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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



1009 



by the thousands. All at once-^they have 

 dropped to very sitiall amounts and are 

 much in demand now, as indoor roses 

 are not yet very plentiful. Carnations 

 have improved in quality and supply 

 during the past week £ind are selling 

 well. Dahlias are not so plentiful as in 

 former years. California violets have 

 already made their appearance but are 

 not yet of good quality. 



Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Burger are back 

 from their three weeks' vacation. 



Mrs. Shuler, for many years of 322 

 AVest Saratoga street, has removed to 

 her handsome new store just three doors 

 laelow, with one of the finest store fronts 

 in the city. A. F. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market 



Good stock of all kinds continues to 

 be in very short supply. Carnations are 

 more plentiful than rdses, but they are 

 short-stemmed and wUl not be up to the 

 standard for several weeks. Asters are 

 much less plentiful and the price has 

 advanced about fifty per cent. Chrysan- 

 themums are not quite ready. A few hot- 

 house yellows and whites are shown, but 

 the outside stock will still be scarce for 

 a couple of weeks. Lilium album and 

 rubrum are nearing the end of their 

 season. Business is quiet, although I 

 think it is a trifle better, on the aver- 

 age, than that of a year ago. 



Variotti Notes. 



W. H. Skimming, of Haywards, has on 

 exhibition at the Oakland Board of 

 Trade a specimen of the Bussian sun- 

 flower weighing twenty pounds and 

 measuring eighteen inches across. 



H. M. Sanborn, of Oakland, is in 

 Portland on a two weeks' vacation. 



Eugene Buergle, gardener to F. Till- 

 man, of Fruitvale, has in bloom one of 

 the finest collections of dahlias in the 

 county. 



The town of Palo Alto is to employ a 

 landscape architect and make numerous 

 improvements, as well as plant largely 

 of trees and shrubbery on the public 

 thoroughfares this season. 



The California State Floral Society 

 had its annual dahlia show at Elks' hall 

 on Friday of last week. A very fine as- 

 sortment of blooms was exhibited, con- 

 sisting of the best of the old with a 

 number of the newer sorts. The cactus 

 dahlias attracted most of the attention. 

 The committee of arrangements was com- 

 posed of Mrs. O. D. Wheeler, Mrs. J. 

 Branin, John Hinkle and John Val- 

 lance. 



The Society of Hortensia, originally 

 composed of gardeners and florists of 

 German nationality, has appointed a 

 committee to rearrange the by-laws so 

 that the meetings will hereafter be con- 

 ducted in the English language. 



J. Monson, a gardener employed in 

 the grounds of the University of Califor- 

 nia, at Berkeley, has lost his eyesight as 

 the result of. the splashing of a mixture 

 of Paris green and whale oU soap that 

 was being used on the oak trees to de- 

 stroy the caterpillars and which acci- 

 dentally struck his face. ' 



Wm. Bheinhold, the Petaluma nursery- 

 man, is in town on a short visit. G. 



Hannah Hobart 



^ THE PRIDE OF CALIFORNIA. 



THE GRANDEST OF PINK CARNATIONS. 



▲ Bbade depper in color tban Lawson. blooms four to four and one-balf incbea acrou, full and 

 regular. Sterna Iodk and BtrouK- Does not burbt the calyx. Growth free and eaiy. A pro- 

 lific bloomer. Its fiowera wboleeale for a higher price than any other carnation in the San 

 Francisco mark> t. (see illuBtratlon and full desorlpiion in Florists' Review uf June 8 i905.) 

 Orders f«r rooted cuttinrs booked now and filled in rotation beKinning Jan. 1, 1906, at $J.OO 

 per 12; tl5 00 per 100; tUO 00 per 1000. 



JOHN H. SIEVERS & CO., 1251 Chestnut St., San Francisco, Cal. 



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20,000 SHASTA DAISIES 



Alaska, Calif ornla and Weotralia, for Fall 1906 

 and Spring: 19U6. delivery $1 00 per doz., 17.00 per 

 100. Extra aeiect seed, from largest and fullest 

 flowers only, of above. 1000 seeds. I? 00: os., 

 IT 10; ready ntw. Improved Shasta Daisy 

 "Shasta" 12 50 per 100. All Daisy plant are 

 Btronir. Beld divlsiims. well-rooted. Select Shasta 

 seed, 26c for 1600: 13 60 per oz. 



Bai bank's Ujbrld Delpbinlam, ranges 

 from iitrhtest to darkest blue, shading' to prim- 

 rose, with white and dark centers. Flowers from 

 1-ln. to IM-ln. acro-n Tra e pkt., 26c.; oz., tl.50. 

 Caah, please. 



Frid 6rohe, McDoDild Ave .Santi Rosi, Cal. 



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FREESIAS 



All Sizes, including Large s/^ Bulbs 



Ready for immediate dehvery. Also Grand Ducb 

 ess OzaUs. grandiflora, pink, white and lavender 

 in any amount. We are the California growers. 



REES & COMPERE, Vont^'SS.'^rdSi? 



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A. MITTING 



Bulb Grower 



l7-23KennanSt.,SantaGruz,Gal. 



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ANOTHER NURSERY PEST. 



John Isaac, after acting as representa- 

 tive for California in a conference with 

 the horticultural authorities of Mexico, 

 has just reported that six and perhaps 

 more states in Mexico are harboring a 

 foe of oranges and other nursery stock 

 which this coast has reason to dread. Mr. 

 Isaac was sent to the southern republic 

 because it protested against the exclu- 

 sion of Mexican fruits and plants from 

 California. He made the trip under in- 

 structions from Horticultural Commis- 

 sioner Elwood Cooper. He reports that 

 he found that thousands of citrus fruits, 

 mangoes, etc., have been destroyed with- 

 in the past three months by the Mexicans 

 in an attempt to eradicate the orange 

 maggot, which has occasioned most of the 

 damage. 



The orange maggot proceeds from the 

 eggs of the insect known as the thry- 

 peta ludens. The fecundity of this in- 

 sect is something astonishing. A written 

 statement made by Prof. Herrera, of 

 Mexico, is quoted by Mr. Isaac in his re- 

 port that the descendants of 3,000 larvae 

 at the fourth generation, or within one 

 year, number 4,500,000 in round figures. 

 Evidently the Mexicans do not object to 

 sending this blight abroad, as Prof. 

 Herrera further states that one great cir- 

 cumstance which prevents the plague 

 from spreading very fast in Mexico is 

 the fact that the greater part of the 



PIBB80NX 

 rBBAM 



AVNA 



rOBTBB 

 FBBHS 



Nephrolepis Scottii 



Per doe. Per 100 



Strong plants. 4-ln $4 00 180.00 



6-ln 6.M) 46.00 



61n 9.00 80.00 



.f4-ln 2.60 aOOO 



X8in 400 ss.eo 



(«-in 6.00 40.00 



(4in 1.60 12.00 



^6-iD 260 2000 



(6-in 400 80.00 



AS»'ABAOtrSf2H-ln 1.00 6.00 



PX;. VABUS 1 4-in 2.00 16.00 



PTBBI8 VABXETIES, 4-in... 2.00 10.00 



Aspararas PI. Banna Seeds, trae, $2.60 

 p^r 1000. $12 00 per 6000. Oasb with order. 



E. F. WAGNER, Elmhurst P. 0., Cal. 



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ALEX MANN, Jr. 



laforter mmi Dealer in 



Florists' Supplies 



4ND CUT FLOWIRS AT WHOLESALE 



1441 PO^Z 

 T«l. Ba«t 641 SAB FBAB0Z80O 



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Choice California Seeds 



ASPABAOUBrUiKh-«rade 180 80 per 100 



PbUXOSlTd < abaoluteiy fresh >- 1 60 per 1000 



BABUS (and plump. ) 10 (0 per 7000 



OABBATIOBS, BABO-HTBRIDI8BD- 



An aBSortmPDt of the bet-t varieties frnm vigor- 

 ous stock — should bio^eom in 4 months— >^ oz., 

 $3.00. Cash, please. Mouey back if not satisfied. 



F. Gilman Taylor, Glendale,Cal. 



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Calla Bulbs! 



for present delivery. 



Paper Wliite Narcissus 



for fall delivery. Send for price list. 



Ii LUDCMANN) San Franoilioo, Oal. 



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wormy fruit is exported to distant 

 places, but he also adds that if for any 

 reason the exportation of fruit was sus- 

 pended the country would soon be over- 

 run with these miserable insects. 



Mr. Isaac reports that from the inves- 

 tigation made, from the best information 

 obtainable, it appears that the pest ex- 

 ists in the states of Guerrero, Morelos, 

 Oaxaca, Tabasco and Vera Cruz and 

 quite probably also in Campeachy, Tlax- 

 cala and Yucatan. The other Mexi- 

 can states are thus far apparently free 

 from the pest. The infested section that 

 California would fear is the state of 

 Guerrero and its port of Acapulco. It 

 is one of the principal shipping point8,in 

 Mexico and there is continuous inter- 

 communication between it and Califor- 

 nia points. G. 



