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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



March 7, 101 1*. 



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Subscribers on tbe Pacific coast 

 should not fail to note that their spe- 

 cial department of The Review has 

 grown until it now occupies five pages. 

 Give us a boost and the Pacific Coast 

 Department will keep right on growing. 



Sunnyside, Wash. — The Sunnyside 

 Floral Co. has completed the erection 

 of a greenhouse plant in this town, the 

 first in the locality. They have a crop 

 of lettuce in it at present, but it is 

 their intention to grow carnations and 

 bedding plants for local and export 

 trade in the future. 



TACOMA, WASH. 



The Market. 



Conditions are about as last reported, 

 with ])lenty of carnations and a notice- 

 able scarcity of bulbous stock. Many 

 of the growers are talking of planting 

 their houses to vegetables and it looks 

 now as if there might be a shortage 

 later. Lilies for Easter are coming on 

 nicely and, with the present bright 

 weather, there will be no extra heavy 

 forcing to get them in on time. 



Various Notes. 



Tlie entertainment by the Florists ' 

 Club to the ladies on Thursday evening, 

 February 15, was well attended. The 

 address of welcome by Mr. Beeles was 

 followed by a short program, after 

 which refreshments were served and the 

 remainder of the evening was spent in 

 dancing. Among the out-of-town guests 

 were Mr. and Mrs. Holze, of Seattle, 

 and :\rr. Scott, of Portland. J. L. S. 



SEATTLE, WASH. 



The Market. 



Business has been slightly improving 

 the last week. The clearer weather and 

 absence of rain for some days have 

 helped the sale of flowers, as well as 

 tending to improve the quality of the 

 stock. The supply of almost every 

 kind of flower in season is still rather 

 in excess of demand, but there are 

 fewer complaints on account of dull 

 trade. Carnations are not coming in 

 (juite so plentifully and the stock is 

 now in first-class condition. With a' 

 little better prices, growers and retail- 

 ors would feel better. Roses, violets 

 and bulbous flowers are plentiful and 

 meeting a fair demand. 



The frosty mornings lately have not 



Asparagus Plumosus fpicn^cn 



Out of 21nch pots, $3.00 per 100. 



Fho«nix Canariensls, oat of 2>a-liich pota. 

 tS.OOperlOO. 



WashinKtonla Sonorae, oat of rinch pot«. 

 t6.W per 100. 



H. KEMPF, Pacific Nurseiy 



S041 B«lE«r St.. BAH VRAHCXSOO. CAL. 



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rKK.LP \M» L.nL.I-9 Wholesale Grower 

 of Rooted Cuttingrs and Plants. Roses, Carnations, 

 Chrysanthemums, Petunias, Verbenat and a general 

 line of Bedding Stock. Send for Piice List. 



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done much harm to the early growths 

 on the roses, but if we should get a 

 few degrees more, the early pruned 

 plants may have some of their buds 

 blasted. Growth on hardy plants is 

 much earlier than usual, but the frost 

 so far has not been severe enough to 

 hurt. 



Various Notes. 



Mrs. L. W. McCoy had her windows 

 prettily decorated with some early flow- 

 ering prune branches this week. 



The Aabling-Ebright Co., seed mer- 

 chants at Pike place, are reporting a 

 large increase in their business this 

 year. They handle, in addition to a 

 full line of seeds, nursery stock, and 

 ponltrv and bee keepers ' supplies. 



T. W. 



SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 



The Market. 



Business is only fair at the present 

 writing and the excessively dry weather 

 continues. We are about twelve inches 

 short of the average rainfall and con- 

 ditions are beginning to have a serious 

 aspect. Flowers of all kinds are plenti- 

 ful, with the exception of violets, which 

 are getting near the end of their season. 

 Daffodils and narcissi are not as abun- 



dant as they have been and tulips of 

 the early sorts are on the wane. There 

 are plenty of the later varieties in 

 sight and if we have favorable weather 

 there will be heavy cuttings for quite 

 a while to come. 



Carnations average about $2 per hun- 

 dred, with quantities of all the best 

 selling kinds. Roses are better than 

 they were during the warm spell of a 

 week ago. Brides, Maids, Liberty and 

 Kaiserin sell at from 50 cents to $1 per 

 dozen and Beauties at about twice 

 those prices. Wild flowers will soon 

 be a factor to be reckoned with. Fruit 

 blossoms, owing to the drying winds m£ 

 the last ifew days, are not as good or as 

 much in evidence as they were about 

 one year ago. Freesias and valley 

 move slowly. Easter lilies are only in 

 about sufiicient quantity to fill require- 

 ments. From all indications, however, 

 there will be plenty for the Easter 

 tra'de, which promises to be good this 

 season. 



Various Notes. 



Martin Reukauf, of H. Baycrsdorfer 

 & Co., reports good business on his 

 Pacific coast trip this season. 



Chas. C. Navlet, of the C. C. Xavlet 

 Co., of San Jose, is in town. He re- 

 ports a heavy winter and spring trade. 



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What Is It ? 



It is a vegetable fertilizer. 

 It is absolutely odorless. 

 For potted plants, lawns 



and gardens. 

 25c per package. 

 Distributors wanted in 



each state. Write for 



particulars. 



North American 

 Mercantile Co. 



318-320 Front Street 



San Francisco, California 



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Direct Importations— Tree Fern Stems 



Due to arrive in the early spring of 1912. 

 The grandest and most graceful of all decorative plants. 



Alsophila robista, DickMnia Antarctica, Dkksonia squarrosa, Cyathea medullaris, 

 Cyalbea dealbata, Cyathea Smithii Cyathea CunninKbaaii. 



All sizes from three feet up. 

 We will also receive specimen plants of Platyceriums and Todeas, 



Prices and particulars on application. 



NacRORIE-NcLAREN COHPANY 



711-714 WMtfeank BIdf., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Nmcriai. SAN MATrO, CAL. 



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