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continued in September, are in good 

 bloom. They make neat, bushy plants. 



Buddleia asiatica, the white winter- 

 flowering Chinese lilac, opened its first 

 racemes December 1 and, in a tempera- 

 ture of 50 degrees at night, will be in 

 fine condition for Christmas. The 

 graceful, drooping racemes of flowers 

 and their delightful odor make this 

 now well known buddleia a welcome 

 Christmas plant. Euphorbia jacquinise- 

 flora, of the same family as the more 

 brilliant poinsettia, is an old plant, 

 beautiful for cut sprays and fine in 

 pots or pans containing several plants 

 each. It is of a real Christmas hue, 

 ranking with the poinsettia in its rich 

 coloring. 



Some nice, bushy snapdragons in pots 



cial article to mention all the more de- 

 sirable sorts. Reference has been 

 made principally to the flowering and 

 berried plants, some of which are al- 

 ways associated with Christmas, and it 

 is desirable that others, now but little 

 known and appreciated, may soon be- 

 come standard commercial favorites. 



W. N. C. 



FLOWERS ARE FROZEN. 



Court Awards Damages. 



A case of interest to greenhouse men 

 was decided by the Kentucky Appellate 

 court at Frankfort, Ky., in A. J. 

 Humphreys vs. Central Kentucky Nat- 

 ural Gas Co., November 30. Mr. Hum- 

 phreys, who has a store and greenhouse 



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Poinsettias Carry the Christmas Colors. 



are occasionally seen. They are some- 

 thing of a novelty at Christinas; yet 

 why not grow more of them in pots? 

 Some nicely flowered Swainsona galegi- 

 folia alba would also add to the list of 

 holiday jilants. Orchids, except cypri- 

 padiums, are not numerous at Clirist- 

 mas, but C. insigne, including both the 

 ordinary and yellow forms, makes one 

 of the finest of the flowering plants for 

 the home and no other plants will hold 

 their flowers fresh for so long a period. 



Grow More Varieties. 



This is not a complete list of Clirist- 

 nias plants, but it goes to show that, 

 aside from the few largely cultivated 

 sorts, a wide assortment is available. 

 It is to be hoped that some growers, at 

 least, may take courage and try one or 

 more of the aforementioned rarer sorts 

 for another year. 



Plenty of beautiful crotons, drneir- 

 nas, fieus, palirus, ferns, selagincUas, 

 etc., are available and they always are 

 in large demand. It would need a spe- 



at Mount Sterling, Ky., in the winter 

 of 1918 failed to get his supply of gas, 

 upon which he depended for heating his 

 house. As a result, practically all of 

 his fine stock was frozen, the loss 

 amounting to, as he estimated, $710. 



He brought suit against the gas com- 

 pany, claiming damages for this amount, 

 but the lower court threw out the case. 

 Last week, however, the Appellate 

 court reversed this decision and award- 

 ed Mr. Humphreys damages to the 

 amount of $710. 



"In the absence of an express con- 

 tract of this character," stated the 

 court in handing down this decision, 

 "we think the company may be made 

 liable in an action for damages at the 

 instance of any customer who has suf- 

 fered loss through its negligence or 

 'failure to fulfill the obligations im- 

 ])liedly assumed by its solicitation and 

 acceptance of the franchise contract 

 with the city under which it acquired 

 the right to and did use the streets for 

 the purpose of supplying the city and 



its people with gas for heating pur- 

 poses." 



Court Implies Contract. 



The court held that if the terms of 

 the contract were expressed in the 

 franchise, then the case would be gov- 

 erned by the terms of the contract, but 

 where there is an absence of an express 

 contract "the law will raise an implied 

 and enforceable contract to take the 

 place of the omitted express contract 

 and impose on the company the obliga- 

 tions to render the service that was 

 reasonably within the contemplation of 

 the parties when the contract was 

 made." 



The defendant company claimed in 

 this case that the failure to supply the 

 florist was because the gas was sup- 

 plied to the citizens. In this regard, 

 the court states that when the company 

 secured a franchise it was contemplated 

 it would take reasonable and practica- 

 ble care and diligence, considering all 

 of the existing circumstances, without 

 discrimination and favor, to render the 

 service required. 



CINCINNATI, O. 



The Market. 



With the passing of Thanksgiving, 

 business is not so brisk as before the 

 holiday. Reaction comes after every 

 holiday. Mums are now past their 

 zenith and on their downward grade, 

 and only a few of the select and late 

 kinds are to be had. Pompons of the 

 Wilcox variety are still arriving in good 

 numbers, but other varieties suffer the 

 same fate as the larger mums. 



Carnations are holding their own in 

 price, now bringing $6 per hundred and 

 going well. Eoses are arriving in just 

 enough numbers to take care of the 

 demand nicely. Sweet peas look more 

 promising, which is a welcome develop- 

 ment for the retailer. 



Snapdragons are arriving in more 

 abundance and always go well. The best 

 bring $12.50 per liundred. Narcissi, 

 both yellow and white, find only a fair 

 market, the white bringing $t5 per hun- 

 dred and the yellow only $8 per hundred. 

 The latter is not a good seller on this 

 market. Violets, baby primroses, Cecile 

 Brunner roses and other miscellaneous 

 stock are selling only fairly well. 



Various Notes. 



The bowling between the wholesalers 

 and retailers was a wholesale success, 

 the former winning by a margin of 

 twenty points in three games. 



C. E. Critchell has received a new 

 shipment of southern smilax. 



.Tulius Baer has been busy with fu- 

 neral work and debutante parties. 



n. W. Sheppard reports a record week 

 in decorations, having seven in one day. 



E. A. Forter has had some unusual 

 window displays lately. 



Ira Clark, of Greensburg, Iiid., was in 

 town visiting various florists and also 

 buying his winter supplies. 



George Buehler, of London, O., was 

 also in the city buying supplies. 



I. M. Bayersdorfer, of 11. Bayers- 

 dorfcr & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., and H. 

 P. Smith, of Piqua, O., were among the 

 visitors to this city. 



Last week Cincinnati lost one of her 

 pioneer florists when .Tulius Schumann, 

 of Newport, Ky., whose deatli is re- 

 ported elsewhere in this issue, passed 

 awav. G. H. K. 



