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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Max 25, 1005. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



FRESNO, CAL. 



The season just ended has been one 

 of the most successful for many years 

 in this locality. The nurserymen have 

 all made a complete cleaning-up of 

 stock at prices which wete favorable. 

 Some of our leading firms are already 

 booking orders for next season's deliv- 

 ery, indicating a heavy run on standard 

 varieties of fruit trees and vines. 



A visit to the plant and propagating 

 department of S. W. Marshall & Son 

 will show that the firm, while busy fill- 

 ing orders and handling the season's 

 business, has also been keeping pace 

 with the progress of the times by re- 

 building the old greenhouses and erect- 

 ing new ones constructed along the! most 

 modern lines. They now have the most 

 complete propagating plant on the Pa- 

 cific coast. Ash. 



LOS ANGELES. 



The recent fiower show in Masonic 

 hall, under the direction of P. D. Barn- 

 hart, was so successful that there is a 

 probability that it will be an annual 

 feature in the future. There was a large 

 variety of stock shown but only a few 

 of the possible exhibitors were represent- 

 ed. Among the trade exhibitors wefe the 

 Germain Seed Co., the Pacific Nursery 

 Co., Sycamore Grove Nursery, Howard & 

 Smith, Theodore Payne, Figueroa 

 Nursery, John Getz, Rees & Compere, 

 Mrs. Meserve, Etheline Lord, W. S. Way 

 and Mrs. Nefroney. A number of gar- 

 denef 8 for private places were exhibitors. 

 Among them were John Reeves, gar- 

 dener for Eben Smith; Arthur Brown, 

 gardener for Walter Newhall; Pierre 

 Maquel, gardener for Homer Laughlin; 

 Mr. Banks, gardener at the Girls' Col- 

 legiate School; Gus Peterson, gardener 

 at Singleton Court, and Edmund Burke. 

 The show lasted two days, closing May 

 13, and attracted a very large number 

 of visitors. 



SAN FRANOSCO. 



The Market 



There has been quite a spurt of fu- 

 neral orders for the past week and white 

 stock of all kinds has been used up in 

 conseiquence. Outside of this there is 

 little doing, although some of the flo- 

 rists have a good many orders booked for 

 Decoration day for out of town ship- 

 ments. But the weather has been so 

 favorable throughout the interior of the 

 state this season that I am under the 

 impression that less shipping than usual 

 will be in order for Decoration day. 

 Flowers of all kinds are very plentiful 

 and cheap. Roses and carnations, un- 

 less they are extra good, can be had at 

 any price and only the finest stock is in 

 demand at all. 



Various Notes. 



G. W. Simmons, of Elmhurst, has laid 

 the foundation for another 150-foot rose 

 house. 



Mrs. C. H. Stegman, mother of H. H. 

 Stegman, for many years foreman of 

 Gill's Floral Depot, Oakland, died May 

 15, aged 49 years. 



Haywards, Cal., expects to be the site 

 of one of the University Horticultural 



S0,000 FINE 



CALLA BILBS READY 



The above bulbs are free from disease and are tr«e to meastti-ement. 



IK inches diameter $4.00 per 100; $36.00 per 1000 



2 inches diameter 6.00 ** 4600 



8 >^ inches diameter... 6.00 ** 66.00 ** 



8 inches diameter 7.60 ** 70.00 



GET YOUR ORDER EST EARLY. 

 Freight prepaid at the above prices* 250 at 1000 rate* CASH* 



A. MITTING, kejJk^It.. Santa Cruz, Cal. 



Mention TTie RfTlew when yon write. 



Experimental Gardens shortly to be es- 

 tablished. 



The California State Floral Society 

 met last Friday and made plans for the 

 exhibits to be held during 1905 and 1906. 



Domoto Bros, have advertised their 

 Central avenue nursery for sale. They 

 will concentrate all their business at thteir 

 Elmhurst nurseries. 



Serril Winsor, the flower pot man, is 

 installing a new pot making machine in 

 his pottery in Oakland. G. 



FUTURE OF PLANT GROWING. 



For some unaccountable reason the 

 majority of the smaller nurseries in the 

 neighborhood of the larger cities in Cali- 

 fornia are giving up the growing of pot 

 plants and general nursery stock and con- 

 fining their energies to the cut flower 

 trade. The general opinion seems to be 

 that more money is to be made, and 

 with much quicker returns, from a few 

 houses filled with carnations, roses or 

 lilies, than from the same space devoted 

 to shrubs, palms, hardy ornamental 

 trees, etc. As a consequence the plant 

 growing of this coast is gradually pass- 

 ing into the hands of a few large nurs- 

 eries and, as there is no decrease in the 

 demand for well grown stock, it seems 

 to me a mistake for the small growers, 

 many of whom had reputations estab- 

 lished for the growing and handling of 

 certain lines of stock, to allow this most 

 profitable branch of our business to slip 

 from them. 



The demand for nursery stock of all 

 kinds is greater now than evet in this 

 constantly growing state, and, judging 

 by the imports from the eastern nurseries 

 and Europe, our local men cannot come 

 anywhere near filling the coast orders. 

 With the majority of hardy ornamental 

 trees and shrubs it takes several years to 

 grow a salable stock and this fact deters 

 many who are now in the flower growing 

 business, but there is an ever increasing 

 demand for well grown stock and the 

 growers who can see a few years ahead 

 are bound to strike it right if they de- 

 vote their time to the general plant 

 growing, and particularly if they special- 

 ize along any of the dozen or two lines 

 which could be easily named. 6. 



WILD FLOWERS. 



It is surprising what a va^ quantity 

 of native wild flowers are used by "tho 

 florists in and around San Francisco, and 

 the quantity keeps increasing year by 

 year. It is only a few years ago that 



L«««« 



FREESIA, 

 Refracta SIba 

 and Hybrids 



6,000,000 to dig this season* 



Price and quality of stock cannot be beaten. 



Also Orand Dnohesa Oxalla, all colors; 

 Bermuda Bntteronpa, Trltonlas, Xxias» 

 Bparazia, dilidanthna Fragrrans, Zephy- 

 ranthea, Candida and Rosea Omlthoffa- 

 Inm, Amaryllia Johnaoni and Belladonna. 

 Will begia dlRgidir in May and deliver in June 

 and July. 



REES A COMPERE, 



p. O. Address, ^ongr Beach, Cal., R. F. D. I. 



Araocaria Excelsa . 



From 2>^-iDCb pots, extra strong plants, with 

 2 and 3 tiers, 6 to 8 incbes bigh, at $16.00 per 100. 



F. LUDENANN, 



3041 Baker St„SAH FRANCISCO. CAL. 



CAI.XFOBNZA FIZIiD-OSOWaT 



Freesia Bulbs. 



Per 1000 Per 1000 



H to %-lncb bulbs, $1.26 I J4 to %-incb bulbs, $8.85 

 ^to }i-iDcb bulbs, 2.06 I Mammotb bulbs... 6.40 



Bulbs delivered, express prepaid. 



Rates on orders for over 6000. 



H. N. GAGE, Burnett, Cak 



Mention The Rerlew when yoa write. 



such stock -was called "rubbish" by the- 

 larger retail firms and they would not 

 handle it at all. But the taste for wild 

 blooms has been cultivated to a consid- 

 erable extent and now all the dealers use 

 them. The season lasts usually about 

 two months, generally commencing in the 

 middle of March. They are gath- 

 ered in our nearby hills and valleys and 

 as they are not usually good keepera 

 they have to be handled as carefully as 

 any other kind of flowers. 



The first in importance is the Califor- 

 nia poppy, Eschscholtzia Californica. 

 Hundreds of bunches - are picked and 

 marketed daily from our surrounding 

 country. The fact that it is the emblem- 

 atic flower of California has much to 

 do with its popularity. Yellow cream 

 cups, Platystemon Californicus, are in 

 great favor with the public at this time. 

 The yellow and blue lupine, Lupinui 

 arboretis, is also much liked. The Brodi- 

 Bea volubilis, or twining hyacinth, is a 

 showy purple bunch of small flowers. 

 They are easily kept for a week in water. 

 The western goldenrod is not in bloom 



