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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Decbubhb 2, 1999. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



LOS ANGELES. CAL, 



The Market. 



The rainy season opened in the third 

 week of November, with two or three 

 nights' good downpour, with sunny days 

 between, and planting of vegetables for 

 the winter market was promptly begun. 

 With the impetus derived from Thanks- 

 giving, business has picked up rapidly 

 and there are the best of prospects for 

 the winter. Chrysanthemums and roses 

 have been leading the market, with vio- 

 lets a close second. Some fine Beauties, 

 Killarneys and My Maryland have been 

 seen. 



From the fields, good Kaiserins and 

 white and pink Cochets have been com- 

 ing in; also Shasta daisies, gladioli, 

 Paper Whites, stocks, calendulas and 

 sweet peas. 



Plumosus and smilax are plentiful and 

 bring a fair price. Hardy ferns are 

 much higher here than in the east. There 

 are no single or pompon chrysanthemums 

 to be seen in this market. There is much 

 call for valley, which is scarce. Orchids 

 are plentiful, with good demand. They 

 sell in the stores at $1.50 each. 



Quantities of cinerarias are being 

 planted in the open for winter bloom. 



Various Notes. 



At East Lake park, where the plants 

 are grown for all the city parks, there 

 is much of interest to be seen. In the 

 conservatory, orchids are in fine display, 

 mostly cattleyas. In this house there 

 are some exceptionally fine plants of 

 maidenhair fern. 



Frank Lichtenburg and Herbert Wolf- 

 skill, formerly of Wolfskill's, who re- 

 cently started for themselves on Broad- 

 way, have opened another store on West 

 Fifth street, which they have named 

 The Florist. The interior is handsomely 

 finished in mission style. There is a 

 large palm room in the rear. They are 

 much pleased with the patronage re- 

 ceived thus far. 



Morris Goldenson reports an excellent 

 trade for the entire month of November. 

 Becently he had a wedding a little out 

 of the ordinary, where the decorations 

 were quite stiff and conventional. Paper 

 holders were used on the bridal bouquets, 

 which had to be made long and pointed, 

 after the fashion of years ago. 



The Eedondo Floral Co. was sending 

 out a lot of funeral designs and reports 

 business as good. 



The Eoth-Eeymond-MuUer Floral Co. 

 was also very busy making up designs, 

 among them a large shrine emblem. 

 Some pretty corsage bouquets of violets, 

 Cecil Brunner roses and maidenhair were 

 being arranged. 



At The Angelus they have been unusu- 

 ally busy with reception and theater or- 

 ders. They were sending out some good 

 Silver Wedding mums. 



H. N. Gage has received a large im- 

 portation of German baskets, and also 

 a good sized shipment of other supplies 

 from the east. 



The Morris & Snow Seed Co. has had 

 a good trade the entire season. 



J. W. Wolfskill's window has been 

 attracting much attention, being filled 

 with long-stemmed Beauties in handsome 

 vases, and pots of Whitmani ferns. The 

 other window contained many new violet 

 baskets in gold or purple. S. A. C. 



Rooted Carnation Cuttingfs 



PINK 



Taken from plants grown In the open field the year round. Ready for December delivery. 



Per 100 1000 



Winona, lisht pink $3.00 $25.00 



Knchantreas, i>tiell pink 1.80 15.(0 



Wluior. lipht pink 1.76 12.01) 



Kose-plnk Enchantress l.fiO 12.00 



Nelson Fisher, cerise l.?5 10.00 



Mrs. T. W. Lawson, cerise 1.75 15.00 



White Perfection 2.25 20 TO 



IVhlte Knchantress 2.V5 20.0U 



\7hlte I awsun 2 00 15.00 



Flora Hill 1.50 



RED Per 100 



Meacon $2.^5 



Victory 1.75 



Red L.awson . 1.25 



Estelle 1.15 



CRIMSON 

 Harlowarden 1.40 



VARIEOATEI) 



Lawson 1.25 



Prosperity 1 .50 



1000 



$20 00 



15.00 



800 



12.00 



12.00 



10.00 



YELLOW— Eldorado 1.60 12.00 



Asparasns Plumosns Nanns, 2^ to 3-in. pots, $15.00 per 1000, f . o. b. 



25 of any one variety, at 100 rate; 250 of any one variety, at 1000 rate. Express charges prepaid on 



all orders amounting to $5.00 or more. 



LOOMIS aRNATION CO., D. F. Roddan & Son, Proprietors, LOOMIS, CAL. 



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RAHN ft HERBERT 



Wbolesale Grow^era 



PORTLAND, ORK. MT. TABOR, P. O. 



Per 100 

 Oeranlnms, 212 in. pots . -per 1000, $25.00; $ 3.00 



Cyclamen, 4'in.. buds and flowers 25.00 



Prlnanla Obconlca, 2'2-in. pots 4.00 



Mnms, stock plants 5.00 



Palms, Ferns and Seasonable Plants. 



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Asparagus Plants 



350,000 1-yeax. 



Leading varieties. Write for prices. 

 Ordprs booked now for Red Losranberry 

 and Mammotli Blackberry Plants. 



Otto r. Schuchard, Watsonville, Cal. 



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Rooted Carnation Cuttings 



All the beet varietiee for Dec. 1 delivery. 

 Send for price Hat, now ready. 



Field- crown plants yet for sale 



Basselt's Tloral Gardens 



IX>OMIS, CAL. 



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SAN FRANOSCO. 



TheNUAtt 



The weather for the last week has been 

 rainy. Only for a few hours at a time 

 has it been possible to appear on the 

 streets without an umbrella. This has 

 had rather a depressing effect on the 

 flower-buying public. Funeral work has 

 been extremely active for the last two 

 weeks and has swelled the receipts of the 

 retailers in a substantial manner. Strictly 

 Thanksgiving trade, however, has also 

 been fair. Never within the history of 

 the local business have flowers been so 

 cheap or in such profusion as at this time 

 The warm, moist, rainy weather can be 

 thanked for this, but whether the excess 

 of flowers is of any monetary benefit to 

 the florist is a question that might take 

 some time to answer. 



Chrysanthemums have for several weeks 

 been strictly in their prime, but prices 

 have been about twenty-five per cent less 

 than those of last year. The finest Bon- 

 naffons can be bought at $4 per hundred, 

 and from this price down to $2 for flow- 

 ers somewhat smaller and shorter 

 stemmed. The best outside whites are a 

 shade higher in price, but at no time dur- 

 ing the season have the flowers been as 

 high in price as they were one year ago. 

 The effect of this large influx of chrys- 

 anthemums has been to lower the prices 

 on other stock. Carnations which should 

 bring at least $4 per hundred can be 

 bought for from $2 to $3, and many at 



SHASTA DAISY ":•.'.%»,?'• 



Diyisions from Mr. Burbank's original plants; 

 no seedlings. Extra strong, field divisians, 5 or 

 more shoots, per 100, $2.60; 1000, $24.00. Strong 

 field diyisions, 2 to 4 shoots, per 100, $2.00; 1000. 

 $19.00. 



Grohe's Large-flowering Hybrid Delphinium, 



a selection from the best hybrid strains In exist- 

 ence, from 3-in. pots, $6 00; 2-in. pots, ready la 

 November. $2.60. Select plants, from field, 1 year 

 old, $6 00. 



Orohe's Champion Strain Petanla Seed, 



only the best fiowers used for seeding, carefully 

 selected and hand fertilized. Giants of Oalifomia, 

 1000 seeds. 75c; ^ oz., $3.00; oz., $16.00. Ruffled 

 Giants, 1000 seeds, 75c; ^ oz., $3.60; oa., $17.50. 



Shasta Daisy-Alaska or California, >« oz., 

 50c; oz., $1 60. P«ntstenaon Hybrldns Grand. 

 Ifloras, tr jDkt.. 25c: oz., $1.00 Pentstemona. 

 Burbank's Hybrids, tr. pkt., 25c; oz., $1.00. 

 Gash please. 



FRED QROHE, Santa Rosa, CaL 

 ROOTED 



Carnation Cuttings 



...Our Specialty... 



Write For Prices. 



California Carnation Co., Loomis, Cal. 



Araucaria Excelsa 



From 2-iach pots, 5 to 6 inches high, young, 

 healthy seedlings with two tiers, at $18.00 per 100; 

 $160 per 1000; 600 and over at the thousand rata. 



F. LUDEMANN 



3041 Baker St, PacirtcNsrserits. San Francisco, Cal. 



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DO YOU WANT STOCKY PLANTS? 



WASHINGTONIA ROBUSTA 



(Fan Palms), 2 to 3 ft., by the thousands. 



Exotic Nurseries 



Santa Barbara, Cal. 



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even lower prices. The remark has been 

 made bj some of the dealers that the 

 quality of the flowers is not up to that of 

 earlier in the season. This is a point well 

 taken, for it must be admitted that the 

 excessively warm weather preceding the 

 present warm rain had the effect of in- 

 ducing the recently planted carnations to 

 make quantities of flower buds on rather 

 weak stems. These have now come into 

 blooming, and a heavy cutting of light, 

 long-stemmed stock is the result. "With 

 the disappearance of the present warm 

 spell, we may expect larger flowers and 

 heavier stems. This, to a certain extent, 

 holds true on the roses as well. Brides 

 and Maids have done nobly as far as 

 quantity is concerned, but the quality has 

 not been up to that expected at this time. 



