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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



October 29, 1908. 



Shibeley-Mann Co., inc. 



Whouksaue Dialxbs in 



FLORIST SUPPLIES 

 and Cut Flowers 



1203 Sutter St., SAN TRANCISCO, CAL. 



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PACIFIC COAST. 



SAN FRANC3SCO. 



TheMadcct 



Business is fair, although hardly up 

 4© •that of the same time last year. Some 

 of the retaiters have had quite a funeral 

 trade, but outside of this there is little 

 to report. 



Mums are in their prime at present 

 and are fully up to the standard of for- 

 mer years. The outdoor grown stock is 

 almost exclusively produced by the Chi- 

 nese and the prices are well down. From 

 $1 to $2 per hundred is the ruling price. 

 Indoor stock is bringing fair prices and 

 moves well. Carnations are almost a 

 drug at present, on account of the excess 

 of mums in the market. The best 

 flowers cost the retailers from $2 to $3 

 per hundred. Roses are much more 

 plentiful than at any time since spring. 

 There are quantities of Bride and Maid 

 brought into town and anything except 

 long stemmed stock moves slowly. 



Violets, since the couple of days' rain, 

 are more plentiful and show better color 

 and length of stem. Smilax is getting in 

 better shape and maidenhair fern and 

 asparagus seem to be slightly scarcer. 

 A few late blooming Japanese lilies and 

 amaryllises are seen, but their seasons 

 are practically over, 



Variofii Notes. 



The Marin County Horticultural So- 

 ciety held a successful flower show at 

 San Eafael. 



' The Menlo Park exhibition was held 

 at Redwood City October 23 and 24. 



Jas. Niven, gardener to H. E. Bothin, 

 at Ross Station, has a flne showing of 

 tuberous begonias in his conservatories 

 at present. 



Luther Burbank, of Santa Rosa, will 

 lecture at the State University at Berke- 

 ley on his new plant creations during 

 the coming we4c. 



George Hansen has gone to southern 

 California on a business trip and ex- 

 pects to be out of town for a couple of 

 weeks. G. 



A GOOD CLIMATE FOR DAHLIAS. 



I have expressed to the Review two 

 of my new dahlias, hoping you will re- 

 ceive them in good order, so that you 

 can see how great their merits are. One 

 of them, as you will see, is red, the best, 

 purest and most brilliant red, with no 

 shade of crimson in it. I named it after 

 our governor, J. N. Gillett. It is a 

 splendid keeper. I have kept the flow- 

 ers for two weeks in good condition. The 

 other, the amber colored and incurved 

 one, is named Sequoia. It is as nearly 

 chrysanthemum-flowered as can be. 



I have many other fine varieties of my 

 own raising, which I wish you could 

 see, as the climate here, at Eureka, Cal., 

 is unsurpassed, I think^ for the grow- 

 ing of dahlias. The climate is cool, with 

 a good deal of foggy weather and few 



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Having overstocked, will sell in 

 Single or Double any color wanted, 

 all A No. 1 stock, at $8.00 per 100. 



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WHOLKSALX GROWERS 

 POBTX.AND, Orecon, Mt. Tabor P. O. 



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really hot, sunny days, so dahlias grow 

 to perfection. This summer, however, 

 has been exceptionally dry and there has 

 been a shortage of water for irrigation. 

 Consequently the flowers I have sent you 

 are rather small, especially the Sequoia, 

 which normally is about twice as large 

 and blooms earlier in the season. I have 

 dahlia blooms from May till November, 

 on the same plants. Last year they 

 bloomed till December, as we had no 

 frost to hurt them till later. 



So far this season we have had but 

 little frost, not enough to do any harm, 

 and the long dry spell is broken. Dur- 

 ing the last three days we have had 

 about four inches of rain, with warm 

 weather, so the dahlias may make a 

 fresh start and bloom a good while 

 longer, especially those of late planting. 



Henry Melde. 

 [The dahlias, on arrival, were not in 

 a fresh enough condition to be accurate- 

 ly judged, but our opinion, as far as we 

 are able to form one, is that the varie- 

 ties are probably fine enough to be true 

 to Mr. Melde's description. — Ed.] 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market 



Market conditions last week were not 

 encouraging to either grower, retailer or 

 wholesaler. The weather was warm and 

 unseasonable and stock of all kinds was 

 overabundant, with a scarcity .of buyers. 

 Prices, of course, went down on all 

 grades of stock. Carnations, which have 

 been scarce right along, became a glut 

 and extra good stock was bringing only 

 $1 per hundred, for which $2 and $3 were 

 asked the week previous. The market 

 opened October 26 with not so many, but 

 they will again increase in the next few 

 days. 



Roses were even in less demand than 

 carnations and at all the wholesale houses 

 they were a glut, with prices low on all 

 grades. Downtown retailers were selling 

 them at 15 cents and 25 cents per dozen. 

 Extra fancy American Beauties sold fair- 

 ly well. 



Chrysanthemum blooms were in de- 

 mand, especially fancy grades in yellow 

 and white, with prices not as high as 

 usual at this time of the year. 



Violets have been selling well, but these 

 are not as yet of good quality. The 



20,000 SHASTA DAISIES 



Alaska. California and Westralia, field-growo 

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

 not Beedlings, extra strong; divisions. 



PerlOO 1000 



5 shoots ormore $2.50 $24.00 



3to4 shoots 2.00 19.00 



lto2 shoots 1.25 11.00 



Cyclamen PerBicum Gig^anteom 



Fine plants, large flowers from named varie- 

 ties, 800 4-iD. ready now, $10.00 per 100; 8000 8-in., 

 ready now, $7.00 per 100. 



Seeds of Staaete Daisy— Alaska, Oallfomia 

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



Pentstemon Hybzidus Grandlflome, 

 new, largest flowers, in great variety of colon, 

 the beEt of all Pentstemons, pkt., 25c; oz., $1.60. 

 List of otiier seeds. Casb, please. 



FRED GROHE, Santa Rosa, Cal. 



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Roses and General 

 Nursery Stock 



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KENTIAS 



Kntia FsrtttriMS S-4 ft 4-5 ft. 6-6 ft. 6-7 ft. 



(Potted) Ea. per 10... $2.00 $3.40 $6.10 ^o.OO 



Kxotlo Nurseries* Kentias have dark green 

 leaves and stand wind drafts and dry atmoa- 

 pberic conditions. Ask for wholesale price list. 



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warm weather of last week did them no 

 good. The violet growers say that it 

 will take a week of cold weather to bring 

 out the color to make them sell well and 

 bring a price. 



As we have not yet had a killing frost, 

 cosmos, tuberoses and dahlias are still 

 coming in from outdoors. Valley is plen- 

 tiful and of fine quality. 



This week is horse show week and most 

 of the retailers are looking forward to 

 quite an increase of business in cut 

 flowers. 



Various Notes. 



John Wood, of Providence, R. I., is in 

 the city looking for a location to start 

 in business. 



Arthur Ellison, who has been at West- 

 orn Springs, 111., for a year, has returned 

 home and is again in the employ of the 

 Ellison Floral Co. 



Park Commissioner Scanlan has issued 

 his annual report for the fiscal year end- 

 ed April 13, 1908. The report contains 

 nineteen full page illustrations of our 

 local parks and playgrounds, also two 

 panoramic views of the balloon races in 

 Forest park a year ago. 



The Florists' Bowling Club, recently 



