August 19, 1905 



HORTl CULTURE 



AFTER ADJOURNMENT. 



From an interesting letter written 

 to us from Paris, by Mr. A. Leuthy, 

 we quote the following: 



After an unusually fine passage I 

 arrived in Belgium and at once started 

 to work looking up stock which I 

 must say is rather plentiful. 



Azaleas are looking fine and are seen 

 in large numbers, but there will be a 

 great many which are kept back late 

 and will not be well-budded. Some 

 sorts are rather short and others too 

 plenty, but have never seen so many 

 as this year. Kentias are in good de- 

 mand in Ghent in certain sizes, but 

 there is an over-production in other 

 sizes. Yesterday I walked through 463 

 greenhouses mostly filled with kentias 

 from very small plants in seed pots 

 up to plants worth $100 each. Cocos 

 are also very much seen around Ghent. 

 Very few latanias. Phoenix Canarien- 

 sis can be found in large blocks as 

 well as other sorts. Camellias are 

 coming again to the front and are seen 

 almost everywhere. The stock of 

 plants for fall delivery in Ghent looks 

 well, and they expect a good trade this 

 season. 



WHAT THEY SAY OF US. 



To Horticulture: — As we have taken 

 orders for about all our salable stock, 

 we shall have to stop our ad. for the 

 present, otherwise we certainly should 

 have kept it going. Our returns 

 through Horticulture are very satis- 

 factory, and we shall patronize same 

 on a bigger scale when we start again. 

 A'ery truly yours, 



POAT BROS. 



Ettrick, Va. 



A NEW DECORATIVE EFFECT 

 WITH LILIES. 



Our frontispiece shows the graceful 

 effect of the new Farquhar form of 

 Lilium Philippense in vase work. Flor- 

 ists will await with interest the gen- 

 eral introduction of this superb new 

 decorative lily, which we are assured 

 will bloom for Easter from bulbs 

 planted in December or .January. 



\V. 



PERSONALS. 



P. Craig of Philadelphia, and 



Miss May Falsteth are to be married 

 in October. 



Louisville will be represented at the 

 S A. F. convention by Jacob Schulz. 

 August R. Baumer. Anders Rasmussen 

 and C. H. Kunzman. 



Mrs. N. P. Brown of Westboro, Mass., 

 has secured as assistant in her green- 

 house, Mr. James S. Power, formerly 

 of Westboro. but more recently of 

 Laconia. N. H. 



Harvey Crosby, a graduate of the 

 horticultural course at the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College in tlio class 

 of 190.^, has just gone to Ruckville. 

 Conn., to take charge of the place of 

 Mr. A. N. Belding. 



The following Buffalo people are in 

 attendance at the S. A. F. convention 

 in Washington: Mr. and .Mrs. W. F. 

 Kasting. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dale, 

 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schoenhut, G. W. 

 McClure, Prof. Cowell, D. B. Long, 

 William Scott, Jno. Lindsey, U. Boett- 

 ger. William Mansfield. Thomas Mans- 

 field and Charles Henson. 



Bribing employees who act as buy- 

 ers for mercantile houses or who in the 

 capacity of salesmen or saleswomen 

 attend to customers in retail shops, 

 especially in department stores, is an 

 abuse which has grown in Germany 

 for some years and has caused many 

 complaints in business circles. It has 

 become so serious that the chambers 

 of commerce and other mercantile bod- 

 ies have considered it necessary to dis- 

 cuss measures for relief. 



The commercial traveler or repre- 

 sentative of the manufacturer who 

 wishes to sell to the retail dealers will, 

 in many cases, pay employees of the 

 latter commissions in consideration 

 for giving the goods of the bribing 

 house the preference, showing them to 

 the customers in the shop, and keep- 

 ing the goods of other firms out of 

 view. Some of the large retail firms 

 employ men or women to purchase 

 supplies; others, when ordering, con- 

 sult their sales people as to making 

 selections. 



This practice of bribing extends to 

 other branches of business. A case 

 has just been decided by the supreme 

 court of appeals at Cologne, where the 

 technical manager of a car-building 

 concern was discharged by the com- 

 pany which had employed him, be- 

 cause he accepted a commission from 

 a firm for which he procured orders. 

 The manager claimed that such gifts, 

 that is, percentages paid him in 

 money, were customary and worked no 

 injury to his employers, but the court 

 held that the action constituted a gross 

 breach of trust, and that the manager 

 was in duty bound to study the inter- 

 est of his employers and not to be influ- 

 eced by selfish consideratios. The 

 lower court decided against the man- 

 ager and the supreme court of appeals 

 affirmed the decision. 



The chamber of trade and commerce 

 for the province of Palatinate at Lud- 

 wigshafen has petitioned the Bavarian 

 Government to introduce a bill in the 

 legislature to suppress the bribing of 

 employees, which seriously injures 

 legitimate trade and hurts the good 

 repute of German manufacturers. The 

 chamber recommends that the party 

 giving or attempting to give a bribe 

 shall be punished, as well as the_ per- 

 son who accepts or asks it. Other 

 trade bodies have adopted similar res- 

 olutions. The chamber of commerce 

 of Leipzig has petitioned the Saxon 

 State government to have a law en- 

 acted making such bribery a criminal 

 offense. The chamber of commerce of 

 Berlin in its last annual report also 

 inveighs against this nefarious prac- 

 tice, which it says corrupts business 

 life, increases the prices of goods, and 

 gives unscrupulous competitors an un- 

 due advantage over honest merchants. 



Sunflowers are weeds, according to 

 the supreme court of Missouri, and a 

 Kansas City doctor has been fined 

 $1..50 because he was under the im- 

 pression that they were flowers, and 

 therefore failed to pull them up from 

 his own land. This is carrying the 

 Missouri idea of getting rid of every- 

 thing yellow a little too far. — Boston 

 Herald. 



NEWS NOTES 



The California Promotion committee 

 arinounies that the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture is establishing a sub- 

 station in the plant introduction gar- 

 den at cnico for investigations in 

 agriculture. 



Professor L, H. Bailey of Cornell 

 University is delivering a course of lec- 

 tures on" "Industrial Education and 

 Country Life" at the University of Cal- 

 ifornia's mid-summer school. 



The second meeting of the creditors 

 of Joseph Kift & Son was held on the 

 8th inst., when a compromise was 

 offered but did not meet with approval. 

 Further action is scheduled for the 

 22nd inst., but it is hoped that Mr. 

 Kift will be able to make an accepta- 

 ble proposition before that date. 



J. J. Comley of Newburyport, Mass., 

 has entered a claim against the local 

 gas company for alleged damage to 

 the flowers in his greenhouse, which 

 he claims were killed owing to a leak 

 in the gas main and has begun legal 

 proceedings against the company, the 

 ad damnum being placed at $20,000. 



The city of Springfield, Mass., is 

 suffering from a severe attack of the 

 elm leaf beetle, the worst defoliation 

 of the trees since the year 1S97 having 

 occurred this season. The city forest- 

 er attributes the return of the destest- 

 able pest to the fact that spraying has 

 not been so generally or thoroughly 

 done this year as in the past. 



The next Manila transport to leave 

 San Francisco this month will carry 

 a shipment of twelve varieties of 

 robust California roses in 6 and 8- 

 inch pots, a gift from army officers at 

 the San Francisco Presidio to be 

 transplanted for the adornment of the 

 post of the Department of Zamboango, 

 Philippine islands: also a shipment of 

 loou slips of eucalyptus trees for ex- 

 periment, in return for which is prom- 

 ised an equal number of the fragrant 

 blooming ylang-ylang tree for the Pre- 

 sidio in San Francisco. 



A meeting of the trustees in the 

 Peacock Company's affairs was held 

 in Philadelphia on the Sth inst.. when 

 an agreement satisfactoi'y to all con- 

 cerned w^as arrived at. Concessions 

 have been made in some cases, and ad- 

 vances promised in others, so that all 

 financial difficulties are now smoothed 

 over and put on a proper basis for the 

 future. The trustees will control 

 finances for a specified time. The 

 company has a fine property and ex- 

 cellent prospects. The temporary em- 

 barrassment was caused mainly 

 through growing too fast. 



OBITUARY. 



Alexander Steele, a retired flomst of 

 Winchester. Va.. died on August 8. 

 aged 90 years. He was a native of 

 Perthshire, Scotland. He leaves two 

 sons and three daughters. 



James Kirby of Manchester. N. H., 

 died on August 5. after an illness ex- 

 teniling over three years. Mr. Kirby's 

 long experience as a florist had made 

 him an expert in his profession. 



VACATIONISTS RETURNING. 



J. B. Weise and family of Buffalo, 

 have returned from their European trip. 



W. J. Palmer and family of Buffalo, 

 are back from Muskake Lake. 



