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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



OCTOBEK 15, 1908. 



Shibeley-Mann Co.,inc. 



Wholbsalx Dealxbs in 



FLORIST SUPPLIES 

 and Cut Flowers 



1203 Sutter St., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 



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PACIFIC COAST. 



Fbeewatee, Ore. — C. N. Weaver has 

 purchased the ranch known as the Ira 

 Berry place, consisting of twenty-six 

 acres, and will grow flowers for the mar- 

 ket. 



Milton, Ore. — C. D. Hobbs, for four 

 years connected with the Milton Nur- 

 series Co., of this city, in charge of the 

 sales accounts, but for the past few 

 Hjonths a resident of McMinnville, has 

 arrived to fill his old position with the 

 nursery company during the fall and 

 winter. S. A. Miller, president of the 

 company, says that never in the history 

 of the firm has business been so brisk as 

 it is this season and that every available 

 bit of help is being utilized. 



Wm. S. Sibson, of the Sibson Kose 

 Nurseries, Portland, Ore., is contribut- 

 ing to the Portland Oregonian a series 

 of illustrated articles on roses which are 

 a credit to himself and to that journal, 

 and which cannot help but extend the 

 popularity of roses in Portland, already 

 known as the Rose City. A recent ar- 

 ticle recounts the awarding of the Nick- 

 erson prizes in England and the competi- 

 tion in France which E. G. Hill helped 

 judge last June, and in which Rhea Reid 

 subsequently won highest honors. Mr. 

 Sibson makes skillful use of these events 

 to point out how well Portland's favor- 

 ite roses, Mme. Caroline Testout and 

 Mme. Alfred Carriere, stood in the opin- 

 ion of the world's leading rosarians and 

 to describe other and newer sorts that 

 scored so high as to make them seem 

 desirable for trial. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



TheMa^et 



Business seems to be slowly improving 

 and is about equal to that of one year 

 ago. Funeral orders have constituted the 

 largest part of the trade, but the demand 

 for other flowers is good also. Chrysan- 

 themums are now at their height and 

 great quantities of outside grown stock 

 are being used. The prices range from 

 about $1 to $2.50 per hundred, while 

 inside stock sells at about the same prices 

 per dozen. 



Asters are completely out of season, as 

 are also amaryllis and Japan lilies. Car- 

 nations are daily becoming more plentiful 

 than they have been, and the stems are 

 of better length as the season advances. 



Roses, with the exception of short- 

 stemmed stock, are not very plentiful, 

 but some growers are fortunate enough 

 to have quite a quantity of fancy stock 

 on hand. 



Valley is coming into town in fair 

 quantity and is selling better than it has 

 at any time during the season. Violets, 

 owing to the continued dry weather, are 

 not up to form or color. They cost the 

 stores about 75 cents per dozen. 



Cosmos have made their appearance 

 and are being used in large quantities 



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Calla and 

 Hyacinth 



BDLBS 



Calla Aethloplca, 3 to S-inch circumference, 

 $6.UU per 100. 



I prepay express when cash is sent with order. 



10,000 HYACINTHS 



A-No. 1 bulbs from Holland. Send for price list. 



A. HITTING, nir. II Santa Gruz,Cal. 



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Own Root 



Field-grown 



Roses 



California 



Rose Co., 



Pomona, 

 Gal. 



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RAHN S HERBERT 



WHOLKSAXJE GROWERS 

 PORTLAND, Oregron, Mt. Tabor P. O. 



KENTIAS. ARAUCARIAS 



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



Klasantlaaima 60c, 75c, $1.00 



when a cheap decorative effect is desired. 

 Gladioli and dahUas are much scarcer. 

 Sweet peas, owing to the coolness of the 

 nights, are becoming very short of stem 

 and we can see their finish in a few 

 weeks. Cut asparagus is not so plentiful 

 as we would like to see it. Smilax is 

 much better than that of a week ago; $1 

 per dozen is the price the retailers pay. 



Variouf Notes. 



The Thorsted Co., of Fruitvale, opened 

 its retail store in Oakland last week. 



The firms handling fall bulbs in town 

 claim they are of rather slow sale. The 

 buying public is apparently waiting for 

 a few showers to soften the ground. 



George Holmes has left for Portland, 

 Ore., to be absent from town about a 

 month. G. 



VICTORIA, B. C. 



The week ending September 26 was 

 fair week. Owing to an exceptional 

 spell of fine weather, exhibits were nu- 

 merous and good. Almost three times 

 as many entries in the floral department 

 were received as in the last season. 

 Flewin's Gardens were the principal 

 trade exhibitors and carried off most of 

 the prizes. The flowers of the amateur 



20,000 SHASTA DAISIES 



Alaska. California and Westralia, field-grown 

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

 not seedllngB, extra strong divisions. 



PerlOO 1000 



58hoot8 ormore $2.50 $24.00 



8to4 shoots 2.00 19.00 



lto2 shoots 1.25 11.00 



Cyclamen Persicuifi 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 Grandlflorus, 

 new, largest flowers, in great variety of colors, 

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



List of otlier seeds. Cash, please. 



FRED CROHE, Santa Rosa. Gal. 



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Roses and General 

 Nursery Stock 



Send for Catalog u« 



F. LU DEM ANN ^^tV?."''*' 



Pacific Nursflrie$, San Franci$co, Cal. 



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KENTIAS 



KcRtia Forsteriaia 3-4 ft 4-5 ft. 5-6 ft. 6-7 ft. 



(Potted) K a. per 10... $2.00 $3.40 $5.10 »o.00 



Kxotlc Nurseries* Kentias have dark green 

 leaves and stand wind drafts and dry atmos- 

 pheric conditions. Ask for wholesale price list. 



EXOTIC NURSERIES, Santa Barbara, Gal. 



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exhibitors were badly crowded, owing to 

 lack of room. A table of sweet peaa 

 was most excellent and flowers staged 

 on Tuesday morning were in perfect 

 condition on Saturday evening. This 

 speaks volumes for the exhibiting 

 capacity of the new building, which 

 takes the place of the old one burned 

 down last summer. 



H. Callow has returned from a trip to 

 England. 



G. H. Wilkerson has just finished a 

 greenhouse, forty-two feet wide, which 

 is planted to mums. His carnations look 

 well. 



* E. Gill, of West Berkeley, Cal., has 

 been here on his accustomed rounds and 

 has departed again for California. 



E. A. W. 



AsHEViLLE, N. C. — The Battery Park 

 Greenhouses, which for several months 

 have been conducted by D. A. Lashley, 

 have now been leased by the managers 

 of the Battery Park hotel. The hotel 

 company will remodel and improve the 

 houses, and expects hereafter to furnish 

 its own decorations, both for the interior 

 and for the lawns, besides growing cut 

 flowers for the market. 



