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PACIFIC COAST. 



Steilaooom, Wash.— Fred J. Taylor 

 has an ivy geranium of which he does 

 not know the name, but the flower re- 

 sembles Guy Lewis, which has given him 

 a fine double sport, very pale pink, almost 

 white, tinged with purple in the center. 

 This in turn has sported back to a very 

 deep pink, a fine thing. The light sport 

 he has named Tahoma and the dark one 

 Alki. He will work up a stock of each. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market. 



The weather continues warm, with an 

 endless array of flowers. Carnations are 

 becoming plentiful but roses continue 

 scarce; in fact, there is no fancy stock 

 offered of any kind. Asters still are in 

 the lead, although they give evidences of 

 being rather closely cut. Lilies are not 

 so plentiful as they were and remain in 

 good demand. Dahlias and gladioli are 

 almost out of season. Smilax is getting 

 firmer and longer of string and maiden- 

 hair continues plentiful. 



Various Notes. 



John H. Sievers & Co. report the de- 

 mand for stock of their new carnation, 

 Hannah Hobart, continues unabated. 



The show of lilies in ths windows of 

 Pelieano & Co. is one of the sights of 

 Kearney street. 



Leopold & Ephraim had a good run 

 of funeral orders during the month of 

 August. 



Frank Armanino, of Golden Gate, has 

 finished replanting his houses. They are 

 devoted principally to the standard 

 varieties of roses. Three houses are kept 

 for maidenhair and asparagus. 



Chas. Beebe, of Trumbull & Beebe, 

 states that his firm is receiving large or- 

 ders for fall bulbs and that the prospect 

 for business is good in all departments. 



Culligan & Co., successors to Geo. B. 

 Jones, are experts in the line of window 

 decorations. Their show of fine flowers 

 •is one of the largest and best on Sutter 

 street. 



John M. Holland has returned from a 

 trip to southern California. 



Geo. Rhodes will take a three weeks' 

 vacation, visiting Portland, Tacoma and 

 Seattle. 



The Realty Syndicate greenhouses, be- 

 yond Piedmont, are now at their best. 

 The display of ferns, palms and stove 

 plants cannot be excelled in this neigh- 

 borhood. John Pflond has the stock in 

 charge. 



P. J. Keller has decided to build sev- 

 eral greenhouses on his grounds on Pied- 

 mont avenue, Oakland. Mr. Keller has 

 been out of the florists' business for sev- 

 eral years. 



Miss Solomon, associated several years 

 ago with Miss Bates, the decorator, has 

 moved to East Oakland and is building 

 up quite a trade. 



H. Gresens, of Alameda, has given up 

 his interest in landscape gardening and 

 in future will devote his entire time to 

 his florist and plant business. G. 



SEATTLE. WASH. 



Buildins: and Other Notes. 



As mentioned a few weeks ago, the 

 talk of a new firm commencing business 

 at South Park has materialized. Three 

 houses 20x150 are in course of construc- 

 tion, under the management of Robert 

 Prentice. 



Our violet grower, Frank J. Bell, is 

 also enlarging his plant by the addition 

 of one house, 35x150. He believes in 

 wide houses for violets and carnations. 

 His place is situated on the north side 

 of Lake Washington and is rather a hard 

 place to get at. When I came to the 

 sign of the Eureka Gardens I could not 

 but exclaim, "I have found it!" And, 

 sure enough, Mr. Bell was there, perched 

 in an apple-tree, doing some acrobatic 

 stunts in trying to reach some fruit on 

 the topmost branches. 



Our city park superintendent, J. W. 

 Thompson, also has the building craze, 

 one house, 20x100, being enough for a 

 start, he thinks. 



Malmo & Co. are planning an exten- 

 sive range of glass at their nursery, sit- 

 uated on the old Renton line, and grad- 

 ing is being done on the ground which 

 the houses are to occupy. 



Chas. Hofmeister, proprietor of the 

 Lake Washington Greenhouses, is back 

 from a visit to the Portland fair. 



The dates for the mum show are No- 

 vember 15 to 18. 



A distinguished visitor was P. O 'Mara, 

 who visited most of our leading florists. 

 Other visitors lately have been the Judd 

 brothers, of North Yakima, and J. Paris, 

 of Everett. A. B. 



MAKING A LAWN. 



The month of September is one of 

 the best times in the year to make a 

 lawn. Many people have an idea that 

 a lawn can be started in the middle of 

 winter, or very early in spring, to ad- 

 vantage, but this is not so. Kentucky 

 blue grass is used almost exclusively on 

 this coast for lawn making, unless for a 

 situation that is very shady or where it 

 is to be tramped on, in which case Aus- 

 tralian rye grass will give better results. 

 My reason for naming this month as one 

 of the best for planting any sort of a 

 lawn is that blue grass or clover will ger- 

 minate in four days and in three weeks 

 it is possible to give the first weeding. 

 In the winter, when the ground is cold, 

 it may take as long as two months for 

 the grass to show itself nicely and in the 

 meanwhile the weeds will have almost 

 choked out the good grass or clover. In 

 the summer or early fall the grass will 

 grow fully as fast as the weeds and, if 

 it be kept sufficiently moist, will form 

 a good sod before the colder weather 

 checks its growth. If the lawn has 

 been weeded a couple of times there need 

 be no further worriment about the re- 

 sult. 



The first item when planting is con- 

 templated is to see that the ground has 

 been well spaded. If it is sandy or poor 

 dig in plenty of well rotted manure and 

 after the surface has been well raked, it 

 is ready for the seed. Kentucky blue 

 grass, if the situation is favorable, 

 makes the most enduring sod. Many 

 people like a mixture of clover with it. 

 The White Dutch variety is the best for 

 this purpose and should be planted in 

 the proportion of one pound to six of 

 the other. Clover in time will tend to 

 cuoke out the blue grass, especially if 

 the situation be at all shady, but of it- 



