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The Florists^ Review 



JOLX 25, 1912. 





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PORTLAND, OSE. 



The Market. 



Business is down to the summer level. 

 The intensely hot weather of the last 

 week has caused the demand to be ex- 

 ceedingly dull. Funeral work and 

 transient trade are relied on for the ma- 

 jor part of the trade. Carnations are 

 showing the effects of the hfeat and 

 their keeping qualities are also greatly 

 impaired. Boses are also showing the 

 effects of the weather; the flowers are. 

 small and imperfect. Auratums are 

 coming in at an opportune time and 

 prove to be good sellers. Sweet peas 

 are in oversupply; it is hard to main- 

 tain a standard price. Gladioli have 

 been coming in nicely, in a variety of 

 colors. Gypsophila is used extensively 

 for decorative effects and bouquet 

 work. 



At all of the greenhouses the men 

 are busy cleaning out the carnation 

 beds and making ready for the new 

 plants. 



Various Notes. 



John Gower, of Newberg, Ore., is 

 shipping a nice lot of Shasta daisies 

 and sweet peas to the local market. 



Byron & Jensen have added one 

 house this season, 24x150, which will 

 be devoted entirely to double violets. 

 They grow violets exclusively and are 

 among the most successful growers iri 

 this section. 



Frank Teufel met with an accident in 

 running his new car. He was crashedi 

 into by a speeder. He expects to re- 

 cover damages. 



J. E. Hubbard, Boulder, Colo., was a 

 week-end caller. 



The Clackamas Greenhouses are ship- 

 ping in some excellent Cecil Brunner 

 and Ulrich Brunner roses. 



Harry Bamford is vacationing at Til- 

 lamook, Ore. E. E. I. 



SAN FBANCISCO. 



The Market. 



The weather is quite cool for the 

 summer time and stock continues to be 

 in good form tend color. We have had 

 a much better line of inside stock to se- 

 lect from this year than for several sea- 

 sons past. The reason for this is not 

 hard to find; with only half a dozen 

 warm days in three months, there have 

 been no weak, faded flowers to cut. 

 Outside Atock is also good, and, now 

 that the asters are in full swing, the 

 retailers heave a sigh of relief, as they 

 will be in full crop until the coming of 

 the chrysanthemums. Both of these 

 fall flowers are so easy to handle and to 

 keep, and are so valuable in the making 

 of floral designs, that there is nothing 

 at any other time of the year that 

 quite takes their places. 



The Japanese lilies are not up to the 

 usual quantity this season and the same 

 may be said of gladioli and dahlias, 

 though the flower-buying public takes 

 kindly to them. Carnations and roses 

 are good and move fairly well. Valley 

 is in fair supply. There is a dearth of 

 orchids of all kinds. The Crocker wed- 



ding, occurring last week, took all the 

 available supply of orchids in this part 

 of the country. 



Various Notes. 



E. E. Willard, representing the 

 Brandt Manufacturing Co., of' >Iinne- 

 apolis, Minn., is calling on the' local 

 growers with a line of plant sprayers 

 and other materials of the same order. 



Fred Ghirigone, of Podesta & Bal- 

 docchi, is taking a well earned rest for 

 a few weeks. G. 



PROGRESS ON PANAMA-PACIFIC. 



It occurs to me that occasional notes 

 concerning the progress on the site of 

 our Panama-Pacific Exposition, San 

 Francisco, will be of interest to readers 

 of The Eeview. 



Last Sunday being showery, a most 

 unusual thing with us at this time of 

 the year, I took a walk on the location 

 of the fair grounds, as the sand was wet 

 and packed, and not so tiresome to wade 

 through as when dry. The situation is 

 ideal. The ground slopes gradually to 

 the bay, while in the background on 

 three sides towers a continuous wall 

 of steep hills well covered with fine 

 dwellings. These hills serve to break 

 the harsh, fog-laden winds that sweep 

 over"~DtH^draughty peninsula so persist- 

 ently in the spring and summer months. 

 On the feurth side stretches a truly 

 beautiful ( scen^ of widening bay, 

 bounded 1^ dibtant hills, and jeweled 

 with an occasional island. 



A large portion of the site to be occu- 



pied by the principal buildings is at 

 present in process of reclamation from 

 the waters of the bay. This work was 

 begun some time ago, before the world 's 

 fair was thought of, for the breakwater 

 that forms the outer dike was built 

 years ago. The submerged portion be- 

 tween this and the mainland is now 

 rapidly being filled in by a process of 

 pumping that sucks a mixture of sand, 

 ooze and water from the bottom of the 

 bay, and forces it through large pipes 

 into the enclosed area. There the sand 

 and soil sink to the bottom in the still 

 lagoon, and the clarified water over- 

 flows back into the bay. This process 

 is being carried on night and day, and 

 already about half of the space is filled 

 above water. 



I walked along the dike, the swells 

 of the bay lapping the stones on one 

 side, while on the other, across a waste 

 of dirty sand, a great stream of liquid 

 mud spouted several feet into the air, 

 watched and attended by men who 

 waded almost up to their hips in the 

 mire. 



This district, occupying, as it does, 

 low ground next to the shore, has been 

 largely used as a dump for street- 

 sweepings and refuse. One comes across 

 sunken places littered with tin cans and 

 old cooking utensils. The buildings are 

 few and poor. These were all sold at 

 auction a while ago and now the old 

 wooden structures are being slowly dis- 

 membered or moved by their purchasers. 



I wandered across a large sandy field, 

 a portion of the presidio, at present oc- 

 cupied only by two long rows of corru- 



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