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The Market. 



Taepma and the northwest have beeu 

 experiencing one of the driest sum- 

 mers ever known, there having been 

 seventy days without rain. Despite 

 this lack of rainfall, the outdoor stock 

 has made a good growth, carnations 

 especially lifting unusually well. Out- 

 door cut stock is somewhat scarce, 

 asters, gltidioli and sweet peas being 

 the ones most shown. Most of the 

 growers are {Wanted up, the crops grown 

 being- about as in former years. 



Various Notes. 



Walter Hinze has opened a flower 

 store in the K street market under the 

 name of the Fern Florist. 



6us Oulberg has started construction 

 on three new houses at Parkland. These 

 wifl ^Jb>•.^j!fte«alsd -to. vegetables. 



A. A. Hinze has a fine lot of ferns of 

 the different varieties. This establish- 

 ment is looking well, under the care 

 of Mr. Sanford. 



A. G. Seamons, of the Hayden-Wat- 

 son store, has been spending a week 

 in Aberdeen, where they have interests 

 in the trade. He reports everything 

 in good shape at their establishment 

 there. 



The Florists' Club met September 3 

 and various subjects of interest to the 

 trade were brought up for discussion. 

 The club meets on the first Thursday 

 night of each month. J, L. S. 



LOS ANGELES. 



The Market. 



A decided improvement is again 

 manifest this week, and on several 

 days stock at the wholesalers ' has been 

 cleaned up well early in the day. There 

 is not much that is new in the way of 

 stock, except some early white chrys- 

 anthemums, which are especially good 

 for the season. Golden Glow is not a 

 startling success here; the earliest flow- 

 ers are always soft, lacking in texture 

 and lasting properties, while the later 

 ones bring so low a price that they are 

 not remunerative to the grower, or sat- 

 isfactory to the wholesaler or retailer. 

 Asters keep up weU and carnations are 

 improving. Centaureas are fine and 

 there is a large variety of hardy out- 

 door flowers. Indoor roses are good, 

 some of the newer ones taking the 

 place of the old favorites. Orchicft and 

 valley are about equal to the demand, 

 which is not great. 



* Various Notes. 



Fred Hills is sending in remarkably 

 good Whitmani in the smaller and me- 

 dium sizes. 



• H. W. Turner keeps his new delivery 

 car working full time in handling his 

 siock. He has more of the novelties 

 tian any other grower , around town 

 afid his place is especially interesting 

 npw. September Morn, of course, caps 

 tfie list, and the more I see of this 

 gi-and rose the better I like it. The 

 cplof ^is perfect, a delightful pink, whi^e 

 thepetalage and ?oiiage teavi? nothitig" 



to be desired. The flower stands up re- 

 markably well, owing to the stiff stem. 

 Francis Scott Key is also in splendid 

 shape here; it is a beautiful and telling 

 red, likely to run D'Arenberg hard. 

 Olivia and Willowmere are both win- 

 ners, and the Daily Mail special, Her- 

 riott, is quite distinct in color from 

 anything else. Carnegie is not a fa- 

 vorite, proving rather soft, though extra 

 free blooming. A look through the 

 houses here is mighty interesting now. 



The H. N. Gage Co. reports a good 

 week, with stock cleaning up well daily. 

 Congratulations are in order to Albert 

 Burchatt, Mr. Gage's bookkeeper, who 

 was married August 28 to Miss Blanche 

 Le Valley. 



Fred Sperry, of the Los Angeles Flow- 

 er Market, took a week off last week, 

 spending his time on side trips with 

 his automobile. 



S. Murata & Co. report an extra 

 busy -week, large quantities of- the best 

 class of stock being cleaned up daily. 



Howard & Smith maintain an elegant 

 show at the/ store at Ninth and Olive 

 streets. Funeral work has been plen- 

 tiful here. 



Speakman & Dille have their place 

 in fine shape this year, having made 

 some alterations in the heating and the 

 houses, while the place has been parked, 

 giving it a particularly neat appear- 



ance. A good cut of Shawyer has beeu 

 taken and is still coming, while Baii- 

 ance is coming on rapidly. Beauties 

 look fine. 



Albert Beverley, of Santa Barbara 

 was in the city last week on business 

 about the Pacific sprinkler and lookiug 

 up stock for his nursery. 



The sudden death of Ernst Wagner, 

 a horticultui"al chemist well known to 

 the trade here, cast quite a gloom over 

 those who had known him. Mr. Wagner 

 was of German birth and of a pecu- 

 liarly sensitive disposition and he felt 

 the war news keenly, so much so that 

 when it was announced that his dead 

 body had been found at San Pedro his 

 friends for a time feared he had taken 

 his own life. But those fears proved 

 groundless, for he had evidently sat 

 down to rest and succumbed to heart 

 failure. Several of the late gentleman's 

 formula; are well known here and in 

 use by the liortioultural eommission 

 and the trade. He was of a gentle dis- 

 position and much liked by all with 

 whom he came in contact. I have not 

 been able to ascertain his exact age, 

 but he was well along in years. 



John Gordon, manager for Wolf skills' 

 & Morris Goldenson, is back from his 

 vacation at Balboa and reports a fine 

 time. Walter Garbett, of Darling's 

 Flower Shop, who was with Mr. Gor- 



Superior-grown ROSES for Immediate Planting 



We have a grand stock of the following varieties in 2^ and iMnch pots, strons, clean 

 and healthy, ready for shifting to larger pots for spring sales or for planting out at 

 once. This stock at the prices ouoted is a splendid value. 



Mrs. Geo. Shawyer. Prince £. C. d'Arenberg. Mrs. Chas. Russell. 

 $6.00 per 100. $50.00 per 1000. 



The following varieties in any quantity. $4.60 per 100. $40 00 per lOCO; 

 Milady, Lady Alice Stanley. Rose Que<>n, Christie-Miller. Prima Donna, Doable White 

 Killamey, Jonkheer J. L. Mock, Antoine Rivoire, Sunburst, Killamey Queen, Natalie 

 Boettner, Richmond, My Maryland. American Beauty, K<ii8erin, Princo de Bulgarie. Madi- 

 son, White Killarney ,Mme. Leon Paine, Mrs. Herbert Stevens. Lady Ursula, Pres. Camot. 

 C'ara Watson, Radiance, Mme. Ab<^l Chatenay, Etoiie de France, Qruss an Teplitz, Pink 

 Killamey. L«dy Hillingdon, Mile. Cecile Brunner, Red. White and Pink Cheiokees. Joey 

 Hill, Ethel Malcomb, Miss Amy Hammond, 



Satisfaction guaranteed. 



HENRY W. TURNER, Wktlmle riirist, Montebello, Cal. 



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Freesia Refracta Alba, f^-in., X-in. and up. Write for prices. 

 Asparagus Plumosus Seed $1.50 per 1000 



Quantity prices on appUcation. 



H. N. GAGE CO., Inc., S36 S«. Bnadway, Los Angdei, Cal. 



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