May IS, 1906 



HORTICULTURE 



625 



PHILADELPHIA NOTES. 



W. J. Baker has been having trouble 

 with the Adams Express Company and 

 went to court on Monday to have his 

 wrongs righted. We trust he may be 

 successful. It is pretty hard to get 

 justice from big corporations with 

 their unlimited funds for expensive 

 legal talent. 



A spasm of uneasiness was caused 

 by the editorial in HORTICULTURE 

 last week over the threatened increase 

 in express rates. All hands sincerely 

 hope that the fight is not to be fought 

 oved again. 



A crying grievance of the trade here 

 of late has been the abuse of credits. 

 Perhaps in no other line of business 

 is the system of credits so loose and 

 unscientific as in the flower trade of 

 this locality, and some reform is 

 urgently needed. A meeting of the 

 heads of a number of interested firms 

 was held on the 3rd inst. for the pur- 

 pose of forming a credit association. 

 After a free discussion it was decided 

 to leave the matter in the hands of a 

 committee to formulate a workable 

 system and report to a future meeting. 

 George C. Thompson the new manager 

 of the Michell Store entered on his 

 duties on the 7th inst. Mr. Thomp- 

 son is a native of Scotland and 

 graduated after five years from the 

 seed and nursery establishment of 

 Benjamin Reid & Co. of Aberdeen. 

 While still a young man, he has had 

 twenty years of first-class experience 

 and will undoubtedly fill his new 

 position with success. 



Director Potter of the Department of 

 Public Safety ordered the fakirs off 

 Market street on Friday last. They 

 had become so numerous on this 

 crowded thoroughfare as to be a seri- 

 ous obstruction to traffic. The order 

 does not affect the other streets but 

 it has had an appreciable bearing on 

 the present glutted condition of the 

 market. 



Dr. John W. Harshberger delivered 

 a lecture on "Phyto-geography of the 

 Rocky Mountains" to the members of 

 the Botanical Society of Pennsylvania 

 on the 5th inst. The other speakers 

 were Dr. A. F. Knout, "Hepaticas," 

 and Dr. H. E. Wetherill, "Panama 

 plant notes." 



Trollius laxus (the Globe Flower) 

 and myosotis are a conspicuous fea- 

 ture in made-up baskets and window 

 decorations at present. 



For outside covering of window 

 boxes nothing seems to take better 

 than cedar bark. S. S. Pennock ap- 

 pears to be the only one able to sup- 

 ply this important item. Try Sam. 



Rupert Kienle of 17th street has a 

 good idea. He carefully clips out and 

 pastes into a big scrapbook all the 

 good pictures of floral designs and 

 decorations appearing in the trade 

 papers. He has been doing it for a 

 long time and now has a collection 

 most useful to him and costing next to 

 nothing. This wrinkle is worth dol- 

 lars to all subscribers who may never 

 have thought of it. 



A SLIPPERY ACCOUNT. 

 In the case of D. T. McCarthy & 

 Sons against the H. S. Taylor Nursery 

 Company, of Rochester, Justice Lam- 

 bert shortly before the opening of 



court Monday, April 24 directed a ver- 

 dict for the defendant of no cause of 

 action on motion of the defendant's 

 attorney. 



This is one of the peculiar cases 

 arising under our present business in- 

 corporation law. Two Taylor brothers 

 had for years conducted a nursery at 

 or near Rochester under the name and 

 style of H. S. Taylor & Co. In 1893 

 they with one J. Frank Norris organ- 

 ized a corporation by name The H. S. 

 Taylor Nursery Company. It was un- 

 disputed that one of the Taylors came 

 to the plaintiffs and bought trees, stat- 

 ing that Norris was a member of the 

 concern, but signing the contract H. 

 S. Taylor & Co. The plaintiffs claimed 

 that they supposed that the name was 

 still H. S. Taylor & Co., with Norris 

 an addition to the company. Failing 

 to get their pay they looked up the 

 matter and found that Norris was not 

 a member of the firm, but was a mem- 

 ber of the corporation. They there- 

 fore sued the corporation, and it de- 

 fended on the ground that the sale 

 was made to the brothers Taylor as 

 a firm and not to the incorporated 

 company. The Taylor brothers owned 

 all of the interest in the company or 

 co-partnership and sixty per cent, of 

 the incorporation. Tne court upheld 

 the contention that the action had 

 been brought against the wrong con- 

 cern. 



It is hard for the layman to under- 

 stand the fine distinctions sometimes 

 taken advantage of to avoid liability. 

 Such cases, however, serve as a cau- 

 tion to dealers to be careful when 

 dealing with corporations not to take 

 the value of the letterhead as an in- 

 dication of the financial prosperity of 

 the concern. McCarthy & Sons had 

 the trees and now they have them not. 

 Taylors as company or corporation 

 have had the trees and the benefits 

 thereof, but the law decided that the 

 company only should pay for them. — 

 Lockport Daily Journal. 



BOSTON FLORIST LETTER CO. 



Manufacturers of FLORISTS' LETTERS 



This wooden box nicely stained and 

 varnished, 18x30x13, made in two sec- 

 tions, one for each size letter, given 

 away with first order of 500 letters 



Block Letters, i % or 2 inch size per 100, $2. 



Script Letters, 3. Fastener with each letter or 

 word. Used by leading florists everywhere and 

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Florists 



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Telegraphic orders forwarded to any 

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 Cable Address, ALEXCONNELL 



"Horticulture has proved itself posi- 

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 the country for the lines it repre- 

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