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MABKET PEA FOB CAI.IFOBNIA. 



What market pea is the most profit- 

 able to grow in California, where we 

 have little frost? H. S.— Cal. 



Yorkshire Hero is the best and most 

 popular market pea for California. 

 The haulm is short. The peas are of 

 good quality and are freely produced. 

 Yorkshire Hero thrives better in hot 

 weather than the longer-stemmed mar- 

 rowfat pea. It is a good seller in all 

 markets, and bears over a longer sea- 

 son than most other varieties. 



H. R. Eichards. 



PEONIES FOE CALIFORNIA. 



Kindly advise us which is the best 

 early pink peony, the best early white, 

 the best late pink and the best late 

 white for cut flowers for market in 

 California. L. C. 



Peonies generally do not do so well 

 in soutlfern California as farther north 

 and east, but there are several grow- 

 ers who have given them special at- 

 tentiwiL The following varieties are 

 fis gooQ as any I have seen: Early 

 white, festiva maxima; late white, 

 jCouronne d'Or; early pink, edulis 

 ^uperba; late pink, Triomphe de 1 'Ex- 

 position de Lille. These are grown in 

 small quantities for the Los Angeles 

 market. H. E. Eichards. 



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L08 ANGEI^S. 



The Market. 



Business has been decidedly better 

 the last week or ten days. The cry 

 now is for more good stock. The warm 

 spell of a week or two ago left the car- 

 nations in bad shape, many being 

 burned and others infested with thrips. 

 Roses are especially poor, and there is 

 little else to take their place. Lilium 

 rubrum helps out for some work, but 

 there is a limit to the uses to which 

 this variety can be put. The cooler 

 weather we are having will harden the 

 stock and throw more substance into 

 the flowers. 



Club Meeting. 

 The members and friends at the meet- 

 ing of the Los Angeles Horticultural 

 Society, held September 7, were dis- 

 appointed because of the absence of 

 Jacob Dieterich, who was to have spok- 

 en on the fair and the S. A. F. conven- 

 tion at San Francisco. Mr. Dieterich 

 has a most humorous way of imparting 

 his facts to an audience, and when- 

 ever he can be prevailed upon to speak 

 there is always something worth lis- 

 tening to. But he also has a large 

 amount of sympathy for human suffer- 

 ing, and a big heart, and in the exer- 

 cise of this he was kept away from 

 the meeting. James Taylor, J. D. Meri- 

 wether and James McGilvray stepped 

 into the breach and gave a most in- 

 teresting evening. The horticultural 

 beauties of the exhibitions at San 

 Diego and San Francisco were com- 



i pared, not altogether to the advantage 



. of the latter. 



Vice-president Felgate showed some 

 magnificent zinnias of his perfect strain. 



The flowers are of extra large size and 

 fine form, besides being of the bright- 

 est and most perfect shades of , color. 

 A hearty vote of thanks was given him 

 and Secretary Kruckeberg, who showed 

 fine double petunias and the new canna, 

 Firebird. 



The committee on the smoker met 

 after the meeting and decided to hold 

 a smoker every three months. 



A communication from the National 

 Gardeners' Association asking the so- 

 ciety's (^Deration in welcoming horti- 

 culturists from the east and in giving 

 them free access to the society, pro- 

 vided they leave their own society in 

 good standing, was favorably acted 

 upon. 



Various Notes. 



Walter Garbett, manager of Dar- 

 ling's Flower Shop, has returned from 

 his vacation and reports a pleasant 

 time spent with Mrs. Garbett and fam- 

 ily at Catalina. 



Harvey Lindley, who had charge of 

 the flower store of the late firm of 

 Smith & Dieterich, but latterly with 

 G. W. Smith, has resigned his position 

 and gone north to look after some land 

 holdings. Mr. Lindley was formerly 

 the manager of the cut flower depart- 

 ment of Howard & Smith. His pleas- 

 ant, yet businesslike, manners have 

 won him many friends in the city, who, 

 while sorry to lose him, wish him suc- 

 cess in his new location. 



E. Newcomb, representing the W. W. 

 Barnard Co., Chicago, was in the city 

 calling on the trade and visiting his 

 folks in San Dimas. Probably much 

 of Mr. Newcomb 's success is due to 

 his true western spirit as well as to his 

 stick-to-it-iveness, which he possesses 

 to a large d'egree. He left last week 

 for San Diego. 



The opening of the new department 

 store of J. W. Eobihson, at Seventh 

 and Grand, was a great success and 

 called for a large number of compli- 

 mentary floral pieces. Horseshoes, urns 

 and large wreaths were the favorite 

 forms of design. The work was ap- 

 parently well divided among the lead- 

 ing retailers. 



"It's a long way to Montebelld" 

 from Crown Point, Ind., but Alois Frey 

 has joined the procession that has been 

 headed that way for the last few years. 

 He will grow his new colored freesias 

 on land leased from J. Dieterich. Mr. 

 Frey has probably made a wise choice, 

 for the land lies high and is of good 

 texture, with just enough silt in it 

 to suit these bulbs. As freesias have 

 never been grown on the land, there 

 will be no fear of mixing. Mr. and 

 Mrs. Frey left last week for San Diego 

 and on their return will commence 

 planting. 



H. W. Turner has a large number of 

 the newer small polyantha roses in the 

 new houses, and they are mighty inter- 

 esting just now. The new boiler house 

 is practically complete, and Mr. Turner 

 is considering the erection of a brick 

 stack instead of the steel ones usually 

 built here. 



There is always something pretty in 

 the windows of Morris Goldenson's 

 store. The present decoration of shell- 

 pink roses and accompanying greenery 

 ■ is distinctly good. Manager J. Gordon 

 reports business good, especially in fu- 

 neral work, but says that really good 

 stock is difficult to get. 



A fine display of lotus in the window 

 of Wright's Flower Shop was an at- 

 traction last week. 



The flowering of Victoria regia, or 

 another species a good deal like it, in 

 the lily pond at Eastlake park, has 



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