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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
Pi:\NSVLVANIA SALES ACT 
Mr. A. E. WolikM't, Nai'l)erth, Pennsylvania, writes that 
the new law, in relation to the Pennsylvania Sales x\ct 
provides that “A eontract to sell or a sale of any goods 
of the value of $500.00 or upwards shall not he enforce¬ 
able by action unless the buyer shall accept part of the 
goods so contracted to he sold, and actually received same 
or give something in earnest to bind the contract or in 
part payment, or unless some note or memorandum in 
writing of the contract or sale be signed by the party to 
be charged or his agent in that behalf.” 
In other words in order to make the eontract of sale 
valid a written agreement must be signed by both parties 
concerned—^stipulating exact dimensions, amounts, 
prices, etc., and unless carried out to the smallest detail 
may be refused if in excess of the amount of $500.00, 
regardless of expenditures that may have been necessary 
to produce and ship the same. 
This law is j)erhaj)s not very advantageous to the nur¬ 
seryman. Much stock is often supplied without the for¬ 
mality of a signed contract, especially in landscape work. 
The client talks it over w ith the nurseryman and tells 
him to go ahead. 
It is safe to say the biggest amount of business is done 
trusting to tbe honor of the contracting parties to do 
what is right, but it is w ell to keep in mind that such a 
law' is in existence that w ill enable those, w ho have no 
intention of paying, to side step their obligations. 
x\s compared with other trades the nursery business is 
somewdiat at a disadvantage in most states. The builder 
and carpenter can attach a lien to a property for wu)rk 
done or material supplied but this is not ahvays the case 
W'ith the nurseryman or landscape gardener w ho lays out 
the grounds. 
ElTorts should be made to bring the nursery business 
up to the same standard as other trades in this respect. 
AS OTHERS SEE US 
Former Endorsers of Ouarantine No. 37 Now^ Weep 
AT F. H. B.’s Door 
Editor American Florist: 
Those nurserymen who rallied two years ago at the 
Federal Horticultural Board’s conference in Washington. 
D. G., May 15, 1922, to defend that drastic embargo with¬ 
out the change of a letter, have been on begging trips to 
Washington at least three times since that conference. 
The last visit—live delegates in body—w as led by J. Ed¬ 
ward Moon, chairman of the American Association of 
Nurserymen’s legislative committee. ])leading for relief 
from the serious damage now being done to the roots of 
imported stocks. C. H. Perkins, one of the most ardent 
supports of Quarantine No. 37 to the letter, was on this 
committee—although his firm has been favored by the 
board. When we consider the cost of railroad fares. 
Washington hotel bills, and time wasted in these plead¬ 
ings before the Federal Horticultural Board, we w^onder 
if some of these nurserymen do not begin to regret that 
they did not act with the tlorists’ committee in 1922 and 
ask for the reasonable modifications on lines laid dowm 
by the California nurserymen. If they haven’t begun to 
I’cgret yet. they w ill soon it is only a (juestion ol time. 
J. C. Vaughan. 
CATALOGUES RECEIVED 
R. H. Bath, Ltd., The Floral Farms, Wisbech, England. 
Bath’s Special Price List. 
Kelly Bros. Nurs., Davisville, N. Y. 
Catalogue for 1924. 
Mount Hope Nurs., Lawrence, Kansas. 
Nature’s Nobility. 
Oakley Nurs., Asheville, N. C. 
Price List. 
Chase Nnr. Co., Chase Ala. 
Wholesale Price List. 
Huntsville Wholesale Nurs., Huntsville, Ala. 
Surplus List, No. 2. 
B. F. Conigisky, 227 N. Adams St., Peoria Ill. 
Complete Catalogue of Photographs that 
Help the Landscape Gardener Sell. 
Kluis and Kouiug, Boskoop, Holland. 
New Dwarf Polyautha Rose “Madame Anth. Kluis.’’ 
F. W. Dixon, Holton, Kans. 
Small Fruit Plants. 
The McConnell Nnr. Co., Port Burwell, Canada. 
Small Fruit Plants and Ornamentals. 
W. N. Scarff and Sons, New Carlisle, Ohio. 
1924 Catalog and Year Book 1924 
Storrs and Harrison Co., Painesville, Ohio. 
Catalogue No. 2, Spring 1924. 
Garden Nurs., A. E. Wohlert, Narberth, Pa. 
Wholesale List. 
Mt. Arbor Nurs., Shenandoah, Iowa. 
Bulletin No. 2. 
D. Hill Nnr. Co., Sundale, Ill. 
Evergreen Specialists. 
Conard and Jones Co., West Grove, Pa. 
Wholesale Bulletin No. 1. 
Bobbink and Atkins, Rutherford, N. J. 
American Grown Roses. 
L. J. Farmer, Pulaski, N. Y. 
Strawberries and Other Fruit Plants. 
Independence Nur. Co., Independence, Ohio. 
Water Lilies, Micellaneous Aquatics and Perennials. 
MATCHES 
Not the kind that are made in heaven, but those wdiich 
have a more sulphurous composition, are the matches re¬ 
ferred to in this note. Of these the wmrld uses five tril¬ 
lions annually, or, since figures are more impressive, 
4,675,650,000,000. To furnish the match sticks which 
everybody throws away so carelessly after use, large 
quantities of w hite pine and as])en are required, and this 
timber must of course be straight grained and free from 
knots. According to the Trade Record of the National 
City Bank of New York, the bulk of tbe w orld’s matches 
are made in the United States, Sweden, Japan, Russia, 
Germany and Great Britain, the United States, of course, 
leading all the rest .—The American Botanist. 
Mr. Smoot—“What is an oyster?” 
Betty—“An oyster is a fish built like a nut.” 
