January 23, 1909 



HORTICULTURE 



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For Early or Late Forcing 



HARDY AZALEA, MOLLIS— This hardy Azalea is becoming more popular every 

 season to force as a pot plant ; it is a profitable plant to handle, as it can be grown at a 

 minimum cost ; when in bloom it is useful for decorative purposes, and also appeals to the 

 retail buyer as a house plant. We have an exceptionally fine lot of well budded plants, 

 15 to 18 inches high, $4.50 per do/; $35.00 per 100. 



RHODODENDRON, PINK PEARL,— As an ideal pot plant, nothing can equal 

 this beautiful variety. The individual flowers as well as the trusses are of gigantic size, 

 while its color, a beautiful pearly pink, cannot be improved upon. We believe this is one 

 of the coming pot plants, and when it becomes more plentiful and lower in price it will be 

 very popular, ^'ou should try a few plants and become acquainted with it. A limited 

 stock of good plants, about 15 inches high, with 5 or more trusses, $1.50 each. 



DEUTZIAS, Extra strong field grown plants for forcing. 



GRACILIS $1-25 per dozen; $8.00 per 100; $70.00 per 1000 



Rosea 1.25 per dozen; 8.00 per 100; 70.00 per 1000 



LEMOINEI 1.50 per dozen; 10.00 per 100; 90.00 per 1000 



For a lull line of seasonable stock see our wholesale list, issued January 1st 



HENRY A. DREER, 



Philadelphia, Pa. 



AN IMPORTANT APPRAISERS' 

 DECISION. 



The Board of L'. S. General Apprais- 

 ers in New York have just made a 

 decision which will be of great bene- 

 fit to importers of bulbs, inasmuch as 

 it sets aside the arbitrary foreign mar- 

 ket values of Dutch bulbs established 

 by the New York appraisers. 



The case involved is Re-appraisment 

 No. 496.57 on 64 cases of bulbs import- 

 ed by R. & J. Farquhar & Co. of 

 Boston, in the S. S. Statendam. from 

 Rotterdam, and invoiced August 13th, 

 1908. The appraiser at Boston ad- 

 vanced the invoice prices of tulips, hy- 

 acinths, and polyanthus narcissus, af- 

 ter having forwarded the invoice to 

 New York for the opinion of the ap- 

 praisers there; the advance carrying 

 with it a large penalty. In taking this 

 action the Boston appraiser states that 

 he believed the invoice to be an hon- 

 est one but that the bulbs had been 

 bought at less than market value. 



Messrs. Farquhar appealed from the 

 appraisers' advances, claiming that the 

 invoice represented actual value of the 

 bulbs at time and place of shipment. 

 They showed that the prices of hya- 

 cinths given in the Holland catalogues 

 printed and distributed to the Ameri- 

 can trade did not represent their mar- 

 ket value in Holland, where they were 

 freely offered to other countries at 

 prices much lower. Foreign cata- 

 logues giving such prices were put in 

 evidence. The appraiser's values had 

 been based largely on the prices 

 quoted in such catalogues and, there- 

 fore, did not represent the true mar- 

 ket values in Holland. General Ap- 

 praiser Waite- at the first hearing in 

 Boston sustained Messrs. Farquhar's 

 appeal as to hyacinths, and also as to 

 polyanthus narcissus which they 

 claimed and showed to be freely of- 

 fered in Holland at the prices invoiced. 

 He also allowed the importers' conten- 

 tion on invoices of certain varieties 

 of tulips, but denied it in respect to cer- 

 tain other tulips. It was on these last 

 that the cat'e came before the full 

 Board. Here again the importers 

 maintained that their invoice prices 

 and not those of the appraiser repre- 

 sented the cojrect foreign market 

 value of the tulips. They stated that 

 tulips were offered to the different 

 countries by the Holland growers at 

 pric'es more nearly uniform than hya- 



cinths were. Tiiey contended that the 

 governineiit was iu error in fixing a 

 standard of value on any variety of 

 tulip without reference to size and 

 quality ot the bulbs, even although 

 they might be imported as first size. 

 They t;xi ibited samplfts in support of 

 their contention, including samples ot' 

 so-called first size tulips from certaiu 

 growers, some of which were fifty to 

 seve.ity-five perceiifum larger than the 

 fit St size of the same variety from 

 other growers. It was also shown that 

 there was little uniformity in the 

 bulb prices in Holland — that the ex- 

 ptrtei-s sold their bulbs at all sorts 

 of prices — and that there were no reg- 

 ularlv established export prices. 



The task of Messrs. Farquhar was 

 rendered more difficult by the course 

 tsken by many Impoiters who, when 

 waking their entries, voluntarily add 

 to tbeir iiivc'ice prices, not because of 

 undervaluation, but as the easiest way 

 of securing prompt delivery of the 

 examination packages and ot avoiding 

 pfcUiilties as they hare seen it. In the 

 light of this derision it would seem 

 that such humiliating compromising 

 methods should now be unnecessary 

 it the in.poiter only insists upon his 

 rights and demands prompt service 

 and justice. 



907,198 



907.20S 

 P07.245 



907,371 



>J07,3S1 



907,386 

 907.493 

 ;i07,.570 



907,572 



PATENTS GRANTED. 

 Lawn Mower. Daniel G. 

 Treat, Reading, Pa., as- 

 signor to Reading Hardware 

 Company, Reading, Pa. 

 Fruit Harvester. Augustus 



Wettenge!, Fulton, N. Y. 

 Shaipening Device for Lawn 

 Mowers. Daniel B. Kenney, 

 Huntington, W. 'Va. 

 Lawn Mower. Oscar M. Keith 

 and Ernest L. Early, New- 

 ton, Iowa. 

 Sash Holder. Frank Lenkey, 

 and Joseph Szalay, New 

 York. N. Y. 

 Tile Press. 'William P. 



Meeker, Maplewood, N. .T. 

 Sash Holder. Oscar Gunther, 



Kellogg. Idaho. 

 Electric Insect Destroyer. 

 Thomas C. Cheney and John 

 S. Bosson. Chickasha, Okla. 

 Smoke Consuming Forced 

 Draft Steam Boiler Furnace. 

 Alfred Cotton, Newark, 

 N. J. 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL 

 COLLEGE. 



Eber Holmes of Montrose, Mass., 

 gave a very instructive talk before 

 the classes in fioriculture last Wednes- 

 day. Mr. Holmes spoke on methods 

 followed in the propagation and cul- 

 ture of roses, and he treated the sub- 

 ject in a practical, comprehensive 

 manner. Nineteen are taking the 

 short course in floriculture. These 

 are: — J. B. Allen. Haverhill, Mass.; 

 L. E. Avery, Plymouth, Mass; R. A. 

 Badger, Tolman's. Randolph, Vt.; H. 

 T. Barstow, South Hadley, Mass.; 

 Harry Badger. New York City; E. P. 

 Belcher, South Framingham, Mass.; 

 J. C. Bibber, Freeport, Me.; P. A. 

 Derr, "Williamsport, Pa.; G. A. Felch, 

 Fetch's Greenhouses, Ayer, Mass.; N. 

 J. Fennelly, Galviu's. Boston, Mass.; 

 R. M. Forbes. Worcester Conserva- 

 tories, Worcester, Mass.: W. S. Fin- 

 lay, E. G. Hill Co., (Richmond, Ind.) 

 Zanesvllle, C; Esther M. Johnson, 

 Cambridge, Mass.; F. L. Midgeley, 

 Worcester Conservatories, Worcester, 

 Mass.; E. M. F. Perrin, Potsdam, N. 

 Y.; A. A. Phelps, Southboro, Mass.; 

 E. A. R. Schmitz. Danvers, Mass.; A. 

 L. Galerneau, Totman's, Randolph, 

 "Vt.; Harlow Welch, Boston. Many of 

 these young men will return to their 

 former positions, but few desire po- 

 sitions after March 15th. 



The observation trip last Saturday 

 was to the commercial establishment 

 of H. W. Field. Northampton. This 

 range is strictly up-to-date in every 

 respect, and is one of the very best in 

 central Massachusetts. All of Mr. 

 Field's crops were in excellent con- 

 dition and the trip was an excellent 

 object lesson of how a range of green- 

 houses should be run. Detailed writ- 

 ten reports of the trip, including a 

 sketch to show the location of all the 

 houses, have been prepared by each 

 short-course student. This week the 

 trip will be to Mt. Holyoke College 

 Conservatories. E. A. WHITE. 



Amherst, Mass. 



California Privet. 



We have 10 acres to ofler for sale ttiis Spring. 

 AW 2 years old. » to 2% ft high, 8 to 12 

 branches and well graded \Vc are booking 

 orders daily now. $2 75 per 100 ; $22.50 

 per 1 000. 500 at 1 000 rates. 

 Packing Free. .-. Cash with Order. 



JOHN BENNETT, Atlantic Highlands, N. J. 



