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1032 



The Weekly Florists* Review* 



October IS, 1904; 



PACIFIC COAST. 



Elsewhere in this issue will be found 

 an account of the two establishments of 

 Clarke Bros., of Portland, Ore., and 

 Fruitvale, Cal., with illustrations show- 

 ing both ranges. 



LILIUM LONGIFLORUM. 



The first bulbs of the season of L. 

 longiflorum arrived in San Francisco the 

 last week in September. The importers 

 have been very anxious to dispose of 

 them at $28 per thousand. Some of the 

 growers who purchased heavily of these 

 early imported bulbs during the laat 

 two seasons have been very slow this year 

 to place their orders. The bulbs have not 

 by any means come up to expectations 

 and unless the coming season shows a 

 larger percentage of sound flowering 

 shoots the importers will have to look 

 to other fields in which to dispose of 

 their goods. The main trouble lies with 

 the growers themselves. Knowing that 

 the longiflorum does not force as easily 

 or quickly as does L. Harrisii, they have 

 been in a great hurry to get the bulbs 

 planted and by their constant requests 

 for early stock the Japanese growers 

 have got into the habit of digging and 

 shipping unripe bulbs to fill the demand. 

 I think this trouble will right itself in a 

 season or two and growers will become 

 content to wait until the bulbs are in 

 proper condition to handle. 



Although the longiflorum does not 

 force as easily as does the other variety, 

 it is much hardier and will stand much 

 more neglect. In planting now for Eas- 

 ter flowering there is no necessity for 

 bringing the bulbs into the heat until 

 early in the winter. They are easily 

 handled in flats, planting about ten bulbs 

 in a box about twelve inches wide, twenty 

 inches long and five inches deep. In pots 

 I force them in 6-inch and 7-inch sizes. 

 I had a batch in boxes about three weeks 

 before Easter last year and I undertook 

 to transplant them into pots for retailing 

 for church decoration. I found they 

 conld be handled all right provided they 

 were placed on the floor of the green- 

 house and watered and shaded heavily for 

 about a week. In fact, it was impossible 

 to tell the difference from the foliage as 

 to whether they had grown in the pots or 

 whether they were recently transplanted 

 in them. I found this a good plan 

 where the bulbe had flowered unevenly, 

 as they often do, even in pots, and it is 

 no trouble to get twice the price for an 

 Easter lily in a pot that you obtain for 

 the cut stem. G. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market 



The weather has turned cooler again. 

 Business is only fair, very little doing ex- 

 cept funeral work. For the first time 

 in a month we are able to show a fair sup- 

 ply ^ of flowers. Chrysanthemums are 

 coming in large quantities. Carnations 

 are daily more plentiful, 9 good many 

 cut from young plants recently housed. 

 Stems are short on such flowers, although 

 blooms are good. Such varieties as Law- 

 Bon, Enchantress, Bstelle and Prosperity 

 are selling at 40 cents per dozen. Flora 

 Hill, Crocker, Schwerin and Triumph sell 

 at three dozen for a dollar. There are 



100,000 Carnation Rooted Cut&igs 



NOW READY. 



Per 100 Per MOD 



Lawson. pink $1.00 $10.00 



Mrs. JooBt. pink. 1.00 10.00 



Queen Louise, white 1 00 10.00 



Wolcott. white 1.00 10.00 



G. H . Crane, scarlet 1.00 10.00 



Estelle, scarlet 1.00 10.00 



Prosperity, fancy 1.00 10.00 



PerlOO Per 1000 



Golden Beauty, yellow $1.00 $10.00 



Harlowarden, crimson 1.00 10.00 



Norway, white 1.00 10.00 



White Cloud, white 1.00 10.00 



Flora Hill, wbit« 1.00 10.00 



Gtenevieve Lord, light pink ... 1.00 10.00 



Viola Allen, variegated 1.00 10.00 



CASH or CO. D., with privilege of exomiaiag. 



Expreu prepaid at above prices. 



California Carnation Co., Loomis, Cal. 



Mention The Berlew when job write. 



quantities of short-stemmed Brides and 

 Maids that do not bring more than $1.50 

 per hundred. There is a good demand 

 for long-stemmed roses and few are to 

 be seen. American Beauties fare about 

 the worst of any, the flowers being very 

 flat and stubby. This is caused by the 

 heat of several weeks ago. The chrysan- 

 themum is the florists' friend at this 

 time of the year, and there is nothing 

 at any season that can compare with it 

 as a general utility flower. We are pay- 

 ing the growers from 15 cents to 35 cents 

 a dozen for outdoor blooms and they re- 

 tail readily at three times those prices. 

 The inside mums are selling at from $1 

 to $2 per dozen. The early indoor blooms 

 proved remunerative enough to the grow- 

 ers of mums and the extra late will sell 

 well after the outside blooms are gone. 



Various Notes. 



Clarke Bros., of Portland, Ore., and 

 Fruitvale, Cal., are erecting another large 

 greenhouse at the latter place. 



John Campiano has purchased the in- 

 terest of his partner, N. Rolleri, in the 

 Oakland Floral Company. 



W. W. Hoogs, father of William 

 Hoogs, of Sanborn's Floral Depot, Oak- 

 land, was buried last Saturday. Mr. 

 Hoogs has the sympathies of his many 

 friends in the craft. 



W. W. Saunders, of Fresno, Cal., is in 

 town on a few days' visit. G, 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Department of Plant Registration. 



Conard & Jones Co., West Grove, Pa., 

 submits for registration the following 

 named new cannas: Improved Black 

 Beauty; has a good flower and more 

 luxuriant growth than Black Beauty; 

 Chameleon, flowers golden orange over- 

 laid wth stippled stripes of Indian red, 

 later showing self yellow and pink, cen- 

 tral petal red, height five feet; Indiana, 

 flowers golden orange marked and 

 striped red, single blooms often seven 

 inches across, spikes five to six feet 

 high, foliage green edged brown, three 

 to four feet high ; - Wyoming, flowers 

 orange, seven to seven and one-half 

 inches across, foliage purple, height six 

 to seven feet; Chappaqua, flowers 

 scarlet blotched and spotted maroon, 

 spikes four to five feet high, leaves broad, 

 greenish bronze; Juniata, flowers chrome 

 yellow, center tinged flesh pink, foliage 

 dark green marked and veined deep 

 bronze, four to five feet high. 



Vaughan's Seed Store, Chicago, Bub- 

 mits for registration Dahlia Sylvia; 

 color pink. Wm. J. Stewart, Secy. 



Qrancaria Excelsa, 



From 2M-incb pots, extra strons; plantii 

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



St 916 per 100. 



Qraocaria Imbricata, 



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

 •10 per 100 and from 2>i-inch pots 

 6 to 8 inches high, 912.50 per 100. 



r. LUDEMIINN, 



3041 Baker Streot, 



San Francisco, Cal. 



M«ntloo n. Bartow wbes 70a write. 



^ostoo Ferns 



Nice, clean stock, from 2Mr-inch pots, 

 t5.00 per 100: 8-inch pots, $8.00 per 100. 



Cut from the bench, saitable for 4inch. ft-inch, 

 6-inch poU. at $16.00, 920.00 and $25.00 per 100. 



Araucaria Excelsa, 



5-in. pots. 8 to 4 tiers, 50c each or $6.00 perdoz. 



Ocean Park Floral Co. 



' President. ' OCBill PdrKp u3li 



Mention The ReTJew when yon write. 



SPARAGUS 

 PLUMOSUS NANUS. 



Strong 2^-in. plants, $2.00 per 100 ; $20.00 per 1000. 

 Strong 8-in. plants, 8JS0 " 80.00 



New Crop Shasta Daisy Seed, 



Trade packet.... 25c; los...$6.00: lib.. .$60.00. 

 Charges prepaid. Terms cash or 0. O. D. 



Loomis Floral Co., Loomls, Cal. 



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Mention Tlie B«rl«w when yon write. 



REES&COMPERE 



POST OVFICK ADDBKBS: 



LONG BEACH, CAL., B. F. D. No. 1. 



S^^'^ir FREESIA BULBS *-%.«. 



SawciALTiKS— Freesias, Grand Duchess Oxalis, 

 Bermuda Buttercup, Amaryllis Johnsonli and 

 BelladODDa. Gladioli. Omithoiralum, Zepbyran- 

 thea RoBea and Candida, Chlldanthus Fragrans, 

 Hybrid Tlgridlas, Chinese Narcissus, etc., etc. 

 Mention The Berlew when jvn write. 



El Paso, Tzx. — I. A. Barnes says he 

 is going out of business. 



West Duluth, Minn. — Mrs. J. H. 

 Bowne is going out of business at the 

 West Duluth greenhouses. 



