctor, suffering from hemorrhage and 

 discharge of blood from nose and mouth. 



T. Wright, of Wright's Flower Shop, 

 has returned from a short hunting trip 

 to the mountains. 



Nic Zweifel, formerly of North Mil- 

 waukee, Wis., is enjoying the southern 

 California sunshine and at the moment 

 of writing I hear that E. C. Amling, 

 of Chicago, also called this morningj 



H. R. Richards. 



SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 



The Mai^et. 



The market, both wholesale and re- 

 tail, was exceptionally busy last week. 

 Shippers were rushing to get out Thanks- 

 giving orders, which were heavy this 

 year. The first of the late varieties of 

 mums are coming in nicely and a fair 

 number of Wells' Lake Pink, Helen 

 Frick, Col. Appleton and Nonin were 

 seen the early part of the week. The 

 prices are keeping up, well on this stock 

 and, in addition, the pompons and 

 smaller mums are in good condition, with 

 prices rising a little. The early varieties 

 of large chrysanthemums, Turners, Bon- 

 naffons, etc., are practically gone, the 

 few remaining not being in first-class 

 shape. The rose crop is improving and 

 a larger selection is now available. 

 Ophelia, Columbia, Hoosier Beauty and 

 Ward are the main varieties in the mar- 

 ket. Cecile Brunner, too, is being cut in 

 fairly good quantity, but the crop is by 

 no means at its largest. 



The demand for greens is keeping just 

 iibout one jump ahead of the supply. 

 Most of the growers are getting a larger 

 amount of this stock now than they had 

 several weeks ago and are getting it 

 ready for the holiday season. Eastern 

 orders continue heavy on woodwardia, 

 plumosus, etc. Kentias are still rather 



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