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The Weekly Florists* Review. 



Jumi 10, 1909. 



PITTSBURG. 



The Market 



June started right, trade being far 

 ahead of last year, and it is well it was 

 so, as flowers were never so plentiful. 

 Peonies and iris are coming in such quan- 

 tities that they can scarcely be handled, 

 much less sold, and while business was 

 reported much ahead of last year, there 

 was still more stock lost than sold. 



The country people have been keeping 

 the market more than filled with peonies, 

 iris, centaurea (Ragged Robin) and gar- 

 den roses, the finest ever seen. These are 

 sold at prices that the stores cannot com- 

 pete with. 



The plantsmen are over their rush, and 

 while they report a good season, they all 

 have lots of stock which they are anxious 

 to dispose of. As one grower says, 

 ' ' These are trying times, when one is try- 

 ing to get all he can for his stock and 

 still never letting a customer get away 

 at any price. ' ' 



Various Notes. 



The Florists' Club met in the store 

 room of the Pittsburg Cut Flower Co., 

 Tuesday evening, June 1, and while the 

 subject was "Peonies," it was just two 

 days too early, and there was not a 

 bunch of peonies brought in. The Schen- 

 ley Conservatories sent in some herbace- 

 ous flowers, and Mr. Crooks, gardener for 

 J. H. Park, showed a plant of Cattleya 

 Mendellii with thirty-six blooms, which 

 was fine. A committee was appointed to 

 look into the possibilities of arranging 

 for a picnic and reporting at the next 

 meeting. 



It is reported that the matrimonial 

 bug, which started its work this season 

 with the Pittsburg Cut Flower Co., has 

 been circulating through some of the 

 other wholesale houses. It is not known 

 at this time exactly how many have been 

 stung, but there will be several weddings 

 to report before long. 



A. W. Smith, Jr., who was reported ill 

 last week, is still confined to bed with 

 typhoid fever. 



Ernest "Winkler, an employee of the 

 Pittsburg Rose & Carnation Co., was 

 found dead Tuesday night, June 1, on 

 the tracks of the Butler Electric railroad. 

 He left the city on the car leaving Etna 

 at 11:25, which did not stop until it 

 reached Bakerstown Station, and it is 

 not known whether he attempted to jump 

 off or fell off about Valencia, several 

 mUes from his home. The car following 

 passed over the body, then stopped and 

 picked him up. Mr. Winkler was well 

 known, having worked for several of the 

 most prominent growers here for the last 

 ten years. Hoo-Hoo. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



SAN FRANOSCX). 



The Market 



SuflScient time has elapsed since Me- 

 morial day so that it may be interesting 

 to recapitulate somewhat. From a few 

 sources reports come that business was 

 not up to that of last year, and from 

 equally many 'the conditions are reported 

 as having been slightly more favorable. 

 The greatest falling off was in the line 

 of shipments to interior towns, though 

 much trade was also lost on account of 



the inability to get the necessary assort- 

 ment of cheap outside stock with which 

 to satisfy a certain portion of the retail 

 trade. The former condition I discussed 

 partially in a previous letter, and the in- 

 dications present at that time were fully 

 carried out between then and the latest 

 shipping hour. I think that out-of-town 

 orders were at least twenty-five per cent 

 less than they were one year ago. 



"With the counter trade the greatest 

 difficulty was to get stock that is usually 

 called for on this occasion, and the ef- 

 forts at substituting something higher 

 priced often ended in a dissatisfied buyer 

 or in a sale on which the retailer realized 

 but slight profit. 



Usually at this season we have quan- 

 tities of Bride gladioli. They are good 

 sellers and the public has begun to de- 

 mand them. Owing to the coldness and 

 excessive winds for several weeks, they 

 were not up to their early blooming qual- 

 ity and many patches are yet uncut. Car- 

 nations, also, were not as numerous as 

 the retailers would like to have seen 

 them. All colors, with the possible ex- 

 ception of the darker pink varieties, were 

 in such demand that the growers were 

 able to ask considerable more than the 

 regular price for them, and the retailers 

 lost thereby. Roses of the shorter 

 stemmed stock were plentiful, but they 

 did not move as briskly as the other flow- 

 ers. 



Sweet peas were in good quantity and 

 quality and, taken altogether, were the 

 best item in the market. Other classes 

 of stock, such as valley and lilies, were 

 only in fair demasid. There was a dearth 

 of good coreopsis, gaillardias, stocks, 

 candytuft, bachelor's buttons and caUas. 

 Had these articles been more plentiful, 

 it would have made a big difference with 

 the public, who, when they saw so little 

 of the typical Memorial day flowers on 

 show in the stores, usually did their pur- 

 chasing from the street hucksters or from 

 the stands in the neighborhood of the 

 cemeteries. 



"Various Notes. 



D. F. Carnes, representing the Rose- 

 ville Pottery Co., is visiting the local 

 dealers with a flne line of samples of 

 vases and jardinieres. 



J. H. Johnson, formerly a landscape 

 gardener in southern California, has lo- 

 cated on Park street, Alameda, Cal. 



C. C. Morse & Co. are showing a great 

 variety of cut sweet peas in their Market 

 street store, including some new seed- 

 lings of their own raising. 



The California Eucalyptus Plantation 

 Co., composed of local growers, has pur- 

 chased the Dillon Beach ranch, near 

 Tomales, Cal., from T. J. Steele. This 

 ranch borders on the ocean near Dillon 

 Beach, and also includes the sand spit 

 which juts into Tomales bay. It is the 

 intention to plant gum trees, for which 

 purpose the soil is peculiarly adapted, 

 and there are many thousands of the 

 gums now growing on the land. The 

 price paid for the land was $31,000. 



John Gill, of "West Berkeley, is on a 

 trip through Oregon and "Washington. 



G. 



PORTLAND, ORE. 



The Market. 



Business for the last month has been 

 exceptionally good. The demand for 

 Decoration day far exceeded the supply, 

 especially in carnations and roses of light 

 shades, and stock realized good prices. 



20.000 SHASTA DAISIES 



Alaska, Oalifomia and Westralla, field-grown 

 from divisions of Mr. L. Bvurbank's original Btock; 

 not seedllngB. extra strong dlviiionB. 



Per 1000 1000 



6 ahoots or more 12.60 $24.00 



S to 4 shoots 2.00 19.00 



1 to 2 shoots 1.25 11.00 



Cyclamen Persicum GUgfanteum 



Fine plants, large flowers from mamed varie- 

 ties, 800 4-4n ready now. SIO.OO per 100; 3000 8-ir. 

 ready now, 97.00 per 100. 



8««<ls of Shasta Daisy— Alaska, Oallfomi 

 and Westralia, 1000 seeds, 50c; oz.. 12.00 net. 



Pantstemon Hybrldus Orandlfloms., 

 new, largest flowers, in great variety of colore, 

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



List of other seads. Cash, please. 



FRED CROHE, Santa Rosa, Cal. 



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Araucaria Excelsa 



From 2-incb pots, 6 to 6 Inches high, yonng, 

 healthy setdUngs with two tiers, at $16.00 per 100; 

 $150 per 1000; 500 and over at the thousand rate. 



Ficus Macrophylla 



The broad leaved Morton Bay rubber tree, 

 from 2-inch pots, at $7.00 per 100. 



F. Ludemann 



Pacific Nurseries 



3041 Bakar St., San Francisco, Cal. 



Mention The Review when you write. 

 We kave a few thoaiasd Asparagas 



PLUMOSUS NANUS 



BKXD LEFT. 



That we will sell at the following special prices. 



The seed Is A No. 1, fresh and plump. Delivered 



free in United States and Canada. 



1.000 seeds $ 1 75 25,000 seeds $83.00 



6,000 seeds 9.00 50 000 seeds 60.00 



18,000 seeds 19.00 100.000 seeds 90.00 



As usual, cash with order. 



OAK GROVE NURSERIES 



Office 404 N. Los Angeles SL, LOS ANGELES, CAL 



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FIELD PLAINTS 



Well branched, 

 strong and healthy. 

 We offer the foUowing, F. O. B. Loomls: 



Enchantreas per 100. $6.00 



Boa«*Pink Knohantreaa 6.00 



Wlnaor " 6.00 



R«d Lawaon " 600 



Kobert CraiK " 6.00 



Nelson Fiaher " 6.0O 



A few Aaparagns SprenKeri, Aaparagns 

 Flnmoaaa and Pteria Mayu left. Prices oi> 

 application. 



LO0MI8 CARNATION COMPANY, Loomls, Cal. 



D. F. Roddan & Son, Proprietors. 

 Mention The Review when you write. 



PALMS :: PALMS :: PALMS; 



Ask for Wholesale Price List ! 



Exotic Nurseries 



Santa Barbara, Cal. j 



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Palms, Araucarias, Ferns 



Muxna, leading varieties, rooted cattinge. 

 2ia-iDcb pots. Ask for prices. 



RAHN S HERBERT 



WHOLESALE GROWERS 

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



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 Writing adverHners. 



