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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



JUNB 22. It05. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



Melrose, Cal. — Charles Germann and 

 Emil Wagner have dissolved partnership. 

 Mr. Wagner will carry on the business. 



LooMis, Cal, — Johnson & Taylor re- 

 sold the California Carnation Co., on 

 June 11, to A. Mitting and H. Mc- 

 Gowan, from whom they bought it a 

 few months ago. The company, under 

 the name of A. Mitting, is starting a 

 branch establishment at Santa Cruz. 



VICTORIA, B. C 



Victoria is the principal flower grow- 

 ing center in this district. We ship 

 tQ Vancouver and to Seattle in large 

 (Quantities. Vancouver is a town of only 

 some 22,000 inhabitants, but there must 

 be 300,000 square feet of glass in the 

 vicinity devoted to cut flowers. We 

 have more sun in the winter -^han the 

 surrounding towns and this accounts in 

 part for the great amount of shipping 

 trade. W, 



SAN FHANOSCX). 



The Market 



Bnfiinesfl is quiet enough here to suit 

 anyone. We are having cool weather 

 and there is a noticeable improvement 

 in the texture and color of both roses and 

 carnations over those we generally get at 

 this season. I saw some of the best 

 Beauties I have noticed this summer in 

 Pelicano's windows this week. They 

 were from Burlingame and spoke well 

 for the season. Brides and Maids are 

 not of extra size, although the stems 

 are good and the color perfect. Carna- 

 tions are as good as it is possible to 

 have them and outside of fancy stock 

 they io not net the growers over 20 cents 

 per dozen. LUies are plentiful but Bride 

 gladiolus is becoming scarcer. The gar- 

 den varieties of gladioli are beginning 

 to be seen more plentifully. Dahlias are 

 also being sent in by the growers. But 

 to return to business. It is very scarce 

 and will be so for several months to 

 come. A few of our dealers are putting 

 signs in their windows such as "Specifu 

 Prices Today, *■' "Carnations, 25 cents 

 per dozen," and other cheap looking 

 placards, which in my estimation do not 

 help matters and give the store a poor 

 advertisement at the same time. The 

 general run of the public seem to know 

 just about what flowers are really worth 

 and buy accordingly and for the most 

 part it only attracts the trade to which 

 the street fakirs cater and from whom the 

 florists derive no paying business. 



Various Notes. 



Delegations will meet from the Cali- 

 fornia State Floral Society and the Pa- 

 cific Coast Horticultural Society to ar- 

 range for a joint flower show next fall. 



John Jack, gardener to Wm. Babcock, 

 of San Bafael, is erecting three carna- 

 tion houses. 



F. Ludemann has a splendid stand of 

 young rose stock to bud this season. 

 Owing to the late spring rains they are 

 much larger and stronger than usual. 



Prof. Wickson, of the Botanical De- 



Eartment of the State University, has 

 een invited to deliver an address in 

 Santa Eosa in honor of Luther Burbank. 

 Several local dealers will plant heavily 

 of freesias for the coming season. Eees 



50,000 FINE 



CALLA BILBS READY 



The above b«Ibs are free from disease and are true to measurement. 



. IM inches diameter $4.00 per 100; $36.00 per 1000 



8 inches diameter 6.00 ** 46 00 ** 



2}i inches diameter... 6.00 " 66.00 ** 



8 inches diameter 7.60 " 70.00 



GET YOUR ORDER IN EARLY. 

 Freight prepaid at the above prices. 250 at (000 rate. CASH. 



A. MITTING, 



17 TO 83 

 KENNAN 



ST.. Santa Cruz, Cal. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



& Compere, of Long Beach, are supply- 

 ing the bulbs. 



Sievers & Boland report the best 

 June business ever done by their house. 



Geo. Pape, of Berkeley, is very busy 

 at present with greenhouse construction. 

 He has several large contracts on hand 

 for private conservatories. 



The Avenue Florists, of 409 Montgom- 

 ery avenue, have established a new branch 

 of the trade here, by commencing the 

 manufacture of wheat sheaves. They are 

 turning out a very good article and ex- 

 pect in time to supply the local trade 

 in that line. 



Adolph Schmidt, gardener at the Santa 

 Fe railroad's stations in Oakland and 

 Berkeley, has made a wonderful im- 

 provement in their grounds during the 

 past season. Mr. Schmidt was formerly 

 gardener to Paul de Longprfe, of Los 

 Angeles. 



D. H. Lenox, the Los Angeles nurs- 

 eryman, has returned home after a short 

 visit here. G. 



NATURAL HOT VATER. 



I would like to know how many 1-inch 

 pipes are needed, and where to put them, 

 in a propagating house eight feet wide, 

 with a bench three feet wide on each 

 side. The heat comes from a natural hot 

 spring, the water of which is 196 de- 

 grees and which will flow continually 

 through the pipes. The climate is that 

 of southern California. A. L. H. 



I judge that six 1-inch pipes arranged 

 under each bench of the propagating 

 house would provide the desired tempera- 

 ture. L. C. C. 



TROUBLE VITH SEEDLINGS. 



Growers of ornamental trees and 

 plants have had poor success with 

 raising young stock from seed this 

 season. On all sides I have heard com- 

 plaints that hardy trees and shrubs that 

 usually germinate readily have failed to 

 show themselves and several sowings 

 have been made before a stand was se- 

 cured. This is due to a great extent, I 

 think, to our peculiar spring season. 

 We had very warm weather in March 

 and cold weather in April and May and 

 I found that it was almost impossible to 

 handle many of my seedlings without 

 their damping oflF. Even when I wa- 

 tered very sparingly it was very difficult 

 to keep them erect. Every week during 

 the past two months we usually have 

 about one warm day and the extremes 

 made it harder than ever. 



P. O. Address: 

 S. P. O. Ho. 1, 

 Iiong^ Beach, OaJ. 



FREESIAS 



Orand Dachesi OxalU. Bermuda Buttercups, 

 Amaryllis JobosoDi aod Belladouna. etc., now 

 dlKKinft Oan deliver in any quaotlties end of 

 June and July. 



Rees & Compere 



Mention The ReTiew when yoo write. 



Calla Bulbs! 



for AuRust delivery. 



Paper White Narcissus 



for fall delivery Send for price list. 



Pi LUDcMANN) Ban Pnnoisoo, Cal. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



Another fact I noticed in examining 

 seeds of various kinds was that last 

 year was a poor season for the develop- 

 ment of fertile seed. I have examined 

 many varieties of conifers, acacia, euca- 

 lyptus and other hardy trees and found 

 that the seeds in many cases were bar- 

 ren and a lar^e percentage very poorly 

 developed. This fact may have escaped 

 the notice of many dealers and could 

 also account in a great measure for their 

 want of success. 



Speaking of seed and seed-gathering 

 from seed-bearing trees grown here, the 

 people who gather much of it make 

 the mistake in picking and shelling seeds 

 from the. first year pods instead of tak- 

 ing only those from the second year. It 

 is possible in the case of conifers and 

 eucalyptus to make such seeds grow if 

 everything is favorable but the chances 

 are decidedly against successful germina- 

 tion and hardy seedlings. Usually only 

 a small proportion of the seeds amount 

 to anything and the planter thinks the 

 seed was too old instead of too young. 

 This rule holds good with a great many 

 varieties of shrubs and trees and is not 

 usually taken advantage of by the ordi- 

 nary collector of seeds. G. 



The returns from my last advertise- 

 ment in your paper were fine and I am 

 satisfied it is a good medium. — F. Qtu- 

 MAN Taylor, Glendale, Cal. 



Hebe is another dollar for the Be- 

 viEw; I would not be without it for $10 

 a year. — W. Wilkinson, West Philadel- 

 phia, Pa. 



Barbington, III.— F. , W. Stott is 

 erecting two greenhouses, each 20x143, 

 and will carry a general line of pot 

 plants as well as cut flowers. 



