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ThcWcckly Florists* Review. 



AcouST 11, 1904. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



SAN FRANOSCX). 



The Market. 



The aster season is at hand and, 

 although the flowers axe not yet in their 

 greatest profusion, they are coming into 

 town in goodly quantities. They are 

 reasonably cheap, but will be lower in 

 price in the course of a week or so. Now 

 that this flower has come to remain a few 

 weeks the strain is taken off the demand 

 for carnations and other flowers and 

 they have dropped somewhat in price. 

 Many of the growers are making arrange- 

 ments to replant their houses and there is 

 no profusion of either roses or pinks. Of 

 the former the price remains about the 

 same as quoted last week, with only a 

 fair amount of stock offered. Outdoor 

 stuff of all kinds is plentiful, although 

 sweet peas are beginning to be shorter in 

 the stem. Lilium album and rubrum are 

 in good demand and a few longiflorums 

 are seen. Valley is plentiful and is sell- 

 ing at about $5 per hundred. Business is 

 only fair. We have had some wedding 

 decorating and a little spurt of funeral 

 work during the past week. 



Various Notes. 



Last week the street corner sellers of 

 flowers won another point in the fight 

 commenced by Frank 8hibeley in behalf 

 of the Retail Florists ' Association to put 

 the basket venders out of business. Judge 

 Sloss refused to grant the injunction 

 asked by the florists to prevent the city 

 authorities from granting permits to the 

 street flower sellers. In the application 

 for an injunction the retailers declare 

 that the basket men are nuisances and 

 that unless the injunction against them 

 is granted, individual arrests will be 

 made through the police department, 



John Vallance, of the Cox Seed Com- 

 pany, has just returned from a two 

 weeks' vacation spent at his ranch at 

 , Idvermore. 



Capt. Emil Kellner, for fourteen years 

 head gardener at the State University at 

 Berkeley, died at the Fabiola Hospital 

 on Tuesday of last week. He was a vet- 

 eran of the civil war and well known to 

 the gardening fraternity on this coast. 



Professor Hugo De Vries, the Dutch 

 botanist is at present touring California 

 and studying our methods regarding hor- 

 ticulture and agriculture. He spent a 

 portion of this week inspecting the Morse 

 seed farms near San Jose. 



A farewell banquet is to be given 

 during the coming week at the Palace 

 Hotel in honor of Alexander Craw, lat 

 quarantine officer for the horticultural 

 commissioners, prior to his departure for 

 the Hawaiian Islands. 



A. Galloway, of Fruitvale, is cutting 

 some extra fine Estelle and Lawson car- 

 nations at present. Q. 



THE ROOTS OF SHADE TEEfS. 



An interesting case is being fought at 

 present in the Alameda county courts, be- 

 tween the town of Oakland and some of 

 the property owners who have had shade 

 trees planted in front of their places by 

 the municipality. One of the disgruntled 

 parties cut down several of the trees in 

 front of his premises, for which he was 

 promptly arrested. He maintained that 

 the trees were a nuisance in that they 

 destroyed cement sidewalks and choked 



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Uentlon Tta« R«Tiew when yon writ*. 



up sewers. The variety of tree in this 

 particular instance was the white elm. 



The white elm I have not found to be 

 harmful, either from its roots following 

 up sources of moisture or from overturn- 

 ing cement sidewalks. Under ordinary 

 conditions it does not root deeply, nor is 

 it inclined to sucker badly unless the tree 

 has been abused through too violent 

 pruning or from an accidental loss of too 

 many branches. It is not as liable to 

 break through a sidewalk as is the cork- 

 bark elm, but there should be no difficulty 

 with either of them if the suckers that 

 come up through the ground are kept cut 

 down for the first couple of years. After 

 that, unless the tree gets badly broken, 

 there will be no trouble. 



People here have become prejudiced 

 against large trees in general on account 

 of the tendency the eucaJyptus has of 

 foUowing for long distances a few drops 

 of water and growing in through the 

 minute holes in a sewer pipe. In a 

 couple of years they completely fill it and 

 destroy its usefulness. The eucalyptus 

 was planted along sidewalks here in 

 great quantities years ago, and on ac- 

 count of its bad actions with the town 

 sewers they are no longer planted in this 

 immediate vicinity. We are planting 

 great quantities of white maple and, 

 although this family of trees roots well 

 down in the soil, I have seen no ill effects 

 in drain pipes and no suckering. Poplars 

 do not root as deeply as the maple and 

 will not harbor any root-shoots unless the 

 tree itself is badly handled. Locusts 

 have long roots and are fond of water, 

 hut r have seen no instances where they 

 have damaged sewers. 



In evergreen trees, Acacia melonxylon 

 sends its roots well dowTi in the soil and 

 is a gross feeder, which fact is true of all 

 the acacia family. The Monterey cypress 

 and pine do not root deeply and never 

 sucker, but they spread their fibrous roots 

 well over the surface of the surrounding 

 country in their search for moisture. The 

 sycamore, ash, black walnut, linden, red 

 maple, tulip poplar, birch, horse chestnut 

 or mulberry are not destructive to sewer 

 system, which fact I have proven by hav- 

 ing them growing within twenty-five feet 

 of a drain pipe that has been laid for 

 upwards of twenty years, and is still in 

 perfect working order. Of course, we 

 have a long, dry summer in California, 

 and all trees naturally hunt for moisture, 

 but excepting with the eucalyptus family 

 I have had no trouble. Eegarding suck- 

 ering, if any shoots that may appear are 

 cut off at the same time the weeds are 

 hoed out they never make their appear- 

 ance after the second year, providing, of 

 course, the ttee is not mutilated so much 

 that it makes aa effort to keep growing 

 by suckering from the ground. G. 



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Stronsr, low bndded, 

 fleld-grown plants, Jnst the 

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$15.00 per )00; $125.00 per 1000 



F. O. B. here. Cash with order. 



WEST BERKELEY, 

 CALIFORNIA. 



E. GILL, 



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San Francisco, Cat. 



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LOOK FOR 



LION & WERTHEIMER'S 

 gibbon Exhibit 



AT TKB COWEHTZOV. 



JoLiET, III. — Joseph Labo is building 

 a fine new house, 30x200. 



Toledo, O.— Thomas Magee, of the 

 Scottwood Greenhouses, says the past 

 season was a very good one and he ex- 

 pects a big business as soon aa trade 

 gets under way again. 



