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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



August 22, 1007. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market. 



Tlicre is little to report in the line of 

 progress for the last week. Business 

 continues to be very quiet, with the gar- 

 bage barrel as the best customer. The 

 weather is still cool and, judging from 

 appearances, we are not to have any 

 warm spells at all this season. Flowers 

 are overplentiful, especially those that 

 are strictly in season at this time. As- 

 ters easily head the list and they are 

 good and very cheap. There are twice as 

 many cut and offered for sale in town 

 as there were at this time a year ago. 

 They can be purchased from the growers 

 at from 50 cents to $2 per hundred and 

 the usual jirice is about $1 per hundred. 

 With other outside stock, sweet peas are 

 the best sellers, and although the stems 

 are getting short they are well bought 

 up. 



Gladioli and dahlias are being used 

 freely in decorations, but the price is 

 lower than it has been. Amaryllis are 

 plentiful, but move slowly. Lilium al- 

 bum and L. rubrum are "in full bloom 

 and cost the stores from $1.50 to $2.50 

 per dozen stems. The quality of the 

 white variety does not seem to be up to 

 the usual standard, but the pink sort are 

 uniformly good. 



Business is a shade better than it has 

 been, with some signs that it will in- 

 crease in the near future. 



Over in Oakland the retailers are in 

 the same condition, although the grow- 

 ers report things moving better than at 

 this time one year ago. 



Various Notes. 



A. Mann. .Jr., has sold out his inter- 

 est in the Shibeley-Mann Floral Co. and 

 has established himself in the wholesale 

 floral supply trade, with headquarters on 

 Pine street. 



J. Seulbergcr, of Oakland, has returned 

 from a visit to Yosemite valley, where 

 he spent several weeks in company with 

 his wife and family, 



E. W. McLellan, of Burlingame, has 

 been made a party to a suit brought 

 against the proprietors of the Palace 

 hotel by Frank Cuneo, who seeks to re- 

 cover $20,000 for the death of his son. 

 Mr. McLellan had charge of the removal 

 of the brick walls and it was by the 

 falling of one of these that the young 

 man was killed. 



Louis Berthold. formerly employed by 

 H. M. Sanborn, the Berkeley florist, was 

 arrested while trying to sell a horse he 

 had stolen from the nursery. 



Hutehings & James, of pilmhurst, have 

 a very fine stock of poinsettias coming on 

 for the Christmas trade. These, together 

 with a good assortment of ferns and 

 cyclamens, are handled in large quan- 

 tities by this firm. G. 



A NEW GOVERNMENT STATION. 



Dudley Moulton, county entomologist 

 of Santa Clara county and member of 

 the entomological division of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, has been appointed 

 head of the government station which 

 will soon be established in the Santa 

 Clara valley. This station will have for 

 its object tfie study of the life, history 

 and habits of insects affecting deciduous 

 plants and the methods of exterminating 

 the pests. Mr. Moulton, who has just re- 



200,000 MORE 



galla Bulbs 



We have just dug 200,000 Oalla Bulbs from a rich, sandy loam, 

 three years from plantinK; they have large crowDB, ripe, and of a rich 

 brown color, full of vitality, and I warrant them to be the rinaat CsUla Bulbs that ever 

 left California. In three sizes only. Freight prepaid over 100 lbs. 



Calla Bulba, 7 to 8 in. circumference, per 100, $7 60; per 1000, $66.00 

 6 to 6 in. " " 6 00; *♦ 40.00 



4 to 4j^ in. •* '• 4 00; " 30.00 



If by express I prepay i^c lb. CASH. 



A. MITTING .rreVK^JL^'sV Santa Cruz, Cat. 



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turned from a few weeks' visit to the 

 fruit districts of San Joaquin and Sac- 

 ramento valleys in company with D. J. 

 Quaintance, of Washington, is looking 

 for a suitable house and grounds near 

 San Jose, and the station will be estab- 

 lished within a few weeks. The station 

 will include offices and laboratory and 

 will be equipped with all that is essential 

 to the prosecution of the work. Mr. 

 Moulton will be assisted by Chas. T. 

 Paine, of San Jose, who is well known 

 as an entomologist. 



The station will be located in a place 

 extremely favorable for the study of all 

 kinds of fruit pests. Many fruit de- 

 stroying insects of Avorld-wide fame have 

 made their first apearanee in Santa Clara 

 valley, noticeably the San Jose scale, 

 which was successfully extirpated several 

 years ago. 



During the last three years a new pest 

 has appeared, in the form of a peculiar 

 breed of horned caterpillar. For two 

 seasons it contented itself Avith feeding 

 off the oak trees, but this year it at- 

 tacked the apricot and prune orchards 

 and has become a serious problem, forc- 

 ing the fruit growers to spray their trees 

 with various chemicals. As yet no ef- 

 fective method of dealing with the cater- 

 j)illar has been discovered, but Mr. Moul- 

 ton hopes to have it under control by 

 next season. G. 



VHITE FLY IN ORANGE GROVES. 



('. W. Woodworth, head of the Depart- 

 ment of Entomology, who has just re- 

 turned from a trip to Bakersfield, an- 

 nounced that the white fly, the dreaded 

 pest of the orange groves, would invade 

 the orange groves of 'the southern part 

 of the state, and the industry, worth 

 more than $30,000,000 to the people of 

 that section, would be at the mercy of 

 this insect. 



Prof. Woodworth found the fly in the 

 orange groves of W. S. Tevis, where the 

 attack seems to be centered in the Kern 

 county district, and the experts decided 

 that the insect was undoubtedly the 

 dreaded white fly, which has done untold 

 damage to the orange groves of Florida, 

 the amount of damage done in that state 

 being estimated well up in the millions 

 of dollars. Prof. Woodworth now de- 

 clares that this fly is firmly rooted in 

 Kern county and that nothing can stop 

 its advance into the orange groves of 

 the south. The insect travels on the rail- 

 roads, in the coaches and cars. Nothing 

 seems to be able to keep the pest out 

 along the railroad. It will only have to 



PETUNIAS! 



Petunia seed, giants, ruffled and fringed in separate 

 colors and mixed. Nothing finer grown. 



1000 seeds. 1-lC oz. oz. 



T>oabl«, fringed, mixed 11.00 16.00 176.00 



SinKle, mixed, extra fine 2 50 32.00 



verygood 1.75 20.00 



quaarlcolor 2.50 82.00 



crlmsoD. Huperb 2.50 82.00 



Pentury Prize 3.00 40.00 



Rhelngold 3.00 40 00 



Also in quantities of H-oz. and upward at rate per oz. 

 Orders now booked for fall delivery. 



MRS. M. M. EDGAR, 



Ventura, Cai. 



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CALLA LILY BULBS 



Largre, healthy bulbs. 

 Also Narcissus, T.IHiim LonsrUlonun and 

 Longrllloruiii MultUXorum. Send for cata- 

 logue. 



F. LUDEMANN, Pacific Nuraeriea, 



3041 Baker St., San Franolsoo, Oal. 



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Make a Club Order ^th."oJ^K«i 



Dracaena IndlTlsa. 2 to 3 ft., 40c; 8 to 4 ft., 60c: 

 4 to 5 ft., 80c; 5 to 6 ft., tl.tX); 6 to 8 ft, 11.50. Kentia 

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

 ft., 12.75; 5 to tl ft., 14.00. Ptychosperma Alexan- 

 drae and Seaforthla BleKans, 2 to 3 ft., 60c; 3 to 

 4 ft, «1.00; 4 to 5 ft., 11.75; 5 to 6 ft., 12.25. Phoenlx 

 Canarlensts, 5 to (> ft., 11.75; C to 7 ft, 12.50; 7 to 8 

 ft, $3.00. WashinKtonIa Robaata, 4 to 5 ft, 

 $1.25; 5 to 6 ft., 11.50; G to 7 ft., $2.00. 

 EXOTIC NDBSKBIE8, SANTA BABBABA, CAL. 



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Shasta DaisyandPetoflia 



"Giants of California" my epecialty. 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, Gal. 



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Pacific Coast Business 

 Opportunity 



On account o BlcknesB, the owner of a con- 

 trolling interest in a good, clean and paying bus- 

 iness will sell. Require 18,000.00 to 110,000.00 

 to handle this. Address No. lOl, care JTIo- 

 rUts' Kevlew, Chlcaco. 



Let us book your orders now for California 

 Seedlins Geranium Plants, ready Nov. 

 and Dec. nest. Only the best out of 100 tested 

 varieties will be sent out By mall, 12 00 t>er 100. 

 WEEKS A CO., Sawtelle, Los Asreles Co., Gal. 



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