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The Florists' Review 



Mat 4, 1916. 



Seed Trade News 



AXEtilOAK SEED TBAOE A8800IATI0M. 



Preatdent. JTobn M. Lnpton, Uattltnck, L. I.; 

 MONttaij-Trctiarer, 0. B. Kend«l, deTciaod, O. 

 ^xlilrty-fonrth annnal c<HiT«ntloii, Chlcaso. JniM 

 SO to ^, 1916. 



There are rumors that the government 

 will discontinue its experiments in bulb 

 growing at Bellingham, Wash. 



The Hoxsie Nurseries, Hoxsie, E. I., 

 are making a success of narcissus bulbs 

 for the trade, specializing on Emperor and 

 Golden Spur. The work has been going 

 on for four years, following ten years* 

 experience in Virginia. TuBps also are 

 being grown in increasing quantity. The 

 Rhode Island Golden Spurs, it is claimed, 

 will force three weeks earlier than im- 

 ported stock. 



It usually is considered that the mail- 

 order seed season closes with April, but 

 the first week in May finds quite a little 

 still doing this year. The U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture says the season 

 is ten days late on the average this year 

 and planting operations correspondingly 

 behind. It appears that the mail-order 

 seed business in AprU compares more fa- 

 vorably with last year than was the case 

 with March, but that April has not done 

 much to make good the deficit of the first 

 part of the season. Counter trade still 

 is active, rather ahead of the average first 

 week in May. 



AN IMPORTANT DISTINCTION. 



A mere statement in a letter that 

 the writer holds certain goods at a 

 certain price must be interpreted as 

 an invitation to negotiate with him on 

 that basis, and not as an offer to sell, 

 which may be turned into a binding 

 contract by the person to whom the 

 letter is written by signifying his will- 

 ingness to buy at that price. So holds 

 the Supreme court of Nebraska in the 

 case of the Nebraska Seed Co. versus 

 Harsh (152 Northwestern Reporter 

 310). 



The company received a letter from 

 the defendant stating that he had about 

 1,800 bushels of millet seed, of which 

 he was mailing a sample. After stat- 

 ing that the seed was grown on sod, 

 had been recleaned and was good seed, 

 the letter closes: "I want $2.25 per 

 hundredweight for this seed, f. o. b. 

 Lowell." The company immediately 

 wired and wrote that the "offer" was 

 accepted. When the defendant refused 

 to make delivery, the company sued 

 him for breach of contract and won a 

 judgment, but, on the defendant's ap- 

 peal to the Supreme court, the judg- 

 ment was reversed, the higher court de- 

 claring: 



"In our opinion the letter of the de- 

 fendant cannot be fairly construed as 

 an offer to sell the seed. After describ- 

 ing the seed, the writer says, 'I want 

 $2.25 per hundredweight for this seed, 

 f. o. b. (Liowell.* He does not say, *I 

 offer to sell to you.* The language is 

 general, and such as may be used in an 

 advertisement, or in a circular ad- 

 dressed to those engaged in the seed 

 business, and is not an offer by which 

 he may be bound, if accepted, by any 

 or all of the persons addressed. The 

 letter, as a whole, shows that it was 

 not intended as a final proposition, but 

 as a request for bids. It did not fix a 

 time for delivery, and this seems to 

 have been regarded as one of the es- 



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