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The Florists^ Review 



Mat 20. 1920. 



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blame Mr. Hollenbach for wanting to 

 look on and to look back. Born near 

 Mainz, Germany, with two years of 

 training in a state agricultural college 

 and experience as a florist in Frankf ort- 

 on-the-Main, where he helped to lay out 

 a palm garden, he came to this country 

 in 1873. After working in Louisville, 

 Ky., Huntsville, Ala., and Cincinnati, he 

 came to Chicago, where for several 

 years he was employed in the seed trade. 

 In 1885 he started out for himself, with 

 $180 worth of seeds, shoe boxes to hold 

 his stock and a store, or store space, 

 only a few feet long and wide. The 

 first year was not successful, but the 

 following year an older seedsman failed 

 and Peter Hollenbach got some of his 

 customers. With that start, steady 

 plugging and quality and service of the 

 kind now evident brought the enterprise 

 to a level where Mr. Hollenbach feels 

 quite content to look on, though he can- 

 not help but continue actively interested 

 in the business. 



Seeds in Oversupply. 



When it comes to questions of the 

 market or of the prospects for the sum- 

 mer season, Mr. Hollenbach says, "Ask 

 Charlie; he knows more about that." 

 Charles Hollenbach, the son, believes 

 that, while the demand from their own 

 established clientele will continue steady 

 through the summer, the outlook for 

 seeds in general is not particularly 

 bright, though it is all quite uncertain 

 and one may hesitate to prophesy def- 

 initely. During the war American seed 

 growers were led to expect that when 

 peace came Europe would need large 

 quantities of American-grown seed to 

 nelp in its self -rehabilitation; conse- 

 quently, they exerted themselves in pro- 

 ducing for the expected demand. But 

 now Europe, and England in particular, 

 is selling seed in some lines rather than 

 buying it. Prices are thus being forced 

 down and the opportunities for dispos- 

 ing of the available supply are much 

 fewer than could be wished. However, 

 the demand for both flower and vege- 

 table seeds for use in home gardens is 

 growing steadily. 



DISCLAIMEB OF WARRANTY. 



Seedsman vs. Grower. 



Existence of a disclaimer of warranty 

 stood defendants in hand in the case 

 of Kibbe vs. Woodruff et al., 109 At- 

 lantic Reporter, 169, recently decided 

 by the Connecticut Supreme Court of 

 Errors. 



Defendants pold plaintiff quantities 

 of seeds, but, through mistake, sent a 

 bushel of peas instead of a bushel of 

 seed corn ordered by plaintiff. The 

 accepted order, which constituted the 



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