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The Florists' Review 



January 30, 1913. 



advantages over us are great, but if 

 you could see the crop of lettuce now 

 being harvested from the aster plant 

 houses of Herbert & Fleishauer, and 

 the carnations and other seasonable 

 stock brought to the market by S. H. 

 Maris and the other local growers, you 

 would wish you lived in the land of 

 plenty, where severe storms are never 

 known. F. 



SAN FBANOISCO. 



The Market. 



The rainy weather of the last two 

 weeks has given place to warm, sun- 

 shiny days and frosty nights. The tem- 

 perature has not gone so low as it did 

 three weeks ago, however, and it ap- 

 pears that both the rain and the frost 

 are about over. Outside violets and 

 bulbous stock show the results of the 

 weeks of cold weather they have passed 

 through. They are more plentiful than 

 they have been, but are far from being 

 at their best. 



Carnations and roses and, in fact, all 

 sorts of inside stock are a shade 

 cheaper and considerably more plenti- 

 ful. Carnations, which were sold during 

 the last four weeks at $4 per hundred, 

 can now be had for twenty-five per 

 cent less. Roses are in about the same 

 fix, but are not quite so plentiful. Val- 

 ley, Eomans and a few early tulips and 

 freesias are moving rapidly and at 

 good figures. Quite a lot of Lilium 

 longiflorum are seen and they are first- 

 class stock. Orchids are a shade more 

 in evidence than they have been and 

 are in good demand. Green stock of 

 all kinds, while not overabundant, is 

 plentiful enough to fill all demands. 

 Azaleas and cyclamens are being used 

 in large quantities all over town to 

 give color to the window displays. Red 

 berries are over for the season, and a 

 few straggling poinsettias are seen. 

 Business, while not especially brisk, has 

 a good, healthy tone and bids fair to 

 keep up until Lent at least. 



Various Notes. 



W. H. Mann, for over fifteen years 

 head gardener on the grounds of the 

 Hercules Powder Co., at Giant, Cal., 

 and well known to all the gardening 

 fraternity of the bay cities, committed 

 suicide by cutting his throat January 

 17. He was 60 years of age and had 

 been in poor health for some time. 



The California State Floral Society 

 has sent out announcements of the 

 spring exhibition, to be held in the 

 Fairmount hotel early in March. 



The California Retail Florists' Asso- 

 ciation held a meeting at the store of 

 Pelicano, Rossi & Co. on the evening 

 of January 20. It was quite largely 

 attended. 



N. Rolleri & Co. have opened a new 

 retail establishment on Broadway, near 

 the corner of Ninth street, Oakland. 



G. 



TACOMA, WASH. 



The Market. 



Tacoma and vicinity have been experi- 

 encing some of the coldest weather of 

 the winter and have also been visited by 

 the heaviest snowfall of recent years. 

 Stock is none too plentiful, as the dark 

 weather is having its effect on the 

 plants. Business since the hdlidaQ/* Miae 

 been good, with a fair supply of all 

 kinds of cut flowerer. "While there has 



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