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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



JULT 27, 1905. 



NEPHROLEPIS PIERSONI 



ELEGSNTISSINA 



Grand stock, in all sizes. Very popular in New York and all the lars;e cities. 



UNPRECEDENTED SALE OE LARGE SPECIMENS 



A splendid investment to plant NOW for the Fall Trade. 



Prices from 75c each; $9.00 per doz.; $50.00 per 100, up to $2.00, 

 $3.00, $5.00 and $7.50 each. Satisfaction Guaranteed. 



F. R. PIERSON CO., TARRYTOWN, N. Y. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



All readers, on the Paoifie coaat es- 

 pecially, will be interested in the pic- 

 tures and description of the Lewis and 

 Clark exposition at Portland, which ap- 

 pear on other pages of this issue. 



PoKTLAND, Ore. — Tlierc liave been 

 very few trade visitors here thus far but 

 we expect that they will como in batta- 

 lions in August and September. Trade 

 has continued good. H. J. Millatt, with 

 Clarke Bros., is at San Francisco for 

 two weeks' rest. 



SEATTLE. WASH. 



Flower Show Plan. 



At tlic last meeting of the Seattle 

 Florists' Aesociation a proposition was 

 presented by some of our blooded mem- 

 bers to form a stock company to run 

 the flower sliow this fall. In detail 

 the proposition is as follows: One 

 hundred shares to be issued at $.1 i>er 

 share. On the first call members of 

 the club can buy to the limit of five 

 shares each. On second call, if all 

 the shares are not taken, members can 

 buy more and persons outside the so- 

 ciety can buy until the full 100 shares 

 are taken up. The stock company is 

 to pay all expenses of the show and to 

 receive fifty j)er cent of the profits. The 

 pioposition brought forth some fierce 

 discussion on Matered stock, etc., and 

 was finally laid over until the next, 

 meeting. W. 8. J>uncan was elected 

 an active meml)er and C W. Howard, 

 of the California Kose Co.. an honor- 

 ary menilx-r. 



Various Jottings. 



While the people are sweltering witli 

 the heat in the eastern states, with the 

 thermometer up in the nineties, the people 

 of Seattle are snuggling under the blan- 

 kets at night and calling for more cov- 

 ers. We wish we could ' send you a 

 sample of our summer weather. 



Business in the flower stores is away 

 above the summer average. Carnations 

 are still very good and Bonnell is send- 



ing in magnificent long-stemmed Brun- 

 nors and Jacqs. 



The city is crowded with visitors go- 

 ing and coming from the fair at Port- 

 laud, a sprinkling of florists among 

 them. 



John Ilolze, of the Queen City Flo- 

 ral Co., is visiting the fair at Portland. 



Mrs. Farringdon, of Victoria, B. C, 

 Avas in the city this week. She does 

 :i heavy shipping business with Seattle. 



A lady customer in one of the stores 

 asked : ' ' Have you any nice little um- 

 brella plants?" "Oh, yes, madam, we 

 have some good ones in 4-inch pots at 

 two bits each." ".lust the thing, I 

 want one for my cat to eat. You 

 know Ave live in a flat. ' ' 



A. B. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market 



The thermometer has averaged 52 de- 

 grees for the past Aveek and stock is 

 again of better color. Business is fair 

 for the season. Plenty of funeral orders 

 have the ett'ect of using np large quan- 

 tities of AA'hite stuff. Prices are about 

 the same as they have been for the past 

 tAvo weeks. Asters are commencing to 

 come in and from appearances there will 

 be a heavy crop later on. Golden rod is 

 in considerable demand for decorative 

 j)urpo8es and much of it is being shipped 

 in from the country districts hereabouts. 



Various Notes. 



Tliomas Lee. gardener at Hotel del 

 Monte. Monterey, will plant heavily of 

 loses for the coining season. 



William Clarke, of Clarke Bros., who 

 has charge of the Fruitvale branch of the 

 firm's business, has departed on a 

 month 'a trip to Portland. 



The Cox Seed Co. reports a heaAy list 

 of orders for imported bulbs to be deliv- 

 ered this fall. This firm has established 

 a large trade in this branoh with the 

 coast planters. 



Malcom Lainond, superintendent of 

 public parks for the city of Oakland, has 

 outlined a system of extensive improve- 

 ments to be effected this coming winter 

 and spring. 



The park commissioners of this city 

 havc denied tlie increase of wages asked 

 for by the gardeners employed in Golden 

 Gate park. * 



Podesta & Baldocehi are showing some 

 extra fine Beauties for midsummer floAv- 

 ers from the greenhouses of Ferrari 

 Bros. 



Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Lemmon, the well 

 known botanists, have departed on a sev- 

 eral months' tour of investigation 

 through the valleys of New Mexico and 

 Arizona. They Avill keep a sharp look- 

 out for anything ncAv in the line of cacti 

 or other desert ]>lants of which Professor 

 Lemmon has made a life study. 



Frank Huston, of Dieterich & Huston, 

 of Los Angeles, is in town on a visit. 



Frank Shibeley has closed up his Sut- 

 ter street store and removed his florists' 

 business to 1203 Polk street, near Sut- 

 ter. G. 



THF JAPANESE QUESTION. 



What the Agitation is About. 



Easternei-s, unless they have been resi- 

 dents for a considerable time in Cali- 

 fornia and Avithin recent years, can have 

 no definite ideas of the harm that is 

 iioAv being done to hort«culture and horti- 

 culturists on the Pacific coast by Jap- 

 anese gardeners. This Avas not so notice- 

 able until Avithin the last three or four 

 years, and in that time not less tiian 

 fifty commercial places have sprung up 

 as if by magic, containing all the way 

 from o,b00 to 100.000 feet of glass and 

 employing in various capacities all the 

 way from five to fifty men. This may 

 not at first strike the reader as anything" 

 to be alarmed at until it ig taken into 

 consideration that in Alameda county, 

 Avheiice come j.robably half the supplies 

 used by the San Francisco stores, not 

 less than fifty )ter cent of the output is^ 

 grown and marketed exclusively by Jap- 

 anese. When such a condition has been 

 brought about Avithin less than five years 

 it is high time that the matter be brought 

 to the attention of the trade in general. 

 In San Francisco there have been several 

 meetings of the growers and in a short 

 time plans will be announced in regard 

 to what is best to be done. 



