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The Weekly Florists' Revkvsr. 



May 16, 1912. 



ers begin to throw out in earnest this 

 condition will continue. American 

 Beauty in all grades is plentiful and 

 cheap. White and pink roses have been 

 in good demand, but there is no scarcity 

 of either, or likely to be for some time. 

 Lily of the valley is too plentiful some 

 days; then comes a big demand and 

 cleans up everything in si^ht. White 

 and red camellias are getting quite a 

 vogue as corsage flowers and are seen at 

 the stores of the best retailers. Orchids 

 are more plentiful and some beautiful 

 flowers of the good old Cattleya Mos- 

 sisB are displayed. The demand for 

 greens has been immense, and, coming 

 at a time when seed picking is at its 

 height, it has kept the growers hustling 

 to supply it. Good asparagus strings 

 and long smilax are practically out of 

 the market. 



Various Notes. 



Owing to the excitement in town, 

 consequent on the Shriners' parade, 

 there was only a limited attendance at 

 the regular monthly meeting of the Los 

 Angeles Horticultural Society, May 7. 

 It was decided to hold another meeting 

 May 14. There was some desultory 

 talk among the members and officers 

 respecting the vexed questions of quar- 

 antine and inspection of nursery stock, 

 but in view of the fact that the Cali- 

 fornia Association of Nurserymen is 

 probably taking action on this, it was 

 felt that it would be better not to stir 

 in the matter at present, but wait and 

 use the influence of the society later if 

 necessary. Secretary Kruckeberg, who 

 is also secretary of the nurserymen's 

 association, told of a shipment of 10,000 

 almonds being held up and eventually 

 killed, at a loss of $5,000 to the nursery- 

 man, simply because crown gall was 

 found on about six of the trees. He 

 also spoke of a shipment of Oregon 

 stock that was held up at Los Angeles, 

 but the nurseryman in this case, at 

 considerable expense to himself, came 

 to the city and looked into the matter, 

 when the shipment was pronounced 

 clean and allowed to go forward. Such 

 cases show the pressing need for federal 

 rather than Jim-Crow legislation, with 

 its petty political grafts and time- 

 serving. 



A. Bloomquist, of the Baird Park 

 Nursery, Bairdstown, has taken a part- 

 ner, A. Lindquist, and, in addition to 

 growing the line of nursery and plant 

 stock for which Mr. Bloomquist has al- 

 ready a good name, the firm will spread 

 out into cut flower growing, especially 

 asters, roses, carnations and chrysan- 

 themums. 



S. Murata has been showing fine 

 African and Shasta daisies, while the 

 amount of carnations handled here is 

 truly amazing. Mr. Murata handles the 

 immense cuts from many Japanese 

 growers in the neighborhood, and these, 

 in the aggregate, amount to hundreds 

 of thousands in the week. 



Fair Maid carnations of good quality 

 and low price are among the offerings 

 at the store of Creutz & Co., on Eighth 

 street. 



Business with the Hayward Floral 

 Co. is keeping up well. One of the 

 big undertakings this week was the 

 decoration of the Los Angeles Trust 

 building and the big fez, while a ban- 

 quet for 450, at which Asparagus 

 Sprengeri and red sweet peas were 

 used, made things interesting for the 

 staff. 



Everyone was glad to welcome Miss 

 Winifred Waite back to the city, after 



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