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The Florists^ Review 



Mat 31. 1917. 



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TACOMA, WASH. 



The Market. 



Stock of all kinds is easier than it 

 was last week, iirobably owing to the 

 slight improvement in weather condi- 

 tions. Sweet peas and snapdragons are 

 now up to the demand. Stocks are 

 coming in nicely and are helping out 

 in funeral work. A few gladioli are 

 also shown. Tulips are practically out. 

 Lilac is in quantities, but is meeting 

 only a slow demand. Carnations are 

 scarce, but, owing to a better supply of 

 sweet peas and other small flowers, 

 they are not so badly missed as they 

 were earlier in the season. Indications 

 are that by careful selling there will 

 be no great scarcity of stock for Deco- 

 ration day. The lack of home-grown 

 peonies, which are late this season, will 

 probably be felt the most. Local grow- 

 ers are disposing of large quantities of 

 good cucumbers at a fair price. Lack 

 of sunshine is keeping back the to- 

 matoes. 



At Gray's Harbor. 



A recent trip to the Gray's Harbor 

 district found things humming down 

 there. Wm. Crammatte, of the Home 

 Florists, of Aberdeen, was in the midst 

 of making up a large casket cover, be- 

 sides a number of other large designs 

 for a funeral that afternoon. He was 

 not too busy to talk, however, or to ac- 

 cept help. A trip through his green- 

 house showed some good carnations, 

 sweet peas and bedding stock; also a 

 fine house of cucumbers, for which he 

 has a splendid demand. At Hoquiam, 

 a few minutes' ride from Aberdeen, 

 H. T. Pierson had a banquet table to 

 decorate and was kept busy with his 

 counter trade. Mr. Pierson does only a 

 retail business and was troubled some- 

 what over the scarcity of stock. At 

 Montesano, Mr. Johanson and his wife 

 were busy selling bedding stock. A 

 trip through the greenhouse showed a 

 nicely kept stock of carnations, lilies 

 and other cut and bedding stock. Mr. 

 Johanson reports business good. 



Various Notes. 



A report of the death of Hilan Har- 

 rington will be found in the obituary 

 column of this week's issue. 



"When are you going to wire me to 

 report?" This is the query which 

 came over the long distance phone last 

 week to Capt. Horace Carter, of the 

 Fourth company, C. A. C, from Wil- 

 liam Forsythe in Detroit. The message 

 cost $2o, too. Tlie Detroit man is a 

 florist and joined the company last 

 summer when he was in Tacoma to 

 visit Capt. Carter, with whom he went 

 to school. Forsythe has closed up his 

 business affairs with the idea of being 

 in the field a long time. He will be 

 a sergeant in the company. 



The Tacoma Rose Society is appeal- 

 ing to the adjutant general's office in 

 an effort to obtain the use of the Ar- 

 mory for the annual rose show. The 

 plea is based on the fact that the pro- 

 ceeds go to the Red Cross. Heretofore, 

 the Armory was turned over to the rose 

 society, but last year, through some 



new ruling, the officers of the Armory 

 refused to permit any other than reg- 

 ular army affairs to be held there. 



B. G. 



LOS ANGELES. 



The Market. 



A cool spell struck us last week. It 

 will probably have the effect of short- 

 ening up stock for Memorial day. But 

 what is lost in quantity, will be made 

 up in quality. The greenhouse carna- 

 tions now in the market are rather poor 

 and probably will be until the new 

 crop comes in, but the field stock is 

 excellent. In yellow flowers some ex- 

 cellent coreopsis is shown and this, 

 with cornflowers and blue delphiniums, 

 is making a fine showing in the win- 

 dows. 



Outdoor roses have been decidedly 

 poor this season and the quality of the 

 indoor stock is only fair. A few early 

 dahlias are in and make a nice dis- 

 l^lay and asters are becoming more plen- 

 tiful and better in quality. Some val- 

 ley is in. Orchids are fine and plen- 

 tiful, especially Cattleya Mossiaj. 

 Some nice gladioli are in the market 

 ^'ifnd meet with a ready demand, the 

 \best sellers, as usual, being America 

 and the hybrids of gandavensis. In spite 

 of the number of spring flowers in the 

 market, strawflowers of the helichry- 

 sum and acroclinium types sell well. 



In greens there is an abundance of 

 plumosus and huckleberry, also maiden- 

 hair, but Sprengeri is scarce some days. 

 Good Boston and other ferns are scarce 

 and there are few other plants worth 

 mentioning. The different varieties of 

 statice are good sellers now. 



Various Notes. 



Among the visitors last week were 

 Arthur Gleave, of Gleave's Flower 

 Shop, and E. Rowe, the famous land- 

 scape gardener, both of Santa Barbara. 

 Mr. Rowe, unfortunately, had to visit 

 a sick relative as well as attend to his 

 business of buying stock for his work 

 in the beautiful section around Santa 

 Barbara. Mr. Gleave also was look- 

 ing up stock for his rapidly increasing 

 business, but as both are busy men, 

 their stay in the city was short. Mr. 

 Rowe drove both ways in his automo- 

 bile. 



Tom Wright, of Wright's Flower 

 Shop, reports business especially good 

 for this season, a large wedding order 

 and a big quantity of funeral work in 

 one day keeping the staff as well as a 

 truck or two busy to handle the work. 



Fred Rafferty, of Santa Ana, who 

 has been in the city for a few days, 

 says that while his cut flower business 

 has kept up well, there is no doubt that 

 the war has resulted in hindering his 

 bedding plant business, as so many 

 people are giving their attention to 

 vegetable growing. 



F. Sperry, manager of the L. A. 

 Floral Co., took a party of friends to 

 Baldwin and Bear lakes last week, driv- 

 ing his car the whole distance. The 

 desert road was the one used in going 

 and the picturesque crest route the one 

 coming back. Although one day was 

 stormy and the lake too rough for fish- 

 ing, everyone had a good time up 

 among the big pines. Snow three to 

 four feet deep was encountered in 

 some places and the sudden drop to 

 the valley below, with its bright sun 

 and high temperature, was marked. 



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