•March 31, 1917 



HORTICULTURE 



417 



After Adjournment 



In our last issue the line "St Louis 

 Show Notes" became "St. Louis Shoe 

 Notes" after it left our control. We 

 only wish we knew how to "make the 

 punishment fit the crime" but that is 

 one of the places where editors and 

 publishers are helpless. 



A New Jersey horticulturist, after long 

 experiments in hybridization, has produced 

 a purple carnation and offers cuttings for 

 $100 each. Some day will science produce a 

 purple cow? — Boston Globe. 



That's nothing, New Jersey already 

 has Charlie Totty and Woodrow Wil- 

 son, not to mention orchids and hens 

 on which she is invulnerable, and we 

 came near forgetting Barnegat. 



We shall be greatly interested in the 

 outcome of that proposed new retail 

 florists' organization in Toronto. It 

 they succeed in finding a way to con- 

 fine the public sale of flowers to the 

 "exclusive retail stores" and educate 

 the public so as to get the "cut-rate 

 dealers' " goat, then the millenium 

 must be near at hand. 



Estimating that the expenditure for flow- 

 ers at Jewish funerals in New York amounts 

 to $163,S00 a year, men prominent in Jewish 

 charities recommend that the practice be 

 moditled or abandoned and the money 

 spent "to assist the living." But what of 

 the florists who would lose the business? 

 Who'd assist them? 



— Wo7-cester (Mass.) Post. 



Right you are. The florist evidently 

 has a sane friend in the Worcester 

 Post. If some people had their way 

 the human being would be simply 

 mouth and stomach like some of the 

 strange things we sometimes pull up 

 out of the sea when we go aflshing. 



Just as modestly as the first violet, and 

 without the least notice, the spring show 

 of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 

 is upon the city. It opened in Horticul- 

 tural Hall, Broad street, below Locust, and 

 will have its last day for the public today. 

 All the spring flowers from the hothouses 

 are represented, and all the usual Main 

 Line greenhouses are represented with the 

 standby friends from all about Philadel- 

 phia. . — Phila. Record, Mar. 27. 



The shows of the Penn. Horticultural 

 Society are always noteworthy, but the 

 day has gone by when this alone will 

 awaken needed public interest in a 

 flower show. This venerable organiza- 

 tion will have to follow suit and adopt 

 modern ways if its wants to stay on 

 the map. 



EXCLUSION OF CURRANT AND 



GOOSEBERRY PLANT 



IMPORTATION. 



The secretary of agriculture deems 

 it necesary, in order to effectively 

 prevent the introduction into the 

 United States of the white pine blister 

 rust (Peridermium strobi Kleb.), to 

 extend the provisions of notice of 

 Quarantine No. 7, issued May 21, 1913, 

 to forbid the importation of all currant 

 and gooseberry plants from Europe 

 and Asia. 



In compliance with Section 7 of the 

 Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 

 1912, (37 Stat. 315), a public hearing 

 will be held at the Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C Room 

 410 Bieber Building, at ten o'clock A. 

 M., on April 10, 1917, in order that all 

 persons interested in the importation 

 of currant and gooseberry plants from 

 Europe and Asia may be heard either 

 in person or by attorney. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN 

 F LORIST S 



Meeting of Executive Board 



The mid-Lent meeting of the execu- 

 tive board of this Society was held at 

 the Hotel Biltniore, New York, on 

 Friday and Saturday, March 16 and 17. 

 The following officers and directo. s 

 were present: 



R. C. Kerr, Houston, Texas, president; 

 A. L. Miller, Jamaica, N. Y., vice-president ; 

 John Y'oung, New York, secretary; J. J. 

 Hess, Omaha, Neb., treasurer; Wm. K. 

 Nicholson, Framingham, Mass.; Wm. J. 

 Keimel, Elmhurst, 111. ; William F. Gude, 

 Washington, D. C. ; Charles L. Buum, 

 Kno-xville, Tenu. ; Frank X. Stuppy, St. 

 Joseph, Mo. ; George W. Hess, Washington, 

 D. C; George Asmus, Chicago, 111.; S. S. 

 Pennock. Philadelphia, Pa. ; J. F. Ammann, 

 Edwardsville, 111. ; George E. M. Stumpp, 

 New York; A. Farenwald, Koslyn, Pa.; 

 Daniel MacRorie. San Francisco, Cal. ; Paul 

 R. Klingsporn. Chicago. 111. 



Ex-Presldent Patrick Welch. Boston, 

 Mass., was present on the invitation 

 of President Kerr. William H. Amling, 

 director through his office as presi- 

 dent of the Chicago Florists' Club, 

 through illness, was unable to be pres- 

 ent and the Club's credentials delegat- 

 ing Paul R. Klingsporn as a substitute 

 director were, on motion, accepted. 

 Credentials from the various affiliated 

 bodies covering the directors appoint- 

 ed by them were presented and, on 

 motion, accepted, and the directors 

 duly seated. President Kerr an- 

 nounced that he had exercised the 

 privilege of inviting the members of 

 the National Flower Show Committee 

 to sit at the meetings of the Board. 



Secretary Young reported that O. J. 

 Olson, St. Paul, Minn., had agreed to 

 act as chairman of the committee on 

 "Mother's Day." He also read a letter 

 from E. J. Fancourt. a member of the 

 committee, reporting an interview re- 

 cently had with Miss Jarvis in Phila- 

 delphia, and she had arranged to con- 

 sider the matter of the best assistance 

 the committee could render to advance 

 the Mother's Day movement. Mr. Fan- 

 court expressed the opinion that it a 

 proper campaign was started, at least 

 $5,000 could be raised for the work, 

 and suggested that the Society might 

 be willing to advance the sum of $1,000 

 to start such a campaign. Some dis- 

 cussion ensued, which very generally 

 endorsed the idea of supporting Miss 

 .larvis in her work, and finally the 

 Board directed that an advance of 

 $l,00u be made to the committee, or as 

 much thereof as might be necessary. 



The project of the establishment of 

 a National Credit and Collection Bu- 

 reau was discussed at some length 

 and, in order that the committee in 

 charge of the project might have some- 

 thing definite upon which to work, 

 the president was directed to appoint 

 a committee of three to draft sugges- 

 tions in the matter, to be endorsed by 

 the Board, if found acceptable. Presi- 

 dent Kerr appointed the following as 

 such committee: S. S. Pennock, W. J. 

 Keimel and G. E. M. Stumpp, with the 

 latter as chairman. There was no re- 

 port from the Committee on Develop- 



ment of American Products. The 

 Committee on School Gardens reported 

 progress. 



The report of the committee on Tar- 

 iff and Legislation was presented by 

 James McHutchison of the committee, 

 who was introduced by Mr. Gude, the 

 chairman, in an address in which he 

 appealed for prompt action by the 

 Board on the recommendations embod- 

 ied in the report. (This report ap- 

 liears elsewhere in this paper.) 



The following resolutions were then 

 offered by Mr. Gude: 



WHERriAS. It has come to our notice 

 that an effort is to be made to introduce 

 legislation into Congress, seeking to pro- 

 liil)it at some future time the importation 

 of plants, bulbs, plant iiroducts and nur- 

 sery stock of all kinds from every source; 

 and 



WHEREAS, The Executive Committee of 

 the Society of American Florists' and Orna- 

 mental Horticulturists consider such meas- 

 ures not only unnecessary but injurious to 

 the welfare of Its members and of the 

 whole horticultural trade of the United 

 States ; therefore 



BE IT RESOLVED, That the Chairman 

 of the Legislative Committee of the S. A. 

 F. & O. H. be empowered, and he is here- 

 by empowered, to oppose the proposed leg- 

 islation, to act according to his judgment 

 In the interests of our organization at the. 

 forthcoming conference, to get what as- 

 sistance he can from any of its members, 

 and to share with the Nurserymen's Legis- 

 lative Committee the expense of employing 

 a trained man to help protect our joint 

 interests. 



The foregoing resolutions were, after 

 a hard discussion, adopted without 

 change. 



Secretary Young presented corre- 

 spondence regarding movements in 

 Ohio and Maine requiring the licensing 

 of firemen employed in greenhouse es- 

 tablishments. Mr. Gude criticised 

 such requirements as absolutely non- 

 sensical and believed they should be 

 opposed by the Society. Maine was 

 following the precedent set by Ohio, 

 and a bill was before a committee of 

 its legislature seeking the licensing of 

 firemen in charge of low pressure 

 heating plants. He offered the follow- 

 ing resolution, which was passed: 



RESOL'PED, That the Society of Ameri- 

 can Florists and Ornamental Horticultur- 

 ists absolutely oppose the legislation pro- 

 posed in the State of Maine compelling the 

 employment of a licensed fireman for the 

 firing of greenhouse bailers carrying less 

 than" ten pounds pressure, as being injur- 

 ious to the welfare of the horticultural 

 trade; and that this Society deprecates the 

 laws already passed in Ohio or other 

 states, as highly detrimental ta the horti- 

 cultural interests affected by them. 



Mr. Gude also offered the following 

 resolution: 



WHEREAS. Several of the States of the 

 Tnited States have enacted statutes relative 

 to the inspection of stock, which renders 

 it practically impossible to send commer- 

 cial shipments into such states; it is there- 

 fore 



RESOLVED, That the Society of Ameri- 

 ,-[n Florists and Ornamental Horticul- 

 tiirists through its Tariff and Legislative 

 Committee use its power and influence to 

 secure the enactment of uniform inspec- 

 tion laws throughout the United States. 



This resolution was also carried. 



The report of the committee on 

 Trade Directory which, at the Houston 



