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The Weekly Rorists' Review^ 



OeroBiB 27. l«04. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market 



There is no mistake about it, business 

 iB certainly ' ' on the bum. ' ' I have never 

 seen stock move slower than it is doing 

 at present. The growers are having the 

 best of it, as the unusually warm weather, 

 coupled with dry north winds, has made 

 it a hard proposition to keep anything. 

 Chrysanthemums are being offered by 

 the hundreds of thousands and their 

 quality is good, but the prices realized 

 are very, very low. Some extra Boniiaf- 

 fon today sold at $3 per hundred and 

 they were as fine as it is possible to grow 

 them outdoors. Of fancy indoor mums 

 there is quite a quantity being used, 

 but th^ .are flowering at a poor time 

 and the majority of the blooms do not 

 bring over $1 per dozen. Boses are in 

 good supply and, with the exception of 

 Beauty, they are not bringing good 

 prices. There are no good Beauties in 

 market at present and such as we have 

 ■wholesale at from $1 to $1.50 per dozen. 

 Carnations are becoming more plentiful 

 and the quality bids fair to be all right 

 in a few weeks. The majority of the 

 carnations offered at this time are cut 

 from young stock that has just been 

 transplanted indoors and the stems are 

 stiff and short. Valley is selling at the 

 same price quoted several days ago and 

 there is only a fair demand for it. Out- 

 side stock is not very plentiful, as our 

 season for hardy annuals and perennials 

 is fast drawing to a close. Smilax is 

 abundant. 



Flowers, especially mums, are so 

 plentiful that the street venders are sell- 

 ing bunches containing a dozen large, 

 fine blooms for 25 cents. These are not 

 flowers of poor quality, either, but just 

 as good as is being sold in the stores. 

 They are also handling the superabund- 

 ance of carnations in the same way and 

 bunches of very fair flowers can be pur- 

 chased for 10 cents. Violets are not 

 overplentiful and are selling wholesale 

 at 75 cents per dozen bunches. 



Various Notes. 



John Vallance, manager of the plant 

 department of the Cox Seed Co., has re- 

 turned from a several weeks' vacation 

 spent in Southern California. Mr. Val- 

 lance visited the principal nurseries and 

 orchards during his trip and reports a 

 very pleasant outing. 



The San Mateo Floral Society will give 

 an exhibition on October 28 and 29 in 

 the Athletic Club building. 



D. Greuttner, the pioneer nurseryman 

 of Vallejo, has opened a floral establish- 

 ment on Virginia street in that city. 



James Sproule, formerly manager of 

 the Sunset Seed and Plant Co., is in 

 town. G. 



HANDLING SEEDLINGS. 



We are about to pass to that season of 

 the year when great care must be ex- 

 ercised in handling seedlings that are 

 yet in the seed boxes. I refer princi- 

 pally tfl hard wooded stock, such as pit- 

 tosporum, acacia, pepper, palms, gum, 

 cedars, pines and many other young 

 plants. These are grown from seed, 

 planted usually in the late spring or early 

 summer, and by the present month should 



500,000 Rooted Carnation Cottings 



NOW READY = 



S&° These low prices s:ood only tip to December 20th. 



White: • Per 100 ....1000.... 6000 



Queen Louise $1.00 $10 00 S4'>.00 



Flora HUJ 100 10.00 4500 



Alba 1.40 12.50 60.00 



Wolcolt 100 10.00 4500 



Norway 1.00 lO.oo 45.00 



WbiteOloud 1.00 10.00 45.00 



Pink: 



LawBon 1.20 1250 60.00 



Marquis 1.00 1000 45.00 



EncbantrPBS 8.60 8000 



Oenevieve Lord 1.00 10.00 45.00 



MrB.Joost 1.00 1000 4500 



Success 100 10.00 45.00 



Mermaid 100 10.00 45.00 



Ore«Bbrook 100 10.00 4V»0 



McKiDley 1.40 12.60 60.00 



Scarlet: Per 100 ....lOOO.... 6000 



Crane, still ahead |100 $1000 $15.00 



America 1.00 10.00 4500 



P. Palmer 1.00 10.00 45.00 



Estelle 140 1250 60.00 



Crimson : 



Harlowarden 1.40 12 60 60.00 



Gen. Qomez 1.00 10.00 45.00 



Yellow : 



Golden Beauty 1.40 12 CO 60 00 



Eldorado 1.00 10.00 45.00 



VarlcKated : 



Prosperity, fancy 140 12.60 60.00 



Violania, still ahead.... 6.60 60.00 



Marshall Field 140 12.60 6000 



Stella 1.40 12.fi0 60.00 



Armadndy 1.(0 10.00 45t0 



Viola Allen 1.20 11.00 60.00 



Unrooted Pips at half price of Rooted Cuttingi. , 



25 at 100 or 1000 rates; 2500 at 6000 rate. 

 Express prepaid at above prices. Cash or 0. O. D. wltb privlleEe of examining 

 at express office. f 



California Carnation Company, 



Lock Box 103. 



LOOMIS, CXL* 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



be big enough to transplant into flats or 

 thumb pota Some of the kinds I have 

 mentioned we do not handle except in 

 small pots and, as this will not be ad- 

 visable before the early spring, the prob- 

 lem of keeping the young stock from 

 damping off during the next four months 

 is a serious one. 



To begin with, the majority of growers 

 plant the seed too thickly. I have seen 

 1,500 Acacia melonxylen transplanted 

 from a flat 14x20 inchea This may 

 be done in the fall if the weather is dry 

 and plenty of sunshine, but I venture 

 to say not one-tenth of them could be 

 kept alive until January if allowed to 

 remain in the bed. When a grower is 

 not sure as to the germinating power 

 of the seed he is planting it is, of course, 

 well enough to seed the boxes heavily, 

 but when the seed is treah 300 is plenty 

 to plant in the flats generally used here, 

 about 14x20 inches. Even with this num- 

 ber of young trees in a box considerable 

 care must be exercised to escape damp- 

 ing off. They must never be allowed to 

 become thoroughly dry and be careful 

 not to water during spells of bright 

 sunshine if your stock is not shaded. And 

 here is another trouble. Too much shade 

 is fatal to the class of seedlings I am 

 describing. If the watering is properly 

 done, in the early morning or evening, 

 the stock rarely wants any shade at all 

 and will grow much heavier and stronger 

 if plenty of light is always given. 



We have had a very favorable autumn 

 .Tnd there will not be much trouble until 

 the arrival of dark, rainy weather, when 

 it always becomes quite a problem to 

 winter seedlings that have not been trans- 

 planted from seed flats. If the grower 

 has plenty of house room it is well 

 enough to risk potting up acacias, pep- 

 pers, pittosporums and stock of that 

 olass, although there is nothing perma- 

 nent to be gained by it unless the seed- 

 lings are too close together. 



This young stock will have to be kept 

 in the greenhouse until next spring, but 



Qraucaria Excelsa, 



From 2K-inch pots, extra stronr plantik 

 wltb 2 and 8 tier, OtoSinctiea talsh, 

 at tie per 100. 



Qrancaria Imbricata, 



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

 910 per 100 and from 2^incb pota 

 6 to 8 inches hlgb. 918.50 per 100. 



r. LUDEMXNN, 



3041 Biikar StrMt, 



San Francisco* Cal. 



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SPARAGUS 

 PLUMOSUS NANUS. 



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

 Strong 8-in. plants, 8.60 " 80.00 



New Crop Shasta Daisy Seed, 



Trade packet.... 25c; los... 86.00: lib.. .$60.00. 

 Cbarges prepaid. Terms cash or O. O. D. 



Loomis Floral Co., Loomls, Gal. 



with gums, cypress, cedars, pines, arbor- 

 vitffis, etc, it is better to keep them out 

 in the open, as they are perfectly hardy 

 here. Small seedlings easily get too 

 much water when kept outside in the 

 rainy season and those that are only half 

 hardy succumb to a superabundance of 

 moisture as quickly as they do to an 

 excess of frosty^ weather. The majority 

 of seedlings should be transplanted into 

 3 or 4-inch pots when they are about 

 one year old, and after that time they 

 can generally be depended on to look 

 after themselves regarding growing qual- 

 ities. G. 



Wb like the Eeview and expect to 

 take it as long as we are in business. — 

 C. D. Mills, Jacksonville, Pla, 



