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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



January 14, 1909. 



dNONNATL 



The Market 



Business is mighty quiet in this city. 

 We are glad to see ahnost any kind of a 

 customer come in, no matter how small 

 the order is. Somehow the bottom seems 

 to have dropped out of business, for no 

 special reason. There is no life to the 

 demand. No one seems to want any- 

 thing. The buyers for the various stores 

 walk into the wholesale houses and don't 

 seem to care whether they buy anything 

 or not. As luck will have it, the supply 

 of stock is not heavy and the greater 

 part of the good stock is sold out at a 

 fair prict^. There has been a pretty good 

 out-of-town demand, which nas helped us 

 a great deal. The small town florist is 

 usually short of stock at this time of the 

 year and we can figure on a pretty good 

 shipping trade. 



The weather continues unsettled. We 

 had some pretty cold weather last week 

 and were led to believe that winter had 

 come for sure; but we were mistaken 

 again. It soon warmed up and another 

 touch of spring was here. Now we are 

 j)romised another big drop in tempera- 

 ture, and I hope that a spell of cold, 

 clear weather is in store for us, so that 

 stock will have a chance to improve a 

 little. The bad weather is making the 

 roses look pretty sick and carnations are 

 showing signs of splitting. Cold weather, 

 with sunshine, is what we need. 



Qub Meeting. 



The meeting of the Florists' Society 

 on Saturday evening, January 9, was a 

 ilecided suci-ess. It was held at William 

 Murphy's store, on Main street. There 

 were over thirty members present and 

 they got down to business in a way that 

 shows what the Cincinnati boys can do 

 when they get started. Many topics were 

 discussed, all bearing, of course, on the 

 convention of the S. A. F. Finally it 

 was decided to appoint a committee of 

 ten, who will liave full charge of the 

 entertainment and various other matters. 

 The following gentlemen were appointed: 

 J. A. Peterson, C. E. Critchell, Albert 

 Sunderbruch, D. Rusconi, Gus. Adrian, 

 .1. W. Rodgers, Ed. Forter, Wm. Murphy, 

 R. Witterstaetter and E. G. Gillett. 



-V meeting of this executive committee 

 will be held Friday, January 15, at 2 

 p. m., at E. G. Gillett 's wholesale house, 

 1.31 East Thir^. -street. 



A special meeting of the Florists' So- 

 ciety will be held at Weiland & Olinger 's, 

 136 East Third street, on Saturday, Jan- 

 uary 2.3, at 8 p. m. 



After the business session was over, 

 lunch, cigars, etc., were served, through 

 the courtesy of William Murphy and C. 

 E. Critchell, and all turned in with the 

 usual florists' appetites. Everyone had a 

 fine time and is anxious for the next 

 meeting, at Weiland & dinger's. 



Various Notes. 



T. W. llardesty is back at his store, 

 after a siege of the grippe, and R. D. 

 Ruttle is keeping close to a good, warm 

 fire, trying to get rid of an attack of 

 the same trouble. Charles Jones is still 

 confined to his bed and, from what we 

 hear, he is in a pretty bad way. We 

 hope, together with his many friends in 

 this city, that he will be able to weather 

 the storm. 



Walter Gray reports having cut his last 

 mums January 7. The variety was 

 Jerome Jones. His first mums were cut 

 October 1 7. 



J. V. Poguo, of Coulthard & Pogye, re-. 



Largest stock of up-to-date varieties ever grown in Loomia. Remember, we grow plants 

 only for the cuttings You get the entire strength of the plant In our cuttings. We also 

 have cuttings from soil for spring delivery. 



The following varieties now ready for delivery. 



PINK 



Wlnsor 



Rose-Pink Knohantress.. 



Nelson Plsher 



■nchantress 



Mrs. Law^son 



SCARLET 



Beacon 



Robert CralB 



Victory 2.25 



Kstelle 2.00 



Red Lawson 1.50 



Per 100 

 ...$3.00 

 ... 2.50 

 ... 2.00 

 ... 2.00 

 ... 1.50 



3.50 

 2.25 



1000 

 $25.00 

 20.00 

 15.00 

 15.00 

 10.00 



30.00 

 17.60 

 17.60 

 15.00 

 10.00 



WHITE Per 100 



White Sncbantress 93.50 



Wblte Perfection 2.50 



Got. Wolcott 1.50 



Flora Hill 1.50 



CRIMSON 



Harlowarden 1.75 



VARIEGATED 



Lawson 



Prosperity. 



YELLOW 



2.00 

 1.75 



1000 

 930.00 

 20.00 

 10.00 

 10.00 



12.50 



15.00 

 12.50 



Kldorado . 



1.50 10.00 



25 cuttings at 100 rate; 250 cuttings at 1000 rate. Unrooted cuttings at half price. 



All express obarces prepaid by us. Cuttings are free from disease and well 

 rooted. Satisfaction guaranteed. 5 per cent discount on orders with cash or will ship 

 C. O. D. Examination allowed in either case and plants returned at our expense if not 

 satisfactory. 



STRAWBKRRT PLANTS (Dollar variety), best shipping berry in the world, $5.00 

 per 1000, f. o. b. Loomis. 



Loomis Carnation Company 



D. F. RODDAN & SON, 

 Proprietors. 



LOOMIS, CAL. 



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Yellow Callas 



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1000 bulbs that will bear 2 to 4 flowers $20.00 per 100 



3000 bulbs that will bear 1 to 2 flowers 15.00 per 100 



Prices F. O. B. Santa Ciuz. 



All first<lass stock. 



THOMAS THOMPSON, Santa Cruz, Gal, 



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ports having been done by the no good 

 check racket. But if they didn't recover 

 the money they got revenge, for Mr. 

 Pogue, on discovering that the clieck was 

 worthless, started out as a detective and 

 was able to land his man. Now the 

 oflFender is locked up and his chances of 

 spending a few years in prison are good. 

 Several other counts have been discovered 

 against him. C. J. Ohmer. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



NARCISSI IN CALIFORNIA. 



The scarcity of outside stock after 

 the chrysanthemums have disappeared 

 from the market is always a cause of 

 worry to the florists in the vicinity of 

 San Francisco. There is but little to de- 

 pend on until the arrival of spring, with 

 its wealth of annuals. The narrissus is 

 practically the only article tliat can be 

 depended on to supply a i)ure white 

 flov.er, and most of the growers liandle 

 this valuable bulb so shiftlessly that it 

 is neither an object of revenue nor one 

 of beauty. Of the easiest culture and 

 equally easy sale, it is so often neglected 



Shibefey-Mann Co.,inc. 



WHOLXSAIiE DEAIjEBS IN 



FLORIST SUPPLIES 



and Cut Flowers 



1203 Sutter St., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 



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tliat it does not produce any blossoms un- 

 til it is brought into competition with 

 quantities of other outside, later bloom- 

 ing stock, and then the prices get so 

 low that it is hardly worth gathering and 

 marketing. 



This year furnishes another sample of 

 the carelessness of the growers. Winter 

 rains were very late in commencing and 

 they only paved the way for several 

 weeks of heavy frosts. Consequently, 

 just as the narcissi were well out of the 

 ground, they received such a set-back 

 that it will be several weeks before they 

 will recover enough to make an effort to 

 continue blooming. 



The proper way to handle narcissi is 

 to transplant them at least once in three 

 years. Do not plant them too deep in 

 the ground. See that the soil is worked 

 several times during our dry season and 

 give fhem no water at all before it is 



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