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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Septembeb 1, 1904. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



VANCOUVER, a C 



The Vancouver Floral Co. is adding to 

 its glass and is installing a new boiler. 

 Their carnations and chrysanthemums 

 are looking good. With Watkins and 

 Pont stock is also in fine shape. 



On August 29 Jas. Pont, E, Withers, 

 manager of the Vancouver Floral Co., 

 E. Kinnard, Ed Lunnediffe, H. H. Page 

 and M. J. Henry started on one of their 

 periodical trips to the woods, open for 

 "fur, fin or feathers." They generally 

 have a pretty fair commissary depart- 

 ment and keep open house for all in the 

 craft. 



SAN FRANdSCX). 



The Market. 



Business is about at a standstill. There 

 has been very little wedding or funeral 

 work during the past week and stock of 

 all kinds has accumulated on the retail- 

 ers' hands. Asters are very plentiful 

 and very cheap and of good quality. A 

 few chrysanthemums are seen, but they 

 will not be plentiful until next month. 

 Eoses are scarce and they are the only 

 flowers that are in demand. The prices 

 remain the same as I quoted last week 

 and carnation rates have not changed. 

 Amaryllis is scarcer and sweet peas are 

 on the wane. Lilium album and rubrum 

 are not as plentiful as they were and 

 are in very fair demand. Valley is plen- 

 tiful enough to fill all requirements. 

 Tuberoses are offered in quantity. Out- 

 door stuff, except dahlias, moves very 

 slowly and the bulk of it is passing rap- 

 idly out of season. 



Various Notes. 



L. Wickstrom will move his store about 

 September 1 to 1057 Market street, near 

 the Central theater. It is a much lar- 

 ger and finer store and m a much bet- 

 ter locality for business. 



J. T. Thorsted, of Fruitvale, has fin- 

 ished erecting two carnation houses on 

 his new grounds situated about a half 

 mile north of his present location. Tne 

 houses are 25x200 feet and he will plant 

 them principally to Estelle, Enchantress, 

 Queen Louise and Lawson. 



Malcolm Lamond, head gardener for 

 the city of Oakland, has received for the 

 town conserA-atories a large consignment 

 of tropical and hardy palms irom Flor- 

 ida and also a fine collection of crotons. 



Thomas E. Barlow, one of the best 

 known horticulturists in the northern 

 part of this state, died at Sebastopol, 

 August 23. 



H. Plath is on an extended eastern 

 trip. G. 



ACAOAS. 



The acacias, although not natives of 

 this coast, give us some of our most val- 

 uable adjuncts to our own shrubbery. 

 Some of them have proven to be without 

 equals when an evergreen sidewalk or 

 lawn tree is desired. As this is the sea- 

 son of the year when the ripe seed can 

 be gathered, it is also the best time for 

 planting it, and a few suggestions as to 

 varieties that are particularly valuable, 

 as well as a few hints on their growing, 

 are in order. 



A very good sample is A. mollissima. 

 This grows to a height of fifty feet, has 

 light fern-like foliage and in the spring- 



time is literally covered with masses of 

 golden yellow blooms. These fragrant 

 flowers are sold in great quantities on 

 the street corners during their season. 

 The seed of this variety should be soaked 

 about twenty-four hours before planting, 

 as this makes easily a difference of three 

 months in its germinating properties. 

 Plant in flats and keep lightly shaded for 

 a couple of months, when the young 

 plants will have attained a height of a 

 couple of inches. They can then be 

 placed in the open, but if the weather 

 gets too frosty or too wet they should 

 be brought under cover. If the seed has 

 not been sown too thickly, in which caser 

 it is hard to keep them from damping 

 off, they will be ready to plant in thumb 

 pots early in March. They should be 

 kept inside for a month or so, until they 

 become established, and auout a year 

 from the time the seed was planted they 

 will have attained the height of twelve 

 inches, when they are ready to be shift- 

 ed into 4-inch pots. They will stand 

 from five to six feet high the following 

 spring, when they will be ready for sale. 

 A six-foot tree looks better, of course, 

 if transplanted into a 6-inch pot, but 

 there is no trouble in handling this vari- 

 ety in a smaller sized pot. 



The next variety of acacia in value is 

 the well known blackwood, A. melanoxy- 

 lon. This is a shade easier to handle 

 than the variety I have previously de- 

 scribed and is one of the best for side- 

 walk planting. It is a more erect grower 

 and a very vigorous tree. They require 

 the same treatment from seed as the A. 

 mollissima, but will make a heavier tree 

 in a shorter time. Do not let the plants 

 stand too long in one place without lift- 

 ing them up occasionally, for otherwise 

 they are bound to root through and the 

 acacia family do not recover easily when 

 the roots are broken. 



One of the most beautiful varieties we 

 have here is A. linearis. This is inclined 

 to spiead more after the fashion of the 

 willow. They do not seed freely. I put 

 a couple of large plants in 8-inch pots 

 in the greenhouse and cut them down to 

 within five feet from the soil. They made 

 a great quantity of young shoots and I 

 had no difficulty in rooting them in boxes 

 of sand. This sort takes about twice as 

 long to make a tree large enough to be 

 salable, but it is always in demand at 

 very good prices. The A. floribunda is 

 of dwarfish growth and is more suitable 

 for lawn planting than for sidewalk. It 

 is a fairly fast grower and blooms 

 throughout the year. It is easily grown 

 from seed. A. latifolia grows fairly 

 fast, but I do not find it as satisfactory 

 a sort to grow as A. melanoxylon. A. 

 pycnantha is the golden wattle of Aus- 

 tralia and is of rapid growth. A. prav- 

 issima is a variety that is peculiar in 

 that it has thorny foliage. It is a J'ast 

 grower and for a thick hedge has few 

 equals. It grows easily from seed and 

 is very hardy. A. dealbata, the silver 

 wattle, is a very striking tree that is 

 covered in spring with feathery blossoms 

 of a beautiful golden yellow. It is not 

 so hardy as some of the other sorts, but 

 it is a valuable tree. 



There are a great manv other kinds. 



C. 



Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. — W. E. F. 

 Weber has added 1,000 feet of glass to 

 his place this summer and. having every- 

 thing in good shape for fall, is visiting 

 at Belleville, 111., and taking in the 

 World's Fair at St. Ix)uis. 



MANCHESTER, MASS. 



The annual summer show of the North 

 Shore Horticultural Society took place 

 on August 25 and proved the finest the 

 society had ever held. There were prizes 

 offered in no less than 108 regular class- 

 es, in addition to a number of specials. 

 For best display of flowers arranged for 

 effect, H. L. Higginson, Joseph Clark, 

 gardener, won the silver medal; Mrs. E. 

 C. Hooper, William Swan, gardener, be- 

 ing second. The latter showed the best 

 twenty plants arranged for effect. Among 

 the other successful exhibitors were Miss 



A. G. Thayer, Mrs. W. D. Denegre, W. 



B. Walker, Mrs. S. V. E. Crosby, Philip 

 Dexter, F. Jackson, A. Jackson, Mrs. M. 

 B. Mason, Mrs. C. H. Tweed, Mrs. S. P. 

 Blake, W. Scott Fitz, Mrs. G. E. Cabot, 

 Mrs. G. McLane, Mrs. T. J. Coolidge, 

 Mrs. Scott Annable and N. J. Murray. 

 In the way of miscellaneous exhibits Blue 

 Hill Nurseries had a fine collection of 

 tritomas, Southworth Bros., a collection 

 of phlox, and E. & J. Farquhar their new 

 Christmas lily, which received a first- 

 class certificate. The show was a most 

 creditable one in every way, 



W. N. Craig. 



Milwaukee, Wis. — Wm. Geuder, em- 

 ployed by the C. C. Pollworth Co., was 

 seriously injured by being thrown from 

 his wagon by a runaway horse on August 

 21. 



100,000 EXTRA STRONG 



Asparagus 

 Plttmosus Nanus 



2-INCH, $20.00 PER 1,000 



Oaah, Bkpr«as Prepaid; 

 ta.BO at 1,000 Bat*. 



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Qraucaria Excelsa, 



From 2M-inch pots, extra strong: plantl. 

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Qraacaria Imbricata, 



From 2-lDCh pots, 4 to 6 inches hiKh, 

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SPARAGUS 

 PLUMOSUS NANUS. 



From flats, $1.76 per 100 ; $15.00 per 1000. 

 Strong 2-in. plants. 2.00 '" 20.00 



New Crop Shasta Daisy Seed, 



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 Charges prepaid. Terms cash or G. O. D. 



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