October 3, 1908 



HORTICULTURE 



449 



DECISIONS OF THE BOARD OF 

 GENERAL APPRAISERS. 



No. 196G7— Evergreen Seedlings- 

 Transplanted Holh Plants. —Protest 

 295035 of Jackson & Perkins Com- 

 pany. 



Holly plants, classified as evergreen 

 seedlings under paragraph 252, tariff 

 act of 1897, were claimed to be duti- 

 able under the provision of the same 

 paragraph for nursery or greenhouse 

 stock. Protest overruled. 



Waite, General Appraiser: * * * The 

 question involved in this case was dis- 

 cussed by the Board in G. A. G169 

 (T. D. 26772), wherein the conclusion 

 was reached that the provision for 

 evergreen seedlings in paragraph 252 

 is not restricted to plants of a coni- 

 ferous nature, but applies to seedlings 

 of all plants that are "evergreen" — 

 that is, which retain their greenness 

 or verdure throughout the year, as 

 distinguished from those which are 

 deciduous, or which lose their foliage 

 every year. The above decision has 

 been affirmed by the circuit court (153 

 Fed. Rep., 91G; T. D. 28183) and by 

 the circuit court of appeals (T. D. 

 28953). The holly, according to this 

 distinction, belongs to the class of 

 evergreen plants, and it is so charac- 

 terized by the Standard and Century 

 dictionaries. 



The importers also contend that the 

 word "seedlings" applies only to 

 plants "in the seed bed, which have 

 not been transplanted," and that the 

 holly plants in question are not prop- 

 erly classifiable as seedlings,, inasmuch 

 as they have been "transplanted from 

 the seed bed and grown on for two 

 seasons." It was held by the Board 

 in G. A. 5305 (T. I). 24305) that the 

 word "seedlings" applies to plants 

 grown from the seed, as distinguished 

 from those propagated by cuttings, 

 budding, or grafting, irrespective of 

 whether or not they had been trans- 

 planted. No appeal having ever been, 

 taken from this ruling, it will govern 

 in this case. 



No. 19651.— Rhododendrons. — Protests 



302447, etc., of R. F. Downing & Co. 



(Boston). 



Rhododendrons, classified as nursery 

 or greenhouse stock under paragraph 

 252, tariff of 1897, were claimed to be 

 dutiable as evergreen seedlings under 

 the same paragraph on the authority of 

 United States vs. Ouwerkerk (T. D. 

 28953), in which it was held that seed- 

 lings of certain species of laurel and 

 rhododendrons which retain their ver- 

 dure throughout the year were so du- 

 tiable. Protest overruled. 



Waite, General Appraiser: * * * The 

 merchandise before us here is certain- 

 named varieties of rhododendrons, and 

 it appears from the appraiser's report 

 and other evidence to which the Board 

 has access that plants such as these 

 are never grown from the seed, but 

 are always "grafted or layered plants," 

 there being only three species of the 

 rhododendron grown from the seed, 

 none of which appears on the invoices 

 under consideration. The plants in 

 these importations not being seedlings, 



"Lorraine Begonias." 



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the decision above cited is not appli- 

 cable thereto, and we therefore hold 

 the goods have been properly assessed 

 as nursery slock. 



No. 19652. — Evergreen Seedlings.— Pro- 

 ws; 182088 of F. H. Shallus (Balti- 

 more!. Opinion by Waite, G. A. 

 On the authority of G. A. G169 (T. D. 

 26772) certain rhododendrons, ever- 

 green seedlings, hollies, etc., were held 

 dutiable as evergreen seedlings under 

 paragraph 252, tariff act of 1897, as 

 claimed by the importers. An item 

 of azaleas was held to have been prop- 

 erly classified as such under para- 

 graph 251. 



GENTIANA ACAULIS. 



This plant is a native of the Alps. 

 Its deep blue flowers are liked by every- 

 body. In Switzerland it is frequently 

 used. Its preference is a sandy clay. 

 It can be propagated by division or by 

 seed. If by the latter, in the fall the 

 seed is sown in a cold frame in a 

 mixture of leaf^mold, loam and sand; 

 from the seed bed the plants are once 

 transplanted in another cold frame and 

 then set out in their permanent places 

 about ten inches apart. The bloom- 

 ing time is from the middle of May to 

 the end of July.— From Moller's D. Gt. 



Zt'g. 



SEEDING BEGONIA GLOIRE DE 

 LORRAINE. 



Growers of Begonia Gloire de Lor- 

 raine who have failed to get seed will 

 be interested in the following note 

 clipped from The Gardeners' Chronicle 

 for Sept. 12, 190S. 



"On practically every raceme of Gloire 

 rle Lorraine bloom the last flower produced 

 is a female one. By the time this flower 

 makes its appearance, however, the plant 

 has lost most of its beauty, and the inflo- 

 rescence is removed before the female flow- 

 ers open. It follows, therefore, that to pro- 

 duce seeds of this plant, the inflorescences 

 should not be picked off until every flower 

 has opened. — C. II. Middleton. 



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 Horace J. and W. P. Wright are the 

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 $140.00 per 1000 



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