Apbil 13, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* i265 



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To close out 75,000 Fresh Seed. $ 



$2.00 per 1000, or $1.60 per 1000 in lots of 5000 or more. f 



WRITE US FOR PRICES ON 



ALL CALIFORNL\ BULBS. 



I REES & COMPERE, r dno i. Long Beach, Cal. | 



^ Mention The ReTlew when yon write. _^_ 



told me it was all right, I have taken 

 good care of it but it qiust have been 

 sick at the time, as it never seemed to 

 look healthy after I took it home. ' ' 



If the florist should mildly remonstrate 

 with her and call her attention to the 

 fact that probably she did not remember 

 to water it regularly, or it stood in a 

 jardiniere of water without any drain- 

 age, or it was kept completely away from 

 air and sunlight, or there was too much 

 gas in the room, or any other cause for 

 its sickly appearance, which in many 

 cases is very easy to discover, he general- 

 ly gets himself in trouble, as the lady in- 

 variably tells him she took entire care 

 of the plant herself and observed all the 

 rules regarding its good health. The up- 

 shot of the entire proposition is that tne 

 poor florist keeps the plant and the lady 

 tells him she will call in a couple of 

 weeks and take the rejuvenated specimen 

 home. 



Generally with a muttered curse the 

 poor florist takes the freak plant and 

 puts it in his greenhouse and notes the 

 fact that he already has several dozen 

 in various degrees of decrepitude left 

 there by his many customers for their 

 recuscitation : 



Kentia palms with only a part of a 

 leaf left, aspidistras well scissored at 

 the ends, latanias much the worse for 

 abuse, and various varieties of ferns the 

 fronds of which are noticeable by their 

 absence. All of these have small tags in 

 the pots denoting from whom they were 

 received and generally the date as well. 



In a couple of weeks my lady tele- 

 phones and asks the florist to send up 

 her plants, as she wants to use them for 

 an afternoon tea and as they have been 

 there several weeks already they must be 

 almost as good as when she first re- 

 ceived them. If she be a good customer 

 the florist generally sends her good plants 

 to replace the others and the next day 

 she often telephones and thanks him for 

 being such a clever plantsman and fur- 

 ther wounds his sensitive feelings by tell- 

 ing him that she knew that all that was 

 necessary to have the plants revived 

 thoroughly was to leave them for a few 

 days with a man who thoroughly under- 

 stood his business. 



One of the larger retailers in San 

 Francisco who has a good trade among 

 our wealthy ladies, has a small green- 

 house set aside over the door of which 

 he has a sign on which is painted the 

 word "Hospital," It is almost entirely 

 filled with all sorts of mistreated and 

 maltreated plant life. He makes a small 

 charge for keeping the plants and finds 



Carnation Cuttings 



NOW READY. 



Per 100 Per 1000 



Queen Louise, wblte tl.OO 18.00 



Flora HiU. white 1.00 8.00 



Gov, Wolcott, white 1.00 8.00 



White Oloud. white 1.00 8.00 



Per 100 PerlOOO 



Lawion, pink $1.00 $10.00 



Mn. Joost, pink 1.00 8.00 



America, scarlet 1.00 8.00 



Prosperity, varierated 1.00 10.00 



Mnrootsd Cutting* at ana-lialf prie* of Reotad Cattlnga. 



Express prepaid at above prices. Cash or 0. O. D. with 

 privilege of examining at express office. 



lOO.OOO PAVBY P&AVTS AT 96.00 PBB lOOO. 



LOOMIS CARNATION CO. Lock Box 115, Loomis, Cal. 



Mention The ReTlew when you write. 



that it pays him very well. The ladies 

 to whom the various articles belong often 

 ask to see their plants and it is a good 

 object lesson for them and calls to their 

 attention the fact that it is easier to put 

 a plant out of commission in two weeks 

 than it is to restore it to anything like 

 its former beauty in two years. G, 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market 



Notwithstanding we are yet in the 

 midst of the Lenten season business con- 

 tinues very fair, although not quite as 

 brisk as it was last week. Flowers of 

 all kinds have become a shade more plen- 

 tiful, although the price remains sta- 

 tionary, as it undoubtedly will for a 

 couple of weeks more. I do not think 

 there will be any scarcity of Easter lilies 

 this year, but the majority of the benches 

 I have seen appear to be coming rather 

 weak and short and as a consequence we 

 are going to have a great amount of sec- 

 ond quality flowers. Valley is in good 

 supply but all other kinds of bulbous 

 stock is out of season. Outside flow- 

 ers are becoming more plentiful daily 

 and before long will be a factor in the 

 business. 



Various Notes. 



Domoto Bros, have handled a large 

 quantity of tree peony flowers this sea- 

 son. 



Elaborate preparations are being made 

 to make the approaching flower show of 

 the Menlo Park Horticultural Society the 

 greatest in the history of the organiza- 

 tion. It will open on May 5, Among 

 the many exhibitors will be Sydney 

 Clack, M, Lynch, P. C. Meyer, Jas, L, 

 Flood, Timothy Hopkins, Joseph A. 



A Grand New Rose, Climbine> 



CAROLINE TESTOUT 



Field-KTown, strong:, 8 to 4 feet high. 80c each; 

 $8.00 per 12; $25.00 per 100. Also Olimbins 



Cecil Brunner 



Field-870wn. strong, 3 to 4 feet high, 15c each; 

 $1.60 per 12: $12.00 per 100. 



Araucaria Excelsa 



From 2M-inch pots, extra strong plants, with 2 

 and 8 tiers, 6 to 8 inches high, at $16 per 100. 



r. LUDENANN, 



3041 Baker St., San Francisco, Cal. 



LOOMIS FLORAL CO. 



LOOMIS, OAIi. 



Specialties: CARNATIONS, 



Giant Pansies, Shasta Daisies 

 ASPARgCUS. 



Donohue, Edgar Mills and John T. Doyle. 



P. J, Keller, of Alameda county, will 

 contest the right of the board of super- 

 visors' authority in removing him from 

 the position of horticultural inspector. 



A visit to the houses of Clarke Bros., at 

 Fruitvale, shows a range of eight houses 

 all in excellent shape. This firm eon- 

 ducts a store also in Portland, Oregon, 

 to which place they ship about seventy- 

 five per cent of their stock. Three houses 

 of roses, five of carnations and a house 

 of smilax comprise the plant. 



The arrest of the keeper of a fashion- 

 able boarding house over in Berkeley 

 solved the problem of the party who had 

 been despoiling the gardens and flower 

 beds around the flnest houses in town. 



