March S, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



those previously announced, annually 



for four years unless otherwise stated: 



For Four Will's — Lorgus <'oni|iau.v, Wist 



Chester, Pa., $-0; G. C. Swiizer, Frankfort, 



I ii<! . S.'i 



Fur One 3Tear Stubbs Nurserj Co., 

 Augusta, Gu., $10; W. 11. Kuebler, 28 Wll- 

 loughby Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y., $15; Chi- 

 cago Carnation Co., Chicago, [11., $100. 



Second Subscription— Bmll Glauber, Deu- 

 Mi-. I'uln., $45; Robert Miller, Farmlugton, 

 Utah, $25; Elmer .1. Weaver, Ronks, I'm., 

 $.-i(>. 



Additional subscriptions made at 

 the meeting of the Board of Directors, 

 S. A. F. & O. H., Detroit, .Mich., Jan- 

 uary ;S1-Feb. 1, 1919. These subscrip- 

 tions in many cases doubled the 

 amounts these gentlemen had already 

 subscribed for 1919; the others added 

 the amounts designated to their pre- 

 vious subscriptions: 



c. K. Critchell. Cincinnati, 0., $100; 

 Joseph H. Hill Co., Richmond. Inch, .f."iu; 

 Joseph A. Manila. West Orange. N .1 . $50; 

 C. II. Totty. Madison, N. r., $100; Henry 

 Pens, Boston, Mass., $100; Hess ,v Swo 

 hnila, Omaha, Neb., $100; Schiller's. Chi- 

 cago, 111., $100: ('has. J. Graham, Cleveland, 

 <>.. $50; Zech & Mann. Chicago. 111., $50; 

 l'hilip Breitmeyer. Detroit, Mich., $500; 

 ('has. S. Strout, Biddeford. Me., $15; Benj. 

 Hammond, Beacon. N. Y., $50: Alhau A. 

 Harvey & Sons, Brandvwiue Summit. Pa., 

 $40; l'hilip F. Kessler. New York, $50; W. 

 R. Nicholson. Framingham, Mass. $25 : 

 George B. Arnold, Wohurn, Mass., $25; B, 

 Allan IVirce, Waltbam, Mass., $i"i ; YV. J. 

 Palmer, Buffalo. N. Y., $100; J. Fred Am- 

 iiKiim. Edwardsville, 111., $100; E. A. Bet- 

 ters, Detroit, Mich., $75; S. S. l'ennock Co., 

 Philadelphia. Pa., $150; C. C. Pollworth, 

 Milwaukee. Wis., $50; J. F. Sullivan. De- 

 troit. Mich., $50; August Hummert, St., 

 Louis. Mo., $25; Bertennann Bros. Co., 

 Indianapolis, Ind., $50; R. C. Kerr, Hous- 

 ton. Tex.. $35. 



Total. $2,315.00. l'reviously reported, 

 $29,906.50. Grand total, $32,221.50. 



John Young, Secy. 

 March 1. 1170 Broadway. X. V. 



NEWS NOTES 

 Red Oak, la.— The Red Oak Green- 

 houses have been purchased by ('. F. 

 Smith. 



New Rochelle, N. Y — F. J. Chapman 

 has taken over the range of houses at 

 Mayflower and Pershing avenues, for- 

 merly conducted by J. Hitchcock. 



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 College of Agriculture at Cornell Univer- 

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The Joint Committees of Tariff and 

 Legislation of the Society of Ameri- 

 can Florists and Ornamental Horticul- 

 turists and of the American Associa- 

 tion of Nurserymen were granted a 

 most satisfactory interview with the 

 Secretary of Agriculture on March 1st, 

 through the courtesies of Senator 

 William M. Calder of New York and 

 Congressman Isaac Bacharach of New 

 Jersey — the latter gentleman being 

 present at said interview — at which 

 the principal points of objection to 

 Regulation No. 37 were carefully pre- 

 sented and attentively listened to by 

 the Secretary- 



Briefs setting forth in full the in- 

 consistencies of Regulation No. 37 

 were also submitted to the Secretary, 

 which will receive his careful consid- 

 eration before he renders a decision 

 which your committee hopes will be 

 favorable to all interests concerned. 



The following are the recommenda- 

 tions submitted by the committee: 



1. That Quarantine No. 37, with 

 regulations, and which represents the 

 subject of our protest, be rescinded. 



2. That when further quarantine 

 regulations are considered necessary, 

 that such be made in accordance with 

 Section 7 of the Act of Congress of 

 August 20, 1912, and its Amendments 

 of March 4, 1913, and March 4, 1917. 



3. That due notice for such hearings 

 be sent to all of the horticultural trade 

 papers, to the Secretaries of the So- 

 ciety of American Florists and Orna- 

 mental Horticulturists, The Associa- 

 tion of American Nurserymen, The 

 American Rose Society and to the 

 leading firms in horticultural lines. 

 That in said notices the items to be 

 considered be given in specific and not 

 in general terms. 



4. That such hearings shall not be 

 called between April 1st and June 1st 

 or during three weeks prior to Christ- 

 mas or Easter; at which time it is not 

 possible for florists to attend. 



We further suggest that when such 

 hearings are held the details of any 

 proposed edict be fully submitted, but 

 if this is impracticable, then it would 

 appear advisable to submit the final 

 draft when completed to the officers 

 of the representative horticultural 

 trade bodies whose committees should 

 be given an opportunity to offer sug- 

 gestions regarding additions or modi- 

 fications which their practical com- 

 mercial experience and knowledgo 

 might dictate. 



Inasmuch as the subject of this pro- 

 test is of great concern to millions of 

 citizens and of vital importance to the 

 thousands of members of our organiza- 



tion, we have presented our case to 

 you frankly and fully. .Mr. Secretary, 

 believing that your known sense of 

 fairness will give us redress. 



On behalf of the Society of Ameri- 

 can Florists and Ornamental Horticul- 

 turists represented by this Special 

 Committee, 



J. F. Ammann, President of the S. 

 A. F. & O. H.; Edward A. Fetters. 

 Vice-president of the S. A. F. & O. H.; 

 John Young, Secretary of the S. A. F. 

 & O. H.; J. J. Hess. Treasurer of the 

 S. A. F. & O. H.; W'm. F. Gude, Heber 

 J. Ware, Wm. H. Siebrecht, Jr.. Jacob 



D. Eisele, Frank R. Pierson, James 

 McHutchison and L. H. Vaughan, 

 members of Tariff and Legislative 

 Com.; Wm. F. Gude, Washington Rep- 

 resentative, S. A. F. & O. H.; George 

 Asmus, Chairman, National Flower 

 Show Com.; Henry Penn, Joseph H. 

 Hill. C. E. Critchell, C. C. Pollworth 

 and Joseph A. Manda, Directors of S. 

 A. F. & O. H.; Charles H. Totty, Di- 

 rector Ex-officio, S. A. F. & O. H.; 

 Philip Breitmeyer, Vice-president, F. 

 T. D. A.; Charles S. Strout, President, 

 American Carnation Society; Philip F. 

 Kessler, President, New York Florists' 

 Club; Eflmund A. Harvey, President, 

 The Florists' Club of Philadelphia; 



E. G. Hill, President, The Florists' 

 Hail Association; A. J. Zech, Presi- 

 dent, Chicago Florists' Club; Benja- 

 min Hammond, President, American 

 Rose Society; August H. Hummert. 

 President, St. Louis Florists' Club; 

 Charles 3. Graham, President, Cleve- 

 land Florists' Club; Robert Weeks, 

 President, National Association of 

 Gardeners. 



The men who came to Washington 

 are much gratified at the reception 

 accorded them by Secretary Houston 

 and seem to feel that their case will 

 be given more favorable consideration 

 than at the hands of Chairman Mar- 

 latt and members of the Federal Hor- 

 ticultural Board. So deep was this 

 feeling that when the Secretary sug- 

 gested that they might perhaps like 

 to have another hearing before the 

 Board while in Washington, they 

 stated that they did not care to do so, 

 preferring to wait until the Secretary 

 might have an opportunity to go 

 through the evidence they offered in 

 their briefs. 



BOSTON. 



The Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety will hold a flower show at Horti- 

 cultural Hall, March 8 and 9. 



Among the first public parks in the 

 country to be named in honor of for- 

 mer President Theodore Roosevelt is 

 one in Maiden. The park commission 

 have been requested to change the 

 name of Coytemore Lea on Mountain 

 avenue and Clifton street to Roosevelt 

 Park. The park is one of the most 

 picturesque in the suburbs of Bos- 

 ton. Its area is three and a half acres. 



