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The Florists' Review 



July 24, 1913. 



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Pacific Coast Department 



St. Johns, Ore. — The judges of the 

 annual sweet pea show and school gar- 

 den exhibit here were E. R. Routledge, 

 J. J. Butzer and J. R. Forbes, all of 

 Portland. 



Wenatchee, Wash.— The Milot-Mills 

 Co. is preparing to add a new section, 

 18x200 feet, to its greenhouses, making 

 a glass area of over 28,000 feet. An 

 additional boiler also "will be installed. 



Eugene, Ore. — F. B. Chase is building 

 a fifth greenhouse, 48x200 feet, which 

 is so arranged that a team can be 

 driven in at one end, through, and out 

 at the other end. The house will be 

 devoted to vegetables. 



POMONA, CAL. 



The Pomona Floral & Nursery Co. 

 has been formed by the partnership of 

 M. K. Zimmer and A. W. Pooley. Mr. 

 Zimmer may be remembered as the 

 junior member of the firm of Zimmer 

 & Son, which was formerly located at 

 Woodbine, la., and sold out January 1, 

 1909. He purchased the Franco-Amer- 

 ican Nursery plant and store at 283 

 North Garey avenue, where the store 

 of the present firm is located. Mr. 

 Pooley, at one time at Covina, Cal., was 

 operating a store on West Second street 

 and greenhouses at Genesha Park at the 

 time of the sale. The combination of 

 the two plants gives them 4,000 feet of 

 glass and four acres of land. 



Plans are being made for additions 

 to the houses and to the nursery stock. 

 Mr. Zimmer is at the store and Mr. 

 Pooley has charge of the growing end 

 of the business. Visitors of the trade 

 are always welcomed and doubtless 

 those who include this city in their 

 California trips will find a stop here 

 worth while. 



SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 



The Market. 



The weather has shown a tremendous 

 change in the last few days. The warm 

 afternoons and nights have given place 

 to delightful coolness. The effect on 

 the stock being brought into town is 

 quite noticeable. Roses and carnations 

 are not plentiful, however, owing to the 

 fact that 80 many growers are shifting 

 stock at present. Business is quiet and 

 the lack of these flowers does not make 

 much diflFerence, as there is more than 

 enough stock to fill requirements. Dah- 

 lias and gladioli are doing their share 

 toward making the windows bright. 

 The prices on them are lower than they 

 were a year ago. Asters are coming 

 into town in fair quantities, but will 

 not be at their best for a couple of 

 weeks yet. They cost the retailers from 

 $1.50 to $3 per hundred. Japanese lilies 

 are not plentiful either, and both colors 

 are held at from $1.50 to $3 per dozen. 

 They are selling well. Owing to the 

 recent hot spell, sweet peas are not as 

 good as those we usually have at this 

 time. The stems on most of them are 

 short, and the flowers are not up to 

 color. It is doubtful if we will have 

 any more really good stock for some 

 time. 



Ferns and asparagus are in over- 

 supply and, from the large amount of 

 glass that is being planted to the latter 

 this season, there will be no shortage 

 of it again in the near future. Houses 

 that have outlived their usefulness for 

 growing roses and carnations are now 

 being benched with asparagus. Other 

 kinds of outside stock have not quite 

 recovered from the warm weather, but 

 they are daily becoming of better 

 quality. 



Various Notes. 



J. H. Wallace, representing D. S. 

 Lake, of Shenandoah, la., is in town in 

 the interests of his house. 



Arthur Cook, formerly of Seattle, is 

 in town with the intention of locating 

 here permanently. 



It is rumored that a prominent re- 

 tailer here will have charge of the 

 flower department in the new Kahn de- 

 partment store in Oakland. G. 



LOS ANQELES, CAL. 



The Market. 



Funeral work and a few weddings 

 have been the mainstay of the business 

 during the last week. There has been 

 a lot of the former and it has cleaned 

 up large quantities of stock. There is, 

 in fact, quite a shortage of good indoor 

 flowers, especially roses. This, of course, 

 is partly due to the fact that growers 

 are throwing out and replanting, while 

 as yet there is not much being cut frqm 

 the earliest planted young stock. But 

 the demand is unusually good locally 

 for this season of the year. It is be- 



coming more and more apparent that 

 Los Angeles is a summer resort that 

 eastern people find more to their liking 

 than most other places, and those with 

 means are coming here year after year. 

 Dahlias are becoming more of a fea- 

 ture and gladioli are good and plentiful. 

 A few asters are in, but they are not 

 first-rate by any means. Baby roses 

 are less plentiful and the smaller out- 

 door flowers are poor. Sweet peas are 

 of fair quality only. Orchids and valley 

 are about equal to the demand. Greens 

 are more plentiful, with the exception 

 of good maidenhair ferns. 



Various Notes. 



At the Los Angeles Flower Market 

 large quantities of stock continue to 

 move. Quite a lot of business is done 

 here in funeral work for out-of-town flo- 

 rists and nurserymen who have not the 

 conveniences to do it for themselves. 

 These find it more profitable to turn the 

 trade over to a wholesaler who has 

 every facility for carrying it out well 

 at a moderate price. This is perfectly 

 legitimate wholesale business, quite dis- 

 tinct from "red violets." 



Captain Gray has moved from the 

 Ingleside Floral Co., and the place will 

 soon go out of existence as a florists' 

 establishment. He is now living on the 

 south side, at Forty-eighth street and 

 Second avenue, and is considering sev- 

 eral up-town locations to open up in 

 the retail end. 



From present indications Frank 

 Lichtenberg will have a .fine and thor- 

 oughly up-to-date store in the new 

 Hollingsworth building when it is com- 

 pleted. He has kept the center of the 



ADVANCE ORDERS, 1913 FALL DELIVERY, OF 



JAPANESE LILY BULBS and SEEDS 



Writ* for Catalogu* to 



The Oriental Seed Co.« 



Wholesale 



Grower! 



220 Ctomsnt St.. SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. 



MfPtlon Tbt RfTlew when yoo write. 



S. MURATA & CO. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



7S1 So. Broadway, LOS ANGELES, CAL. 



Phen* Main 2987-F2604. 



SHASTA DAISIES 



Burbank's Improved Alaska, California and 

 Westralia. Extra strontr divisions, $2.50 per 100, 

 $24.00 per 10»0: stroi k divisions, $2.00 por loo, 

 $19.00 per 1000. Also many other plants. Send 

 for list to 



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 SEEDSMAN 



SANTA ROSA. CAL. 



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