November 30, 1918 



HOfiTiaULTURE 



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enway that the National War Gardeu 

 Commission is planning a camiiaign 

 to increase, if possible, the production 

 of food by home gardeners so that as 

 much as possible ot the country's 

 general production can be released to 

 the suffering nations. In the discus- 

 sion that followed, it soon became ap- 

 parent that the impression prevailed 

 in many communities that War Gar- 

 dens were a thing of the past and not 

 to be resumed next year. After learn- 

 ing how urgent it was that this work 

 be continued, the members present, 

 who had been actively engaged in 

 this work, pledged themselves to re- 

 new their efforts, and a motion was 

 unanimously carried that the National 

 Association of Gardeners co-operate in 

 every way possible with the National 

 War Garden Commission in furthering 

 the campaign it has under way, and 

 that individual members of the asso- 

 ciation interest themselves in the 

 work in their respective communities 

 by offering their aid wherever they 

 can serve. 



J. K. M. L. Farquhar, who requires 

 no introduction to a Boston audience, 

 was called on by the chair to speak 

 on the effects of plant import restric- 

 tions on American horticulture. After 

 relating his several visits to Washing- 

 ton to protest against the proposed 

 restrictions and the disposition of the 

 Federal Horticultural Board to put 

 the proposed restrictions into force, 

 Mr. Farquhar stated that American 

 nurserymen were already growing 

 plants, some of them of better quality 

 than the foreign product, of varieties 

 that it was believed a few years ago 

 could not be produced in this country. 

 and that in time other varieties 

 would be produced. Tbe speaker 

 agreed that while the restrictions 

 might even be a good incentive to in- 

 crease production among American 

 nurserymen, the time limit of the 

 plant import restrictions should be 

 extended to give American nursery- 

 men opportunity to prepare to meet 

 the demand for their stock that will 

 be occasioned by closing the doors to 

 foreign plants. 



Mr. Leonard Barron of New York 

 said that he had been endeavoring to 

 discover just how American nursery- 

 men stood on the question of plant 

 import restrictions and that his Inves- 

 tigsitions proved they were somewhat 

 divided on the matter: that he was dis- 

 posed to believe in the long run it 

 would be a good thing for American 

 nurserymen, though he believed that 

 more time should have been given to 

 prepare themselves against the restric- 

 tions. In the discussion that followed, 

 it was claimed that If American nur- 

 serymen would turn to the cultivation 



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