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The Florists^ Review 



NOTEMBBK 25. 1920 



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LOS ANQELES, CAL. 



The Market. 



The market in general seeniH to have 

 inproved during the last week. There 

 ■s a steady increase in business and all 

 Kinds of stock are cleaning up. Mums 

 in this market are still holding their 

 own, both in price and quality of stock. 

 The new crop of carnations is in now, 

 and, though short of stem, is of good 

 quality. Violets are good, owing to the 

 previous rains, which are essential for 

 tjood violets. Winter peas are a little 

 more plentiful, but are bringing good 

 prices. The first Paper White narcissi 

 in the market last week, though early, 

 wore never better. Roses seem to be 

 scarce, because all the rose growers are 

 cropping for Christmas. 



Various Notes. 



The E. C. Amling Co. is bringing in 

 some fine valley and cleaning up every 

 day. Walter Garbett, manager, said 

 business was fine, and he was at that 

 rime superintending a shipment of 100 

 dozen mums. Fred Burki, president of 

 the Pittsburgh Cut Flower Co., Pitta- 

 burgh, Pa., was in this office and with 

 him was T. P. Langhans, secretary of 

 the company, who came out to Los An- 

 geles to talk over business, as Mr. Burki 

 is a permanent resident here. 



E. H. Yolkman was all smiles the 

 morning the writer made his visit and 

 no wonder, for a 9-pound baby boy had 

 .irrived at his homo! "Mother and 

 haby doing fine," he said, as he handed 

 out cigars to everyone he met. 



The regular meeting of the Florists' 



< 'lub of Los Angeles was held at the 

 ' 'hristopher cafe, with a good attend- 

 .•ince. The members sat down to a nice 

 spread of good eats at 6:30 p. m. Presi- 

 ilent Walter Armacost called the meet- 

 ing to order about S p. m. A. F. Borden, 

 secretary, gave an interesting talk con- 

 cerning his trip to the F. T. 1). conven- 

 tion. Before tlie meeting adjourned a 

 special meeting was called for Friday, 

 Xovember 19, at the same place. After 

 a steak dinner, some special business was 

 to be discussed. 



fleorge J. Ball & Co. report good, 

 -steady shipping )>usiness. especially in 

 rmnns and roses. 



!S. Murata & Co. are always busy and 

 it seems to be on account of the in- 

 crease in shipping. 



Los Angeles Floral Co. is handling 

 large quantities of stock at present and 

 ihe way this firm cleans up overy night 

 shows good business. 



The buyer for Walter Armacost & 



< 'o. was busy on the market last week 

 .Mud his activities helped to clean up the 

 -:tock. 



r. C. Miller, of the California Floral 

 < 'o., was proudly introducing his new 

 wife. 



Barling's Shojt has added another em- 

 ployee to the staff in T. Vogel, formerly 

 "if Wright's Flower Shop. John Gordon, 

 the manager, roports business good so 

 far this month. 



The store of Wolfskiils' & Morris 



• toldenson was filled with funeral work 



-even the floor was piled with it. This 



firm is making a wonderful display of 

 cut flowers and plants in its windows. 



Fred Bostal, of the Dostal-Wolters 

 Flower Shop, was more than satisfied 

 with business and expects big things for 

 the holiday season. 



From the amount of work the Broad- 

 way Florists turn out in a day, one 

 would think it was made by machinery, 

 but a visit to the store will explain. 

 There one finds fifteen or twenty work- 

 ers as busy as a swarm of bees. 



The Alexandria Florist, in the Alex- 

 andria hotel, is making fine window dis- 

 plays and credit is due George Eschen, 

 the manager. 



SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 



The Maxket. 



A generous precipitation of rain 

 proved untimely for the California grow- 

 ers and shippers of chrysanthemums, 

 rendering stock of the large-flowering 

 varieties suitable for long - distance 



Thanksgiving orders scarce. The lim 

 ited number of first-class blooms natural- 

 ly are held at high prices. As far as 

 shipping business is concerned, it looks 

 as if the season were about over for 

 mums this year. From now on the large 

 flowers will be practically confined to 

 two varieties — Helen Frick, the large 

 lavender pink, and a limited supply of 

 Appleton. There are still plenty of the 

 smaller mums, however, which will 

 probably be on the market for some 

 little time yet, and an ample supply of 

 second-grade large ones, which can be 

 used to fairly good advantage locally. 

 The rain has been as beneficial to the 

 violets as it was detrimental to the 

 chrysanthemums. There is as fine a crop 

 of violets on hand as was ever known 

 here, and shipments are being made 

 clear to New York, North Carolina and 

 other distant points. The weather of 

 the last week has been ideal for these 

 flowers, the rain being followed by 

 warm weather instead of frost, as usually 

 happens. 



Roses 



Violets 



Carnations 

 Stevia 



ALL OTHER CALIFORNIA FLOWERS 



SPERRY'S 



L. A. FLORAL CO. 



Thm Hotum of Quality and Serviea 

 236 EAST FOURTH ST^ LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 



Writ* for Special Prices 



Chrysanthemums 



GEORGE J. HALL & CO. 



423 East 5th St. 



Los Ans^eles, Cal. 



