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to sell forty-eight scarfs at a loss of 

 $480, which amount she asked to have 

 set off against the advertising bill. The 

 Municipal court in Atlanta ruled that no 

 valid counterclaim was presented, and 

 the court of appeals holds that the 

 ruling was correct. The higher court's 

 opinion reads as follows: 



Judge's Opinion. 



"A general advertisement in a news- 

 paper for the sale of an indefinite quan- 

 tity of goods is a mere invitation to 

 enter into a bargain, rather than an 

 offer. 



" *A business advertisement pub- 

 lished in newspapers and circulars sent 

 out by mail or distributed by hand, 

 stating that the advertiser has a certain 

 quantity or quality of goods which he 

 wants to dispose of at specified prices, 

 is not an offer which becomes a contract 

 as soon as any person, whose attention 

 it arrests, signifies his acceptance of 

 a portion or all of the goods advertised 

 by notifying the other that he will take 

 a certain quantity of the stock. Adver- 

 tisements are mere invitations to all 

 persons who may read them that the 

 advertiser is ready to receive offers for 

 the goods at the price stated.' 13 C. J. 

 289, See. 97. 



" 'If goods are advertised for sale 

 at a certain price . . . the construc- 

 tion is rather favored that such an ad- 

 vertisement is a mere invitation to enter 

 into a bargain, rather than an offer.' 

 1 Williston on Contracts, Sec. 27. 



' ' In the instant case the advertise- 

 ment, which is the basis of the counter- 

 ■claim, specified no definite quantity of 

 the furs for sale, though there was a 

 more or less indefinite description of 

 the qualities of the goods. The first 

 essential of a sale is that there must be 

 'an identification of the thing sold.' 

 €ivil Code (1910), Sec. 4106. To con- 

 summate a contract there must be • a 

 meeting of minds. ' There was no merit 

 in the counterclaim filed by the defend- 

 ant in the Municipal court, and the 

 judge of that court committed no error 

 in striking it out and entering judgment 

 for the plaintiff." S. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



R. Vincent, Jr., & Sons Co., Wliitcmarsh, Md. 

 ' — Current issue of monthly wliolesnie list of 

 plants, witli prices that "cancel all previous quo- 

 tations and are made on a strictly cash basis." 

 For full descriptions of varieties, patrons are re- 

 ferred to the regular catalogue. 



Tromp Bros., Llsse. Holland. — American edi- 

 tion of wholesale bulb catalogue; well printed, 

 and bound in a strong, neat gray cover. Resides 

 the stock of a strictly bullious chanicter, the 

 book offers corms or roots of gladioli, irises, 

 .inemones. begonias, dahlias, spiroeas, peonies, 

 montbretias and other genera. 



J. E. Famsworth, Ijanc.Tstcr, Mass. — An alpha- 

 betical list of gladioli; twelve pages, in pocket 

 form, well printed on a heavy grade of enameled 

 paper and tmtind In a tasteful brown cover. 



C. I. Hunt, Nunda, N. Y. — Wholesale list of 

 gladiolus bulbs; "a select list of varieties; thirty- 

 four of the choicest kinds." says Mr. Nunda. 

 The prices are not quoted in tlie descriptive list, 

 but on a separate sheet. 



Jackson tc Perkins Co., Newark, N. Y.— "Bul- 

 letin No. 1; First Call for Spring." a condensed 

 and yet comprehensive list of roses, perennials 

 and general nursery stock. "Grade counts and 

 inventorj-," says the bulletin, "are not entirely 

 completed, but are advanced far enough to give a 

 fair Idea of whiit can be supplied for immediate 

 or spring shipment." 



Richard Diener Co., Inc., Kentfield. Cal.— 

 General catalogue for 1922; a most attractive, 

 finely illustrated book of forty-eight pages, in a 

 colored cover which shows one specimen of e.icli 

 of the company's two great specialties, gladioli 

 and petunias. In regard to the gladioli, which 

 occupy twenty pages, Mr. Diener states that all 

 the varieties listed are his own productions. 

 Among the stock offered, besides the two leaders, 

 are amarylllses, pansies, dahlias, blackberry 

 plants and miscellaneous seeds. 



Henry F. Michell Co., Philadelphia, Pa.— 

 "Micheil's Handy Order Book." offering flower 

 and vegetable seeds, balbs, plants and supplies; 



Merry Chri^mas 



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DETROIT l>TKRNATIONAI- SAf.KS CO. 

 Free Press Building, Detroit. Mich. 

 Catalogue with descripMons. Dollar prices 



thirty-two pages. In the form of a scries of 

 order sheets, perforated in the margin so as to 

 be easily detachable; printed clearly and com- 

 pactly on good paper. A green label on the 

 cover invites the customers to send for a special 

 list of Christmas greens. Several small pink 

 inserts draw particular attention to certain items 

 of stock. In the list of flower seeds, perennial 

 varieties are indicated by an asterisk. 



Fancier Creek Nurseries, Fresno, Cal. — An il- 

 lustrated 64-page catalogue, unique and artistic 

 in outward appearance and effective in the ar- 



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