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been sent since. Mr. May says the orders 

 average large, the garden seed orders 

 around $6.50 to $7 each, which mail order 

 houses consider large for such orders. 



W. Collier, Galveston, "Tex., who is 

 now in business with his father, will open 

 a seed store of his own in the fall. The 

 firm now carries a complete line of flower 

 and vegetable seeds and garden supplies. 



BULB CASE IN COURT. 



An interesting case in regard to a 

 bill for bulbs sold by a member of the 

 Dutch Bulb Growers' Association to 

 a Scottish florist was settled in an Aber- 

 deen court last month. The case was 

 brought by Van Mcerbuk, Ltd., Ilille- 

 gom, Holland, against E. S. Wright, 

 Johnstone Gardens, Aberdeen, for ])ay- 

 mcnt of £104 8s. in respect of goods 

 invoiced to him September 9, 1920. 

 Defendant admitted liability for part 

 cif the consignment, amounting to £31 

 5s., but refused payment of the balance 

 on the ground that the bulbs were not 

 true to name and descrii)tion. Defend- 

 ant accordingly lodged a counterclaim 

 for £80 in respect of loss sustained 

 through plaintiff's breach of contract, 

 which, after deducting the £31 5s., left 

 £48 15s. due by plaintiff to defendant. 



Mr. Wriglit, in the witness box, 

 stated that he did not object to the 

 quality of the bulbs, but to the fact that 

 they were not true to name. The dis- 

 pute had caused him considerable trou- 

 ble, as several Dutch firms liad refused 

 to deal with him in consequence. The 

 variety for whicli he admitted liability 

 never flowered, and, therefore, he could 

 not prove it was not true to name. Mr. 

 Wright contended that his whole pur- 

 pose in the case was to prove conclu- 

 sively to tlie Dutch Eulb Growers' As- 

 sociation, of which the firm of Van 

 Meerbuk, Ltd., is a member, that he 

 was not in the wrong. There was a 

 clause in this Dutch association's rules 

 that no nieml)er can send bulbs to a cus- 

 tomer unless the hitter's account for 

 bullis received t\n'. previous year is set- 

 tled. That clause liad been l)rought to 

 bear against Mr. Wright. 



At this stage the slieriff suggested 

 that the case should be adjusted. It 

 was not so much a question of damage 

 as of vindicating the defendant's char- 

 acter as a florist. Any settlement would 

 have to i)roceed on the assumption that 

 there was a partial breach of contract, 

 and that Mr. Wright was justified in 

 the attitude he liad taken up. 



Mr. Adam, for the Dutch firm, admit- 

 ted a partial breach of contract, and 

 iftcr consultation it was intimated by 

 the attorneys that the action had been 

 settled, the defendant to pay £30, which 

 was admittedly due, and plaintiff to 

 pay £15 to account of defendant's ex- 

 penses. 



FIELD SEED PRICES LOWER. 



The retail prices of field seeds March 

 1 were lower for many kijuls than on 

 a corresponding date last year, accord- 

 ing to a report of the Uniteil States De- 

 partment of Agriculture. Outstanding 

 exceptions to this are red clover, red- 

 top ami Kentucky bhiegrass, which are 

 selling at seventeen per cent, forty-five 

 per cent and fifty-five per cent, respec- 

 tively, higher prices than last year. 



Among the items for which lower re- 

 tail prices ;ire reported and the ap- 

 proximate average percentage of reduc- 

 tion are the following: Alsike clover, 

 sixteen per cent; sweet clover, twenty- 



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