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Title: Florists' review (microform)
Identifier: 5205536_30_2 (find matches)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: Chicago : Florists' Pub. Co
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Jllv 4, 1912. The Florists^ Review 13 Dr. Albert J. Oclmner, Chicago 200.00 United Nursery Co., Roseacres, Miss. . 1,281.45 David Herbert & Son, Atco, N. J 1JI5.65 Jewell Nursery Co., Lake City, Minn.. Ifi.l.TO E. E. Stewart, Rives Junction, Mich. . 422.:« Maywood Nursery Co., Maywood, 111.. 12.(K) Leesley Bros., Chicago 111.81 K. Y. Teas, CentervUle, Ind 40.00 W. C. Keed, Vlncennes, Ind 128.0,"( Good & Reese Co.. Springfield, 0 29.7o Veldhayzen Van Zeuten & Son, Llsse, Holland 494.8.- John F. Croom & Bro., Magnolia, N. C. l,(i«3.7t! W. J. Gallaway, Eaton, 0 1^2."^ F. & F. Nurseries, Springfield, N. J 164.30 Yokohama Nursery Co., New York City 138.30 C. Colyn & Sons, Voorhaut, Holland... 800.00 Harlan P. Kelsey, Salem. Mass 3U2.;(.t C. M. Hobbs & Son, Bridgeport, Ind... 200.72 O. A. D. Baldwins, Brldgeman, Mich.. 7.65 Re.vburn Mfg. Co., Philadelphia 14.00 Shenandoah Nurseries. Shenandoah. la. !^8..50 T. S. Hubbard Co., Fredonla, N. Y 188.00 n. J. Weber & Sons, Nursery, Mo 59.20 Jacks Smith & Co., Naardam. Holland. 3.50.00 W. Van Kleef, Boskoop, Holland 78.00 G. Vangelden, Boskoop, Holland 517..S5 Fred D. Jackson, Chicago 1.00 J. Walter Stead, Chicago 1.0(1 P. W. Sullivan, Chicago 1.00 Independent Brewing Co., Chicago.... 1.00 Total $13,823.41 THE SPECIAL PLANT EATE. Paper Pots Making Trouble. It recently has been brought to the attention of The Review that some of the members of the trade are having trouble in getting the special rate on plant shipments because of a misappre- hension on the part of the express com- panies—the express company employees are not sufficiently well posted on the customs in the florists' trade to be able to correctly interpret the express com- pany's own rules. The trouble is over shipments of plants where the balls are in the so- called paper pots. These shipments are entitled to the special rate, twenty per cent less than the merchandise rate. But sometimes they are billed at the full merchandise rate. A recent complaint from L. C. Stroh & Sons, Batavia, N. Y., has brought out the fact that all shipments by American Express from Rochester, N. Y., this season, where the paper "pots" were used, have been billed at the full merchandise rate. The express agent has watched for the paper pots and when he has found them, he has charged one-fourth more than he should have charged. Stroh & Sons, under protest, paid the charges on a certain shipment and wrote a letter to the American agent at Ba- tavia, asking for the refund of a certain overcharge of 83 cents. The Batavia agent referred the matter to Superin- tendent H. C. Hacock at Rochester. The latter passed it back to the depot agent at Rochester, W. B. Champlin, who said he had always billed all such shipments at the full merchandise rate under ar- ticle 29, page 24, of Official Express Classification No. 21. Superintendent Hacock said Champlin was right and instructed the agent at Batavia to ad- vise Stroh & Sons that their claim could not be allowed. It is a case in which the officials were wrong when they thought they were right. Paper Pots Are Wrappings, A number of similar cases have arisen. They have all been based on a lack of Vnowiedeo of florists' customs and the wrongful application of article 29, page 24, of the classification. The ar- ticle in question provides for the mer- chandise rate on plants "growing in pots or other receptacles, crated, and so packed that they may be stowed with other freight ana may be handled with-
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Bcrtrand H, Fair, Pretideat American Peony Society. out extra care, and without injury to the plants." The express people con- sider that the plants are "growing in (paper) pots" or that the paper pots are other receptacles. The matter of fact is the paper pots are nothing but wrapping material, used only while the plants are in the hands of the express company. The plants are not "grow- ing" in the paper pots, were not grown there, will not be left in them by the consignee. As well consider that the plants are "growing" in the old news- papers most frequently used for pro- tecting the ball of soil and roots while the plant is in transit, or that the old newspaper is an "other receptacle." Article 29, page 24, is not the one un- der which to classify plants out of clay pots with the balls protected during shijiment by pot-shaped, paper, ready-to- use wrappings. Article 13, page 18, ap- plies to such shipments, as to other live plants out of the pots in which they were grown or are to grow. It gives the "general special" rate, but there are these limitations: The plants must be *' completely boxed or crated and packed so that they may be stowed with other freight and may be handled with- out extra care." What to Do. In case plants in paper pots come billed at the merchandise rate, ask for the special rate, the correct one. In some cities the driver can get telephone instructions from the office and adjust the charge at once. If the local agent disclaims authority and will not allow the correct rate, pay under protest, taking a receipt showing the facts, and make a claim for the overcharge, point- ing out that the plants in the so-called j)aper pots are not "growing" in them and that these are nothing more than pot-shaped wrappers, ready for tempo- rary use, not to be compared to the l)lantsman 's clay pot but to the grocer's paper bag. The district superintendent will see that you get your special rate when you show him how to look at it. Some day the express companies will see a big bright light and they then will encourage the shipment of pots on the jilants, instead of discouraging it as at jtresent. The idea back of the classifi- cation doubtless is that the pots are liable to breakage, which would result in claims for damages. But every florist knows that clay pots are the least valuable part of any plant shipment, though heavy, and that the express com- panies would gain in income and save in claims for injury to plants by encour- aging the shipjting of the clay pots by allowing the general special to apply. Champaign, 111.—Gustave Johnson, who began business at 306 East Spring- field avenue about five years ago, now has 18,000 square feet of ground under glass. Part of his greenhouses are lo- cated on McKinley avenue.

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