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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Mabch S, 1908. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



Haywards, Cal. — H. F. Hacke has 

 started a nursery here, growing roses, 

 fruit trees and bulbs. Mr. Uphill also 

 has started here, propagating wild roses 

 for budding, and fruit trees. The O 'Neil 

 nursery, which was the largest here, has 

 been sold to the California Nursery Co., 

 of Niles, which is the next station above 

 Haywards. 



LOS ANGELES, CAL. 



Organizing a Club. 



A meeting of florists, nurserymen and 

 gardeners was held February 22 for the 

 purpose of launching a florists' club and 

 bringing into closer touch the florists of 

 the city and surrounding country, thus 

 giving each an opportunity to profit by 

 his neighbors' experience. 



The meeting was called to order, and 

 O. M. Morris, the genial seedsman of 

 the firm of Morris & Snow, was unani- 

 mously elected chairman and Charles E. 

 Morton, secretary; after which we got 

 down to business. The chair appointed 

 Messrs. Keynolds, Bernhart, Gage and 

 Morris a committee of four on perma- 

 nent organization. He also appointed a 

 committee on membership, composed of 

 Messrs. Reynolds, Gage and Turner. 



There is plenty of enthusiasm, and the 

 chair acted wisely in selecting such live 

 ones as the above-mentioned men for 

 the committee on membership. They 

 will, no doubt, bring in a pocketful of 

 applications at our next meeting, two 

 weeks hence. 



The following is a list of the members 

 whose names were enrolled at this first 

 meeting: 0. M. Morris, H. W. Turner, 

 E. J. Reynolds, A. Elg^rt, G. F. Martin, 

 P. D. Bernhart, N. C. Snow, E. Kirby, 

 E. A, Clement, Winiam Haerle, H. N. 

 Gage and C. B. Mdyton. 



C. B; Mokton, Sec 'y. 



TACOMA, WASH. 



Current Comment. 



Business continues good, and stock is 

 better and more plentiful as the sun be- 

 comes more in evidence. We have had a 

 fine winter, with a greater number of 

 bright days than in any previous winter 

 since I have been on the coast, this be- 

 ing the fifth. Just one light "skift" of 

 snow and many days free from rain, 

 with some sunshine, make conditions 

 favorable for production of good stock. 

 Already the seeds are beginning to move 

 and people are making garden. During 

 February and March we plant and begin 

 gardening. 



Of late a large force has been busy 

 in our parks, pruning roses, and Point 

 Defiance park contains so many roses 

 that each spring, when pruning is in 

 progress, people flock there for cuttings. 

 It was estimated that 5,000 people were 

 supplied with cuttings in a week. Peo- 

 ple came from Seattle and also from all 

 the small towns for them, and all were 

 supplied. We believe this practice to be 

 a benefit to florists rather than a detri- 

 ment, for people are with flowers as they 

 are about everything else — always want 

 more and better kinds — and at any rate 

 it all adds to the beauty of our city. E. 

 E, Roberts, our park superintendent, has 

 done much toward the beautifying of 



Yoig Boses 



Propagated from ^Krood taken 

 in tbe tleld. 



8BKD FOR PRICE LIST TODAY. 



California Rose Co. 



POMONA, CAIi. 



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RUSTIC BASKETS 



For Fema or Plant!, large size, 20c each; 

 smaller, 15c each. 



Maidenhair Kern, collected roots in mixed 

 sizes, splendid value, $2.50 per 100. 



Adlautam fedatnm (the favorite). Five-fin- 

 ger Maidenhair, $5.00 per 100; large plants, $10.00 

 per 100; extra size, immense roots that will give 

 this season fronds 20 to 24-iiiches long, 20c each. 



C. E. LILLEY, Ben Lomond, Cal. 



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our city, and others are thus encouraged 

 to have flowers and to beautify their 

 homes. 



Work on the Seymour donated conser- 

 vatory is at last in progress and it will 

 be located in the beautiful Wright's 

 park. Tacoma parks are already widely 

 known and the addition of this splendid 

 home of glass, for a specially scientific 

 purpose, will be interesting, to say the 

 least. W. W, Seymour generously do- 

 nated $10,000 for its construction, and 

 before another year we are sure it will 

 be specially interesting to visit, for the 

 florist as well as the general public. 



Our mild winter was favorable to 

 growth, and roses are full of swelling 

 buds. The bulbs are beginning to ap- 

 pear above ground and a few crocus are 

 showing color. We are enjoying pleas- 

 ant weather and have sympathy for those 

 in the east who are in the midst of bliz- 

 zards and floods and cold. 



S. L. Harper. 



SAN FHANOSCO. 



The Market 



There are some signs of trade bright- 

 ening and the weather has been much in 

 our favor for the last week. Bright sun- 

 shine and warm nights have unloosened 

 the roses and the carnations and they are 

 much more plentiful than at any time for 

 the last few weeks. Eoses are of better 

 color and substance, especially the Maids 

 and Beauties, and the dealers are not 

 having as much trouble to get orders 

 filled as they did have. Carnations, with 

 the exception of Enchantress, are in fair 

 supply. This variety appears to be off 

 crop with most of the growers. 



Valley is fairly plentiful and Narcissus 

 poetieus has arrived. Daffodils are not 

 so plentiful and the prices have stiffened 

 somewhat. White narcissi are scarce, as 

 our continued warm, rainy weather 

 opened the entire crop in a few weeks, 

 and they are practically over now. Vio- 

 lets are now at the height of the season. 

 They cost the stores from 75 cents to $1 

 per dozen bunches. A few Marie Louise 

 are seen, but practically all the trading 

 is done with the single sorts. 



Fruit tree blossoms are being used 

 lavishly in window decorating. The crop 

 of wild maidenhair is now at full blast 



Asparagus Plumosus 



2M-lnoh, 13.60 per 100. 



AiparaKni Sprenserl — S and l-lnok, fine, 

 busby plants, 16.00 and 08.00 per 100. 



Cyclamen OlKantenm— 3-lnob, 17.10 per 100. 



SmUaz— 2-incb, 11.60 per 100. 



Fetnnia 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 markinn. 

 All Petunia Seed Is hand- fertilised. Tr. pkt., 26oi 

 1000 seeds, 60o; oz., 130.00. 



My Champion Strain of Ruffled Olants is an- 

 other very superior strain, finely ruffled, of enor- 

 mous slze^n an endless variety of color and 

 markinrs. Tr. pkt., 860; 1000 seeds, T60; oa., 136.00. 



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

 tunia Seed listed above, and that is the best. 



Send for list of other seeds. Cash, please. 



FRED 6R0IIE, Santa Rosa, Cal. 



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fieneral Nursery Stock 



SEND won CATAIiOGUK 



F. LUDEMANN, 



San Francisco, Cal. 



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8041 Baker St. 



Pacific Nanerlet 



btnANIUMuf per lOO; $20.'o 



all kinds, 93.50 

 .00 per 1000. 



BOSTON and SCOTTII FERNS, 2>^inch 



pots. S8 00 per 100. 

 BKX BEGONIA, 2^-inch pots, $6.00 per 100. 



RAHN ft HERBERT 



SaeceiMrs to Ptaadsr's Oreeakoass 

 48tk St. PORTLAND, ORSGON 



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A. Milling 

 Calla Bulb Co. 



17 to 23 Kennan St. 

 SANTA CRUZ, CAL. 



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and is a tremendous help to the retailers 

 for use with loose bunches. 



Some Dutch hyacinths and single tulips 

 are being used this season, but there does 

 not appear to be as much demand for 

 them as for the daffodils, which have 

 been in better demand this season than 

 ever before. 



Variotis Notes. 



John Martin, of Eoss Station, is cut- 

 ting some fine cattleyas and phalsenopsis. 

 Charles Stappenback, Polk street, is 

 using his entire stock. 



The gardeners of San Bafael have do- 

 nated a beautiful specimen of the Colo- 

 rado blue spruce to Boyd park, in that 

 town. 



James Nevin, of Boss Station, will 

 shortly commence the erection of a new 

 rose house. He will force Brides and 

 Maids principally. 



The May Seed Co., Market street, has 

 issued a well written and illustrated 

 spring catalogue. This firm reports a 

 good business in the new store. G. 



DAFFODILS. 



The fact that there has been a heavy 

 demand for daffodil flowers in the San 

 Francisco market this season will induce 

 some of the growers to plant rather 

 largely for another year. The weather 

 has been unusually favorable for every- 

 thing in the narcissus line, and, barring 

 the fact that several days of warm sun- 



