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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



OCTOBBB 3, 1907. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



Victoria, B. C— The Fairview Green- 

 houses are now known as the Fairview 

 Esquimault Greenhouses, Ltd. F. 

 Fra^neis is manager. 



Seattle, Wash.— George Greaby's 

 greenhouses have been purchased by G. 

 C. Bjorkman, formerly with the Wood- 

 land Park Floral Co. 



Tacoma, Wash. — The city has re- 

 ceived from W. W. Seymour a gift of 

 $10,000, for use in the erection of a 

 conservatory in Wright park. Several 

 plans for the building have been sub- 

 mitted by Tacoma architects. 



HARDY STOCK IN POTS. 



The handling of pot-grown hardy stock 

 at this time of the year, particularly if 

 it is intended for sale during the coming 

 winter, should not be overlooked by the 

 grower. Plants or young trees that have 

 been standing for several months and 

 not 'been disturbed should be changed 

 from the positions they occupy, so that 

 the roots will be disconnected with the 

 ground underneath. This is important, 

 as it is late enough at this time for them 

 to have a chance to recuperate before 

 the growing season is over. 



A great mistake is made in handling 

 evergreen trees in pots when they are 

 dormant, so to speak, and when well root- 

 ed through the pots. They have no in- 

 clination to grow immediately, even un- 

 der the best of circumstances, and when 

 in addition they have lost a number of 

 roots they often die, or at least lose a 

 great quantity of their growth and do 

 not give satisfaction. Hence it is de- 

 cidedly better to shift them this month, 

 taking care to give them such trimming 

 as they may need, restaking if necessary 

 and occasionally repotting should they 

 require it. There is little use, however, 

 in doing much potting so late in the 

 season. Plants are handled easier in 

 small pots, especially in shipping, and 

 unless they are intended for specimens 

 they will easily get along until next 

 spring. 



When pot plants are carried along on 

 board benches such care need not be 

 taken as far as rooting through the pots 

 is concerned, but restaking and trimming 

 should be attended to. G. 



PORTLAND, ORE. 



The Market. 



I cannot say that trade has improved 

 any since I wrote our last report, but 

 if September averages as good as Au- 

 gust it is all we can expect. Septem- 

 ber is only second to June as a matri- 

 monial month and the weddings have 

 been coming thick and fast. Of course 

 all the brides want white roses; there- 

 fore the new crop is a great financial 

 success. Outdoor stuff is getting poorer 

 and scarcer. . Gladioli are done for, 

 asters are waterlogged and sweet peas 

 have taken a chill. Dahlias alone are 

 trying to preserve a respectable appear- 

 ance. Yiolets have made a modest be- 

 ginning and the only quality lacking in 

 the new carnation crop is the length of 

 stem. Soon we shall have the chrysan- 

 themum with us and then we shall feel 

 quite prepared to meet the demands of 

 an active winter's campaign. 



A. Mitting 

 Calla Bulb Co. 



17 to 23 Kennan St. 

 SANTA CRUZ, CAL. 



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Alex Mann, Jr., Co. <-« 



WbotoMUe DMUer In 



Florists' Supplies and Cut Flowers 



Whit* Doves, $9.00 per doz. 



Pampaa Flume., $10.00 per 1000. 



1128 POLK STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 



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Various Notes. 



George Beta's new range of houses 

 has received the finishing touches and 

 shows up well from the Oregon City car 

 line. 



The Montavilla Floral Co. is grad- 

 ually filling up its ten-acre field 

 with nursery stock. Landscape work is 

 made a feature here. One of the mem- 

 bers of this firm has just returned from 

 Germany with a bride, and another mem- 

 ber departed immediately for the same 

 place in the interest of the firm's busi- 

 ness. 



William Jackson, formerly in business 

 at Vancouver, Wash., is building a 

 small range of glass in the pretty and 

 thriving town of Stevenson, Wash. 



T. E. Miles and H. Clemens, of New- 

 berg, both know how to grow asters and 

 for two months supplied us with high 

 grade stock. John Gower, recently a pri- 

 vate gardener of Portland, has moved 

 out to the same place and is erecting 

 glass for the cultivation of vegetables 

 and cut flowers. 



We recently had the pleasure of meet- 

 ing F. A. Huntley, state commissioner 

 of horticulture, of Tacoma, Wash. Mr. 

 Huntley owns property in North Yak- 

 ima and is indirectly interested in the 

 florists' business there. 



Thomas EUingham, out on the Base 

 Line road, has added one new house. 



F. A. Van Kirk, in the same locality, 

 is not building this year, but he is cut- 

 ting a fine lot of Enchantress carna- 

 tions. 



To our amateur enthusiast, Asa 

 Sleeth, we must give credit for grow- 

 ing the finest gladioli ever seen in 

 Portland. 



The writer has just received an invi- 

 tation to a strawberry festival, the ber- 

 ries picked within ten miles of town. 

 How is that for God's country! 



H. J. M. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market. 



Business has been fair during the last 

 week. Flowers are still rather scarce. 

 Mums, owing to the continued cool 

 weather, have been slow to develop, but 

 at this writing they are more plentiful 

 and in a few days will be in their prime. 

 The best greenhouse-grown white and 

 yellow varieties cost the stores $2.50 per 

 dozen, with good demand. Asters are 

 entirely out of season and from reports 

 from the growers were not an especially 

 profitable proposition this year. The 

 public does not take so kindly to them 

 as to the chrysanthemums and their use 



Asparagus Plumosus 



2K-inch, tZ.SO per 100. 



Asparasu. SprenKerl — 3 and 4-lnoh, fine, 

 btiaby plants, t6.t0 and 18.00 per 100. 



Cyolamen GtBaat«am— 3-lnch, 17.00 per 100. 



8mllRx-2-ln4;h, >1.50 pec 100. 



Petunia Seed from my Cliampioa strain Is 

 the oboloest seed of this strain obtainable at 

 prices of common seed and cannot be oeaten for 

 Hlze of flowers, variety of color and marklncrs. 

 All Petunia Seed la luMd- fertilized. Tr. pkt., 26c: 

 1000 seeds, &0c; oz., $20.00. 



MyCbamploB Strain. of Ruffled Olants Is an- 

 other very superior strain, finely ruffled, of enor- 

 mous size, in an endless variety of color and 

 markings. Tr. pkt., 36c; 1000 seeds, 75c; oz.. 125.00. 



I have only one rrade of the two strains of Pe- 

 tunia Seed listed above, and that Is the best. 



Send for Hat of other seeds. Caab, pleaae. 



FRED 6R0ilE, Santa Rosa^al. 



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Field Rosea 

 On Own Roota 



Wholeaale Liat Ready 



California Roae Co. 

 Pomona, Cal. 



Calla Lily Bulbs ^VS^eS""" 



6-ln. In circumference, 136 00 per 1000; 4-in. In cir- 

 cumference, $26 00 per 1000; 2^ to 3-ln. In circum- 

 ference, $15.00 per 1000; Freeaiaa, H to ^-In.. 

 $8.00 per 1000. Speak quick, before stock Is all sold 

 out. R08B8— 2-year-old, fleld-rrown, without 

 Irrigation; send for list of varieties and prices. 



F. liUDKBKANN, Paeilie Nuraeriea, 



3041 BaJker St., Ban Franoisoo, Oal. 



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KENTIAS 



KentlaForsteriaDa, one of 

 our Bpecialties. 8 to 4 ft.. 



$1.60: 4 to 6 ft.. $2.60; 6 to 6 



^^^^^^^^^ ft., $}.60: 6 to 7 ft., $5.00. 



PtyolioBpenna Alezandme and Sea* 

 formia KleBana, 3 to 4 ft., $1.00: 4 to 6 ft., $1.76: 

 6to6ft.,$2.'25. Waslilnctonla Kobuata, 6 to 

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



Exotic Nurseries, Santa Barbara, Cal. 



We Ship by the Carload. 

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was principally relegated to decorations 

 and to funeral work. 



Carnations still show the results of 

 their recent replanting in the houses, but 

 they are daily becoming better in size 

 and quality. The best kinds cost the 

 stores $4 per hundred and from that 

 price downwards to $2 per hundred for 

 poorer stock. Roses are much more 

 plentiful than they have been at any 

 time since last spring and, although the 

 quality is fair, there is yet much chance 

 for improvement. Valley is plentiful, 

 but moves slowly. Japanese lUies are 

 out of the market. A few late varieties 

 of amaryllis are seen and net the grow- 

 ers $4 per hundred. 



Violets are a shade more plentiful 

 and, with the advent of cooler nights, are 

 better in stem and brighter in color. 

 Sweet peas are almost over for the sea-* 

 son. Those that are brought in are usu- 

 ally short-stemmed and are of little value 

 except in funeral work. 



Everyone is expecting a brisk fall 

 trade, but up to date it has not been par- 

 ticularly noticeable. 



Variotis Notes. 



C. C. Morse & Co. are receiving large 

 consignments of bulbs for the- fair and 



