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The Florists^ Review 



Sbptumbuk 12, 1912. 



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POSTLAND, ORE. 



The Market. 



Business has taken on more activity 

 as the season has advanced. With the 

 arrival of September, many weddings 

 are in evidence, and general business 

 is in proportion. August receipts show 

 an increase over a year ago, to the sat- 

 isfaction of florists in general. 



Stock is not overplentiful. Roses 

 are showing a gradual increase, with a 

 daily clean-up. Asters show the effect 

 of the bad weather of last week, which 

 reduced the shipments of choice stock. 

 All other outside stock fared accord- 

 ingly. Mums are still scarce and bring 

 good prices, considering quality of 

 stock, which is the Golden Glow va- 

 riety. 



Various Notes. 



C. Lundgren has leased the place of 

 A. M. Le Grand at Milwaukee. He 

 will grow a general stock of flowers 

 and bedding plants. 



The Nippon Floral Co. is cutting a 

 nice lot of auratum lilies. 



E. G. Scott, Moscow, Idaho, was a 

 visitor last week. 



The state fair was held at Salem, 

 Ore., last week. There was a good ex- 

 hibit by the seedsmen and nurserymen. 

 Bahn & Herbert took first prize on 

 palms and 'ferns and Routledge Seed 

 Co. came in second, and first in the 

 aster and dahlia display. The Wil- 

 lamette Dahlia Co. secured second on 

 dahlias. The Portland Seed Co. con- 

 fined its exhibit to poultry and acces- 

 sories. 



A. L. Kitchen and Guy Black have 

 established a nursery at Roseburg, Ore. 



E. R. C. 



SEATTLE, WASH. 



The Market. 



Trade is still extremely quiet. Roses 

 and carnations are moving a little fast- 

 er, but most other stock is in excess. 

 The recent rains have played havoc 

 with most of the outdoor flowers. The 

 early asters were mostly spoiled and the 

 later ones, now coming in, also show 

 the effects of the weather. This has 

 been a poor season for growers of out- 

 side flowers; there were too many 

 grown, and no prices for anything but 

 first-class stock. 



Various Notes. 



On Labor day a bunch of enthusiastic 

 growers paid a visit to the Hollywood 

 Farm. The journey, a most interesting 

 one, was made in a launch over Lake 

 Washington and up Squak's Slough to 

 the farm, a distance of twenty-six 

 miles. The day was fine and the water 

 also, judging by the experience of one 

 of the party, who made a graceful, un- 

 intentional dive from the upper deck 

 of the launch during the trip up the 

 slough. The greenhouses were pretty 

 minutely investigated and everyone 

 was surprised and pleased at their com- 

 pleteness. The same may be said of 

 the stock of carnations and chrysanthe- 

 mums. The carnations, especially, 

 looked splendid. The party was shown 



over the extensive dairy farm which is 

 run in conjunction with the greenhouse 

 plant, and were impressed with the 

 cleanliness of the barns and the beauty 

 of the large herd of Holstein cows, for 

 which the ranch is becoming famous. 

 The plants of White Wonder and Poca- 

 hontas carnations, benched in May, 

 were looking exceptionally fine, but it 

 was the concurrent opinion that the 

 whole stock was hard to beat. A force 

 of ninety men, a man with a hobby and 

 capital to burn ought to accomplish 

 something, and certainly it is being 

 done here. 



Mr. Mathes, formerly of Minneapolis, 

 Minn., is conducting Mrs. L. W. Mc- 

 Coy's new store in the Pike Street 

 Market. 



Mr. Schnap is assisting Harry Crouch 

 in his store on Second avenue. 



The frequent attendance of some of 

 our florists lately at the baseball park 

 shows the condition of the trade. 



George Antenen has returned from 

 the east, looking and feeling better for 

 the trip. 



Capt. Buckley had seven designs to 

 make last Sunday. Needless to say, his 

 absence from church was noticeable. 



T. W. 



LOS ANQELES, CAL. 



The Market. 



While there are still enough to go 

 around, flowers are not so plentiful as 

 they were; some lines, notably gladioli, 

 have shortened up quite suddenly. It 

 seems as if a few weeks of plenty and 

 poor prices lead some growers to neg- 

 lect their stock, thus inclining the pen- 

 dulum the other way. Indoor carna- 

 tions are a little more plentiful. Roses 

 are short in some varieties. There are 

 plenty of the pink varieties, but whites 

 are scarcer. Valley is plentiful and 



there are enough orchids to meet the 

 demand, which is light. A few wedding 

 and other decorations have helped to 

 keep the retailers busy, but funeral 

 work has shortened up somewhat. 



Various Notes. 



Dieterich & Turner secured the con- 

 tract for the supplying, planting and 

 one year 's care of abmit 600 Cocos plu- 

 mosa, to be planted fi.the new section 

 of Wilshire boulevarS As the price of 

 the palms alone is $^0 each, the con- 

 tract is an importan^pne and the firm 

 secured it solely l^Wbse of the fine 

 quality of the cocos stock as grown on 

 the Montebello ranch. About one and 

 a half miles of the boulevard will thus 

 be planted, and probably another 

 stretch of this fine thoroughfare will 

 be planted later with this most elegant 

 of all street palms. 



M. Kai has his winter sweet peas up 

 and looking well, though he had con- 

 siderable trouble with the whites, which 

 he says never germinate so well as the 

 colored ones. Mr. Kai has a good local 

 reputation for winter sweet peas. 



S. Slack, lately of the Wittbold place, 

 at Edgebrook, near Chicago, where he 

 ran the restaurant for the help, has 

 arrived with Mrs. Slack at Los Angeles. 

 He early found his way to the nursery 

 section at Montebello. 



Polder & Groen are planting large 

 breadths of winter sweet peas. Both 

 partners express themselves as well sat- 

 isfied with the season just past — their 

 first. 



At the meeting of the Los Angeles 

 Horticultural Society, held at Krucke- 

 berg's hall September 3, there was only 

 a limited attendance, our florist poli- 

 ticians being busy with election mat- 

 ters. President Payne being absent on 

 vacation, H. R. Richards was voted 

 into the chair, and J. M. Grant acted 

 as secretary in the absence of Mr. 



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