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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Junk 23. 1904. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



LILIES FOR CHRISTMAS. 



At what time should we in British Co- 

 lumbia plant cold storage longiflorum 

 lilies and spiraeas to get them in bloom 

 for Christmas and January sales? Are 

 cold storage bulbs and roots of these 

 plants to be relied upon? B. C. 



There is no difficulty ,in flowering 

 Lilium longiflorum at Christmas time in 

 British Columbia, providing the bulbs 

 are planted early in August, which is the 

 time the season's crop is generally at 

 hand. They can be planted either in 

 pots or boxes and placed outside until 

 the first of October, when they should be 

 brought into the house and given a tem- 

 perature of 60 degrees at night and about 

 ten degrees higher during the daytime. 

 No difficulty will be experienced if the 

 bulbs are good. This is the usual way of 

 forcing, but if cold storage bulbs are 

 used and the grower has no heating ap- 

 paratus in his greenhouse, the bulbs 

 should be planted in July in pots or deep 

 flats and, as these bulbs respond very 

 quickly to warmth and moisture, they 

 should be kept outside until about the first 

 week in September, when they should be 

 brought into the house. They will at this 

 time have attained the height of prob- 

 ably six inches and unless the weather is 

 very unfavorable there will bejio trouble 

 in cutting a splendid crop of flowers 

 during December and January. 



It is only during the last few years 

 that growers on this coast have been able 

 to get cold storage bulbs, but those I 

 have tried have been of good quality 

 throughout and I have had much better 

 success with them than with Lilium Har- 

 risii. Lilium longiflorum bulbs that are 

 fresh imported are very slow to start and 

 when the bulbs are planted in August and 

 not forced at all it is difficult to get them 

 in bloom by Easter, but with cold stor- 

 age bulbs that have had a long rest T 

 have found it a very easy matter to flower 

 them at any time with a little bottom 

 heat. 



SpirsRa Japonica can be handled easily, 

 also. Cold storage clumps should bo 

 planted about the middle of September 

 in pots and kept under the bench until 

 about the first of November when they 

 will have made plenty of roots and can 

 then be placed in a temperature such as 

 is given to lilies. They will bloom in 

 December and January and are easily 

 grown. There is no particjilar demand 

 for cold storage spiraeas, as it is a flower 

 that is usually forced for Easter trade, 

 in which case the fresh imported clumns 

 usually obtainable in November will fill 

 all requirements. G. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market. 



School commencements and June wed- 

 dings have done considerable toward 

 brightening up trade during the last few 

 days. Funeral work is scarce and only 

 the south side florists seem to be gettitii; 

 much of it. The weather is cool again, 

 after several weeks of scorching sun- 

 shine, and it is quite a relief to both 

 the retailers and growers, to have thp 

 change. Flowers, especially indoor roses, 

 had begun to suffer and they had to be 

 kept in an ice box to have them at all 

 presentable. Carnations are much more 



plentiful than last week and are some- 

 what lower in price. This is more notice- 

 able, however, in the cheaper grade of 

 flowers, as all the fancy stock, of which 

 there is no abundance, still holds its 

 price. Such varieties as Portia, Scott and 

 Joost can be had at $1 per hundred and 

 even less. Hill, Crocker, Schwerin and 

 Estelle wholesale at about double that 

 price and Lawsons that are free from 

 thrips easily bring $3 per hundred. 

 Eoses are poor, being weak-stemmed, 

 small-flowered and poor colored. There 

 is a large quantity brought in daily an<l 

 dumped for whatever price they will bring. 

 Good Beauties are selling wholesale to- 

 day at $1.50 per dozen; Testout, Bride 

 and Maid at 50 cents; Liberty and Car- 

 not, 75 cents per dozen. Sweet peas arc 

 still in their prime and are sold to the 

 stores at from 50 cents to 75 cents per 

 dozen bunches. Shirley poppies, bache- 

 lor's buttons, coreopsis, gaillardias, glad- 

 ioli and some outdoor roses fill in very 

 nicely. Smilax is completely out of sea- 

 son, but there are plenty of ferns of all 

 kinds except the wild maidenhair. 



Various Notes. 



The Kien Co., of Elmhurst, are mak- 

 ing preparations to erect several more 

 greenhouses. 



Clarke Bros., of Portland, Ore., who 

 have their carnation growing plant in 

 Fruitvale, Cal., are cutting more flowers 

 at present than they can use and the 

 Oakland florists are deriving the benefit 

 of the surplus. 



Mrs. John McLaren, wife of our su- 

 perintendent of parks, while on their trip 

 to Europe had the misfortune to slip and 

 break her leg on the train near Denver. 

 Mr. McLaren had to continue on his 

 journey without his better half, who will 

 remain in Colorado until his return. 



Prof. Jepson, of Berkeley, has gone to 

 Sacramento to classify and label all the 

 plants and trees in the state collection at 

 the Capitol grounds. 



H. M. Sanborn and son, the Oakland 

 florists, have returned from their trip to 

 Yosemite Valley. 



Wm. Gauge, for many years head gar- 

 dener to A. K. P. Harmon, of Oakland, 

 is at present laying out the grounds of 

 the Oakland Golf Club. These links are 

 on the site formerly called Rockridsre 

 park, and will be the finest on the Pacific 

 Coast. 



W. W. Saunders, the well known bulb 

 grower, now located in Fresno, is in 

 town. G. 



FROM OUR ENGLISH EXCHANGES. 



The Gardeners' Magazine* 



Some tears since we directed attention 

 to the enormous difference in the produce 

 of non-seeding plants of garden asparn- 

 gus and those which produce heavy crops 

 of seeds. Also to the necessity for giv- 

 ing the seedlings time to show whether 

 they will seed or not before using thera 

 in the formation of beds. The 8ucco<?= 

 achieved by the French growers in the 

 production of large growths is usually 

 attributed to their skill in the prepara- 

 tion of the beds, and in the subsequent 

 use of manures; but there can be no 

 doubt that the results they obtain are 

 largely due to the selection of non- 

 peeding plants for the beds. 



The only way to obtain the full 

 wealth of flowers the lilacs are so well 

 able to yield is to keep them to single 

 stems, and, if the stem rises to a height 

 of three or four feet before dividing, it 



TRUE 



Asparagus 



Plumosus Nanus 



2-inch. $3.00 per 100 ; $25.C0 per 1000. Ex- 

 press prepaid. 



HBW CBOP PANBT 8BBD-f4.00 



per oz. ; ^-oz. at 1 oz. rate. 



100,000 



galla Bulbs 



I 



WBZTE FOB PSZOSB. 



California 

 Carnation 

 Company, 



■ LOOMIS, CAL. J 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



Qraocaria Excelsa, 



From 2^-incli pots, extra strong: planta, 

 with 2 and 8 tier, 6 to 8 inches biKb, 

 at 916 per 100. 



Qraocaria Imbricata, 



From 2-inch pots, 4 to 6 Inches high. 

 $10 per 100 and from 2}^inch pots 

 6 to 8 inches high, 918.60 per 100. • 



F. LUDEIVITINN, 



3041 Bkker StrMt, ■ 



San Francisco, Cal. 



Mpntlon The Review when jou wrltp. 



urbank's Shasta 

 H(£ Daisy Seed 



$9.00 ' 





New crop 

 20c per I 



$1.26 per 1000; 



per ounce; ^-ounce at ounce rate. 



LOOMIS FLORAL CO. 



LOOMIS, CAL. 



Mention Thf RptIpw when you write. 



will be a distinct advantage. The sug- 

 gestion here made is applicable to all 

 varieties, but applies with double force to 

 those of recent introduction, which for 

 the most part are grafted on the older 

 forms, and consequently will soon be re- 

 placed by the growth from the stock un- 

 less that is kept in subjection. 



No OBSERVANT gardener is likely to 

 gainsay the fact that both great successes 

 and great failures often follow the care, 

 or otherwise, of supposed trifles. What are 

 sometimes imagined to be little matters, 

 whether we have control or not over them, 

 frequently make all the difference be- 

 tween these extremes, and, consequently, 

 there often is only a very narrow mar- 

 gin between the two at the beginning. 



Aberdeen, S. D. — C. A. Spink's green- 

 house was struck by lightning in a re- 

 cent storm and considerable glass broken. 



