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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



July 7, 1904, 



PACIFIC COAST. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market. 



Another week of quiet business and 

 very cool weather. Flowers of the 

 cheaper grades are plentiful but fancy 

 roses or carnations are not much in 

 evidence. The retailers do not seem to 

 mind that fact, however, as there is very 

 little demand for stock of any kind and 

 the cheaper they can keep their show- 

 windows filled with flowers the better 

 they are satisfied. It has been a very 

 favorable season for outdoor roses of 

 all kinds and Gen. Jacqueminot flowers 

 have been used more lavishly than ever 

 before to keep the display up. They 

 sell wholesale at from $1 to $1.50 per 

 hundred and retail at about three times 

 that price. Carnations, except fancy 

 stock, are plentiful and very cheap. 

 Portia, Joost and Scott can be had at 

 almost any figure unless they are choice, 

 m which caee they cost the retaUera 

 about $1 per hundred. The stems on 

 the great majority of them, however, are 

 weak and the flowers poor and they are 

 sold principally to the street venders 

 Crocker, Hill, Estelle, Schwerin, Triumph 

 and several other sorts bring $2 whole- 

 sale if they are good. Some fancy Law- 

 son are being held at about $3 per hun- 

 dred and this price is about as high as 

 anything has reached for the past several 

 months. Good roses are still scarce and 

 Beauties, although offered only in small 

 quantities, are bought up quickly enough 

 at from $1.50 to $2 per dozen. Many 

 of our growers are drying off their houses 

 at this time and that always makes a 

 scarcity of flowers. 



Various Notes. 

 Miss Charlotte F. Williams had an 

 elaborate decoration at the home of A 

 Schilling, in Oakland, on Tuesday of this 



W66K, 



A visit to the nurseries of H. Plath at 

 Ocean View, finds everything in good or- 

 der. Mr. Plath devotes about twenty 

 large houses to the culture of ferns 

 palms and smilax. He has probably the 

 largest collection of adiantums in this 

 vicimty and his stock looks remarkably 

 well at this time. He has named his 

 place "The Ferneries" and it fits the 

 greenhouses well. He will be ready in 

 a few weeks to cut some splendid Ions 

 smilax. '' 



*^*a/' ?®"«''' horticultural inspector 

 ot Alameda county rejected two large 

 cases of orchids that were being de- 



ivered U> J, P, Siegfried, of Alameda, 

 last week, Mr. Keller found a new 

 species of orchid beetle on the plants. 



G. 



GREEN LADY BIRDS. 

 Beginning during the month of June 

 and continuing through July, August 

 and September the green lady bird is 

 ^y- ^\u^ '"°^* destructive pests with 

 which the grower who handles outdoor 

 cut flowers has to contend. In many 

 places, .however, the climate is so moist, 

 windy in the daytime and foggy during 



is "i?^* /°^ "^^'y morningf that thf 

 lady bird does no damage and it is pos- 

 sible to grow flowers that are not half 

 eaten up by this miserable insect. At 

 Oakland and anywhere that is distant 



f 10Q,000 CALLA BULBS. 



I READY TO SHIP 



1 inch diameter, $25.00 per 1000 I 2 inch diameter, $45.00 per 1000 

 J>i ♦♦ 35.00 ♦♦ \ 2% ** 65.00 ** 



3-inch monsten, 95.00 ** 280 at lOOO rate prepaid to your city. 



iABPABAGUS PI^ITMOBUB VAITVS - Strong, 2-inch, $20.00 per 1000. 250 at lOOO rate. 

 Express prepaid. Hew Crop aXAVT BffXXED PAJTSY SEED— ^ oz.. $1.00 ; oz.; $4.00, 

 ' New Crop ZMPOBTEB SHASTA BAIBT SEED — Trade packet, 25c ; $6.00 per 



3 oz.; 150.00 per lb. Terms cash with order only. 



%. California Carnation Co., Loomis, Cal. ^ 



Mention The ReTlew when yon write. 



enough from the water so that the bene- 

 fit of the foggy nights is not felt, the 

 lady birds have everything their own 

 way and they do a great deal of damage 

 in the summer and early fall. They are 

 especially fond of dahlies, coreopsis, 

 carnations, roses and chrysanthemums 

 and the flowers are usually destroyed long 

 before they are out of the bud, I have 

 tried many preparations to get rid of 

 these troublesome lady birds and have 

 found Paris green to be the best thing 

 to check their ravages. A tablespoonful 

 dissolved in a three-gallon watering pot 

 and sprinkled copiously over the aflfected 

 plants daily for a week and afterwards 

 about twice a week throughout the sea- 

 son I have found to be satisfactory. Of 

 course if a grower has a great quantity 

 of stock it is almost out of the question 

 to treat it in this way but I consider 

 this the best method. The Paris green, 

 being in such weak solution, dries off 

 the flower and does not leave any stain 

 that is noticeable and is perfectly harm* 

 less to the plant. G, 



MILWAUKEE. 



The Florists' Club held its regu- 

 lar meeting at the club room Tues- 

 day evening and quite a large at- 

 tendance was present. The club has 

 decided to hold a picnic at Oconomowoc 

 Lake, July 17, and the arrangements com- 

 mittee has arranged to charter a special 

 car to take out the party. 



It appears that there will be quite a 

 few from here attending the convention 

 at St, Louis and this matter will be taken 

 up at the picnic to see how many are go- 

 ing. 



Trade in general has been very brisk 

 right up to the Fourth of July but since 

 that time it has been rather quiet. 



Incog, 



FROM OUR ENGLISH EXCHANGES. 



The Gardeners' Chromcle. 



Asparagus Sprengeri is in demand at 

 Covent Garden, being used extensively 

 for filling window boxes. 



Rose Perle des Neiges is a pure 

 white polyantha variety, with pretty and 

 perfectly double flowers. It was given 

 an award of merit when shown recently 

 by W, Paul & Son, Waltham Cross. 



For growing specimens of Begonia 

 Gloire de Lorraine of the largest size, 

 heat, atmospheric moisture and shade 

 are essential. It is also necessary to 

 select plants for growing in this way, 

 choosing those which exhibit a tendency 

 to produce lateral shoots at each joint 

 of the central stem. The shoots should 

 not be pinched, as they branch freely 

 naturally, and will grow into bushy 



^aocaria Excelsa, 



From 2^-incb pots, extra Btronr plaotl* 

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



at 916 per 100. 



Qraocaria Imbricata, 



From 2-incb pots, 4 to 6 inches hlRb, 

 910 per 100 and from 2>i-lncb pots 

 6 to 8 inches high, 918.B0 per 100, 



F. LUDENSNN, 



3041 Baker Street, 



San Francisco, Cal. 



urbank's Shasta l> 



New crop, 



20c per 100; 

 $1.26 per 1000; 19.00 

 per oimce; ^-ounce at ounce rate. 



Daisy Seed 



LOOMIS FLORAL CO. 



LOOMIS, CAL. 



Ifentloii Hie B«Tlew when 70a write. 



in Callfomlib 

 only 



Position Wanted 



By Bzperlenoed Vnr eery man and Florist. 



First-class propagator; several years' experi- 

 ence on the Coast before. Prefer to take charRe 

 of a smaller place where owner intends to retire 

 from business, with chance of buying or renting 

 place. Address — 



Bo. 174, care Floriats' Beview, Chicago. 

 Mention Tlie B«t1«w wli«n yon write. 



plantfi with a central leader, whi'ib 

 should be supported as soon as necessary 

 by a neat stake. In due course the side 

 sLoots should be loosely slung to this 

 stake, in order to secure the pyramidal 

 habit of growth to which these plants 

 so readily lend themselves. 



Cooper, Taber & Co. say of the 

 charming French pansy, Mme. Perret: 

 "This is a break from the Trimardeau 

 having a great range of colors, all the 

 flowers being tinged with red wine color. 

 Comparing it with other strains of pansy 

 we find /this to be the earliest largo- 

 flowering variety now in culture. The 

 flowers are not only large in size, being 

 two and one-half inches across, but also 

 delightfully sweet," 



We find on examination that many 

 grades of sulphur now being sold con- 

 tain sulphuric acid, sometimes in quan- 

 tity suflScient to injure delicate foliag^j. 

 It therefore behooves all users of sul- 

 phur for horticultural purposes to stipu- 

 late, when buying, for the very beet 

 flowers of sulphur, which, when shaken 

 up with cold water, will not appreciaSy 

 affect neutral litmus. 



