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The Florists^ Review 



"9: 



'Mabch 10, 1921. 



I Pacific Coast Department | 



Pasadena, Cal. — H. Paulson recently 

 resigned liis position as secretary of the 

 Pasadena Horticultural Association. At 

 a recent meeting William F. Warnke 

 was clectcil to fill Mr. Paulson's jilacc. 



GLENDALE, CAL. 



W. B. Davis, of Aurora, 111., came 

 here last autumn, built two houses, 

 each 36x300, and has them producing 

 cucumbers for the Los Angeles market. 

 He has done so well at it that he has 

 placed an order with the John C. Mon- 

 inger Co., Chicago, for material for an- 

 other house which will be the largest in 

 this section. It is to be 53x708 and 

 will be erected with all possible dis- 

 patch. 



Mr. Davis operates at Aurora, 111., 

 as the W. B. Davis Co. At Kankakee, 

 111., he has a cucumber range operated 

 iinder the name of the Davis-Kankakee 

 Co. The Pacific coast range carries the 

 name of the Davis-Glendale Co. 



SANTA BABBARA, CAL. 



The Market. 



Retailers -say that business has not 

 been quite up to the usual standard 

 here during the season, but just at pres- 

 ent a run of entertainments and good 

 funeral work has made everyone busy. 

 While a great many outdoor flowers are 

 grown around Santa Barbara and Mon- 

 tecito, most of the indoor stock is ob- 

 tained from San Francisco and Los 

 Angeles. Sweet peas do particularly 

 well here and the stock shown is better 

 than tlio average sold in either the nor- 

 tliern or soutlicrn city. Ijittle in tlie 

 way of a shrub blossom, heather or simi- 

 lar stock is shown, presumably because 

 most of the florists' patrons have plenty 

 of this class of flowers on their own es- 

 tates. In the nursery and landscape 

 end, a ]irosperous and busy season has 

 been enjoyed. 



Various Notes. 



Arthur Gleavc, of Gleavo's Flower 

 Shop, who some time ago jiurchased a 

 greenhouse I'stahlisliment in the west 

 end of town, has a good, large house of 

 tomatoes just coming into bearing and 

 also several of string beans. He also 

 grows some ferns and other stock for 

 liis retail store. A large decoration at 

 Muntecito ke]>t the staff of this firm 

 busy last week. 



.Tolin Turnbull has made a fine start 

 on his new place on the state highway. 

 The grounds surrounding tli(> store and 

 dwelling house are used to the best ad- 

 vantage for growing cut flowers and 

 plants. A greenhouse lias also been built. 

 Some extra fine sweet peas were noted. 



Robert Armstrong, the well known 

 landscajtc man. has made a good start 

 with his new charge at Bonnyniede, the 

 residence of ^Irs. K. F. Hammond. Tt 

 is worthy of note that this place was 

 originally jdanted by Mr. Armstrong 

 some fifteen years ago and the effects 

 of the good work accomplished at that 

 time are still apparent. The place over- 

 looks the Pacific and one would hardly 

 exiiect to find such a thriving growth on 

 Ficus macrophylla. Cocos phimosa and 



other more or less tender stock under 

 the influence of the ocean gales, but 

 these have done finely and form a 

 groundwork for improvements that are 

 now planned by Mrs. Hammond, a rich 

 and munificent patroness of horticul- 

 ture. Mrs. Hammond has bought a great 

 deal of land surrounding the original 

 place and intends to remodel it and it 

 need hardly be said that Mr. Armstrong 

 is the right man in the right place to 

 carry out the work. There are magnifi- 

 cent opportunities here and undoubtedly 

 he will make the most of them. 



Albert Beverley reports an especially 

 good season at the Mission Oak nurs- 

 ery. More stock has been handled than 

 at any time in the history of his busi- 

 ness. Besides his wholesale trade to 

 landscape men and other nurserymen, 

 Mr. Beverley has a constant stream of 

 retail business that keeps everyone on 

 the jump. 



Verhelle Bros., at the City & Kentia 

 Nurseries, report excellent business. 

 They are growing, besides their special- 

 ties in kentias, a good general line of 

 nursery stock and are also going in 

 heavily for Erica and melanthera for 

 eastern shipment. 



Mrs. G. Helmar, the well known and 

 long established Haley street florist, says 

 business is good now, though the season 

 lias not been quite up to the usual 

 standard. But she looks on it philosoph- 

 ically and says she "enjoys a little rest 

 once in a while." It takes a good 

 deal to mar Mrs. Helmar 's happy dis- 

 position. H. R. R. 



LOS ANGELES, CAL. 



The Market. 



Business last week was not ((uife so 

 good as for tlie week previous. Both 

 sliippers and retailers agree on this. But 

 an abundance of funeral work helped to 

 clean up stock, of which large quanti- 

 ties have been arriving. Carnations 

 were particularly plentiful, as were 

 sweet peas. Unfortunately, owing to 

 foggy conditions, neither possess good 

 keeping qualities. Sweet peas grown 



outside look just as good as greenhouse 

 grown peas, bright in color with good 

 stem and fragrance, but the indoor peas 

 will last several days and ship a long 

 distance, while the outdoor blooms wilt 

 and drop after twenty-four hours. 



In spite of the increased number of 

 roses being sent in, there is no over- 

 supply and the quality is fine. The 

 growers of everlastings have been 

 somewhat out of luck during the last 

 month, but signs indicate that both 

 strawflowers and statice will sell bet- 

 ter from now on. In bulbous stock 

 daffodils and freesias have the stage, 

 with hyacinths running up. A few 

 forced tulips were shipped in from the 

 north, but there is never a great de- 

 mand for these and the Darwins are 

 not yet. Anemones and ranunculuses 

 were showy and good. Spanish iris and 

 Iris tingitana attracted attention and 

 added variety. Much blossom is still 

 used, the acacias and genistas taking 

 the place of the double red peach, which 

 is about over. There will be later peach, 

 both pink and white, but it does not 

 usually sell as well as the early type. 

 The demand for greens seems insatiable. 

 The large quantities shipped in were 

 used up easily. The better class of re- 

 tailers use the honeysuckle freely for 

 decorations. 



Various Notes. 



The directors of the American Flo- 

 rists' Exchange are arranging a free en- 

 tertainment and supper for the night of 

 March 19. Everybody in the trade is 

 welcome to come and have a good time 

 meeting old friends and getting ac- 

 quainted with new ones. There will be 

 no lack of good things for bodily com- 

 fort. All that the directors ask is that 

 whoever can come will let Albert Gold- 

 enson know, either at the market or at 

 229 West Third street, a day or so in 

 advance, so that he will know approxi- 

 mately how many to cater for. This 

 means everybody. Growers and retail- 

 ers, employers or employees and their 

 friends are welcome. 



Mrs. Houson, of South Pasadena, Cal., 



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