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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



JuNB 20. 1006. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



Santa Kosa, Cal. — At the recent G. 

 A. K. encampment they had a Burbank 

 day and Fred Grohe presented every one 

 in attendance with a Shasta daisy, a Bur- 

 bank creation. 



NURSERY PRACTICES. 



At this season of the year all kinds 

 of stock growing in nursery rows should 

 be carefully watched and kept free of 

 weeds and the soil around it well 

 worked. There is so much natural mois- 

 ture everywhere at this time that grow- 

 ers who usually irrigate more or less 

 have -not yet had to do so, and if at- 

 tention is paid to cultivation on most 

 kinds of stock it will not be necessary 

 for another month at least. But the 

 season that has been so favorable for 

 the growth of the tree has been equally 

 so to our obnoxious weeds and nursery- 

 men have had more than their usual 

 allowance of them. 



Many growers do not irrigate their 

 hardy shrubs or trees and for them it 

 will be an extra good summer. Orna- 

 mental stock of all kinds is especially 

 thrifty at the present time and can 

 easily be kept so if the ground is suffi- 

 ciently worked on top and not allowed 

 to bake. 



Such stock as will be large enough to 

 be salable the coming season can be 

 trimmed up to one stem now and taller 

 and more desirable trees will result. 

 Nurserymen often neglect this impor- 

 tant detail until late in the season, 

 when the trees have finished growing 

 and the cuts do not heal as well. A 

 poor looking tree is the consequence. 

 This applies especially to deciduous 

 trees of all sizes. Now is the time to 

 start them right. 



Although it may seem late, I consider 

 this the best time to plant young pot- 

 grown hardy stock of any kind in the 

 field, if the soil where they are to be 

 planted has been kept well worked. 

 With the abundance of moisture, and 

 possibly one watering in a few weeks, 

 the young stock will attain by the end 

 of the season twice the growth it other- 

 wise would if kept in pots, with about 

 one-twentieth of the trouble, for if 

 there is anything in the nursery on 

 which the grower squanders his money 

 it is taking care of hardy stock in pots 

 from one season to another. G. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market 



Business continues to be about the 

 scarcest article we handle and is no im- 

 provement on that of the past couple of 

 weeks. We are having a few warm 

 days, and every one who has any money 

 to spend has left the town. Flowers are 

 not plentiful; that is, indoor stock, but 

 there is an abundance of hardy out- 

 door stuff. Roses and carnations are 

 being held by the growers at fair prices 

 unless they are of very poor quality, 

 and of fancy stock there is little to be 

 seen anywhere. Gladioli are arriving in 

 large quantities and are being used ex- 

 tensively for decorations. Sweet peas 

 are still in their prime, although some 

 of the growers are beginning to offer 

 short-stemmed flowers, but there is so 

 much natural moisture in the ground 

 this season that the sweet pea crop 



50,000 FINE 



CALLA BULBS READY 



The above bulbs are free from disease and are true to measurement* 



1^ inches diameter $4.00 per 100; $36.00 per 1000 



8 inches diameter 6.00 ** 46 00 ** 



8^ inches diameter. . . 6.00 ** 66.00 ** 



8 inches diameter 7.60 ** 70.00 ** 



GET YOUR ORDER IN EARLY. 

 Freight prepaid at the above prices. 250 at tOOO rate. CASH. 



A. MITTING, h^j.^hSStIt.. Santa Cruz, Cal. 



Mention The Reylew when yon write. 



lasted much longer than usual and good 

 flowers on long stems have been in 

 abundance. There are plenty of longi- 

 florums and they cost the stores from 

 $1.50 to $2.50 per dozen stems. Valley 

 is very scarce and in some demand. 

 Maidenhair and all kinds of green stuff 

 is very plentiful with the exception of 

 smilax. 



Various Notes. 



James Niven has taken charge of 

 John Martin's place at Boss Station 

 and will immediately commence the 

 erection of several greenhouses. 



A visit to H. Plath's ferneries at 

 Ocean View is a trip well worth the 

 trouble. Over a dozen houses can be 

 seen at their best now and the stock of 

 ferns and palms carried at this place 

 reflects great credit on the management. 



W. G. McTear is here on a visit from 

 Seattle. He intends to locate in the 

 vicinity of San Francisco. 



The Society of Hortensia held the 

 usual meeting in Oakland on Saturday 

 evening last. Several interesting papers 

 were read. 



E. D. James is on a six weeks' visit 

 to the Lewis and Clarke Exposition at 

 Portland. 



E. Gill, of West Berkeley, has com- 

 menced rose budding. Over a quarter 

 of a million stocks will be budded with- 

 in the next month. 



Chas. Abraham, of the Western Nur- 

 series, reports a heavy spring business. 



G. 



THE JAPANESE GROWER. 



The subject of Japanese competition 

 is becoming a serious one to growers in 

 California, just how serious, those who 

 do not have it to face fail to under- 

 stand. The Coast has had its Chinese 

 question but the present one is far more 

 difficult. There is scarcely a trade or 

 business in which they have not secured 

 a foothold and the labor unions have 

 taken up the matter and, backed by 

 some of the newspapers, are demand- 

 ing a law to restrict Japanese immi- 

 gration. But they are making no im- 

 pression east of the mountains and to 

 those who do not know the condition it 

 seems preposterous to talk of excluding 

 the subjects of the little nation which 

 has whipped mighty Russia. 



The Japanese is acquisitive to a de- 

 cree. He lives to learn and then to 

 apply his knowledge. He picks out the 

 line of business he wishes to follow, 

 works for the bare necessities of life 

 until he has mastered the calling — 



FREESIAS 



Grand Duchess Oxalla, Bermuda Buttercnps, 

 Amaryllis Johnson! and Belladonna, etc., now 

 digrKlDK Can deliver in any quantities end of 

 June and July. 



Rees & Compere " i^Ia- k 



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Calla Bulbs! 



for August delivery. 



Paper White Narcissus 



for fall delivery. Send for price list. 



Ii LUUCMANN) San rranoiiioo, Cal. 



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HRYSANTHEMUNS 



Fine, Strong Plants, $2.00 per 100. 



Cbadwick, Golden Ohadwick. Roblnion, Bon- 

 naSon, Morel. Intensity, Maud Dean. Shrimpton, 

 Monrovia. 



HflYT RDOCk 807 BlTer»lie Ave. 

 n V I I DICV9* BPOKANB, WASH. 



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which he does in a surprisingly short 

 space of time — and straightway finds 

 means to start in business in direct com- 

 petition with the man who taught him 

 how to do it. At first the Japanese con- 

 fined themselves to growing outdoor 

 stock, and they soon made that an un- 

 profitable field for an American, at 

 least in the vicinity of San Francisco. 

 Now they are taking to building green- 

 houses and the alarm has spread. 



It has been urged that the retail 

 florists would be wise if they were to 

 refuse to buy of the Japanese, but there 

 is in the individual case the answer that 

 to compete it is necessary to buy each 

 item of stock as cheaply as does the 

 retailer down the street, and collective 

 action could have only one result; it 

 would hasten the day when the Jap- 

 anese will open their own retail stores. 



Whenever the Japanese engages in a 

 business he very soon makes it unprofi- 

 table for others. His standard of liv- 

 ing is not so high as that of Americans 

 and he will be accumulating money on 

 a profit which is only a bare existence 

 to the man he is crowding out. I hear 

 of one Japanese firm which intends 

 building four big houses for roses. They 

 will employ a grower until they know 

 all he knows and then they will run the 

 place entirely with cheap Japanese 

 labor. I understand the gardeners held 



