Ai'iiiL 1, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



81 



CALLS BULBS 



LILYDALE 



QUALITY 



State 

 your wants and 



we will 

 quota prices 



LILYDALE BULB & ROOT CO., ^^c'JIJog.fi^^' 



at Lilydale 250,000 bulbs are growing, 

 and as many more in a similar field back 

 el' the bungalow. 



Santa Cruz county is one of the coast 

 lounties of California, some eighty miles 

 soiitli of San Francisco. Topographically 

 iihally environed by mountain, valley 

 and sea, this favored spot has climatic 

 i-onditions 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 pouuds of calla lily 

 seed were sown at Jjilydale. and these 

 !~iH>d beds are at this writing crowded with 

 liny lilies from one to four inches high, 

 growing so fast that it is almost possible 

 t') note their daily increase in stature. 

 Approximately there are some 150,000 

 Seedlings in these seed beds, and calla 

 i'ulbs thus produced are particularly fine 

 a»id vigorous. 



SAN FRANC3SCO. 



The Market 



'uists of wind and showers of rain 



liuve alternated during the present week, 



="id natural conditions have not assisted 



'■iisiness to any great extent. There has 



" f'n a fair amount of funeral work, how 



')|'r, and for this the retailers have been 



I'^tnkful. There is rather a dearth of 



';ije stock, and everything that could be 



'iiized for mourning flowers has been 



■I'l out well. Carnations* with the ex- 



'" ption of Enchantress, are rather a 



75,000 Transplanted Carnation Plants 



Cold-grown, well established and ready to plant out 

 Most of them have been topped and are making breaks 



I'er 100 l>er 1000 



Winsor. Pink $3.00 $J5.00 



R. P. Knchantress. I'iuk '2.J5 20.00 



Enchantress. I'ink J CO 20 0<i 



Mrs. T. W. LawBon. I'ink 1.7', 1.-1.00 



Gov. Wolcott. White 175 1.=>.00 



White Lawson. White 2.00 18.00 



Queen Louise 175 15.00 



Flora Hill 1 75 15 00 



Boston Market 175 15 00 



KsteUe. Red 2 oo 18.00 



Red Lawaon. Red '2.00 18 00 



Harlo^irarden. Crimson 175 15.00 



Variegrated Law^son 1.7"> iri.oo 



Kldorado. Y- How 1.75 



Transplanted Giant Pansies 60 4 00 



Giant Pansy Seedllnes 40 2 50 



Asparaerus Sprengeri Seedllnes, extra good 1.50 



Fresh Asparagus Plumosus Nanus seed 45 S.50 



BASSETT'S FLORAL GARDENS 



LOOMIS, CALIFORNIA 



scarce article, and roses ar(> not otVeri'd 

 in sullicifiit (luantify to till reciniriMnciits. 

 Violets are beginning to show that their 

 season for tlowcring is nearly over and 

 another couple of weeks will make them 

 rather Scarce. Narcissi ami datVodils have 

 ]iroven moneymakers for the retailers 



tlii-^ si^ason. They have been low in price 

 and the iMiIilic have bought them in large 

 • luaiitities. X'alley and Kaster lilies are 

 in good supply and move well as funeral 

 llowers. 



Green stutT of all kinds is getting plen- 

 tifnl, including several \arjeties of wild 



