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The Florists^ Review 



July 16, 1914. 



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Pacific Coast Department 



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LOS ANGELES. 



T& 



e Market. 



The first week of July was a dull 

 one for the retailer, funeral work being 

 the only hope. Flowers are more of a 

 glut now than at any previous time this 

 summer. Gladioli, dahlias and asters 

 are all in together, with practically no 

 demand. Outdoor roses keep up well in 

 quality for the season, but the supply 

 is too great for the demand. Orchids 

 are plentiful and all classes of small 

 flowers are in oversupply. There are 

 some fine cornflowers in, which last ex- 

 tremely well during hot weather and 

 make a pretty show. 



Various Notes. 



The July meeting of the Los Angeles 

 County Horticultural Society, held at 

 Kruckeberg's hall July 7, was only 

 fairly well attended. The principal 

 business on hand was clearing up the 

 affairs of the recent picnic. Fred How- 

 ard was present and was given a rising 

 vote of thanks of the society for the 

 good work he has done. There was 

 some discussion as to the means of giv- 

 ing more publicity to the meetings and 

 the secretary was asked to prepare re- 

 ports and mail them to the trade and 

 amateur horticultural journals. Ad- 

 journment was called for by President 

 Winsel at an early hour. 



Manager W. Wern, of Wright's 

 Flower Shop, left July 5 for a month's 

 vacation. Few men stick more closely 

 to business than Mr. Wern and he cer- 

 tainly deserves his holiday. Tom 

 Wright reports business fair for the 

 season and the stock looks fine. 



Morris Goldenson has bought a home 

 in the Boyle Heights district, on Ca- 

 mulos street, and moved his family 

 there. This is an exceedingly good lo- 

 cation, catching the breeze from the 

 ocean each way and lying high and dry. 



It is characteristic of A. F. Borden 

 that when he saw in the local papers 

 the account of a man's death and no 

 funds to bury him, he at once tele- 

 phoned to the authorities offering inter- 

 ment in his own family lot rather than 

 let the man go to the potter 's field. This 

 and similar acts of kindness and good 

 nature are what make our friend so 

 much sought for and have given him so 

 good a name as a man and a brother. 



M. G. Bridgeford is sending in' ex- 

 cellent Lilium rubrum and L. Harrisii 

 from his Eagle Rock place. "Quality 

 first" is always Mr. Bridgeford 's 

 motto. 



Manager Newman, of S. Murata & 

 Co., is now known as the original and 

 genuine little speed merchant. 



Charles Brazee has just returned from 

 a fishing trip at Catalina, an 8-foot 

 shark being among the catch. When I 

 asked him whether this was a fish story, 

 he said it was one that would bear in- 

 vestigation. 



Frank McCabe, of the A. L. Bandall 

 Co., Chicago, was in town last week. 



A big load of funeral work, double- 

 decked, left the Los Angeles Flower 

 Market one morning recently. 



Rudolph Fischer had already, July 1, 

 shipped his crop of Freesia Purity east. 



X sold over 85,000 ohryaanthsmum 

 plant* this ■MtBon on my 1-lnoli ad In 

 tha Paolflo Coaat Department of Ttaa 

 R*t1«\7. Of eoursa that paid ma ^^all 

 and X am vary pleased. Tou will hear 

 from me acaln as soon as I can ^rork 

 up etock.— rrenk Wllhelm, R. F. D. 

 No. 6, Loe Anceles, Cal., June 18, *14. 



Mr. Fischer is well known as the raiser 

 of this grand variety and grows hun- 

 dreds of thousands of it at his place at 

 San Gabriel. 



H. W. Turner's new rose, September 

 Morn, is assuredly a winner. The young 

 beds are magnificent, the growth being 

 all that could be desired, while the 

 flowers, even from the smallest plants, 

 are splendid in color and substance. 

 Shawyer, too, is immense and is win- 

 ning golden opinions from the best 

 class of trade here. H. R. Richards. 



grees being the highest yet recorded in 

 Spokane this month. Sweet peas are 

 in the market in quantity; the quality 

 is quite good. Japanese iris, centaur- 

 eas and coreopsis are being used to a 

 large extent, especially in the florists' 

 windows. 



Various Notes. 



Peters Bros, have the side posts set 

 for two new houses, each 32x100 feet 

 which, with another of like size, they 

 will plant with carnations. One house 

 of tomatoes and one of cucumbers just 

 through bearing they will clear out and 

 plant to mums at once. Another house 

 of tomatoes will be carried for a few 

 weeks longer. They have been espe- 

 cially successful with tomatoes this 

 year, their houses having received the 

 unqualified admiration of all the vege- 

 table growers in this section. A rough 

 estimate of the crop places it at eight 

 pounds of fruit per plant. One house 

 is being filled with Killarney and 

 White Killarney. If they meet with 

 success in rose growing, they intend 

 going into it heavily another year. 



Mrs. Thornburg, who last winter 

 opened a store on Post street, has 

 gone back to her old location in Hill- 

 yard. She found the competition of a 

 big market just across the street, where 

 plants were sold at cut prices, too 

 strong for her to bear up against. 



F. L. Ziegler has sold his greenhouse 

 plant to J. Stephens. The plant con- 

 sists of two houses, each 15x100 feet, 

 and three lots on Garland avenue. Mr. 

 Stephens expects to build several new 

 houses and will grow principally carna- 

 tions and ferns. He has been em- 

 ployed on private estates in Spokane 

 for about a year and previously 

 worked at various points in Idaho. 



M. Lozier is the fishing florist of 

 Spokane. Last week he brought in s 



SPOKANE, WASH. 



The Market. 



Business has been fair during the 

 last week, with a steady, though not 

 heavy, demand for funeral work, some 

 of the florists, notably Hoyt Bros. Co., 

 having executed some especially good 

 orders. Wedding work is filling in nice- 

 ly, though orders are generally small. 

 Roses are small and of summer quality, 

 with the supply a little above the de- 

 mand. Carnations are showing the ef- 

 fects of the hot weather, though the 

 quality is a little above the average 

 eastern carnations at this season of the 

 year, due largly to our cool nights. 

 The day temperature, too, does not rise 

 so high as in the middle states, 95 de- 



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