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The Weekly Florists^^eview* 



Septembbb 29, 1904. 



PACIFIC COiST. 



CLIMATIC CONDITIONS. 



There is nothing quite as important 

 to the nurseryman in California as the 

 season's rainfall. With us our selling 

 season does not begin until after the 

 first good rain, which generally falls 

 about the middle of November. This 

 rule held good for a great many years, 

 but for the past few seasons we have 

 not had the same climatic conditions as 

 before, and as a consequence considera- 

 ble loss was entailed, both on the buyer 

 and seller. When I say our seasons 

 seem to be changing somewhat, I make 

 a broad assertion, but anyone who has 

 been as vitally interested as are the 

 nurserymen and florists of this locality 

 cannot have failed to note it. This 

 summer, as well as the two previous 

 summers, we hardly saw the sun at all 

 during the months of May, June and 

 July. We had very warm weather dur- 

 ing April, and our hottest days were in 

 the early part of September^ and now 

 that we are toward the end of that 

 month, it is raining heavily, something 

 entirely out of the ordinary, for our 

 rainy season! should not begin for two 

 months (yety^ 



Now the effect on business: Our trade 

 in California usually commences about 

 December 1, and the' bulk of it is over 

 by April 1. After that we have about 

 a month that we devote to the plant- 

 ing of soft stuff and annuals. Last De- 

 cember was dry and cold and early in 

 thf^year it commenced to rain. We* had 

 a 'deluge during the months of Febru- 

 ary aAid March, the time we should be 

 very^u8y shipping orders, but we could 

 not dig and our customers could not 

 plant, and the first thing we knew it 

 was the first of April and before we 

 knew it deciduous stock had leaved 

 out so much that it could no longer be 

 handled. Many of our nurserymen had 

 large orders they were unable to deliver, 

 and considerable financial loss was the 

 result. 



These conditions do not apply to 

 southern or northern California, where 

 the climates are very different, hut in 

 the vicinity of San Francisco several of 

 our late seasons have been "corkers," 

 for at the longest our selling season is 

 not over five months in length, and 

 when we miss a couple of months' sales 

 on account of our weather we have to 

 wait a whole year before things can 

 come our way again. G. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market. 



Wf .iflve had quite a shower this 

 week, something very unusual for this 

 season of the year, but it is a welcome 

 change from the extreme heat of a 

 fortnight ago. Fl*\ftrs ark not plenti- 

 ful. Carnations are in the midst of 

 their resting season and good stock of 

 all kinds is rather scarce. Roses, what 

 few are shown in the windows, are of 

 good color and stem, and the dark, 

 cloudy weather of the last week has 

 had a very beneficial effect on them. 

 Bridesmaids are about the best that are 

 offered, and they wholesale at from 50 

 cents tcr 75 cents per dozen. In whites 

 we have some good Brides that are sell- 



Asparagus Pliimosus Nanus 



2 -inch .* $16.00 per JOOO 



2>^-ioch J8.00 per 1000 



3 -inch. ..: 28.00 per 1000 



CASH. BXPRESSh PREPAID. 860 AT 1000 RATE. 



CALIFORNIA CARNATION CO. 



LOOM IS, CAL. 



Mention The Revlgw when yon write. 



ing at the same price, and a few Kai- 

 serin. Lilium rubrum and album have 

 about disappeared, and longiflorums are 

 being offered in small lots at from $2 

 to $2.50 per dozen. Indoor • crysanthe- 

 mums show the effects of the hot 

 weather. There are only a few out- 

 door miuns in market thus far, hut 

 within the week there will be at^^Kfan- 

 dance. Sweet peas are passing very 

 rapidly. "Valley is plentiful and smilai 

 is becoming longer on the string and 

 of firmer quality. , — ^ 



Business, in spite of the. fact that we 

 have just finished with the Knights 

 Templar conclave and are now in the 

 midst of the Odd Fellows' encampment, 

 is quiet, although we have had more 

 than the usual amount of funeral work 

 during the past two weeks. I think in 

 a week or two we will drop into our 

 regular fall business, however, ^and 

 things in the florist line will appear 

 much brighter. 



Various Notes, f 



The Cox Seed Co. has received <a- large 

 consignment of araucarias and tree 

 ferns from Australia. "^ 



J. T. Sheppard. of Oakland, has 

 placed his store in charge of his daugh- 

 ter and identified himself with an elec- 

 trical company. 



J. Gold stone reports a heavy funeral 

 trade for the j>ast two weeks. 



The Shanahan Floral Co. had consid- 

 erable decorating for the Odd Fellows' 

 parade this week. 



John McLaren, superintendent of 

 Golden Gate park, was called as an ex- 

 pert to determine the value of lands to 

 be purchased by the city of Oakland for 

 a public park. G. 



SHASTA DAISY. 



Will you kindly advise me through 

 your valuable paper as to the culture of 

 the Shasta daisy? If I sow the seed 

 now and keep them growing will they 

 bloom in March or April next, or do 

 they not stand greenhouse culture! 

 Would it pay to give them greenhouse 

 space? J. E. 



As this question comes from Seattle, 

 where the wirrters are so much milder 

 than our north Atlantic slope, I don't 

 feel 80 confident about giving good ad- 

 vice. Yet knowing what little I do 

 about the mild climate of Seattle, wftuld 

 say that with seed sown at once and 

 transplanted into permanent beds, they 

 would thrive during your winter and 

 flower in spring and continue to flower 

 for a great part of the summer. In 

 your favored clime, where roses and 

 many other of Flora's gems grow and 

 flower so freely during a long season, 



Qraocaria Excelsa, 



From 23^-incb pots, extra strong plant!, 

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



at 916 per 100. 



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Qraocaria Imbricata, 



From 2-inch pots, 4 to 6 inches hlRh, 

 •10 per 100 and from 2>^-inch pots 

 6 to 8 Inches high. 918.60 per 100. 



r. LUDENSNN, 



3041 Baker Street. 



^an Francisco, Cal. 



Mention The Ht1«w when yon wrltw. 



SPARAGUS 

 PLUMOSUS NANUS. 



StTonK^>i-iD. plants, $2.00 per 100 ; $20.00 per 1000. 

 Stroi«3-ln. plants. 3.60 " 30.00 



New Crop Shasta Daisy Seed, 



Trade packet.... 25c: loz. ..$5.00; lib.. .$60.00. 

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



Loomis Floral Go., Loomls, Gal. 



Mention 'nil' R«»t1»w wh»ii T"n wiit^ 



REES&COMPERE 



POST OFFICE ADDRESS: 

 1 LONG BEACH. CAL... K. F. D. No. 1. 



S^J^r FREESIA BULBS -%.8. 



Spkcialties— Freeslas. Grand Ductaeas Oxalis, 

 Bermuda Buttercup, Amaryllis Johneonll and 

 Belladonna. Gladioli. OrDlthoralum. Zepbyran- 

 thes Rosea and Candida, Chlldanthus Fragrans, 

 Hybrid Tlgriaias, Chinese Narcissus, etc.. etc. 



Mention The Revlevr when you write. 



the Shasta daisy may not pay to give 

 much glass protection. "With us it is in 

 the winter and spring months in our 

 greenhouses that the Shasta daisy is 

 vdlued. For that purpose we propa- 

 gate in late spring, carry the plants 

 over summer in pots, shifting as required 

 and let them flower during winter and 

 spring. Coming again to your climate, 

 sown now, winter in a cold frame and 

 plant out in early spring. W. *S. 



Ironwood, Mich. — K. Lutey is building 

 a, new greenltouse. 



Ames, I a. — The Iowa Experiment Sta- 

 tion is making a study of the soils of 

 the state for the purpose of defining any 

 unproductive areas. 



Parkersburo, W. Va. — Carl Ober- 

 meyer, son of Gustave Obermeyer, died 

 September 19, aged 10 years, after only 

 a few days' illness with diphtheria. He 

 was a promising lad and the pet of the 

 family. 



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