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The Florists' Review 



OCTOBBU 27, 1921 



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Pacific Coast Department 



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Fortland, Ore. — William M. Gregory, 

 who is engaged in the practice of law, 

 but who has a small country place, will 

 grow bulbs and Christmas greens for 

 the trade. 



Cromwell, Wash. — 0. A. Bloom is in 

 the cut flower business and has been 

 selling flowers in large quantities to 

 Tacoma florists. Mr. Bloom's specialties 

 are narcissi, gladioli and snapdragons. 



Santa Ana, Cal. — The numerous offer- 

 ings of flowers at the recent bankers' 

 convention gave the editor of the Santa 

 Ana Eegister an opportunity to describe 

 the great flower-producing industries of 

 Los Angeles and vicinity. The range 

 of Amling Bros, is described at length, 

 with a special mention of the new rose, 

 Angelus, a great deal of the information 

 being obtained from an interview, evi- 

 dently, with Peter Hus, the company's 

 sales manager. 



LOS ANGELES. 



The Market. 



Business last week was of a most un- 

 certain character, some days being good 

 and others poor. Both wholesalers and 

 retailers have the same story to tell. 

 During the early part of last week the 

 great heat was hard on shipping. Roses 

 are the leaders, with mums a close sec- 

 ond, though it is a little between seasons 

 for the latter. The early stock is al- 

 most over and the late varieties are 

 hardly ready, although quite soon there 

 will be plenty of Appleton and other 

 late varieties. Dahlias are just getting 

 past their best and good gladioli are 

 also scarce. 



In small flowers there is a full supply 

 and a number of strawflowers, statice 

 and other "everlastings" are making 

 their appearance. 



Various Notes. 



Two of the prominent seed firms in 

 the city have opened floral departments. 

 They are the Germain Seed & Plant Co. 

 and the Morris & Snow Seed Co. The 

 Germain interests have opened this de 

 partment at the retail store on Sixth 

 and Main streets. It is interesting to 

 recall that in this block R. W. Saake 

 ran his store for many years with great 

 success and that there has not been a 

 flower store on the block since Mr. 

 Saake removed to Broadway a number 

 of years ago. This is one of the busiest 

 blocks in the city and the Germain in- 

 terests have a wonderful retail busi- 

 ness there in their specialties; so 

 there is every reason to think that suc- 

 cess will follow. Morris & Snow did 

 not open in the retail store, but out at 

 their nursery on Figueroa street. Al- 

 bert Morris is in charge here and it was 

 owing to the constant inquiries for cut 

 flowers that the new department was 

 added. With his usual hustle, he will, 

 doubtless, make as great a success in the 

 floral end as he already has in the 

 nursery. 



Mums and roses are the big items 

 going out from the store of W. Arma- 

 cost & Co. Roses are of especially good 

 shipping qualities now. Salt Lake City 



and Ogden, Utah, florists will be inter- 

 ested to know that largely owing to the 

 continued efforts of Mr. Williamson, of 

 this firm, the express company now 

 carries flowers on the Salt Lake Over- 

 land train that leaves Los Angeles at 

 10:50 a. m. daily, thus insuring arrival 

 of flowers in good condition about noon 

 the next day. This brings Los Angeles 

 almost a day nearer to Salt Lake City 

 than San Francisco ahd removes a long- 

 standing injustice to Los Angeles ship- 

 pers. 



A peculiar robbery occurred at a store 

 next door to the place of George Hall & 

 Co. last week. The robbers first broke 

 into the Hall store, but there was no 

 cash left there and they broke through 

 a partition into the adjoining store, 

 which they looted for about $.500 of 

 more or less portable goods. Although 

 some large vases of mums and other 

 flowers were moved about, George Hall 

 says that not a thing was damaged. 



S. Murata & Co. say that their grow- 

 ers are particularly long on fine roses 



now and these are of excellent shipping 

 quality. 



The Sehaeffer Floral Co. is well satis- 

 fied with the way business opened up at 

 the new store. Some of the nearby 

 hotels are proving to be good customers, 

 showing that there was room for a 

 flower store in this rapidly advancing 

 section of the city. 



W. Kent, who made a short stay in 

 Arizona, has taken charge of the market 

 of the American Florists' Exchange, on 

 Winston street. A large icebox has 

 been purchased and will be installed at 

 once. 



Don Stathatos, proprietor of the 

 Broadway Florists, had an exciting time 

 at his home the other night when an 

 armed burglar broke in and presented 

 a gun. Mr. Stathatos immediately grap- 

 pled with the burglar and succeeded in 

 holding him down until the arrival of 

 Mr. Stathatos' brother, who called the 

 police. They secured the prisoner. 

 Robbery was evidently the aim of the 

 miscreant, who asked first for liquor or 



CAUFORNIA 



Flowers and Greens 



OF ALL KINDS AT 



LOWEST MARKET PRICES 



PACKED RIGHT 



L. A. FLORAL COMPANY 



TTkm HouM* of Quality and Sarvie* 

 236 EAST FOURTH ST^ LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 



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MUMS 



and 



NEW CROP CARNATIONS 



Our stock is the finest coming to this market and out growers were never 

 in better shape than this season. 



Our packing methods insure good results and our prices are right on all 

 classes of stock. 



S. MURATA & CO. 



380-386 S. Los Angeles St., LOS ANGELES, CAL. 



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