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January 14, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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THE CREGO ASTER 



The Beat In the Ifarket. 



The immense fluffy blosBoms in wliite, staell-pink 

 and rose-pink. Bell at sight and always at top 

 prices. It is a hard matter to overload a market 

 with flrst-class flowers. Trade packet, $1.00; 

 >a-oz., $4.60; oz., $8.00. Address 



CS.Crego, 693 E. 10th St., Portland, Ore. 



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time to start them growing for the sea- 

 son's crop of flowers. If we have very 

 early rains, watering is not necessary, 

 but in a vast majority of cases the 

 watering should be commenced about the 

 end of August and several good soak- 

 ings given at intervals of two weeks each. 

 In this way a crop of flowers can easily 

 be had at Thanksgiving and from that 

 onward until the frosts make them slow 

 to develop into bloom. A portion of 

 the patch should be reserved and cov- 

 ered with lattice frames as soon as the 

 weather becomes severe. In this way, if 

 the bulbs have been previously watered, 

 they can be flowered perfectly with ab- 

 solutely no trouble or loss and the stems 

 will be much longer than anything grown 

 in the open. 



When we have a mild winter, such as 

 that of last season, there is no advantage 

 in using frames, but the early and succes- 

 sive plan of watering should not be neg- 

 lected, as our rainfall usually does not 

 commence until December, and when, in 

 addition to this, as in the case of the 

 present season, we have a cold snap as 

 well, the season for good prices will long 

 since have departed before the bulbs re- 

 cover enough to bloom. 



A majority of the narcissi growers 

 give their bulbs but little attention and 

 as a consequence they do not blossom 

 until the climatic conditions are favor- 

 able, in which case they are one of the 

 poorest paying articles that anyone can 

 devote his ground to. G. 



VICTORIA, B. C. 



Current Comment 



Holiday trade was good. On Christ- 

 mas eve the flower stores were practical- 

 ly cleaned out of stock. Better prices 

 were the rule. Carnations sold at $1.50. 

 Holly trade was brisk and great quanti- 

 ties were shipped away this year. 



The Fairview Greenhouses showed some 

 excellent poinsettias, fifteen to eighteen 

 inches across. Their mums also were 

 among the best in town. Wilkerson & 

 Brown had a house of mums which came 

 in just right and cleaned right out. A. 

 G. Woodward had a quantity of mums 

 and carnations and also made a clear- 

 ance. 



Wilkerson & Brown have acquired the 

 business on the corner of Fort and Cook 

 streets, recently owned by Hall & Laing, 

 who bought it from J. T. Higgins last 

 April. E. A. W. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



TheMaitet 



Business in San Francisco and vicin 

 ity is not any livelier than it should be, 

 but it is slightly ahead of that of last 

 year at the corresponding time. The 

 weather has turned warmer than it has 

 been at any time since Christmas and. 

 the quantity of flowers brought into 

 town by the growers is on the increase. 

 Carnations can now be bought at from 

 $2 to $3 per hundred for fancy stock. 

 Eoses continue high in price and only 



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Boston Market 1.26 



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SIDEWALK TREES 



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 us your Older for Camphor trees. They arc 

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RAHN < HERBERT 



WHOLESALE GROWERS 



Portland, Ore., Mt. Tabor P. O. 



Carnations, Muxna, rooted cuttings. 

 Oeranluma, Bedding; Plants, 2^-in. pots. 

 Boston Ferns, in all varieties, young plants. 

 Prices on application. 



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fair in quality, and there is a decided 

 shortage on white and light colored 

 stock. 



Violets are plentiful and are in better 

 color and form than they have been at 

 any time during the season. Quantities 

 of Ard Righ and other kinds of early 

 daffodils are seen and they find quick 

 sale in the shops. Valley is a glut at 

 present. Soman hyacinths do not move 

 as fast as they should do at this season 

 and are not paying the growers very 

 well. 



A fine lot of L. longiflorum is in full 

 crop now. They cost the stores from 

 $1.50 to $3 per dozen. Orchids are 

 seen in suflBcient quantity in the store 

 windows to make a showing, now that 

 the heavy buying is over. Green stuff 

 and California red berries are still being 

 used largely in the decorations of store 

 windows, and fruit blossoms will be the 

 next item depended on in the decorative 

 line. 



Variotfs Notes. 



F. W. Winters, for the last three years 

 in the florists' business in Spokane, 

 Wash., is in town on a few weeks' visit. 



The greenhouses formerly owned by 

 the late A. Galloway, of Fruitvale, Cal., 

 have been purchased by H. Hayashi, of 

 Fitchburg, and will be removed there in 

 a few weeks. 



C. C. Morse & Co. have purchased 

 160 acres of land at Hayward, Cal., and 

 will devote it to the growing of seeds 

 and general nursery stock. 



L. O. Beery, formerly of Los Angeles, 

 has opened a plant sales yard at 101 

 Valencia street. He has received a large 

 stock of bay trees and specimen box- 

 woods from Belgium. 



Thos. A. Cox, .formerly of the Cox 

 Seed Co., has given up his country resi- 



20,000 SHASTA DAISIES 



Alaska, Oalifomla and Westralla, fleld-rrowa 

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

 not seedlings, extra strong divisions. 



Per 100 1000 



5 shoots ormore $2.60 $24.00 



8to4 shoots 2.00 19.00 



lto2 shoots 1.26 11.00 



Cyclamen PeFsiciuit Gig^anteum 



Fine plants, large flowers from named varie- 

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

 ready now, $7.00 per 100. 



■eeds ot Shasta Daisy- Alasia, Oalifomla 

 and Westralla, 1000 seeds, 50c; os., $2.00 net. 



Pentstemon Hybrldus Grandlfloms, 



new, largest flowers, in great variety of colon. 



the best of all Pentstemons, pkt., 25c; os., $1.60. 



List of otlier seeds. Caab, pit 



FRED GROHE, Santa Rosa. Cal. 



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Special Offer 



Of Arauoarla Kzoelsa, grown from top 

 cuttings, well rooted. S-tier, 6 to 8 in. high, from 

 8-in. pots, 30c ea.: $2.80 per 10; $26.00 per 100. 



Arauoarla BldwelU, seedlings, 8 to 10 In. 

 high, from 3-in. pots, 36c each. 



▲rancarla Cunnlnchanil, seedlings, In. 

 high, from 8-in. pots, 36c each. 



F. Ludemann 



Pacific Nurseries 



3041 Bakir St., San Francisco, Gal 



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dence at San Anselmo for the season 

 and will live in town until next spring. 



R. D. Hunter, of the Gefmain Seed 

 Co., Los Angeles, is in town. 



(leo. Eoeding, the Fresno nurseryman, 

 paid a flying visit to town on New 

 Year 's day. 



H. W. Brandenstein has been appoint- 

 ed park commissioner by Mayor Taylor. 



Peter Thiesen, of Golden Gate, is cut- 

 ting a lot of elegant freesias at pres- 

 ent. He is showing a new seedling that 

 is much admired and has proved to be 

 a good seller. It is of a more waxy 

 substance than the ordinary variety and 

 is borne on a somewhat stiffer stem. 



G. 



M. Sievers has taken a ten-year lease 

 of the store at»the northwest corner of 

 Powell and O 'Farrell streets, at a total 

 rental of $72,000. 



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