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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



JULT 21, 1904. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market 



We arc having another spell of cool, 

 damp weather, 8omethinf» rather unusual 

 at this season of the year. The effect 

 has been good on both roses and carna- 

 tions and they have better color and 

 substance than we usually have during 

 this month. Such varieties as Lawson, 

 that are always full of thrip at this 

 time, have been brought well up to color 

 and length of stem. Flora Hill is in 

 full crop in most of the greenhouses and 

 there is no scarcity of white in conse- 

 quence. The best, fan.'y varieties are 

 selling at $3 per hundred and the stand- 

 ard sorts bring about $2, Avhile Portia, 

 Scott and Joost can be had at a less 

 price. Many of the rose growers are 

 commencing to dry up their houses and 

 very small cutting is the result. Bride, 

 Maid, Testout, Liberty and Carnot are 

 selling at from $3 to $i per hundred and 

 Beauties, although the majority of them 

 are poor, are selling at from 75 cents to 

 $2 per dozen. Sweet peas are very good 

 and very plentiful and still bring 50 cents 

 per dozen bunches. Great bunches of 

 goldenrod are being brought in from the 

 country and it makes a very good show- 

 ing as a decorative flower. A few asters 

 are in market. There has been quite an 

 acreage of asters planted this season and 

 from what I have seen, and from re- 

 ports by the growers, they are in good 

 shape, and will be as fine and as plenti- 

 ful as they were last season. This branch 

 of the business has nass'?d almost entirely 

 into the hands of the Chinese gardeners 

 and they sell them at prices that exclude 

 almost anyone else from going into aster 

 or chrysanthemum growing. 



Various Notes. 



Miss Wollenberg is spending a week's 

 vacation in Los Gatos. 



Podesta & Baldocchi are having quite 

 an improvement made to their store in 

 the shape of new and up-to-date show 

 windows. 



Thos. Cox arrived from his visit to the 

 eastern states this week. He had a very 

 pleasant trip. 



J. T. Shephard, of Oakland, has leased 

 several acres of ground on Prospect 

 avenue with the intention of running it 

 as a nursery as an adjunct to his florist's 

 store. 



W. M. Frodden, supsrintendent of 

 parks of the town of Alimeda, has been 

 authorized by the town trustees to im- 

 port half a million of the Australian 

 lady bird to destroy the cottony cushion 

 scale. G. 



HARDY ANNUALS. 



For a grower who has plenty of water 

 in the summer, there is considerable 

 money to be made in (Cultivating hardy 

 annuals. At this season of the year, 

 when greenhouse roses and carnations, 

 especially the former, are not at their 

 best and when there is always a demand 

 for cheap flowers, it is no trouble to 

 have a succession of showy blooms that 

 will go a long way toward paying ex- 

 penses in the dull season. One of the 

 most satisfactory plants to grow is the 

 Coreopsis lanceolata. This is a perennial, 

 although the best results are obtained 

 from plants that are grown from seed 



100,000 CALLA BULBS. 



READY TO SHIP 



I inch diameter, $25.00 per tOOO 

 l}i ♦• 35.00 ♦* 



3- inch monsters, 95.00 '* 



2 inch diameter, $45.00 per tOOO 

 2}i ** 65.00 ** 



250 at 1000 rate prepaid to your city. 



ASPABAOUS PLUMOBUS XTAVUB - Strong. 2-inch. $20.00 per 1000. 250 at lOOO rate. 

 Express prepaid. V«w Crop OXAHT MIXES PAITST SSSD-3^ oz.. $1.00; oz.; $4.00. 

 Vew Crop IICPOBTED SHASTA DAISY SEED — Trade oacket, 26c ; $5.00 per 

 oz.; (50.00 per lb. Terms cash with order only. 



California Carnation Co., Loomis, Cal. 



Mention The Rerlew whep yon wrifp. 



each year. We plant Ihe seed in Feb- 

 ruary and transplant the young plants in 

 the open ground in April. The soil 

 should be well worked up and plentifully 

 manured and given plenty of water. By 

 keeping it well spaded quantities of big, 

 long-stemmed flowers will be produced 

 until late in the fall. The seed pods 

 should be picked oif every few weeks to 

 get the full benefit of tho plants. Core- 

 opsis bicolor is an annual and is used ex- 

 tensively in decorating, but it is not of 

 sucli merit as the other variety men- 

 tioned. 



Gaillardias are grown best from cut- 

 tings, as the flowers from plants grown 

 from seed seem to deteriorate easily. 

 Select a good double-flowered plant and 

 the cuttings are easily rooted in Feb- 

 ruary. Long stems and good flowers 

 are, as in the case of the coreopsis, only 

 to be had on the youngest stock. I do 

 not find that the gaillardia ^s particularly 

 fond of rich or heavy soil and it can be 

 grown in almost any location. 



Canterbury bells I have found, when 

 well grown, both the purple and white, 

 were quickly bought up by the retailers. 

 They are of easy growth from seed. This 

 is a flower that has been neglected by 

 tho growers, but it is very decorative 

 and a good keeper and the long spikes 

 are an agreeable change from gladioli, 

 a flower that is being grown here in 

 vast quantities. 



There is some demand for double 

 d.ahlias, especially the white varieties. 

 They begin to bloom early in May and 

 until the asters get plentiful several 

 months later, they pay very well. There 

 is not such a demand for stocks the last 

 few years as there was bofore asters and 

 chrysanthemums becanio so popular. For 

 many years they wer* used almost en- 

 tirely as a foundation in funeral designs, 

 but now only around Decoration day or 

 in the winter season are stocks in any 

 demand. If the plants are raised from 

 seed in time to get them planted by the 

 first of October in the open ground, and 

 the season is not too wet afterwards, it is 

 possible to get continuous pickings of 

 this valuable annual throughout Decem- 

 ber and .January, when ihcy come in very 

 handy after the chrysanthemum season is 

 over. 



Candytuft is another flower that at 

 one time was very popular with retailers, 

 but is now grown for Decoration day 

 trade almost exclusively. Sweet sultan, 

 when well grown, is a desirable annual 

 and a good seller. Marigolds are hardly 

 ever seen in the shop windows. Likewise 

 mignonette and daisies have lost their 

 charm and are no longer in demand. 

 Sweet peas, a.sters, chrysanthemums and 

 violets are entirely in the hand's of spe- 

 cialists and the ordinarv grower does not 

 handle them to anv extent, but this has 



Qraucaria Excelsa, 



From "Ai-inch pots, extra strong planta^ 

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



at §16 per 100. 



Qraacaria Imbricata, 



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

 910 per 100 and from 2}i-iDCb pots 

 6 to 8 Inches high. tia.BO per 100. 



F. LU DEN ANN, 



3041 Baker Street, 



San Francisco, Cal. 



[purbank's Shasta 

 ^^ Ke'rTtSi Daisy Seed 



$1.25 per 1000; 89.00 ' 



per ounce; ^-ounce at ounce rate. 



LOOMIS FLORAL CO. 



LOOMIS, CAL. 



Mpntlnn ThP Reriew whpn you write. 



only been the rule for tho past ten years 

 or thereabouts, as it was the custom be- 

 fore that time for every grower to have 

 a patch of each of them. 



Violets always were, and always will 

 be, one of the best paying crops that it 

 is possible to grow. But although the 

 novice always looks on this little flower 

 as an easy proposition io raise, it is one 

 of the most difficult lo handle at a 

 profit. Eternal vigilance is necessary 

 during the whole year to have the plants 

 in such shape that they will be remunera- 

 tive. Tlie right location and soil-mois- 

 turo in tlie summer and not too much 

 water in the winter, natural protection 

 from extremes during tho coldest weather 

 and immunity from red spider and rust 

 in the dry season, are among the many 

 items to consider when ;<bout to go into 

 violet culture. 



Pansy flowers are not used in the 

 stores here, the plant being oonfined en- 

 tirely to garden decoration. Bachellor's 

 buttons are grown by the Italian garden- 

 ers and calla lilies grow wild in every- 

 one's back yard in California. They are 

 in some demand during Ea.ster and Dec- 

 oration week, but the public will not 

 buy them at other times. Both peonies 

 and iris are good paying crops to han- 

 dle. Neither requires any special treat- 

 ment and the flowers are usually in 

 good demand at very fair prices. G. 



Carroll, Ia. — On July 3 a cyclone 

 struck the greenhouses of N. A. Neilsen 

 and carried away about twenty-five feet 

 of the east end of one house. The other 

 damage was slight. 



