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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Mat 7. 1908. 



Petunias, Etc. 



Petunia seed, double and singrle, ruffled and [ring:ed, 

 in separate colors and mixed. Nothing: finer grown. 

 Cobx-a, Heliotrope, Gloxinia, Gerbera, Mina lobata 

 and other seeds. Orders now booked for fall delivery. 

 Price list on application. 



MRS. M. M. EDGAR, Ventura, Cal. 



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PACIFIC COAST. 



VICTORIA, B. C. 



Current Comment 



We did not expect much extra trade 

 liere at Easter, but I fancy there was 

 a better demand for good pot plants than 

 we have before experienced. Everyone 

 seems to have had his share. The Fair- 

 view Greenhouses were the only estab- 

 lishment that had lilies in quantity. The 

 others had a great deal of disease to 

 contend with. At Elewin's Garden there 

 was a loss of seventy-five per cent in this 

 way, and the balance gave about one 

 miserable flower each. 



Wollaston & Wallace shipped a quan- 

 tity of daifodils, and tulips are now 

 coming in. 



J. T. Higgins, of Fort street, has sold 

 out. The real estate value of his hold- 

 ing was too tempting. The present 

 owner has rented the premises to two 

 young men, Messrs. Laing and Hall, who 

 should make a success of the under- 

 taking. 



The city is being much improved. 

 Boulevarding work has been much in 

 evidence and more is being clamored 

 for. 



Mr. Thompson, the head gardener at 

 Beacon Hill park, has resigned. 



The city is calling for a park and 

 boulevard superintendent, at $90 per 

 month. 



We are not enjoying this cold, long 

 drawn out spring. Everything in the 

 vegetable kingdom is backward. 



^ E. A. W\ 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market 



The anticipation of the coming of the 

 fleet has put everybody on the qui vive, 

 and the elaborate window decorations 

 around town have taxed the green goods 

 men and made a heavy demand for some 

 kinds of cheap stock. Smilax is scarce 

 and long-stemmed asparagus has been 

 used lavishly in its stead. Palms and 

 ferns of good size have been disposed of 

 in large numbers in the better classes of 

 stores and the demand for decorative 

 stock of all kinds is better than for a 

 long time. 



With cut flowers, however, the bottom 

 has entirely dropped out oi everything. 

 Never have carnations or roses been 

 cheaper than at the present writing. An 

 effort is being made by the sweet pea 

 growers to keep up the rates on that 

 article, but from present indications, al- 

 though the demand for that flower is 

 good, the quotations will be low next 

 week. Carnations can be had in any 

 variety and quantity at from 50 cents 

 per hundred upwards. The continued 

 warm weather of last week brought in 

 an avalanche of stock and the roses 

 suflfered as well. There is no surplus 

 of Beauty roses, but the list ends here, 



CCDAIIillllQ 2Vinch pots, all kindB, $2.50 

 ULnfiniUniOi penoo; $20.00 per lOOO. 

 8COTTII FERNS, 2i2-inch pots. $3.00 per 100. 

 CARNATION CUTTINGS, leading kinds. $2.00 



and $3.00 per 100. 

 CHRTSANTHSMUMS, $1.50 and $2.00 per 100. 



RAHN ft HERBERT 



SuccessorB to Pfunder's Greenhouse 



48tli Street PORTLAND, ORKGON 



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Calla Lily Bulbs 



Larsre, Healtby Bulbs, for Early Fall 

 Delivery. Send for Price List 



F. LUDEMANN, 



San Francisco, Cal. 



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Pacific Norserles 



8U41 Baker St. 



BTTUE 



CARLOAD 



KENTIAS 



Kentia Forsterlana, balled, 3 to 4 ft.. $1.70; 4 to 5 

 ft., $2.75: 5 to 6 ft., $3.75; 6 to 7 ft., $5.50; 7 to 8 ft.. 

 $9.00. Kentia Belmoreana, balled, 2 to 3 ft., 95c; 

 3 to Sifl ft., $1.75; 3^2 to 4 ft., $2.15; 4 to 4^2 ft., 

 $2.90. Inquire for Potted Kentias, Seaforthias. 

 Ptychospermas. Washingtonias. etc. 



Exotic Nurseries, Santa Barbara, Cai. 



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and it might also be added that there 

 is no particular demand, either. 



What the effect of the visit of the fleet 

 next week will have on the general con- 

 dition of trade, aside from the decora- 

 tive standpoint, is hard to tell, as the 

 dealers seem quite divided on that sub- 

 ject. Funeral orders have been fairly 

 heavy, and country orders have occupied 

 quite a deal of consideration in some 

 quarters. 



Over in Oakland there has been a fair 

 amount of business during the last few 

 weeks and the anticipation of the coming 

 of the fleet has much the same effect as 

 in San Francisco. Generally speaking, 

 however, trade is less than it was a 

 year ago, but the next few days may 

 make the month of May a banner one. 



Variotw Notes. 



The Oakland Floral Co. has entirely 

 reconstructed its building on Seventh 

 street, Oakland, giving much larger and 

 more agreeable quarters. 



Japanese nurserymen at Hayward re- 

 port the disappearance of 50,000 young 

 tomato plants on the night of April 28. 

 There has been a heavy demand for re- 

 planting, owing to the continuous 

 drought in that neighborhood, and the 

 indications are that the thieves drove up 

 to the tomato frames in a wagon and 

 helped themselves. 



A regular meeting of the Society 

 Hortensia was held in Alameda on Satur- 

 day evening last. 



The plant collection belonging to the 

 Delger estate, of Oakland will be of- 

 fered for sale during next month. Henry 

 Witt is in charge of the grounds. 



E. A. Briggs will leave on a two 

 months' eastern trip within the next 

 few days. G. 



ASCLEPIAS DOUGLASL 



This plant is seldom seen in gardens, 

 yet its noble appearance certainly ren- 

 ders it a valuable subject for introduction 

 into the herbaceous border, the English 

 gardening magazines considering it well 

 worthy of culture for its foliage alone. 

 It will often exceed six feet in height, 

 and its entire leaves are, in strong plants, 

 a foot in length and four and a half 

 inches in breadth. A well-grown speci- 



Petunias Petunias 



Seedlings of my Champion strain of Giants of 

 California and Ruffled Oiants. from flats and 

 2-inch pots. $1.50 and $3.00 per 100. . 



Hardy Perennials, in good assortment, from 

 2-inch pots. $2.00 per lOO. 



Orders booked now for Seeds, etc.. for fall de- 

 livery; 25% oflf list prices on advance orders for 

 Seeds, if your order amoimts to $5.00 or over. 



Fred Grohe 



Santa Rosa, Cal. 



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^MILLION 



Calla Bulbs For Sale! 



Per 1000 

 Calla Ktbiopica Bulbs, 7 to 8-inch cir- 

 cumference $65.00 



Calla Ktbiopica Bulbs, 5 to 7-inch cir- 

 cumference 40.00 



Calla Ethiopioa Bulbs, 3 to 5-inch cir- 

 cumference 25.00 



250 at 1000 rates, freight prepaid, when cash is 

 sent with order. Orders booked now for July 

 shipments. 



A. MITTING 



17 to 23 Kennan St., SANTA CRUZ, CAL. 



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men is an extremely handsome object. 

 Its flowers are not to be compared for 

 effectiveness to those of Asclepias tu- 

 berosa, whose flat heads of brilliant 

 orange-scarlet blossoms form glowing 

 spots of color in the border, but they 

 have a quiet charm of their own. 



It blooms in the month of August, 

 bearing numerous rounded heads of small 

 blossoms, some of the flower clusters 

 having a circumference of close on twelve 

 inches. The corollas, which are less than 

 half an inch across, are of a yellowish 

 tint, and the reflexed petals are of a dull 

 reddish hue, the flower heads appearing 

 at a little distance to be flesh-pink in 

 color. About 200 blooms are contained 

 in a single flower head. The blossoms 

 are perfumed, and attract innumerable 

 bumble-bees and other insects, which 

 soon become stupefied by the nectar and 

 remain inert on the heads of blooms. 

 It is a native of western America, and 

 is hardy. It is tenacious of life, and if 

 a plant is lifted shoots will be continu- 

 ally springing up from portions of the 

 roots that were left behind when the 

 specimen was shifted. 



Enclosed you will find $1, for which 

 you will please renew my subscription 

 to the Review for one year. We might 

 as well be without the plants as be 

 without the Review. — Harold E. Krebs, 

 Cedar Rapids, la. 



Peoria, III. — For the first time in 

 nine years the venerable James Cole, aged 

 87, pioneer florist of the state of Illi- 

 nois, visited the business section of town 

 Friday afternoon, April 24. The occa- 

 sion for the journey was the Shriner 

 parade, which was of absorbing interest 

 to Mr. Cole, owing to the fact that James 

 Nelson Cole, Jr., aged 22, conceded to 

 be the youngest thirty-second degree Ma- 

 son in the world, was in the parade as 

 a member of the Mohammed Temple 

 patrol. 



