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The Florists^ Review 



Mabch 13, 1918. 



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I PACIFIC Coast DepartmentI 



Eatonville, Wash. — Fred Kipper has 

 gone out of the greenhouse business 

 here and catalogue houses should strike 

 his name off their mailing lists. 



Olympia, Wash. — H. E. Eees, former- 

 ly carnation grower for Van Slyke & 

 Seamons, at Tacoma, Wash., has leased 

 the greenhouses of Mrs. J. M. Billings, 

 in this town, and will continue the 

 business. Mrs. Billings has retired from 

 the trade. 



Sacramento, Oal. — A. Duehm, who re- 

 cently opened a retail store under the 

 name of The Flower Shop, at 1105 Ninth 

 street, dealing in seeds, bulbs, plants 

 and nursery stock as well as cut flow- 

 ers, reports trade more than satisfac- 

 tory. 



MONTEBEY CYPBESS FBOM SEED. 



Will you kindly inform me in detail 

 as to the best method of starting Mon- 

 terey cypress seed! I have tried to 

 raise the trees from seed here, in north- 

 ern California, but with little success. 

 Only a few seeds germinated. Please 

 state what is the best time to plant 

 and what soil is best. Should the seed 

 be planted in the open or in a hotbed f 

 What should the treatment be as to 

 shading and water? W. W. 



As W. W. asks for the details of the 

 entire operation, I shall commence with 

 the gathering of the seed. The Mon- 

 terey cypress is peculiar in the fact that 

 the seed cones do not open on the tree 

 until they are several years old. As 

 each year's growth produces an abun- 

 dant supply of seed cones, it is obvious 

 that there must be seed of several 

 years' standing on all large trees. This 

 is an important point, for the riper 

 the seed, provided the cones are allowed 

 to remain on the tree, the better germ- 

 inative qualities it has. Consequently, 

 seed should only be saved from cones 

 of the oldest growth on the trees. The 

 young cones, although they appear to 

 be ripe, do not give seed that will 

 germinate easily. Although the seed 

 keeps well on the tree, it does not do 

 so after picking and seed that is older 

 than one season is of little value. 



Take the seed and put it in a vessel, 

 covering it with water that has been 

 heated to about 150 degrees. It is not 

 necessary to change this water, bat the 

 seed should be left in it for about three 

 days. Early in April is the best time 

 to start cypress in California, and no 

 heat, either above or below, is of any 

 value. Make a bed outside, of light 

 sand, and cover the seed about one- 

 eighth of an inch with still finer sand. 

 Put a shading over the bed, preferably 

 of laths, both as a protection from birds 

 and from the bright sunshine. Keep 

 the bed wet by plenty of light sprink- 

 ling. The seeds should begin to germi- 

 nate in about a week and in eight 

 weeks the plants are ready to prick off 

 in to, flats. By this time they should be 

 about one and one-half Inches high, 

 which is the proper size^ ^n which to 

 handle them. They can be boxed in 

 heavier soil than that in which the seed 

 has been grown and must then be shaded 



for several weeks in the same manner 

 as was the seed bed. 



Plants grown in this way will be 

 ready for sale the following winter, but 

 can' be kept in flats for several seasons. 

 The seed can be planted rather thickly 

 in the seed bed, which must be care- 

 fully leveled and lightly tamped both 

 before and after the seed is covered 

 with sand. See that the bed is in such 

 shape that it will hold the water evenly, 

 and if the entire bed is made of light 

 soil there is little danger of giving too 

 much water when the seed bed is made 

 outdoors. I am inclined to think, from 

 the remarks made by W. W., that he 

 had his trouble either because the seed 

 grown was not fresh or because it was 

 saved from young cones. As Califor- 

 nia is the native habitat of the Mon- 

 terey cypress, there should be no 

 trouble to grow it successfullv in this 

 climate, provided the foregoing rules 

 are followed. G. 



YET ANOTHEB QUABANTINE. 



The California authorities have is-, 

 sued Quarantine Order No. 20, prohib- 

 iting entrance to the state for alfalfa 

 and <some other articles said to carry, 

 alfalfa weevil, Phytonomus posticus, 

 from certain nearby states. One par- ■ 

 agraph hits the trade as follows: 



"It is hereby further ordered and de- 

 clared that all nursery and ornamental 

 stock and other plants imported into 

 the, state of California from the afore- 

 said states of Utah, Wyoming and por- 

 tions of Idaho must be piacked in fresh 

 shavings, excelsior or other suitable 

 packing (excepting tule, hay and straw) 

 and the box containers and cars must 

 be disinfected by fumigation with chem- 

 ically pure cyanide of potassium, using 

 three ounces to each 100 cubic feet of 

 space, such fumigation to be given both 

 at the point of shipment and at the 

 point of delivery. Every lot of said 



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LARGEST SHirrERS OF CARNATIONS AND VIOLETS 



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SHASTA DAISIES 



Very Strens DMslone 



$1 JO per 100: $10.00 per 1000; $80.00 per 10,000. 



ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS 



SeedUngs. $1.00perl00; $ TJWperlOOO 



From 3-lnch pots 4.00 per 100; 36.00 per 1000 



Strong field plants IB.OO per 100; 126.00 per 1000 



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Oarry a large stock of nice Red Pota. 



All oraen shipped promptly. 

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strings, eight to ten feet long, $1.50 per dozen 

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