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llie Rorists' Review 



APBIL 14, 1921 



Campbell Seed Store is showing fine 

 cut flowers and flower seed in a bootli 

 decorated with genistas and Asparagus 

 elongatus. Sadie Thomas, in the ab- 

 sence of her special flower, the chrys- 

 anthemum, is exhibiting her next best, 

 baskets of beautiful roses. 



John Blake, landscape architect and 

 superintendent of Brookside park, has a 

 miniature of a home with all the shrub- 

 bery and lawns fertilized with Pacific 

 guano, for which he is representative. 

 Fred Hills, the famous fern grower, is 

 there with a fine collection of Nephro- 

 lepis Hillsii, in 5 and 7-inch pots. The 

 Eldred Flower Shop is showing baskets 

 of cut flowers in charge of the young 

 lady artists of the store. "Whitford's 

 is exhibiting baskets of roses and other 

 cut flowers. 



Lichtenberg's, Wright's Flower Shop 

 and Walter Armacost & Co., of Los 

 Angeles, are showing their respective 

 lines of productions. E. H. Rust, of 

 South Pasadena, is showing his line of 

 general nursery stock and palms. 

 Eobert Pegg, the landscape artist and 

 nurseryman, is showing some fine ferns 

 and other plants w^hich he handles. 



There are numerous private entries 

 of all kinds, too many to enumerate. 

 These include some fine collections of 

 ferns, which are increasing in popular- 

 ity each year. The schools are also 

 there with their entries, all grown by 

 the children. 



Various Notes. 



Business has been good here the last 

 week. The Orchid had a large business, 

 filling orders for the opening of Jen- 

 sen's Raymond theater. This store had 

 a large number of baskets of all kinds 

 and set pieces. One in particular was 

 six feet square, composed of roses, 

 sweet peas and orchids. 



Mrs. Eldred, of the Eldred Flower 

 Shop, had in her window a good adver- 

 tisement for telegraph business. She 

 had telegraph instruments arranged 

 among the flowers and a reminder for 

 passers to remember their friends by 

 this quick method. R. S. B. 



SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 



The Market. 



Roses are now plentiful, fairly cheap 

 and of good quality. Carnations have 

 become more plentiful, but they are 

 holding their price. ,Tulips of many 

 shades abound, running the scale of 

 colors from pale pink to almost black. 

 Lilacs have taken the place of fruit 

 bloftSpTB*. On the wh(Jlev.tlie market is 



