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The Weekly Florists' Review 



June 16, 1904. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



Pasadena, Cil^W. J. Hesser, for- 

 merly of Platsipth, Neb., is now iu 

 charge of a private establishment here. 



Theee thousand dollars has been ap- 

 propriated to the University of Califor- 

 nia, Department of Agriculture, by the 

 Southern California Walnut Growers' 

 Association. This sum is to be expended 

 in studying the walnut blight, a disease 

 which threatens serious damage to the 

 walnut industry of California. The work 

 will be under the direction of Plant 

 Pathologist Ifalph E. Smith, who has had 

 charge of the asparagus rust investiga- 

 tions by the University of California. 

 The work to be done by Prof. Smith will 

 mean considerable addition to the pro- 

 vision for laboratory work at Berkeley. 

 It IS possible also that a temporary depot 

 will be established in southern California 

 for the study of the disease in its im- 

 mediate vicinity. 



ANNUALS. 



Annuals had a very fair sale this 

 spring. Pansies are the best sellinc. 

 spring plants we handle. They retail 

 here at 50 cents per dozen an^l 

 the season for planting them be- 

 gins early in March and extends 

 through April and the first part of Mav. 

 Ihe Bugnot and Gassier strains are 

 grown m -California in large quantities 

 and are the best sellers. Several years 

 ago we grew great quantities of the 

 Irimardeau sorts but the public has been 

 educated up to asking for the rich bron/u 

 and golden shades and, although the flow- 

 ®",^^.^^ °o* quite as large or the. plants 

 a^ thrifty growers, they sell much better 

 We plant the seeds about the end of July 

 and transplant into the open field in Octo 

 ber. In this way there is no diflSculty to 

 get plenty of big showy flowers as soon 

 as the frosty weather is pone. Pansies 

 thrive best in heavy soil well worked un 

 with rotted manure and thorouehlv 

 drained If they do not receive a check 

 m handling they are one of the easiest 

 as well as one of the most profitable ar- 

 ticles that can be grown. 



Asters sold well this spring and we arc 

 confining ourselves almost entirely to 

 Bemple's branching varieties. Thev suc- 

 ked well here and have entirely 'taken 

 the place of the older sorts. In some lo- 

 calities last season the aster borer di<l 

 consHerable damage but it has not mado 

 Its appearance in this neighborhood this 

 season as far as I am aware. The smaller 

 dealers grew large quantities for the re- 

 tail trade. We handle them entirely in 

 flats transplanted about 100 to a box. 

 _ golden coreopsis is another article th^t 

 18 in good demand and sells at about .50 

 cents per dozen plants. Stocks are grown 

 m the same way and have a steady de- 

 mand. Bachelor 's buttons, marigolds and 

 cosmos are handled in enormous quanti- 

 ties around our larger cities and sell at 

 about the same price as the others I have 

 mentioned. ' 



In bedding plants I do not think the 

 demand was as prood as we have had in 

 former seasons. There aro roallv onlv n 

 few large private places in this locality 

 that use such material in large quantities 

 and outside of the public parks it is sel- 

 dom seen. The taste of California n« 

 does not seem to be in the line of carp<-t 

 bedding and although at one time we had 



a good demand for achyranthes, feverfew, 

 lobelias, salvias, coleus and other stock of 

 that nature, we have outgrown that idea 

 and roses and palms take their places. 

 Californians are too fond of planting 

 trees and shrubs that will thrive a life- 

 time to go to the trouble of planting 

 soft-wooded stuflP every spring. Flowers 

 grow so easily here that we consider many 

 things too common to give garden room 

 to and scarlet geraniums, callas and mar- 

 guerites have many years since been rele- 

 gated to the back yard, along with the 

 chickens and the dog house. G. 



SAN FRANC3SCO. 



The Market. 



We have had a fair supply of June 

 weddings, and, although there is nothing 

 to brag of in a business way, there is 

 much less in the line of flowers. I have 

 not seen a dozen good Beauties for the 

 past two weeks and the less said of 

 other varieties of roses the better. Carna- 

 tions are short in stem and poor in flower. 

 We have had considerable hbt weather 

 and its effect has been shown in the 

 quality of flowers. Sweet peas are plenti- 

 ful and good and are about the best sell- 

 ing item the retailers have at present. 

 Other outdoor flowers are plentiful and 

 help very much to make window displays. 

 June trade is ahead of last season at the 

 same period according to what the ma- 

 jority of the retailers say. This is en- 

 couraging as June is usually one of our 

 ttiost quiet months. Valley is plentiful 

 and Harrisii and longiflorums are being 

 offered in fair quantities. 



Notes. 



The demurrer to the complaint in the 

 suit brought by Frank Shibeley against 

 the Board of Public Works of San Fran- 

 cisco to prevent the issuance lot flower 

 permits to street venders was/ admitted 

 to be good by the attorneys in Judge 

 Sloss' court this week and they were al- 

 lowed three additional da/s to file an 

 additional complaint. The argument on 

 the question of whether an injunction 

 should be issued was set for next Friday. 

 The application for an injunction is op- 

 posed by the attorneys for the Mer- 

 chants' Association, this body desiring 

 that the flower market ordinance be put 

 in force and the venders allowed to soil 

 flowers at the places designated in the 

 ordinance. G. 



FROM OUR ENGLISH EXCHANGES. 



The Gardeners' Magazine* 



Shobtia oalacifolia is fully justify- 

 ing the high estimate that was formed 

 of it when first introduced to cultiva- 

 tion a few years since. G. Reuthe, Kes- 

 ton, who contributed a score or so of 

 splendidly-flowered plants to the Drill 

 Hall meeting, states that it is of the eas- 

 iest culture, both in pots and on the 

 rockery, and regards it as one of the 

 most valuable of the rock plants that 

 have been introduced to the garden in 

 rtcent times. 



Whether the varieties of chrysan- 

 themums introduced in the near futuro 

 will be an improvement upon the present 

 standard rests entirely in the hands of 

 those who are charged with the adjudica- 

 tion of new varieties. Were greater strin- 

 gency imposed, even, than now is the 

 case, in granting certificates, an im- 

 proved type of flower would be the re- 



TRUE 



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From 2K-incb pots, extra BtroDK plants, 

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SI .25 per 1000; $9.00 ' 



per ounce; ^-ounce at ounce rate. 



LOOMIS FLORAL CO. 



LOOMIS, CAXi. 



Mention Th» R»Tlew when yoo wrlt». 



suit. Raisers of new varieties, who are 

 seldom the cultivators, need have no 

 uneasiness about the disposal of sterling 

 varieties, because an exhibitor knows 

 quite well in these days of keen com- 

 petition the value of a flower that is 

 really an advance upon older varieties of 

 a similar type. 



The importation of cut flowers into 

 the British Isles continues to show a de- 

 crease, probably due more to the large 

 quantities which British growers are 

 putting on the market than to any de- 

 crease in the practice of using flowers 

 for decorations, etc. The value of flow- 

 ers imported during March were as fol- 

 lows: In 1904, £47,260; in 1903, £56.- 

 5S0; in 1902, £62,454. 



Siops^ALLS, S. D.— J. C. Thompson 

 is stafxting a plant here with about 8.000 

 feet of glass. He expects to have about 

 75.000 gladioli to dispose of this fall, 

 also dahlias and caladiums. 



