Decembeb 7, 1905, 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



J 73 



The floral decorations were especially 

 liberal, being done by B. E. Gillis, of the 

 Park Floral Co. 



The Alpha Floral Co. handled more 

 chrysanthemums for Thanksgiving than 

 any other house, selling nearly 3,000 

 blooms during the four days. E. S. K. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



FILLING FERN DISHES. 



The making of fern dishes for the 

 holiday trade should not be neglected 

 at this time, as I have found that these 

 for the past fevp seasons have been 

 among our best selling articles. It is 

 not necessary to have them growing in 

 the pans over a couple of weeks before 

 the assortment is ready for sale, unless 

 lycopodium is used with the ferns, in 

 which case it should be given several 

 weeks longer to get it well started. This 

 also requires some extra heat, and in 

 California, unless the weather is very 

 severe, it is unnecessary to place fern 

 dishes of any kind in a temperature 

 higher than that given to cold houses. 



There is considerable disadvantage in 

 using delicate plants in fern dishes for 

 ordinary trade. They live such a short 

 time after the purchaser buys them, and 

 the store man has so much trouble to 

 keep them looking marketable in his 

 brief time of handling, that it is more 

 satisfactory all around to use such 

 plants as are known to be fairly hardy. 

 Pans from seven to nine inches in diam- 

 eter are the best size to fill. Anything 

 larger or smaller than these can be used 

 for special occasions, but as a usual 

 thing they do not sell quickly. A 7-ineh 

 pan will easily hold half a dozen plants 

 from 3-inch pots. An 8-inch pan will 

 accommodate ten plants and a 9-inch 

 pot will hold from a dozen to eighteen 

 plants. 



For the center plant use a kentia, 

 areca or a small corypha from a 3-inch 

 pot. These are all fairly hardy with 

 us and make a good showing. There 

 are many ferns that can be used around 

 the center plant. Adiantum I do not 

 consider a good plant for this purpose. 

 It can be grown to much better advan- 

 tage when alone. Pteris adiantoides, P. 

 cretica, P, albo-lineata, P, tremula and 

 P. Wimsetti are all excellent in this 

 line and in fact most of them make a 

 much better showing in proportion when 

 they are small, than when they have 

 grown larger. 



It is not a good plan to use coleus, 

 primulas, dracaenas, bejronias or any- 

 thing of a soft nature in combination 

 with our hardy ferns, although it is 

 often done, for the reason that the 

 leaves and flowers soon drop off, the 

 plants begin to look shabby and then 

 interest wanes in the rest of the outfit. 



Nephrolepis Bostoniensis, Piersoni or 

 some of the newer varieties make very 

 effective center plants and are largely 

 used for that purpose. Asparagus plum- 

 osus nanus can be used to advantage 

 Small plants of Cyrtomium falcatum and 

 Asplenium bulbiferum I have found to 

 be among our most satisfactory ferns 

 and seem to be fairly long-lived whc-n 

 taken away from the greenhouse. 



There is a good profit to be made in 

 this end of the business, and it is sur- 

 prising what an amount of odds and 

 ends of stock of such varieties we often 

 have on hand. If a little taste is used 



Hannah Hobart 



THE PRIDE OF CALIFORNIA. 

 THE GRANDEST OF PINK CARNATIONS. 



A shade deeper in color than Lawson. blooms four to four and one-half inches across, full and 

 regular. Stems long and strong. Does not burst the calyx. Growth free and easy. A pro- 

 lific bloomer. Its flowers wholesale for a higher price than any other carnation in the San 

 Francisco market. (See illustration and full description in Florists' Review of June 8, 1905.) 

 Orders for rooted cuttings booked now and filled in rotation beginning Jan. 1, 1906, at $3.00 

 per 12; $15.00 per 100; $120.00 per 1000. 



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



80,000 SHASTA DAISIES 



Alaska, California and Westralla, eirong field 

 divisions for3-lnch pots and larger, f 1.00 per doz.; 

 $7.00 per 100; $55.00 per 1000. 



Improved Daisy, Shasta, extra large field 

 divisions which can be divided Into 3 or moi-e 

 smaller ones, $2.50 per 100. Not less than 50 at 

 this rate. Per 100 



Begonias, 10 flowering var. from 2J^-in $3.00 



Coleus, large var., hybrids, 2J^-ln 2.00 



Cineraria Nana Grandlflora and Stenata,2jB-ln.2.00 



Geraniums, 10 standard var., 2-ln 1.50 



Silver Edge R. C 1.00 



Heliotrope, dark and light R. C 75 



Petunias, Dreer's Strain, double, and Giants 



of California, single, fringed R. C 1.00 



Hardy Perennials in var. 



SEED- Alaska, California and Westralla, 25c 

 per 100; $2.00 per 1000; $6.00 per oz. Improved 

 Shasta Seed, 25c per 1,500; $2.50 per oz. Hybrid 

 Delphinium, Burbank Strain, 25c per trade pkt.; 

 $2.00 per oz. Petunia Giants of California, fringed, 

 hand feriDlzed, 50c per 1000; $15.00 per oz. Cash 

 please. FRED GROHE, Santa Rosa. Cal. 

 Mention The Review when you write. 



ALEX MANN, Jr. 



Importer and Dealer In 



Florists' Supplies 



AND CUT FLOWERS AT WHOLESALE 



1441 POLK STREET 

 Tel. East 641 SAN FRANCISCO 



Mention The Review when you write. 



and some judgment about the relative 

 hardiness, there will be little trouble in 

 turning a large amount of stock that is 

 almost unsalable on account of its want 

 of size into ea.sy money in the next 

 couple of weeks, G. 



SAN FRANOSCO. 



The Market 



Thanksgiving is over and there is 

 some diversity of opinion among the 

 dealers as to whether the trade was 

 equal to expectations. The demand was 

 principally for yellow mums and red 

 carnations, although roses were cleaned 

 up. There was plenty of all kinds of 

 stock, with the possible exception of 

 fancy Beauties and Maids. The weather 

 has been very favorable during the past 

 week. Violets were in plentiful supply 

 and carnations were offered in suffi- 

 cient quantities to fill all requirements. 

 Red berries were everywhere, and with 

 some florists represented a goodly por- 

 tion of the day 's sales. 



Strange to say, the growers as a usual 

 thing did not raise the prices to the re- 

 tailers on this occasion, and as a result 

 good profits were the rule, without the 

 store men having to "cinch" their cus- 

 tomers. 



Variouf Notes. 



The new floral establishment of H. 

 M. Sanborn is the first up-to-date store 

 in that line in the town of Berkeley. 



Chas. Beebe, of the firm of Trumbull 

 & Beebe, reports their fall bulb trade 

 the largest ever handled by that house, 



100,000 ROOTED 



CARNATION CUTTINGS 



NOW READY 



LAWSON Per 100 1000 



Variegated... $7.50 $60.00 



Red 5.00 40.00 



White 3.50 30.00 



Pink 1.40 12.50 



Enchantress... 1.75 15.00 



Harlowarden.. 1.75 15.00 



Mrs. Joost 1.20 10.00 



G. Lord 1.20 10.00 



Success 1.20 10.00 



Mermaid 1.20 10.00 



Per 100 1000 



Wolcott $1.20 $10.00 



Flora Hill 1.20 10.00 



Oueen Louise.. 1.20 10.00 



Prosperity 1.40 12.60 



Argyle 1.20 10.00 



Armazindy . . . . 1.20 10.00 



Eldorado 1.20 10.00 



Mrs. P. Palmer 1.20 10.00 



Estelle 1.75 16.00 



America 1.20 10.00 



Unrooted cuttings half price of rooted cuttings. 

 25 at 100 rate; 250 at 1000 rate. Expressage prepaid 

 by U8 at above prices. 5 per cent allowed cash 

 with order. Will ship, If you wish, C. O. D.— priv- 

 ilege of examining. 



California Carnation Co., Loomis, Cai. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



My recent advertising in this magazine sold 

 out all my seed of 



ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS NANUS 



but I am pleased to say that after Dec. 1 I'll have 

 a fresh lot of very fine seed, vigorous and true to 

 name which I can sell at $1.70 per 1000; 6000 for 

 $10.00. Cash with order. 



F. Gilman Taylor, Glendale, Cal. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



ROSES 



Field-grown, low budded, 2-year-old. over 200 

 best varieties. Send for wholesale price list. 



F. LUDEMANN 

 3041 Baker St., San Francisco, Cal 



and the demand for general nursery 

 stock for the coming season beating all 

 previous records. 



The infinitesimal size of the bunches 

 of violets delivered to the stores during 

 Thanksgiving week was freely comment- 

 ed on by the retailers. It might be a 

 good plan to sell them by count in- 

 stead of by the bunch, as at present, 

 when green leaves form a large propor- 

 tion of the package. 



E. L. Stone has gone to Los Angeles 

 with the intention of starting a flower 

 store in that town. 



Some of the fruit commission mer- 

 chants are branching out considerably 

 this season and handling quantities of 

 California red berries. One firm handled 

 over 200 barrels during the past week. 



E, J. Wickson has returned from 

 southern California, where he went in 

 the interest of the horticultural depart- 

 ment of the state university, relative to 

 the establishment of a plant and seed 

 farm in that region. 



Luigi Depaoli, an Italian violet grow- 

 er, while temporarily insane on Friday 

 of last week, attacked and killed his 

 brother's wife. Both of the brothers 

 are well known among the Italian violet 

 growers and have been engaged in that 

 vocation for several years. G. 



