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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



March 15, 1906. 



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TWIN QTIES. 



The Market. 



Business the past week has not been 

 very good. Stock has been ponjing in 

 in large quantities. Some growers no 

 doubt have overestimated the demand for 

 bulbous stock, as a number of them have 

 been compelled to throw it away in large 

 quantities. While we have experienced 

 a good demand for it, it has been grown 

 in much larger quantities this seasou. 

 The forepart of the month it was very 

 cold and up to this date it has re- 

 mained so; until we get good spring 

 weather it can hardly be expected to 

 di8])ose of bulbous stock in large 

 amounts. 



Koses and carnations have been com- 

 ing in nicely; as the demand has not 

 been very heavy nearly all the florists 

 are carrying heavy stocks and the buy- 

 ers can find almost everyming they 

 want. Violets are plentiful and some 

 Ox the retailers have already begun to 

 cut the price of them, one dealer selling 

 them all week for 25 cents per bunch. 

 Greek fruit dealers have been handling 

 more stock the past week than hereto- 

 fore. On account of the surplus of stock 

 they have been able to buy cheap, and, 

 of course, sell at a greatly reduced ug- 

 ure. Trade in the Twin Cities has been 

 cut up to a large extent on account of 

 the Greeks and the department stores. 



Country trade in this section has 

 grown to large proportions, and it is 

 hard to find a florist but what is reach- 

 ing out for it. As a rule, good legiti- 

 mate prices can be obtained. 



St.PauL 



C. F. Vogt reports a great increase in 

 his country trade. This he says is due 

 to the pains he takes in selecting the 

 best stock for that trade. He does no 

 advertising whatever, but every few 

 weeks is able to add one or two new 

 customers to his list. 



One of our growers who has had poor 

 success in growing lilies and has not 

 been successful in getting them in on 

 time has our best wishes for a crop in 

 time this season. Judging from reports 

 he is going to be successful this sea- 

 son. This is his eighteenth year. 



F. G. Franke is bringing in some good 

 roses, but a glut on the market makes 

 it hard to dispose of them. 



C. Bussjaeger is preparing to build 

 one large rose house. With this addi- 

 tional house he will have six nice houses. 

 He is now cutting some nice Beauties. 



N. C. Hansen is cutting some fine vio- 

 lets, but the demand for them is not 

 heavy. They are as plentiful as all other 

 stock. 



Minneapolis. 



John Monson, of the Minneapolis 

 Floral Co., has been very successful in 

 disposing of his large stock of bulbous 

 stock. He planted 500,000 tulips alone, 

 and between his country and city busi- 

 ness has been able to dispose of large 

 numbers. 



Geo. S. Murtfeldt reports a fair busi- 

 ness. His store is one of the most at- 

 tractive in the city and he is gradually 

 building up a nice business in the face 

 of hard competition. 



Kalph Latham is well satisfied; his 

 large acquaintance brings considerable 

 trade. He makes it a point to always 

 carry a good stock. Felix. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



Los Angeles, Cal. — At a meeting of 

 the board of directors of the Southern 

 California Horticultural Society, held 

 March 1 at the rooms of the secretary, 

 the following officers were elected: 

 President, Walter Raymond; vice-presi- 

 dent, Fred H. Howard ; secretary, Ernest 

 Braunton, Los Angeles; treasurer, Jacob 

 Dietrich, Los Angeles; directors, H. W. 

 O'Melveny, Walter Raymond, J. W. 

 Walters, E. H. Rust, Fred H. Howard, 

 J. G. Morley, T. H. Wright. 



EXTERMINATING GREENFLY. 



Would you kindly tell me a good and 

 sure remedy for greenfly on outdoor 

 stock in southern California? This 

 is the first season they have troubled 

 me. I tried the hose on them, but they 

 seemed to be twice as many the next 

 day. F, 8. 



From the above query I take it that 



the correspondent has made an effort 

 to destroy the greenfly by turning a i 

 force of water on tnem ■from a hose. This- • 

 remedy he will find quite effective if he 

 persists in using it with a good force 

 behind the nozzle. One or two appli- 

 cations will not be sufficient but if it 

 is kept up three times a week for sev- 

 eral weeks he will have no trouble with 

 the annoying greenfly. It is possible to > 

 entirely eradicate them with whale oil 

 soap, made in a solution, using one 

 pound to five gallons of water. This, 

 however, takes a great deal of trou- 

 ble and if there is considerable space 

 to cover it uses up quite a quantity of 

 material. If only a few plants are to be 

 treated it makes but little difference, 

 as it is easily applied with a sponge 

 or brush. 



I have had good success with a good 

 stream of water applied with plenty of 

 force behind it, and nave yet to see any- 

 thing in the line of growing plants that 

 could not be kept entirely free from 

 greenfly if the application be kept up 

 for a week or two at intervals of several 

 days. G. 



MUMS WITH CARNATIONS. 



Will you inform me whether or not 

 I can grow carnations and chrysanthe- 

 mums successfully in the same house ' 

 under Oregon climatic conditions, and 

 what is the proper temperature for 

 each. R. W. M. 



Chrysanthemums and carnations can 

 be grown in the same house, although it 

 is quite a waste of room to grow the 

 former in beds, as they are fully as 

 easily handled in boxes and urought into 

 the house from six to eight weeks be- 

 fore they, are expected to blossom. I do 

 not know whether the correspondent has 

 any use for the benches he proposes to 

 devote to them, but as the season is very 

 short they can be put almost anywhere 

 to perfect the blooms, then thrown out 

 and the space utilized for other stock. 



If he intends to plant them in solid 

 beds they can be grown with little trou- 

 ble in the same temperature as that 

 given to carnations. They require plen- 

 ty of air and unless for the very late 

 blooming sorts, the temperature need 

 never be kept over 50 degrees at night; 



