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The Florists^ Review 



July 81, 1918. 



PACIFIC Coast Department 



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San Diego, Oal. — Lanier Bros, have 

 taken out a $1,000 permit for the erec- 

 tion of a modern conservatory next door 

 to the Empress theater. 



San Bernardino, Cal. — Fire destroyed 

 the fern houses and damaged three other 

 greenhouses of Mrs. Anna L. Hurtt 

 July 9. It is supposed the fire started 

 from a gasoline engine set between the 

 houses. The loss, about $1,000, is cov- 

 ered by insurance. 



POBTLAND, OBE. 



The Market. 



Business is quiet, but up to the stand- 

 ard of other years. The excessively 

 warm weather has driven the people to 

 resorts, so that the occasional funeral 

 or entertainment are the only things 

 retailers can depend upon. 



Carnations still come in limited quan- 

 tities with impaired quality. Boses are 

 «carce; Kaiserins are badly injured by 

 mildew. Sweet peas are a glut on the 

 market. The effects of the hot weather 

 are readily seen on these. Gladioli, 

 America and Mrs. Francis King, are 

 ■coming in nicely as a novelty and are 

 good sellers. Dahlias are plentiful, but 

 -are hard to move at any price. 



Various Notes. 



W. C. Hoffmann, of Sylvian, Ore., is 

 making an addition of one house, 27x 

 120, to his range, which will be used in 

 planting calla lilies and for propagating 

 bedding plants. 



Herbert & Fleishauer, McMinnville, 

 are shipping some choice asters to the 

 market, the first of the season. 



Hans Niklas returned home after a 

 trip of several weeks to Chicago and 

 other cities. 



Martin Winch is erecting several 

 houses at his place near Hogan's sta- 

 tion. 



Berger Tonseth finds recreation f!i 

 plying his launch on the Willamette. 

 Recently a sunken rock, so dreaded by 

 mariners, caused his downfall. The 

 boys at the store were wondering why 

 he wore his best clothes, until the mat- 

 ter leaked out. 



F. A. Van Kirk and Ben Van Kirk 

 were bit by a cat at their home. On ac- 

 count of the recent mad dog scares, 

 they were anxious until assured by a 

 specialist that the animal was not af- 

 fected with rabies. E. R. C. 



LOS ANGELES, CAL. 



The Market. 



Stock has shortened up considerably, 

 and if the demand were anything like 

 a normal one there would be a serious 

 shortage. This is the more remarkable 

 in view of the fact that the weather 

 has been cool and not unusually bright. 

 There have been some elegant outdoor 

 roses in the market, especially Mrs. J. 

 Laing, which is probably the best hot 

 weather rose we have. Indoor stock 

 from young plants is coming in fine 

 shape and there are about enough short 

 iiowers to go around for funeral work. 

 Inside carnations are small and scarce. 



and the outdoor flowers are poor. There 

 18 a better supply of asters and cen- 

 taureas, and the supply of gladioli keeps 

 up well. A few nice Lilium rubrum and 

 L. auratum have appeared, but no great 

 quantity as yet. Other flowers are 

 about as reported last week. 



Funeral work has kept up well and 

 there has been a fair business in box 

 trade. Many more women are seen 

 wearing natural flowers in the street 

 now and the craze for artificial corsages 

 is apparently on the wane. Gloxinias, 

 begonias and other small plants are 

 shown in the windows, but they are not 

 particularly good. Greens are plentiful. 



Various Notes. 



G. Rossi & Co. are evidently looking 

 for big business in greens during the 

 coming year. They have leased a big 

 tract in Alameda county and will ship 

 largely of all kinds of wild greens to 

 their wholesale store in this city. 



J. B. Menasco is shipping in some fine 

 flowers of Mrs. J. Laing, one of the 

 finest of hot weather roses in this sec- 

 tion, from his Covina place. 



The tarnished bug is giving consider- 

 able trouble to the mum growers this 

 season. 



Chas. W. Hibbard is starting out for 

 himself, growing bulbous stock for cut 

 flowers for the market here. He has 

 purchased some land at Pomona which 

 he thinks especially well suited for the 

 purpose. 



Aurele Vermuelen, who hung out his 

 shingle in the Byrne building some time 

 ago, as a landscape architect, is picking 

 up quite a little business and is prov- 

 ing himself a capable and efficient 



draughtsman, as well as an enthusiastic 

 horticulturist. He certainly deserves 

 his success. 



C. Winsel is showing some pretty va- 

 rieties of aquatics and other plants, the 

 produce of his Montebello nurseries, at 

 the Main street store. 



Howard & Smith report business keep- 

 ing up finely at their store at Ninth 

 and Olive streets. 



The Standard Pottery has kept all 

 hands going busily this season and Mr. 

 Anderson says he is well satisfied with 

 the year's trade. 



Mrs. H. N. Gage is on a vacation, 

 leaving Mr. Gage to look after the busi- 

 ness. Mrs. Gage sticks closely to her 

 post at the store and surely deserves 

 a rest. Business here is away ahead 

 of that of last year at this time. 



George Newman, of Murata & Co., 

 left with his wife and a friend July 21 

 for an auto trip to San Francisco. He 

 intends to stop at various points en 

 route, and at the time of writing he 

 was at Santa Barbara. 



The centaureas and asters coming to 

 the Los Angeles Flower Market from 

 the north have been extra fiae and they 

 clean up regularly, being picked up 

 almost before they are on the counters. 



A delegation from the Los Angeles 

 Horticultural Society visited the Pasa- 

 dena brethren on the occasion of their 

 meeting, July 18. President Winsel, J. 

 M. Grant, Duncan Murdoch and H. R. 

 Richards made the trip and all were 

 accorded a hearty welcome. The ques- 

 tion of the picnic at Redondo, August 3, 

 was taken up and arrangements were 

 made for the two societies to meet at 

 this popular resort. The Pasadena so- 



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