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HORTICULTURE, 



December 1, 1906 



THE GLASS QUESTION AS IT 

 AFFECTS GREENHOUSE MEN. 



Pui'suant to the actiou taken by the 

 Florists' Convention at Dayton, Ohio, 

 in appointing a committee to consider 

 what might be done with the glass 

 tariff, the correspondence below is of 

 interest to everyone in tht craft: 



Fishkill-oU'Hudsou. N. Y., 



Nov. 2i>. I'M). 

 JIou. Sereuo E. Payne, 

 Auburn, N. Y. 



Dear Sir: — I am constraiiu-d lo atldress 

 you upon a matter of foiisid<-T;iblf Inter- 

 est to a large craft of men wlio use win- 

 dow glass In rlipir bu.sinoss to the amount 

 of millions of square feet, and that is the 

 florists of the United States. 



At the annual convention of the Society 

 of American l<"lorists, held at Dayton, 

 Ohio, one <»f the most important matters 

 brought up was that of the iluty now im- 

 posed upon window glas.s, which is an ad- 

 vance so much greater than existed prior 

 to 1S9G, and which larilT raised the price 

 of this commodity very materially per 

 pound on every bo.\ of glass used. 



With th<> knowledge of your standing in 

 Congress and being a UHMnbcr of the Com- 

 mittee appointed l)y the (^onventitni, I have 

 for some time thoiiglit of lading this mat- 

 ter before you and to ask that now elec- 

 tion is over and we know how the drift 

 of affairs will l)e the next two years, if 

 the matter of reduction of taritt rates 

 would stand any chanc** of receiving 

 consideration at the approa<-hliig ses- 

 sion <,f Congi-ess. or if at the present 

 stage of public opinion, it wouhi be labor 

 lost to attempt to do anything directly 

 without pronounced agitation. 



The greenhouse men of the United 

 States, the number of whom runs into the 

 thousands, all feel that the present high 

 cost of thjs necessary article is to them 

 very largely enhanced by the existing ex- 

 cessive duty and If this duty could be 

 brought down to the rale prior' to tlie tar- 

 iff of i.S97. that it would be an e<-o!inmic 

 gain, wlilch would work no harm to i>ro- 

 tlucers. because many of us believe and 

 think that the tariff, .-is It exists today, 

 is ovei'done and the party that should cor- 

 rect the matter is the Kepubliian in con- 

 trol of the majority. 



Our General Ketcham is dcati s<i we can- 

 not go to the old gentleman foi" advice as 

 to wiiat we might gain if we went to 

 Washington. 



Knclosed Is an article from a Horlst trade 

 paper, which shows tlio interest by tlic 

 tlorist craft. 



We should lie glad to hear from yon 

 npnn ibis important stibject. 



Votirs rcsiiectfullv, 

 hi: N J A MIX 1 1 A .M .M ()N D. 



ro.M.MITTKK ON WAYS AND MEANS. 

 Hou.se of Representatives, 

 Washington, D. C. 

 Auburn. N. Y., Nov lit. l!)Ol!. 

 Mr. Henjamin Hammond, 



I'ishkill-on-Hudson. N. V. 



Dear Sir: — Yours of the 2lith Inst, re- 

 ceived. Congress meets this year on the 

 .■?rd of December, and the term of this 

 Congress expires on the 4tli uf Min-ch. 

 giving tlirec months, wltli the exceiiliou 

 of the holidays, for what work we have 

 to do. The time Is barely sulHc:ient to 

 give consideration to the appropriation 

 Idlls which will come up. All would agree 

 It would be entirely im|iossible to pass 

 a tariff bill. 



While yf)u desire but one item of the 

 tariff changed, this could not be consid- 

 ered without taking up the whole subleet 

 of tariff revision and considering all the 

 claims for changes to be made to the 

 different schedules. This, of course, is a 

 matter that requires much lime and de- 

 liberation. 



r read with interest your statement In 



the florists' paper. While we imported 

 $54,0110,000 of cylinder, crown and com- 

 mon window gla.ss In 1S96 and hut $18,000.- 

 000 In round numbers in 1905. it would ap- 

 pear that our workmen had $:ili,OIK),000 

 worth more of glass to manufacture at 

 the latter date than in 1896. This means, 

 of course, prosperity to the workmen in 

 the glass manufacturing business. 



Yon would readily admit that your busi- 

 ness had been much better since 1897, 

 than It was in the three years preceding 

 that .year under the Wilson tariff act, and 

 the year or two before that when the 

 ( ounfr.y was prostrated because of the 

 uncertainty of what the Wilson people 

 might do, * for your business must be ver.v 

 dependent upon the general prosperity of 

 the country. It would be w~ell for you 

 to take into consideration %vhether it is not 

 better to have tlie country generally pros- 

 perous under the present act, whicll brings 

 prosperit.v to your business, rather than 

 to restore the glass business to its con- 

 dition under the Wilson tariff, thereby 

 bringing .vour business back to tlie same 

 condition of affairs. I only throw out 

 this suggestion for .vour consideration, be- 

 cause when the subject of tariff revision 

 is taken up. I shall hope to hear from the 

 llorlsts on this subject. 



Yours ver.v truly, 



SERENO E. PAYNE. 



GREENHOUSES BUILDING AND 



PROJECTED. 



Additions. 



Plainfielil. X. J.— C. L. Stanley, ad- 

 ditions. 



Northfield, Mass. — Joseph W. Field, 

 enlarsin;;. 



East Thetford, 'Vt.— Mr. 'Wilkin.son. 

 one house. 



Greenland, N. H. — Edward Clough, 

 one house. 



Hill City. Tenn.— W. F. Hager, one 

 house, 2.")XfiO. 



Franklin Falls. N. H.— Franklin 

 Floral Co., range of houses. 



New York, N. Y.— Central Park, 

 eight houses and a palm house, to cost 

 $3.S,275. 



836,181. 

 836.214. 

 836,230. 



836,284. 



836,328. 



836,388. 

 8.36,623. 



LIST OF PATENTS. 

 November 20, 1906. 



Spraying Glove. James Cray, 

 Champaign. 111. 



Tree Cultivator. George B. 

 Reeve. La Mirada, Cal. 



Grass Receptacle. La Fayette 

 Wildermuth, Columbus, 



Ohio. 



Grass Grubber. Charles W. 

 Stark, Mountain Lake, 

 Minn. 



Device for Supporting Plants. 

 William Maxfield, Barring- 

 ton, R. L, assignor of one- 

 half to William C. Dimond, 

 Warren. R. L 



Orange Clipper. James G. 

 Kyle, Riverside, Cal. 



Turfing Implement. Joseph 

 Bercha, Atkinson, Neb. 



There is not a single point in the whole 

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 importance to that of keeping the collar 

 of the trunk above the surface: and there 

 is not one which is more generally either 

 neglected, or by some means or other 

 counteracted, not oidy in small, but In 

 large gardens. — Loudon. 



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