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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



July 28, 1904. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



ARAUCARIAS. 



The araucaria family furnishes us 

 with some of the most beautiful speci- 

 men trees we have on this coast. They 

 are all noted for their symmetricaJ ap- 

 pearance and as an avenue tree they have 

 no equals. Araucaria excelsa, A. Bid- 

 willi, A. Cunninghami, A. Cooki, A. 

 BraziUensis and A. imbricata are per- 

 fectly hardy in this latitude. They are 

 all easily grown from seed, if the seed 

 be fresh, for, unlike many of the large 

 conifers, it is not a good keeper. When 

 I stated that as a family they are hardy 

 I should add that A. excelsa, A. Cooki 

 and A. Cunninghami will not stand over 

 a few degrees of frost until they are 

 established several years in the open 

 ground. I have lost them in extra cold 

 winters even when they had attained five 

 or six feet in height Consequently it 

 is a good plan to cover up these varieties 

 during the coldest weather. Araucaria 

 Bidwilli is hardy but does not like a 

 superabundance of moisture during the 

 rainy season, and if it is planted in 

 such a location that the drainage is not 

 ample it has a habit of browning badly 

 on the foliaga 



Araulcaj-ia imbricata is perfectly 

 hardy and is considered the finest 

 variety. It grows here to a height of 

 fifty feet and specimen plants are always 

 in good demand at big prices. A fifteen- 

 foot tree easily brings $150 and very 

 few of them are offered at any price. 

 They are of alow growth until they 

 get fairly well grown, when they stretch 

 out much faster in proportion than when 

 they are small. They are easily grown 

 from seed and also from cuttings. With 

 the latter it takes them usually six 

 numths to root well, but they quickly 

 make a vigorous plant when raised thia 

 way. 



Araucaria excelsa, ' if a little hardier, 

 would be an ideal lawn tree. Araucaria 

 Brazilienais is a beautiful tree and of 

 fairly rapid growth. It is very suscepti- 

 ble to water at the root and must be 

 planted in a situation where the drainage 

 is good. It is easily grown from cut- 

 tings and makes a vigorous plant in 

 much less time than one that is grown 

 from seed. Araucaria Cooki makes a 

 very large and showy specimen and is 

 much finer foliage than the variety I 

 have just spoken of. It is not extensive- 

 ly grown here in recent years, seed being 

 very difficult to obtain. 



Seed of all the araucaria family is 

 obtained principally from Australia, and 

 unless it is shipped perfectly fresh it 

 is usually of no account when it gets 

 here. Many seasons it is impossible to 

 procure some sorts, and although we 

 have had fair success the past few years, 

 I do not think there is any danger of 

 these beautiful evergreens becoming too 

 plentiful. G. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market 



We are having continued cool weather 

 and, in fact, the entire coast is having 

 an unusual summer. On Friday morn- 

 ing we were treated to a small shower, 

 the first that has fallen in this month in 

 a great many years. I think this favors 

 the florists considerably, as well as the 

 growers, as reports from the various 

 Bxamaaar resorts show that the people 



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are slowly coming back to town, the 

 weather alon^ the seashore and in the 

 mountains being too cold to be enjoya- 

 ble. It is much more satisfactory for 

 the retailers to handle stock in such 

 weather as we have' had for the past 

 two months than in the kind we ex- 

 pect at this season. Cut flowers keep 

 fuUy as long now as they do at any time 

 of the year, and the ^(rowers are able 

 to cut flowers of better color and sub- 

 stance than they usually do in June, 

 July and August. Lilium album a<nd 

 rubrum have made their appearance and 

 their advent is always welcomed by the 

 retailers. They are splendid (keepers, 

 eagerly bought by the public, and make 

 a good showing in the windows, some- 

 thing we have sorely needed for some 

 time. They are selling wholesale at 

 $2.50 per dozen, Boses are scarce and 

 are in good demand. Many of the grow- 

 ers are drying out their houses. Carna- 

 tions are plentiful again and of good 

 quality. Some of our largest growers 

 are cutting quantities of Enchantress at 

 present. Asters are coming in slowly. 

 I think we will have a good succession of 

 flowers for several months. Sweet peas 

 are still very plentiful. Sweet sultan is 

 being brought in by several growers and 

 sells readily at from 75 cents to $1 per 

 hundred stems. Golden coreopsis is 

 another article that is in good demand 

 and sells at 75 cents per dozen bunches. 

 Double white dahlias, are very handy to 

 have to use in funeral work. Smilax is 

 in season, but the strings are short and 

 soft. Some very good outside Cecil 

 Brunner rosee are coming in. This rose 

 does very well in the summer. It wants 

 an abundance of moisture and the flow- 

 ers should be kept picked off to get the 

 best results. 



Variotis Notes. 



H. Batfisch, the carnation grower, of 

 Berkeley, is on a trip to Alaska. 



B. Flossmann has been elected presi- 

 dent and Geo. Kullmer vice-president of 

 the Society Hortensia of Oakland. 



Wnu Hoogs, of Sanborn's Floral 

 Depot, Oakland, is on a month's vaca- 

 tion. 



The Cox Seed Company is remodel- 

 ing its grounds at Glon Echo. They 

 have just finished building a shade house 

 50x150 feet. John Vallance is the man- 

 ager of this portion of the business. 



Domoto Bros, have just received a 

 large consignment of cycas stems from 

 Japan. 



The Japanese gardeners who have 

 leased the greenhouses of E. Tumbull, 

 at Fruitvale, are erecting another car- 

 nation house. 



W. W. Saunders left on a business 

 trip to Fresno on Sunday. G. 



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Qraacaria Imbricata, 



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 910 per 100 and from 2>^-incb pots 

 6 to 8 inches bigb, VIS. 60 per 100. 



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DETROIT. 



Various Notes. 



On last Wednesday, July 20, the an- 

 nual outing and picnic of the Detroit 

 Florists' Club was held at Bois Blanc 

 park, and it was the largest in point of 

 attendance of any, there being over 100 

 present, and a most beautiful day. The 

 committee in charge had prepared an 

 excellent program. There was but one 

 thing that marred the enjoyment of the 

 occasion and that was the absence of the 

 members who reside in Mt. Clemens. But 

 one of them can be excused, for Jas. 

 Taylor is building himself a house in 

 which to entertain his friends and care 

 for his large family of children. 



Thete has been a general complaint 

 about Detroit for some tim» of the 

 lack of rain, several of the florists in 

 the suburbs being entirely without 

 water, but on Thimdiy a heavy rain 

 helped out and cooled off the atmos- 

 phere. 



The delegation to St. Louis will be a 

 light one in number, but heavy in weight, 

 as it will consist of President Breit- 

 meyer, Wm. Dilger, J. F. Sullivan and 

 son and possibly on© or two others, all 

 heavyweights, who can afford to lose 

 some flesh. The thin ones, all being 

 afraid of the heat in St. Louis, have 

 decided not to go. 



There is not much business for the 

 grower just now, but there is plenty of 

 work in planting, repairing, etc. Some 

 carnations are being housed, Backham 

 having finished last week, with a very 

 fine lot of plants. Rag. 



