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The Florists' Review 



JVLT 21. 1021 



Thb Qem Nursery & Citrus Products 

 Co., of Jacksonville, Fla., with head- 

 quarters at Lake Gem, has been incor- 

 porated, with a capital stock of $1,000,- 

 eOO. D. C. Sherman, of Lake Oem, is 

 secretary and treasurer; John Heist, of 

 Lake Gem, and A. M. Starbird, of 

 Apopka, are directors. 



STUDY FIXITY OF TYPE. 



In the improvement of fruit varieties 

 the question of fixity of type in asexual 

 propagation is of considerable impor- 

 tance. The use of any of the tree 

 fruits in a study of this problem would 

 obviously extend the experiment far 

 past the activity of a single investi- 

 gator. In order to hasten work in ex- 

 periments conducted by the New York 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, at 

 Geneva, N. Y., on this question, the dou- 

 ble violet, Marie Louise, which is prop- 

 agated asexually, was used in a study 

 of the effect of selection upon the length 

 of blossom stem. Observations were 

 also made of the inheritance of high 

 and low yield. The investigation is 

 described in bulletin No. 76. 



At the end of five years it was found 

 that the process of selection had really 

 been one of isolation whereby certain 

 clonal lines had been selected out of a 

 miscellaneous population. The experi- 

 ments seemingly proved only the exist- 

 ence of asexually inherited differences 

 which probably were present before the 

 experiment was begun. No attempt was 

 made to find when or how such differ- 

 ences arose. Thouj^h the existence of 

 such differences in the violet makes it 

 seem more probable that there may be 

 differences within a single variety of 

 any fruit, the labor and the technical 

 difficulties involved render it inadvis- 

 able for a nurseryman to attempt to 

 find beneficial variations among fruits 

 by bud selection. 



WAREANTY OF VARIETIES. 



One who points out and sells growing 

 stock as being of a certain variety 

 warrants it to be of that variety, in 

 the absence of express disclaimer of 

 warranty, holds the California District 

 Court of Appeal in the case of Firth 

 vs. Richter, 196 Pacific Reporter, 277, 

 involving a sale of orange trees. The 

 court said: 



"Where the circumstances are such 

 as to amount to a representation of 

 fact on the part of the vendor that an 

 article sold is of a particular kind or 

 description, as, for instance, where the 

 buyer in terms asks for a particular 

 kind, and the seller purports to comply 

 with his request, it was said that 'he 

 would probably be held to warrant the 

 article as being of that kind, although 

 he may not have made any declaration 

 iH words to that effect.' In the case 

 at bar it appears that the buyers defin- 

 itely limited their request by asking 

 for Valencia orange trees, and the seller 

 not only delivered the trees in direct re- 

 sponse to that request, but, further, in 

 a written contract, agreed to deliver 



Valencia orange trees. The trees were 

 growing in rows in Bert's nursery. At 

 the request of appellant [the seller], 

 Bert exhibited to respondents [the 

 buyers] certain rows of trees which he 

 said were all Valencia orange trees. 

 Respondents then selected these par- 

 ticular trees from the rows thus desig- 

 nated, and those are the trees that were 

 delivered. No charge of bad faith is 

 made herein, but, on the contrary, the 

 court found and the parties admit that 

 there was no such bad faith or decep- 

 tion; nevertheless, appellant assumed 

 the responsibility of selling those trees 

 as Valencia orange trees, and there is 

 nothing in the evidence showing any 

 conduct on the part of respondents 

 which should estop them from claiming 

 the benefit of that warranty. The terms 

 used were sufficient to state an express 

 warranty. ' ' S. 



PEONY SHOW AT CHICAGO? 



Henry S. Cooper Tells Plans. 



The proprietor of the Dunmovin 

 Nurseries, at Kenosha, Wis., Henry S. 

 Cooper, who describes himself on his 

 letterheads and otherwise as a "peony 

 fan," is desirous of winning the ex- 

 hibition of the American Peony Show 

 for Chicago in 1923. Next year it will 

 be held in Canada and he believes that 

 the year following it should return to 

 the central west. So he has written a 

 letter to the secretary. Prof. A. P. 

 Saunders, which he has also sent out 

 in circular form to members of the so- 

 ciety. The plans by which he proposes 



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to aronse public interest in the exhibi- 

 tion and make the usual quiet peony 

 show a spectacular event are outlined 

 in this letter. The project is calculated 

 to stir public interest and, in a good 

 peony year, is quite possible of accom- 



Slishment. Here is the letter Mr. 

 boper has sent out: 



Chicago the Center. 



"As I cannot be in Boston, I think 

 I should write the society a word about 

 bringing the next show to Chicago. 



"I do not live in Chicago, but am 

 near there, fifty miles. 



"As I understand it, the object of 

 the show is to popularize knowledge of 

 the peony. Therefore, the first requi- 

 site is population, to make possible a 

 large attendance; and second, proper 

 publicity, to compel a large attendance. 

 Now, in and around Chicago are sev- 

 eral millions within reach. And I be- 

 lieve Chicago is the place that could, 

 and would, give the show compelling 

 publicity. Chicago is the railroad cen- 

 ter of the United States, and proper 

 effort and push would bring exhibitors 

 and attendance. 



"Now as to publicity. For some 

 years I have had an idea that I have 

 finally tried out in a small way. A 

 week ago I sent, say, 1,000 peonies to 

 the Corn Exchange National bank, Chi- 

 cago, and they trimmed up the bank 

 with vases, etc. It created a great deal 

 of comment and publicity. 



Blooms Available. 



"Now, if 1922 is a normal year for 

 bloom, I will have easily 200,000 or 



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