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The Florists' Review 



NorBMBSB 12, 191-1. 



B. E. Gaoe, of Peterson Nursery, Chi- 

 cago, recently welcomed a second son 

 into his family. 



The delay of winter and continued fine 

 weather has been to the advantage of the 

 nurserymen this fall, allowing a longer 

 season for planting and an opportunity 

 for greater sales. 



Articles of incorporation have been 

 filed by the Bussellville Nursery Co., at 

 Portland, Ore. The capital stock is $25,- 

 000 and the incorporators are H. A., M. 

 T, and D. A. Lewis. 



The last summer favored the produc- 

 tion of high-class nursery stock of all 

 kinds in the middle west, and the pros- 

 perity of the farmers as a result of the 

 ^ood crops should mean big business for 

 the nurserymen in this section. 



The planting of a larger acreage and 

 an increased line of stock lead the firm 

 of Trainor & Desmond, of Sacramento, 

 Cal., to look forward to a better year 

 than ever. Citrus and deciduous trees 

 particularly adapted to the region are 

 the specialty of this firm. 



An annual output of 10,000 trees is 

 the record of the Canadian government's 

 free nursery at Indian Head, Saskatche- 

 wan. Here's one reason why the growing 

 country of western Canada, which holds 

 80 much for the farmers who are moving 

 in, ofi'ers little to the ntirseryman. 



Southern nurserymen are welcoming 

 the movement for diversified farming in 

 their part of the country. Many a cot- 

 ton field is expected to be turned into an 

 orchard before many months, and where 

 conditions are favorable the new crop 

 should prove as profitable as the old was. 



DuniNO the last three weeks Nag-Ir-Roc 

 Farm, the estate of James Corrigan at 

 Wickliffe, O., has received five carloads 

 of nursery stock, mostly from Long 

 Island. E. A. Bause, the superintendent, 

 says that eventually all of the 250 acres 

 will be beautified and that at present 

 the farm is the heaviest buyer of its 

 class anywhere in America. 



J. H. H. Boyd has resigned from the 

 presidency and management of the Forest 

 Nursery & Seed Co., at McMinnville, 

 Tenn., and offered his stock for sale. He 

 will in future give assistance to Farest 

 Phifer, one of his former employees, who 

 is starting the Riverview Nursery & Seed 

 Co. Mr. Boyd intends to spend a good 

 part of his time in the mountains collect- 

 ing evergreens. 



PETERSON IN BIG DEAL. 



One of the largest transactions in 

 acre property that ever has been re- 

 corded in Chicago was consummated 

 this week between William A. Peter- 

 son, proprietor of Peterson Nursery, 

 and W. F. Kaiser & Co., real estate 

 operators. In a trust deed to the State 

 Bank of Chicago Mr. Peterson con- 

 veyed seventy-eight acres at the inter- 

 section of Lincoln and Peterson ave- 

 nues. The consideration is not stated, 

 but is believed to be in excess of 

 $160,000. The purchasers have ar- 



ranged for $100,000 to be expended in 

 the improvement of the property, after 

 which it will be put on the market as 

 building lots. 



This is the second piece of the orig- 

 inal Peterson property to go on the 

 market. As in the first instance, the 

 land adjoins, but is not a part of 

 Peterson Nursery. It never has been 

 used for nursery purposes. There re- 

 mains in the Peterson tract 275 acres 

 for nursery and other uses. ' 



TO CLOSE UP PHOENIX AFFAIBS. 



As the result of a hearing before 

 Judge C. D. Myers, of the Circuit court, 

 at Bloomington, 111., October 30, on a 

 petition to close up the affairs of the 

 Phoenix Nursery Co. within sixty days, 

 it was decided by the court that the 

 remaining stock should be disposed of 

 and the land sold, so that the business 

 might be wound up by March 1, 1915. 

 The longer time allowed will permit 

 the receiver, John Y. Chisholm, to get 

 as good a price as possible for the 

 stock on hand. It appears that the 

 expenses have been large during the 

 last year and the interest, amounting 

 to $3,000 yearly, has been piling up, 

 and the local banks who have an inter- 

 est in the case are anxious that mat- 

 ters be settled as soon as possible, so 

 that their losses will be no • greater. 

 There are eighty acres of land, valued 

 at all the way from t250 to $600 

 per acre, and the disposal of this is 

 the most important object remaining. 

 The land will probably be offered on 

 the open market and sold to the highest 

 bidder. 



UNDERVALUATION OF SHIPMENTS. 



The liability of a seller of nursery 

 stock at wholesale for loss of part of a 

 carload shipment in transit was involved 

 in the case of Southern Nursery Co. vs. 

 Winfield Nursery Co., 132 Pacific Re- 

 porter 149, which was before the Kansas 

 Supreme Court. Plaintiff, doing busi- 



ness at Winchester, Tenn., shipped a 

 carload of nursery stock to defendant, 

 at Winfield, Kan., and the latter de- 

 fended suit which was brought by plain- 

 tiff to recover an unpaid part of the 

 contract price on the ground that the 

 railway company to which plaintiff de- 

 livered the trees was the agent of plain- 

 tiff, and not of defendant, with the re- 

 sult that title to the shipment did not 

 pass to defendant on delivery of the 

 stock to the carrier, and defendant had 

 the right to refuse to accept the trees, 

 which had become unmerchantable in 

 transit. This defense was overruled, 

 -however, and plaintiff was aTwarded 

 judgment on the theory that title passed 

 to the defendant at the time the ship- 

 ment was made, exonerating plaintiff 

 from any liability for injury to the 

 freight in transit, as it was found that 

 the shipment was properly prepared for 

 transportation. 



Defendant also sought to hold plain- 

 tiff responsible because, in shipping the 

 trees, plaintiff, in order to obtain a 

 lower freight rate under a classification 

 permitting it, agreed to release the valu- 

 ation of the freight to 3 cents a pound, 

 thus restricting the railway company's 

 liability to $480, whereas the actual 

 value of the shipment was $1,784. On 

 this point the Kansas Supreme Court 

 said: 



"It is the custom, understood and 

 agreed upon by nurserymen, for all 

 shipments of nursery stock to be made 

 under a valuation of 3 cents a pound, 

 for the purpose of saving freight 

 charges, unless positive instructions be 

 given to the contrary. No such instruc- 

 tions having been given to the plaintiff, 

 the goods were billed out according to 

 the custom. • • * The defendant 

 claims that a contract to ship at a gross 

 undervaluation to procure the benefit of 

 a lower freight rate, although under a 

 classification permitting it, is contrary 

 to law and public policy, and conse- 

 quently that a custom among nursery- 



Headquarters for 



Mmia Pilvet Hedsing 



Fully half a million plants for sale. 



2-year 3 to 4 feet 



3-year 3 to 4 feet 



3-year 4to5 feet 



For screens 6 to 6 feet 



For screens 6to7 feet 



1-year 12 to 18 inches 



1-year l^a to 2 feet 



2-year 1^2 to 2 feet 



2-year 2 to 2^ feet 



2-year 2 to 3 feet 



2-year ; 21^ to 3 feet 



All well branched, bright and clean. The two and three year grades have 

 been cut back one or more times. Especially attractive prices in car lots. 



RFRRPRIC TniTNRPVni Transplanted, stocky planls. 9 to 12 inches. 12 

 DliADLAlJ launOLHUll to 18 inches and 1^2 to 2 foot sizes by the 1000. 



J. T. LOVm, "n:":^*" Little Silver, N. J. 



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