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The Florists' Review 



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POBTLAMD, OBE. 



The Market. 



Business is down to the summer level, 

 and there is little activity in the trade. 

 Most of the flower buying public is 

 out of the city, but an occasional fu- 

 neral helps to utilize the surplus. Car- 

 nations are almost out of the market 

 and of poor grade, and asters are rap- 

 idly displacing them in demand. 



Gladioli are unusually choice and 

 have proved a fine seller this season. 

 The market is deluged with rfibrums, 

 which seem hard to move at any price. 

 Sweet peas are poor, with no salable 

 stock obtainable; this has been a hard 

 year for the sweet pea growers. 



Various Notes. 



Steele's Masto'don Pansy Gardens re- 

 port sales far in advance of former 

 years, especially in the seed depart- 

 ment, which has grown by rapid strides. 



The Portland Seed Oo. is building a 

 five-story warehouse on East Alder 

 street, this being necessary to take care 

 of their increasing business. 



While there is considerable interest 

 centered on the convention in Chicago, 

 so far as known no one is in attend- 

 ance from this city. 



Byron H. Ives, Albuquerque, N. M., 

 was a recent visitor. 



Martin & Forbes are remodeling the 

 store these quiet days, getting every- 

 thing in readiness for the coming 

 season. 



The Florists' Club has arranged to 

 go out in a body August 27 to the Ore- 

 gon Nursery Co., Orenco, Ore., on a tour 

 of inspection. 



John Gill, of West Berkeley, Cal., 

 was a week-end caller. E. E. C. 



VIOTOBIA, B. C. 



The Market. 



Trade here is of the summer variety; 

 little doing and good stock none too 

 plentiful. Most of the growers have 

 thrown out their old carnations and in 

 consequence the price has risen from 25 

 and 35 cents to 50 and 60 cents per 

 dozen. 



Sweet peas, usually so fine here, are 

 this year a great disappointment. The 

 seed used is practically all imported 

 direct from England and includes the 

 newest varieties. This year almost 

 everyone has been troubled with a dis- 

 ease that seems identical with the to- 

 mato stripe and affects the plants the 

 same way. The usual remedies have 

 all been tried, but without success. 

 Perhaps our young Canadian "Bur- 

 bank," from Brampton, can tell us a 

 remedy for it. It is so bad with the 

 leading amateur growers that it has 

 been thought advisable to hold no sweet 

 pea exhibition this year. 



Various Notes. 



At the last meeting of the Florists' 

 Club the matter of duty on nicotine 

 preparations for spraying and fumigat- 

 ing purposes was taken up. The meet- 

 ing was strongly of the opinion that 

 thirty-three per cent was a great deal 



too much duty to pay on this class of 

 gobds, and it was decided to petition 

 the provincial government to take the 

 matter up with the governments of the 

 various provinces and make a united 

 appeal to the Dominion government to 

 reduce or repeal the tax in the interest 

 of horticulture. It is hoped that any 

 other Canadian clubs which see this will 

 do likewise. 



The weather this summer has been 

 remarkable. Usually three or four of 

 the summer months are dry. This year 

 we have had a great deal of cloudy 

 weather and some quite heavy rains. 



The florists' picnic was held August 

 7 at Goldstream, a most beautiful can- 

 yon in the mountains of the interior. 

 Old-timers who were of the party as- 

 sured us there was still plenty of the 

 yellow metal to be had for the wash- 

 ing, but we were all so busy forgetting 

 such things as greenhouses that their 

 veracity was not put to the test. 



F. B. 



liOS ANGELES, OAL. 



The Market. 



Funeral work and some few decora- 

 tions form the principal outlet for flow- 

 ers now, and with the quantity of stock 

 of all kinds arriving, it takes some 

 pretty tall hustling on the part of the 

 wholesalers to make anything like a 

 decent clean-up. Asters are arriving in 

 extra large quantities and the qutJity 

 in most cases is excellent. All colors 

 are well represented, though good reds 

 are a little scarce at times. Gladioli 

 are also too plentiful and the quality 



leaves nothing to be desired. Mrs. 

 Francis King and America are especial- 

 ly fine. Bubrum lilies are arriving in 

 good shape and come in extremely use- 

 ful for funeral work. Indoor roses are 

 good for the season, especially My 

 Maryland, which stands up well. There 

 are quite a number of good outdoor 

 roses also coming in, Maman Cochet 

 and White Cochet being among the 

 best. Carnations are short in the stem, 

 but otherwise the quality is good. Cen- 

 taurea in all the popular colors helps 

 out and stands well. Coreopsis is bright 

 and telling, but not much in demand. 

 Valley still keeps in good demand and 

 runs along about even with the supply. 

 The demand for orchids is not large, 

 but the stock offered is good. Greens 

 of all kinds are plentiful. 



Various Notes. 



Manager Charles ll^orton, of the Los 

 Angeles Flower Market, took a trip in 

 his Buick to San Diego August 11, 

 business at the store being in charge 

 of his brother, Will. Fine stocks of all 

 classes of flowers are on hand, and I 

 noted some fine statice. This long-last- 

 ing flower is in considerable demand. 

 The gladioli and asters are extra fine 

 here. 



Tassano Bros, are showing particu- 

 larly fine pink Cochet roses from the 

 Eagle Rock grounds. The new-crop 

 Mexican ivy is coming in excellent 

 shape. Tony says he has planted some 

 20,000 Asparagus plumosus at Edendale 

 and intends to go into this still more 

 largely. 



Morris Goldenson was seen in the 

 store with his coat off and working one 



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