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The Florists^ Review 



FEBUUARt 24, 1910. 



brothers, wholesale grocerymen at Chi- 

 cago, for the present venture. 



There were 264 cases of valley pips 

 on the Oscar II when it reachetl New 

 York last week from Copenhagen. 



WANT TAX ON MAIL TRADE. 



A large number of petitions are being 

 received at Washington, by the vari-. 

 ous members of Congress, from indi- 

 viduals and associations all over the 

 f'ountry, urging the enactment of a law 

 placing a tax upon the business done 

 by mail ordfer houses. A number of 

 bills having this in view have been 

 introduced into the House of Kepre- 

 sentatives, but it is doubtful if any- 

 thing will be done towards such legis- 

 lation at this session. A tax of this 

 kind would only be assessed against 

 firms doing an interstate business. A 

 large number, of seedsmen, nurserymen 

 and florists would coine under; the law. 

 The proceeds from the proposed tax 

 measure are to be divided among the 

 various states in proportion to the 

 amount of the businessdone therein by 

 mail, such moneys to be applied to the 

 maintenance of good roads. 



C. L. L. 



AN INTERNATIONAL YARN. 



This is the story of a perspicacious 

 Hollander, some hard-headed Hamburg- 

 ers, a canny Scot, certain gentlemen who 

 said they were from Missouri, and the 

 British Foreign Office. The general out- 

 line is facts, but no certificate of verity 

 goes with the details, some of the trim- 

 mings possibly being the result of repe- 

 tition. 



To begin at the beginning, as the 

 story tellers say, there lives amid bright 

 bulb fields in Holland a busy little man 

 who never, misses a-^hance to turn an 

 honest dollar. Chance, mind you; he's 

 ready to take a chance. And the Euro- 

 pean war. affords long chances aplenty. 



Last autumn, so the story goes, this 

 astute Hdllander slipped up taJIamburg- 

 anil said' he could use a few million 

 A-alley pips if the price were right. 

 Well, it was; $7 is the figure mentioned. 

 But the Hollander must have six 

 months' credit. 



Now, the British government hasn't 

 objected to the movement of the small 

 quantities of pips of Danish or Dutch 

 origin, but it. has a strong dislike to 

 seeing anything German sailing the 

 seas. Also, a German can see as far 

 as anybody through the hole in a grind- 

 stone and the Hamburgers were wise to 

 the Hollander's game; moreover, they 

 knew what he was up against. So they 

 said, "We'll make it an object to you 

 to pay cash." Report has it the deal 

 was closed by the gentleman who culti- 

 vates the bright bulb fields laying down 

 $25,000 obtained from his home bank 

 and taking over behind the dikes the 

 nice little lot of five million first-class 

 pips. 



So far, so good. 



The British government has issued 

 permits for the unmolested movement 

 of German goods owned by neutrals 

 prior to a certain date. Our Holland 

 friend held one of these permits. It 

 said he might ship valley pips, a limited 

 number, 300,000 as the story goes. So 

 he shipped, and he shipped, and he 

 shipped. It is believed two millions of 

 the fiTe were afloat before the British 

 called a halt. 



-And there is where the canny Scot 



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