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Patented Fuchsias ialG5St! 
As was the case when roses and other plants were first patented, a good many 
nurserymen were “dead set agin it’ when the first fuchsias were patented. 
Most nurserymen know now that the sure money and best protection against 
chiseling is to be found in a patented variety. The modern nurseryman is glad to 
see good varieties patented, as that protects him in all stages of marketing a plant 
and assures a reasonable established profit. We are sure that only the few nursery- 
men who do not understand how the patent works in their favor are still against it. 
In the case of fuchsias it is very simple. Take as an example the variety ‘Flying 
Cloud,” introduced in 1949 by Victor Reiter, Jr. Plants were available from him 
during 1949 at 35c each wholesale, to sell at $1.00 each retail. The next year, 1950, 
many nurseries in the West propagated their own stock of ‘Flying Cloud” and 
merely purchased the patent labels at 10c each from Mr. Reiter. The nurseryman 
could then sell his own propagated stock at wholesale for 35c each, or at retail at 
$1.00 each, provided each individual plant he sold had on one of the patent labels 
purchased from Victor Reiter, Jr. This continues on, with the originator setting the 
price per label, the wholesale price and the retail price for each succeeding year, 
during the life of the patent. 
This, then, works the same way with the two patented varieties we handled in 
1950 for the originator, Horace M. Tiret. You may propagate these two patented 
varieties, Du Barry and La Bianca, in 1951 and sell your own plants at 35c each 
wholesale to other nurseries and $1.00 each retail, provided each plant has one of 
the patent Jabels which you buy from Mr. Tiret. However, in order to avoid confu- 
sion and to facilitate sales, we will have the labels for sale for the originator, Mr. 
Tiret. You do not have to order plants of any kind from us in order to buy the 
patent labels. Just mail in your order for so many Du Barry and/or so many La 
Bianca, at 10c each. The labels will be delivered after January 1, 1951. 
See other side for propagating information. 
