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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Januaby 30, 1908. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



SAN FEiANCISCO. 



The Market 



Business is quiet all along the line. 

 The weather in the central part of Cali- 

 fornia for the last week has been a suc- 

 cession of heavy showers, while that of 

 the southern portion of the state has 

 been distressingly dry. The temporary 

 effect on business in the neighborhood of 

 San Francisco has been to stop almost 

 everything, with the exception of funeral 

 work, and this has moved along fairly 

 well. 



Flowers are not very plentiful, however, 

 even in spite of the fact that they are 

 only in reasonable demand, for the 

 weather has been so cloudy that thqy have 

 not opened well. Carnations have stif- 

 fened somewhat in price, but it will re- 

 quire only a few days of sunshine to 

 lower them in price again. 



Eoses, with the exception of Maids, are 

 really scarce, and good whites and Beau- 

 ties are in as much demand as they have 

 been at any time this season. Violets 

 are plentiful and excellent, and cost the 

 stores at the uniform rate of 75 cents 

 per dozen bunches. They are being used 

 more freely than ever before and they fill 

 in volume usually half a retailer's sales. 

 Outside mums are about over for the sea- 

 son, and white narcissi have taken their 

 place to a great extent in funeral work. 

 The mums held on remarkably long, on 

 account of the fact that we have had 

 such a mild winter, but we 'shall see no 

 more of them before next fall. 



Daffodils and narcissi are quite plenti- 

 ful, but the former will not be in full 

 swing for several days yet. There is a 

 scarcity of cut adiantum, and until the 

 wild variety gets plentiful the florists 

 will have to depend to a great extent on 

 cut asparagus sprays. 



Various Notes. 



Joseph E. Jacques reports a good busi- 

 ness in the line of wholesale florists' sup- 

 plies. Mr. Jacques has filled a long-felt 

 want among the local dealers for an up- 

 to-date supply house. 



H, A. Lewis and wife, of Eussellville, 

 Ore., passed through San Francisco en 

 route to Los Angeles, during the present 

 week. 



H. Aebi, of Berkeley, Cal., has leased 

 his greenhouses to a local Japanese com- 

 pany. 



L. M. Barrett, of Berkeley, has asso- 

 ciated with him S. E. and T. E. Barrett, 

 and the firm will henceforth be known as 

 the Fairview Nursery Co. 



J. M. Holland has opened a store in the 

 new free market on Shattuck avenue, 

 Berkeley. 



J. J. Kegley, for many years associated 

 with the M. J. Wragg Co., of Iowa, has 

 taken charge of the outside department 

 of Gill's Floral Depot, Oakland, Cal. 



John C. Walbridge will leave on an 

 extended trip through southern California 

 in a few days. G. 



ANNUALS IN CALIFORNIA. 



The growing of early annuals should 

 interest the California plantsmen at this 

 time. During the latter part of January 

 it is late enough to plant asters, cosmos, 

 gaillardia, stock, coreopsis and other eas- 

 ily grown and quick selling stock. 



The great trouble with the growers 



150,000 ROOTED CARNATION CUTTINGS 



Strontr, healthy and ^aranteed to rive satlaf action, of the following varieties: 



Per 100 Per 1000 



Knehantreaa , light pink 12. 00 tl6.00 



Mrs. Lawaon 1.60 10.00 



VarieKated Lawaon 3 00 16.00 



Prosperity 1.60 12.60 



Red L.aw8on 1.60 12.50 



America, red 1.40 10.00 



Kldorado, yellow tl.60 



Flora Hill, white 1.40 



Got. Woloott, white 1.40 



White Lawson. white 2.00 



Harlowarden, crlmaon 1.60 



Asparasas Plnmosas. 2H to 

 8-lnoh pots 



Per 100 PerlOOO 



3.00 



113.60 

 10.00 

 10.00 



u.eo 



16.00 



BzpresB charres prepaid at above rates. 6 per cent discount for cash with 

 order or will ship C. O. D. Bzamlnatlon allowed in either case. 



LOOMIS CABMATIOH CO.,'%'S^iAr- LOOMIS, CAL. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



GCDAIIIIIIIQ 2^-inchpotB, all kinds, $2.50 

 DLnAniUmd) per 100; $20.00 per 1000. 



BOSTON and SCOTTII FERNS, 2>^-lncb 



pots. S8 00 per 100. 

 REX BEGONIA, 2>i-inch pots, $5.00 per 100. ' 



RAHN & HERBERT 



SBceesson to Pfimder'a Greenhonu 

 48th St. PORTLAND, OREGON 



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CALIFORNIA CARNATION GO. 

 TIME IS GOING 

 :: :: LOOMIS, CAL. :: :: :: 



so IS OUR STOCK 



WRITE FOR CATALOG 



Mention The Berlew when yoa write. 



A. Milting 

 Caiia Bulb Co. 



17 to 23 Kennan Si. 

 SXNTS CRUZ, CAL. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



seems to be that almost everyone gets the 

 stock ready too late in the season to be 

 in line for early planters. With the ad- 

 vent of a few days of warm weather, the 

 buying public suddenly discover that they 

 should have a flower garden and within 

 the next day or two they have made a 

 hurried canvass for such stock as they 

 require. They never take into consider- 

 ation the fact that it takes quite a while 

 to grow salable stock, and that nurseries 

 are not like grocery stores, in that you 

 cannot go to the shelves and pull down 

 the required goods. 



The first part of April is early enough 

 to plant hardy annuals, but after Feb- 

 ruary 1, if the weather be at all salubri- 

 ous, the calls begin. 



A few words about the growing of 

 hardy annuals. They should be started 

 in flats under glass, and with a little bot- 

 tom heat if convenient. They will grow 

 without this, however, and make fully as 

 strong plants after transplanting out in 

 the open. No soft-wooded stock needs to 

 be kept in seed flats over one month, and 

 at that time they are ready to be trans- 

 planted into other flats and planted the 

 usual distance apart. About four more 

 weeks, on the average, elapse before the 

 plants are ready for sale. They should 

 be planted at the rate of about 100 plants 

 in the ordinary sized flat. This appears 

 to be the most feasible way of handling 

 them and allows of just enough space 

 without wasting any room. G. 



Kalamazoo, Mich. — W. C. Cook, who 

 was for some years with the Dunkley 

 Floral Co., has gone to Montgomery, Ala., 

 where he has taken a position. 



Asparagus Plumosus 



2H-lnch, 12.60 per 100. 



Asparasns Sprenceri— 8 and i-inok, fine, 

 bushy plants, K.H) and 18.00 per 100. 



Cyolamen OtKanteam— 3-lnch, I7.N P«r 100. 



SmUax-3-lnch, SI .60 per 100. . . 



Petunia Seed from my Champion strain is 

 the choicest seed of this strain obtainable at 

 prices of common seed and cannot be beaten for 

 size of flowers, variety of color and marklnrs. 

 All Petunia Seed is hand- fertilized. Tr. pkt., 26c: 

 1000 seeds, 60c; oz., 120.00. 



My Champion Strain of Ruffled Giants Is an. 

 otiiervery superior strain, finely ruffled, of enor- 

 mous size, In an endless variety of color and 

 marklnrs. Tr. pkt., 35c: 1000 seeds, 76c; os., 326.00. 



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

 tunia Seed Hated above, and that is the bast. 



Send for list of other seeds. Cash, pleass. 



FRED GROHE, Santa Rosa, Cal. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



ROOTED CARNATION CUTTINGS ^^'a^i^e^ 



Per 100 PerlOOO 



Bnchantreas, flesh pink $1.80 $1600 



O. Lord. Urht pink 1.20 10.00 



H arlo warden , crimson 1.10 12.00 



Red Lawson. light red 140 12.00 



Gov Wolcott, white 1.20 10.00 



Mra. Lawson, cerise pink 1.40 12.00 



Flora Hill, pure white 1.20 10.00 



EldorMlo,yellow 1.10 12.00 



NO DISEASE. 260 or more cuitingrs of 

 any variety at 1000 rate. Unrooted cuttings 

 one-half price of rooted cuttingrs. 



Terms: Cash with order, or C. O. D., sub- 

 ject to examination by customer. Express 

 charges prepaid by us on all orders at above 

 prices. Prompt attention to orders. 



LOOMIS FLORAIiCO.,IiOomis,Cal. 



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(leaeral Norsery Stock 



SEND FOR CATAIX>GUB 



F. LUDEMANN, 



San Francisco, Cal. 



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CHRISTMAS ROSES IN POTS. 



Good roots of Christmas roses come 

 rather expensive to buy, says a writer in 

 an English gardeners' magazine; other- 

 wise, I believe, they would easily dis- 

 place many of the so-called Dutch bulbs 

 now so largely depended upon for winter 

 decoration. But, personally, I do not 

 consider Christmas roses are at all ex- 

 pensive if one considers all their good 

 points. Just how many flowers a clump 

 will produce is difficult to say, so much 

 depending on the clump. A long lasting 

 plant it is, too, the flowers hanging on 

 for weeks, and being reinforced by a 

 constant succession of buds and blooms. 



I grow two varieties in pots, viz., Helle- 

 borus niger major, and H. niger maximus, 

 and both are far ahead of the ordinary 

 form of Christmas rose. H. maximus 

 comes in later than major, and is the 

 better flower of the two. I find that 

 both the plants and cut flowers are ap- 

 preciated in rooms, owing to the delight- 

 ful perfume the flowers possess; a fact 

 I have never seen commented upon. I 

 always grow the plants two years in the 

 same pot, and then split them up and 

 plant them outside. 



8041 Baker St. 



Pacific Narseriea 



