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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



AuoDST 9, 1906. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



PORTLAND, ORE. 



The Market 



The state of trade may be summed 

 up in a few words, an occasional busy 

 time with funeral work. The hot 

 weather has driven society folks to the 

 mountains and seaside, while others of 

 less means are camping out in the 

 suburbs, so there is not much doing 

 socially. There is a fair supply of good 

 flowers, with sweet peas and auratum 

 lilies in the supremacy. 



A, Call on Local People. 



Portland is now experiencing a 

 phenomenal growth, which began with 

 the interest manifested in the Lewis 

 and Clark fair, perceptibly increasing 

 since the San Francisco disaster. Quite 

 a few florists were among the thousands 

 who have come here in the last month. 

 The writer, who is enjoying a month's 

 vacation, and is on a wager to walk 

 twenty miles a day, is pleased with the 

 opportunity of locating some of them. 

 8o we journeyed out to Mount Tabor, 

 which is essentially the growers' dis- 

 trict, and there first met three enter- 

 prising young Germans, who comprise 

 the Montavilla Floral Co. Purchasing 

 ten acres of land on an eastern slope, 

 which commands a splendid view of a 

 fertile valley and towering mountain 

 and has a good speculative value, these 

 young men have started right. They 

 are building five new houses and will do 

 a general business, with landscape work 

 as a side feature. 



Almost opposite is T. V. Sluman, the 

 nurseryman, who owns twelve acres of 

 Portland realty and is now enjoying 

 a competency after twelve years of hard 

 work here. Over to the left Fred 

 Broetje is gradually enlarging his bank 

 account by growing fancy fruits and 

 flowers on his 3-acre tract, for the lead- 

 ing clubs and restaurants. 



Walking toward the city we made the 

 acquaintance of Thomas EUingham, who 

 is just branching out as a grower, with 

 5,000 feet of glass. He was most cordial 

 and enthusiastic, and hoped Portland 

 would soon have a florists' club. Two 

 blocks further and we received the glad 

 hand of F. A. Van Kirk, who built his 

 first greenhouse a year ago, and now 

 owns 6,000 feet. A house of tomatoes 

 is proving a good asset during the dull 

 weeks. 



Right in the same block, which is a 

 big one, stands the splendidly built 

 range of houses of Martin & Forbes, 

 a credit to the owners and the city. 

 Everything required for a first-class 

 store is grown here, roses being a strong 

 feature with them. We can truthfully 

 state that finer blooms were not seen 

 anywhere in the country than those 

 grown in this establishment in the last 

 three years. George Spencer is in 

 charge of this branch. 



A little further on we bumped up 

 against the L. G. Pfunder place. The 

 veteran was not there, but we learned 

 from Albert Herbert, his foreman for 

 the last two years, that Mr. Pfunder 

 responds to the roll call as regularly as 

 a deacon to his church duties. Although 

 the proprietor has prospered to such an 

 extent that he might retire from active 

 business, yet it is pleasing to note that 



160,000 Califorflia Grown BULBS 



PerlOO PerlOOO 



Narcissos Paper White tl.SO $10.00 



NafcissuB Grand Monarque.... 2.00 15.00 



Narcissus Grand Primo 2.00 14.00 



Narcissas GlorloEus 2.00 16.00 



Narcissus Incomparabilis 



Cynosure 1.60 10.00 



PerlOO PerlOOO 

 Narelf SUB Incomparabilis 



Figaro $1.60 $10.00 



Narcissas Incomparabilis 



Dontle : 1.50 10.00 



Calla Lily Bulbs, l-lnoh dia 2.50 20.00 



Calla Lily Bulbs. l>^-iticbdia... 8.50 30.00 



Calla Lily Bulbs, 2-inch dia 6.00 50.00 



Freight prepaid if cash is sent witb order. 250 at 1000 rate. 



A. MITTING, 17 to 23 Kennan St.. Safltd CfUZ, Cdl. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Califorflia Seeds 



SKLBCT STOCK 



Coamoa (tall), pink, white or yellow, per lb. $1.60 

 Masturtiuin (tall), Jupiter or OroeBos " .40 

 8^r««t PMMt separate colors, some new 



Tarieties perlb. .20 



California Giants, mixed " .18 



Petunias, Giants of California %ot. 8.00 



Gash please. Money back if not sattsfied. 



r. Gilman Taylor Seed Co. 



Box 04, GLKNDAUi. CAL. 



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SHASTA DAISIES 



Alaska, Oallfomia and Westralla seed and 

 plants. 



Petunias— Giants of California, band fertil- 

 ized, from choicest collection. Orders booked 

 now for fall delivery. Also other seeds. Send 

 for list and prices to 



FRED GBOHB, Santa Roaa. Cal. 



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his ambition and pride in the profession 

 have not diminished. 



Diagonally across, a lofty sign reads, 

 ' ' The Tonseth Co. ' ' This firm has made 

 great progress in the last two years. 

 Their latest houses are models in con- 

 struction, and the output there may be 

 classed among the best. After this call 

 we turned toward home, hungry and 

 a little bit tired. 



THE OUTLOOK FOR FALL. 



As we are now well up to the season 

 for replanting carnation houses, I have 

 made a tour among some of our princi- 

 pal growers in the neighborhood of San 

 Francisco to see what is being done, es- 

 pecially in the line of getting ready for 

 the coming season's output of flowers. 

 I find quite a diversity of opinion among 

 the various growers as to how far they 

 are justified in continuing the expense 

 of changing and purchasing new stock. 

 The general opinion seems to be that 

 there will be too many flowers produced 

 this winter for the decreased demand. 

 Some growers are optimistic, and de- 

 clare there will not be too much good 

 stock in any event, calling attention to 

 the fact that there have been practi- 

 cally no new commercial places started 

 this season, and many thousands of feet 

 of glass have been discarded, as far as 

 forcing roses or carnations is concerned. 



It is a fact that we have at the pres- 

 ent time a dozen first-class floral estab- 

 lishments, as against seventy-five four 

 months ago. San Francisco used at least 

 eighty per cent of the stock grown within 

 a radius of twenty miles, and, as there 

 are no prospects for any rush in the way 

 of starting new retail establishments, it 

 is hard to see where there will be an out- 



Wholesale Prices 



Cut Flowers 



- ' Per 100 



Gunations $0.50 to $L0O 



Roses. LOO to 3.00 



Sweet Peas J.0 



Centaureas .50 



Asparagus sprays lUX) 



Asparagus strings, 10 ft long, each, .25 



SIGNAL HILL FLORAL CO. 



S41 8. Lob Aneeles St. 

 LOS ANGELES, ■ ■ CAL. 



Mention The Rerlew when you write. 



Calla Bulbs! 



for August delivery. 



Paper White Narcissus 



for Pall delivery. Send for price list. 



F llinFIIAIill S041 Baker St.. 



I I LUULRIfinn) San Francisco, Cal. 



Hentloo The Bevlew when yoa write. 



ALEX MANN, JR. 



Importer and Dealer in 



FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 



Cut Flowers* Galax Leaves 



Also Wlilte Doves, $9.00 par dos. 



2041 Pine St. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 



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let for over fifty per cent of the goods 

 produced. 



The shipping of flowers to various 

 California, Nevada and Oregon points 

 has shown the way to dispose of a large 

 , quantity of stock, and the orders have 

 been generally well divided among the 

 growers. This, however, presents but a 

 poor substitute to the grower who, un- 

 der the usual conditions, could always 

 dispose of his entire crop at good fig- 

 ures. 



The housing of young stock, I find, 

 has been progressing slowly, with a large 

 majority of the young plants yet in the 

 fields. Several of our largest wholesale 

 growers, who usually devote quite a 

 space on their benches to new varieties 

 of carnations, have not invested in any 

 of the well advertised sorts, but have 

 devoted their houses to the better known 

 and older kinds. 



With roses there will be even less 

 planting of new stock. The rule has 

 been in a majority of cases to dry out 



