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JuLr 13, 1905. 



' The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



425 



are plentifui, also most outdoor stock. 

 Lily of the valley and Lilium longiflor-j 

 um are offered in just sufficient quanti- 

 ties to supply the demand. Some very 

 good cattleyas are sent from Alameda 

 county but there has been little demand 

 for them for several weeks. Everyone 

 is looking for cooler weather and it has 

 been predicted to arrive in a few days. 



Various Notes. 



K. Sato, of Saratoga avenue, Elm- 

 hurst, is building four more carnation 

 houses, each 25x200 feet. 



A. D. Miller is on a two weeks' visit 

 to Portland, Tacoma and Seattle. 



L. M. Barrett, for many years a grow- 

 er of fine sweet peas and other hardy 

 stock, has decided to embark in the 

 growing of cut flowers under glass and 

 will immediately commence the erection 

 of two large houses on his grounds in 

 Berkeley. 



R. M. Critchlow has returned from a 

 month's trip to Santa Rosa and Sebas- 

 topol. 



Gill's Floral Depot has purchased the 

 stock and fixtures of J. T. Shepherd, 

 who has retired from the business. 



The agitation against the Japanese 

 growers is still being waged by the 

 wholesalers and something definite is 

 likely to be attempted regarding furnish- 

 ing stock to the retailers who persist in 

 handling Japanese grown stock. G. 



FRESNO, CAL. 



The Fresno Nursery Company has been 

 incorporated with $50,000 capital stock 

 fully paid up. The officers and stock- 

 holders, with the amounts of their hold- 

 ings, are as follows: President, F. H. 

 "Wilson, Dinuba, $25,000; vice-president, 

 Thos. Jacobsi^ Visalia, $10,000 ; treasurer, 

 Morphew Jacobs, Visalia, $10,000; sec- 

 retary, Charles A. Chambers, Fresno, 

 $4,900; attorney, W. A. Conn, Fresno, 

 $100. The company's nurseries are lo- 

 cated at Dinuba and Visalia but the 

 main office and salesground will be at 

 Fresno. The purpose is to do an ex- 

 tensive general nursery business in both 

 fruit and ornamental stock. Ash. 



VALUES OF FUEL. 



Which is the cheapest and best — gas 

 at $1.50 per thousand cubic feet, coke 

 at $9 a ton, or hard coal at $12 a ton? 



H. A. K. 



With gas at $1.50 per thousand cubic 

 feet, coal would be worth $45 per ton, 

 i. e., a ton of good anthracite coal at 

 $45 would be equal to 30,000 cubic feet 

 of gas, which is the basis of the equiva- 

 lent in fuel value. There is not much 

 difference in the heat units in the coke 

 and coal. It will take twenty-five or 

 thirty per cent more coke than hard coal 

 with ordinary firing. With the coke at 

 $9 it is the cheaper of the three fuels 

 mentioned. L. C. C. 



Thb Review will send its Pronounc- 

 ing Dictionary on receipt of 25c. 



CHOICE CALIFORNIA SEEDS 



Burbank'B Improved Shasta Daisy, 14 ounce, t2 GO 

 Carnation (hand h;brldlzed)40Tar., H oance, 3 00 

 Pansy. California Giants, mixed, jounce. 2 00 

 AsDaragus Plumosus Nanus, plump and fresh, 



^c per 100: 11.50 per lOCO: TODO for tlO.OO. 

 Yon know the reputation California rrown seed 



has for vitality. Cash, please. 



F. 6ILMAN TAYLOR, - Glendale, California. 



Mention The Rerlew Trhen you write. 



Hannah Hobart 



The Pride of California 



The strand prize winner in competition with the latest and very 

 best products in Carnations, east or west, for the last eig^ht years. 



Mr. John A. Balmer. of Olealnm. Washington, after his visit to our nurseries in Janu- 

 ary, 1902. wrote an article for a trade paper in which he said: "The Hannah Hobart is really 

 a remarkable flower, never less than four inches, and frequently four and one-half inches 

 across. In color it is a shade deeper than Lawson. but the petal arrangement is quite differ- 

 ent, in this respect it most resembles the old Jubilee, but of course the color is different. I 

 saw two large houses of it at Sievers', and the Eight is one long to be remembered, hundreds 

 of blooms and not a poor one in the lot, and everyone the exact counterpart of the other, no 

 burst calyxes, but every flower supported on a 241nch stem, and standing up like soldiers. 

 There is certainly no carnation of its color that can equal it." 



The above is a truthful statement of facts by a very competent gentleman, and if need- 

 ing verification, the olmple assertion that the flowers of this magniflcient variety of Carnation 

 have been sold wholesale as high as $1.50 per dozen, and none less than $1 per dozen up to 

 date, Ehould be enough to convince anybody of its intrinsic value. (See illustration of an 

 average bloom in the Florists' Keview, June 1. VJib.) 



The constant inquiry by everyone who has seen the plants in flower is: "When will the 

 Hannah Hobart be for sale ?" This led us at last to the conclusion to distribute the same 

 next year, and we are ready to book orders frrm now on for delivery beginning Jan. 1, 1906. 

 Send your orders In early because they will be filled stiictly in rotation. 



Price, 93.00 per IS; $16.00 per 100; $120.00 per 1000. 



JOHN H. SIEVERS & CO. 



12S1 Chestnut Street, SAN FRANCISCO, C3L. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



50,000 FINE 



CALLA BULBS READY 



The above bttlbs are free from disease and are true to measurement. 

 I'A inches diameter $4.00 per 100; $36.00 per 1000 



2 inches diameter 6.00 *' 46 00 ** 



2;^ inches diameter... 6.00 *' 66.00 *' 



3 inches diameter 7.60 " 70.00 



GET YOUR ORDER IN EARLY. 

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



A. MITTING, HEyKStx . Santa Cruz, Cal. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



CALLS BULBS 



READY AUGUST 1st. 



J to 13^ in. diameter, $4.00 per 100; $30.00 per 1000 



J 5^ to 2 in. diameter, 5.00 per JOO; 40.00 per JOOO 



2 to 2 3^ in. diameter, 6.00 per JOO; 50.00 per 1000 



F. O. B. Niles, California. 



CALIFORNIA NURSERY CO., Nlles, Cal. 



Mention The Review wlien you write. 



FREESIAS 



READT FOB DEIZVEST— Fine stock in 

 any quantity, up to }i inch. Grand Duchess 

 Oxalis, pink, white and lavender. Amaryllis 

 Johnsonii and Belladona, Chlidanthus fragrans. 



nCCO & UUMrLnLf JLok^BMOh, Oal. * 



Always mention the Florists' Review wbea 

 writing advertisers. 



Calla Bulbs! 



for August delivery. 



Paper White Narcissus 



for fall delivery. Send for price list. 

 Ii LUDcMANN) San ^ntnoiiioo, Cal. 



Always meotion the Florists' Review when 

 writing advertisers. 



