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The Florists^ Review 



August 15, 1012. 



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Pacific Coast Department 



Moimtain View, Cal.— C, E. Adams is 

 building two houses, each 20 x 100, for 

 carnations. 



. Seattie, Wash.— Mrs. L. P. Walz, 

 wife of the president of the Seattle Cut 

 Flower Exchange, is on a visit to Salt 

 Lake City and Denver and her old 

 home at Detroit. She will no doubt at- 

 tend the Chicago convention. 



TACOMA, WASH. 



There has been little business aside 

 from a few f urnerals ; yet trade has been 

 up to the usual summer level. Stock of 

 the cheaper grades is plentiful, but 

 there is little of the finer grade of stock 

 on the market. The hot, dry weather 

 is having a marked effect on the out- 

 door stock, and peas, especially, are 

 becoming short-stemmed and off color. 

 Good carnations are hardly to be seen, 

 most of the stores carrying only the 

 cheaper grades of stock. Asters are 

 coming in more plentifully and are of 

 good quality. 



Various Notes. 



H. Atchinson is erecting two more 

 houses, 20x125, at his place near Bis- 

 marck. They will be devoted to the 

 growing of vegetables for the local 

 trade. 



Robert Davis has a fine crop of 

 tomatoes of the Comet variety at his 

 place on South Pacific avenue. He con- 

 templates remodeling some of his old 

 houses in the near future. 



On a recent visit to the Reservation 

 Greenhouses we found Mr. Seamons 

 busy with a crew of men, planting the 

 houses to new stock. He says the val- 

 ley has been rather wet for a good 

 growth of carnations this year. This 

 firm has lately leased greenhouses and 

 a store in Aberdeen, Wash. ,T. L. S. 



LOS ANGELES, CAL. 



The Market. 



A peculiar condition of the market 

 obtains at this time of year. It mat- 

 ters little how much business the re- 

 tailers are doing, the wholesalers find 

 it pretty hard to clean up on certain 

 lines of cheap stock which every grower, 

 amateur or commercial, has in plenty. 

 On the other hand, good stock is hard 

 to obtain and the retailer is prone to 

 think he can call on the wholesaler on 

 short notice for orders of this class of 

 flowers when the latter, even could he 

 procure it, would hesitate before stock- 

 ing up heavily on it. 



The retail trade is good for the sea- 

 son, much better than at this time last 

 year. Wedding decorations have been 

 more than usually plentiful and the run 

 of funeral work has kept up finely. 

 The stock shown is about the same as 

 last reported, but a few dahlias are of- 

 fered. These are of the cactus varieties 

 and they are mighty pretty to look at, 

 but few are sold and the best that can 

 be said about them is that they form 

 a cheap and showy window decoration. 

 Boston ferns, palms and coleus continue 

 to be the chief offering in plants. 

 Greens of all kinds are plentiful. The 



Amaryllis Belladonna now being shipped 

 in from various sources is a fine addi- 

 tion to the stock at command. 



Various Notes. 



There was a well attended meeting 

 of the Los Angeles County Horticultural 

 Society, August 6, at Kruckeberg's hall. 

 The subject for the evening 's discussion 

 was "Propagation of Plants for the 

 Professional and Amateur," by H. R.- 

 Richards. In the discussion J. Die- 

 terich, Dr. Houghton, C. Winsel, Theo- 

 dore Payne and many other prominent 

 members of the society either scored or 

 upheld the points noted, and an inter- 

 esting meeting was the result. J. M. 

 Grant acted as secretary in the unavoid- 

 able absence of H. W. Kruckeberg. 



The Standard Pottery Co. is among 

 the latest to add motor traction to its 

 delivery service, a fine truck having 

 recently been purchased. 



O, C. Saakes had a fine wedding dec- 

 oration July 30, in which the bride's 

 bouquet was of lily of the valley and 

 the flowers carried by the bridesmaids 

 were pink sweet peas. Business is com- 

 ing right along to this well known 

 Fourth street retailer. 



For quality, the roses now being 

 shipped to Wright's Flower Shop from 

 the firm 's greenhouses at Gardena would 

 be difficult to beat. My Maryland, 

 from old stock, and Prima Donna and 

 Radiance, from young plants, are among 

 the best offerings and they are of a 

 quality that would rank high in Decem- 

 ber rather than July. W. Wern is back 

 from his vacation trip and reports an 

 elegant time. 



Tassano Bros, keep busy with cut 

 flowers and greens at the store and 

 Tony says be is working hard at the 

 new place at* Glendale, planting Aspara- 

 gus plumosus and other stock under 

 the new lath houses. An especially fine 

 grade of asters is being handled here. 



S. Murata says he is doing about 

 three times the business done at the 

 store last year. His greenhouse carna- 

 tions are especially fine. 



A rose wedding was among the orders 

 filled by the Hayward Floral Co. this 

 week, each room in the home of the 

 bride being treated with a different 

 colored variety. 



J. B. Menasco is bringing in fine 

 La Detroit roses from his new ranch 

 at Covina. He is getting settled down 

 in his new place and "Jim" promises 

 fine things for the near future. All the 

 newly planted rose stock looks fine. 



Fred Hills has his place in fine order 

 now, and he and Mrs. Hills were hosts 

 to quite an extensive party at a picnic 

 in Elysian park, August 3. Superin- 

 tendent Lambert, of the park system, 

 was among the guests, and Charlie Mor- 

 ton, of the Los Angeles Flower Mar- 

 ket, with his usual good nature, helped 

 out by taking parties of the ladies in 

 his Buick to view the scenic beauties 

 of this most delightful of all the city 

 parks. Mrs. Morton and Miss Hazel 

 Morton were among the guests. 



H. N. Gage is expected back by the 

 end of the week and will probably be 

 home long before these notes appear. 

 What he says in his letters appreciative 

 of Portland, Ore., would make the in- 

 habitants of this progressive city blush. 



LOS ANGELES FLOWER HAKKET 



Chas. E. Morton, Mgr. 



414^ S. Broadway, Loa Ang^lea, Cal. 



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