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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



JULT 15, 1909. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



SPOKANE, WASH. 



The Market. 



Favored with a soaking rain of three 

 days' duration, vegetation has taken new 

 strides and bids fair to make up for the 

 late season. Only a few days so far have 

 been too hot for comfort. Old-timers in 

 Spokane say that we have two seasons 

 here — winter, and July and August. 



Eoses have almost retired from circu- 

 lation, but light carnations are still doing 

 business at the old stands. The red sorts 

 are looking jaded, but Enchantress, white 

 and Crocker are of fair quality and plen- 

 tiful. Sweet peas of the Spencer strain 

 have been fine and in good demand the 

 last few days. Gladioli and phlox have 

 made their appearance, as well as gypso- 

 phila, garden heliotrope, gaillardia, 

 Shasta daisies, mignonette and snap- 

 dragon. 



July has been ' ' not so bad ' ' so far, for 

 the dull season, enough funeral work com- 

 ing in to keep the forces in hand inter- 

 ested. 



The usual replanting of roses is in 

 progress, and growers are almost too busy 

 to talk. Not much building is attempted 

 this year. 



Rose Fair. 



The annual rose fair, conducted by the 

 Parish Guild of All Saints' Cathedral, 

 has been held at the Masonic Temple. The 

 affair is an amateur event, but judged 

 professionally. 8. Younkin, of Hoyt Bros. 

 Co., Mrs. H. M. Sanders and A. W. Win- 

 ters, of the Armstrong store, constituted 

 the committee of awards. 



There were five premiums offered : Best 

 single specimen of cut rose, awarded first 

 to Ulrich Brunner, second to i^/au Karl 

 Druschki; largest number of roses grown 

 from one garden; collection of roses con- 

 taining largest number of varieties grown 

 from one garden; best decorated table, 

 prize awarded to decoration of one large 

 central cut glass basket of Testout roses, 

 with smaller baskets around it. 



Appointments were good and roses fine 

 in quality of flower, but too short- 

 stemmed. The arrangement was not es- 

 pecially commendable. The most artistic 

 arrangement of roses, awarded first prize, 

 was a tub hat suspended from a chan- 

 delier by a pink ribbon, the hat filled with 

 Druschki roses ; the second prize going to 

 a brass jardiniere of Jacq. roses. 



Some good specimens were shown, but 

 they suffered from poor care and indif- 

 ferent arrangement. Moral: It pays 

 the trade to encourage affaire of this 

 kind, to the extent of helping to plan it 

 and giving a critical talk to intending 

 contestants beforehand, with a few in- 

 structions about cutting, storing and ar- 

 ranging the stock. 



VtriMtt Notes. 



A few belated orders for bedding stock 

 are still arriving, the principal call being 

 for geraniums, vincas, lobelias, coleus 

 and dusty miller. Robert Tomlin, the 

 landscape gardener, reports a few jobs 

 still on hand. 



The Spokane Florist Co. is showing in 

 its window a display of fine gaillardias 

 and Shasta daisies. Miss Armstrong has 

 Spencer peas and Enchantress. The Hoyt 

 Bros. Co. has a cork bark stump, with 

 adiantum plants up and down one side, 

 and white carnations and scarlet gladioli 



Calla Lily Bulbs 



Per 100 Per 1000 



1 Inch to Ik Incb in diameter 18.00 $25.00 



m inch to 1^ inch in diameter 5.00 40.00 



1^ inch to 1^ inch in diameter 6.00 50.00 



2 iDch to 2^ inch in diameter 8.00 70.00 



Also Narcissus Alba Grandiflora Bulbs pVr°iooo 



(250 at 1000 rate.) 



When cash is sent with order, we prepay the freight 



and guarantee lafe arrival. 



A. MiniNG GAUA LILY BULB GO. 



Lock Box 880, SANTA CRUZ, CAL. 



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Araucaria Exceisa 



From 2-inch pots, 6 to 6 inches high, young, 

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

 1160 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 Bakir St., San Francisco, Gal. 



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ASPARAGUS PLUmOSUS 

 NANUS SEED 



Fresh, lath house grown, tl.25 per 1000. 



Special low price ia quantities. 



Cash. 



OAK GROVe NURSERIES 



Office, 404 N. Los Angeles SL, Los Angeles, Cal. 



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on the top and about the base on the 

 other side. Most of the stores have out- 

 side decorations of either hanging bas- 

 kets or bay trees. 



We had as visitors this week: Mr. 

 Underwood, of tbe Normal Hill Green- 

 houses, of Lewiston, Idaho ; J. L. Bourne, 

 of Moscow, Idaho; Mr. Dayton, of 

 Storrs & Harrison Co., Painesville, O. 



Mrs. W. S. Hoyt left Tuesday, July 6, 

 for a three months' visit among rela- 

 tives in New York state. 



Miss Minnie K. Graham, who is such a 

 favorite with both employees and cua- 

 tomers of the Hoyt Bros. Co., left last 

 week for a trip to the Philippines, sailing 

 from San Francisco July 6. We are 

 hoping to have her back by Christmas. 



S. 



SANFEANOSCO. 



TheMtjkiL 



The summer dullness has arrived with 

 a vengeance, and everything that has the 

 appearance of trade has gone a-glimmer- 

 ing. Flowers are piling up in the retail- 

 ers' stores and in the greenhouses of the 

 growers, and quotations of any kind are 

 not reliable enough to give any idea of 

 the market. 



We are, however, almost at the end of 

 the big crops of roses and carnations, 

 and it is safe to prophesy that within a 

 couple of weeks flowers will be much 

 scarcer, even if the prices do not advance 

 much. Already the sweet peas are be- 

 coming quite short of stem and the pub- 

 lic seems, for the first time this season, 

 to be getting tired of them and looking 



nn n DI AMTC wen branched, 

 ■ ll-LI# r L^H I O strong and healthy. 



We oflTer the following, F. O. B. Loomis: 



Encbantreaa per 100, $6.00 



Roa«>Plnk Knohantreaa 6.00 



Winaor " 6.00 



Red Lawson " 5.00 



Robert Cralff " 5.00 



Melaon Fiaher " 5.00 



Aaparatras Plmnoana Nanus Seedllnga. fine, 



healthy stock. $10 OO per 1000, f. o. b. Loomis. 

 A few Pterla Blayil left. Prices on application. 



LOOMIS CABNATION COMPANY, Loomis. Cal. 



D. F. Roddan & Son, Proprietors. 



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Carnation Plants 



Fleld'Srown. 3000 Victory, $5.00 per 100; 

 also other varieties. Extra good S-in. Asp. 

 plumosuB nanus, 5c each. 2'fl-in. OreviUea Ro- 

 busta, 4c each. 



BASSETT'S FLORAL GARDENS 

 Carnation Ave., LOOMIS. CAT.. 



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PURITY 



FISCHER'S 

 GRAND 

 FREESIA 



The unequaled white decorative Vreaala. 

 For sale by the leading Florists. 



RUDOLPH FISCHER 



R. r. D., SAM OABRIKL. CAL. 



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Cyclamen Gigaotenm 



Dry bulbs, 1 to l>«-in. diameter. ..per 100, $ 7.50 



Aaparasua SprenKerl, 6-in 15.00 



Aspararua Sprancert, 4-in 8.00 



Aaparaarua Flumoaua, 2- in 2.00 



FRED CROHE, Santa Rosa, Cal. 



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Palms, Araucarias, Ferns 



Mums, leading yarieties, rooted cuttings, 

 2is-inch pots. Ask for prices. 



RAHN S HERBERT 



WHOLESALE GROWERS 

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



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PALMS :: PALMS :: PALMS 



Ask for Wholesale Price List 



Exotic Nurseries 



Santa Barbara, Cal. 



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for something different. Gladioli are in 

 full bloom now and the demand for them 

 is fair. They cost the stores from $2 to 

 $3 per hundred. Cactus dahlias are much 

 in favor with decorators, but as a flower 

 to sell over the counter they are not ex- 



