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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



JCMB 6, 1912. 



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Santa Citiz, Oal. — About thirty mem- 

 bers of the Paciflo Coast Horticultural 

 Society, headed by H. Plath, came down 

 from San Francisco M!ay 19 to visit the 

 summer home of C. C. Moore. While 

 here, calls were made at the establish- 

 ments of Thomas Thompson and J. P. 

 Parker. 



t Astoria, Ore. — C. Hustwick, the flo- 

 rist and gardener, thinks that Nemesia 

 strumosa Suttoni, which he grows along 

 with his other bedding stock, is one of 

 the finest annuals ever grown. During 

 the winter he uses his greenhouse for 

 carnations, removing part of these in 

 early spring so as to provide room for 

 his bedding stock. This spring he has 

 grown 10,000 asters and about 5,000 

 miscellaneous plants, including stocks 

 and lobelias. 



TAOOMA, WASH. 



The Market. 



Tacoma florists enjoyed a big trade 

 for- Memorial day, with stock short and 

 everybody having all the business he 

 could handle. Peonies were a week late 

 and much of this kind of stock was 

 imported from Oregon and California. 

 Carnations and practically all green- 

 house cut flower stocks are short, while 

 all potted plants have sold exception- 

 ally well this season and everyone has 

 cleaned up on nearly all lines. 



Various Notes. 



H. H. Hinz shipped in some fine peo- 

 nies from Portland this week. 



Van Slyke & Seamons are cutting 

 nice gladioli and Spanish iris. 



The Smith Floral Co. reports Memo- 

 rial day sales highly satisfactory. 



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» -,► SPOKANE, "WASH. 



Florists are divided in opinion as to 

 whether or not the business for Memo- 

 rial day fell below or surpassed last 

 year's record. The majority express 

 the belief that there were at least as 

 many flowers sold. One said that his 

 sales were far heavier and one con- 

 tended that his business was at least 

 fifty per cent below the previous Memo- 

 rial day. 



"I have been selling flowers in Spo- 

 kane for years," said C. T. Kipp, presi- 

 dent of the Spokane Florist Co., ' ' and I 

 do not recall a year when there was 

 such a demand as we experienced May 

 28 to 30. We were practically sold 

 out." 



"This is the first year I have been 

 in the retail business," said B. E. 

 Reimer, manager of the Armstrong Flo- 

 ral Co., "but I think the sales were 

 about equal to last year. We furnish 

 other dealers with flowers and I can 

 not see there was much difference in 

 the wholesale trade." 



The manager of the Winters Florist 

 Co. expressed the belief that sales were 

 a little heavier this year than last, but 

 said that he had not had time to check 

 up his business. A. Burt, manager of 

 Burt's Flower Store, reported that his 

 stock had been almost exhausted, and 



the Ziegler Co. said that more cut flow- 

 ers could have been sold had they been 

 in stock. 



William Hoyt, of the Hoyt Bros. Co., 

 is of the opinion that the trade was at 

 least fifty per cent lighter than last 

 year, and holds the weather partly re- 

 sponsible for the falling off in business. 

 ' * Our regular trade, except for January, 

 has been heavier than for the corre- 

 sponding period last year, but our Easter 

 and Memorial day sales were not more 

 than half as heavy," he said. 



The favorite flowers were carnations, 

 snowballs and lilacs, and the sales in 

 higher priced varieties were limited in 

 comparison with former years; many 

 people who are in the habit of patroniz- 

 ing the florists contented themselves 

 with decorating the graves of friends 

 and relatives with wild roses and other 

 field flowers. 



LOS ANGELES, GAL. 



The Market. 



While a good deal of the stock sold 

 for Decoration day is of the cheap 

 order,. yet it comes as a godsend to the 

 wholesalers, who were enabled to clean 

 up a lot of surplus outdoor flowers that 

 were beginning to pile up. All the 

 wholesalers and most of the retailers 

 report the day's business the best they 

 ever had for this holiday, and the out- 

 of-town shipments were unusually large 

 and numerous. Carnations were lead- 

 ers and the immense numbers handled 

 would certainly surprise anyone unac- 

 quainted with conditions in this locality. 

 One of the leading Japanese growers of 

 outdoor flowers said thajl; it was quite 

 impossible for him to keep up with 

 the picking. If more could have been 



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