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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



ACQUST 24, 1905. 



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PACIFIC COAST. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market 



There is no advancement in business 

 and quietness reigns supreme. The 

 weather continues cold and flowers are 

 about as good as at any time during the 

 season. Asters are in their prime at 

 present and the best long-stemmed flow- 

 ers do not cost the retailers over $1.50 

 per hundred. Smaller flowers with 

 shorter stems can be had at almost any 

 price. Boses are the scarcest flowers we 

 handle at present, but of canuttions there 

 is a fair supply. Lilium album and 

 rubrum are seen everywhere and are 

 good sellers. Amaryllis does not seem to 

 sell as well as in former years, and they 

 are being offered in any quantity at from 

 $1.50 to $2 per hundred. 



Various Notes. 



Advices from F. Ludemann, now in 

 Europe, indicate that he will not arrive 

 in California before tbe middle of Oc- 

 tober. 



Alfred Pouyal, the Polk street florist, 

 failed this week. Liabilities about $3,500, 

 owed to various wholesalers in and 

 arou94 San Francisco. 



Kalph Clarke has returned from his 

 visit to Portland, Ore., and reports a 

 very pleasant trip. 



Mrs. Marie Pouyal, one of San Fran- 

 cisco 's pioneer florists, died on August 

 13, aged forty -six years. She was the 

 mother of Alfred Pouyal, of Polk street. 



L. S. Denton, formerly associated with 

 D. Baymond, the San Jose pottery man, 

 has started in business for himself and 

 will make a specialty of flower pots and 

 seed pans. 



H. Plath, of Ocean View, is erecting 

 another fern house 25x100 feet. 



The California State Floral Society 

 will give a complimentary dahlia show 

 on the second Friday in September in- 

 stead of the regular monthly meeting 

 which would take place on that date. 

 The show will be held in Elks' hall and 

 an elegant display is expected. John 

 Hinkle and John Vallance are on the 

 committee of arrangements. 



The young stock in the houses of the 

 H^aipd Nursery Co., of Elmhurst, looks 

 very wtU at this time and bespeaks for 

 an abundant crop of flowers in the near 

 future. G. 



ROSES FOR HEDGES. 



A hedge of roses is one of the most 

 attractive ornaments to a garden, 

 whether it be kept trimmed low or al- 

 lowed to extend to six or eight feet high. 

 There are, however, not over half a 

 dozen roses that are used in this latitude 

 for that purpose. Several varieties that 

 are in demand and do well in our east- 

 ern states are not suitable for this cli- 

 mate. An ideal hedge rose is one that 

 makes a small, clean growth, has bright 

 glossy foliage, a good bloom for cut- 

 ting and will stand pruning several times 

 a year. Many of our choicest blooms 

 come from the most straggly growing 

 varieties and again some of the most 

 suitable sorts, when foliage and habits 

 are considered, do not produce flowers in 

 sufficient quantity to make them desirable 

 hedge roses. Boses when planted for this 

 purpose should be about three feet apart. 

 It is possible to handle them even closer 

 and at a greater distance, but I have 

 found that three feet is all right. 



In red roses Agrippina is by far the 

 best to plant. With us it blooms every 

 day in the ye^ir, and the masses of color 

 borne thr«»trfhout the spring, sumHier 

 and fall make a well kept hedge an ob- 

 ject of interest even in California. I 

 have planted for an experiment Gruss 

 an Teplitz for the same purpose and it 

 appears to be a close second to Agrip- 

 pina, but has not proven quite such an 

 abundant bloomer. 



In white where a low hedge is wanted 

 Double Cherokee easily fills the bill. It 

 has pleasing glossy foliage, stands trim- 

 ming well, and is a good bloomer. If a 

 higher hedge is wanted Gloire Lyonnaise 

 easily outranks all our other white kinds. 

 It is a free bloomer and bears its flow- 

 ers on long stems. It cannot be kept as 

 a low grown hedge. 



When a pink effect is desired Duchess 

 de Brabant easily heads the list. It has 

 all the good qualities for a hedge rose 

 and its blooms are much esteemed for 

 cutting. 



In yellow varieties the old-fashioned 



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Safrano can not be beat and in ad- 

 dition Marie Van Houtte, ^hough it 

 does not stand trimming as m| assoqi^ 

 of the other sorts, ma^i< a »nrlyg»ia 

 hedge. Bon Silene can be trained fairljr 

 well and is a good bloomer. All the 

 polyantha roses make good hedge roses, 

 and although not as showy as the other 

 varieties I have mentioned, they are fair- 

 ly satisfactory. G. 



PLANTING CEMETERY PLOTS. 



There have been great changes in the 

 system of planting cemetery plots in the 

 past twenty-five years. It was formerly 

 the proper thing to plant Monterey cy- 

 press, willow, white birch, weeping elm, 

 or something in this style of growth in 

 a plot no matter how small. A glance 

 over our cemeteries will reveal in the 

 older portion a mass of dense shade in a 

 majority of the plots consisting of large, 

 heavy growths that are neither orna- 

 mental nor useful. Many of our burial 

 grounds were originally started in bar- 

 ren places and the desire to have some- 

 thing green and fresh looking often 

 started the selection of trees and shrubs, 

 wholly unsuitable for anything except 

 extra large sections. An unkempt ceme- 

 tery plot is one of the most miserable 

 looking objects the gardener has to deal 

 with and the accumulation of foliage in 

 contracted situations has done much to- 

 ward ^e revolutionizing of the fiMiting 

 in places of burial. 



To begin with, the grass lawn has 

 found much favor with the general pub- 

 lic, and most of our attractive cemetery 

 plots are planted with either Australian 

 rye or Kentucky blue. The latter makes 

 by far the best sod, and unless it is to 

 be planted in a place where there will be 

 an abundance of water it should always 

 be used. It requires cutting from every 

 ten to fourteen days during our warm 

 season and not over half that quantity 

 of times during our coldest months. Ice- 

 land moss has found favor with many 

 gardeners, and where there is an abund- 

 ance of water and plenty of time to dig 

 and replant each season it makes a beau- 

 tiful green mat. 



Standard or tree roses have taken the 

 place of almost everything else in the 

 line of ornamental shrubbery. They do 

 not litter the grass as do the bush roses. 



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