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The Florists' Review 



17 



NEW PARCEL POST EUUBS. 



Under new regulations issued by the 

 post-office, merchandise packages weigh- 

 ing not over four ounces may hereafter 

 bo mailed in letter boxes or at any 

 branch post-office, provided the special 

 parcel post stamps are used and the 

 name and address of the sender are 

 shown on the package. 



Beginning July 1, collect on delivery 

 sLipments of fourth-class matter may 

 be sent through the mail when sent 

 from and addressed to an office at which 

 money orders are issued, provided the 

 following rules are observed: 



1. The amount of C. O. D. must not ex- 



ceed $100. 



2. Ten cents additional to postage 



must be affixed in parcel post 

 stamps, which will insure against 

 loss up to $50. 



3. The C. O. D. tag must be securely 



attached to the package and must 

 show: 



(a) the amount du6 the sender, 



(b) the money order fee to cover 



remittance, 



(c) the total amount to be col- 



lected (a plus b). 

 The instructions do not permit an ex- 

 amination of the contents of a package 

 by the consignee. 



BUSINESS EMBABBASSMENTS. 



New York, N. Y.— Philip L. Shaeflfer, 

 surviving partner of Eeisner & Shaef- 

 fer, 1247 and 1249 Lexington avenue, 

 has filed a petition in bankruptcy, with 

 liabilities $9,712 and assets $1,189, con- 

 sisting of stock, $300, fixtures, $700, 

 and accounts, $189. Anna Shaeflfer is a 

 ■creditor for $7,000, money loaned. The 

 business was started in 1895 by Samuel 

 Eeisner. Mr. Shaeffer became a part- 

 ner in June, 1912. Mr. Eeisner died 

 January 10, 1913, and Mr. Shaeflfer has 

 since carried on the business. The fore- 

 going petition, a voluntary one, was 

 dated Aprjl 4. Four days later an in- 

 voluntary petition in bankruptcy was 

 filed against Mr. Shaeflfer by the follow- 

 ing creditors: Paul Meconi, $356; 

 Charles Millang, $207, and James K. 

 Allen, $183. 



FLOWEBING SHEUBS AND VINES. 



Please send me a list of hardy flow- 

 ering shrubs and vines that would come 

 into bloom in succession in this climate, 

 in the western part of New York state. 

 T. R. 



A few of the best vines for your cli- 

 mate are: Ampelopsis Veitchii, Clematis 

 paniculata, Lonicera brachypoda Hal- 

 leana, Lonicera sempervirens, Wistaria 

 Chinensis and W. multijuga, Akebia 

 ■quinata, Aristolochia Sipho, and such 

 rambler roses as Tausendschon, Dorothy 

 I'erkins, Lady Gay, American Pillar 

 and Hiawatha. In evergreens, Euony- 

 'niis radicans is good. 



A selection of first-class flowering 

 shrubs which will give a long succes- 

 sion of flowers are: Prunus triloba and 

 P- Japonica flore pleno; Philadelphus 

 ^ronarius and P. Lemoinei in variety; 

 Deutzia Lemoinei, D. crenata Pride of 

 Rochester; Spiraea Thunbergii, S. ar- 

 Riita, S. Van Houttei and S. prunifolia 

 flore pleno; Lonicera Morrowi and L. 

 Tatarica; Forsythia Fortunei; Hydran- 

 gea paniculata grandiflora and H. ar- 

 '^orescens grandiflora: Azalea Pontica; 

 'Althaeas in variety; Buddleia variabilis 

 i^nd the sub-variety Veitchiana; Cornus 

 \ras; Magnolia stellata; lilacs in va- 



Baseball Diamond in Flowert by H. R. Hughes. 



riety (in lilacs, a selection to give a 

 succession of flowers would be: Syringa 

 oblata, Marie Legraye, Mme. Lemoine, 

 macrostachya, Charles X, Philemon, 

 white and pink Persian, villosa); Cor- 

 chorus Japonicus; Clethra alnifolia; 

 Exochorda grandiflora; Rhodotypus ker- 

 rioides; Viburnum plicatum and V. 

 Opulus sterilis; Weigela Candida and 

 W. Eva Rathke; in flowering ever- 

 greens, rhododendrons, Kalmia latifolia 

 and andromedas. C. W. 



STRIKE IN BELGIUM. 



Cable advices from Belgium state 

 that a general strike went into effect 

 there April 14. The Red Star line, which 

 brings all Belgium plant shipments, will 

 not accept perishable freight, even 

 though the Belgium government-owned 

 railroads could carry the stock from 

 Ghent to Antwerp. This completelv ties 

 up plant shipments from Belgium and 

 catches the exporters right at the begin- 

 ning of the spring shipping season. Only 

 one shipment has left Belgium, mostly 

 bay trees. Further spring shipments 

 will be delayed as long as the strike 

 lasts, which is hoped to be not over 

 two or three weeks. 



GREENHOUSE GLASS. 



We have it on good authority that 

 the stock of greenhouse glass in the 

 hands of manufacturers is light for this 

 time of the year and, while the demand 

 is perhaps not so good as it was last 

 season, the fact that factories will close 

 down in about six weeks would tend 

 towards stiflfening prices; in fact, an 

 advance almost any time is being freely 

 predicted. A manufacturer who does 



considerable business with greenhouse 

 owners says those who are going to 

 build this season should place their 

 orders without delay, so as not to be 

 disappointed as to delivery of their 

 glass. 



CLASSIFICATION DOUBLES RATE 



Under the new southern classification 

 railroad rates on plants or flowers com- 

 pletely boxed or crated take a double 

 first-class merchandise rate. I suppose 

 this applies to all southern territory. 

 This rate is excessive. Where I have 

 been paying 23 cents per hundred from 

 Louisville to Shelbyville, Ky., it is now 

 46 cents per hundred. The express rate 

 is 40 cents per hundred between these 

 two points. Wholesale florists who are 

 shippers of plants or flowers should take 

 this matter up and see that the double 

 first-class rate is not put into eflfect. 



Edw. P. Hall. 



Ligonier, Ind. — Otto O. Schrock, 

 whose greenhouses were damaged by a 

 recent storm, has completed the work 

 of making repairs and his business has 

 been carried on without much interrup- 

 tion. 



Tarrytown, N. Y. — F. E. Pierson Co., 

 having always done more or less retail- 

 ing from the greenhouses, is preparing 

 to take full advantage of the fine trade 

 that has grown up here by building a 

 retail store in one of the best locations 

 on the main traveled highway from 

 New York to Albany. The building, 

 which was designed by R. M. Cobb, of 

 Lord & Burnham Co., will not contain 

 one piece of wood. It will cost upwards 

 of $20,000 and will be one of the hand- 

 somest flower stores in America. 



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