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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



AuODST 8, 1907. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



Seattle, Wash. — L. P. Walz has 

 opened a retail store at 1608 Second 

 avenue. He has rose gardens in West 

 Seattle. 



Charles W. Howard, who purchased 

 the Chase Eose Co., at Kiverside, Cal., 

 has invested in a tract at Hemet, where 

 he will build greenhouses and plant a 

 large quantity of roses. 



North Yakima, Wash. — Judge 

 Kauffman has refused the application 

 for the appointment of a receiver for the 

 North Yakima and Wapato nurseries 

 made in a suit for an accounting brought 

 against Tim Kelly by J. C. Campbell, 

 his former partner. The suit arose over 

 the transfer by Campbell of his interest 

 in the nurseries to the Washington Nur- 

 sery Co., a rival of Kelly's in the busi- 

 ness, and which transfer Kelly declined 

 to recognize. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market. 



Trade continues quiet, but with some 

 signs of a resumption in the near future. 

 The weather has turned cooler, with more 

 or less fog in the evening, and at no 

 time during the day does the tempera- 

 ture rise to over 60 degrees. We have 

 had a markedly cool summer, and from 

 all points of view I am inclined to think 

 that fact favors both the growers and 

 the retailers. An early exodus from the 

 near-by summer resorts can be expected, 

 and with the opening of the schools in 

 a short time we look for an early com- 

 mencement of fall trade. 



The quality of carnations offered is 

 decidedly better than anything shown at 

 this season heretofore. The cooler 

 weather, which has been so long con- 

 tinued, accounts for the fact and the 

 prices have remained very fair, so that 

 the growers have fared very well. There 

 has been so little waste from thrips or 

 any of the summer blights that every- 

 thing has been well cleaned up. With 

 roses the same conditions prevail, and 

 although the demand has been light, the 

 quality of the stock has been of the 

 highest order and the growers have little 

 trouble in disposing of their stocks. 

 Many houses are now being replanted 

 and this will make a shortage for at least 

 a month. Asters are coming in freely 

 and the quality thus far has been excel- 

 lent. They cost the stores from $1 to $3 

 per hundred flowers. 



Various Notes. 



The Holland Nursery Co., of Elm- 

 httrst, is very busy at this time making 

 changes in the carnation houses. The 

 stock throughout looks very well. 



P. J. Meyer & Co., of Burlingame, are 

 cutting heavily from their Enchantress 

 houses. The quality is very good and 

 finds a ready sale in town. 



D. Raymond, of the Garden City Pot- 

 tery, San Jose, is in town. Mr. Ray- 

 mond's company controls fully seventy- 

 five per cent of the output of pots on 

 this coast. He will make an extended 

 •trip to the south in a few days. 



James O'Neill, the pioneer nurseryman 

 of Haywards, is in town for a few days. 

 Mr. O'Neill will retire from the nursery 

 business at the conclusion of the coming 

 season. 



Chas. D. Fellows will leave on an ex- 



400,000 MORE OALLA 

 LILY BULBS iETHIOPICA 



Shipments made day order is received. A great many florists 

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

 anteed. All bulbs are prepaid by freight. If wanted by express 

 I prepay 2J4c lb., you pay the balance. 



CAIXA BULBS, AKTHIOPICA 

 9 and 10 inches circumference 59.60 per 100; $86 00 per 1000 



7 and 8 inches clrcuin (erence 7.60 per lOo; 65 00 per 1000 



6 and 6 inches circumference 6.00 per 100; 40 00 per 1000 



8 and 4 inches circumference 3.00 per 100: 20.00 per 1000 



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



A. MITTING irr^^K^n'^sV Santa Cruz, Cal. 



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tended eastern trip in a few days. He 

 will visit all the large towns and return 

 early in October. 



The aster fields in the vicinity of San 

 Mateo present a healthy appearance at 

 this time. Without exception, they are 

 in better condition than that of last year 

 or the previous years. The long continued 

 cool weather has favored the growers 

 tremendously. G. 



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



It is a source of considerable satisfac- 

 tion to the horticultural interests of Cali- 

 fornia that the government has recog- 

 nized the importance of the fruit, vege- 

 table, seed and allied industries. Under 

 the auspices of the Department of Agri- 

 culture the government is maintaining 

 special bureaus in this state for the 

 study of the different elements affect- 

 ing fruit, vegetable and " seed produc- 

 tions. 



The Bureau of Soils has headquarters 

 at Sacramento. The soils of various sec- 

 tions of the state have been carefully 

 studied and maps issued, with bulletins. 

 The bulletin tells what each of these 

 areas is adapted to and also gives an ac- 

 curate description of the horticultural 

 conditions in that section, covering water 

 supply and climatic conditions. A pro- 

 spective grower may take one of these 

 pamphlets and go to any of the sections 

 described, and if pleased with a certain 

 section of land he can refer to the 

 pamphlet and ascertain the constituents 

 of the soil he is about to locate on, 

 learning also what he can plant thereon 

 and what results he should expect. 



The Bureau of Plant Industry during 

 the last winter has been conducting field 

 investigations in pomology throughout 

 southern California, and has tested the 

 packing of oranges and lemons thorough- 

 ly, showing which fruit decays when the 

 sound fruit, unbrushed, is packed, when 

 it has been brushed, when it has been 

 washed in clean water, when washed in 

 dirty water and when fruit has been in- 

 jured. Investigations as to the decay 

 in fruit shipped under ventilation and 

 that shipped under ice and under the 

 new pre-cooUng process, together with 

 cold storage experiments, have furnished 

 considerable information for orange and 

 lemon growers. 



The department has also waged a tre- 

 mendous fight against the pe&r blight, 

 under the direction of E. B. Waite. Three 

 men have been working on walnut inves- 

 tigations, while the experiment station 

 at Chico has employed the time of a 

 number of men. 



With the cooperation of the State Hor- 

 ticultural Commission, many of the for- 

 mer pests which afflicted the fruit grow- 

 ers of California have almost £sap- 

 peared. E. J. Wickson, Elwood Cooper, 



CALLA LILY BULBS 



Large, bealthv bulbs. 

 Also NarolasuB, Lillum LonBlflorum and 

 LonBiflorum MultUloruin. Send for cata- 

 logue. 



F. LUDEMANN, Pacific Nui«BerieB» 



3041 Baker St. . Ban Fruioisoo, Cal. 



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Make a Club Ordpr ^th.'oJrHJ^i 



Drnca«na iDdivUa, 2 to 3 ft., 40c; 3 to 4 ft., 60c; 

 4 to 6 ft., 80c; 5 to 6 ft., 11 tK); 6 to 8 ft. . $1.60. Kcntla 

 Forsierlaoa. 2 to 3 ft.. 75c; 3 to 4 ft., II 7B; 4 to & 

 ft.. 12 76; 5 to 6 ft., $4.00. Ptycbosperma 41exan> 

 drae and Heaf orthia Klesana, 2 to 3 ft., 60c; 3 to 

 4 ft, $1 00; 4 to 5 ft., 11.75; 6 to 6 ft., $2.26. Phoenix 

 CanarlenalR. 5 to « ft., $1.75; C to 7 ft., $2.60; 7 to » 

 ft., $3.00. WashlnKtonla Robnsta, 4 to 6 ft., 

 $1.26; 6 to 6 ft.. $1.60; 6 to 7 ft., $2.00. 

 EXOTIC MVBSBBIB8, 8ANTA BABBABA, CAL. 



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Shasta DaisyandPetoflia 



"Giants of California" my specialty. My 

 champion strain of seeds can not be surpassed. 

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

 now for fall delivery. 



FRED 6R0HE, Santa Rosa, CaL 



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Let US boob your orders now for California 

 Seedling Geranium Plants, ready Nov. 

 and Dec. next. Only the beat out of 100 tested 

 varletlea will be sent out. By matl, $2 00 per 100. 

 WBEK8 * CO., Sawtelle, Los Aegeles Co., Cal. 



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John Isaac, E. M. Ehrhorn and others 

 have done work in the direction of pest 

 extermination which will mean millions 

 of dollars to the state in years to come. 

 This work has been recognized to such 

 an extent that the Massachusetts state 

 government has made an appropriation 

 to send to California for the services of 

 one of the commission to fight the 

 Egyptian moth which is laying waste 

 many of the coniferous forests of the 

 east. Mr. Ehrhorn was appointed and 

 has gone east to take up the battle. 



New industries are being constantly 

 added to our farms, so that the by-prod- 

 ucts are becoming more valuable than 

 were the staple products formerly. Not 

 only are the crops made more certain, 

 but unquestionably the quality of the 

 fruit in the last five years is on the 

 whole improved fully fifty per cent. G. 



FUMIGATING. 



Before fumigating an entire green- 

 house with any substance a prelimiaary 

 test is always advisable to guard 

 against accidents and to avoid waste of 

 material, In the case of one liquid 

 tobacco fumigant used at Washington, 

 the preliminary test showed that, em- 

 ployed at the strength advised by the 

 manufacturers (without dilution), it 



