THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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1 liave never ^towii imu'li stoek, and sevei'al yeai's 
a^'o sold what land I had and sinee then have bought 
what I have needed to carrv on niv business. Eor 
jthe past two or three years I have been curtailing my 
business, so that now it is.about as snndl as it can be 
and amount to anything at all. It is hard entirely to 
abandon a business with which vou have l)een iden- 
titled throngh a period of years, but circumstances 
are sometimes com])elling. 
I am past my three-score-and-ten age, and that 
means that I am living on borrowed time and feel dis- 
])osed to take life a little easier, and indeed I l)egin to 
feel compelled to whether dis])osed to or not. 
I l)eg to remain, A"ery trnly yours, 
I). B. llazen. 
they will grow after being trans])lanted, if ordinary 
care and attention are given them in their planting 
and cultivation.— Florisl.s’ Ixcrinr. 
THE LIFE OF SEED. 
The (lardener’s Chronicle of Afarcli IRh gives a 
very interesting editorial on the researches of Air. E. 
Kidd, who it seems has ])roved that deterioration of 
the germinating power of seed may ])e prevented, or 
at least delayed. He has established the fact that if 
seeds be kept in an atmosi)here containing from 20 to 
30 per cent, of carbon dioxide their germinating ca¬ 
pacity imiy be held up indefinitely, and that they are 
none the worse for their enforced rest. 
This is valuable information and may ])rove of 
Growing on The Arlington Nurseries, Arlington, Nebraska. 
WARRANTY OF NURSERY STOCK. 
Legal Decisions Affecting Sales. 
The rules of law which have been recently men- 
iioned in The Review as a])plying to warranties in 
the sale of seeds, and to seedsmen’s liability for 
breach of such warranties, are largely ai)plicable also 
to Stdes of nursery stock. 
One of the late api)ellate court opinions on these 
l)oints is that handed down l)y the Idaho Supreme 
Court in the case of Grisinger vs. Hubbard, 122 Pa¬ 
cific Rei)orter 853, wherein it was decided that a nur¬ 
seryman who grows young fruit trees for sale to i)er- 
sons desiring to cultivate fruit orchards with a view 
to raising fruit for commercial pur])oses is ])resumed 
to warrant that the trees sold are adai)ted to those 
l)urposes. This warranty includes an im])lied rep¬ 
resentation that the trees are in such conditionu that 
great economic value to the seedsman and horticul¬ 
turist as soon as the is thoroughly under¬ 
stood. 
NOTEWORTHY CATALOGUES. 
A booklet out of the ordinary is being sent out by 
Spring Hill Nurseries, Tippecanoe City, Ohio. Its 
conq)rehtuisive title “AVhat, AVhere, A\ hen and How 
to Plant” is fully explained in its pages. 
Freely illustrated and written in a way that the 
veriest amateur can follow instructions which are 
thorough and practical. 
Afost catalogues are written from the Nursery¬ 
men’s angle for the pur})ose of selling stock. llie 
author of this a})pears to have had only the customer 
and his needs in mind. 
