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AooDST 6, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



43 



LEADING RETAIL FLORISTS 



Ibe retail florists, whose cards appear on this and the two following pages, are prepared to fill orders from other florists for local delivery oi the usual 



basis. If you wish to be represented under this heading, now is the time to place your order. 



Alexander McConnell 



571 Fifth Avenue, Windsor Arcade 



NEW YORK CITY 



Telegraph orders forwarded to any part of the United States, Canada, and all principal cities of Europe. Orders transferred or intrusted by 

 the trade to our selection for delivery on steamships or elsewhere receive special attention. « 

 Telephone Calls : 340 and 341 38th Street Cable Addresa : ALEXCONNICLL TVestern Union Code 



on second quality flowers. They are 

 at the present time building more houses 

 than are the white growers and not a few 

 of them are investing in large pieces of 

 land, with the intention of building 

 later. Several of our large growing 

 places have, within the last year, been 

 leased to Japanese firms and, if the signs 

 of the times are to be reckoned with, 

 it will only be a few years until they 

 will outnumber in the amount of glass 

 devoted to the business two to one. 



I mentioned that the quality of the 

 flowers produced was not up to the stand- 

 ard in most instances, but the Japanese 

 are wily enough to sell just a little be- 

 low the market price and, by making this 

 a rule, they have gotten quite a hold 

 on the cheaper class of stores and in 

 many places the proprietors buy from 

 them exclusively. 



Occasionally one sees a Jap who pro- 

 duces fancy stock, but this is a rare 

 condition and they invariably tend to 

 quantity rather than quality. 



With other kinds of stock, such as 

 mums, lilies and valley, the same con- 

 dition exists and, although they have 

 entered these fields heavily, the stock 

 produced has been, except in a few in- 

 stances, second quality only. 



I have covered practically all the arti- 

 cles in the cut flower line grown by the 

 Japanese, and from what I have noticed, 

 covering a period of several years of 

 careful watching, my summary at the 

 present time is that thus far the grow- 

 ers of fancy stock have not been hurt 

 by the Japanese invasion, but the grow- 

 ers who seek quantity rather than qual- 

 ity have suffered greatly and will con- 

 tinue to do so, from all appearances. 

 Whether the Japanese will suflSciently 

 gain in knowledge by experience to think 

 less of bulk and more of texture, so 

 that they will tread on the toes of the 

 specialists, remains to be seen, and since 

 there is no amalgamation possible be- 

 tween the races, such a condition would 

 be terrible to contemplate. 



That they have ambitions along that 

 line there is no doubt, from the fact 

 that they are erecting perfect green- 

 houses and making an effort to man 

 them with white help until they are 

 HuflSciently acquainted with the finer 

 points necessary to compete with their 

 white neighbors, who, as they cannot 

 help but see, are their masters thus far 

 in the game when the consideration is 

 quality. 



The Japanese are natural horticultur- 

 ists and, when they can broaden them- 

 selves enough to grasp a few more tech- 

 nicalities in the art of flower growing, 

 they will be formidable adversaries and 

 a foe to be reckoned with by the white 

 growers. G. 



Smith's Mum Manual sent by the Re- 

 view for 40 cents. 



Canada^s Florist 



96 Yonge St,, TORONTO 



WILLIAM J. SMYTH 



FLORIST ^**'' ^ichigran Ave. 



^^i^MMMMi^ andSlst St., Chicago 



We ship to all points in Illinois and Iowa 



PHONES : 



DouKlas 744, Douslas 523, DouBlas 740 



THE CLEVELAND CIT 

 FLOWER CO., 



CleTeland, Ohio, 



Will fill your orders for designs or Cut 



Flowers in Northern Ohio. 



iJliLiyingstoo Seed Co. 



FLORISTS 



COVER ALL OHIO POINTS 

 llA N. High St., COLUMBUS, OHIO 



FRED C WEBER 



4326-432S Olive Street 

 ST. LOUIS, MO. 



win carefully execute orders for St. Louis and 

 Other towns in Missouri and Illinois. 

 (EBtablished 1873.) 



E O. LOVELL F^^ 



.11 Jive prompt attention KT^^xt, r>«t.«.*« 

 aU orders for deUvery in INOrtn U3iK.OXZ 



wlU 

 to 



GALVESTON, TEX. 

 MRS. M. A. HANSEN 



Y. M. O. A. BUILDING, 



PORTLAND, OREGON 



CUBKE BBOSh 289 MorrisoB St 



S- B. STEWART 



U9 No. i6th St., OMAHA, NER 



Schenectady, N. Y. — Wm. C. Eger 

 expects to attend the S. A. F. conven- 

 tion. He says that trade at present is 

 quiet. Plant sales are almost stopped 

 and there is not much doing in funeral 

 work. The period of dry weather hurt 

 stock here somewhat, but lately there 

 have been some nice rains. 



EstabllBbed in 1867. 



FLOMUST^ 



{^7-{659 Buckingham Place 



L D Phone CVi\C A CJCX 



668 Lake View. ^-rilV.Aft.VJVi 



Send as year retail orders. We 

 have the best facilities in the city. 



WILLIAM L ROCK 



FLOWER CO. 



Kansas City, - Mo. 



will carefully execute orders 

 for Kansas City and any 

 town in Missouri or Kansas 



WILSON 



DKLIVKRS AMTWHKRK 

 BraaUya New Jersey New Vsrk Leiii Itlaad 



Trade orders well cared for from all parts of the 



country, and delivered at Theater. Hotel, 



Steamer or Residence. Address 



Fulton St. and 6reene Ave., BROOKLYN, N. Y. 



Telephones, Prospect 2840 and 4065 



Oooghtoo & Clark 



396 Boylston Street 



Boston, Mass. 



C. C. POUWORTB CO. 



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 Milwaukee* Wis. 



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