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The Florists^ Review 



Decbmbeb 11, 1919. 



i Pacific Coast Department 



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Olympia, Wash. — S. E. Sanford has 

 leased the Capital City Greenhouses 

 from Conrad Klam. and is now manager 

 of them. 



Capltola, CaL — James A. Brown, man- 

 ager of the Brown Bulb Banch, recently 

 has returned from one of his semian- 

 nual business trips to the Atlantic coast. 

 He was absent about seven weeks and 

 was accompanied by Mrs. Brown. His 

 father, who has been president of a 

 bank in Indiana for many years, is clos- 

 ing up his business there with the pur- 

 pose of coming to Capitola to take 

 charge of the office of the bulb ranch. 



LOS ANGELES, CAL. 



The Market. 



The weather has been bright but cold 

 during the week just past, making it 

 pleasant but not conducive to rapid 

 growth; consequently, stock of all kinds 

 is constantly getting shorter in supply. 

 Carnations are about the best thing on 

 the market, but the growers are holding 

 the stock so high that they check busi- 

 ness, especially in out-of-town ship- 

 ments. Indoor-grown carnations are 

 higher in price than they have been for 

 a long time and the demand is fair. 

 Boses are still scarce, but those coming 

 from inside are of good quality. Beau- 

 ties are scarce and high. Mums are 

 about over. Wholesalers say that their 

 advance orders for the coming holidays 

 are much heavier than usual and there 

 is no doubt that scarcity and high prices 

 will prevail. Growers are still holding 

 back in their plumosus with a view to 

 higher prices later, but this will prob- 

 ably have the effect of lessening the 

 demand considerably. Plants are scarce 

 and likely to be higher in price. 



Various Notes. 



Roy F. "Wilcox probably did not suffer 

 from indigestion after his Thanksgiving 

 dinner. At any rate he had plenty of 

 exercise. There was every indication 

 of a sharp frost in the afternoon, so 

 Mr. Wilcox got busy with a staff of men 

 and smudge pots to keep the air warm 

 in the big lath house at Montebello. It 

 must have meant a big outlay, but it 

 had the desired effect and the report 

 was that absolutely no damage was 

 done to the firm's stock of kentias and 

 other valuable plants. Another instance 

 of the value of eternal vigilance. 



E. H. Daschbach, coast representative 

 of the A, L. Bandall Co., of Chicago, has 

 just returned to his headquarters here 

 after a successful northern trip. 



A visit at the establishment of Bas- 

 sett & Washburn, af Sierra Madre, 

 shows great strides being made. The 

 propagating houses are working full 

 blast and the small seedlings are com- 

 ing up apparently by the million. As 

 far as could be seen, not a leaf of any 

 of the kentias of any size had been in- 

 jured in the recent cold snap and every- 

 thing about the place speaks of progress. 



W. Armacost has been on the sick list 

 for a few days. 



Arthur Gleave, of Gleave's Flower 

 Shop, Santa Barbara, has been in town 

 for a few days, looking up holiday 



stock, and he intends going from here 

 to San Francisco with the same end in 

 view. Mr. Gleave said his Thanksgiv- 

 ing trade was a winner this year. 



Alois Frey is building a residence on 

 his San Fernando property. He has sev- 

 eral acres of freesias promising well, 

 the growth being about six inches high 

 now. 



E. Amling, of Chicago, is looking 

 about for suitable land in this section 

 with a view to a large growing plant. 

 Several relatives of his are here or are 

 coming to get acquainted with the hang 

 of things before making the start. There 

 is always room here for good people. 



A rather hurried look around the 

 Wright's Flower Shop greenhouses, at 

 Moneta, shows everything in finest 

 order. With the recent additions, about 

 50,000 rose plants are grown in all the 

 popular kinds and a healthier lot of 

 stock would be difficult to find. Mr. 

 Wright's plan with roses is to have a 

 continuous cut of medium-length flowers 

 the year around rather than to pinch 



for extra long stems around the holi- 

 days, the store^ of course, having to be 

 taken care of at all times. Some benches 

 are pinched for extra long flowers, these 

 consisting of Premier, Columbia and 

 Ophelia principally, and the flowers and 

 foliage superb. Bunches of the pretty 

 little Mrs. Aaron Ward are attractive, 

 the flowers l>eing much in demand for 

 corsage work. The Beauty section is 

 also flne. About 2,000 plants of cat- 

 tleyas in all the popular kinds are grown, 

 the Trianses bristling with flower buds 

 now. A number of these plants were 

 purchased at Pasadena and many extra 

 fine types are included. The phaleenop- 

 sis plants here are surely a marvel of 

 good culture. P. Schilleriana is grown 

 in large cork baskets and cork blocks 

 and the long slate-colored roots have 

 simply covered these. The foliage is 

 excellent — long hard leaves of great sub- 

 stance and a forest of strong flower 

 spikes. Yet Mr. Wright says no par- 

 ticular care is given them and it seems 

 to be just a case where the right invest- 



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