GARDENING IN WEST. 
Samuel B. Crombie Tells of Yellow Peril in the 
Gardening of California. 
At the regular semi-monthly meeting 
of the North Shore Horticultural society 
at Lee’s hall, Manchester, last Friday 
night, Samuel B. Crombie, a Manches- 
ter boy, who has spent the last four years 
as a horticulturist on one of the largest 
gardening farms near the city of Los 
Angeles, told of the work in California. 
He began with the private gardening 
on the large estates. “There, he said, 
the demand for bedded flowers is not so 
great as it is in the East, because flowers 
bloom abundantly during the entire year 
and grow with almost no care at all. 
Geraniums, heliatropes, fuchias, roses, 
plumbago and the bougain-villea bloom 
the year round. ‘The last two plants 
grow to a height of from 15 to 25 feet 
and have flowers of excellent color and 
delicious fragrance. 
Most of the great commercial gardens 
are located on the out-skirts of the large 
cities. Around Los Angeles the trans- 
portation facilities by road and rail are 
excellent. Many of the flowers grown 
in-doors in the East, are there grown 
out side in patches coveringacres. The 
out-door roses and carnations are es- 
pecially good in the spring. ‘The soil is 
exceptionally fertile, and a lack of humid- 
ity in the air, produces a weather which, 
while sunshiny, seldom becomes too hot 
to be comfortable. Los Angeles has just 
appropriated $23,000,000 for a new 
water supply from the mountains and 
this will greatly aid the flower growers in 
that vicinity. 
While there are not a few serious ob- 
stacles to be overcome in gardening in 
California, the gravest problem at 
present is that of the Japanese labor. 
The Japanese who have turned their 
attention to horticulture have become 
exceptionally skilled. In some _ cases 
they exceed the genius of the Americans 
and produce better flowers. It is a 
Japanese custom to hire out very cheaply 
on an American flower farm and work 
until he has mastered the craft; then to 
leave, take land for himself, and sell his 
flowers in the market at a price much 
below that of the American. ‘This prac- 
tice has already resulted in bitter feeling 
between the two races. The low wages 
for which they work, results in the em- 
ployment of thousands of Japanese work- 
ers over the heads of American horticul- 
turists. 
Market gardening and the nursery in- 
dustry employs thousands of Chinamen. 
In many ways they have proved them- 
selves much more skilled than the white 
man. 
A new line of Watertown thermome- 
ters at D. T. Beaton’s, Central street, 
Manchester. * 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE. 
Telephone 13 
Veuve Chaffard Olive Oil, 
Special Town Meeting. 
A special Town Meeting for Man- 
chester is called for Monday evening, 
June 7, at 7.30 o'clock tosee if the town 
willbuy the ‘‘ Old Corner Store’’ lot, 
so-called, with buildings thereon, and al- 
so to see if the town will enlarge Rose- 
dale cemetery by the purchase of a strip 
of land. It is understood that a new 
and very attractive proposition will be 
offered in connection with the purchase 
of the Old Corner Store property. Fol- 
lowing is the warrant: 
Art. 1. To choose a moderator. 
Art. 2. To see if the town will ac- 
quire by purchase or otherwise the par- 
cel of land with the buildings situated 
thereon, bounded by Central street, 
Church street, land of Orthodox Con- 
gregational society and the Town com- 
mon, and appropriate money therefor, 
or take any other action relating thereto. 
Art. 3. To see if the town will pur- 
chase as an addition to its cemetery on 
Rosedale avenue, the lot of land now 
owned by Oliver T. Roberts, situated 
on the southerly side of Rosedale avenue 
and bounded easterly by land of Jacob 
Haskell, southerly by land, now or form- 
erly, of C. L. Crafts and of Davis Baker, 
and westerly by land of the heirs of 
John Collins, and appropriate $350 
therefor. 
Lamson & Hubbard straw hats at 
Bell’s. * 
MANCHESTER-BY2THE2SEA 
Bullock Brothers, 
Swansdown Flour, 
——S. S. Pierce Co.’s Fancy Groceries 
8a" We are the North Shore agents of the Walker-Gordon Laboratory Co. 
Postoffice Block 
Fine Groceries 
Brigham Creamery Butter 
Frank H. Dennis 
Announces to his former patrons 
that he has started in business 
again and that he will call to 
take orders for and will deliver 
GROCERIES 
New Patronage Solicited 
1 Lincoln Street, :-: Manchester, Mass. 
Cc. L. Bedell 
classohoe Repairing 
Gentral St., :-: Manchester 
(Opposite Knight's Coal Wharf) 
@ Mr. Bedell is blind. He thanks 
the public for the generous patron- 
age afforded him last season, and 
solicits continued patronage the 
present season. 
A Full Line of Cigars and Tobaccos 
430-723 
H. BAKER 
Ladies’ and Gents’ Custom Tailor 
Suits Made to Order at Reasonable Prices. 
Cutting and Fitting Guaranteed. 
Cleaning, Dyeing, Pressing & Repairing 
Done at Reasonable Prices. 
Kimball Block, 
(opp. Postoffice) Manchester 
Breeze subscription $1.00. 
Heath’s 
Wholesale and Retail 
Dealers in 
Manchester Fish Market 
Fresh, Salt and Smoked Fish 
LOBSTERS, CLAMS and OYSTERS 
Ocean street, Manchester Cove, Manchester, Mass. 
JOHN HEATH, PROP. 
TELEPHONE CONNECTION 
ges” All orders promptly attended to, and filled at the Lowest Market Price 
JOHN I. ALLEN, 
PLUMBER 
Summer Street Extension, Opp. Electric Light Plant, Manchester 
EXPERT KNOWLEDGE OF GAS LIGHTING MACHINES. 
Work done at Fair Prices. 
Estimates given on all kinds Steam and Hot Water Heating. 
é] Do you think your plumbing will stand the 105-lb. pressure? Why 
not put in a PRESSURE REDUGER and eradicate the possibillty of 
a big plumbing bill and a BIG WATER BILL? 
