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The Florists' Review 



May 7, 1914. 



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LOS ANGELES. 



The Market. 



Business last week was decidedly bet- 

 ter than that of the previous one and 

 there has been a much better call for 

 superior grades of stock. The weather 

 has been dull for this season and this 

 has shortened up the cut of roses under 

 glass, thus preventing a glut. The qual- 

 ity has been good and the foliage clean, 

 for fire heat has been necessary right 

 along and this has kept mildew in 

 check. Carnations are good just now, 

 both from under glass and from cloth 

 houses, but the plague of cutworms has 

 worked havoc with a lot of the outdoor 

 flowers and plants. Lily of the valley 

 has been short in supply ob several oc- 

 casions, there being a more brisk de- 

 mand than usual, both locally and from 

 nearby towns. Orchids are plentiful 

 and more of the dendrobium and 

 phalsenopsis types are being used. Cat- 

 tleya Mossiae is the leader, however, 

 with here and there a few Gaskellianas 

 and early gigas. All kinds bf outdoor 

 flowers are used in the store windows, 

 even if they do not sell, a case in point 

 being hybrid hippeastrums, or amaryllis. 

 Probably no other city in the Union is 

 so well supplied with this flower as is 

 Los Angeles. Then the delphiniums and 

 peonies are extra good right now, be- 

 sides the many smaller flowers of the 

 composite order. 



Plants of the Catawbiense types of 

 rhododendron are being shown in pro- 

 fusion in the best stores, but the de- 

 mand is not great. Ferns and palms 

 are in better demand than the flowering 

 stock, and Bostons still are scarce. Cut 

 maidenhair and asparagus fronds are 

 plentiful and cheap, and there also is 

 plenty of all the field greens. 



Various Notes. 



Our genial friend, P. D. Barnhart, 

 than whom no man has the horticulture 

 of southern Calfornia more at heart, is 

 leaving for an eastern trip May 2. His 

 itinerary takes in all the principal cities 

 and horticultural centers of the east and 

 middle west, and he says that flowers 

 are going to be more to him than sky- 

 scrapers during his visit. In this con- 

 nection I may give eastern people a 

 warning. If once P. D. gets his thumb 

 in your buttonhole you may just as well 

 dig down for the price of a ticket to 

 Los Angeles. It will save time. [It 

 isn't quite clear, but we take it we are 

 to buy our own ticket to California, 

 rather than one for our correspondent's 

 friend.— Ed.] 



J. H. Wallace, representing the Shen- 

 andoah Nurseries, Shenandoah, la., has 

 been calling on the trade in this city. 



Walter Garbett, manager of the Dar- 

 ling Flower Shop, reports good business. 

 In a letter to him from London, Eng., 

 H. Reeve Darling speaks highly of the 

 work of the lady florists in the British 

 metropolis, though he does not think 

 the London shops, as a rule, come up 

 to the American. The carnations seem 

 to have made quite an impression on 

 him. 



Jacob Dieterich and Henry W, Tur- 

 ner, Dieterich & Turner, have dissolved 



Our buaineaa in Carnation Cut- 

 tinges is breaking all records. 

 The Review is our only means of 

 advertisinif.— Hollywood Gar- 

 dens, Hollywoodt Wash., Janu- 

 ary 8, 1914. 



partnership. Mr. Turner retains the 

 large greenhouse plant and all the cut 

 flower and inside plant business, Mr. 

 Dieterich the nursery end. This he will 

 continue in addition to his home nur- 

 sery at Wall street. During the partner- 

 ship the business has made wonderful 

 strides and there is no fear that either 

 end will suffer now, for each will be in 

 capable hands. 



At the Freeman-Lewis store good fu- 

 neral work has been plentiful, accord- 

 ing to C. Lewis. 



E. W. McLellan, the well known 

 grower and wholesaler of San Francisco 

 and Burlingame, is here on a pleasure 

 tour. He and Mrs, McLellan came down 

 on the Yale from San Francisco and 

 brought their automobile along, intend- 

 ing to use it during their stay. They 

 are going to take things easy and see 

 everything they can in a leisurely way, 

 leaving here for San Diego by road and 

 then driving from San Diego to San 

 Francisco. Mr. McLellan says the de- 

 mand for Cecile Brunner roses, both cut 

 and in pots, is greatly on the increase 

 and they ship both to the east, and the 

 cut flowers as far as Kansas and Chi- 

 cago, the plants to the Atlantic. 



F. Borden, of the Redondo Floral Co., 

 has been suffering from a poisoned 

 hand, owing to a thorn. Business keeps 

 up well at the store. 



Frank Wilhelm says business is good 

 in rooted cuttings and small plants and 

 that it keeps him on the jump. 



Polder & Groen report good business 

 for the season and, had it not been for 

 a partial failure of some few bulbs, the 

 season would have been perfect. John 

 Polder's parents are coming from Ger- 

 many and will probably locate here. 



Nursery shipments are falling off, but 

 the season is holding out remarkably 

 well. 



Decorations at the California and 

 Midwick clubs have kept the store force 

 of J. W. Welters busy, some pretty cen- 

 terpieces being used at the former. 



H. B. Richards. 



SEATTLE, WASH. 



The Market. 



The supply of flowers never was bet- 

 ter at this season and possibly it is no 

 exaggeration to say that business never 

 was worse. The stores are full of high- 

 grade flowers and plants, and there is 

 little demand. The Darwin and late- 

 flowering tulips are this year especially 

 fine and are meeting with a better de- 

 mand than most other flowers. Roses 

 are plentiful and of good quality. 

 Though carnations are getting off color, 

 some of them are still of good quality 

 and they are in fair supply. Valley is 

 scarce. Orchids are fairly plentiful. 

 Hydrangeas are abundant this year and 

 the older varieties are meeting with 

 strong competition from the newer 

 French sorts. Ferns are none too plen- 

 tiful. Far more bedding stock is offered 

 than usual and not so much planting is 

 being done as in former years. The 

 new market does not seem to be at- 

 tracting the public extensively, and up 

 around the Pike street market it is 

 hard to put one's foot down without 

 trampling on geraniums. 



The planting season for nurserymen 

 is about over, and while in some ways 

 it has been fairly satisfactory, on the 

 whole it has not been so good as last 

 year. 



Various Notes. 



John Holze, George Rosaia, Lambert 

 Pedersen and Andrew Matthiesen had 

 a pleasant excursion in Mr. Matthie- 

 sen 's automobile to White River Val- 

 ley last week. They called first on 

 Emil Banke, at Renton, and afterward 



Cecile Brunner Rose, 2-inch and 2%-inch pots. . .$30.00 per 1000 

 Asparagus Plumosus Seed ^ .50 per 1000 



Quantity prices on application. 



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