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The Roiists' Review 



March 12, 1914/ 



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ATTENTION, SEATTLE FLORISTS. 



The Review would like to receive a 

 weekly letter regarding the doings of 

 the trade in Seattle. Who would like 

 to supply itt 



PANAMA-PACIFIC EXPOSITION. 



A Great Bose Contest. 



In competition for the $1,000 trophy 

 and for the gold and silver medals and 

 certificates of merit, it is expected that 

 the leading rose creators of the United 

 States, as well as of South America 

 and Europe, will enter their new and 

 unnamed hybrids in a contest at the 

 Panama-Pacific Exposition. No sports 

 will be admitted. All will be inbred 

 hybrids, achieved by cross pollination, 

 and most of the new aspirants will be 

 hybrid teas. 



Among the European exhibitors will 

 be the following: Hugh Dickson, of 

 the Royal Nurseries, Belfast, Ireland, 

 whose exposition display has been se- 

 lected from about 100,00{^ seedling hy- 

 brids; Samuel McGredy, of the Royal 

 Rose Gardens, Portadown, Ireland, who, 

 in making his shipment, announced that 

 he would name one of his finest new 

 roses the Dennison, in honor of the ex- 

 position's chief of horticulture, George 

 A. Dennison; Soupert & Netting, of 

 Luxemburg, Germany, creators of manj^ 

 famous roses of the Soupert and Eai- 

 «erin types, and Pemet-Ducher, of 

 Lyons, France. It is said that these 

 four internationally famous growers 

 alone will enter over 100 new, unnamed 

 roses in the competition. These plants 

 already have been shipped and are now 

 on their way to San Francisco, where 

 they will be set outdoors and accli- 

 mated in the exposition grounds. 



The Best ftom All the World. 



Practically all America, also, will 

 compete for rose honors, the Pacific 

 coast being particularly well repre- 

 sented. Of the eastern exhibitors, two 

 of the best known are Chas. H. Totty, 

 of Madison, N. J., who, it is announced, 

 * ' will show the complete new stock of a 

 famous English grower," and E. G. 

 Hill, of Richmond, Ind., who also has 

 been active in securing foreign offer- 

 ings for the 1915 jubilee. 



The aim of all these growers, of 

 course, has been to extend the seasonal 

 blooming period or periods, as well as 

 to improve the color and form of the 

 bloom. Most of the new creations are 

 of the hybrid perpetual type, and many 

 are said to bloom practically all the 

 year around. The colors are described 

 as ranging from a light chamois yellow, 

 flushed with pearl pink, to a rose more 

 nearly a perfect black than -any of the 

 old types. Blue roses, so called, of sev- 

 eral types, also will be entered. An- 

 other novelty is referred to as "a hy- 

 brid perpetual * bedder of a beautiful 

 camellia form and in color a rich 

 golden yellow with deep Indian yellow 

 anthers, which remains in bloom an ex- 

 traordinarily long time." 



Tlie General Horticultural Display. 



At least ten acres will be given over 

 to the various displays of the world's 



horticultural products, aside from over 

 sixty-five acres of the exposition 

 grounds devoted to the twenty-five 

 principal landscape gardens. Many of 

 these exhibits, from practically every 

 country in the world, will be given up 

 largely to the newer and perfected 

 species and varieties of plants and 

 fruits. Also in this department there 

 will be many working displays of grow- 

 ing plants and fruit trees with garden- 

 ers and expert orchardists at work, the 

 object being to make of the horticultural 

 display an up-to-date school of methods 

 and processes, open to all. 



At the Panama-Pacific Exposition, it 

 is said, the lover of flowers and of 

 gardens and orchards will be able to 

 stroll among the most wonderful win- 

 ter-to-winter gardens ever displayed at 

 an exposition. By means of three sea- 

 sonal replantings, the gardens and 

 courts will be kept in a state of un- 

 ending bloom — a thing never before at- 

 tempted at an exposition. Indeed, ' ' the 



whole exposition," says an enthusiastic 

 reporter, ' 'will .be set . down on. a. Per- 

 sian rug of harmonious and enduring 

 tints. ' ' This will appeal to the lover! 

 of the beautiful on his aesthetic side,' 

 and on the practical side the new and 

 improved species from the world • over, 

 there jlisplayed, will' be no less allur- 

 ing and uplifting than tbe rest of the 

 $50,000,000 show place. . j 



LOS ANGELES. 



The Market. 



Low prices on almost all classes of 

 stock prevail and business is not as 

 good as usual for this time of year. 

 Among the popular sellers now are the 

 small boxes ' of " orange blossoms which 

 are sent from here by mail to friends 

 in the east by tourists and residents. 

 Outdoor roses are coming in again and 

 nice flowers are being sent, but the 

 price is too low to bring much profit to 



Asparagus Plumosus Nanus Seed 



Lots of 1,000 $2.50 per 1000 



Lots of 10,000 2.00 per 1000 



Lots of 20,000 1.75 per 1000 



Lots of 50,000 and up 1.50 per 1000 



Write for prices on large quantities. Not to be compared with the lower 

 * grade seed frequently offered at a cheaper rate. 



LOS ANGELES FLOWER MARKET, Inc. 



822 So. Broadway, LOS ANGELKS, CAL. 



Mention Tbe Bcrlewwben 70a writ*. 



Cecile Brunner and Other Roses 



We bare an exceptionally fine, large stock. 



VIOLETS 



in any quantity. Positively the best on the market. 



We are also headquarters for Orchids, Liliea, Ghreena, and in 

 fact everything for the florist. 



OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT 



E. W. McLELLAN CO., Inc., ^«-**» ^liVi^Wisco 



Nurs«rl«* at BurllnsaiiM, Cal. 



Cecile Brunner Rose, 2-inch and 2%-iQch pots. . .$30.00 per 100 

 Asparagus Plumosus Seed 1.50 per 1000 



Quantity prices on application. 



H. N. GAGE CO., Inc., ■ • 536 So. Braadway, Los Anjeles, Cal. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS :: NURSERYMEN 



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