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The Florists^ Review 



June 11, 1014. 



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LOS ANGELES, OAL. 



The Market. 



During the week just passed business 

 has improved slightly and May has to- 

 taled better than was at one time ex- 

 pected. Funeral work has been the 

 standby and there are many good wed- 

 ding orders scheduled for June. The 

 stores are full of flowers of all kinds 

 and the street stands are also showing 

 good stock. There are not quite so 

 many indoor roses in the market, as 

 some of the growers have commenced 

 to throw out their stock. Killarney 

 is poor in color, but Mrs. Geo. Shawyer 

 is taking its place, the flowers lasting 

 much longer in good condition than 

 the old favorite. Dahlias are making 

 a good show already, the cactus and 

 decorative types being most in evi- 

 dence. The weather has been dull for 

 the season and this has helped the 

 sweet peas, which are excellent. Noth- 

 ing but the Spencers are now grown to 

 any extent for cutting and these are 

 by far the most profitable when the 

 price is considered. There is a big de- 

 mand for the annual gypsophila and 

 seldom does the supply exceed the de- 

 mand. In plants there is not much 

 offered, a few begonias, gloxinias and 

 lilies of the valley in flowering stock 

 and ferns, coleuses and rubber plants 

 in foliage. Greens are plentiful and 

 cheap. 



Various Notes. 



Everyone was sorry to hear that 

 Eleanor Turner, daughter of H. W. Tur- 

 ner, of Montebello, had been knocked 

 down and seriously injured by an au- 

 tomobile recklessly driven along the 

 Whittier road late in the evening of 

 May 30. She was one of a party re- 

 turning from the graduation exercises 

 at her school when the accident oc- 

 curred. She was dragged along the 

 road a considerable distance, suffering 

 concussion of the brain and a broken 

 collar-bone. The driver and occupants 

 of the car drove on without ascertain- 

 ing whether their victim was killed or 

 not. Miss Turner was taken at once 

 to the Montebello hospital and cared 

 for, and at last reports was making 

 speedy recovery. 



At the monthly meeting of the Los 

 Angeles County Horticultural Society, 

 held June 2, there was a fine audience 

 present to hear W. W. Felgate, of 

 Sierra Madre, discourse on soils and 

 their treatment. Mr. Felgate brought 

 along some splendid samples of lettuce, 

 potatoes and other vegetables and 

 flowers to show that he practices what 

 he preaches and practices it success- 

 fully. Mr. Felgate is much in favor 

 of drying out the soil thoroughly be- 

 tween crops and allowing the sun to 

 burn up the nematodes, injurious in- 

 sects and germs of fungi, which are al- 

 ways present. He showed himself to be 

 thoroughly familiar with his subject 

 and a most hearty vote of thanks was 



fiven him at the end of the lecture, 

 ome elegant spikes of gladioli were 

 sent by Ernest Braunton; these were 

 the result of his own hybridization and 

 cross fertilizing. He has one immense 

 pink in the way of Panama, while his 



crosses of G. primulinus, a yellow spe- 

 cies from South Africa, are beautiful 

 in the extreme, though perhaps hardly 

 large enough for commercial purposes 

 as yet. Mr. Braunton has been work- 

 ing on the gladiolus for a number of 

 years and is to be congratulated on the 

 good results already obtained. 



Sidney Hockridge, of the City Nurs- 

 eries, of Bedlands, was a visitor last 

 week. 



For the graduation exercises at the 

 Los Angeles high school Wolf skills' & 

 Morris Goldenson supplied the flowers, 

 consisting of nearly 300 corsage bou- 

 quets. 



H. W. Turner is building a new 

 office, and painting generally. Every- 

 thing on the place is being painted a 

 warm cream color, from his big Stod- 

 dard-Dayton down to the smallest build- 

 ing, or anything else that can be 

 painted. All office stationery, business 

 cards and labels, everything in short, 

 is to be of the same tint. In antici- 

 pation of the big demand next season, 

 a large quantity of the new rose, Sep- 

 tember Morn, is being worked up and 

 Mr. Turner is showing his own faith 

 in it by planting many benches to it. 



T, F. M. Williamson is said to have 

 gone out of business at Washington 

 and Figueroa streets. Mr. Nelson, his 

 late manager, has taken over the lease. 



J. McQilvray is making the most of 

 his chances in the new conservatories 

 at Eastlake park. The one house that 

 is completed is filled with fine flower- 

 ing stock and the corridor walls are 

 lined with moss, with ferns and or- 

 chids planted on it. Gus. Peterson is I 



also making good progress with the 

 landscape work. A good deal still re- 

 mains to be done if the alterations are 

 to be all finished by 1915. ' 



H. R, Kichards. 



PORTLAND, ORE. 



The Market. 



Memorial day business fell consider- 

 ably short of that of former years, 

 largely on account of the advanced sea- 

 son, as there were plenty of" outside 

 flowers. The shipping trade was brisk 

 up to the last. There is plenty of stock 

 to care for all business. Carnations are 

 almost a glut; yet the standard of 

 prices is maintained in the better class 

 of stores. Roses are producing the 

 heaviest cut of the season, in all varie- 

 ties, but the demand is sluggish, as 

 roses are plentiful in the gardens. Sweet 

 peas are of fine quality and move fairly 

 well. Gaillardias, coreopsis, campanulas 

 and snapdragons help to make up the 

 general variety of garden flowers. Jap- 

 anese iris is coming in nicely in a va- 

 riety of colors. 



Various Notes. 



Julius Broetje, of Oak Grove, is cut- 

 ting a fine lot of water lilies, which are 

 readily disposed of. 



The Swiss Floral Co. has several new 

 strains of petunias of the firm's own' 

 hybridizing. Pride of Portland is a 

 dainty shade of pink and has proved 

 a fine seller. 



R. Keil, of Lents, Ore., is reported to 



Freesia Refracta Alba, ^-in., X-in. and up. Write for prices. 

 Asparagus Plumosus Seed $1.50 per 1000 



Quantity prices on application. 



H. N. GAGE CO., he., 536 St. Bivadway, Lh Anides, CaL 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS :: NURSERYMEN 



Mention The Rerlew when yoa write. 



S. MURATA & CO. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS-FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 



7S1 &. Biitdway, LOS ANGELES, CAL 



PhOM Main 2987-F2604. 



Mention The ReTlew when yon write. 



LOS ANGELES FLOWER MARKET, Inc. 



822 So. Broadway, LOS ANGELES, CAL. 



CUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 



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CHRYSANTHEMUMS 

 WHITl-J. Nonin, White Bonnaffon. White 

 Queen. October Frost, Silver Wedding. YKLLO W 

 —Golden Glow, Major BonnafiFon, C. Appleton, 

 Yellow Queen. PIMK-Supreme, Dr, Eiuniehard, 

 Glory of Pacific. RED - Black Hawk. 

 POMPOII*— White, yellow and bronze. 

 R*«tMl Cuttlnsa, SIO.UO per 1000; 2-inch pot 

 plants, or plants out of pots. $16.00 per 1000. 

 FRANK WILHCIMR.F.D.6, Box 903, losAnela.Cal. 

 Mention The ReTlew when yon write. 



REMEMBER 



KENTIA NURSERIES 



SANTA BARBARA. CAL. 



for Coeoa plomoaa (all sizes in 

 qoantity). Kentiaa, Seafortiuu, 

 Arecas, Phoenix Canariensis (strons and 

 estoblished). Snd far Whaliule Prict List. 

 Mention Tb« B«t1«w wb«o yon writ*. 



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