■^Jii:,'S^mi}<!(f,^it^!^j^i'>;iiSifi''i«l!"i ':i '."T »,T* it»-.'i;."<'-"f »!' • ii'.-v^'-)-" 



i..i«; ■jf<«pjp^i^,»pj^mimjji^[i;\lii 



Mat 26, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



15 



URBANK'S EVER-BEARING CRIMSON WINTER RHUBARB 



^L^r IB TttS MOST BE^ZCIOVS VEOETABIiE THAT HAS EVSS BEEN IHTBODUCED. 



Plant! Set Out Now will Bear Next Winter and Spring. We are Headquarters for this wonderful Rhubarb. PLANTS 

 READY NOW— $10.00 to $1 5.00 per 100. Express paid. Orders booked for Seeds, autumn delivery. Send for circular and Catalogue 



:'.d%r'^ THEODOSIA B. SHEPHERD CO., VENTURA, CALIFORNIA. 



Mention Th» EeTlew wben yon write. 



Qraucaria Excelsa, 



^^^ Prom 2M-lnch pots, extra strong plants, 

 with 2 and 8 tier, 6 to 8 inches blgb. 



at 916 per 100. 



Qraocaria Imbricata, 



From 2-lncta pots, 4 to 6 Inches hiRfa, 

 910 per 100 and from 2^-inch pots 

 6 to 8 Inches high, 918.60 per 100. 



r. LUDEN3NN, 



3041 Baker Street, 



San Francisco, Cal. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



CARNATION 



ROOTED CUTTINGS 



ONLY FIRST-CLASS STOCK. 



White. 100 1000 



Queen Loui8e|1.20$10 00 

 Gov. Wolcott. 3.00 Z^.OO 

 White Cloud.. 1.00 9.00 



Scarlet. 

 America 1.00 9.00 



Pink. 100 1000 



Marquis $1.00 $9.00 



Mrs. J cost... 1.20 10.00 

 Variegated. 



Armazindy... 0.85 17.00 

 Prosperity . . . 1.40 2.50 



LOOMIS CARNATION GO. 



Lock Box 115. LOOMIS, CAL. 



Mention the Hevlew when yon write. 



m 



urbank's Shasta 

 Daisy Seed 



New crop, 

 20c per 100; 



$1.25 per 1000; $9.00 



per ounce; ^-ounce at ounce rate. 



LOOMIS FLORAL CO. 



LOOMIS, CAL. 



Mention The Review wben yon write. 



ment is being pushed rapidly, but so far 

 the landscaping has received the most at- 

 tention. George Atton has the contract 

 to furnish and plant 25,000 plants in 

 variety this month, mostly perennials to 

 be transplanted in the fall. 



S. H. Forshaw, of Pendleton, Ore., was 

 a visitor last week. H. J. M. 



LOS ANGELES, CAL. 



Flowers of every description are very 

 abundant at the present time, the yards 

 are overloaded and the street corners are 

 ciowded with petty dealers. People who 

 only grow flowers for a pastime and who 

 have in their yards niore flowers than 

 they know what to dq< with, place them 

 upon the market at whatever they will 

 bring, regardless of the market price, 

 and the result is that very good flowers 

 can be obtained for almost nothing. 



Field grown carnations are unusually 

 plentiful and are now selling as low as 

 50 cents per hundred, wholesale. Cen- 

 taureas and coreopsis are next in abun- 

 dance of the cheaper flowers, the former 

 bringing 75 cents and the latter 50 cents 

 per hundred. TJlrich Brunner and Cecil 



ffsparagus 

 ^■^"^li Plumosus 

 Nanus. 



Plants rrom Flats, $15 per 1000. 



Zxpresa paid. 



California Carnation Company 



LOOMIS, CAL. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



Violet Plants. 

 Princess of Wales, field-grown, well 

 rooted, delivered at $15.00 per 1000. 

 or $2.00 per 100. Cash with order, 

 Remember we prepay express charges. 



OCEAN PARK FLORAL CO. 



E. J. VAWTER, President. OCEAV PABX, Cal. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



Brunner roses find a ready market at 

 $2.50 per dozen and the supply scarce. 

 Maman Cochet roses are bringing 75 

 cents per dozen, with a plentiful supply 

 on the market. Brides and Maids are 

 now selling for $1 per dozen. Sprengeri 

 sprays are 50 cents per hundred and 

 plumosus from 35 to 50 cents per string. 

 Lilies of the valley are now quoted as 

 low as 35 cents per dozen and sweet peas 

 are only bringing $1.50 per thousand. 



Business has been quite brisk during 

 the month of May, due principally to 

 tht. influx of eastern visitors drawn 

 thither by the world's conference of 

 Methodist Episcopal churches, and also 

 the convention of the Brotherhood of Lo- 

 comotive Engineers, both of which last 

 the entire month. 



E'. J. Vawter, president of the Ocean 

 Park Floral Co., has been donating on an 

 average of 2,000 carnations per day to 

 the conference people for distribution 

 at the convention hall and has thrown 

 open to the public the carnation fields at 

 Ocean Park, which now present a sight 

 much appreciated by our eastern friends, 

 and the opportunity to visit these famous 

 fields has been taken advantage of by a 

 great many. 



The demand for floral decorations and 

 funeral work seems to be unusually 

 heavy this month, according to the re- 

 ports of local florists and the dealers in 

 the country towns are also quite active 

 for this time of the year. R. B. H. 



THE PROBLEM OF HELP. 



Conditions in California. 



In your issue of May 5 a writer un- 

 dertakes to explain the condition of the 

 labor market in California. I have 

 warned my fellow craftsmen before to 

 the effect that there are not "plenty of 

 good places waiting for first-class men 

 at first-class wages." 



The fact of a few growers not be- 

 ing able to get competent, reliable help 

 is a fault which they can lay at their 

 own doors. The majority of growers in 

 California expect to get a working fore- 

 man for $2 a day and he board and 

 lodge himself out of that $2. Not only 

 has he a certain amount of responsibility 

 fin his shoulders, but he has a day's 

 work to do himself, besides seeing that 

 those under him do a day's work. And 

 after the laborers and day men quit at 

 five or six o'clock he starts to look 

 around and see if everything is in ship- 

 shape order for the night and if his 

 stock is ready for shipment; if not he 

 has to be out at four o'clock next morn- 

 ing to make up for somebody's fault. 

 By this tim« it is probably eight or nine 

 o'clock and poor Mr. Foreman says to 

 himself, "Well I guess I'll quit; I think 

 I have done enough for today. I have 

 been at it steady since 6 o'clock this 

 morning all for $2." 



He keeps this up for a month or so 

 and then gets tired out, gets disgusted 

 with everything around him and throws 

 up the job. Another man starts in and 

 it is the same thing over again. And 

 my humble opinion is that such will con- 

 tinue to be the case until such time ar- 

 rives that the services of gardeners, fior- 

 ists and growers are appreciated and 

 they receive better compensation for 

 their labor than $2 a day, or $50 a month 

 and board themselves. 



Another mistake the employer very 

 often makes is that when he has a good 

 man and gets the place in running order, 

 then he gets a notion he can cut down 

 expenses for a few months, and Mr. 

 Cheapjohn comes along with a bundle 

 of references and gets a good man's 

 place at about half the wages. The em- 

 ployer thinks he has made a bargain 

 till, after a few weeks, he finds his place 

 and his stock run down and unsalable. 

 Then he cries out that he can't get good 

 help. 



The way to solve the problem in this 

 business is to hire good, reliable men, 

 pay good wages and treat your men as 

 men. By doing so, the youth leaving 

 school with a good education will be 

 induced to enter the field of floriculture. 



Employe. 



Calla, O. — Richard L. Templin and 

 his son, Wilbur W. Templin, will engage 

 in business for themselves at Detroit as 

 a result of the reorganization of the 

 L. Templin & Sons Co. 



New Castle, Ind. — It is announced 

 that Herbert Heller and Miss Mary 

 Smith will be married June 1 and will 

 make a wedding tour through the east. 

 The groom is a member of the firm of 

 Heller Bros., proprietors of the South 

 Park Floral Co. 



Bangor, Mich. — M. G. McKee, of the 

 Rose Lawn Greenhouses, died March 6. 

 Mrs. McKee and her young son have con- 

 ducted the place since, but do not feel 

 able to carry it on, and will sell the 

 greenhouses ar:u what remains of the 

 stock after the spring trade is over. 



