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The Florists' Review 



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Officers and Directors of the New San Francisco Co-operative Flower Market. 



such shows is already assured, provided 

 each member will give his whole hearted 

 support by staging exhibits. Let us re- 

 member that wi) are all vitally inter- 

 ested in the course of the Chicago mar- 

 ket and should at all times guard the 

 advantages that we liave and be alert 

 to create new ones if possible. 



FRISCO'S CO-OPEBATIVE MARKET. 



Promptly at 6:4.'5 on a San Francisco 

 morning, September 1, the huge doors 

 in what previous to that time liad been 

 the St. George garage, at the corner 

 of Bush and St. Anne streets, swung 

 rapidly open and, in the presence of the 

 board of directors, the San Francisco 

 Cooperative Flower Market opened with 

 a rush. Amid the cheers of the crowd 

 awaiting the opening, the first wagon, 

 loaded with flowers, drove into the mar- 

 ket. Others followed. Buyers Hocked 

 in amazingly. Business picked up in- 

 stantaneously. The culmination of 

 weeks of study, argument and hard 

 work on the part of the San Francis- 

 cans was a success. 



But this great initial rush was not 

 the work of a moment. Members of 

 the board of directors had spent much 

 time getting the place in readiness and 

 this was no small task, considering the 

 labor troubles encountered. Then, too, 

 the i)roject had been advertised strenu- 

 ously, even before the full ]>ag(' an- 

 nouncement in The Keview for Septem- 

 ber 1 stated that "San Francisco is 

 to have a great flower market. It has 

 been arranged through the efforts ol 

 practically all the retail florists and 

 growers of San Francisco.'' 



The reason for the market is clearlN- 

 expressed in the words of a well known 

 member of the profession, who said, 

 "Something of the sort is needed to 

 reduce the competition of the street 

 flower peddlers. These ])eddlers cause 

 prices to be shot to pieces. If we run a 

 market in the spirit of cooperation with 

 the Japanese, not against them, we prol)- 

 ably can do something to regulate 



prices. ' ' July 27 articles of incorpora- 

 tion were filed for the concern. The 

 j)apers of incorporation stated that 

 it is organized "to store, sell and dis- 

 tribute flowers, plants, bulbs, florists' 

 accessories, goods, wares and merchan- 

 dise." The cai>italization of the cor- 

 poration is $2.'),000. The florists on the 

 incorporators' committee named in the 

 papers are P. V. Matraia, Charles W. 

 Brown and Joseph P. Haywood. 



The building itself, formerly a garage, 

 needed little remodeling. It is ilSxlo;') 

 feet and has driveways going into it 

 from two streets. A great advantage 

 is that automobilt^s and wagons can 

 drive right into the building, a con- 

 \enience that facilitates loading and 

 unloading and does away with the park- 

 ing problem. 



.'\t a meeting held not long ago the 

 following officers and directors were 

 elected: President, P. V. Matraia, of 

 the Art Floral (^o. ; secretary, ('. W. 

 Brown, of Brown & Kennedy; treasurer, 

 ■Fames T. Hayward, nurseryman, of Bur- 

 lingame; assistant attorney, K. ('an- 

 non, nurseryman, and directors, H. I'latli, 

 of the Ferneries; B. M. .Joseph, of .Jo- 

 seph's; Manuel Kolleri and David .\rata, 

 growers, and Frank Thatcher, of Peli 

 cano, Rossi & ('o. Miss Klizabeth G. 

 Walsh is the bookkeeper of tlie coni- 

 l)any. 



One of the accompanying illustrations 

 shows ])art of the interior of tlie mar- 

 ket, after the rush to buy on the ojjcn- 

 ing day, when the "hot dog" man sold 

 his wares. The other presents, outside 

 the new market, the officers and direc- 

 tors. Reading from left to right, they 

 are .loseph Hayward, B. Joseph, 1*. V. 

 Matraia, Kenslev Cannon, Charles 

 Brown, H. Platli,' David Arata, Frank 

 Thatcher and Manuel Rolleri. The "mas 

 cot," with the cloak over his ami, is 

 B. .Joseph, Jr. 



show, which opened September l'> in the 

 ballroom of the Narragansett hotel, 

 Providence, R. I. There were forty- 

 three classes ;illotted to dahlias alone, 

 and there was a grand exhibit of these. 

 All were well arranged and the flowers 

 were of su])ert) quality. In the class for 

 100 named varieties, embracing all 

 ty]>es, W. D. Hathaway won a keen con- 

 test with a splentlid collection, all in 

 ]>erfect condition and of mammoth size; 

 second, Kdgar W. Darling; third, Alfred 

 K. Doty, New Haven, Conn. 



Among other large exhibitors of dah- 

 lias were the Saunders Gardens, North 

 Scituate, R. I., which also had many 

 fine seedlings and excellent gladioli. T. 

 H. Hughes, New Bedford, Ma.ss., was 

 strong on both gladioli and dahlias, and 

 also William Steel, Auburn, R. I., whose 

 secilling dahlias, gladioli, asters, snap- 

 dragons, roses and other seasonable 

 flowers were shown in quantity. There 

 was the usual large display of vege- 

 tables and fruits, also honey and bees. 

 John S. Doig, head gardener to Fred- 

 erick S. Peck, Barringlon, R. I., cap- 

 tured many of the i)remiums in the 

 vegetable and fruit classes with high- 

 grade i)roduce. The attendance was 

 large on both days of the exhibition. 

 W. N. Craig, Brookline, Mass., officiated 

 as judge. The exhibition committee 

 consisted of Arthur Sellen, .Vlexander 

 .Macrae Jtnd Cornelius Hartstra, of 

 Providence; Stuart I'ratt. of Long- 

 meadow, and Tom Brook, of (Jreystone. 

 K. K. Thomas makes an efficient secre- 

 t;iry. \v. X. c. 



CLEVELAND, O. 



DAHLIA SHOW AT PROVIDENCE. 



There were no less than 224 classes 

 in the schedule of the Rhode Island Hor- 

 ticultural Societv for the earlv fall 



The Market. 



Business last week was just a little 

 better than it had been for the two 

 weeks j)revious, although the increase 

 was so small that it would hardly be 

 noticed. Roses, in particular, seem to be 

 about the only line that is moving to any 

 (extent and these are cleaning up fairlv 

 well daily. The outdoor stock at present 

 is mediocre and, therefore, is not moving 



