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The Florists' Revkw 



Skpthmbbb 17, 1914. 



Oar Motto: Tho BEST tho Marfcot Affords. 



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Horticultural Importoro and Exportora 

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 HOHMANN'S LILY OF THE VALLEY, 

 Papar Wkita Nareiuas and Roman Hyaciatlii 

 Datek Bulbs, Englbli Goldan Spur, 

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copies of these valuable articles led to 

 their being included in this volume, where 

 they will be at hand every time the seeds- 

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FRENCH BULBS STILL COMING. 



The S. S. Patria, of the Fabre line, 

 which sailed from Marseilles September 

 3, arrived at New York September 14 

 with a considerable quantity of French 

 bulbs as an addition to those received 

 earlier in the season, before the war 

 broke out. That the shipment of bulbs 

 is not without its difficulties is shown by 

 the report to Ralph M. Ward & Co., 

 New York, whose J'rench grower writes 

 that the Paper Whites on the Patria 

 had to be hauled from Ollioules to Mar- 

 seilles with horses and wagons, a dis- 

 tance of about thirty miles by road, the 

 railroad refusing to take the bulbs as 

 freight. It is said that 500 more cases 

 of Paper Whites for Ward & Co., to 

 come by the next steamer, the Sant' 

 Ana. will have to be got to the seaport 

 bv the same means. 



FRENCH SEEDS COMING. 



Although there has been some delay, 

 the French seeds now seem to be arriv- 

 ing, but in how complete supply can- 

 not at present be told. On the steamer 

 Rochambeau, from Havre, which ar- 

 rived at New York September 8, there 

 were several good sized consignments 

 to American seedsmen. Of seed there 

 were 200 bags for J. Bolgiano & Son; 

 fifty-nine bags for I. N. Simon & Son, 

 and 150 bags for P. Henderson & Co. 

 There were also on the same boat thir- 

 teen cases of plants for P. Henderson 

 & Co. and seventy-three cases for 

 Vaughan's Seed Store. Importing 

 houses, also, received several hundred 

 bags of seed on this steamer. 



SEED'S UNFITNESS NOT PROVED. 



Iowa Court Acquits Wholesaler. 



When a retail dealer in seeds sues a 

 wholesaler for damages claimed to have 

 resulted from inferiority of a shipment, 

 the mere fact that ultimate consumers 

 complained of the quality of seeds 

 bought by them is not legal proof of 

 defective quality, according to the de- 

 cision of the Iowa Supreme Court in 

 the case of Natchez Drug Co., of Nat- 

 chez, Miss., against the Ratekin Seed 

 House, of Shenandoah, la. (146 North- 

 western Reporter 865). There must be 

 direct proof of the unfitness of. the 

 seeds. 



It was further decided in the same 

 case that the mere fact that a whole- 

 sale seedsman, on receiving a claim on 

 account of inferiority of seeds, agrees 

 to allow it, if the customer will con- 

 sen,t to the claim being carried over to 

 the next year's account, does not con- 

 stitute an admission of liability, being 

 merely an offer to compromise the 

 claim, rather than fight it. But the 

 court holds that where the wholesaler, 

 on receiving such a claim, instructs the 



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 stock, etc. Send us .your list for quotations. We can save you some money. 



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retailer to sell the seed at the best pos- 

 sible advantage, promising to reimburse 

 the latter, the retailer is entitled to re- 

 cover the excess of the purchase price 

 paid above the price obtained on the 

 resale. 



Lack of Legal Proof. 



The subject of controversy in this 

 case was a shipment of seed corn. 

 Part of the opinion reads: 



"There were 770 bushels received by 

 the plaintiff in this shipment from the 

 defendant. All of this was sold ex- 

 cept 1.30 bushels. Of the corn sold com- 

 plaint was made by the purchasers of 

 but sixty-three bushels. There is no 

 evidence in this record that any por- 

 tion of the sixty-three bushels was not, 

 in fact, fit for seed. To recover under 

 an implied warranty that the seed was 

 unfit for the purpose for which it was 

 sold, there should be substantive evi- 

 dence that it was not, in fact, fit for 

 the purpose for which it was sold. A 

 mere complaint that it was unfit does 

 not establish its unfitness. It would be 

 a harsh rule that required wholesale 

 seed houses to refund to their custom- 

 ers the purchase price of seed corn upon 



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pric« lists to 

 61 BARCLAY ST.. NEW YORK 



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mere complaint that the seed corn was 

 not fit for the purposes for whit^h it 

 was sold. To hold such a rule vould 

 leave the wholesaler absolutely at the 

 mercy of the purchasers of the retuiler. 

 who, for the purpose of protectiniT his 

 own trade, was willing to refund to his 

 purchasers, upon mere complaint, the 

 amount paid for the corn, at tht e^' 

 pense of the wholesaler. ' ' 



It is to be noted that no discbiinief 

 of warranty appears to have been made 

 by the wholesale seed house in thi^ >"' 

 stance. S. 



DUTCH BULB ABBIVALS. 



The steamers Westerdyk and Rotted' 

 dam, from the port of Rotterdam, whic^ 

 arrived at New York September H ^^ 



