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The Florists' Review 



Maiu-h 31, 1»21. 



Pacific Coast Department j 



Corvallis, Ore. — Miss May Eusscll has 

 opened a .shop in tliis town. 



Astoria, Ore. — Harry McCulloutjh, 

 formerly part owner of tlie North Van- 

 couver Nurseries, V;ineouver, R. C, 

 Canada, has moved to Astoria and is 

 gettinjx ready to ereet greenhouses 

 there sometime tliis eomiiijj summer. 



LOS ANGELES, CAL. 



The Market. 



Contrary to jjeneral exjiectations, 

 Easter business was well above the 

 averaf^e this year. (Jood lilies were 

 searee and high in price. They were 

 completely cleaned up. I'otted roses 

 were splendid stock and were all sold. 

 Eoses were comi»aratively scarce, as 

 were bulbous stock, daisies and cut 

 flowers ji;enerally. The Monday after 

 Easter saw the market cleaned up by 

 7:H(). Wholesalers and retailers were 

 tired, but satisfied. 



Easter lilies, exct'pt in a few cases. 

 were not so j^ood as u-sual this season. 

 Too much heat was jjiven in the earlier 

 staffes of fjrowtli. The cuts were poor 

 in many instances. ('all;is were more 

 plentiful than usual for Easter, hut 

 good Shasta daisies, always popular for 

 this holiday, were scarce. In jjlants, 

 there were good rhododendrons, ericas 

 in variety, cyclamens and cinerarias, 

 besides smaller stock for basket work. 



American Florists' Exchange. 



The second public meeting and free 

 banquet and smoker held under the 

 ausj)ices of tlie American Klorists' Ex- 

 change in the m:irket, March lit, was an 

 uiupialified success in every jtarticular. 

 There \v:is :i big g;it liiTinj,' ;iiid <'very- 

 l)ody was imbued with the s](irit of en 

 joyment, although with an underlying 

 current of business and coojieration 

 tliat spoke volumes for the continued 

 .success of this ])atriotic movement. 

 F'rom the first there has been a feeling 

 of elimination of self-interest or, at 

 least, its subordination to the iiiti'vests 

 of the trade !is a whole anil the s])irit 

 of ".Vinerica for the Americ.-iris. " One 

 well known eastern visitor w.is among 

 us, Philip .1. Foley, of Chicago, who, 

 .after hearing the arguments jiut forth 

 bv two .-ible speakers in the movement 

 now on foot, immediiitely clug down for 

 a l)ig check tow.-irds the fund being 

 r.aised for this work. lielween ^-inu and 

 .•jiti'Kl w;is collected in sulisi-ript ions in 

 .•1 few minutes and li.inilrcl over to thi' 

 treasurer. 



Beginning the entert.-iinment i)art of 

 tl»e i)rogram, .John liodger, .)r.. showeil 

 a large series of colori'd slides of tlu' 

 firm's seed farms, at \'.\ Monte, Cal.. 

 wlier<' large .acreages of /.innias, asters 

 and other seeds are gmwii for doniesti<' 

 ;ind ex])ort trade. Mr. -I'.odger i-x 

 ])l;iined the slirles :ind showed close UJis 

 of several of the novelties, iiiclu<liiig 

 the new dalilia tlowend /iniii.i. which 

 w;is Miiich ;idmired. 



Roy I". Wilcox iin<l A. D. Hongliton 

 brictlx- .idilressed the imdience on the 

 subject of the show wiiich is to be 

 hehj at Kxposition y.wk this fall umler 

 the direction of the Californi.i Nursery" 

 men's Association. Mr. Wilcox, who is 



president of this association, is deeply 

 interested and working strenuously to 

 make this show a success and, with his 

 able committees and co-workers, there 

 is no room for doubt on this score. 

 Vocal music, an oriental dancer and a 

 couple of good wrestling ))outs wound 

 up a most i)leasant evening, for the suc- 

 ces.s of which everyone concerned 

 worked heartily. Stanley Purdie and 

 Tom Wright worked indefatigably for 

 the entertainment. H. N. Cage .and 

 Albert Goldenson saw to it tliat every- 

 one had plenty of the good things of 

 life in the way of eating and drinking, 

 while the irrei>ressible Charlie (Jutting 

 did ii lot tow.ards keeping up the merri- 

 ment of the evening and, incidentally, 

 was one of the biggest subscribers to 

 the fund. It was a notable, worth-while 

 and successful meeting, without a single 

 jarring or dissentient note. 



Frey's Freesias. 



Mr. and Mrs. Alois P. Erey were hosts 

 to a ])arty of friends recently, all of 



whom greatly enjoyed a view of the 

 Rainbow freesias, wliicli were just at 

 their best. V. R. Hills, his wife and 

 daughter, H. R. Richards, with his wife 

 and daughter, and A. Miller, of the 

 American Bulb (Jo., with his wife and 

 her motlier and his little daughter, were 

 all present. Mr. and Mrs. Frey have a 

 most charming home and the 5-acre 

 patch of colored freesias, backed up by 

 the mountains, makes a most beautiful 

 picture, one not often seen on a com- 

 mercial place. The remaining five acres 

 are in cover crop and the deep green 

 forms a delightful foil to the richly 

 colored freesias. 



In one patch there are about .')00,()0(t 

 of the pale blue Viola anil adjoining it 

 ;i similar number of (Jeneral Pershing. 

 It is a remarkable fact th.'it hardly a 

 liulb in this million has come untrue to 

 type, showing the great care Mr. Frey 

 has given to selection. He has, in fact, 

 discontinued sending out mixed bulbs, 

 his reason being that some types run 

 out faster than others and that in a 



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