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The Florists' Review 



June 12. 1913. 



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Sacramento, Cal. — A. Duhem'e green- 

 house and lath house, at Oak Park, were 

 destroyed by fire on the night of June 

 4. Most of the stock, consisting chiefly 

 of ferns, plumosus and smilax, was also 

 ruined, and the plants in the garden 

 were injured. The fire started in a 

 neighbor's cottage, burning the cottage 

 to the ground and spreading quickly to 

 Mr. Duhem's buildings. Mr. Duhem is 

 proprietor of the Flower Shop, at 1105 

 Ninth street. 



San Diego, Cal. — The city council has 

 refused to continue the 5-cent water 

 rate which Frank S. Sessions has been 

 paying in the past, and it seems likely 

 that he must hereafter pay for water at 

 the rate of 8 cents per hundred cubic 

 feet. He recently asked to have the 

 lower rate continued on the plea that 

 he had spent more than $3,000 putting 

 in a pumping plant and reservoir to irri- 

 gate his 100 acres near Pacific Beach 

 and that the increased rate would be a 

 hardship to him. 



LOS ANGELES, CAL. 



The Market. 



A much better tone now prevails in 

 the market. Stock from outdoors has 

 shortened up considerably; indoor stock 

 is not so plentiful and the demand is 

 better than a week ago. If growers 

 would desist from sending in rubbishy 

 stock, it would be better for all con- 

 cerned. It is time for growers to get 

 down to a quality basis, as that is the 

 only one that pays. 



Eoses are about as last noted. Car- 

 nations are not as good as they were 

 last month and the many small 

 "spring" flowers are on the wane. 

 Centaureas are always with us at this 

 season. Cornflowers are pretty and 

 fairly plentiful. Gladioli are becom- 

 ing more plentiful daily and Komneya 

 Coulteri makes a nice show. Antir- 

 rhinums are past their best, but continue 

 to arrive in too large quantities to be 

 cleaned up. Sweet peas are fine and 

 have been in big demand since Cecile 

 Brunner roses Isecame scarcer. The 

 same is true of valley. Orchids are 

 about equal to the demand, which is 

 not great. June weddings started 

 early, one couple entering the connu- 

 bial state at 12:05 a. m. on the morn- 

 ing of June 1, but I did not hear who 

 supplied the bouquets. Many good wed- 

 ding orders are booked for later in the 

 month. 



Various Notes. 



T. F. M. Williamson has opened a 

 store near the corner of Figueroa and 

 Washington streets, in one of the fine 

 new stores built on the site of the old 

 nursery of Norris & Son. Eobert 

 Shenk, who was until recently with 

 Morris Goldenson, on Third street, is 

 managing the store, which looks ex- 

 ceedingly attractive in light green. It 

 is a large, roomy store, with ample 

 space behind for a workroom. With 

 such a good location and with an expe- 

 perienced florist like "Bob" in charge, 

 Mr. Williamson should have no cause to 

 regret entering the florists' end of the 



business. He has long been engaged 

 here in landscape gardening. 



Morris Goldenson had the decora- 

 tions at a musicale given in honor of 

 Miss Elenita Sepulvida recently by her 

 father. The rooms of the Ebel Club 

 were taxed to their utmost to accom- 

 modate the 1,000 or so of guests. The 

 stage was finely decorated with palms 

 and Enchantress carnations; the recep- 

 tion rooms were done in pink and white 

 sweet peas. Mr. Goldenson personally 

 took charge of the decorations. Fu- 

 neral S7ork has also been plentiful at 

 the Goldenson store, one of the finest of 

 the recent pieces being a magnificent 

 broken column, seven feet high, of 

 choice indoor carnations, roses and 

 other stock. Evidently Third street is 

 still on the map as a flower street. 



Staiger & Mundwiler are carrying 

 large quantities of decorative stock, 

 which is in fine order. This firm is 

 building a greenhouse, 54x200 feet, at 

 its Lomita place, and reports business 

 fine. 



Among the high-grade stock always 

 carried at J, W. Welters' Hill street 

 store one can always pick out some- 

 thing especially good. This week it is 

 Badiance roses from the El Beah green- 

 houses, which are remarkably fine in 

 stem and flower. I also noticed the 

 feijoa in bloom here. Mr. Wolters says 

 he is well pleased with the volume of 

 business this season so far and has 

 fine orders for the near future. 



Mrs. Boeder was married June 2 to 

 a Mr. Arnold, of Phoenix, Ariz. 



Frank Lichtenberg will move from 

 his present location July 1 to the new 

 Hollingsworth building, at Sixth and 



Hill streets. His new address will be 

 324 West Sixth street. 



Shipping trade has picked up ma- 

 terially at the Los Angeles Flower Mar- 

 ket and the stock has been cleaning up 

 in fine shape. The gladioli handled 

 here are of exceptionally fine quality, 

 evidently the product of good cultiva- 

 tion. 



The Lanss Bros., of the Palmyra 

 Nursery, are to be congratulated on 

 the excellent showing they have made 

 in a short time. It seems but a few 

 weeks ago that I was there and they 

 were in the throes of construction; now 

 the place looks like an established 

 nursery. Much seedling stock is being 

 raised and a large amount of larger 

 stock is being brought in, especially in 

 the line of araucarias, which make a 

 fine show. 



The H. N. Gage Co., reports big busi- 

 ness in wedding orders. 



Murata & Co. ar^ handling immense 

 quantities of fine carnations, their ship- 

 ments to distant points being a large 

 item in their business. 



The usual monthly meeting of the 

 Los Angeles County Horticultural So- 

 ciety was postponed one day on account 

 of the election, but still there was only 

 a meager attendance. It was to be re- 

 gretted the more for the reason that 

 on this occasion we had with us James 

 McHutchison, of New York, and we 

 should all have liked to see a better 

 audience for the remarks he had to 

 make. Mr. McHutchison spoke for 

 about an hour on his travels in South 

 America, but his story was so interest- 

 ing that no one noticed the lateness 

 of the hour. He has a most attractive 



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