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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



July 16, 1908. 



sense is the concern just formed a branch 

 of either. It is a separate corporation 

 and its purpose is to cater to the Nash- 

 ville and Tennessee trade especially. The 

 firm will handle field and vegetable seed 

 for the planters and garden and flower 

 seed for the agricultural and Nashville 

 trade. 



HARRIS STIRS TEMPEST. 



A few weeks ago T. J. Harris, super- 

 intendent of the Public Garden at Hamil- 

 ton, Bermuda, wrote a letter which found 

 its way into print in a trade paper and 

 has made him the object of some harsh 

 criticism. Among other things he said: 

 "Since I have been here, I have given 

 the subject (Harrisii bulbs) very careful 

 consideration, and I feel sure the florists 

 of America will welcome the news that 

 their interests are being watched in Ber- 

 muda. Some two or three of our largest 

 growers, I am glad to say, can now guar- 

 antee their stock as absolutely pure Har- 

 risii; these of course sell privately to the 

 large nurseries. A large number of cases 

 are sold in the open market and the flo- 

 rist who purchases them is entirely in 

 the hands of the packer." 



The growers who do not feel that they 

 are included in the "some two or three 

 who can guarantee their stock and sell 

 privately," take this altogether too seri- 

 ously, for one of them says in a letter 

 to the local RoyaJ Gazette: "Numbers 

 of us who possessed lily stock which 

 hitherto has found a fair market, now 

 possess a quantity of material upon which 

 we have expended some time and labor, 

 only to find it is utterly unsalable. ' ' 



If the grower's stock really is "ut- 

 terly unsfilable," which is open to ques- 

 tion, few vdll be ready to credit that it 

 is because of what Mr. Harris said. But 

 there can be no doubt he did not increase 

 his popularity among the bulb growers of 

 his island, unless it be with the ones 

 who think they were meant by "some 

 two or three," etc.; the following in the 

 Royal Gazette of July 7 sounds as though 

 it might have been written by one of 

 them: 



"The Superintendent of the Public 

 Garden appears to be, just at present, 

 the object of a most bitter attack. Now, 

 I hold no brief for Mr. Harris, but I 

 think it is desirable that the facts of 

 the case should be laid before the pub- 

 lic, who seem likely to be misled by the 

 biased statements of certain parties who 

 are financially interested. 



"I have heard the argument put for- 

 ward that instead of writing the subject 

 up in an American paper, Mr. Harris 

 should have gone round to the farmers 

 and laid the facts before them, and that 

 they (i. e., the farmers) did not know 

 that it mattered whether they shipped 

 bulbs of Lilium Harrisii or bulbs of L. 

 longiflorum. Such an argument as this 

 is, on the face of it, absurd. For the 

 last six or seven years both Mr. Harris 

 and his predecessor have been urging 

 growers to eliminate everything but type 

 Harrisii from their stocks ^nd to ship 

 nothing but the genuine Bermuda lily, 

 and several of the largest growers have 

 been doing their utmost to carry out this 

 advice. Unfortunately, L. Harrisii throws 

 very little stock, while L. longiflorum in- 

 creases very rapidly, with the result that 

 unless a grower knows what he is about 

 and carefully weeds out every bulb not 

 absolutely true to type, in the course of 

 a very few years he will have practically 

 nothing but L. longiflorum stock planted 

 in his fields. Many of the growers have 

 in the past been careless about this and 



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have thought it did not ' matter what 

 sort of bulbs they sold so long as they 

 were lily bulbs of some sort. For many 

 years thousands of bulbs have been 

 shipped from Bermuda marked L. Har- 

 risii on the cases, which were not L. Har- 

 risii at all, but were either type longiflo- 

 rum or another inferior variety. In 

 other words, to be plain and not mince 

 matters, these bulbs were deliberately 

 marked with a false description and were 

 not of the nature and quality demanded 

 by the buyer. The result of this fraudu- 

 lent packing has been that the Bermuda 

 lily trade is now in a fair way to follow 

 the tomato and onion and potato trades, 

 which have all either been killed out- 

 right or severely damaged by this same 

 careless packing. 



"It appears, therefore, that so far 



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