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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



April 17, 1902. 



Leo Niessen, wholesale 



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porioncos. and in what w.ny can we be 

 protected? W. S. B. 



Mass. 



[Such cases arc certainly very aggra- 

 vating. The business career of people 

 who tlo business in such a way as de- 

 seribcJ is bound to be short, as they can 

 never sell twice to the same buyer. The 

 remedy lies in reporting to us any deals 

 of the sort, for we will not carry advs. 

 of people sending out unsatisfactory 

 stock. We have already eliminated a 

 number of such, and witli the assistance 

 of our readers we can keep our columns 

 clear of thorn. By the way, the largest 

 part of the friction between those who 

 buy and sell through the mails seems to 

 be due to failure of the sellers to give 

 proper attention to their correspondence. 

 In the case mentioned by our correspond- 

 ent the order should have been acknowl- 

 edged by return mail, and when it was 

 foiuul that the order j-ould not be filled 

 exactly as desired the buyer should have 

 been promptly notified. \o shijiper has 

 an_y. right to suVistitute something else 

 without the consent of the buyer. A man 

 may be ordering Golden Bedder coleus 

 when he has other sorts in surplus him- 

 self. No man can build up a permanent 

 business unless he gives satisfaction to 

 the buyer. At the same time, buyers 

 ought not to expect too much in the way 

 of quality when a very low jirice is quot- 

 ed. Kemeniber that the lowest-priced 

 goods are not ahvav's the cheapest, though 

 they can sometimes be used to advan- 

 tage.— Ed.] 



BUYING PLANTS. 



I have thought many times that there 

 shmdd be some sort of protection for 

 florists who buy of unknown advertisers 

 in the trade papers. Here is an example 

 of the sort of thing buyers should be pro- 

 tected from: 



Wishing some rooted coleus cuttings 

 and seeing some advertised in the Re- 

 view by a florist (unknown to me), I 

 wrote him under'date of March fith. in- 

 quiring if he could fmiiish me with 1,01)0 

 each of Verschaffeltii :ind (iolden Bed- 

 der rooted cuttings. March ll'th 1 re- 

 ceived a letter from him reading as fol- 

 lows: "Your postal .at hand, and in reply 

 will say that 1 can furnish ycui with the 

 coleus cuttings in (|uestion. The price 

 per 1,000 is .$.5..50; i;,000, .$10.00. Hoping 

 to get an early reply from you, I re- 

 main, etc." 



By return mail 1 ordered the coleus 

 and requeste<l that they be sent C. O. 1)., 

 explaining that owing to previous mis- 

 fortunes in sending the money before re- 

 ceiving the goods 1 desired to pay on 

 delivery, i waited and waited for the 

 coleus. It w;is getting late, and I needed 

 them. 1 wrote twice to the party for 

 some recognition of my order, but no re- 

 sponse. After w-aiting two weeks I felt 

 that my order had been ignored, and 1 

 looked elsewhere for my coleus. 1 wrote 

 to another advertiser, asking if he could 

 fill my order. On March i'th a postal 

 re;iclied me from the party who had my 

 original order stating that he had sent 

 the coleus. I was not going to accept 

 them, my correspondence having been ig- 

 nored, and having placed my order with 

 another florist, but the early mail on the 

 isth brought me word from the second 

 florist that he could not supply me, so I 

 was obliged to accept the first one's co- 

 leus, as I needed them so much. 



Much to my <lispleasure, the express- 

 man would not allow me to open the box 

 to sec whether the cuttings were satis- 

 factory licfore I paid for them, so I had 

 to ]i,ay for theai first. On opening the 

 box I found a note stating that he had 

 only 600 Golden Bedder and had put in 

 400' mixed to make up the 1,000 of that 

 variety. Upon opening the ))ackages I 

 found that the cuttings were infested 

 with me.aly bugs. I think tiierc should 

 be something done to forbid the selling 

 of stock infested as these coleus were. 

 And in the bill he had chargcil me .$11.0(1 

 instead of $10.00 as quoted in his letter. 



I would like to know what some of my 

 brother florists think of this party's deal- 

 ings with me. Have thev had similar ex- 



CLIMBING CLOTHILDE SOUPERT. 



\\'r nnte :i rctcrenci' ill your Philadel- 

 phia notes in the issue of April 10th to 

 Rose Climbing Clothilde Soupert. This 

 rose originated with the P. J. Berck- 

 mans Co., Augusta. Ga., who oifered it 

 for several yi'ars, and we secured stock 

 from them. We offered it in our cata- 

 logue for 1901, giving it a color plate, 

 thus attracting attention to its good 

 qualities. AVe believe that we were the 

 first catalogue house to offer this variety. 

 It is a very rampant climber, and of the 

 greatest value to the general planter. 

 We have a very large stock of it. 



The Dikgee & Coxard Co. 



West Grove, Pa. 



KiXDLY stop my adv. in the Review 

 at once, as I cannot fill more orders than 

 I have already taken. — Frank A. Pier- 

 sox, Cromwell, Conn. 



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