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yC. H. PERKINS INTERVIEWED.* - * ««IiOS.AngoIes Times J“C;H. Perkins of Newark,N.\., ig- vin Los Angeles, fie is a large florist^^member of the floral firm of Jackson : Perkins Co;, ot Newark, N. Y., which has under cultivation 30,0 acres of rose?; vice-president of Chase Brothers Coit of Rochester, N, Y., producing 500 acres of rose plants' annually, and head of the ^merchandise firm known as the 0. H. Perkins Co., of Newark;, which controls five of the large canning factories of New Yorkstate.Mr,'’Perkins conducts his business on both sides of the continent, having a large tract of rose land at Orange* just south of here* and visits Southern California yearly .to arrange the shipment of plants,, and to buy on a largescale for the eastern markets fruit,■ * '*walnuts, ho^ey, raisins and prunes.He stated yesterday' that mueETfime and. expense can be saved by 'eastern wholesale floriats.'by possessing a tract of ground in Southern California, where rose slips will make a growth in one year, in the open air, that itiakes7 - * Vthem t wo years to make the \ asfc,with -artifieal protection in the winter. His slips are propagated in Rochester and Newark, and then shipped to Or--ange; by express, Where they becomemarketable in one year, and are. re-.turned to eastern markets, 4 large!♦amount of the retail plant trade of the state of.New York is supplied with these,California-grown roses from the firms represented by Mr, Perkins. Speaking of the California fruits,■which come into competition with those of Europe,and Florida, Mr, Per-?kins said: ‘•With hard work and'. — » * »study of the situation on the part of the ranchers here, California can in time run any competition ih the world out' of the markets,! This portion of the state is capable of producing the finest fru.it in the world, and it is all the time coining into better favor with the people of the East. There was a time only a few years ago when the walnuts from Italy were considered far and away fcjhe finest nut on themarket, but this state has pushed them;« . •out so that last year I sold walnuts from this section at an advance of bnei -cent over the Italian.“With the exception of the; Malaga clusters, California raisins now bringthe highest prices in the market. I took the first carload ‘ of raisins east that was shipped from Fresno, $nd was warned that there was no use .putting them in competition with those of the Mediterranean, Npw they are standard.“The only fruit that seriously competes with ours here is the Dalianlemon. Southern California lemons_ ... , ~Aare considered superior to them in*every respect save one, and that is the keeping quality* which is a. serious item. Take a box of each variety, with I the same number of lemons in the box*4 ' . 1and each California lemon .will be• •equal to one and a halt of the other fruit in weight and acid quality. ButAthey decay easily, where the foreign fruit lasts well, being cured by a superior process,- hot understood here. During cold weather the twolruits bring equal prices,., but late in the winter the Italian fruit is sold at a higher figure, for the reason of its keeping quality. Our fruit is also; superior in that it is seedless, while the foreign is not.“Certain varieties of Florida oranges used to be the swell thing in the. eastern winter markets, but now the Cali*VJ* ----- *fprnift navel orange has taken the first place In public favor, and is steadily pushing* other fruit out; Florida has been so hard hit by cdd of late that it is no longer a strong competitor.
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Newark Arcadian Weekly Gazette
Newark, New York, US
Wed, Feb 19, 1902
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