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The Florists' Review 



JUMB 8, 1916. 



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Leg^ IDecision 



FLOBISTS ENJOIN CEMETERY. 



Declaring that the Wyuka cemetery 

 and its trustees can undersell them, the 

 C. H. Frey Co., Prey & Frey, the Land- 

 scape Nurseries Co., Hiltner Bros, and 

 C. B. Keller, florists of Lincoln, Neb., 

 have secured a temporary restraining 

 order prohibiting the cemetery and its 

 trustees from selling flowers until after 

 the hearing June 28. 



The plaintiffs declare that the state 

 of Nebraska gave the cemetery ground 

 for the benefit of the people, but that 

 the trustees have devoted a portion of 

 the grounds to greenhouses and have 

 gone into the florists' business on a 

 large scale. It is asserted that because 

 of the profit from lots, and the large 

 number of people who daily visit the 

 cemetery, the city florists cannot fairly 

 compete with the cemetery. 



The cemetery's business is growing, 

 the plaintiffs declare, and they say they 

 are informed and believe that more 

 greenhouses and other equipment are 

 to be installed. The court will hear 

 the application for a permanent in- 

 junction, June 28. 



AN IMPORTANT PRECEDENT. 



The New Jersey Supreme court 

 handed down a decision the other day 

 supporting the right of a florist to can- 

 cel a contract to take advertising post 

 cards in monthly installments, when 

 the seller broke an agreement not to 

 sell the cards to anyone else in the 

 trade in the same town. 



Notwithstanding the defendant 's 

 breach of his contract to take more 

 cards, because similar ones had been 

 sold to a rival florist, in violation of 

 the agreement, the plaintiff shipped ad- 

 ditional installments, which the de- 

 fendant refused to receive. Thereupon 

 the plaintiff brought suit to recover 

 for the cards. The trial court refused 

 to sustain the defendant's defense, be- 

 cause the cards sold the two florists 

 were not identical in appearance, but 

 the higher court reversed the judgment, 

 holding that the seller of the cards 

 broke his agreement by selling similar 

 cards to a competing florist. The court 

 said: 



"The meaning of the agreement was 

 that the plaintiff should not supply 

 cards substantially similar in type and 

 make-up to anyone else within the pro- 

 hibited territory. The most cursory in- 

 spection makes it perfectly evident that 

 the similarity was so close as almost to 

 amount to identity." S. 



EQUAIJTY IN WATER RATES. 



Basing its decision on the legal prin- 

 ciple that a water company engaged 

 in supplying water to the public in a 

 town or city, or outlying districts, is 

 bound to afford all consumers who are 

 similarly situated the same service at 

 the same rates, tha Supreme court of 

 Alabama holds in the case of Brown vs. 

 Birmingham Waterworks Co., 67 South- 

 ern Reporter 613, that a consumer can- 

 not enforce a contract against a water 



company if he would thereby derive an 

 unfair advantage over other persons. 

 The court declares that equality of 

 rates is more important to the public 

 than low rates. 



Plaintiff and a few other consumers 



handling Primula obconica, we reprint 

 herewith notes as to remedies which 

 have been published when the question 

 has previously been under discussion: 



One reader writes: "As to a remedy 

 for poisoning by Primula obconica, 

 would say I have been poisoned several 

 times. I used Luy tie's Pinus ointment 

 as a local application and sulphur and 

 cream of tartar to purify the blood. I 

 used one-third cream of tartar and 

 two-thirds sulphur, mixed well. Dose, 

 one teaspoonful every morning in milk. 

 Also take good nourishment. I have 

 never known it to fail." 



Another says: "Tell the sufferer to 

 ^try good, thick, sweet cream, well and 



in Birmingham were given contracts 



calling for water service on a metered (frequently rubbed on as a lotion. This 



basis, whereas consumers generally in has with us proved a sovereign rem 



the same class were required to pay a 

 less favorable flat rate. The company 

 repudiated the contract and, on plaintiff 

 refusing to abide by the general rate, 

 discontinued service. Suit was brought 

 to enforce compliance with the meter 

 contract, but on the ground above 

 stated the Supreme court denied right 

 to relief. 



In short, this decision is authority 

 for saying that florists and nurserymen, 

 as well as consumers in general, are 

 entitled to receive water service with- 

 out unreasonable discrimination, and if 

 one of them holds a contract which is 

 more favorable than that given other 

 consumers of water similarly situated, 

 the courts will not enforce it. This 

 does not mean, of course, that rates 

 may not be graduated according to 

 average consumption, for the validity 

 of graduated rates is well recognized 

 by all the courts. S. 



edy." 



A Connecticut reader writes: "It 

 seems to me that the action of Primula 

 obconica poisoning is similar to that 

 of the poison ivy. The cure in both 

 cases, as far as my experience goes, is 

 a free application of tincture of blood- 

 root. Apply the tincture with a sponge 

 or clean cloth to the parts affected. 

 I have known of several cures by this 

 tincture where the poisoning has been 

 caused by either the ivy or the 

 primula." 



"A few applications- of peroxide of 

 hydrogen gave me relief," writes a 

 Pennsylvanian. 



An alcohol solution of sugar of lead 

 is recommended by the Department of 

 Agriculture as an antidote for rhus 

 poisoning. It will probably cure prim- 

 ula poisoning as well. An application 

 of the juice of Impatiens fulva is said 

 to cure rhus poisoning. 



PRIMULA POISONINO. 



Several subscribers having recently 

 written as to having been poisoned by 



Utica, N. T.— Williams the Florist, of 

 1102 Miller street, has opened a hand- 

 some store in the Hotel Martin building. 



ODCN LCTTEI^^^ KEADER6 



REGEL'S PRIVET RECOMMENDED. 



In The Review for May 25, on page 

 71, a subscriber asks for a hardier 

 privet than Ligustrum ovalifolium, a 

 variety that would be better suited to 

 the cold latitudes than the California 

 privet. I recommend liigustrum Re- 

 gelianum to the inquirer. This variety 

 is as hardy as L. Ibota and has a 

 brighter green foliage, with branches 

 that bear a resemblance to a fern frond. 

 I think it likely that L. Regelianum is 

 a sport of L. Ibota, as I once had a 

 batch of Ibota seedlings of which some 

 of the branches had the leaf arrange- 

 ment peculiar to L. Regelianum. 

 Regelianum is unusually compact and 

 bushy and therefore desirable in a 

 hedgA. 



There are two plants of L. Regeli- 

 anum at Eaton, O., nine feet in height 

 and of greater width. Recently the 

 plants were covered with a, great pro- 

 fusion of white buds. 



Amoor river privet, or Ligustrum 

 Amurense, is quite hardy in our loca- 

 tion, Preble county, Ohio. It has, how- 

 ever, a decidedly upright growth and 

 does not form so compact a hedge as 

 the California privet. My observations 



lead me to conclude that a plant of 

 L. ovalifolium becomes hardier as it 

 grows older. E. Y. Teas. 



PASTE FOR pED SPIDER. 



I read with interQst the article in 

 The Review for May 11 and 18 on how 

 to fight the red spider. I have had fif- 

 teen years' experience in making the 

 paste remedy and am pleased to give 

 the trade an account of my method. 

 First, I do not use cheap flour, but the 

 best, as it makes more paste and a 

 clearer and more effective remedy. Sec- 

 ondly, I do not boil the paste. At the 

 start I add enough cool water to the 

 flour to make a thick mixture and then 

 stir it until it is even and free from 

 lumps. Then I thin it to the con- 

 sistency of cream and pour in boiling 

 water, stirring the mixture lively so 

 that it will not cook in lumps. The 

 water must be boiling, or the paste will 

 not cook thoroughly. I can have a pail 

 of the finest paste I ever saw five min- 

 utes after the boiling water has been 

 added. There is no need of making 

 the paste over a hot fire, a method that 

 frequently results in scorched paste. 



John I. Whiting. 



