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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



OCTOBBB 21, 1009. 



the last few days. One is styled the 

 Broadway Floral Co. and is located at 

 442 South Broadway, being the first 

 flower store on that thoroughfare, Mr. 

 Litzenberger, formerly manager of 

 Wolf skill 's, is one of the proprietors, and 

 Herbert Wolfskill the other. 



Mr. Mana^co has opened a store in the 

 Auditorium building, occupying part of 

 the candy store. This is his first ven- 

 ture in the retail end of the flower busi- 

 ness, as he was formerly a grower of 

 mums and roses. 



Curtett & Gillemot have leased a store 

 on Seventh street, near Broadway, and 

 expect to open in a few days. Mr. 

 Gillemot has had previous experience in 

 this business in Paris. Mr. Curtett is 

 quite a well-known business man of Los 

 Angeles and they will no doubt make 

 a success of it. C. E. M. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



TheMaitet 



The excessive heat of several weeks' 

 duration has passed over us and has been 

 succeeded by much cooler weather, with 

 indications of approaching winter. In a 

 general way it might be said that flow- 

 ers are easier than they have been for 

 the last month. The commencement of 

 the chrysanthemum crop gives the retail- 

 ers an abundant opportunity to make 

 good window displays at a fair cost, and 

 brightens up everything wonderfully. 

 Carnations are slightly more plentiful 

 than they have been at any time this 

 fall. The prices remain about the same 

 as in the last few weeks, with no indi- 

 cation of a rise in the near future. Eoses 

 are in much better color and form. A 

 few good Beauties are shown, really the 

 first we have had since early summer. 



Violets are used more profusely than 

 last week. The price remains at the 

 same figure. Sweet peas, gladioli, dah- 

 lias and asters are practically over for 

 the season. 



Business continues to improve and, 

 from present indications, we are likely 

 to have a good fall trade. 



Various Notes. 



0. Bertensen, of Chicago, is in San 

 Francisco, with the inteation of locating 

 here permanently. 



J. Schmidt, representing C. C. Morse 

 & Co., has been interviewing the local 

 dealers in the Bay towns in the interest 

 of his house. He reports everything 

 booming in the wholesale line. 



Carl Ludwig will take a trip to the 

 various eastern cities next month. He 

 expects to be absent from California for 

 about four weeks. 



The florists who handle bulbs claim 

 that this season is the best they have ex- 

 perienced in many years. Daffodils, nar- 

 cissi and tulips seem to be in the best 

 demand. 



J. J. Kegley, for many vears manager 

 of Gill's Floral Depot, of' Oakland, who 

 has been absent visiting in various east- 

 ern states, will arrive home early in 

 November. G . 



Haktford, Conn. — Peter Zuger, who 

 for eight years has been the head gar- 

 dener at Elizabeth park, and under 

 whom the flower beds and greenhouses 

 have acquired a widespread reputation, 

 has resigned and will go into business 

 for himself as a florist and nurseryman 

 at the Cheney farm in South Manches- 

 ter. 



NURSERY NEWS. 



iHBICAH ASSOCIATION OF NUBSBBTHIN. 



Offleen for 1909-10: Pres., F. H. Stannard, 

 Ottawa, Kan.; Vice-PreB., W. P. Stark, LouiBiana, 

 Mo.; Sec'y., Geo. 0. Seagrer, Rocbester, N. Y.; 

 Treat., O.L. Yates. Rochester. N.Y. Thirty-fifth 

 annual meeting. Denver, June. 1910. 



The nut growers had their annual 

 convention last week and many nursery- 

 men attended. 



Phloxes, with those who have the 

 named varieties, good, clear colors, are 

 finding a first-class demand, both for im- 

 mediate delivery and for spring planting. 

 The phlox is now come to be an im- 

 portant item with both nurserymen and 

 florists. 



The season now about at an end has 

 proved an excellent one with most of the 

 peony specialists. While few big plant- 

 ings have been made, such as went out 

 a few years ago, the retail demand for 

 small lots for use on home grounds has 

 greatly increased. 



Barney D, Scarff, of Tippecanoe 

 City, O., was instantly killed October 

 8 by a Big Four train at Brown's cross- 

 ing, near Troy. He was formerly in- 

 terested in the nursery business and was 

 president of the Miami County Horti- 

 cultural Society at the time of his death. 



J. H. Peost, recently appointed to 

 the newly created office of city forester 

 at Chicago, is doing goou work. He has 

 not only issued some plainly written and 

 well Illustrated bulletins, but is going 

 about lecturing to women's clubs and 

 business men's organizations, etc., and 

 creates a favorable impression for the 

 man and his work wherever he goes. He 

 will lecture on trees at the flower show 

 in November. 



Some of the nurserymen who favored 

 the advance of rose plants from 2^ to 

 4 cents, are surprisetl to find that such 

 seeds as French crabapple, which were 

 dutiable at thirty per cent under the old 

 law, are 10 cents per pound under the 

 new tariff. Because it results in the un- 

 expected advance of cost of the cheaper 

 grades of seed, the matter is referred to 

 as a "joner. " But, to judge by west- 

 ern sentiment, there vv-ill be opportunity 

 to iron out all these little wrinkles in 

 the bill beforn so very long. The last 

 tarift" \ii\v stood for twelve years, but the 

 present one always was and probably 

 always will be in disfavor with a large 

 part of the rank and file of the party 

 that passed it and it won't be long be- 

 fore another revision is demanded. 



THE MAILING PLANT TRADE. 



It is estimated by some directly in- 

 terested in the subject that at least ten 

 millions of packages containing plants 

 and bulbs are sent through the mails 

 each year. 



The unavoidable crowding in the mail- 

 sack, with the subsequent crushing and 

 breaking of plants in their packages 

 when the sacks are piled one upon an- 

 other, has been a source of serious an- 

 noyance and loss to the grower, as well 

 as to the purchaser of the stock. How 

 to overcome this trouble has been the 

 subject of much thought and consider- 

 able experimenting on the part of the 

 shipping departments of many of the 

 large houses in this branch of the trade. 



A package for plant mailing, to be 

 satisfactory, must combine the following 



ROCKY MOUNTAIN 

 HARDY PERENNIALS 



We offer fresh seeds of the fo'lowinir species kd 

 nf which are desirable additions to the lisV ni 

 Hardy Perennials. Tr t 



AqnileKta Caernlea Albiflora. A mal'. '' 

 niflcent wbite-tlowered Rocky Mountan 

 Oolumbine .... 2fio 



Aqalleifia Flaveacena. Yellow, lor moivf 

 places ^oAp 



Aconitmn Columblannm. New species . 20p 



Aster Tortlfollua. A lovely large-fiowereci 

 Aster, from Southern Utah osp 



Balaamorrhiza Blacroptiila and SaKlttu. 

 ta. Mixed 15^ 



Hedysarum Mackenzil. An introductioi 

 well worthy of cultivation. Papiliona- 

 ceous flowers In large clusters 250 



I<lniim Lewlsii. Blue flax ^Oo 



Oenothera JHarsinata. White eveniu, 

 primrose. l<lowers4 to 6-in. in diameter 25c 



Pentatemon Cyananthus. Kright blur 

 The most beautiful Pentstemon. Basil 

 grown ..20c 



Pentatemon Eatoni. Undoubtedly the 

 flnest scarlet Pentatemon .250 



Pentatemon Heterophyllns. Purple ... 20c 



Pentatemon, mixed. A mixture of 7 tali 

 growing, large-flowered species 2'>e 



Thalictram Fendleri. Foliage like Adian- 

 turn i5(. 



Trade packets contain a very liberal quantity of 

 feeds. For those wishing only a small quan- 

 tity we offer 



COLLECTION A 



A small trial packet of each of the above species 

 13 packets in all, for $1.00. An excellfcut 

 opportunity to obtain, for a small outlay 

 some of the most beautiful of the Rocky 

 Mountain ilowering plants. 



UTAH RARE PLANT CO., - Salt Uke. UUh. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



qualities: Lightness, to keep down the 

 mailing cost; strength, to resist outside 

 pressure, so that tender plants may not 

 be crushed and ruined in transit; mod- 

 erate cost, in the interest of the plants- 

 man's profit. Many of the growers who 

 do a mail order business have tried out 

 and are using a mailing tube made spe- 

 cially for the plant trade by the Standard 

 Manufacturing Co., of Coatesville, Pa. 



NUT GROWERS' MEETING. 



The eighth annual convention of the 

 National Nut Growers' Association, just 

 held at Albany, Ga., was one of the 

 largest and most successful in the his- 

 tory of the organization. The member- 

 ship roll was increased fully thirty per 

 cent, and the financial condition permits 

 the publication of the proceedings with- 

 out delay. 



The officers elected are as follows: 

 President, J. B. Wight, Cairo, Ga.; first 

 vice-president, J. B. Curtis, Orange 

 Heights, Fla.; second vice-president, H. 

 C. White, DeWitt, Ga.; secretary, J. F. 

 Wilson, I^oulan, Ga. ; treasurer, M. 1'-. 

 McNeely, Little Rock, Ark. 



The convention goes to Monticellj 

 next year. 



NOVELTIES IN ROSES. 



August Rolker & Sons, New Yoi;: 

 city, the American representatives c: 

 Ijevavas3eur & Sons, of Orleans an' 

 Ussy, France, have sent to the Bevie', 

 a colored picture of three of this year - 

 rose novelties offered by the FrenC 

 firm. The Messrs. Rolker also enclose 

 with the picture the following descrii' 

 tion: 



"Our W. Rolker saw these roses i" 

 full bloom at Orleans this summer, to 

 ward the end of July, and he was suv 

 prised at the brilliant display of theiv 

 coloring. Rose Orleans is of a brigh 

 pink, well covered with large flowei 

 heads. Its foliage is a healthy green. 

 The plants are about twenty-four inches 

 high and of striking appearance. A 

 cross between Baby Rambler and an un 

 named polyantha seedling, this rose 

 promises to outshine the Baby Dorothy 

 Perkins. It is reported a very free and 



