December 14, 1918 



11 U li T 1 C U L T U K E 



585 



A CHEERY LETTER FROM J. J. 

 LANE. 



Somewhere in France, 

 November 13, 1918. 

 Dear Mr. Stewart: — 



I am writing this within forty-eight 

 hours after the granting of the armi- 

 stice and on a day so beautiful as to 

 lend an oppropriate setting for the 

 wonderful emotions that come to us 

 in these hours. A few nights ago, 

 while we were slielling the Germans, 

 and were receiving goodly portion of 

 their sliell fire in return, the outloolt 

 was very dark indeed. Now, the sun 

 is shining and peace dawns over all 

 the land. 



As I look from the window of my 

 station, I see a group of our boys en- 

 gaged in the strenuous work of clean- 

 ing up the town. Shoveling into piles 

 and carting away the grime and dirti- 

 ness accumulated in four years of war 

 is going to be no easy task, but the 

 fact that our boys turn to this accom- 

 plishment within forty-eight hours 

 after the signing of the truce by our 

 enemy, shows me how clearly we as 

 a people desire good surroundings, 

 cleanliness and beauty. 



During the days of war a great part 

 of France was covered with dust and 

 rubbish which could only occur in a 

 period when her people were engaged 

 in a tremendously important work. 

 Now that the mission of beating the 

 damn Hun is finished, we all turn to 

 the work of improving our surround- 

 ings. 



I'm thinking, far away from all that 

 reminds me of Garden Magazine and 

 beauty and fragrance of roses and 

 other gifts of God,— that the people 

 of the world are mighty soon going to 

 turn with renewed interest to the pur- 

 suit of gardening. 



We're going to push down the 

 beauty pedal in our organ of life real 

 hard, from now on, because so many 

 of us have seen the side of lite shown 

 up in all its German hideousness— 

 and want to forget it. 



Not alone do I see great years for 

 flower gardening and beauty garden- 

 ing coming, but bigger than ever 

 years of home "good supply" garden- 

 ing because of the place which the 

 home food garden has built for itself 

 during the days of the war. 



I am longing for the day when I 

 can come back to you all and "carry 

 on" the old friendships, and I hope 

 I may have many to renew. 



November 15th.— The rumors are 

 flying about again— in the army we 

 have many. We may be home soon. 



If you get a few lines of space in 

 the paper, put in a word to tell the 

 bunch I send my best regards. It's 

 pretty lonesome I get sometimes, and 

 the bunch back home don't do much 

 writing. Of course, they are all very 

 busy, but I do appreciate every single 

 letter. It's pretty late now, and_ I 

 am tired— as usual, and lazy— so I'm 

 going to close with best wishes for 

 your health and happiness, and the 

 hope that I may see you real soon. 

 Your friend, 



Joe L.\ne 

 Corporal, Headquarters, Co. 302, 

 Field Artillery, A. E. F., France. 



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THE PLANT EXCLUSION TANGLE 



Editor HoKTTcrLTURE: 

 Dear Sir — 



We have been sending out about 

 one hundred circulars as below to our 

 main correspondents in the plant line 

 in Holland, Belgium, England and 

 France. The mails to Belgium are 

 now open to letters and printed mat- 

 ter. 



Aside from Diplomatic pressure, we 

 see no other remedy but by action of 

 Congress, defining, or reversing and 

 limiting the rights of the Federal 

 Horticultural Board, which, as far as 

 we can judge, construe Section 7 of 

 the Quarantine Act of August 20th, 

 1912, in a wrong and arbitrary man- 

 ner They offer no proofs in the letter 

 of August 29th, they quote no locali- 

 ties nor countries which are to bring 

 these new insect pests and diseases 

 not heretofore widely prevalent or dis- 

 tributed in the United States. What 

 about all the other bulbs except the 

 six ones quoted? Are they more dan- 

 gerous; will the trade of Seedsmen 

 and Florists, and quite some of the 

 Nurserymen quietly submit to this, 

 without an effort for a remedy? The 

 Department Solicitor's opinion has no 

 value to us, except to show his igno- 

 rance of the practical horticultural 

 workings of the past. 



Injunction proceedings would throw 

 the proof onto us. and be costly and 

 likely too slow. But if every reader 

 of your paper will address his Con- 

 gressman and Senator with a call for 

 iielp and prompt help, that may stir 

 our next Congress into timely action 

 to either extend the time of quaran- 

 tine reasonably, or rescind the Board's 

 action. 



Yours very truly, 



WiNFRED ROLKER of A. R. & S. 



Following is a copy of the circular 

 letter: 



General Notice to the ForeiEn Horticul- 

 tural Trade. and .Allied Branches. 



OinitlentPn : — 



Tho Dep.Trtment of Agriculture bn^ ap- 

 pi-oveil on November 18th the drastic 

 propositions of the Federal Ilortionltiirnl 

 Hoard, issued l>,v circular letter of August 

 2!i|h. 



Thi.<< will mean TOT.\L exclusion of ALL 

 PLANT I.MPORTATIONS from ALL For- 

 eign Countries, exceptinir only the fruit 

 tree seedlings for propagation and the 

 ro.se stoclis. like Manetti. r.riar, etc. when 



imported for propagating purposes, both 

 subject to restricted importation. All 

 this to talie effect with .luue flst. 1!)19. 



Field, Vegetable and Flower yee<ls are 

 allowed unrestricted importation. HULltS 

 ami lULBOr.S ROOTS are excludwl, ex- 

 cepting only Lily bulbs, Lily of the valley, 

 Narcissus, Hyacinths. Tulips and Crocus, 

 free from I)alls of soil or earth: but these 

 are put under the restricted list, subject 

 to foreign and home inspection: likewise 

 nuts, iucludiug iialm seeds, for oil or re- 

 I'roduction purposes, aud seeds of fruit, 

 forest, ornamental and shade trees, seeds 

 of deciduous and evergreen ornamental 

 shrubs, and seeds of hardy perennial 

 plattts. 



The protests of the American Horticul- 

 tural Trade have been of no avail: hut 

 since' an argument used by the Board in 

 support of these regulations was "that 

 nearly all European countries exclude 

 .American nursery stocks, and some coun- 

 tries also exclude the bullts". we have a 

 faint belief that Diplomatic pressure and 

 proposed counter concessions ma.v tend to 

 lessen somewhat the extra drastic exclu- 

 sions. Draw your own inference, and. If 

 interested, start timely action. 



Hy notification of November 2Sth of the 

 War Trade Board, Bureau of Imports, 

 former licenses issued and those extended 

 will from now on remain in force until re- 

 voked; the ninety day limit Is withdrawn. 

 Yours very respectfully 

 August Rolkee & Sons. 

 New York, December 4, 1018. 



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