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The Florists^ Review 



July 20, 1»22 



Dallas, Ore. — Mrs. M. A. Conlee is 

 starting in tlio florists' business here. 



San Fernando, Cal. — Alois Frey, oriji;- 

 iuator of the Kainbow f'reesias, says 

 that the midst of the shijiping season 

 finds him conipletoly sold out. The de- 

 mand exceeds ;ill ]irevious reeordsi and 

 ill general the fieesia crop is light. Mr. 

 J''rey says that considering the bad win- 

 ter freesia growers went through, he 

 thinks his crop turned out fairly well. 



LOS ANGELES, CAL. 



The Market. 



There has l)eeu a decided turn for the 

 better in }irices on the market, when 

 good stock is considered, and gladioli 

 especially have recovered. Dahlias 

 have not come up to expectations, but 

 a change for the better can be confi- 

 dently expected. An unusual run of 

 funeral work has kept tlie retailers 

 fairly Imsy; in fact, with the depleted 

 forces owing to vacations, everyone has 

 his hands full. Outside of this, there 

 is little out of the way to report and 

 the summer business so far may be said 

 to have been slightly above the aver- 

 age. 



Various Notes. 



Robert Xew4'omb, who had been in 

 the city for some time with his baskets 

 and other lines, said that he had a 

 most successful visit. lie left last week 

 for San Francisco. He will also visit 

 Kansas City during the S. A. F. conven- 

 tion. 



Arthur ( Heave, of Gleavc's Flower 

 Shop, Santa Barbara, drove down in 

 his Stutz last week. He has had a par- 

 ticularly good season and his vegetables 

 growinj; under glass have also been a 

 success, despite the earlier frost trou- 

 bles. Mr. Gleave has just bought an- 

 other piece of property on the west side 

 of Santa Barbara and may move his 

 greenhouses there. 



C. E. and Mrs. Norton, of Fhoenix, 

 Ariz., and F. R. and Mrs. Hills started 

 last week on a northern automobile 

 tour. Wliiie they had no set program, 

 they intended going north at least as far 

 as Eureka. Cal., and possibly farther. 

 Mr. Norton evidently retains his skill 

 as ;i driver, having made the trip from 

 I'hoenix in less than two day.s. He in- 

 tends going on to Kansas City for the 

 convention. 



B. Bakker. representing A. Henderson 

 & Co.. Chicago, was in this citv last 

 week. This is Mr. Bakker 's first trip to 

 California, but he seems to have been 

 successful and has made a good im- 

 pression on the trade here. He left 

 for Texas last week. 



F. ('. .laeger, .Tr., of San Francisco, 

 was a visitor here last week. 



Friends of Walter Garbett, repre- 

 sentative of H. Bayersdorfer & Co., 

 Phil.adelphia. will be sorry to learn of 

 his .serious illness. He underwent an 

 operation for gallstones at Rochester, 

 Minn. His friend, George J. Hall, of 

 this city, arranged matters so that Mrs. 

 Garbett could leave for her husband's 

 bedside. Mr. Hall and other fellow 



Elks have seen to it that everything 

 l)ossible was done to relieve the trying 

 situation for Mrs. Garbett. 



.T. D'Ortignac, of Fresno, is on a visit 

 to the city and is combining business 

 with ])leasure. He has a large quantity 

 of local funeral work, which is being 

 made up at the range of George J. Hall 

 & Co. Mr. D'Ortignac says that it feels 

 good to be back in Los Angeles after 

 the heat of the San Joaquin valley. 



A visit to the Artesia nurseries found 

 everything in fine shape, Messrs. Gorini 

 and Perotti having their hands full. 

 The plumosus seen here is coming on 

 well after the check given it by the 

 frost earlier in the season, and there 

 will be a fine lot of sprays for the fall 

 trade. The dahlias here have suffered 

 from thrips and red spider, but there 

 are fine blooms coming tiow. 



T. D. Robertson, of Fullerton, Cal., 

 reports a big business at the retail store 

 in funeral work, while nursery and 

 landscape work keep up well. 



N. P. Lindberg, proprietor of the 

 Rugby Creenhouse, Rugby, N. D., was 

 also in the city. 



Frank Lichtenberg intends to carry 

 out the mission idea still further in his 

 store by changing over some parts of it 

 and introducing some genuine old mis- 

 sion relics, such as benches, a bell and 

 others. The excellent reproduction of 

 mission San Juan Capistrano has caused 

 so much favorable comment that Mr. 

 Lichtenberg is determined to finish it 

 strictly in this way. Business is excel- 

 lent here. 



II. Kruckeberg, who some two or 

 three years ago went into the landscape 

 and florists' business at Santa Monica 

 boulevard, Hollywood, says that he has 

 now some good work and is beginning 

 to reap the benefits of his several 

 years' missionary work. 



Fred Westren^ of Westrem Garland 

 Florists, is spending part of his vacation 

 in Washington, where he is visiting his 

 sister, and intends returning by easy 



stages down the coast and im some 

 places far enough inland for some trout 

 fishing on his way. 



F. M. Borden, the well known nurs- 

 eryman of Riverside, has been in the 

 city buying stock. He says that busi- 

 ness has been picking up right along at 

 Riverside and vicinity, and he looks 

 for an exceptionally good season. 



Bert Harris, of Oakland, was here 

 last week on a visit and was piloted 

 around by his old friend and co-worker, 

 George J. Hall. 



At the store of the E. C. Amling Co. 

 some of the finest asters seen so far 

 this season are being shipped. 



The California Floral Co. reports 

 business as much better than usual for 

 July. The more or less quiet season is 

 being taken advantage of to rearrange 

 and redecorate the store. 



At the Armacost range the roses are 

 evidentlj' above the average for the 

 summer season and are arriving in good 

 shape at the store. A wire from Mr. 

 Armacost said that he was returning 

 from the Texas convention bj way of 

 the Grand Canyon. 



The new plantings of heather at the 

 nursery of Roy F. Wilcox & Co. are 

 looking fine and the older plants that 

 suffered from frost are now growing 

 away in good shape again. In the lath 

 houses the palm stock is magnificent, 

 the growth everywhere being perfect. 

 Several more acres of leased land have 

 been addeKi to the nursery and are be- 

 ing rapidly filled with boxwoods and 

 other stock. 



At the Superior Dahlia Gardens, 

 Figueroa street, there is a fine show 

 of blooms now in all the popular show, 

 decorative and pompon varieties. The 

 latter are particularly attractive and 

 are money-makers. Seulberg as grown 

 here is a wonder, with immense flowers 

 on stiff, erect stems, and it is a beauty 

 in every way. 



The store decorations at Darling's 

 Shop are always attractive and were 



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