. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. ed Lists. We are accustomed to hear of shortsupplies of seeds owing to unpropitiousseasons, but it is not so common to hearof a deficiency from volcanic action. Theheavy and prolonged rain of asheswhich fell in April last during the out-break of Mount Vesuvius destroyedmany crops around the volcano and sup-plies of vegetable and flower seeds willin consequence be deficient.—GardenersChronicle. The Prevention of Corruption Act. We are afraid some of our readerswill almost begin to tire of the numer-ous references to this subject whichwe h
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. ed Lists. We are accustomed to hear of shortsupplies of seeds owing to unpropitiousseasons, but it is not so common to hearof a deficiency from volcanic action. Theheavy and prolonged rain of asheswhich fell in April last during the out-break of Mount Vesuvius destroyedmany crops around the volcano and sup-plies of vegetable and flower seeds willin consequence be deficient.—GardenersChronicle. The Prevention of Corruption Act. We are afraid some of our readerswill almost begin to tire of the numer-ous references to this subject whichwe have made of late, but it is one ofsuch immense importance, not only Inour business, but to the whole com-mercial word, that we feel it our dutyto keep the trade thoroughly posted ineach fresh point as it arises. H. Mor-gan Veitch has very kindly drawn ourattention to an aspect of the case whichhas up to the present received very lit-tle attention, the nature of which ren-ders it extremely unadvisable to venti-late in the public press; we refer to the. READING AND SHOW ROOM OF W. W. RAWSON & NEW STORE. 1907. The American Florist. 1161 liability to civil action incurred bythose wlio give anytiiing in ttie natureof discount or commission to an agent. It cannot be too strongly impressedupon members of tlie trade that inaddition to the criminal risks they willincur after January, they are even nowliable to civil action by any customerfor the repayment to him of all sumswhich they may have paid to his gar-dener or agent as commission. Weneed scarcely indicate to any intelligentreader that this is a view of the casewhich it would not be wise to discuss inthe ears of the public but it should re-ceive its proper share of considerationamong ourselves. How real the risk iswill be judged from the following notesof a case in which he was himself en-gaged, very kindly supplied to us by : A tobacco manufacturer, whom wewill call A, sold very largely to afirm we may here refer
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