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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



June 20, 1912. 



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Pacific Coast Department 



San Diego, Cal. — The Misses Carl, at 

 Encanto Heights, are specializing in 

 freesias, seeking to build up a business 

 direct with the trade instead of selling 

 to the large dealers. 



POBTLAND, OBE. 



The Market. 



Sweet peas are now plentiful and 

 of good quality. Carnations are arriv- 

 ing in large quantities. Good outside 

 flowers are also handled satisfactorily 

 in the stores. Lily of the valley is 

 hard to procure; there is not enough 

 to go around and it is necessary to 

 turn down some out-of-town orders. 

 Outside roses are now in their glory 

 and nearly all varieties are to be seen, 

 though Testout takes the lead. 



The annual rose festival, which was 

 held June 10 to 15, brought much ex- 

 tra work for the florists, as thousands 

 of roses and other flowers were used 

 lor decorating automobiles for the 

 street parades. 



Various Notes. 



Clarke Bros, have some fine orchids 

 in their store, which are grown at their 

 own greenhouses. 



Several thousand peonies were 

 shipped from Eahn & Herbert's for 

 Decoration day orders. 



Martin & Forbes supplied the palms 

 and ferns for the Armory, where the 

 annual rose show was held. 



The Portland Seed Co. had an "edu- 

 cational exhibit" at the rose show, 

 including different varieties of house 

 plants, properly labeled. 



Visitors: C. T. Kipp, of the Spo- 

 kane Florist Co., Spokane, Wash.; Mrs. 

 L. W. McCoy, Seattle, Wash.; E. E. 

 Eeimer, of Spokane; A. A. Hinz, of 

 Tacoma, Wash.; W. S. Duncan, of Al- 

 bany, Ore. A. A. 



VICTORIA, B. C. 



The Market. 



It is a pleasure to be able to say 

 that trade is excellent. The weather 

 is favorable. Flowers are plentiful 

 enough to supply any demand and the 

 prices are fair. Bedding stock of all 

 kinds was short. This was not because 

 of any decrease in the quantity grown, 

 but was due to the increased demand. 

 Judging from the number of small 

 places that are springing up all around 

 us, this state of affairs should be easily 

 remedied next season. Indeed, there 

 are some who say that, unless the 

 present activity in real estate con- 

 tinues, there will be a large surplus, 

 with correspondingly low prices. 



To our eastern friends, who are used 

 to a shorter season for outdoor bulb- 

 ous stock, it might be of interest to 

 say that one firm here commenced cut- 

 ting Golden Spur daffodils in the gar- 

 den January 15 and cut a steady suc- 

 cession, finishing with May-flowering 

 tulips. May 22. After a break of a 

 week, the same firm is at this date, 

 June 7, cutting Spanish irises, which 

 are expected to continue until July 1. 

 This was unusually early for daffodils 



here and was the result of an especially 

 mild winter, with no frost to mention 

 after November 20, when a few degrees 

 of frost caught everything in full 

 growth and did serious damage. 



The price received by the growers of 

 outdoor bulbous flowers was only mod- 

 erate, considering the high price of all 

 commodities, labor included. Many 

 splendid flowers were sold at $3 to $5 

 per thousand. In my estimation, this 

 line is getting heavily overdone and 

 I would certainly advise anyone who 

 is thinking of starting this line here 

 to investigate actual conditions, and 

 not rely too much on the extravagant 

 statements that are sometimes heard. 



Various Notes. 



Brown Bros, are seriously handi- 

 capped on account of the unfinished 

 condition of their new store, which was 

 to be completed by May 1, but is not 

 yet ready. 



Flewin's Gardens are making a spe- 

 cialty of orchids. The manager, E. A. 

 Wallace, considers conditions quite fa- 

 vorable here for growing this class of 

 stock. The output of flowers at pres- 

 ent is limited, but he says that there 

 is a ready sale for all he produces. 



A. J. Woodward has bought a 10- 

 acre tract on one of the hills just 

 outside the city limits and is building 

 a fine residence on it. The tract has 

 some splendid oak trees on it, that 

 must be of a great age. It will be 

 used by Mr. Woodward for residence 

 purposes only. F. Bennett occupies the 

 Ross Bay residence. F. B. 



IiOS ANGEI^S, CAL. 



The Market. 



Weddings and the usual work for 

 school closing exercises have given 

 quite an impetus to business, and the 

 retailers have had about all they could 

 do to keep pace with these orders and 

 funeral work. A notable feature in 

 connection with the school work is 

 the greatly increased number of pretty 

 little baskets sold. Several retailers 

 made a point of showing the baskets, 

 arranged with poppies, carnations, cen- 

 taureas or some cheap yet attractive 

 flower, in their windows, and these 

 made a decided hit. On some days of 

 last week it seemed that every third 

 person one met on the streets was 

 carrying flowers or wearing them, and 

 the wearing of corsage bouquets was 

 never more popular here than now. A 

 moderate estimate places flowers sold 

 during early June as at least double 

 what were sold in the same time last 

 year. Wholesalers say that the out-of- 

 town shipping trade has been a little 

 disappointing, but the home trade is 

 fine and advance orders seem to fore- 

 shadow better things in store. 



Gladioli are moving fairly well, but 

 there are too many unsalable varie- 

 ties. The popular America is the best 

 seller, though the smaller varieties of 

 the Colvillei section, especially Bride, 

 are fine for working up into baskets 

 and bouquets. Some of the carnations 

 coming in are badly damaged by thrips. 

 Sweet peas are not too plentiful and 



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