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The Weekly Florists* Review* 



May 23, 1007. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



BULROROWING AT SPOKANE. 



Thirty thousand bulbs are in bloom 

 on the government-built tract of land 

 25x142 feet at Hillyard Orchard Heights, 

 four miles east of Spokane, Wash., 

 where John Van der Boesch, who has 

 made a life study of the culture of 

 hyacinths, tulips and narcissi, and a 

 small colony of Hollanders are making 

 experiments with 40,000 bulbs. Mr. Van 

 der Boesch has grown bulbs in France, 

 England, on the Channel Isle and in 

 Holland, but nowhere, he declares, has he 

 found such a combination of climatic and 

 soil conditions as is afforded in his pres- 

 ent location. 



The Hillyard tract is one of three 

 temporary stations established by the 

 government in conjunction with private 

 growers in Washington. The other two 

 are located in other parts of the state, 

 and the one which meets with the best 

 success will be made the permanent bulb 

 farm. The results at Hillyard lead Mr. 

 Van der Boesch to believe that the farm 

 will be the one chosen. 



However, there is more than soil and 

 climate in these results, and a large share 

 of the credit i? due the patient and pains- 

 taking Dutch methods of the men in 

 charge. The farm is owned by John 

 Mass and worked by growers direct from 

 the land of dikes, who bring the expert 

 experience. The plot consists of less than 

 an acre of ground, not all of which is 

 in use. It is a piece of low-lying ground 

 at the base of a hill and the soil is a 

 loose, volcanic ash, different from the 

 general soil of the valley. No horse 

 or plow is allowed on the ground. That 

 would pack the earth too much, say the 

 men in charge, and all cultivating and 

 preparing of soil is done with a spade, 

 which takes work but sinks deep and 

 leaves the ground in the best of condi- 

 tion. I'he bulbs were received from Hol- 

 land last fall and planted outside early 

 in the spring. | 



According to the contract with the gov- 

 ernment, one-tenth of the bulbs produced 

 go to the department, but there is profit 

 left for the owners for all that. The 

 government has no share in the blooms, 

 and these have been selling readily in 

 Spokane and in various cities on Puget 

 Sound. 



The capacity of the farm will be in- 

 creased next year, and already the men 

 are making preparations to lease five 

 acres adjoining the tract, which will be 

 filled with bulbs r.nd garden truck. 



AudusT Wolf. 



RANK-STEMMED CALLAS. 



I have a solid bed of callas on the 

 ground. They grow rank — will not stop 

 growing, although I quit watering them. 

 What shall I do with them so as to make 

 them die down and take a restf 



A. M. B. 



True Asparagus 

 Plumosus Seed 



Raised under lath in California, ie bo superior 

 In vitality as to be beyond comparison. We are 

 Klad to be able to announce that at last we have 

 our seed picked. It is later than 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. 



lOOOseeds $ 2.00 25,000Beeds $ 86.00 



eOOOseeds 10.00 SO.OOOseeds 66.00 



18,000 seeds 20.00 100,000 seeds 110.00 



Oasb, please. 



F. Gilman Taylor Seed Co. 



(inoorpobatxd) 

 Box 9. OLKNDALK, CAL. 



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A. M. B. does not state what his ideaj^ 

 is, or what he expects to gain by the 

 "dying down" of his bed of calla lilies. 

 Under ordinary conditions callas lose 

 their growth of stems and leaves either 

 because of the fact that moisture has 

 been withheld from them or because the 

 frost has nipped them in its annual 

 rounds. As we are now in the early 



RBD 

 FLOWKB 



■^ XF M i^ per 1000. 



size 2-ln. only, formerly used by Chase Rose 

 Co., and good goods. Los Angeles make. No 

 ooUara, no nicks (larger than ji^-ln.) No charge 

 for packing. Try sample 1000. Write for price 

 on Hotbed Sash, Ventilator Sash, Washed 8x10 

 Glass, Maatica and Half-tone Cuts. 



Chas. Howard. 2121 Park Ave., Riverside. Cal. 



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GROWN 

 BULBS. 



CALIFORNIA 



All varietief. UiuurpuiecU Catalogue 

 free. We deliver Narcissus and Daffodils 

 ■pecially early for earliest forcing^. 



THE LEEDHAM BULB CO , Santa Cruz, Cai. 



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summer and there will be little danger 

 from frost for many months to come, it 

 will be necessary to keep moisture away 

 from the bulbs, as this is the height of 

 their growing season. If there is con- 

 siderable natural moisture and this is 

 not practicable, and if A. M. B. wishes 

 to dig his bulbs and dry them off, he had 

 better take them up carefully, separate 

 them into various sizes and cut off the 

 growing stems just a short distance 

 above the roots. These can then be dried, 

 either in a dry loft or out in the open, 

 if the weather is suitable. But unless it 

 is for the purpose of transplanting either 

 to sell or replant in some other locality, 

 the writer sees no advantage in disturb- 

 ing the callas, and the fact that they 

 apparently do not wish a rest should con- 

 cern no one but themselves, for in this 

 climate the calla practically grows all 

 the time and, unless stopped by the frost 

 or summer drought, can always be de- 

 pended on to show a nice crop of green 

 leaves and an abundance of blossoms. 



G. 



SMILAX ON THE COAST. 



The proposition of sup'plying sniilax 

 for the florists' trade has become quite 

 a problem on the Pacific coast. Although 

 it is nominally a cheap article of decora- 

 tion, the demand for the last few sea- 

 sons has everywhere been far in excess 

 of the supply. As a result there has been 

 great hesitancy shown by retailers and 

 decorators in accepting orders for large 

 quantities. For several years the sale 

 for cut smilax wa^ not large and many 

 of the growers who had been forcing it 

 under glass, planted it in a shade house 

 or under some convenient spread of foli- 

 age, as it was not considered a profitable 

 crop to force in a greenhouse. 



Smilax does well with us under a shade 

 house. The principal difference between 

 that so grown and the greenhouse product 



PETINIAS. 



Oianta of California, from my Ohampion 

 Strain, 2-ln., t2.60 per 100. Seedlings from 

 plants, 11.26 per 100. 



Per 100 

 Campanula Media Calycantlieina« white 



and blue 12.00 



Coreopsis Lianoeolata Orandlflora, 2-lti. 1.60 



Dlanthna Plumarlns, 1- year- old 4.00 



Hlbiaona Crimson Bye, 1-year-old 8.60 



L,obelIa Beddlns Qaeen . 2 In 2.00 



MarKuerlte Qaeen Alexandra and 



BloUe D'Or, 2-ln 1.60 



Pentstemon, Burbank Hybrids, 2-in 2.00 



Platyoodon, 2-in 2.60 



PhysoateRla Vlrslntca, 1-year-old 8JM 



Oriental Popples, 1-year-old 8.60 



Stokesla Cyanea, 1 -year-old 4.00 



Tlolets, Princess of Wales, California, Swan- 

 ley White and Marie Loiilse, strong field 



plants 1.00 



Orders booked now for seed to be delivered fall, 

 1907. Send for list. Seed raised on contract. 



FRED GROHE, SanU Rosa, Cal. 



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Surplus Stock 



or THB PACiriC MURSKRIKB 



ETergreen Trees and Flowering Shmbs Per 100 



Aeaela florlbinda fragrans, 3 feet bigh $12.50 



Aeaela nelanoxylon, 2 feet high 12.60 



Dlosma alba, 1 to W^ feet bigh 12.60 



Eseallonia rosea, 3 feet high 14.00 



Hetrosideros semperflorenB, 2 feet bigh 15.00 



Helalenea, in 6 varieties, 2 to 3 feet bigb. . . 14.00 



Bogeaia aplcniata, 2 to 8 feet higb 16.00 



Laanis tlnos, 1 to 1>^ feet higb 14.00 



Camphor tree, 2 to 3 feet high 16.00 



Grevlllea robasta, 2^ to 3 feet higb 16.00 



Cork oaks, 1 foot high 9.00 



Plttosporam crassifolinm, 2 feet high 14.00 



Plttosponim teBOlfollnm, 2feetbigta 14.00 



Dracaena Indlvlsa, 2 feet high 10.00 



All the above plants are pot-grown and In tbe 

 most healthy condition. 25 plants will be sold at 

 100 rate. 9, LUDKBIAHN, 



S041 Baker St., San VrsuiolBoo, Cal. 

 Mention The RctIcw when yon write. 



Asparaps Plom. Seed 



latb House Orown, 1907 Crop 



100 seeds $0.25 10,000 seeds $15.00 



lOOOseeds 1.76 60.0008eedB 62.00 



Cash with order. 



Oak Grove Nurseries, S. Fleur 

 404-6 N. Los Angeles 8t. Loa AnKolos, Cstl. 



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is that the former is of a much darker 

 green and, unless cut late in the season, 

 is of less lasting quality. Under glass it 

 grows more luxuriantly and is of a much 

 lighter color, but the principal item to be 

 taken into consideration is that it will 

 produce several crops from the same 

 amount of space, while that grown out- 

 side is producing only one full crop, with 

 probably a short after-picking. 



The writer experimented last season 

 with smilax under glass and the same 

 quantity and space in a shade house and 

 the results were about as follows: Tak- 

 ing 1,000 clumps and replanting them 

 during the first week in May, with a 

 plentiful supply of well rotted manure 

 dug into the grQund and a light mulch- 

 ing and after giving each lot a thorough 

 soaking, developments were awaited. 

 Those planted under glass were in an 

 old house and those planted outside were 

 in a large lath house, which had been 

 used previously for general stock pur- 

 poses. The first cutting under glass was 

 made the first part of November, when 

 smilax was selling at $10 per hundred 

 strings of two yards each. The outside 

 smilax at this time was up to the height 

 of four feet but very bushy, and was let 

 go until Thanksgiving time and netted 

 the writer $12.50 per hundred. Both 

 patches were strung up again immedi- 

 ately after cutting, and from the in- 

 side lot another 1,000 strings were cut 



