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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



March 28, 1907. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



Los Angeles, Cal. — A big flower show 

 is being planned by the Southern Cali- 

 fornia Horticultural Society for this city 

 for the week beginning May 1. This 

 will be at the time of the conclave of 

 the Mystic Shriners. 



PORTLAND, ORE. 



Current G)mment. 



While the forces at the stores are 

 easily disposing of all available stock, 

 the proprietors are preparing for what 

 we hope later to declare the greatest 

 Easter on record. We have not been 

 able to do much "rubbering," but from 

 the fine potted samples on display this 

 week we are convinced that the growers 

 are on an enforced "March" and are 

 apt to fool all of us before April 1. 



Our window attractions of late have 

 been of much interest to the public, and 

 originality and novelty are the cause of 

 much comment. Neatness and skill are 

 always commendable and as an incentive 

 to these attributes a prize was offered 

 to the merchants in general by the 

 Hibernian bank for the best display em- 

 blematic of St. Patrick's day. This was 

 won by Clarke Bros., who showed the 

 genuine shamrock growing in small pots 

 and various bark arrangements. An 

 amusing incident occurred when an old 

 rancher came into the store to price 

 them and when told that the small pots 

 sold for 25 cents each, exclaimed: 

 "Gosh, durn! You fellers must be mak- 

 ing a pile of money down here. All last 

 summer my farm was kivered with that 

 stuff. We call it sheep sorrel up thar." 

 The trimmings were green and there 

 were green carnations; in fact, every- 

 thing was green, including the prize 

 money, which was paid in greenbacks. 



Expansion seems to be the ambition 

 of all this spring. William Martin 

 (formerly Martin & Forbes) tells us he 

 is planning for three new houses. 



Morton & Son, who located at Hills- 

 boro last year, need more room for the 

 growth of a healthy trade and will add 

 two new houses. 



Martin Beukauf, of Bayersdorf er 's, 

 Philadelphia, was here last week and 

 filled us up with new ideas which we 

 wiH make practical use of at Easter. 

 And then eatme Arnold Ringier, of the 

 Barnard Co., Chicago, much delayed on 

 account of washouts between here and 

 PYisco. We cannot imagine two more 

 conscientious workers than these two 

 gentlemen, always interesting and ready 

 for business. They confirm all previous 

 reports of a splendid trade along the 

 c»ast. H. J. M.- 



SAN FRANOSOa 



The Market 



Incessant rain for the last week has 

 put a damper on everything in this vi- 

 cinity. The total rainfall for the sea- 

 son is twenty-three inches, against sev- 

 enteen and one-half inches a year ago, 

 and the end is not yet. This, in addi- 

 tion to the fact that Lent still contin- 

 ues, gives the dealers but little to be 

 thankful for at this time. The retail 

 stores are piled high with everything in 

 the flower line and, although the whole- 

 salers and growers have but a small 



True Asparagus 

 Plumosus Seed 



Raised under lath in California, is so superior 

 In vitality as to be beyond comparison. We are 

 Rlad to be able to announce tbat at last we have 

 our seed picked. It is later tban usual this year, 

 owing to long, continued cold rain, but tbe seed 

 is all the better for it. 



We can guarantee delivery from now on. 



1000 seeds $ 2.00 



6000 seeds 10 00 



25,000 seeds $ 35.00 



50,000 seeds 65.00 



18,000 seeds 20.00 100,000 seeds 110.00 



Cash, please. 



F. Gilman Taylor Seed Co. 



(incoepobatkd) 

 Box 9. GLENDALS, CAL. 



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SHASTA DAISIES 



^ ALASKA, CALIFORNIA, WESTRALIA^^ 



Strong, field-grown divisions, true to namet 

 $2 50 per 100. Express paid for cash with order. 



The LeeJIiam Bulft Cc^lanra cruz, Cai. 



rSSnd BIG BARGAIN %«Vl 



Size, 2-lnch only. Los Angeles make. No col- 

 lars. No nicks (larger than H inch). Formerly 

 used by Chase Rose Company and all good goods 

 at 12.50 per 1000 1 o b. Riverside, Cal. Freight 

 rate Kiverslde to Saa Francisco. 62c per 100 lbs.; 

 to Portland and Seattle. 97c per 100 lbs. Weight, 

 250 ihs. per 1000 pots. Sample box, (>20 pota for 

 $1.50 f. o. b. Write for price on 3xG sash. 



CHAS. HOWiBD, 21«1 Park lTe.,Biv«isld«,Ca. 



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amount of stock to cut, owing to the 

 continued dark weather, there is still 

 more than enough to go around. 



There is the usual scarcity, however, 

 of fancy Beauties, but with other roses 

 and all varieties of carnations, there is 

 an abundance. Bulbous stock is at a 

 standstill. Valley is to be had at a 

 lower price than I have seen it in many 

 years. Easter lilies hold their own, 

 however, and, unless we have an im- 

 provement in weather in a few days, 

 there may be less on hand than the in- 

 terested parties anticipate. They are 

 being sold by the growers at from $2 

 to $3 per dozen for cut stems and pot- 

 ted lilies at from $6 to $9 per dozen. 



Violets are plentiful, but they are get- 

 ting weak of stem and light in color and 

 they will soon end when the weather be- 

 comes warmer. 



Green stock, with the exception of 

 smilax, is abundant, and the weather 

 favors everything in that line. 



Business in all the bay cities is prac- 

 tically at a standstill at present. 



Various Notts. 



F. Heim, superintendent of the Uni- 

 versity Nurseries, will plant half a mil- 

 lion young redwood trees in the hills 

 back of Berkeley. The trees are from 

 the state forest preserves in Mendocino 

 county. 



John Jack, gardener to the Sharon 

 estate, at Menlo Park, is making prepa- 

 rations to lay out a 200-acre park this 

 season. 



A large iron boiler-house and packing 

 shed has been erected by Domoto Bros., 

 to replace one of wood recently de- 

 stroyed by fire at their Central avenue 

 nursery, Elmhurst. 



Malcom Lamond, head gardener to 

 the city of Oakland, has a treat for the 

 citizens • of that town in the fact that 

 he has the finest show of spring flower- 

 ing bulbs ever seen in the City Hall 

 park. 



The florists' fraternity are gradually 



SHASTA DAISY 



Alaska, California and Westralla. extra atrong 

 .field dlTisionB, from divisions of Mr. Burbank'a 

 original stock, 0.60 per 100; 123.50 per 1000. Small 

 plants, lust right for 8-inch pots, 11.36 per 100; 

 tll.00 per 1000. 



Cyolamen Per. Olganteum. 2-ln., 16 per 100. 



Cineraria, Prize Strain, 4-inch, ti.OO per 100. 



Shasta Daisy Seeds of Alaska, California 

 and Westralla only, 60c per 1000; 18.60 per oz. 



Fetania Oiants of California, a good strain, 

 60c per 1000; tl.50 per H oz.; tlO.OO per oz. 



Champion Strain — After years of careful 

 selection and hand fertilizing, using only the 

 most perfect flower for that purpose, I have at 

 last obtained a strain that cannot be surpassed 

 by anyone. Trial pkt. of 260 seeds, 26c; 1000 seeds, 

 76c; >^oz., 13.60; oz., 116.00. Cash, please. 



Hybrid Delphinium, Burbank's Strain, all 

 shades of blue. This strain Las been much 

 Improved the past year. 36c per 1000 seeds; 

 11.50 per oz. 



Send for list of other seeds to 



FRED GROHE, Santa Roaa, Cal. 



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■a^vcRC Field-Grown, I^ow-Bndded, 

 KV9C9 Two Tears Old. Well Rooted. 



Climbinsr Roses— Papa Gontler. tl.OO each. 

 Mme. Caroline Testout, 118.00 per 100. Kalserin 

 Augusta Victoria, 113.00 per 100. Beauty of Bu- 

 rope, tlO 00 per 100. Bridesmaid, 110.00 per 100. 



American Beanty, 118.00 per 100. 



Mme. Caroline Testont. 11200 per 100. 



Fran Karl Dmscbki, 120.00 per 100. 

 Send for Rose Price List. 



FW ■II^EAflAlkliU 804 1 Baker St. 

 • LUlfliniAnini SanFranoisco.Cal. 



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200,000 

 CALLA BULBS 



Orders now booked for July, August 

 and September, 



17 to 23 Kennan St. 



SANTA CRUZ, CAL. 



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getting down into the burned district 

 and locating themselves there. Two 

 stores have been opened on Sixteenth 

 street during the last week. 



F. Bioletti, of Berkeley, has issued a 

 pamphlet of great interest to vineyard- 

 ists, regarding recent experiments per- 

 formed on phylloxera. 



C. C. Morse & Co. have absorbed the 

 Cox Seed Co., including its holdings in 

 San Francisco, Oakland, Livermore and 

 other places. The Cox Seed Co. is one 

 of the oldest concerns on the coast and 

 did a large plant and tree business, in 

 addition to its seed trade. C. C. Morse 

 & Co. are the successors of E. J. Bowen, 

 recently deceased. G. 



A. MiniNG. 



PROnT ON BULB STOCK. 



This season is what might be temled 

 an off year for bulbs and, although the 

 crop of flowers is not yet entirely har- 

 vested, the bulb season in the vicinity 

 of San Francisco is near enough to the 

 end to recapitulate. I eliminate Easter 

 lilies from the list, as it is yet a little 

 too soon to figure out profits on them. 



First in importance are the Paper 

 White narcissi. These have not been 

 an especially paying crop, nor were any 

 of the daffodil family, with the excep- 

 tion of Ard Reigh, which netted the 

 growers $5 per hundred, and at the 

 present time Emperor is paying well at 

 $2.50 per hundred. These are the larg- 

 est prices realized, however, on these 

 articles, and for the ordinary sorts, flow- 

 ering in between, not over from 50 cents 

 to $1 per hundred was received. These 

 prices, of course, do not pay for the 

 trouble of growing and handling, but 

 they give the correct estimate of the 

 paying quality of these flowers. Many 



