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TheWeekly Florists* Review. 



July 25, 1907. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



The nursery and seed trade both re- 

 port a heavy demand for eucalyptus the 

 past season and the outlook for the next 

 one is still better. 



Alden Anderson, manager of the Cal- 

 ifornia-Fruit Distributors, proposes that 

 every nurseryman doing business in Cal- 

 ifornia be required to take out a li- 

 cense. 



Los Angeles, Cal. — Howard & Smith 

 have planted another five acres to palms 

 and dracsenas at Montebello and will 

 soon begin another five acres of lath 

 house. ' 



The Yakima Valley Nursery, of North 

 Yakima, Wash., has been incorporated, 

 with $6U,000 authorized capital stock. The 

 incorporators are William D. Ingalls and 

 Inga J. Ingalls. 



Spokane, Wash. — Articles of incor- 

 poration of the Spokane Nursery Co. 

 have been drawn, with a capitalization 

 of $50,000. The trustees are H. C. Rice, 

 J. H. Munn, J. \J. Harris and E. L. 

 Rice. The company intends to erect 

 several greenhouses near Spokane. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market 



Business continues to be quiet; in fact, 

 it has never been known to be at a lower 

 ebb than it is at present. In any line of 

 trade there is much complaining by the 

 merchants, and the florists' bosiness suf- 

 fers with the rest. The first two days of 

 last week found considerable funeral 

 work at the stores, but since that time 

 things have lapsed into a profound slum- 

 ber. There is no great surplus of flow- 

 ers, however, both roses and carnations 

 being used up well for the growers. With 

 outside stock there is a good surplus on 

 hand, and dahlias, gladioli, sweet peas, 

 coreopsis, gaillardia and material of that 

 nature are of very slow sale. 



The weather has been favorable thus 

 far this summer. The thermometer does 

 not usually rise higher than 70 degrees 

 in the warmest part of the day, and the 

 influence of such favorable conditions 

 continues to be noticeable in the quality 

 of the stock produced. Roses and carna- 

 tions, especially, show much better stems 

 and foliage than is customary during 

 June and July and there is a noticeable 

 absence of thrips and mildew. 



Over in Oakland, a tour among the re- 

 tailers shows like conditions prevailing, 

 although there has been a fair sprinkling 

 of funeral orders, which seem to be well 

 divided up among the various retailers. 

 From present indications it will be some 

 time before affairs brighten up much, and 

 the floral fraternity will have to exercise 

 considerable patience. 



Various Notes. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 California State Floral Society was held 

 last week At the residence of Henry 

 Tricon, on Hayes street. Quite a lot of 

 seasonable flowers were displayed and a 

 very fair attendance made a pleasant 

 meeting. 



Miss Roberts, the well-known decorator 

 of Berkeley, reports several large home 

 decorations in prospect for next month. 



W. J. Graham, of East Oakland, has 

 turned his greenhouse into a mushroom 



400,000 MORE CALLA 

 LILY BULBS >ETHIOPICA 



Sbtpments made day order is received. A Rreat many florists 

 are orderinK Oalla Bulbs to plant after mums. Safe arrival guar- 

 anteed. All bulbs are prepaid by freisbt. If wanted by expreas 

 1 prepay 2>^c lb., you pay the balance. 



CALLA BULBS, AXTHIOPICA 



9 and 10 inches circumference $9.50 per 100; $85 00 per 1000 



7 and 8 inches circumference 7.60 per 100; 65.00 per 1000 



5 and 6 inches circumference 5.00 per 100; 40.00 per 1000 



3 and 4 inches circumference 8.00 per 100; 20.00 per 1000 



Cash with order. 25 at 100 rate. 250 at lOOO rate. 



A. MITTING irr&'KU'r'sV Santa Cruz, Cal. 



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house and is cutting heavily at this time. 

 The market is active at 50 cents per 

 pound. 



Geo. J. Harding will take a trip to the 

 southern portion of the state during the 

 coming week.* He expects to be gone' 

 until the end of August. 



Inquiry among the dealers in green- 

 house glass discloses the fact that there 

 is nothing doing in the line of commer- 

 cial building at this time. 



P. J. Thorsted, of Fruitvale, is cut- 

 ting an extra heavy lot of Enchantress 

 and Lawson now. His stock looks tip- 

 top, both indoors and outside. G. 



SULPHUR IN DRIED FRUITS. 



A matter of great importance to the 

 fruit industry of California was dis- 

 cussed very thoroughly at a meeting of 

 the Fruit Growers' Protective Associa- 

 tion, which met at San Francisco last 

 week. The combined members are voic- 

 ing the indignation of the growers and 

 shippers against the action of the Wash- 

 ington authorities in the Department of 

 Agriculture ignoring the requests that an 

 increased amount of sulphur may be 

 used in the preservation of dried fruits, 

 over and above the amount prescribed by 

 the recent pure food act. Despite indig- 

 nant complaints, the only answer obtain- 

 able from Washington is that Secretary 

 Wilson is out of town and no action can 

 be taken. 



The complaint of the association is 

 that the pure food act allows the use of 

 but .070 of one per cent in the drying 

 and preservation of fruit. The growers 

 claim that .250 is necessary to obtain 

 the best product and that the use of 

 sulphur fumes has worked no injury to. 

 consumers in the past and could not pos- 

 sibly do so in the future. 



One week ago the association organ- 

 ized in the offices of the California Pro- 

 motion Committee, where the campaign 

 to have a reconsideration of the ruling 

 by the Washington department origi- 

 nated. At the meeting it was suggested 

 that the association invite every grower 

 in California to wire Washington for in- 

 structions as to a way in which they may 

 dry their fruit properly and yet conform 

 to the law. There are more than 8,000 

 fruit growers in the state interested in 

 the matter, 'and the association consid- 

 ered the advisabilty of asking them to 

 wire Washington as individuals or as 

 affiliated associations. Another method 

 was suggested by H. C. Rowley, tem- 

 porary secretary. He argued that the 

 association should hire counsel to take 

 up the matter at W^ashington, or to sug- 

 gest a way Avhereby the interests of Cali- 

 fornia's fruit growers might not be af- 

 fected disastrously. It was decided, 

 however, to await answer from Washing- 



ALL SOLD OliT CLEAN 



Didn't have half enough bulbs 

 for the demand. 



RUDOLPH FISCHER 



Santa Anita, Loa An|fele> Co., Cal. 



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CALLA LILY BULBS 



Large, healthy bulbs. 

 Also Narcissus, T.llhim LonBflflonun and 

 Longrlflorum Multlfloruin. Send for cata- 

 logue. 



F. LUDEMANN, Pacific Nuraeries, 



3041 Baker St., San Franolsco, Cal. 



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Make a Club Order ^tb.'c&Kad 



Dracaena Indivlsa, 2 to 3 ft, 40c; 3 to 4 ft., 60c; 

 4 to 5ft., 80c; 6 to 6 ft., tl.UU; 6 to 8 ft., $1.50. Kentla 

 Foraterlana, 2 to 3 ft.. 75c; 3 to 4 ft., 11.76; 4 to 5 

 ft., 12.75; 5 to 6 ft., 14.00. Ptychosperma Alexan* 

 drae and Heaforthia Klegans, 2 to 3 ft., 60c; 3 to 

 4 ft, $1.00; 4 to 5 ft, $1.75; 5 to G ft., $2.25. Pho«nlz 

 Canarlensls, 5 to 6 ft., $1.75; 6 to 7 ft, tS.SO; 7 to 8 

 ft, $3.00. Washlnictonia Robntta, 4 to 6 ft, 

 $1.25; 5 to 6ft, $1.50; 6 to 7 ft., $2.00. 

 EXOTIC BIDBSKBIE8, SANTA BARBARA, CAL. 



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Shasta Daisy and Petunia 



"Giants of California" my specialty. My 

 cbampion strain of seeds can not be sarpassed. 

 Try it. Send for list of all seeds. Orders booked 

 DOW for fall delivery. 



FRED 6R0HE, Santa Rosa, Gal. 



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Fnr 9 Ro9llfiflll show of flowers sow a bench 

 rUI d UOdUIIIUI with Nasturtium Seed. Quick 

 results in ilowers of surpassing beauty. Plants will 

 furnish thousands of cuttingrs this fall. See classified 

 adv. for seed. WKEK8 A CO. 



Sawtelle, Los Anareles Co., Cal. 

 Menlicn The Review when yjon write. 



ton upon the arrival of Secretary Wil- 

 son. 



The fruit growers claim that they were 

 misled by Chief Chemist Wiley, of the 

 department, who is said to have assured 

 them that the proposed act in relation to 

 sulphur would not affect their interests. 

 Now that the act has become a law, they 

 have found it deleterious to their inter- 

 ests. 



The officers of the association are: 

 President, Philo Hersey, San Jose; vice- 

 president, A. E. Castle, San Francisco; 



