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The Florists^ Review 



JANDAUV 18, 1917. 



is'loition and 



Le5^ IDecision 



SCOPE OF COMPENSATION ACTS. 



Courts Defining Limitations. 



Vaughan's Seed Store, Chicago, re- 

 cently obtained a ruling by the Illinois 

 Supreme court to the effect that an Illi- 

 nois employer who has not expressly 

 elected to be bound by the provisions 

 of the Illinois Workmen's Compensation 

 Act is not liable under that act for in- 

 jury sustained by an employee in a non- 

 hazardous branch of the employer's 

 operations. (114 Northeastern Keporter, 

 163.) 



One Simonini had been employed on 

 one of the seed company's farms in 

 Cook county, doing ordinary farm work, 

 teaming, caring for horses, etc. Having 

 l)ecn injured by being kicked by a 

 horse in the course of his employment, 

 he brought proceedings against the com- 

 pany to recover an award under the 

 Compensation Act.. These proceedings 

 have been dismissed by the Supreme 

 court as being unauthorized by the law. 



Not ExtrarHazardous. 



Applying the provision of the Act, 

 the court finds that the case could be 

 brought within the provisions of the law 

 only on a theory that the employee waa 

 engaged in an extra-hazardous employ- 

 ment, since the company had not signi- 

 fied its election to be bound by the law. 

 The salient parts of the opinion read as 

 follows: 



"The injury sustained by the plain- 

 tiff in error was not one arising out of 

 or in the course of any employment de- 

 clared to be extra-hazardous. His em- 

 ployment was not different from that of 

 the ordinary farm laborer. * » • 

 Assuming, but not deciding or intimat- 

 ing, that maintaining and using the 

 greenhouse, storehouse, and elevator 

 was engaging in an extra-hazardous 

 business, we shall consider the latter 

 proposition only, whether the provisions 

 of the Workmen's Compensation Act 

 applied to all the business of the em- 

 ))loyer, without reference to its connec- 

 tion with the particular extrahazardous 

 business. 



Lets Greenhousemen Out? 



''The authority to elect given by tht> 

 ffrst section of the act extends to every 

 omployor in the state. Tliis section re- 

 fers to the person, and not to the busi- 

 ness, and tlie election by the employer 

 subjects him to the act together with 

 all his employees. The third section 

 refers primarily to the business, and not 

 to the person of the employer. Its pro- 

 visions expressly apply only to employ- 

 ers in the specified extra-hazardous oc- 

 cupations, and provide that in any ac- 

 tion to recover damages against such 

 an employer it shall not be a defense 

 that the employee assumed the risk or 

 that the injury was caused by the negli- 

 gence of a fellow servant or by the con- 

 tributory negligence of the employee. 

 These provisions cannot be extended to 

 apply to causes of action not having any 

 connection with the extra-hazardous oc- 

 cupations mentioned. * * » 



' ' The defendant in error was not an 

 employer of the plaintiff in error in any 

 of the extra-hazardous occupations men- 

 tioned in section 3, and plaintiff in error 

 was not exposed to any of the dangers 

 arising from such extra-hazardous occu- 

 pations. Whether or not the defendant 

 in error, as to any part of its business, 

 was subject to the provisions of the 

 Workmen's Compensation Act, it was 

 not subject to such provisions so far as 

 the plaintiff in error was concerned." 



THE NEW YORK SPRING SHOW. 



All details as to arrangements for the 

 spring flower show at New York, March 

 15 to 22, are reported complete by Seiro- 

 tary Young. The managing committee 

 of florists holds a weekly meeting, Mon- 

 days. Among the features will be rose 

 gardens and rock gardens like the excel- 

 lent ones of last year, a display by the 

 parks of New York and Brooklyn and 

 the Red Cross tea room. Space, both in 

 the competitive and trade sections, is 

 causing the management much concern 

 and it may yet be necessary to use the 

 third floor of the Palace, if it will be 

 available at the time of the show. 



Charles H. Totty, chairman of the 

 schedule committee, announces the scale 

 of points adopted for rose gardens, the 

 same to apply, as far as possible, on rock, 



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bulb and spring gardens: Forty points 

 to be considered for artistic design, gen- 

 eral effect and accessories; twenty 

 points for variety, twenty points for 

 cultural perfection, and twenty points 

 for practicability. The final schedule 

 is now in course of preparation and will 

 be distributed about March 1. About 

 sixty pages of ads have been sold in the 

 program. 



The following trade firms have re- 

 served space in the trade section and are 

 arranging to make attractive exhibits: 



Alphnno Humus Co., New York. 

 ISobblnk & Atkins, Rutherford, N. J. 

 A. T. Boddington Co., New York. 



A. N. Pierson, Inc., Cromwell, Conn. 

 AVm. V. Leary, New Rochelle, N. Y. 

 George L. Stillman, Westerly, R. 1. 

 F. R. Plerson, Tnrrytown, N. Y. 

 Arthur Cowee, Berlin, N. Y. 



.Tohn (J. Scheepers & Co., Now York. 

 Charles H. Totty, Madison, N. J. 

 J. M. Thorburn & Co., New York. 

 JStumpp & Walter Co., New York. 

 Nippon Gardens, Inc., New York. 

 The Davey Tree Expert Co., Kent, O. 

 Fulper Pottery Co., Flemington, N. J. 



B. Hammond Tracy, Wenhum, Mass. 

 Knight & Struck Co., New York. 

 Vaughan's Seed Store, New York. 

 Julius ICoehrs Co., Rutherford, N. J. 

 (Jeorge E. M. Stumpp, New York. 

 The Cloche Co., New York. 

 Reade Mfg. Co., Hoboken, N. J. 

 I>ord & Bumham Co., New York. 

 Spencer Heater Co., Scranton, Pa. 

 Schloss Bros., New York. 

 American Seed Tape Co., New York. 



King Construction Co., North Tonawanda, N. Y. 

 Benjamin Hammond, Beacon, N. Y. 

 Hitchings & Co., Elizabeth, N. J. 

 Maurice Fuld, New York. 

 Kirke Chemical Co., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

 Joseph A. Manda, West Orange, N. J. 

 N. Y. Stable Manure Co., Jersey City, N. J. 

 Bon Arbor Chemical Co., Paterson, N. J. 

 W. H. Lutton, Jersey City, N. J. 

 Kroeschell Bros. Co., Chicago, 111. 

 Richmond Cedar Works, Richmond, Va. 

 Weeber & Don, New York. 

 The Weathered Co., New York. 

 Max Schllng. New York. 

 The Box & Bag Mart, New York. 

 R. & J. Farquhar & Co., Boston. 

 The Plantlife Co., New York. 

 Space rentals to date amount to over 

 .$13,000, a decidedly creditable showing. 





Cromwell, Conn.— It is reported that 

 A. N. Pierson, Inc., has acquired the 

 new pink rose, Mrs. Charles G. Bell, 

 laised at Twin Oaks, Washington, by 

 George E. Anderson. 



Medford, Mass.— :Mrs. E. M. Gill, 

 wlio has been in business here for many 

 years, says slie is tired and will retire 

 from the profession at the close of this 

 season. 



Manchester, N. H. — J. W. (lark has 

 taken over tlie business of George T. 

 Davis, on Somerville street. Ho intends 

 to grow" a general line of spring plants, 

 do some market gardening and try mums 

 and bulbous stock in the fall. 



Burlington, Vt. — Gove the Florist, 

 with farm and greenhouses on Shel- 

 burne road and store and office at 184 

 Main street, says that at both ])laces 

 Mrs. E. A. Seidewitz has proved the 

 most profitable chrysanthemum ever 

 grown. There are photographs to prove 

 it, snapshots taken a week before Christ- 

 mas. Its merits are stated like this: 

 "Blooms from Thanksgiving to Janu- 

 ary, being at its best about Christmas; 

 a beautiful bright pink; large flower; 

 nice stem and foliage; should be planted 

 late and the latest bud taken." 



SaxonvUle, Mass. — Raymond W. Swett 

 says he has had a hard row to hoe, but 

 that he is willing to scrape hard to find 

 the wherewithal for five years' subscrij)- 

 tion to The Review. 



Mt. Hope, Mass.— F. P. Falk recently 

 has completed another large house at 

 his range at 35 Berry street. He has 

 an especially fine crop of ferns this 

 season and says trade never was better. 



New Bedford, Mass. — By one of those 

 mischances that make editorial hairs 

 gray, The Review recently made a Mr. 

 Rex proprietor of a new store on Union 

 street. This was all wrong; Harry Reck 

 is the man who opened the store. 



Westerly, R. I. — In a recent article 

 dealing principally with George L. Still- 

 man 's 1917 novelty, the Millionaire 

 dahlia, the Westerly Sun says: "The 

 growth of Mr. Stillman 's dahlia busi- 

 ness has been rapid. Today he has the 

 largest mail order business in Westerly. 

 His present mailing list is over 19,000. 

 This year he grew over 100,000 plants, 

 which will make about 300,000 bulbs for 

 planting in 1917. Mr. Stillman did a 

 i)ig cut flower business last summer from 

 his new grounds on the Watch Hill 

 road. " 



