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The Florists^ Review 



July 28, 1921 



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Pacific Coast Department 



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NOTES OF THE NORTHWEST. 



James A. Brown, general manager of 

 the Brown Bulb Ranch, Capitola, Cal., 

 who has just returned home from the 

 northwest, visited many members of the 

 trade in the section and writes of them 

 and his trip interestingly: 



' ' I made the trip with my family in 

 an Auburn Beauty Six touring car, the 

 same in which we made the trip to New 

 York and Boston, and had no trouble of 

 any kind except a broken spring. 



"At Pendleton, Ore., I was unfortu- 

 nate in finding that S. H. Forshaw was 

 out. He runs an old and well estab- 

 lished seed and flower business in Pen- 

 dleton and is known throughout all 

 eastern Washington and Oregon and 

 parts of Idaho. 



"Parr Bros., who have been growers 

 not far from Pendleton for a number of 

 years, are just opening a strictly mod- 

 ern cut flower shop in Pendleton. 

 The new store received such a tremen- 

 dous welcome on its opening day from 

 the residents of Pendleton that the 

 roses and carnations that were given 

 out as favors were exhausted before 2 

 p. m. The new firm was much gratified 

 by the reception received. 



"George Fiedler was in charge of 

 Young & Lester 's business at Walla 

 Walla, Wash. Mr. Lester was away for 

 a few days at his summer home in the 

 mountains. This is one of the largest 

 and most jirogressive firms in Washing- 

 ton and handles a large quantity of 

 sliipped-in flowers, in addition to what 

 it grows at its own greenhouses. 



' ' Florists at Lewiston, Idaho, report- 

 ed an exceptionally good season in the 

 past year, but were rather skeptical 

 about the future, since the valley had 

 just been visited by a heavy hail storm, 

 which had done a large amount of dam- 

 age to tlie orchards and other growing 

 crops. They were fearful that the crops 

 in their particular section would be so 

 badly damaged that it might affect the 

 prosperity of the whole community. 



"is^eal's Flower & Confectionery 

 Store, of Pullman, Wash., seemed to be 

 doing a prosperous business at that col- 

 lege city. 



"Mr. Washburn, of Washburn & Wil- 

 son Seed Co., Moscow, Idaho, stated 

 that his firm could make no complaint 

 of the business done this spring and 

 tliat the last few years had been ex- 

 ceedingly good ones for them. 



"The Mark Means Co., the well 

 known jobbers of seeds at Lewiston, 

 Idaho, was so confident in regard to 

 conditions of the section tliat the recent 

 hail catastrophe seemed to have no ef- 

 fect upon placing orders for future de- 

 livery. Mr. Means is a most interest- 

 ing gentleman, and it is worth the time 

 of members of the trade to call upon 

 him when passing through Lewiston. 



"While Spokane is possibly not nn- 

 like most other cities at this time, in 

 not enjoying as much prosperity on the 

 whole as it did a season or two ago, all 

 of the florists seem to be of the mind 

 that their season was good and that tlie 

 trade had not experienced the curtail- 

 ment of business that most other indus- 

 tries were experiencing in that city. 



They all seem willing to place orders 

 for future delivery. 



"Jacob Kauffman, the well known 

 seedsman of Seattle, had been confined 

 to his home for about three weeks on 

 account of serious illness. Although 

 he had not fully recovered, the manager 

 of his store reported that he was better 

 and it was hoped he would be back at 

 his desk in a week or so. Mr. Kauff- 

 man enjoys a fine retail seed business, 

 with which he conducts an up-to-date 

 aviary, where birds of all sorts can be 

 had. 



"In Vancouver and other British Co- 

 lumbia and western Washington points 

 there was so much rain during the 

 spring that business was possibly a lit- 

 tle below normal, but retail orders con- 

 tinued to come in for a much longer pe- 

 riod this last year than usual, which 

 made up largely for what looked like 

 u poor season. 



' ' The government bulb farm at Bel- 

 lingham. Wash., had just started to har- 

 vest the tulips, and those that the 

 writer saw looked fine. The quality 



spoke well for Dr. David Griffiths, <ii 

 Washington, D. C, and H. E. Ju» ; , . 

 mann, of Bellingham, who is in dii t 

 charge of the growing." 



LOS ANOELES, CAL. 



The Market. 



Business is running along at t i 

 usual summer clip, funeral work ai 1 

 a few decorations being the princiji 1 

 outlet. The absence of variety in shi, 

 ping stock and business depression I [ 

 a good deal of Arizona, New Me^ 

 ico and adjacent territory served b 

 this market make business dull wit 

 the wholesalers. At the market a dui 

 feeling prevails. Good, long-stemnn.! 

 gladioli have been scarce most days 

 though an abundance of short and sec 

 ond-rate stock is shown. The swectlx 

 scented Amaryllis Belladonna made it- 

 appearance last week. Otherwise, ther> 

 is little change. Asters are a little bet 

 ter, but the season is one of the worst 

 for many years for these popular sum 



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