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Long Beach, Cal. — B. V. Hcnsley, for- 

 merly in business at Knightstown, Ind., 

 has located at 1485 Linden avenue, in 

 this city. 



South Pasadena, Cal. — C. Austin, of 

 this city, who was planning to remove 

 to Deerfield, Fla., has changed his plans 

 and will remain here for the present. 



Capitola, Cal. — J. A. Brown, who re- 

 cently returned from Europe, has an- 

 nounced that he has secured the services 

 of Carl De Ryk, an expert bulb grower 

 of the Haarlem bulb district, Holland, 

 and that Mr. De Ryk has arrived here 

 to take up his new duties. Mr. De Ryk 

 will have charge of the growing of Euro- 

 pean bulbs. 



Pasadena, Cal. — A. W. Jannoch, pro- 

 prietor of the nurseries bearing his 

 name, which were established in 1906, 

 says he believes the shipping of plants 

 from California is only in its infancy. 

 He believes that California growers can 

 supply many plants not procurable else- 

 where and that the development of a 

 large business depends only upon devis- 

 ing methods which will insure safe 

 transportation. 



LOS ANGELES, CAL. 



The Market. 



Chrysanthemums are about cleaned up 

 in this market, owing to the big Thanks- 

 giving day business. All the mums were 

 purchased early, causing prices to rise, 

 the larger varieties bringing as high as 

 $4 per dozen wholesale. There are plenty 

 of good pompons and small mums of 

 good quality. Roses are scarce. Every 

 grower of roses in this market seems to 

 be cropping for Christmas. If nothing 

 unforeseen happens, there will be a good 

 supply of roses for Christmas. Poinset- 

 tias made their first appearance last 

 week and were of fair quality. Sweet 

 peas and violets are more plentiful. 

 Indoor carnations are scarce, but the 

 field varieties are plentiful and of good 

 quality. All the wholesalers report n 

 big shipping business for Thanksgiving. 



"White Man's Market." 



The regular meeting of the Los 

 Angeles Florists' Club was called to 

 order on Friday evening, November 26, 

 at 6:30 o'clock, at Christopher's 

 cafe, but was immediately ordered ad- 

 journed and a special meeting was called 

 to order for the purpose of discussing 

 the organization of a "white man's 

 flower market" in Los Angeles. 



A motion was made by Frank Warner 

 that an organization be formed and 

 supported by individual subscriptions. 

 An amenduient, judviding that each 

 member sliouM (-(iiitribute .$10 monthly 

 towards the siijipurt of the organiza- 

 tion, was c.'irried. 



F. H. Howard moved that a commit- 

 tee of three be appointed, consisting of 

 one retailer, one wliolesaler and one 

 grower, to investigate the cost of such 

 an organization and report back to the 

 body at the next meeting, Decciiiher 3. 

 This committee consists of Fred Sjierry, 

 Arthur Howard and H. N. Gage. 



In order to find out what sup])ort the 



organization would get from the trade, 

 Tom Wright made a motion that a com- 

 mittee be appointed to report on how 

 many growers and others would agree 

 to purchase space in the market. F. R. 

 Hills, Mr. Polder and Gebhard Prechtl 

 form the committee. 



A committee composed of F. H. 

 Howard, Tom Wright and Walter Arma- 

 cost was appointed to investigate the 

 organization of the Southern California 

 Horticultural Association with the idea 

 of taking it over. 



Walter Armacost had the support of 

 the body in a motion to take steps for 

 incorporation. 



Various Notes. 



Charles Morton, manager of the Dono- 

 frio Floral Co., Phoenix, Ariz., made a 

 hurried trip to Los Angeles by automo- 

 bile to purchase stock for the Christ- 

 mas holidays. 



Robert Newcomb is here on one of his 

 regular visits. 



A ])etition asking that Wall street, 

 between Fourth and Fifth street, be a 

 permanent flower market, where flowers 

 may be sold from trucks or wagons be- 

 tween 5 and 8 a. m., was passed at a 

 recent meeting of the city council. 



Walter Amling is bringing in fine 

 quality Columbia roses regularly. He is 

 consigning most of his stock to the E. C. 

 Amling Co. 



Wright's cyclamen plants, on display 

 in one of the big wholesale houses of 

 this city, are some of the finest ever 

 seen on the market. 



Walter Garbett, manager of the E. C. 

 Amling Co., reports an unusual Thanks- 

 giving business. He said that large ship- 

 ments of mums were made to the Chi- 

 cago market and from all reports they 

 arrived in fine shape. By the time this 

 is printed the company will be making 

 preparations for moving into its perma- 

 nent home, which is a building 50x100 

 feet, situated in the heart of the flower 

 market. A 10-year lease is held on the 

 entire building. 



SAN FEANCISCO, CAL. 



The Market. 



The drenching downpour that marked 

 a great part of last week did consider- 

 able temporary mischief to the chrys- 

 anthemums. Most of the local shippers 

 had large Thanksgiving orders and, just 

 about the time they were filling the 

 orders for distant points, the mums were 

 wet and not in satisfactory condition for 

 shipping. To add to the worries of the 

 shippers, the growers, seeing the scar 

 city of satisfactory shipping mums, 

 raised the price. "And they'll blame 

 us," said one large shipper, alluding 

 to the upward trend of the mum market. 



However, there were some fine days 

 in between and at the end of the week 

 most of the shippers were smiling and 

 satisfied, because they managed to get 

 their shipments off in satisfactory con 

 dition. 



The local market last week was brisk. 

 The outdoor mums have suffered less 

 from the rain, in the long run, than 

 have those grown under canvas. The 

 two days of sunshine have had a good 

 drying effect on mums and there are 

 many grown under cover in the local 

 market that appear to be in a satisfac- 

 tory condition. Many shippers are send- 

 ing away large consignments of the 

 outdoor mums, which are plentiful, of 

 good variety and can be found in a vast 

 range of autumn tints, as well as in pinks 

 and other more conventional hues. The 

 pink canvas-grown mums are much more 

 plentiful than are those in white and 

 yellow. 



Violets were abundant and of excel 

 lent quality. Roses were becoming more 

 plentiful. Carnations were scarcely 

 plentiful enough to supply the local mar 

 ket. California red berries, for Thanks 

 giving, were fairly plentiful and of good 

 quality, for the most part. 



Various Notes. 



Members of the Retail Florists' Asso 

 ciation are receiving many congratula- 



Roses 



Violets 



Carnations 

 Stevia 



ALL OTHER CALIFORNIA FLOWERS 



SPERRY'S 



L. A. FLORAL CO. 



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