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The Florists^ Review 



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Coronado, Oal. — Earl Brown now is 

 the proprietor of the Coronado Nursery, 

 formerly operated by H. G. Newton. 



Marysville, Cal.— The firm of Andrews 

 & Alexander has gone out of business 

 with no successor, the property having 

 been sold for other uses. 



Oakland, Cal.— K. Nakashima has 

 taken out a building permit for a 

 greenhouse on One Hundred and Fifth 

 avenue, near Edes avenue. 



Concrete, Wash.— F. H. Heskett is 

 starting in the greenhouse business 

 here. He is the son of E. H. Heskett, 

 florist and nurseryman at Seattle. 



Boseburg, Ore. — H. B. Church, who is 

 one of the proprietors of the Church 

 Bakery, also is a market gardener and 

 is now building a greenhouse, with the 

 expectation of adding two more before 

 the arrival of another autumn. 



Trinidad, Colo. — At the annual meet- 

 ing of the stockholders of the Trinidad 

 Floral Co. the following directors were 

 chosen for the ensuing year: Henry 

 Klein, John Holler, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. 

 Drury and E. P. Conger. The business 

 was reported to be in a flourishing con- 

 dition and important improvements 

 were proposed. 



Alameda, Cal. — M. H. Dunn, superin- 

 tendent of McKinley park, has had 

 wonderful success with cinerarias this 

 season. He has had a show at the 

 Chamber of Commerce that has at- 

 tracted much attention. And he thinks 

 he picked up a hint in a recent issue 

 of The Keview that will enable him to 

 make a hit with cyclamens next season. 



LOS ANGELES. 



The Market. 



There is little that is new to say 

 about the conditions here. There is 

 still a scarcity of stock, but every 

 week, or one might say every day, sees 

 the strain slightly relieved. The in- 

 door carnations havfe helped out won- 

 derfully in decorations and the better 

 class of funeral work, while the out- 

 door daffodils are now arriving in fair 

 quantities. They are rather short in 

 the stem as yet, showing that they were 

 checked by the cold snap. Roses keep 

 up well and violets are getting better 

 every day. There is a great shortage 

 here in forced bulbs, either in pots or 

 cut, and anyone who had gone into 

 this end of the business last season 

 would surely have made a strike. 

 Orchids are numerous and good, there 

 being much more variety in them than 

 formerly. A few azaleas and cycla- 

 mens are shown, but many more 

 could be sold were they forthcoming. 

 Good ferns are scarce, though there is 

 plenty of small stock. Greens and 

 artificially colored foliage still sell 

 well. 



Club Meeting. 



One of the -most successful and in- 

 teresting meetings that the Los Angeles 

 County Horticultural Society ever held 

 was the usual monthly one, February 

 4, when Geo. M. Garland, of Des 



Plaines, 111., gave the members a talk 

 on greenhouse construction. The meet- 

 ing was well attended, all the regular 

 attendants and many others being pres- 

 ent. 



Mr. Garland prefaced his remarks by 

 saying he had studied local conditions 

 closely since he had been here and saw 

 a great field ahead of the greenhouse 

 business. He went back to the time 

 when he waS a boy and his father built 

 one of the first greenhouses ever used 

 for vegetable growing. The glass was 

 6x8. The heat was applied by , means 

 of brick flues heated by cordwood, 

 which at that time was worth $1 per 

 cord. Larger houses, heated by hot 

 water, appeared in or about 1873. In 

 1880 he built the first range of ridge 

 and furrow construction, with 8x10 

 glass, cedar posts and wood gutters. 

 These, the lecturer remarked, were con- 

 sidered "some greenhouses" in those 

 days. 



The birth of the iron gutter was in 

 1900, when Mr. Garland and his brother 



got their heads together and made the 

 first Garland gutter, a crude and un- 

 finished article, but the forerunner of 

 the excellent and serviceable gutter of 

 today. Mr. Garland found it difficult 

 to persuade builders to use it. They 

 said wood and iron or glass and iron 

 would not do. But with the arrival of 

 the 27-foot house and the iron support* 

 came the demand for the iron gutter, 

 which has gone ahead by rapid stages 

 since then. This matter settled, Mr. 

 Garland went into the evolution of 

 truss construction and made out a good 

 case in favor of large houses with little 

 obstruction to light. 



Iron bases to prevent corrosion of 

 the steel pipes, high gutters and other 

 modern improvements were given at- 

 tention and everyone listened with the 

 deepest interest. Movable houses, 

 frost protection and other points of 

 down-to-date importance were touched 

 on, and at the close a hearty vote of 

 thanks was given Mr. Garland on mo- 

 tion of H. R. Richards. C. C. Shafer, 



When You Think Greenhouse, THINK GARLAND 



BEST i« Cheapest — Trusc Construction is BEST 



C. C. SHAFER, Coast Representative 



GEO. M. GARLAND COMPANY 



Let me figure your needs. Have a Garland House 



when the next frost comes and let the other fellow worry. 



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LARGEST SfflPPERS OF CARNATIONS AND VIOLETS 



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24 inches high 76 each 



80 inches high 1.00 each 



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SEEDS rOR PRESENT SOWING 



Contauraa Impeiialla Per oz. Tr. Pkt. 



Lavender 36c 10c 



White *... 36c 10c 



Yellow 35c lOc 



Mixed 25c 10c 



Alyaanm, dwarf white 20c 10c 



Sweet 15c lOc 



Astar, Germain's Giant Comet, 



Branching, mixed $1.00 25c 



separate colors 1.25 26c 



American Branching 75 • 15c 



Swaat Poaa Per lb. 



Standard 50c 



Spencer 76c 



Cooos PlUinosa, new seed of assured germina- 

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