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The Weekly Florists* kevkw. 



Febbuaby 8, 1912. 



VIOLETS 



CUT BLOOMS-NOW AT THEIR PRIME 



SPECIAL PRICE: 

 85c per doz. bunches, in lota of 5 doz. 

 Less quantity, $1,00 per doz. bunches. 



F. O. B San Francisco. 

 I am the pioneer and largreet shipper. I 

 have a special GIANT variety, single, dark 

 purple, a wonderful keeper. Am now ship- 

 ping regularly to florists In Omaha, Kansas 

 City, etc., and not a box has arrived In bad 

 condition. Have shipped successfully to 

 New York. Order a irial ahipment. 



MRS. R. E. DARBEE, 



1974 Bush St., San Francisco, Cal. 



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PACIFIC COAST. 



Subscribers on the Pacific coast 

 should not fail to note that their spe- 

 cial department of The Beview has 

 grown until it now occupies four pages. 

 Give us a boost and the Pacific Coast 

 Department will keep right on growing. 



LIKE IT. 



We want you to know how much we 

 appreciate the Pacific Coast Department 

 of The Eeview. It certainly is a great 

 pleasure and of much interest to us. 

 We hope in due time to be able to use 

 the columns for advertising. 



Garfield, Wash. Scott Bros. 



FRISCO A SHIPPING CENTEE. 



The shij)ping of cut flowers from San 

 Francisco has become a large industry. 

 Frisco flowers go up and down the 

 coast from Los Angeles, or even San 

 Diego, to Portland and all the cities of 

 the north. They go east for many 

 hundreds of miles and violets go 

 regularly as far as Omaha and Kansas 

 City. So large has the business of 

 shipping violets become that the Wells- 

 Fargo Express Co, recently undertook 

 to introduce them in the east. Mrs. 

 E. E. Darbee, who is said to be the 

 pioneer in the business, supplied stock 

 which the express company carried to 

 all the larger eastern cities. It is said 

 that the violets were salable when they 

 reached New York city, and that they 

 actually were sold by commission 

 men and satisfactory returns made to 

 the shipper, but thus far the business 

 has not extended beyond the Missouri 

 as a practical, every-day aflfair. The 

 violets shipped from San Francisco are 

 not counted, but are made into bunches, 

 which vary in size and number of vio- 

 lets according to the supply of stock. 

 This is the height of the season, and 

 for the next two months a big busi- 

 ness will be done. The variety grown 

 is a single, and many of the gardeners 

 have special strains of their own. For 

 size of flower and length of stem, they 

 are quite a different article from the 

 greenhouse-grown stock of these. 



SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 



The Market. 



Spring is here in splendid shape, and 

 everything is lovely except that we 

 are most awfully in need of rain. We 

 have not had over one-half of the usual 

 quantity and from present appearances 

 there will be no further rainfall for 



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What Is It ? 



It is a vegetable fertilizer. 

 It is absolutely odorless. 

 For potted plants, lawns 



and gardens. 

 25c per package. 

 Distributors wanted in 



each state. Write for 



particulars. 



North American 

 Mercantile Co. 



318-32* frost Street 



San Frandsco, California 



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Direct Importations— Tree Fern Stems 



Due to arrlTe in the early sprlns of 1912. 

 The grandeat and moit sracefol of all decorative plants. 



AboHiila rokista, Dichteiia Astardici, Dkksosia sqsarrosa, Cyatfcci ■etfuUaris, 

 Cytthei deilbita, Cyathcs Snitfeii Cyathea CiMisfiw«l. 



All sizes from three feet np. 

 We will ilM receive spedaea plaats of Platyccriaais aad Totfeas, 



Prices and partictilars on application. 



NacRORIENcLAREN COHPAIIY 



711-714 Wartkaak BMg.. SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. N«Mfki, SAN MATEI, CM. 



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Mararnerit* Bfrs. F. Sander 



Rooted Cuttings fZ.50 per 100 



Aaparacua Pinmostu 



Planted out, ready for 3-in $2.50 per 100 



ChryMUithemniii Stock Plants 



Col. Appleton, Maj. J^onnaflfon, Silver Wedding, 

 $2.')0 per 100. 

 Yellow Eaton, Qoldon Chadwick, Halliday, 

 Oct. Sunshine, Monrovia, Golden Glow, Kalb, 

 V. foehlmann, Oct. Frost, Tousct, A. Byron, W. 

 Chadwick, Lynnwowi Hall, Balfour, Dr. Engue- 

 hard. Pacific Supreme, Glbria,Amorita, J. Rosette, 

 stock plants, $4.00 per 100; 60c per doz. Try my 

 ASTER SEED. See my classified ads under seeds. 



M. J. CALLAHAN, Ventura, Cal. 



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some time. Stock of all kinds is plen- 

 tiful, and for the first time since last 

 fall we have some fancy roses to ex- 

 hibit. Carnations are nov\r at their best 

 and, although the growers are not shovp^- 

 ing much of an inclination to put the 

 prices down, they will have to do so in 

 the near future owing to the excess of 

 stock. 



Violets by the million and narcissi 

 and outside daffodils in any amount 

 give the street hucksters, as well as the 

 stores, plenty of cheap flowers to make 

 an elegant showing. Many fruit blos- 

 soms are being sent into town and 

 are proving popular with the flower 

 buyers. Valley and orchids are in good 

 supply, but are a little slow. Other 

 lines of stock are about as usual, with 

 nothing particular to mention except 

 business, which is rather quiet at 

 present. 



Various Notes. 



In their efforts to stimulate trade 

 several basket men recently reduced 

 the price of violets, which fact was 

 resented by other hucksters in the 



CYCLAMEN Eaci> 



6-inch, stocky $0..'5O 



5-inch, stocky 35 



4-inch, stocky 20 



Primula rorbesi, 3-incli, ready for shift. . .05 



2i4-in(h, ready for shift (Xi 



3-inch, outdoor varieties, mixed colors 04 



Shasta Alaska, Ooldan Glow, Ooldan 

 Rod, strong divisions 02 



Ck>reopsis Lanc«olata, transplanted 

 plants 01 



30 leading varieties of Mum Cuttliif s, ready 

 after March 1st. Write for varieties and prices. 



SAN JOAQUIN FLORAL CO. 



336 E. Weber Ave.. STOCKTON, CAL. 



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Asparagus Plumosus Bremen 



Out of 2-inch pots. $3.00 per 100. 



Phoenix Canaiienels, out of a^a-inch pota. 

 $6.00per 100. 



Waahlnstonla Sonorae, out of 2-inch pots. 

 $5.00 per 100. 



H. KEMPr, Pacific Nursciy 



t041 Bakar St.. BAH VRAHCISOO. CAL. 



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neighborhood of the Chronicle building- 

 A free fight ensued and hundreds of 

 bunches were trampled on the sidewalk 

 and three Italians taken in charge by 

 the police before quiet was restored. 



Probably the oldest florist on the 

 Pacific coast died in Alameda, Cal., 

 January 26, aged 89 years. She was 

 Mrs. Julia Brock and, although she 

 had not been in business in San Fran- 

 cisco for over twenty-five years, there 

 are several well known retailers who 

 learned the trade in her store, which 

 at that time was located on Commercial 

 street, then one of the most popular re- 

 tail thoroughfares. 



Bishop & Ely, the well known tree 



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