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The Florists^ Review 



Decembek 0, 1920 



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Pacific Coast Department I 



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Bakersfleld, Cal. — The California 

 Flower Shop has bought the business of 

 Albert Weedall. 



Vancouver, B. 0. — A. D. Berry has 

 purchased the business, good will and 

 stock in trade of the R. C. McNaugh- 

 ton Co., 2184 Fourth avenue west, and 

 also the greenhouses of the Bodeville 

 road florist, Joseph Blackburn. 



San Jose, Cal. — W. D. Clarke, sales 

 manager of the Cottage Gardens Nurs- 

 eries for the last five years, will start 

 in business for himself January 1 as a 

 broker in bulbs, plants, roses and gen- 

 eral nursery stock. His headquarters 

 will be at San Jose. Mr. Clarke expects 

 to continue handling the Cottage Gar- 

 dens Nurseries' products on the Pacific 

 coast, although on an independent 

 basis. Mr. Clarke is one of the best 

 known men in the nursery trade in Cali- 

 fornia and his many friends wish him 

 every success. 



LOS ANGELES, CAL. 



The Market. 



The market has said good-bye to 

 mums for this season, but everyone in 

 the market is satisfied. They like to see 

 them come and they like just as well to 

 see them go. Poinsettias are arriving 

 to take the place of mums and the mar- 

 ket seems to be putting on a Christ- 

 mas appearance. Carnations are more 

 plentiful, but are bringing good prices. 

 Indications are that there will be a 

 good crop for Christmas. The retailers 

 report good business, there having been 

 several large funerals last week. 



Various Notes. 



Tom Wright, of Wright's Flower 

 Shop, had some unusual business re- 

 cently when he received two orders in 

 one day for casket palls of orchids and 

 pink roses, as well as a wreath consist- 

 ing of over 100 orchids, and a number 

 of other smaller pieces. 



Paul Eeke reports that his fifteen 

 acres of poinsettias are now in full 

 bloom and that they are in fine condi- 

 tion for shipping. He is receiving many 

 orders for weekly and Cliristmas ship- 

 ping. 



The E. C. Amling Co. reports a big 

 shipping business, especially in Califor- 

 nia novelties, to the Chicago market. 

 A carload of moss was received by this 

 company last week. 



Chicago friends of Adam Kasper, 

 formerly of the E. C. Amling Co., of 

 Chicago, will be sorry to learn that he 

 thinks California is just right and in- 

 tends making it his future home. 



Ernest C. Amling, of Orange, Cal., was 

 a visitor at this citv last week. 



SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 



The Market. 



Although a few of the large chrysan- 

 tliemuiiis are still being put on the mar- 

 ket by careful growers, they have now 

 become scarce. The pink varieties of 

 canvas-grown mums are the only ones 

 to be found in any abundance and they 



are daily becoming fewer. Chinese- 

 grown mums, produced in the open, are 

 still plentiful and are in a much wider 

 variety of colors than can be found 

 among the big mums. The Chinese, 

 however, have now learned to put can- 

 vas on their outdoor mums as they are 

 nearing the flowering stage and some 

 of their blooms are large and luxuriant. 



Violets are extremely plentiful and of 

 excellent quality, the rains having 

 brought them to exactly the condition 

 desired for shipping. Roses are begin- 

 ning to come in plentifully. Russell, 

 Columbia, Ophelia and Hadley are the 

 most numerous, but many other varieties 

 are to be found. Carnations are some- 

 what scarce and the growers who did not 



This is where 



your Christmas orders 



will be taken care of 



Bachelor's Buttons 

 Carnations 

 Centaureas 

 Cecile Brunners 

 Calendula, Marigold 



Mig-nonette 



Narcissi 



Orchids 



Poinsettias 



Roses 



Stocks 

 Sweet Peas 

 Stevia 

 Violets 

 Yellow Daisies 



Everlasting Flowers (All Kinds) 

 Holly Berry and all kinds of greens for Xmas decorations. 



Up-to-the-minute Baskets and Svpplies 



S. MURATA & CO. 



380-386 S. Los Angeles St., LOS ANGELES, CAL. 



Oldest and Most Bzpeiicnced Shippers in Southern California 



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