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The Weekly Rorists' Review. 



Septembeb 24, 1908. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



Portland, Oee. — A. Bahn, of Rahn & 

 Herbert, who operate Pf under 's Green- 

 houses, was badly hurt, some time ago, 

 in a wreck on the Southern Pacific and 

 Js only now able to be about and attend 

 to business. 



LOS ANGELES, CAL. 



Business has opened up again in fair 

 shape and a good fall and winter trade 

 is looked forward to by all. The outlook 

 is exceedingly good. 



The members of the craft to a man 

 accepted an invitation given by Mr. 

 Haerle, of Hollywood, to visit his green- 

 houses, located six miles from Los An- 

 geles, September 13. O. C. and William 

 Saakes were there with their wives in 

 their automobiles. Others came on street 

 cars and by 2 p. m. there must have been 

 at least fifty florists present. Messrs. 

 Haerle and Turner are good hosts and 

 soon made all feel at home. A bountiful 

 repast and liquid refreshments were 

 served. 



Dr. Houghton, vice-president of the 

 Los Angeles Florists' Club, was orator 

 of the day, giving an interesting talk. 

 His talk was followed by others, by dif- 

 ferent members of the club. A ball game 

 was gotten up between the wholesalers 

 and retailers, score 8 to 1 in favor of 

 the retailers, after which a picture was 

 taken of as many of us as could get in 

 front of the feamera. Three rousing 

 cheers for our hosts were followed by a 

 look through the greenhouses, well kept, 

 under W. H. Turner's able management. 

 They have just completed, and planted to 

 Killarney and Rhea Reid, a house, the 

 largest, to the writer's knowledge, on the 

 Pacific coast, being 65x300 feet. This 

 is only one of their many houses. 



The Angeles Florist, located at 204 

 "West Fourth street, has changed own- 

 ers, being formerly conducted by Messrs. 

 Dieterich, Walters and De Ortignac. Mr. 

 Walters has bought out his partners and 

 now is sole owner. C. E. M. 



CALIFORNIA ROSE GROWERS. 



A tour among some of the principal 

 rose growers in the vicinity of San 

 Francisco reveals the fact that there will 

 be no increase of glass this season de- 

 voted to the growing of roses over that 

 of last year. For some reason or other 

 it IS apparent that the growers prefer 

 to direct their energies to the more easily 

 handled carnations, and roses have not 

 been planted in as large a quantity as 

 the apparent demand would warrant. Ex- 

 cept in a few instances, all the building 

 that has been done this season in the 

 line of new houses has been done by 

 Japanese growers in the neighborhood of 

 Elrahurst and Stege. Both these lo- 

 cations are in Alameda county and the 

 products are sold in Oakland and San 

 Francisco. 



Burlingame, San Bruno and Elmhurst 

 furnish practically all the roses sold here 

 and in none of these places is there any 

 additional bench room assigned to roses. 



Brides and Maids occupy most of the 

 space, with the latter probably slightly 

 in excess. K. A. Victoria is the only 

 other white grown in quantity. Beauties 

 are not being replanted to the extent 

 which their importance calls for, and 

 they represent practically three-fourths 

 of the entire space devoted to red va- 

 rieties. 



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CALLA BULBS 



READY TO SHIP 



Liberal count. Safe arrival suaranteed. I prepay 

 express to your city, when check is sent with order. 



NKW CALLA, Pearl of Stuttsart. Introduced in 

 Germany six years ago. It is the finest pot calla in the 

 world, growing 12 to 16 inches high. A profusion of 

 bloom all winter. Can be grown in a 4-inch pot, as the 

 bulbs are never larger than one inch in diameter. Nice 

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



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1 7 to 23 

 I Kennan St., 



Santa Cruz, Gal. 



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'TbrouKli tlie medium of over 100^ 

 acenoles I sell more 



BLOOMING PANSY PUNTS 



than any grower on the western con- 

 tinent. I sell at two to five times the 

 price other growers get. Can you 

 say the same thing about the prices 

 you receive ? Certainly not, or you 

 wouldn't read this ad. These are 

 Giant Pansies on stems. You've 

 been growing some that were giants 

 on paper, haven't you ? 



Prices, not as small as some pan- 

 sies I've seen. Per 100, $L00; per 

 1000, $7.00. Prepaid. 



Steele's Giant Pansy Gardens 



PORTLAN D, ORE. 



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RAHN ft HERBERT 



WHOLK8ALK GROWERS 

 PORTLAND, Oreson, Mt. Tabor P. O. 



KENTIAS, ARAUCARIAS 



Boston Ferns, from bench. 35c, 50c, 75c 



mesanUssima 50c,75c,$l.oo 



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Liberty and Kichmond are grown with 

 good success in several establishments. 

 Pot-grown Ulrich Brunner, which can be 

 set under glass or grown in lath houses, 

 is also seen. Testout is handled by 

 some growers, and I have only seen a 

 few beds of La France, Mme. Chatenay 

 and Killarney. 



Perle seems to be entirely discarded, 

 as well as Souv. du Pres. Carnot. Cecil 

 Brunner is grown quite extensively and 

 is a very fair paying variety. A few 

 years ago Papa Gontier, Rainbow, Meteor 

 and Sunset were handled by various 

 growers, but none of these are being 

 used for forcing at present. G. 



SAN FHANOSCO. 



The Market 



A few hours' rain last week freshened 

 everything except business, and it is at a 

 low ebb. Flowers of all kinds, except 

 fancy roses, are overplentiful and very 

 cheap and prices are hardly worth quot- 

 ing. 



The new crops of carnations have well 

 established themselves and the quality in 

 almost all instances is fully up to the 

 average, except that the stems usually 

 are a shade shorter than they should be. 

 Asters are almost over for the season and 

 the price on such as are yet in good con- 

 dition has advanced several points. 



No outside mums have yet made their 



20,000 SHASTA DAISIES 



Alaslca. California and Westralia, field-grown 

 from divisions of Mr. L. Burbank's original stock, 

 not seedlings, extra strong divisions. 



Per 100 1000 



5 shoots ormore $2.50 $24.00 



8to4 shoots 2.00 19.00 



lto2 shoots 1.25 11.00 



CSyclamen Persicum Gig^anteum 



Fine plants, large flowers from named varie- 

 ties, 800 4-in. ready now, $10.00 per 100; 3000 3-ln. 

 ready Sept. 15, $7.00 per 100. 



Seeds of Shasta Daisy- Alaska, California 

 and Westralia, 1000 seeds. 50c; oz., $2.00 net. 



Pentstemon Hybrldus Grandiflorus, 

 new, largest flowers, in great variety of colors, 

 the best of all Pentstemons. pkt., 25c; oz., $1.50. 

 List of otlier seeds. Cash, idease. 



FRED GROHE, Santa Rosa, Gal. 



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Roses and General 

 Nursery Stock 



Send for Catalogue 



F. LU DEM ANN ^*^t\r?.V' 



Pacific Nurterie$, San Francisco, Cal. 



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KENTIAS 



Keitii Firsteriau 8-4 ft 4-5 ft. 5-6 ft. 6-7 ft. 



(Potted) Ea. per 10... $2.00 $3.40 $5.10 $8.00 

 Exotic Nurseries' Kentias have dark green 

 leaves and stand wind drafts and dry atmos- 

 pheric conditions. Ask for wholesale price list. 



EXOTIC NURSERIES, Santa Barbara, Cal. 



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appearance. Some good early whites and 

 yellows are being sent in from hothouse 

 grown stock. Amaryllis are about over. 

 Japanese lilies have held out remarkably 

 well and the retailers have found them 

 to be one of the best sellers up to date. 

 Valley is in fair supply, but moves 

 slowly. Sweet peas are in less demand 

 than they have been and the stems are 

 much shorter throughout. Violets are 

 daily becoming better, both in color and 

 substance. They cost the retailers $1 

 per dozen bunches. Several patches of 

 late blooming gladioli have been brought 

 into town and sell well. 



Cut asparagus is more plentiful and 

 cheaper than it has been at any time 

 during the year. Maidenhair fern, on ac- 

 count .of the coolness of the summer, has 

 not grown so profusely as usual and the 

 growers have got it well cut down. 



Business over in Oakland has been 

 quite as dull as on the San Francisco 

 side. 



Various Notes. 



The local dealers have received full 

 supplies of Dutch bulbs and trade ap- 

 pears to be good in that line. 



The May Seed Co., of Market street. 



