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TheWeckly Florists' Review. 



Jolt 20, 1905. 



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PACIFIC COAST. 



Menlo Park, Cal. — '^^'^ third annual 

 exhibition of the Menlo Park Horticul- 

 tural Society will be held in the big tent 

 near Triumph hall October 20 and 21. 

 The premium list has been issued and, 

 with all classes well filled, will bring out 

 a very comprehensive display. Copies may 

 be had by addressing J. T. Lynch, Secy., 

 Menlo Park, 



VICTORIA, a c. 



Matters of Interest. 



On July 1 the government entertained 

 the Society of American Mining Ep- 

 gineers in the parliament buildings. Sev- 

 eral residents filled two tables with really 

 good outdoor rcses, which proved a great 

 attraction and were a revelation to many 

 of our own citizens. Outdoor roses have 

 been extra good this season, owing to tho 

 absence of mildew, which is the greut 

 drawback to their culture here. Most of 

 our wild flowers are over. Spiraea Arun- 

 cus is just past but its place is filled by 

 S. discolor, a truly magnificent shrub 

 which almost attains the dignity of a 

 tree. It adorns the open spots in woods 

 and country with its light, feathery 

 white panicles. This shrub should be 

 more grown. It is certainly hardy. I 

 have found it in the high mountains, 

 where the thermometer falls far below 

 zero. 



With regret I have to chronicle the 

 death of the wife of G. A. Knight, of 

 Mt. Tolmie Nursery. Her demise will 

 be a great loss to him. For many years 

 she has been an able assistant in his 

 business. 



H. Dumbleton has built a new house 

 for water lilies. In the center pool he 

 has installed a Victoria regia. 



Mr. Sowerby, of Covent Garden Nur- 

 sery, reports a very heavy 'crop of ex- 

 cellent tomatoes. Tomato is king in this 

 establishment as a summer crop. 



A. J, Woodward, Boss Bay Nurserj', 

 who already owns 100,000 feet of glass 

 is just preparing to cover about another 

 acre and a half with glass for general 



purposes. His houses are used for flow- 

 ers in the winter and tomatoes and 

 cucumbers in the summer. Lettuce also 

 is no inconsiderable item. He reports 

 crops fair but prices ruling lower thit* 

 season. E. A. W. 



COAST HAS GOOD STOCK. 



I note in the Eeview of July 6 that 

 a correspondent makes the comment that 

 San Francisco "has the reputation of 

 handling poorer stock than any other 

 large city in the United States." I beg 

 to differ decidedly with C. L. A. in that 

 San Francisco either handles poor stock 

 or even has the reputation among people 

 who have traveled enough to make com- 

 parisons or draw conclusions. I have 

 seen the best that has been shown in 

 our large cities at frequent intervals 

 for a period extending over thirty years 

 and have yet to meet the grower or flo- 

 rist from any part of the world who did 

 not give California, and San Francisco 

 and its suburbs in particular, the plum 

 for producing flowers on a scale un- 

 dreamed of in less favored localities. 



The reason is easy to guess, of course. 

 Fancy a climate where the sun shines 

 every day in the year, where on laaF 

 Christmas week my boys were driving 

 around town in their shirt sleeves de- 

 livering orders, where our summers rare- 

 ly go over 65 degrees, and then compare 

 these facts with the torrid east and 

 frigid middle states and pretend to ' say 

 they can compete with us in the quality 

 of flowers produced. 



The cut of Hannah Hobart recently 

 published in the Review is a good sam- 

 ple of what we have to show in the mid- 

 dle of summer and this week I visited 

 the greenhouses where they are grown 

 and found thousands of blooms of this 

 and many other varieties equally as 

 large. 1 have called at the largest 

 places in the east at a corresponding 

 season of the year and have seen the 

 best that was to be offered, and it is 

 safe to say our flowers are fully twice 

 the size and, as for color and substance, 

 there is absolutely no comparison. 



Again, in the middle of winter, when 

 the thermometer goes down almost out 

 of sight in your frozen east, here we 

 grow flowers with only a little artificial 



heat for a few weeks, more to force the 

 crop than for any necessity to keep out 

 the frost. 



It is easy to see I do not attribute 

 anything to our superior knowledge of 

 flower growing but to the mildness and 

 adaptability of our climate. We have 

 the same success with roses, as they 

 respond fully as well to the surround- 

 ings as carnations and, as I stated be- 

 fore, I have yet to meet the eastern 

 grower who is not amazed at the quali- 

 ty of the stock grown in this neighbor- 

 hood, and as for the general tourists, 

 they usually exhaust their vocabularies 

 in describing the floral wonders of Cali- 

 fornia before they are half an hour iu 

 town. 



Kegarding the prices received by the 

 growers for their stock, C. L. A. notes 

 that there has been an increase of' thir- 

 ty-three and one-third per cent in the 

 past ten years. I agree with him there, 

 but that is a decided advantage from 

 any point of view. The reason for this 

 is that we have such an abundance of 

 flowers that a Californian will not be 

 satisfied with anything except the very 

 best and stock -that would be considered 

 fancy in other less favored localities 

 will not stand . the test here and does 

 not bring the highest price, all of which 

 goes to show the perfection attained in 

 the quality of flowers grown in the 

 neighborhood of San Francisco. I hope 

 that the price will increase thirty-three 

 and one-third per cent more in the next 

 ten years, for at the best it is not too 

 high and growers usually do not get 

 rich, even in California. 



Regarding Japanese gardeners and 

 nurserymen, a subject of vital import- 

 ance to our craft and one that is prob- 

 ably being more discussed by our growers 

 at present than anything else, I will 

 have something more to say next week. 

 G. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market 



We have had a welcome change in 

 the weather from that of last week. 

 The average temperature has been 65 

 degrees, as against 90 degrees. Eoses, 

 carnations and lilies came in so fast 



