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JCLT 13, 1905. 



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PACIFIC COAST. 



A. MiTTiNG states that the business at 

 Santa Cruz, Cal., is not a branch of the 

 California Carnation Co., Loomis, Cal., 

 but a separate concern, owned by Mrs. 

 A. Mitting. 



Eureka, Cal. — This is a town of 11,- 

 000 inhabitants and Henry Dehm, who is 

 one of the three engaged in the trade 

 here, says that from a trade point of 

 view the locality is a long way behind 

 the times but steadily improving. There 

 is a good future before any one prepared 

 to push the business. 



SOME CALIFORNIA LILIES. 



It is surprising how little is known by 

 the coast gardeners and nurserymen 

 about our native lilies. We have several 

 varieties that grow wild in many por- 

 tions of California that as garden flow- 

 ers are far superior to anything we can 

 import, both regarding hardiness, free- 

 dom of bloom and adaptability to sur- 

 roundings. 



Most of the dealers handle only L. 

 Harrisii, longiflorum, candidum, auratum 

 and other Japanese and European grown 

 bulbs which, although they may do well 

 enough the first season, never last long 

 enough to make a reappearance. They 

 will not compare with our native lilies 

 where hardiness and a long succession of 

 beautiful and showy flowers is desired 

 and it only needs some one to interest 

 himself in these valuable native lilies to 

 create a good demand for them. 



The first variety I shall mention is 

 Lilium Washingtonianum. This is a na- 

 tive of the Sierra Nevada mountains and 

 grows at an elevation of from 3,000 to 

 6,000 feet. The flowers much resemble 

 those of L. album and are borne on stiff 

 stems from four to six feet high, many 

 of the stems having as many as twenty- 

 five flowers. This variety is very hardy 

 and the bulbs multiply rapidly. The 

 blooms are very sweet and keep for sev- 

 eral weeks. The season for blooming is 

 from June to August and a field of them 

 in their native habitat is never to be for- 

 gotten. 



The native tiger lily, Lilium pardali- 

 num, easily comes next in point of value. 

 These plants usually grow in clumps of 

 several hundreds and are always found 

 in the rich soil of stream banks or of 

 wet, springy places. The flowers are 

 from six to eight inches across, with 

 orange base and scarlet tips, spotted 

 with purple on the lower half. 1 have 

 seen as many as thirty-five blossoms on a 

 single stem, with half of them opened at 

 one time. They are strong, hardy grow- 

 ers and do well in ordinary garden soil. 



Lilum Humboldtii is equally as beau- 

 tiful as the foregoing and is usually 

 found in high and dry localities, I have 

 never seen it growing in wet places and 

 it grows in cultivation and succeeds ad- 

 mirably with almost no moisture. The 

 flowers of this lily are much larger than 

 those of the other two and show more of 

 the yellow shades and less of the red 

 and brown. 



The Redwood lily, Lilium rubescens, I 

 consider also one of our most charming 

 natives. It is very fragrant and the 

 flowers easily keep for two weeks. It 

 resembles L. Washingtonianum some- 

 what, except that its flowers are fuller 

 in form, with wider petals and shorter 

 tube and it has a very small bulb. It 

 sends up a shaft from five to seven feet 

 high with a bunch of flowers at first pure 

 white with purple dots, but afterwards 

 taking on a metallic lustre and finally 

 turning to a ruby purple. The favorite 

 haunts of this lily are high and inacces- 

 sible ridges under the live oaks and red- 

 woods. 



The Coast lily, Lilium maritimum, is 

 found very abundantly in the edges of 

 the mountain ranges and does well when 

 transplanted in the garden. The flowers 

 are bell-shaped, from five to ten on a 

 stem and of a deep blood red color spot- 

 ted with purple. They do not grow as 

 tall as the other varieties mentioned but 

 are very showy and stay in blossom a 

 long time. 



The Alpine lily, Lilium parvum. an- 

 other of the smaller growing kinds, 

 makes a pretty garden plant. It is also 

 in bloom at this time and its orange col- 

 ored flowers make a very pleasing con- 

 trast with the other varieties. 



There are several other native sorts I 



might mention but these I think are the 

 best for garden planting and in this 

 climate they certainly are more satisfac- 

 tory than anything I have seen among 

 imported bulbs. It takes them usually 

 about three- seasons to become estab- 

 lished when they are transplanted from 

 the woods, but when once they become 

 well started they multiply with great 

 rapidity and a mass of them blooming 

 always attracts considerable attention, 

 even here, where flowers are so plentiful, 

 and the fact that they are native Califor- 

 nia lilies never seems to be fully rea- 

 lized by our flower lovers, for when told 

 that they can be found by millions in 

 our mountain ranges they usually seem 

 disappointed that they are not some new 

 creation in the flower line or have not 

 come :ftom some far-off tropical clime, 



G. 



CALLA ROT. 



There seems to be a great deal of 

 complaint from florists about the soft 

 rot in callas, I wish to state that the 

 disease should cause no alarm to the 

 florist. A bulb, although half destroyed, 

 will yet produce a perfect bloom, which 

 dies only when the disease has affected 

 the sprout. I would adv^ise all who 

 plant callas for the blooms to treat all 

 bulbs with a solution of corrosive sub- 

 limate and plant in individual pots. 



H. L. MussER. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market 



We are having the warmest weather we 

 have experienced thus far this year. 

 Carnations have held their own, but if 

 the cool breezes for which San Francisco 

 is famous do not soon materialize the; 

 will take a decided drop in color and 

 substance. The wholesalers are charg- 

 ing from $1 .to $2 per hundred for them 

 and a few extra choice still bring a high- 

 er price. Roses are scarce, with the ex- 

 ception of the poorer quality of stock, 

 which can be had at almost any price. 

 Sweet peas are also beginning to show 

 the results of the warm spell and are be^ 

 coming shorter of stem and with poorer 

 keeping qualities. Gladioli of all kilids 



