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HORTICULTURE 



June 17, 1911 



Seed Trade 



A Disclaimer Disclaimed. 



The recent decision of the House ol 

 Lords in England on the Seed War- 

 ranty issue will undoubtedly create 

 much uneasiness among the seed trade 

 of that country. The decision o£ the 

 House of Lords is, briefly stated, that 

 as the buyer could not determine 

 without growing the seed and seeing 

 the plants resulting, whether the seed 

 was true or not, he was compelled 

 to accept it, and that this fact over- 

 rode the disclaimer behind which the 

 growers sought to shelter themselves 

 from any consequences of mistake on 

 their own premises. 



We are at a loss to understand how 

 the highest tribunal in England could 

 have come to such a decision. The is- 

 sue seems to hinge upon the word 

 "compelled" and it seems surprising 

 that the House of Lords should real- 

 ly have found that the customer was 

 actually compelled to accept the seeds. 

 Really he was not compelled to buy 

 them, and in buying them at a price 

 which did not carry with it any guar- 

 antee, and did not compensate the 

 seller for any possible loss in conse- 

 quence of the seeds being untrue, we 

 can hardly see the fairness and equity 

 of such a decision. 



The suggestion made by the English 

 "Horticultural Advertiser" that seeds 

 of different kinds be packed in bags of 

 particular colors is open to much criti- 

 cism. Such a scheme would necessitate 

 that the bags be used only once, but 

 second-hand bags would undoubtedly 

 be used again, and for seeds other 

 than the kind they first contained, and 

 errors even more serious might result. 



We shall be interested to see what 

 legal offset from this decision the Eng- 

 lish trade may adopt, or how they 

 can legally defend themselves from 

 suits of unscrupulous customers, at 

 whose mercy the law laid down by the 

 House of Lords on the bill now places 

 them. 



Next week the American Seed Trade 

 Association meets at Marblehead, 

 Mass., and we presume they will take 

 up this monstrous English ruling and 

 consider it in relation to the status of 

 the seed trade in this country. We 

 think it unlikely that our legislators, 

 with the better judgment and greater 

 spirit of fairness which prevails 

 among them, will be disposed to re- 

 gard this House of Lords' action as 

 worthy of acceptance as a precedent in 

 this country. 



Notes. 



Rochelle, III.— The Rochelle Seed 

 Co., is erecting a brick addition, two 

 stories, 48x32, adjoining their present 

 building. 



Philadelphia, Pa. — The Moore Seed 

 Co. have leased the five-story build- 

 ing at 125 Market street for a term of 

 ten years and will probably move 

 about July first, after contemplated 

 improvements are made. 



Binghamton, N. Y. — Ezra Stanford, 

 a representative of the George B. Car- 

 ver Seed Co., of Buffalo, was slightly 

 injured by an automobile here on 

 June 3. In cranking his machine it 

 started and dragged him about ten 

 feet, finally going over him. 



At the annual meeting of the Iowa 

 Seed Dealers' Association, held at Des 

 Moines, on June 6, the following offi- 

 cers were elected for the ensuing year: 

 C. N. Page, president; Henry Field 

 of Shenandoah, vice-president; B. H. 

 Adams of Decorah, secretary; John P. 

 Hamilton of Cedar Rapids, treasurer. 

 H. A. Johns is slated to head the leg- 

 islative committee, and Henry Field 

 will act as chairman of the member- 

 ship committee. It was decided at the 

 closing banquet and executive session 

 that the next convention will be held 

 in Dps Moines. 



At the last meeting of the Board of 

 Directors of the Wholesale Seedmen's 

 League, immediately after roll call. W. 

 Atlee Burpee offered the following mo- 

 tion of respect and esteem, and moved 

 that the motion be placed on the Min- 

 utes of the Board, which motion was 

 unanimously adopted: 



"It is with deep regret that we record 

 the death on December 1.3th, 1910, of our 

 fiieiid .ind colleague, Robert Buist. 



"Mr. Bulst had been a member of the 

 Board every since the incorporatinn of the 

 Wholesale Seedsmen's League. He was 

 faithful in attendance upon the meetings 

 and we shall miss greatly his advice and 

 sounrl judgment so freely and honestly ex- 

 pressed, while individually each of us feel 

 the loss of a personal friend. 



"Robert Buist was au old school gentle- 

 man, a Seedsmau of thorough training and 

 a loyal friend, whose loss is mourned by 

 a wide circle of both personal and business 

 fr'ends." 



THE TRUE EUGENE VERDIER 

 PEONY. 



By E. J. Shaylor before American Teoiiy 

 Society. 



My investigation about Peony Eu- 

 gene Verdier leads to the conclusion 

 that there are three varieties sold 

 under that name. The true variety 

 is a "Salmon Pink" as the originator 

 described it. Medium height, extra 

 stiff stems, with the bloom at the top 

 flat, and the foliage clear up close to 

 the bloom. The outside is quite pink 

 with the inside pronounced salmon 

 color. 



The second variety sold for Eugene 

 Verdier is none other than Eiigeiiie 

 Verdier. Outside flesh pink, inside 

 light flesh color turning nearly to 

 white when open. Large loose flat 

 flower on long stems that bend over 

 with the weight of the bloom. 



The third variety sold as Eugene 

 Verdier is an old peony which has 

 been sold for ever so long in Holland 

 under the name of L'Indispensible. I 

 quote from a Holland grower now; — 

 "Some people call it Eugene Verdier, 

 which is wrong. L'Indispensible 

 ought to be the variety that has a 

 dark flesh pink color. It is' a round 

 flower — very double flower, which has 

 the peculiarity of never opening up 

 entirely, the guard petals holds the 

 entire flower after it is a little more 

 than half open. It stays in this con- 

 dition until it falls to pieces. That 

 it is the way it acts in our country.'' 

 Eugene Verdier, proper, is not known 

 in Holland as far as we can see. 



Another Hollander says that the 

 nomenclature committee of Holland 

 could not trace anywhere the peony 

 L'Indispensible, and since they found 

 a peony like it which had come from 

 Paillet Nursery in France they decided 

 to discard the name L'Indispensible 

 and call it Eugene Verdier. This is how 

 it comes to bear the name Eugene 

 Verdier. It has no claim whatever by 



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FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY 

 ASPARAGUS 



ASPARAGUS pinmosus nanus. 



True greenhouse-grown. 60c. 

 per 100 seeds, $1.20 for 250 

 seeds, $4.00 per 1000 seeds. 

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 grown, 50c. per 100 seeds, 75c. 

 for 250 seeds, $2.00 per 1000 

 seeds. 



Sprengeri, 25c. for 250 seeds, 

 7.5c. per 1000 seeds, $3.00 for 

 500O seeds. 



DRACAENA Australis. Broad 

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 15c. per 100 seeds. 

 Indivisa. Long slender leaves, 

 "4 lb. .$1.00, oz. 30c., pkt. 10c. 



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 Brazilian, 25c. per foot. 



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Per 100 1000 10,000 

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iana $0.50 $4.75 $45.00 



Kentia Belniore- 



ana (to arrive) .50 4.50 42..50 

 tocos Weddellianfll.OO 7.50 70.00 

 .\reca lute-scens. . .1.00 7.50 70.00 

 >In>a Ensete 1.00 7.50 



ARTHUR T. BODDINGTON 



SEEDSMAN 



342 W. 14th Street, N. Y. City 



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OAHUAS Every Day in the Year 



right to the name Eugene Verdier. 

 The name L'Indispensible cannot be 

 traced, and I am in search to find out 

 what its original and true name is. 

 One grower says it burns, another says 

 in a wet season the buds rot without 

 opening. Another says the petals 

 break and make many blooms come 

 one-sided. 



