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The Florists^ Review 



OCTOBEB 16, 1918. 



EVANS WINS PATENT CASE. 



October 10, in the District Court of 

 United States for the District of In- 

 diana, at Indianapolis, a decree was 

 entered in favor of John A. Evans, of 

 Bicbmond, against James E. Jones, of 

 the same city, which, unless appeal is 

 taken within thirty days, brings to a 

 close a long and hotly contested legal 

 battle involving the right to manufac- 

 ture, sell and use a ventilator arm that 

 has found a place in many hundreds of 

 greenhouses. The case was started more 

 than two years ago. 



The decree is as follows: 



This cause having come on to be heard, upon 

 the pleadings and proofs filed on behalf of both 

 parties, and after hearing counsel for complain- 

 ant and counsel for defendant, it is hereby 

 ordered, adjudged and decreed as follows: 



1. That Letters Patent of the United States 

 Issued to John A. Evans, of Richmond, Indiana, 

 as the assignee of Newton R. Evans, on the 20th 

 day of March, 1906, and numbered 815,914, for 

 Improvements in Window Lifters are good and 

 valid in law, particularly as to claims 1, 4. 5 

 and 6 thereof, and that the said John A. Evans* 

 the complainant herein, is the owner of said 

 Letters Patent. 



2. That the defendant, James E. Jones, hbs 

 infringed upon the said Letters Patent, and par- 

 ticularly claims 1, 4, 5 and 6 thereof. 



3. That the complainant do recover of the de- 

 fendant the profits, gains, and advantages which 

 the said defendant has derived, received or made 

 since March 20, 1900, by reason of said infringe- 

 ment, and that the complainant do recover of the 

 said defendant any and all damages which the 

 complainant has sustained since said date, or 

 shall sustain by reason of said infringement by 

 the said defendant. 



4. And it is hereby referred to the Master of 

 this Court, who is hereby appointed to talie and 

 state the account of said gains, profits and ad- 

 vantages, and assess such damages and to report 



thereon with all convenient speed; and the de- 

 fendant, his agents, officers, attorneys, clerks, 

 servants, workmen and all In privity with him 

 are hereby directed and required to attend before 

 said Master from time to time as required, and 

 to produce before him such books, papers, vouch- 

 ers and documents, and to submit to such oral 

 examination as the Master may require. 



5. That a perpetual injunction issue out of 

 and under the seal of this Court, directed to the 

 said defendant, his agents, servants, workmen, 

 attorneys, clerks, and any and all persons acting 

 by, through or under the ■ authority of, or in 

 privity with, the defendant, enjoining and re- 

 straining them, and each of them, from directly 

 or indirectly making or causing to be made, 

 using or causing to be used, or vending to others 

 to be used, in any manner, any devices contain- 

 ing, embodying or employing the invention cov- 

 ered by said Letters Patent and particularly 

 claimed in claims 1, 4, Q and 6 thereof, or from 

 infringing upon or violating the said Letters 

 Patent in any way whatsoever. 



6. That the complainant do recover of the 

 defendant his costs and disbursements of this 

 suit to be taxed and that the question of increase 

 of damages and all other questions be reserved 

 until the coming in of the Master's report. 



The device covered by the patent the 

 court has pronounced valid is known 

 in the trade as the Twentieth Century 

 Arm. Stripped of its legal verbiage, 

 the decision gives Mr. Evans the right 

 to manufacture and sell the device, en- 

 joins the defendant from so doing and 

 provides for the determination of dam- 

 ages and costs to be paid the plaintiff 

 by the defendant. 



One of the interesting features of the 

 case was that when it came up October 

 10 Mr. Evans and his attorney had the 

 demonstration model that has been seen 

 at so many conventions set up in court 

 to illustrate the argument. 



CAKNATION BUST. 



I thought it would be a good idea to 

 ask you for a little advice, as there is 

 something wrong with my carnations. 

 I do not know whether it is rust or 

 some other disease, but will enclose sev- 

 eral leaves that show the disease, hop- 

 ing that you will tell me what it is and 

 state the cause and a remedy. I am 

 almost new at this sort of business. 



K. E. L. 



The specimens submitted are aflfected 

 by the common carnation rust, and, 

 judging by the amount there is on these 

 few leaves, your plants seem to have 

 quite a dose of it. Pick off all the 

 leaves that show any of these raised 

 spots and burn them. Then dust the 

 plants heavily with Grape Dust, or with 

 hydrated lime and flowers of sulphur, 

 mixed in equal proportions. Keep the 

 water from the foliage when watering, 

 and syringe only if necessary to keep 

 down red spider. This disease is not to 

 be feared like the spot diseases, but it 

 is, nevertheless, an undesirable thing to 

 have on the place. A. F. J. B. 



TOPPINQ CAENATIONS. 



Will you please advise me whether or 

 not I should stop pinching my carna- 

 tion plants and let them commence 

 blooming f They were benched during 

 the first week in May, from 2-iiich pots, 

 and have been growing nicely. The 

 plants have from six to twelve shoots, 



and some have more. The variety is 

 Enchantress. Please advise me at once, 

 as the plants need topping now if I 

 am not going to turn them loose. The 

 climatic conditions are those of Ala- 

 bama. H. C. 



By all means cease topping your 

 carnations if you want a good crop by 

 Christmas. In your southern climate 

 the growth will likely be more rapid 

 during the next three months than it 

 would be in the north, but you will find 

 that only those shoots which have by 

 now begun to lengthen out will make 

 Christmas. Figure from six to eight 

 weeks, according to weather conditions, 

 from the time the bud stands out free 

 from the last pair of leaves until the 

 bloom is ready to pick. 



A. F. J. Baur. 



WHERE TO CUT THE STEMS. 



How far down should carnation stems 

 be cutf In other words, how many 

 breaks should be left? For instance, I 

 am enclosing a rough sketch of a carna- 

 tion plant that has three shoots; where 

 would you cut the stem? 



L. G. S. & F. C. 



Your question is not perfectly ex- 

 plic^^ut judging by the date, I should 

 infep^at you speak of cutting blooms. 

 At least I will take it for granted that 

 such is the case. 



Our practice at this time of the year 

 is to leave on the plant every joint 

 that will produce a good, strong flower- 

 ing shoot. If we are crowded for long., 

 stemmed blooms, we may sometimes cut 



down into the plant slightly, but never 

 unless the plant is bushy and can stand 

 the loss of a few breaks. Varieties 

 differ somewhat in the number of joints 

 that should be left for the next crop, 

 but you will soon learn to leave enough 

 joints to insure a goodly number of 

 breaks and to keep your plants from 

 becoming straggly. Do not cut high 

 with the idea that a large number of 

 joints left on one or two stems will 

 produce a bushy plant. It requires a 

 series of toppings to produce that kind 

 of stock. A^ F. J. B. 



AVERAGE NUMBER OF BLOOMS. 



What would you say would be an 

 average cut from a carnation plant be- 

 ginning to bloom October 1, and left 

 in the bench till May 31, a period of 

 eight months? 



L. G. S. & F. C. 



• If you have nice, bushy plants, bear- 

 ing eight to twelve shoots, and if you 

 start with a fair cut October 1, you 

 ought to be able to cut an average of 

 eighteen blooms per plant by May 31. 

 In making that estimate. Enchantress 

 is taken as an example. If you go be- 

 yond that number, you are exceeding 

 the average. If you fall below fifteen, 

 you are falling short of what you should 

 get. A^ F. J. B. 



ENCHANTRESS LOSING VITALITY. 



I am sending you under separate 

 cover three carnation plants that are 

 diseased. Please let me know what is 

 wrong and suggest a remedy, if there 

 is any. They are in stock which we 

 got from the east about two seasons 

 ago. We found six such plants in 

 benching 421 Enchantress. As we have 

 never been troubled with anything of 

 the kind before, we are anxious to know 

 what is wrong. R. F. R. 



The specimens forwarded do not 

 show any signs of 'disease, but it is a 

 trouble which I have seen a number of 

 times within the last three seasons. I 

 do not know what causes it and can 

 only suggest selection of the cuttings 

 for propagating. It becomes more and 

 more apparent each season that, unless 

 the trade adopts stringent measures in 

 the propagation of Enchantress, a few 

 years will see its finish. A limited 

 number of high-class growers, who 

 habitually select their cuttings care- 

 fully, still have this grand variety prac- 

 tically as good as it ever was, but on 

 the majority of places you will find the 

 stock much reduced in vitality as a re- 

 sult of carelessness in propagating. 

 A. F. J. B. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



The Chicago Carnation Co., of Joliet, 

 111., has registered its new carnation. 

 Peerless Pink, which is described as 

 follows: Parentage, Alvina x Beacon; 

 color, cerise pink, lighter than Law- 

 son; size, three to three and one-half 

 inches; ideal upright growth; thin, 

 wiry stems; very early and exception- 

 ally free; strong calyx. 



E. H. Blameuser, of Niles Center, 

 111., has registered his new carnation, 

 Joy, which is described as follows: 

 Parentage, Victory x red seedling; 

 color, scarlet; size, two and three- 

 fourths inches; strong grower; early 

 and very free bloomer; strong calyx 

 and good stem. 



A. F. J. Baur, Sec 'y. 



