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JUND 5, 1919. 



The Rorist*-^ Review 



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deliveries would be made on schedule 

 time. 



None of, the eggs was so delivered. 

 Part were delivered in seventy-two 

 hours and the others at later intervals 

 up to about ten days from date of ship- 

 ment. In the meantime the market 

 made a considerable decline and heavy 

 loss was incurred, whereas a profit 

 would have been gained had the goods 

 arrived on time. 



Two Companies Sued. 



Suit was brought against the Adams 

 Express Co. and the Southern Express 

 Co., claiming damages for breakage and 

 shortage and for loss due to shrinkage 

 in value due to delay. In May, 1918, 

 the express companies settled for the 

 breakage and shortage — an amount ap- 

 proximating $800 — and it was stipulat- 

 ed that on the claim for loss by delay 

 one of the cases would go to trial, the 

 others being settled according to the 

 result of the one. 



The case was first tried before Judge 

 Ferguson in the Sixth District Munici- 

 pal Court, in Brooklyn, who found for 

 the defendants. Appeal was taken to 

 the Appellate term and Judges Manning, 

 Clark and Kelby reversed the previous 

 decision and judgment was rendered for 

 the plaintiff for tne full amount claimed, 

 amounting in the three cases to $1,- 

 682.20, with $225.85 interest and $69.60 

 costs. 



It was shown by the evidence that the 

 shipments arrived at Jersey City, N. J., 

 on time, but that their delivery to the 

 consignee in New York was delayed by 

 congestion in the former city and lack 

 of adequate facilities. 



A GLIMPSE OF HOLLAND. 



It is the general view that there is no 

 other place in the world where one in- 

 teiested in the trade can see as much 

 and learn as much in a short time as in 

 Holland, which is the reason for re- 

 printing here extracts from an English- 

 man's notes in the Horticultural Adver- 

 tiser, descriptive of an April visit: 



"It was not till we reached Leiden 

 that flowers began to predominate over 

 less interesting crops, but between that 

 city and Haarlem the country either 

 side of the line was like a map painted 

 in patches of the most vivid colors im- 

 aginable. 



"Haarlem in spring is a veritable 

 city of flowers. The Haarlemer Meer, 

 within the memory of living men a big 

 lake, is a sea of flowers, and not only 

 is the landscape flowery, but almost 

 every shop in the city was a mass of 

 floral decoration; carters decorated 

 their horses, costers trundled gorgeous 

 heaps, and every second person carried 

 gay bunches. 



'After lunch at Noordwijk, a seaside 

 resort, we were taken to the top of a 

 small hill, from which the whole of the 

 flat country to Leiden, some eight miles, 

 lies stretched out like a map. Nearly the 

 whole surface is tulips and hyacinths; 

 gorgeous stretches of golden yellow 

 (Mon Tresor), vivid scarlet (Vermilion 

 Brilliant), soft pink and rich blue hya 

 cinths, make up a feast of color which 

 no visitor should miss, and this point 

 of view gives perhaps the best idea of 

 the extent of the bnlh-growing industry 

 to be gained in the country. 



"If Haarlem is a city of flowers, Bos- 

 koop is a city of shrubs, and as such, ab- 

 solutely unique on the face of the earth. 



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JOHN KUNTZ. 



1 OHN KUNTZ was born a florist and reared in the atmosphere of flowers. He 

 ^ is now the successful manager of the Crescent Street Floral Co., of Grand Bap- 

 ids, Mich., which was founded by his father forty-four years ago, and says that 

 he canni ., remember when he did not work at the trade. He is 35 years old and 

 lives today in the same house in which he was born. Mr. Kuntz "does his own 

 propagating, as he considers this the mainspring of the business, not a matter to 

 be trusted to other hands. The business of Mr. Kuntz is located in the finest resi- 

 dence district of Grand Kapids and is a thoroughly modern plant. The founder 

 of the business was tlie oldest llorist in Grand Rapids when he died, six years ago 

 at the age of 75 years. The tiTkt greenhouse operated by the elder Mr. Kuntz was 

 heated by means of brick flues, wood being used as fuel. 



Its situation is peculiar. Lying eight or 

 nine miles from the railway, it can only 

 be reached by road or water. Boskoop 

 consists chiefly of one extremely long 

 street; a ditch, almost a canal, runs on 

 either side. Each house stands on its 

 own little island, with a drawbridge to 

 the street, an<l behind stretch endless 

 vistas of nurseries divided by more 

 waterways, on which all traffic is done 

 in flat-bottomed boats. I did not see 

 a cart or horse on any of the nurseries 

 visited, and in fact there was no scope 

 for their use. The land is flat and no 

 part of it much more than about eight- 

 een inches above water level. The soil 

 is all of a peaty na'ure, but it is mar 

 velous the variety of shrubs and trees 

 which flourish in it. Azaleas, rhodo- 

 dendrons and other peat-loving shrubs 

 one would expect to be happy, but it 

 was a surprise to find collections of some 

 500 species and varieties of conifers, 

 trees and shrubs in perfect health, with 



not an average of one unsalable tree to 

 the acre. Of the culture one can onlv 

 speak in superlatives. There are said to 

 be 700 nurseries in Boskoop and thev 

 vary from an acre up to well over a 

 hundred, but one could walk miles 

 among them without seeing a neglected 

 tree. The clipped trees, of which there 

 seemed to be millions, are trimmed with 

 mathematical exactitude, everything 

 which needs a stake has it, transplant- 

 iBg appears to be an annual affair, and 

 though there are more trees to the acre 

 than in any British nursery, no two 

 touch, or are allowed to injure each 

 other. It would require a fortnight to 

 do Boskoop thoroughly and nearlv as 

 long to describe it, so that mv sketch 

 IS necessarily superficial." 



WANTED— NAME OF PLANT. 



We are sending you, under separate 

 cover, a branch of a plant that came 



