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NlOVBMBEB 16, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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your keeping the plants sprayed con- 

 tinually. 



Now, the thing to do is to check the 

 rotting if possible. To that end I would 

 advise you to spray the plants with Bor- 

 deaux mixture. Hold the nozzle of the 

 sprayer right into the plant, so as to 

 get the material onto the stems, where 

 the trouble is. 



There is no danger of its spreading 

 any farther. than the plants which are 

 affected with the hard stems. 



A. F. J. B. 



EATEBS OF CAENATION FOLIAGE. 



In reply to H. ('. G., who speaks in 

 The Review of November 9 about an 

 unknown enemy eating his carnations, 

 I will say I had a similar trouble with 

 my carnations, and by close watching I 

 found the mischief-maker nothing but 

 a grasshopper. After killing it the 

 trouble was ended. I think that if 

 H, C. G. keeps his eyes open he will 

 catch the mischief-maker right at work, 

 when he can kill him. C. A. H. 



In answer to H. C. G. in The Review 

 of November 9, I will say that his 

 trouble is with cutworms, as I had the 

 same trouble for a while, and when I 

 looked closely I found a green cutworm. 

 It does its work early in the morning. 

 If H. C. G. can not find them in the 

 crown of the shoots of his plants, he 

 must look closely all through the plants. 



J. A. G. 



THE PLANT SPECIAL. 



The express companies here are not 

 willing to ^ve me the reduced rates 

 on plants that are shipped to me from 

 other places. The agents here claim 

 that the reduction only is given on pre- 

 paid shipments. When a shipment 

 comes in properly marked and correctly 

 waybilled by the agent at point of 

 shipment I have no trouble, but when 

 a shipment comes billed at the mer- 

 chandise rate I can get no satisfaction. 

 One agent even goes so far as to say 

 that the express company could make 

 no change in the lulling except with 

 the approval of the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission. Will you please en- 

 lighten your readers on this subject? 



F. J. U. 



To begin with, it is important that 

 plant shipments ])e projterly and con- 

 spicuously marked as such, and it is 

 well to have the placard also state 

 that the rate is to be twenty per cent 

 less than the merchandise rate. Most 

 of the large shippers have large print- 

 ed labels covering this jjoint, for 

 pasting on all outgoing boxes and 

 •rates. With this precaution by the 

 **hipper, the friction will be reduced to 

 'I 'ninimum. Shippers also should ac- 

 •luaint themselves with the express 

 <onipanies' rules with regard to char- 

 acter of shipments, boxing, etc. It is 

 not true that shipments of live plants 

 must be prepaid to be entitled to the 

 special rate, but it is the fact that 

 payment of the charges must be guar- 

 anteed by the shipper. The rules with 

 regard to crating or boxing are such 

 as have been found to operate toward 

 safe carnage and should be followed 

 for that reason as well as for the re- 

 duction in rates so obtained. 



When a shipment arrives that is en- 

 titled to transportation at the special 

 ^ate but IS billed at the merchandise 

 rate, the stock being perishable, the 



These Are the Little Liners That Do the Bosiaess 



thing to do is to pay the charges, being 

 sure to take a receii)t showing the way- 

 bill number. This is merely to help the 

 company identify the shipment later. 

 Then file a claim for a refund of the 

 overcharge. In some of the smaller 

 places the agents are so unfamiliar 

 with the details of the express busi- 

 ness that they look upon any claim as 

 merely meaning trouble for them- 

 selves, though it does not, and will 

 try to refuse it, or will say they can 

 do nothing with it. In such an event 

 ask the name of the division superin- 

 tendent, and his address, sending the 

 claim direct to him. If overcharges arc 

 frequent and difficulty is had in get- 

 ting them ad.iustcd, ask the division 

 superintendent to instruct the local 

 agent so that he will be able to cor- 

 rect an apparent error at the moment 

 it is called to his attention. In the 

 larger cities, if a delivery is tendered 

 on which there is an apparent over- 

 charge, the wagon man usually can get 

 from the main office by telephone, right 

 then and there, authority to correct 

 the charge, but of course this should 

 not be expected where the facts are 

 in doubt. 



There is one point to be emphasized: 

 Be courteous. Nothing is gained by the 



"hammer and tongs'" method oi ••mak- 

 ing a kick." Don't use it. Don't make 

 unreasonable complaints and. when you 

 have cause to complain, do it in the same 

 spirit you would like to have your own 

 customers come to you in. The express 

 business is one of infinite detail and 

 mistakes are not to be avoided, but 

 the men in charge for the express com- 

 panies are gentlemen, as well .ns keen 

 business men, and if one goes about it 

 in a gentlemanly way he usually can 

 get promptly anything that Tlit> rules 

 will allow. 



Trenton, N. J. — The Supromc < ourt 

 has sustained a .iudgment given in 

 favor of ^V. A. Manda, South Orange, 

 against the W^ells-Fargo Express Co.. 

 the case growing out of the freezing of 

 a shipment of orchids. 



Peoria, III. — .1. C. Murray, the other 

 evening, was writing and dropped his 

 fountain pen. In reaching for the pen 

 his arm struck and overturned the lamp. 

 The flames spread with such great 

 rapidity that Mr. Murray could do 

 nothing but retreat to the street. The 

 fire department, however, made quick 

 work of the blaze, the loss being only 

 $oOO, fully covered by insurance. 



