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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



AuonsT 6, 1908. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



HiLLSBORO, Ore. — W. H. Morton, of 

 the Hillsboro Plant & Flower Gardens, 

 has had a busy season. He says he has 

 what is acknowledged to be the "crack" 

 calla lily bed of this western country, 

 for florists and Southern Pacific officials 

 80 affirm. 



Spokane, Wash. — J. H. Mumm, man- 

 ager of the Inland Nursery & Floral 

 Co., has gone east to select some late 

 and rare trees and shrubs for the private 

 park of Louis Davenport, as well as to 

 look after the general purchase of such 

 stock for the nursery company. Mr. 

 Mumm is one of the most expert land- 

 scape gardeners and florists in the west. 

 He learned the work in Germany. He 

 was formerly city florist and is one of 

 the pioneer nurserymen of Spokane. 



SAN FHANOSCO. 



The Market 



Business during last week did not 

 show any signs of improvement. The 

 commencing of the city schools has 

 brought many people back to town and 

 there is a possibility that before long 

 things may brighten. 



There is quite a scarcity of colored 

 stock in the line of roses, and everything 

 offered that has any merit whatever is 

 quickly bought. Other material, however, 

 moves slowly and the prices are away 

 down. Sweet peas have become scarcer 

 and of somewhat poor quality. 



Amaryllis has made its appearance and 

 costs the stores $2 to $4 per hundred. 

 Valley and Japanese lilies of all kinds 

 remain quiet. Carnations are overplen- 

 tiful and range in price from $1 to $4 

 per hundred. 



Outside grown tuberoses are being sent 

 in from interior places. Asters of some 

 of the earliest sorts have had a limited 

 sale already. Of the later flowered va- 

 rieties the acreage is about up to that 

 of last year, and all the patches I have 

 seen give evidence of an abundant har- 

 vest soon. Chrysanthemums, also, are 

 looking splendid in the fields and may be 

 expected about a couple of weeks earlier 

 than those of last year. 



In looking over some of the patches 

 devoted to violet growing last year, I 

 have discovered that a good many grow- 

 ers will not plant for that purpose for 

 the coming season. According to some 

 of the largest Italian growers, the crop 

 was not a well paying proposition and 

 already a considerable acreage has been 

 replanted to other stock. 



Cut asparagus and maidenhair fern, 

 after having been among the scarcest 

 articles in the florists' department, have 

 suddenly become plentiful, to the intense 

 delight of those retailers who had 

 difficulty in keeping a sufficient quantity 

 on hand for general purposes. 



The weather continues cool in the 

 vicinity of San Francisco, with no signs 

 of a warm spell in the immediate fu- 

 ture. 



Various Notes. 



William J. Graham, the mushroom 

 grower of East Oakland, will double his 

 growing capacity for the coming sea- 

 son. He is one of the few successful 

 growers on the coast. 



gSoveral Japanese firms in the neighbor- 



Calla Bulbs ready to ship 



New Calla— PEARL OF SIliTTGART 



Introduced In Germany 6 yearB ago. It is the flncBt Pot 

 Calla In the world, growing 12 to 16 inches high. A pro- 

 fuBioD of bloom all winter. Can be grown in a 4-inch 

 pot, as the bulbs are never larger than 1-inch diameter. 

 Nice 3-year-old bulbs, $5.00 per 100. 



Calla Aetboplca bulbs, 3 to 4^ in. in circumference* 

 $2.50 per 100; $20.00 per 1000. 



250 at 1000 rates. Packed in slatted crates. Liberal 

 count. Safe arrival Kuaranteed. I prepay express 

 at above prices to your city when check is sent with 

 order. 



\^A.MITTHI6) KennanSt. 



Santa Cruz, Cal. 



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RAHN S HERBERT 



WHOLESALE rLORISTS, 

 PORTLAND, OreKon, Mt. Tabor P. O. 



KENTIAS, FERNS, "^ 

 ARAUCARIAS. 



VIOLETS, PRINCESS, 2i3-in.. $2.50 per 100. 

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Fischer'sFreesiaPority 



Mammoth and first • grade 

 bulbs all sold. A limited sup- 

 ply of aecond-g^ade bulbs left. 



RUDOLPH FISCHER. SanU AniU. Cal. 



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hood of Stege, Alameda county, are erect- 

 ing carnation houses at the present time. 

 This neighborhood seems to be much 

 favored by the Japanese, as over a dozen 

 different parties have located there. 



William Hale, for many years owner of 

 the Dwight-Way Nursery, Berkeley, died 

 in San Francisco, July 22. Mr. Hale 

 was 63 years of age and had retired 

 from business for several years. G. 



JAPANESE COMPETITION. 



As the Japanese growers become more 

 and more numerous in the vicinity of our 

 large Pacific coast towns, the effect on 

 trade in general, aqd f on greenhouse 

 stock in particular, can be gradually fig- 

 ured out. Leaving the handling of Japa- 

 nese plants out of the question and con- 

 fining our attention entirely to the cut 

 flower aspect, a few facts must neces- 

 sarily first force themselves to view. It 

 is practically within the last decade, and 

 principally within the latter half of it, 

 that Japanese growers have forced notice 

 on themselves and have produced enough 

 stock so that comparisons could.be drawn 

 between them and other wholesalers. 



They have confined their ambitions 

 to roses, carnations, lilies and valley, 

 with a few side issues in the way of 

 poinsettias, ferns and chrysanthemums. ' 



With the growing of roses they have 

 had practically no success, except in 

 isolated instances and then usually at 

 the time of year when prices were low 

 and stock abundant. An effort is being 

 made by some of the larger Japanese 

 growers to supplant their own help with 

 white growers, and in several instances 

 they have succeeded in placing white 

 foremen at the head of their greenhouse 

 crews, in the hope, apparently, that some 

 of the necessary knowledge might be 

 imparted and that the successful growing 

 mierht continue after the white garden- 

 ers had left for other pastures. The lat- 

 ter do not take kindly to the idea of 



Petunias Petanias 



Seedlings of my Champion strain of Giants of 

 California and Ruffled Giants, from flats and 

 2-iDch pots, $1.50 and $3.00 per 100. 



Hardy Perennials, in good assortment, from 

 2-inch pots, $2.00 per 100. 



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

 livery; 25?i off list prices on advance orders for 

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



Fred Grohe 



Santa Rosa. Cal. 



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Washingtonia (^1^^^^^ 



W. robusta, li«to2 feet, balled $0.36 



W. robusta, 2to8 feet, balled 46 



W. robusta, 8 to 4 feet, balled 70 



W. robusta, 4 to 5 feet, balled 90 



W. robusta, 5 to 6 feet, balled 1.10 



W. robusta, 6 to 7 feet, baUed 1.80 



Exotic Nurseries, Santa Barbara, Cal. 



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Calla Lily Bulbs 



LarK«« Healtby Bulbs, for Early Fall 

 DallTWT. Send for Price List 



F. LUDEMANN, 



San Francisco, Cal. 



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working for Japanese firms, and only a 

 few of them have so engaged and these 

 only for short terms. 



It is perfectly safe to sum up the 

 rose growing question by saying that, 

 up to the present time, the Japanese 

 have cut absolutely no figure in it, and 

 unless they have better success in the 

 future than they have had in the past 

 there will be little to fear from their 

 invasion. On the other hand, the ques- 

 tion might be asked: Is there any rea- 

 son why they will not become proficient 

 in the rose growing art after a time, 

 and what then will happen t This is 

 a question that will be answered ten 

 years hence, and it may be that then 

 they will have the upper hand. 



With carnations, a handful of Japa- 

 nese growers are producing quite as 

 much stock as all the white growers, and 

 all this has happened within the last 

 few years. Their nurseries are as well 

 kept, their greenhouses as well built, 

 and, although the quality of the stock 

 produced is not quite up to the standard 

 set by others, there is so much being 

 cut and brought into town that they 

 practically control the trade, sotoispeak, 



Paeifie NarMries 



8041 Baker St. 



