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APBIL 1, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



8( 



CALLS BULBS 



LILYDALE 



QUALITY 



State 

 your wants and 



we will 

 quote prices 



LILYDALE BILB & ROOT CO., ^TJASSH^ 



at Lilydale 250,000 bulbs are growing^ 

 and as many more in a similar field back 

 of the bungalow. 



Santa Cruz county is one of the coast 

 counties of California, some eighty miles 

 south of San Francisco. Topographically 

 ideally environed by mountain, valley 

 and sea, this favored spot has climatic 

 conditions so equable that had it noth- 

 ing more to offer it would still be richly 

 endowed. Ordinarily lilies grow in this 

 section during the so-called winter or 

 rainy months without interruption, many 

 winters passing by without frost enough 

 to perceptibly damage the blooms, while 

 the heaviest frost experienced does not 

 injure them appreciably. 



Last fall some ten pounds of calla lily 

 seed were sown at Lilydale, and these 

 seed beds are at this writing crowded with 

 tiny lilies from one to four inches high, 

 growing so fast that it is almost possible 

 to note their daily increase in stature. 

 Approximately there are some 150,000 

 seedlings in these seed beds, and calla 

 bulbs thus produced are particularly fine 

 and vigorous. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market 



Gusts of wind and showers of rain 

 bave alternated during the present week, 

 a^d natural conditions have not assisted 

 business to any great extent. There has 

 been a fair amount of funeral work, how- 

 ever, and for this the retailers have been 

 thankful. There is rather a dearth of 

 ^^hite stock, and everything that could be 

 utilized for mourning flowers has been 

 sold out well. Carnations, with the ex- 

 ception of Enchantress, are rather a 



75,flOB Transplanted Carnation Plants 



Cold-grown, well established and ready to plant out 

 Most of them have been topped and are making breaks 



Perieo Per 1000 



Wlnsor. Pink $3.00 $25.00 



R. P. Knoliantress. Pink 2.25 20.00 



Knoliantress. Pink , 20O 2000 



Mrs. T. W. LawBon. Pink... 1.75 15.00 



Gov. Wolcott. White 1.76 15.00 



White Lawson. White 2.00 18.00 



Queen Louise 1.75 15.00 



Mora HUl 175 1600 



Boston Blarket 1.75 16.00 



KsteUe. Red 200 18.00 



Red LAWBon. Red 2.00 1800 



Harlo^^arden. Crimson 1.75 15.00 



Variecated Lawson 1.75 15.00 



Xldorado. yellow 1.75 



Transplanted Giant Pansles 60 4.00 



Giant Pansy Seedllnss . 40 2.50 



AsparaKus Sprencerl SeedUnss, extra Kood 1.60 .... 



Fresh Asparacus Plumosus Nanus seed 45 3.50 



BASSETT'S FLORAL GARDENS 



LOOMIS, CALIFORNIA 



scarce article, and roses are not offered 

 in suflScient quantity to fill requirements. 

 Violets are beginning to show that their 

 season for flowering is nearly over and 

 another couple of weeks will make them 

 rather scarce. Narcissi and daffodils have 

 proven money-makers for the retailers 



this season. They have been low in price 

 and the public have bought them in large 

 quantities. Valley and Easter lilies are 

 in good supply and move well as funeral 

 flowers. 



Green stuff of all kinds is getting plen- 

 tiful, including several varieties of wild 



