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August 17, 1905. 



Finest of Everything in 



CUT FLOWERS 



Well Packed Promptly Shipped Prices Right 



IF YOU DO NOT KNOW THIS, A TRIAL WILL CONVINCE YOU. 



EDWARD REID, Wholesale Elorisf 



1526 RANSTEAD STREET, PHILADELPHIA 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market 



There is no improvement to report in 

 the line of business for the week. The 

 weather continues cool and flowers are 

 very plentiful, that is, seasonable flow- 

 ers, such as asters. They are extra good 

 and very cheap. The rose and carnation 

 growers are in the midst of replanting 

 at present and crops are short with 

 everyone, but as the demand is light 

 there is no ill feeling anywhere. Ama- 

 ryllis and Lilium album and rubrum are 

 much used by the dealers and they make 

 a grand showing in the store windows. 

 Tuberoses, gladioli, dahlias and coreopsis 

 are in good supply and are good to fill 

 in. Some smilax is being cut but is very 

 soft yet and will not be good for several 

 weeks. Maiden-hair and asparagus are 

 plentiful. 



Various Notes. 



R. A. Wilson, of Monrovia, is in town. 



James Kidd has returned from his 

 trip to Southern California. 



The McAllister St. Florists have re- 

 moved to 942 Devisadero St. 



Arthur Zinkman, representing M. Eice 

 & Co. of Philadelphia, is visiting the 

 local florists this week. 



A. Eolleri, the green goods man, is 

 taking a week's vacation at Santa Cruz. 



J. I. Eoney is contemplating a trip to 

 Gold Field, Nev. 



James Skinner, of Christmas tree 

 fame, is in town on his annual trip. He 

 brought with him fifty large bay trees 

 in tubs, from Portland, Oregon, which 

 he has disposed of in some of the promi- 

 nent places around town. 



The following clipping from the San 

 Francisco Bulletin of August 6 would 

 give the impression that the government 

 officials know where to look when in- 

 formation is wanted for the Department 

 of Horticulture: 



Santa Cruz, Aug. 5. — Thomas Thompson, the 

 local florist, received an order from the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture at Washington for one thou- 

 sand paper white narcissus bulbs. The attention 

 of the department to these flowers was first ar- 

 rested by a cut in the Florists' Review of 

 Chicago, In which was portrayed a field of these 

 flowers at Thompsons' In full bloom in mid- 

 winter. Since then the agents of the depart- 

 ment have visited the nursery and the flowers 

 were pronounced to be in the finest condition of 

 any In the country. 



ROSES AT SAN FRANCISCO. 



The time is near when our rose grow- 

 ers will commence to replant their stock 

 under glass. From observations I have 



made I do not think there will be any 

 more space devoted to this branch of the 

 business this year than there was last. 

 Although there have been a few houses 

 erected in San Francisco, Burlingame, 

 Elmhurst, Berkeley and several other 

 places in this vicinity during the past 

 year for this purpose, there have been 

 a good many greenhouses discarded for 

 rose-growing and planted either to carna- 

 tions or general stock. I might add 

 here that our San Francisco florists 

 could use more good roses than they are 

 able to obtain about ten months in the 

 year. Growing good stock is not an 

 easy task. A few hours' neglect may 

 ruin a whole crop. As a consequence of 

 some failures we have much more space 

 devoted to carnations and the propor- 

 tion is growing greater each season. 



Beauties will be planted extensively 

 again. Some growers will carry over 

 their old plants and for that end are 

 pruning heavily at present. Budded 

 roses I notice are most favored, although 

 some plant stock on its own roots, but I 

 have always found that to produce a big 

 flower and a strong stem you must have 

 a big plant to begin with, and cuttings 

 are a long time in furnishing one; hence 

 the demand for field-grown budded roses. 



Bridesmaid easily ranks second in the 

 proportion of stock planted. Kaiserin is 

 third on the list. Many growers do not 

 handle it at all, but with others it is 

 grown to the exclusion of any other white 

 variety. Bride is a close second to 

 Kaiserin and among the red varieties 

 Liberty has to a great extent taken the 

 place of Meteor, which is a very uncer- 

 tain sort with us. Very few yellows are 

 grown. Perle is the only kind I have 

 seen, although some years ago Sunset was 

 planted in a few places. Papa Gontier 

 has also been relegated to a back seat, to- 

 gether with Eainbow, Niphetos, Cusin, 

 and Golden Gate. I do not mean that 

 these are no longer grown, but they are 

 certainly not planted nearly as much as 

 formerly. 



Several wholesalers handle Ulrich 

 Brunner, Mrs. John Laing and Pres. 

 Carnot to good advantage and claim 

 they are the best paying crops they grow. 

 Cecil Brunner is a money-maker for al- 

 most everyone and I find it is usually 

 planted in some out-of-the-way corner or 

 often against some dark wall where noth- 

 ing else will make any showing at all. 



Of the newer kinds Chatenay seems to 

 be the most favored and will be planted 

 quite heavily in several of our largest 

 places. Ivory has been tried but will be 

 discarded from all accounts, as it shows 



no superior points to our other whites. 

 Sunrise and Queen of Edgely will be 

 planted in probably half a dozen places. 

 And this finishes the list of roses in 

 about the proportions I have found them 

 in over a dozen of our largest commer- 

 cial places. G. 



SEATTLE. WASH. 



Variotis Notes. 



That the Woodland Park Floral Co. 

 have not been idle this summer was 

 plainly in evidence when the writer made 

 them a call a few days ago. Everything 

 was in fine shape. They have 25,000 car- 

 nations planted on the benches, some of 

 the earlier planted ones in bloom, most 

 of them tied up with the second tier of 

 strings. Four houses of roses were fine, 

 the mums strong and the violets clean. 

 This firm is paying more attention to 

 the decorative plant business. The in- 

 creased call at their downtown store for 

 such plants had to be met and a choice 

 collection of crotons and other attractive 

 plants are now being grown. The foun- 

 dation for a new boiler was being dug, 

 and the winter supply of wood, some 400 

 cords, was being stacked up before the 

 rainy season sets in. 



At the Washington Floral Co. a bench 

 of 500 poinsettias showed that some- 

 thing would be doing about Christmas. 

 Mums were excellent. A few carnation 

 benches were stUl left in, but this week 

 will see their finish. A nice office and 

 show house were added this summer and 

 the whole place has a neat and attractive 

 appearance. 



A visit from an old friend in the per- 

 son of W. W. WDmore, the dahlia spec- 

 ialist of Denver, Colo., was a pleasant 

 surprise. This is Mr. Wilmore's first 

 visit to the Pacific Coast and his im- 

 pressions of our neck of the woods were 

 unique. He would liked to have taken 

 bodily some of our magnificent trees and 

 transplanted them on his place in Den- 

 ver. The giant ferns, the endless va- 

 riety of shrubbery and evergreens were 

 very attractive to a person used to the 

 brown prairies, the cactus and sage- 

 brush of Colorado. Mr. Wilmore was 

 rather surprised at the ease with which 

 dahlias are grown here. He recognized 

 a good many of his own introductions, 

 as his trade in Seattle and the state of 

 Washington is quite extensive. Mr. Wil- 

 more had been to the fair at Portland, 

 and had seen all the sights even to "Gay 

 Paree" on the Trail. 



Other visitors this week were Sidney 

 Clack, of Mdnlo Park, Cal., and Mrs. 



