October 25, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



351 



THE GOULD BILL. 



A Measure of Great Importance to 

 Nurserymen. 



The following very important circu- 

 lar is being sent members of the Amer- 

 ican Association of Nurserymen: 



Your attention is asked to the Gould 

 Bill. H. R. No. 5939. It is short; here 

 it is: 



Be it enacted by the Senate and 

 House of Representatives of the 

 United States of America in Congress 

 assembled, That the Secretary of Agri- 

 tulture be, and is hereby, authorized to 

 assemble, grow, and test plant mate- 

 rial deemed desirable or suitable for 

 use in propagating fruit, nut, and or- 

 namental trees and other plants, for 

 the purpose of determining stocks bet- 

 ter adapted to the climatic soil and 

 other conditions under which fruit 

 nut and ornamental plants are grown. 



To establish and maintain mother 

 orchards or plantations for the pur- 

 pose of providing domestic sources of 

 seeds, cuttings, or other propagating 

 material in order that the future of 

 the American fruit, nut and ornamen- 

 tal plant interests may be insured and 

 placed under domestic control, depen- 

 dence for such stocks now being large- 

 ly on foreign sources. 



To investigate methods of growing 

 stocks, study methods of propagation 

 and to encourage the propagation of 

 fruit, nut, and ornamental trees and 

 other plants in this country. 



Sec. 2. That there be, and is here- 

 by, appropriated out of any moneys in 

 the Treasury not otherwise appropri- 

 ated, the sum of $30,000 for the pur- 

 pose of carrying into effect the ob- 

 jects of this Act, including the rental 

 of lands, the purchase of equipment 

 and supplies, the payment of rent, and 

 the employment of such person or per- 

 sons and means in the District of Co- 

 lumbia and elsewhere as the Secretary 

 of Agriculture may deem necessary. 



The bill provides for tests and ex- 

 periments to provide suitable and ade- 

 quate supplies for home-grown seeds, 

 seedlings and stocks for propagating 

 purposes. 



Most things formerly imported are 

 now excluded. Many of those things 

 can be and are being propagated here 

 now. Other and needed things are not 

 being grown here and their production 

 in suitable quality and in adequate- 

 supply has to be undertaken by way of 

 experiment and therefore at expense, 

 and it is doubtful if individual effort 

 can be depended on for experiments of 

 doubtful results and uncertain returns. 



And there are some other things 

 still permitted entry, like fruit-tree 

 seedlings and rose stocks, whose fu- 

 ture supply is uncertain for two rea- 



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sons: the possible further action of 

 the Federal Horticultural Board and 

 the attitude of the foreign growers. It 

 is not to be imagined that the Federal 

 Horticultural Board may act hastily 

 or arbitrarily, but the inclusion of 

 stocks now permitted entry with those 

 excluded, would be logical and may 

 possibly be considered necessary at 

 some future date. 



At the International Horticultural 

 Trades Conference, held in Paris last 

 month, the matter of our prohibition 

 order was considered and while no offi- 

 cial action was taken, according to the 

 published reports, still, we can con- 

 clude from facts and circumstances 

 known, that American buyers will not 

 get any stocks that can be sold to 

 nurserymen elsewhere. 



We are embarrassed by our depen- 

 dence on other countries for our seeds 

 from which to grow fruit-tree seed- 

 lings. In the event of over-supply, we 

 can buy seeds abroad, but we can safe- 

 ly assume that they will be available 

 to us only after all other buyers have 

 been supplied. In short, we are 

 answered, in effect, that inasmuch as 

 we refuse to permit other countries to 

 sell us their ornamental stocks, they 

 feel relieved of obligation to let us buy 

 their fruit-tree stocks, until, of course, 

 they have supplied all other markets 

 open to them. 



The conclusions as to what we may 

 expect, may be wrong. They are 

 drawn from facts open to all of you 

 and you can decide if, in view of the 

 present and probable future supplies 

 of foreign seedlings available to you. 

 it may not be wise to provide for home 

 production of our raw materials. 



If the members of the Association 

 should be practically unanimous in ask- 

 ing for the passage of the Gould Bill, 

 we can probably secure favorable ac- 

 tion. 



It you favor the bill, will you write 

 to your congressman? Also to Hon. 

 Norman J. Gould, M. C, who intro- 

 duced the bill, and to Hon. Gilbert N. 

 Haugen, Chairman, House Committee 

 on Agriculture, Washington, D. C. I 



shall be glad if you will write me also 

 that, as your Secretary, I may intelli- 

 gently represent your views and wish- 

 es. A hearing before the committee 

 having the bill under consideration, 

 will be held very soon and opportunity 

 has been offered the association to be 

 heard. Will you give this important 

 matter the prompt attention that its 

 urgency requires? 



The bill affects the nurserymen im- 

 mediately, but in a much larger way, 

 it affects the vast orchard interests of 

 the country. I therefore urge each of 

 you to bring it to the attention of your 

 friends who may be prominent in local 

 and state horticultural societies, fruit- 

 growing associations and other bodies 

 whose interests are affected. 

 Yours very truly, 



John* Watsox, 

 Executive Secretary. 

 Princeton, New Jersey, 

 October 15, 1919. 



F. T. D. CONVENTION NOTES. 



The judges of the window displays 

 of the retail florists of Buffalo award- 

 ed first prize to S. A. Anderson; 2d, W. 

 J. Palmer & Son; 3d, William Scott 

 Co. 



Besides the beautiful vase of Rose 

 Frank W. Dunlop. the varieties Corne- 

 lia and Madam Butterfly were shown. 

 Madam Butterfly is a sport of Ophelia, 

 highly colored and very attractive. 

 Cornelia is a seedling from Mrs. Aaron 

 Ward and Ophelia, medium sized flow- 

 ers of salmon pink. 



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