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The Florists' Review 



Febbuaky 27, 1913. 



the park board will benefit by the 

 change, the trade in this city will suffer 

 a loss, as Mr. Umhauflf has long been 

 known to be one of the best plant 

 growers in the city. 



Charles Shaw, of Los Angeles, has 

 been calling on the trade this week, 

 selling nursery stock and taking orders 

 for Bailey's cyclopedia. 



Easter lilies will be plentiful this 

 year — after Easter. The stock of gi- 

 ganteums promises about twenty-five per 

 cent to be in time, and in some cases 

 there will not be a flower out before 

 March 23. 



J. A. Sahle sold his stock of Forniosas 

 to Ralph Eichardson, who has trans- 

 ferred them to his plant at Brighton. 

 Ralph is making a good name for him- 

 self as a carnation grower, and is ex- 

 tending his business in other directions. 



Peter De Long, who has been at Eis- 

 don's, has accepted a position at the 

 Rosaia plant at Thomas. T. W. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market. 



We are apparently in the midst of 

 another "dry year," but that fact is 

 not evident from the amount of flower- 

 ing stock of all kinds being brought 

 into town. If it were not for the good 

 quantity of funeral work, which is well 

 divided among the stores, there would 

 be little to write about. Stock of all 

 sorts is plentiful, cheap and good. Car- 

 nations and roses have tumbled in price 

 even below that of last week. Daffodils 

 and narcissi of many kinds are now at 

 their best and everything is lovely ex- 

 cept the prices. Violets are a glut and 

 only a part of them are used. Sweet 

 peas are of good color, but are not yet 

 as low in price as they will be. Other 

 lines of stock hold their own after a 

 fashion, but there is little life to busi- 

 ness. However, green goods move well. 

 Maidenhair ferns are more plentiful 

 than they have been, and the same can 

 be said of asparagus. Valley and tulips 

 are a slight drug. Freesias are scarcer. 



Various Notes. 



W. W. Randall, representing the A. 

 L. Randall Co., of Chicago, has been jn 

 town. 



The Alameda County Floral Society 

 will give a spring exhibition in Oak- 

 land early in May. 



E. March, for several years in the 

 plant department of C. C. Morse & Co., 

 is no longer with that firm. 



Philip Murray, well known to the lo- 

 cal trade, has left the flower business 

 and taken an agency for advertising 

 novelties. 



The continued dry weather has had a 

 depressing affect on the planting of 

 outside stock, which has been keenly 

 felt by the local nurserymen. G. 



PANSIES FOR MEMORIAL DAY. 



We should like to know when to sow 

 pansy seed for Decoration day and how 

 to grow them. State what temperature 

 to keep them in at night, how to feed 

 them and what insects trouble them. 

 What kind of soil do they do best in, 

 and do they do bost on raised benches 

 or in solid* beds? We have a house 

 15 X 200 which we wish to grow pansies 

 in. Will it pay at an average of 15 

 cents per dozen. C. & F. 



The best pansies for Memorial day 

 sales would have been obtained by sow- 



ROSES ROSES ROSES 



Let us know your wants— We can now quote you very low prices. We always have the stock 

 wlien the other fellow has none, as we srow more than all the others put together. 



VIOLETS.— Very large bunches. 75c per dozen. Special price on large quantities. 

 One million Princess of Wales violet plants, well rooted and free from disease, $20.00 per 1000. 



Everything in cut flowers. 

 Expert packing. Long distance shipments our specialty. 



E. W. NcLELLAN CO., Inc. 



18-20 LICK PLACE SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 



Largest growers and shippers of cut flowers west of Chicago. Nurseries at Burlingame, Cal. 



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WANTED 



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to place a standing order with us at once for 



CALIFORNIA VIOLETS 



We not only have our own beds, but we have arranged to handle the Violets 

 from all other important beds, and are in a position to ship you only high- 

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 these flowers. We are gaining almost a customer a day throughout the Middle West 

 States. Why not you the next for a case of them? We are the pioneer growers 

 and shippers of these wonderful shipping flowers. Two hundred acres of Violets. 



DARBEE'S 



Shlpplns Station 

 1036 Hyd* Str««t 



SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 



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WE ARE CALIFORNIA VIOLET GROWERS 



We have the largest Violet beds in California. The fact is we can ship you Califfomla 



Violets cheaper and guarantee our shipments. Our QIant Violets are unexcelled, 



while our Princoss of Walos are the finest and largest that can be produced. Let 



us take care of your consignments. Samples on request. 



S. ROSAIA CONPANY, 43 Sicruitatt St, San Francisco, Cal. 



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WE ARE BOOKING advance orders, 1913 fall delivery, of 



JAPANESE LILY BULBS, PLANTS AND SEEDS 



Write to-day for special trade list. 



TRP nfflFNTAI CPFn m Growers and Dealers 



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Nurserymen and Seed Growers, 38 Kamlno, Elta-adachi, Saltama, Japan. 



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ing the seed last August. Seeing, how- 

 ever, that this has not been done, and 

 that you are anxious to work up a good 

 stock for that date, you should pro- 

 cure seed at once and sow in flats or 

 on a shallow raised bench, in a house 

 with a night temperature not exceeding 

 48 degrees. When the seedlings are of 

 sufficient size to handle, they can be 

 transplanted directly into the beds. 

 The compost for pansdes should be 

 rather light, but rich. Plenty of well 

 decayed manure should be used; that 

 from old hotbeds answers well. Give 

 them a temperature as near 45 degrees 

 at night as you can and ventilate freely 

 on every possible occasion. A close 

 atmosphere and careless watering will 

 cause many plants to damp oflf. Few 

 insects trouble pansies. A light fumi- 

 gation with one of the nicotine papers 

 weekly will keep them clean. The 

 plants would do better on raised 

 benches, but fall raised stock, which 

 is the best, would have done best in 

 solid beds. Purchase seed of Giant 

 Trimardeau or some good strain. Do 

 not plant cheap seed. At an average 

 price of 15 to 20 cents per dozen, they 

 should prove a paying crop. C. W. 



HOGAN A, KOOYMAN 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



Telephone Oak. 2651 

 388 Twoifth St.. OAKLAND. CAL. 



Best Stock and Quickest Service 



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Meatlon The BcTlew wh«ii too write. 



We have on hand a fine stock of foUowlng 



ROSES "'hf.J'' 



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 Cochet, pink Frau Karl Druschkl Rainbow 

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 $12.00 per 100 



PACmC NURSERIES (H. Kempt, Prop.) 



Colma, San Mateo Co., Cal. 

 Mention The Review when yon write. 



Ferns in 21 and 22 -in. Pots 



best varieties for fern dishes, $4.50 per 100. Bos- 

 ton, Elegantissima, Whitmani and Amerpohlil 

 ferns in all sizes. Also a large stock of Kentias. 

 Write for Wholesale Price List. 



P.O. Station '*L" H. PLATH TherenieriM 

 Car. LawfMcs —i Wmrint «*et.. SM FRANCIICO, CAL. 



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