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jcMB 1,; i»i«. 



answera.. I hope you and all your fam< 

 ily are well. 



"At present I am home in Hamburg 

 on a two weeks' furlough. I am home 

 for the first time siiice August 4, when 

 I went to the front. In the battle of 

 Tannenberg I was awarded the Iron 

 Cross and isihce that time I have been 

 promoted to lieutenant. I have success- 

 fully endured all hardships and suf- 

 ferings. 



"You certainly have heard of our 

 glorious victories and you may be sure 

 it will continue in this way even if 

 new enemies should come in. 



"With best wishes to yourself, your 

 dear family, and all my friends in 

 Lawrence, St. Joseph, Atchison, Kansas 

 City and other places in the United 

 States, I am, 



"John DeWit." 



CONTRACT BY COKKESPONDENCE. 



In a lawsuit involving a contract to 

 sell a quantity of seed potatoes, the 

 Texas Court of Civil Appeals recently 

 decided that when a series of letters 

 passing between two persons shows a 

 final agreement upon the terms of a 

 sale, an ineffectual attempt afterwards 

 to reduce the contract to a formal 

 agreement will not affect the binding 

 character of the transaction; the cor- 

 respondence will be treated as the con- 

 tract. And the court holds that, in 

 such a case, the buyer's act in insist- 

 ing on execution of a formal contract 

 at variance with the terms of the agree- 

 ment as expressed jin the correspond- 

 ence constitutes a Wfeach of that agree- 

 ment, entitling the seller to terminate 

 the contract. (T. C. Bottom Produce 

 Co. vs. Olsen, 175 Southwestern Ee- 

 porter 126.) 



BEET SEED CAN COME. 



Great Britain has announced its will- 

 ingness to permit exportation of sugar 

 .beet seed from Germany to the United 

 States under certain conditions. The 

 following was issued June 2 at the 

 State Department, Washington: 

 ■^ "The British foreign office has an- 

 nounced that the British government 

 would consider each case of the expor- 

 tation of beet seed from Germany to 

 the United States upon its merits and 

 would be wijlling to give assurances of 

 non-interference with particular ship- 

 ments: (a) If it is shown that the 

 seeds cannot be secured except in Ger- 

 many; (b) if there is no question of 

 ^exchange of commodities with Ger- 

 many involved, and (c) if the seeds are 

 shipped from a neutral port, as Eotter- 

 dam." 



American beet sugar interests some 

 time ago arranged for the shipment of 

 enough seed for the American crop 

 through Eotterdam. 



CANNEES GO TO LOUISVILLE. 



President George N. Numsen, of the 

 National Canners' Association, has made 

 formal announcement, as forecast in this 

 column three weeks ago, thjit Louisville 

 has been chosen for the next annual con- 

 vention of the National Canners* Asso- 

 ciation and Allied Industries, the selec- 

 tion being on account of its central lo- 

 cation, ample hotel facilities, and ability 

 to provide a building large enough to ac- 

 commodate the machinery and supplies 

 show. Hotel headquarters will be at the 

 SeellMieh. The convention will, as usual, 

 be held tk« second week in February. 



Why postpone ordering stock you will be' $uSr^ to 

 need? Plade^your order now for: — ,._^ 



Per 100 Per 1000 



Begonia Cindnnati, 2%-m., strong $18 00^.4^176.00 



Begonia Lorraine 14.00 120.00 



Begonia Chatdaine 5.00 45.00 



Poinseltias, select 6 00 50:00 



Cydamen, 2>^-in., excellent strain 5.50' 5(3.00 



3-in., $8.00 per lOU, $75.00 per 1000; 4-in., $20.00 . . . . .^ . > . _ . 



per 100. 



Primula Obconica, Chinensis and Malacoides, 2%-in 3.00 25 00 



fern Hats^best commercial varieties, $2.00 per fiat, 10 flats for $17.50 



Fer 10» Per 1«00 



Bouvardias, 2X-in., red, white and pink $ 4.00 $35.00 



Euphorbia Jacquiniaeflora, 2K-in 10.00 ^ 



Nico-Pume Liquid $10.50 per gallon 



Nico-hime Paper $7.50 per can of 288 sheets 



Magic Hose (none better), >^-in., 50-ft., 16g per ft.; 100-ft., 15c per 

 ft.; ^-in., 50-ft., 17c per ft.; 100-ft., 16c per ft. -,: 



For Rose, Carnation and Chrysanthemum plants, consult our cata- 

 logue, which will be cheerfully mailed on application. 



How about Cold Storage Lilies and Valley? We have the stock and 

 our prices are righL Write us. ''"■'•- ^ 



S. S. SKIDELSKY It CO., "^V!&i£:P^ 



Mention Tb» R»t1»w when yoo write. 





U.llAXi^"'' 



The Florists' 

 Manual 



A Business Book for Busuess Hen 



Second Edition 



THOROUGHLY REVISED AND 

 BROUGHT UP TO DATE 



No dry -as -dust botanical classiflca- 

 tions. but tells you just how to produce 

 marketable plants and out flowers in the 

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Treats of oyer 200 subjects and is freely 

 illustrated with fine half-tone engrarings. 



Piic«t $8.00f prepaid by •xpr«ss or mall 



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PLACE ORDERS NOW^ FOB 

 LATE SUMMER 



SEEDS 



Our Reeds of late snmmer flowers or plants If 

 all in bloom at one time would ^ve a perfect 

 ralnbow-ran^e of color. 



You can choose from onr stock of seerts sue- 

 cesHfully because it is so varied and so interest. 

 iDKr; with so many nosslbllities. 



You would like our cataloKue. Write 



J. M. THORBURN & CO. 



53 Barday St. throogh to 54 Park Place, 

 NEW YORK 



Mentloa Tte B«Ti«w wbea 70a write. 



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OFFERS 



in the Classified section'^ this paper 

 under 



Cancfa^/DatiUas, 



Geraniums, Gladioli 



and Vincas 



Send for mr conplete list of stock. 



PETER PEARSON 



5782 Gunnison St., CHICAGO 



Mention TIm B«Tlew Irhen jaa write. 



