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114 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



June 9. 1904. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



Los Angeles, Cal. — The florists are 

 endeavoring to get the city council to 

 take action prohibiting the street venders 

 of flowers from plying their trade, rep- 

 resenting that they are an injury to an 

 industry representing an investment of 

 over a million dollars. The Herald 

 arises to the defense of the peddlers. 



CARNATION NOTES. 



The growers in the vicinity of San 

 Francisco are kept very busy this warm 

 June weather. I made a tour of some 

 of the principal places last week and 

 find everyone in the midst of planting 

 stock in the field. The stock generally 

 looks thrifty. Several of our large 

 growers handle their stock entirely in 

 pots until they are finally planted in 

 the benches. First they are rooted in 

 sand, then transplanted into flats, then 

 shifted into thumb potS; then into 4- 

 inch and finally into 6-inch pots, where 

 they are allowed to grow a couple of 

 months before they are brought into 

 the houses. This method entails consid- 

 erable more handling and quite an out- 

 lay for pots but there is no check to 

 the; plants in the final planting and no 

 danger from gophers, a pest with which 

 the California carnation growers have 

 considerable trouble. 



Of the varieties that will be planted 

 extensively I find several additions to 

 our regular standard kinds. Mora Hill 

 easily leads in white. This variety 

 seems to fill the bill for California for 

 an all-around white. Prosperity is pro- 

 nounced by all growers to be a rather 

 shy bearer and although the flowfers 

 bring a good figure it does not pay 

 as well as the other variety mentioned. 

 In the neighborhood of Burlingame, how- 

 ever, it is being planted quite freely. 

 I saw several patches of Gov. Wolcott 

 and heard quite a difference of opinion 

 regarding its merits as a paying va- 

 riety and I think it will oo another 

 season before we can tell very much 

 about it. It is a grand fiower and brings 

 top prices. White Cloud and Queen 

 Louise I found were favored by some 

 growers and will be grown quite ex- 

 tensively for the coming season. 



In scarlet varieties Estelle is away 

 ahead of everything else; fully seven- 

 ty-five per cent of the bench room re- 

 served for red is given to this kind. 

 Portia is grown only in the smaller 

 places and for the cheaper trade. Amer- 

 ica seems to have been discarded on ac- 

 count of its dull color. Crane because 

 it is rather shy with us and blooms in 

 crops. I found several growers trying 

 Adonis but they do not seem to be able 

 to tell whether it will be profitable or 

 not. A South San Francisco grower 

 has a very nice lot of Flamingo, which 

 he thinks is going to be one of our 

 coming red sorts. Red Bradt does not 

 seem to be muck in favor here; the 

 growers claim that it is a shy bearer. 



Mrs. Lawson still holds the first place 

 as an all-around pink variety, although 

 it is subject to fhrips more than any oth- 

 er kind and for this reason in some 

 localities it is hard to handle in the 

 summer. This thrips is a queer proposi- 

 tion. In some places, where we have 

 plenty of cool ocean breezes and foggy 

 nights, it is almost unknown and at a 

 distance of a mile or two inland it 



comes very near putting the grower out 

 of business in the summer time. 



E. Schwerin is a local variety and a 

 good one, being a deep rich piiJc some- 

 what the color of Lawson. It is grown 

 quite extensively here and is a good 

 paying variety. Crocker is gradually 

 being discarded, as it is only a summer 

 blooming variety. Joost and Scott are 

 planted by the smaller growers and Jap- 

 anese gardefners. They are both heavy 

 bloomers but bring very low prices. 

 Cressbrook is being discarded also by a 

 majority of the planters. Some claim 

 the color is not stable enough and oth- 

 ers say it is a very shy bearer, so it 

 will have to go. Enchantress seems to 

 have only a few friends for about the 

 same reasons. Higinbotham is grown 

 in a few places. It seems to be well 

 spoken of and one grower has stock 

 enough to plant an entire house. It is 

 a very good light pink but not general- 

 ly known about. Mrs. Nelson comes in 

 for a diversity of opinion also but the 

 general verdict seems to be that it is 

 rather a shy bearer. Triiunph is a good 

 variety and will be planted very largely 

 this season. It is of easy growth and 

 make's splendid ■ long stems and big 

 blooms. In yellow and variegated 

 shades many growers do not compete at 

 all. Mrs. Bradt is the best of its class 

 but it had a tendency, the last season, 

 to come vety weak stemmed and is not 

 in great favor on that account. John 

 Carbone is one of the best paying sorts 

 and Stella is 1 planted considerably. In 

 yellow Eldorado seems to be the best 

 liked although Gold Nugget will be 

 planted considerably. Mayor Pingree 

 has been thrown out completely I be- 

 lieve. In ' dark red sorts John Hinkle 

 still is in the lead and a good many 

 Roosevelt are seen. 



Some of our growers have experimented 

 with seedling carnations and I have 

 seen several very fine flowers that wete 

 raised in this way. A good many nov- 

 elties are being sent herei from the east 

 but it will be another season before we 

 can tell whether they will prove prof- 

 itable. G. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market. 



We have safely passed over Decora- 

 tion day and from what I am able to 

 learn it was up to the average in busi- 

 ness. Saturday seemed to be the busiest 

 day although Sunday was a close sec- 

 ond. The retailers sold out well and 

 the growers cut everything very close, 

 so there has been but little brought into 

 town this week. A Sutter street florist 

 told me today that he had not been able 

 to get enough flowers since Decoration 

 day to fill up his windows properly. Of 

 course on a day of this kind there is 

 only a limited demand for fine stock. 

 Most of the stuff sold is hardy outside 

 flowers with the exception of carnations 

 and these, especially the white and pink 

 varieties were in good demand. Sweet 

 peas were the next on thef list and the 

 growers, especially the Chinese, ran 

 the price up from 50 cents per dozen 

 bunches to $1 and this is the price the! 

 stores had to pay from Tuesday through 

 the week. The bunches were made only 

 about half the usual size and the grow- 

 ers made a handsome profit for a few 

 days. White stocks and Bride gladioli 

 were handled by the thousands. Gail- 

 lardias, candytuft, coreopsis, and Shirley 

 poppies had a good run and callas could 



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not be had in sufficient quantity to fill 

 orders. Bachelor's buttons and mar- 

 guerites cost the stores about 75 cents 

 per dozen bunches and everyone was 

 sold out on Sunday morning, so I think 

 that all told we had as good a Memorial 

 day's trade as I have ever seen in San 

 Francisco. 



Various Notes. 



John McLaren is about to leave on 

 a long tour of Europe, a holiday he well 

 deserves, as he has been kept very 



