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The Florists^ Review 



Febscart 2. 1922 



Hollywood, Cal. — C. J. Campbell, who 

 formerly was in business at Eevelstoke, 

 B. C, has opened a retail store here at 

 7054 Hollywood boulevard, using the 

 name of Campbell's Flo-wer Shop. 



Pomona, Cal. — The march of progress 

 has made it necessary for Mr. Pooley, 

 of Pooley 's Flower Shop, to go farther 

 out with his nursery and growing quar- 

 ters. Extensions to a considerable 

 amount have been made and new green- 

 houses and lath houses have been built 

 on a piece of land some distance west of 

 the old nursery. 



Baker, Ore. — The Baker Seed & Flo- 

 ral Co. is planning to erect 20,000 to 

 ;iO,000 feet of glass. The com- 

 pany states that it will be glad to have 

 quotations from builders and glass 

 dealers. The intention is to start build- 

 ing about March 1. Mr. Boekenkamp, 

 an expert grower of flowers, will have 

 charge of the growing department. 



LOS ANGELES, CAL. 



The Market. 



As reported last week, the heavy frost 

 ruined practically everything in out- 

 door stock and at the markets it has 

 been simply a scramble to get the small 

 amount of poor stock offered. Retail- 

 ers have been put to considerable incon- 

 venience in their attemjjts to get flowers 

 for funeral work, while many flower 

 stands have found it necessary to sus- 

 [ii'iid business temporarily. The weather 

 has moderated, but a few showers will 

 probably be needed before stock gets 

 again into its stride. 



Various Notes. 



A visit to the nursery of Roy F. Wil- 

 cox & Co., of Montebcllo, just after 

 the severe frost of January 20 and the 

 following days, revealed apparently lit- 

 tle or no damage to the kentias. This 

 good fortune was, doubtless, due to the 

 prompt and continued use of smudge 

 pots when the time came to use them, 

 ('rews of men were kept going all night 

 and Mr. Wilcox is to be congratulated 

 upon his forethought, especially when 

 the damage done by the frost in other 

 places is considered. A certain amount 

 of damage was done to the heather and 

 other nursery stock, but in nowhere 

 near the same degree as that which oc- 

 curred on the plantations of other grow- 

 ers nearby. 



The new dahlia storage shed built by 

 the Superior Dahlia Gardens, at their 

 Superior street establishment, is an ideal 

 structure for storage jiurposes. It is 

 roomy, electrically lighted and thor- 

 oughly well equipped and arranged. For- 

 tunately, nil of the bulbs nt this range 

 wliich had been dug were already placed 

 under cover when the frost came, so 

 that no loss occurred in these, but Mr. 

 Gutting says that he lost a considerable 

 number of ferns at the Slauson avenue 

 nursery. 



F. C. Gloeckner, of the IT. F. Michell 

 Co., Philadelphia, who has been spend- 

 ing nearly a year with the John 



Bodger & Sons Co. at its seed farms 

 here, left this week for home. He will 

 visit Brown's Bulb Ranch, at Capitola, 

 first, and then proceed by way of Po- 

 mona. Mr. Gloeckner has had an oppor- 

 tunity of seeing how seeds are grown 

 on the largest seed farms in the world 

 and has made many friends who will be 

 sorry to see him leave. 



Harry Bailey, a well known grower 

 of Asparagus plumosus seed, says that 

 he is confident that his crop is ruined 

 this year and, as it is not in line with 

 his policy to send out poor seeds, he has 

 canceled all of his orders. This action, 

 of course, will cause a serious loss to 

 him, but "better luck next time" is his 

 motto. The frost cut the growing free- 

 sias hard, too, but there is time for 

 these to improve, although there will 

 probably be a great scarcity of the 

 larger sizes. 



The crop of plumosus seed of the H. N. 



Gage Co., at Signal Hill, was not only 

 injured by the frost, but a spouting oil 

 well covered everything within a mile 

 or two with crude oil, so that Mr. Gage 

 says he will not be able to fill orders. 

 It looks as though plumosus seed is go- 

 ing to be scarce this year, for none had 

 been gathered prior to the frost. . 



Dr. A. D.. Houghton, who is still at 

 the University of California, at Berke- 

 ley, paid a visit to the city last week, 

 renewing old friendships and looking 

 around the nurseries. Dr. Houghton is 

 at work on a comprehensive book on 

 begonias and the authorities have given 

 him the use of the conservatories and 

 greenhouses at Berkeley for experimen- 

 tal and observational research. 



At Huntington Beach Jacob Dieterich 

 reports a good deal of damage to 

 heather, but says that his crop of as- 

 pidistras is absolutely unhurt. 



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