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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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Pacific Coast Department 



Subscribers on the Pacific coast 

 should not fail to note that their spe- 

 cial department of The Bevlew has 

 grown until it now occupies eight pages. 

 Give us a boost and the Pacific Coast 

 Department will keep right on growing. 



Redwood City, Cal.— W. A. Leslie, 

 the landscape gardener, is laying out 

 the grounds at the estate of George 

 Lents, in the foothills near this town. 



Spokane, Wash.— J. H. Orme is pre- 

 paring to open a retail store at 609 

 North Monroe street in time for the 

 Easter trade. He will do business as 

 the Monroe Seed and Floral Co. 



Seattle, Wash. — B. D. Chesnut, of 

 Chesnut's Nursery and Dahlia Gar- 

 den, says he exterminates moles in his 

 groui;ids outdoors by putting a little 

 arsenic on pieces of potatoes and plac- 

 ing these in the holes in which the 

 animals burrow. 



LOS ANGELES, CAL. 



The Market. 



Funeral work has been the mainstay 

 of the market during the last week, 

 though considerable out-of-town ship- 

 ping has also aided in preventing a 

 surplus of flowers. Bulbous and spring 

 stocks are still the largest items 

 offered, the later daffodils and narcissi 

 making fine displays everywhere. Of 

 the latter, N. poeticus is most in evi- 

 dence. There is a scarcity of yellow 

 tulips, but other colors are plentiful 

 and good. Gladioli must still be 

 counted among the scarcer items, 

 though probably by the time these 

 notes appear wholesalers will be able 

 to supply in quantity. Easter lilies are 

 plentiful and good, both in pots and 

 cut, and are principally northern 

 grown. Why the growers in this sec- 

 tion allow the San Francisco men to 

 get away with this trade is not easily 

 understood. 



Boses are plentiful and good, the 

 bright sun of late having put more life 

 into the plants. Beauties are fair. The 

 Killarneys are better than for some 

 time and there are also fine flowers of 

 Kaiserin. Carnations are equal to the 

 demand, but the quality in some cases 

 leaves much to be desired. This refers 

 principally to the outdoor stock. 

 Orchids are not largely shown in the 

 retailers' windows, but this may be 

 due rather to lack of demand than to 

 any scarcity. If trade growers are 

 short, there is usually a good supply to 

 be had from the amateur element. 

 Violets are becoming poorer and 

 scarcer right along. Valley is abund- 

 ant and good. An addition to the plant 

 supply is noted in the pretty little 

 specimen tree or Moutan peonies, 

 which are most attractive. Greens of 

 all kinds are more plentiful and 

 cheaper. Adiantum is being shipped in 

 at low rates from growers at a dis- 

 tance, but the local men appear to be 

 holding their own for quality. 



Various Notes. 



Tulips are in the height of their 

 glory at the Los Angeles Elower Mar- 



ket and a grander lot of blooms were 

 never seen than those now being ship- 

 ped by this firm. Business is keeping 

 up well here. 



The store of the Freeman-Lewis Co., 

 on Fourth street, was closed March 20, 

 the date of the funeral of Mrs. Lewis, 

 mother of C. Lewis, who died at her 

 home that week. Charlie has been most 

 devoted to his mother, especially dur- 

 ing her long illness, and everyone sym- 

 pathizes with him in his loss. Many 

 fine floral pieces from the local trade 

 showed the respect in which both were 

 held. 



Tassano Bros, report business in the 



wholesale end good, much of the stock 

 brought in from outside points never 

 coming to the store at all, but going 

 direct from the soil to their customers. 

 Some splendid adiantum is shown here, 

 as well as choice Easter lilies. 



The Easter lilies are fine at Creutz 

 & Co. 's store; large stems, with twelve 

 to fourteen flowers, are shown. Good 

 gladioli are also arriving in quantity. 



The H. N. Gage Co. has all its stock 

 in fine* condition, but Kaiserin roses 

 were noted as particularly good, as 

 well as the big lots of Narcissus poeti 

 cus, ixias and various irises. 



Howard & Smith have been showing 



POINSETTIAS 



Opportunity 



knocks but once, but here is your op- 

 portunity and it is going to knock twice. 

 If you don 't take advantage of it you 

 are certainly ' ' knocked. ' ' 



We have a few thousand fine two- 

 year-old plants and the engraving will 

 convey a good idea of their charac- 

 ter. Each plant will produce not less 

 than 100 cuttings and the original plant 

 tan be cut back to between the three 

 and four-foot mark as shown, potted 

 into a 10-inch pot and by pinching the 

 growths during summer and early au- 

 tumn will make a full, rounded speci- 

 men similar to an azalea in form, with 

 dozens of splendid big bracts. We 

 worked this stunt ourselves successfully 

 last season, getting as high as $10 each 

 for single plants. 



WHAT WE CAN DO, YOU CAN DO. 



Plants have from three to four canes 

 each and weigh approximately 3% lbs. 

 each, packed. 



DO YOU WANT ANY? IF SO, WRITE. 



PRICES. 



$5.00 per dozen. 

 $35.00 per 100. 



Terms, cash except from correspond- 

 ents whose credit is already established. 



HOWARD & SMITH 



Ninth and Olive Streets 



LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 



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