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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Mat 11, 1905. 



We offer firat-eUaa 



stock of the 



finest ▼arieties. 



CARNATIONS 



VitrS<MiAtoH I A4*/CAn This variety which we are introducing 

 TOI ictjawu La^VSUII thlB season we are sure will prove to 

 be the very best varieRated sort. I>ure ivory white with delicate car- 

 mine pencllinRS. Mr. W. N. Craig;, an authority on everything pertain- 

 ing to horticulture, says that he knows that this variety will out-bloom 

 the favorite, Mrs. M. A. Patten, three to one. It has the Lawson habit 

 and stem, and is bound to give satisfaction. $12 per 100; tlOO per 1000. 

 Dofl I A«j^cnn ^ bright red sport of Lawson that is bound to be 

 ■**'*' a-tiTr^uii popular, and will be grown where Lawson is pop- 

 ular. 110.00 per 100: 175 per 1000. 



PArrlinjll Bright cardinal, or crimson-scarlet. Won first prize for 

 v>ai uiiiai best 100 scarlet, first prise for best 60 carnations any 

 color, first prise for best 60 scarlet seedlings, Chicago. $12.00 per 100: 

 1100 per 1000. 



FlAfirPC^ The queen of pink carnations; in a class by itself. Mag- 

 I lais^ATc; nlficent flowers, strictly fancy in every respect. 912.00 

 per lOO; 1100.00 per 1000. 



Whit A I Atvenn ^^ consider this variety, which we introduced 

 TTSiit.c i.avv9Vii ijgt season, the most profitable white carna- 

 tion ever sent out. We think it will outbloom any other white two to 

 one. It has given great satisfaction. When the flowers are left on the 

 plants until fuUy developed they are much larger than Mrs. Thos. W. 

 Lawson. We believe this will occupy among white carnations the 

 same place that Mrs. Thos. W. Lawson does among pink carnations. 

 Remember that we are headquarters for it. Splendid stock ready for 

 immediate delivery. 97.00 per 100; (60.00 per lOCO. 



Strong Rooted Cuttings 



FrpH Rlirki Recommended as an extra free-blooming white 

 I ■ «sv uui i^s variety and a claimant for popular favor. 912.00 per 

 100; 9100.00 per 1000. 



I aHv Rrkiinf if III ^ magnificent white of last season's introduc- 

 LQUy UUUIIUIUI tion. 96.00 per 100; 160.00 per 1000. 



DAhpifTI ^*'t^ crimson. Grand stiff stem. Calyx never bursts. 

 aruii^iiii p.,.gg up^ abundant bloomer, developing very quickly. 

 We consider this the best all-round crimson carnation. 96.00 per 100; 

 960.00 per 1000. 



Mre M A P^fton ^t>iB grand variegated carnation has 

 ITII9* ITI. /». rattCll giyen splendid satisfaction. 96.00 per 

 100; 960 00 per 1000. 



FnrhAnfrckCfi Freest blooming, bringing highest market prices. 

 i-iiuiiaiiLi C33 jn great demand. 94.00 per 100; 980.00 per 1000. 



Mrs. Thos. W. Lawson 93.00 per loo; 920.00 per 1000. 



Prnciw^pif 1/ A magnificent fancy carnation. $3.00 per 100; $20.00 

 r I U9|fci ity per y^jo. a 



We are now prepared to book orders for 1906 for the Comlnff 

 Boaxltt Virtfirv "^^^ '" ^ '^^^^ bread and butter variety. An 

 Carnation ' ivt.wi y early, free and abundant bloomer, with good 

 stem; a magnificent keeper and shipper: flowers of the largest size, 

 commanding the very highest piice. This is going to be a money- 

 maker. Orders will be filled in rotation, as received. Delivery begin- 

 ning December next. 91^00 per 100; 9100.00 per 1000. 



F. R. PIERSON CO., Tarrytown-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



HeDtloD The KpTtew when you write. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



Santa Cruz, Cal. — W. E. King is 

 building a commodious store adjoining 

 his greenhouses, with twenty-four feet of 

 show window, and convenient work room, 

 etc. It will greatly increase his facili- 

 ties for handling his growing business. 



SEATTLE, WASH. 



Notes of Easter Demand. 



A talk with some of the retailers 

 brought out some interesting facts about 

 the Easter trade. Outside of lilies other 

 plants vyere rather slow sale. Spiraeas 

 went begging. The flower is so much 

 like our native varieties, which can be 

 found growing on any vacant lot, that 

 the public passed them up. Hydrangeas 

 sold fairly well and azaleas were about 

 cleaned up. Lilies sold generally at 25 

 cents per bud and bloom, but some could 

 be bought at 15 cents. One of the large 

 department stores bought in a quantity 

 at 10 cents and sold for 15 cents per 

 bloom. The H. Harrington Co. had an 

 exceptionally fine lot of lilies, by far 

 the best seen here, but as every store 

 had all they could handle a good many 

 were left. Some outdoor flowers, not 

 usually seen in the east, played a promi- 

 nent part in all the church decorations, 

 as well as in the store windows, the 

 native dogwood being used extensively. 

 Branches of this covered with their 

 large, star-shaped blossoms are very 

 effective. The Scotch broom was just 

 opening and was also used to some ex- 

 tent. This shrub was introduced here 

 in the time of the Hudson Bay Fur Co., 

 many years ago. It thrives well and 

 blossoms freely. Another old-fashioned 

 flower was the laburnum, with its hang- 

 ing jianicles of yellow flowers. 



Club Doings. 

 It was definitely decided at the last 

 regular meeting of the Seattle Florists' 

 Association to hold a chrysanthemum 

 show in November. The preliminary 

 schedule has been arranged by a com- 

 mittee and after being passed on by 



the club will be put in the hands of the 

 printer. The show is to be open to all 

 growers in the United States and 

 Canada, so that our neighbors at Vic- 

 toria and Vancouver may come over 

 and swell^the entry list and take back 

 some of our easy money. A guarantee 

 fund has been established, the Wood- 

 land Park Floral Co. heading the list 

 with $100. The premium list will be 

 a very liberal one and will be issued 

 in ample time. 



Various Notes. 



The Ledges Co., Inc., is the name of a 

 new firm that has leased the L. T. Haas 

 place of 50,000 feet of glass at Bellevue, 

 Wash. This is just across Lake Wash- 

 ington from Seattle and is reached by 

 steamboat in about an hour. They will 

 grow about 20,000 carnation plants, also 

 mums, and their cut will be wholesaled 

 in Seattle. 



The first steamboats to leave for 

 Nome, Alaska, will carry the usual large 

 consignment of cucumbers and tomatoes, 

 which are grown here in large quanti- 

 ties, under glass, especially for this 

 trade. The price for tomatoes is 25 

 cents per pound, wholesale. 



C. W. Scott, of Chicago, is with us. 



A. B. 



MENACE OF CHEAP LABOR. 



A subject of vital interest to the grow- 

 ers of this coast is now being brought to 

 the attention of the nurserymen and 

 wholesale florists and several meetings 

 have been arranged by the principal 

 dealers to consider it. I refer to the 

 tremendous strides being made by the 

 .lapanese growers in all branches of the 

 business. As I mentioned some time ago, 

 they have become a power and having 

 to reckon with them has commenced to 

 worry the wholesalers not a little. 



It is impossible for an easterner to 

 realize the harmful and disastrous re- 

 sults of these little brown men, whose 

 aim seems only to be to get enough to 

 subsist on and sell their goods accord- 

 ingly. The San Francisco Chronicle has 

 been devoting several columns each day 

 for the past six months, calling the at- 

 tention of the working people to the 



danger of coolie labor and the damage 

 to many trades that has already resulted 

 by the supplanting of whites by the Jap- 

 anese. This stand which has been so 

 well taken and maintained by our larg- 

 est daily paper has gained the endorse- 

 ment of the labor unions on the coast. 

 The Japs already control all the shoe re- 

 pairing, a large percentage of the smaller 

 restaurants, hundreds of orchards and 

 they are now actively engaged in the 

 growing of cut flowers and greenhouse 

 plants. 



The real danger lies in the fact that 

 the Japanese never assimilate with the 

 white race; they never become citizens; 

 their only aim is to get together enough 

 money to enable them after a few years 

 to return to Japan and spend the rest 

 of their lives there. Thus it is easy to 

 see that they are undesirable in this or 

 any other line of business. In Japan 

 they exist for a few cents a day and 

 when they arrive in California they adopt 

 the same mode of living, immediately 

 supplant white labor and when it is tak- 

 en into consideration that there are in 

 California already about 75,000 of them 



FREESIA.... 

 Refracta 31ba 

 and Hybrids 



6,000,000 to diflr this aeason. 



Price and quality of stock cannot be beaten. 



Also Orand Dnolieaa Oxalia, all colors: 

 Bermada Buttercups, Trltonias, Zziaa, 

 Sparaxis. Clilldaiitlius Fragrans, Zaphy- 

 ranthes, Candida and Bosea Ornithog'a- 

 lum, Amaryllia Johnaonl and Belladonna. 

 Will begia digging in May and deliver In June 

 and July. 



REES & COMPERE, 



p. O. Addreaa, Iiongr Beach, Cal., R. F. D. I. 



Araocaria Excelsa 



From 2K-inch pots, extra strong plants, with 

 2 and 3 tiers, 6 to 8 inches high, at 9<6.00 per 100. 



F. LUDEMANN, 



3041 Baker St., SAN FIIANCISCO,CtL. 



Mentlua Tbe Bevlew when you write. 



