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The Florists^ Review 



JcM 15. 1022 



Salem, Ore. — The bankruptcy case of 

 C. B. Clanccy is noted under the head- 

 ing of Business Embarrassments on an- 

 other page of this issue. 



Burlingame, Cal.— Peterson & Hay- 

 wood, in addition to their local retail 

 business, grow cut flowers and pot 

 plants for the wholesale trade. One of 

 their leaders is orchids, three large 

 greenhouses being devoted to these flow- 

 ers in many varieties. 



Albany, Ore. — The greenhouse on 

 South Buckeye street, which has been 

 owned and operated by Mrs. Josephine 

 Bitlcr for about fifteen years, has been 

 sold to W. D. Bruner, who recently 

 came to this city with his family from 

 North Manchester. The consideration 

 was $16,000. 



SANTA CRUZ FLOWER FAIR. 



The second annual flower fair under 

 the auspices of the San Lorenzo Im- 

 provement Association, Santa Cruz, 

 Cal., was held June 1 to 3. Owing to 

 unforeseen circumstances, the fair had 

 been delayed three weeks; consequent- 

 ly, roses were past their best. Robert 

 Barson, of the Riverside hotel, and 

 A. J. Cook secured all honors. Sweet 

 peas were well shown by many exhibi- 

 tors. 



Six tables of wild flowers, all cor- 

 rectly named, were shown by as many 

 schools; these were an object of inter- 

 est to all visitors. One of the decora- 

 tions was a tub of Azalea occidentalis 

 cut in G-foot lengths, an object of great 

 beauty, which lasted three days. This 

 flower is considered too fugitive for flo- 

 rists ' use. 



Some well grown pots of Statice Su- 

 worowii were shown by George Kirby, 

 of Hotel Casa del Ray. A fine speci- 

 men of Strelitzia Reginae was grown by 

 Mr. Wilkinson, of City Hall Garden. 

 The best vase of gladioli, Prince of 

 "Wales, was shown by Mrs. Alma V. 

 Rovnianek. 



Trade exhibits were made by Robert 

 0. Lincoln, Los Robles Gardens; W. L. 

 Gordon, Mrs. Hattie A. Harrison, E. D. 

 Rogers and Mr. Barnhill. 



Laura E. Welker, Sec'y. 



PROTECTION WANTED. 



We have a first-class and thoroughly 

 modern flower shop here at BIsbee, 

 Ariz., and handle cut flowers the year 

 around, which we purchase from L^js 

 Angeles wholesale florists. We take 

 the risk entailed in being located so 

 far from our market supply. We take 

 the bad days with the good days, just 

 as they happen to come in this business 

 in .a small locality. We have no fear of 

 legitimate competition, as we are capa- 

 ble of handling the better trade in all 

 kinds of floral work, although we have 

 the only flower shop in this district. We 

 .lust established this modern flower shop 

 last December, but we have been han- 

 dling cut flowers from Los Angeles and 

 from the same shipper there for over 

 three y(>ars. 



In tills town is a large company 

 store ot the Phelps Dodge Mercantile 



Co. This mining company also has a 

 store in Lowell and one in Warren, both 

 small towns, Lowell being two miles 

 from Bisbee, and Warren being two 

 miles from Lowell, with Bisbee, Lowell 

 and Warren comprising what is known 

 as the Warren district.^ In none of their 

 stores have these people a cut flower 

 department, but on our special days — 

 Thanksgiving day, Christmas, Easter, 

 Mothers' day and Memorial day — this 

 company sends to Los Angeles whole- 

 sale florists and ships in several hun- 

 dred dozen carnations, which they self 

 at cost or below cost. They only order 

 carnations each time, and they know 

 nothing about the flower business at all. 

 On these special florists' days, when 

 we have a chance to do a good business 

 and make a little money to offset the 

 slack business on other days, they cut 

 our thrOat in this manner for the sake 

 of drawing people to their store. It 

 not only causes us losses (while our 



brother florists all over the country are 

 taking a nice gain for the special occa- 

 sion), but it creates a lack of confi- 

 dence in us on the part of the flower- 

 buying public — our customers. After 

 this company sold out of carnations 

 May 13, people came to us and expected 

 us to sell them carnations at 25 cents 

 per dozen, too, when they cost us more 

 than that price in Los Angeles, not 

 counting the heavy express charges to 

 Bisbee. It is quite obvious that this 

 company lost money in selling these 

 carnations at 25 cents per dozen, but 

 they got some cheap advertising at the 

 expense of our business and the ruina- 

 tion of the cut flower business in gen- 

 eral. 



When the people called at our shop 

 and wanted to buy carnations for 25 

 cents per dozen and we told them that 

 we could not sell them for less than 75 

 cents per dozen, some of them actually 

 got angry at us and walked out of our 



STATICE, the Everlasting Flower 



We have the finest quality of Statice this year that 

 California has ever produced. It will ship anywhere. 



Carnations and all field and garden flowers are plenti- 

 ful and cheap. Our Shasta Daisies have never been 

 better. 



L. A. FLORAL CO. 



The House of Quality and Service 



236 East 4th-Street, LOS ANGELES, CAUF. 



Phone, Pico 518 



GLADIOLI, ROSES 



SPRING FLOWERS 



SELECTED FOR LONG DISTANCE SHIPPING 



ALSO THE BEST 



Callas, Carnations, Peas, 

 Orchids and Valley 



COMING TO THIS MARKET 

 Our packing methods insure good results and our prices are right 



on all classes of stock. 



S. MURATA & CO. 



380-386 S. Los Angeles St., LOS ANGELES, CAL. 



01d««t and Moat Expariaaced Skippers in California 



WE NEVER MISS 



