. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 54 The Florists^ Reviriv Dkcbmbgu 22, 1921. Opinion of the attorney-general of California declaring inoperative the re- cently passed law requiring a $10 license and $1,000 bond for persons who wished to ship horticultural products into the state, will be found in the Nursery Trade Department of this issue. Oregon City, Ore.—More than $12,000 damage was done December 8 by a fire at the greenhouses of J. T. Serres, of Clackamas Heights. A gasoline explo- sion in the garage about 10 o'clock started the conflagration, which de- stroyed the garage, 150
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 54 The Florists^ Reviriv Dkcbmbgu 22, 1921. Opinion of the attorney-general of California declaring inoperative the re- cently passed law requiring a $10 license and $1,000 bond for persons who wished to ship horticultural products into the state, will be found in the Nursery Trade Department of this issue. Oregon City, Ore.—More than $12,000 damage was done December 8 by a fire at the greenhouses of J. T. Serres, of Clackamas Heights. A gasoline explo- sion in the garage about 10 o'clock started the conflagration, which de- stroyed the garage, 150 cords of wood, an automobile, a truck, and burned down four greenhouses. The loss was partly covered by insurance. LOS ANGELES, CAL. By Late Wire. Owing to washouts on the railroads, the express company is taking shipments subject to delay. But the improvement in the weather has made wholesalers hopeful of getting everything through to their customers. The Market. The usual slackness before a holiday has been apparent this week. The wise retailer has spent the spare time in preparing for the Christmas rush which is coming, and the unwise is bemoaning conditions generally and prophesying disaster for the trade as a whole. Again the folly of growing poor and trashy stock has been shown. The weather has been so fine that gardens are still full of flowers; consequently poor stock is not in demand, but there never was a time when good stock sold so freely. Take the item of roses as an example; every morning the wholesale houses and market are cleaned up of good stock, while the i)Oorer grades are hang- ing around all day waiting for a retailer with cheap funeral work to come around. Heather, when of good color and well flowered, is taken at once, while the poor stock has a for- lorn appearance which does not im- prove day by day the longer it is kept. There never was a season when so much of this stock has been sold for the Christmas trade as the amount being sold this year. Poin
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