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HORTICULTURE 



May 9, 1914 



Personal 



AN IMPORTATION OF PHAL/ENOPSIS. 



Matthew Macnair of Providence, R. 

 I., contemplates taking his usual sum- 

 mer trip to his native place in Scot- 

 land and to Paris, this year. 



On Friday evening, May 8, J. K. M. 

 L. Farquhar lectured at Greenwich, 

 R. I., presenting a series of instruc- 

 tive stereopticon slides on gardening 

 topics. 



W. D. Nickerson, gardener on the M. 

 T. Jones estate, Houston, Texas, will 

 take charge of the summer home of the 

 Jones family at North Conway, N. H., 

 this summer. 



Charles Trepole, who was employed 

 by Julius Wolff, 1617 N. 19th street, 

 Philadelphia, at Easter, has been ar- 

 rested, charged with having stolen 

 ribbon and forged bank checks in 

 Wolff's name. 



John Meisem of Elmhurst, N. Y. cel- 

 ebrated his birthday on Friday, May 1, 

 with a party of thirty friends at his 

 home. One of the dainties served was 

 speckled trout from John Donaldson's 

 new domain at Patchogue. 



J. K. M. L. Farquhar of Boston, lec- 

 tured before the Albany Florists' Club 

 at the new establishment of the Al- 

 banv Cut Flower Exchange, on Thurs- 

 day evening, -May 7. Many beautiful 

 stereopticon views were shown. 



Frank "Vennemann was married last 

 week to Miss E. Wocher of Kirkwood, 

 Mo. The happy couple are off on a 

 wedding trip. Mr. Vennemann is pres- 

 ident of the County Growers' Associa- 

 tion and members are planning for a 

 big surprise entertainment when they 

 return home at the end of the month. 



William Plumb has received official 

 confirmation by the president of the 

 Panama-Pacific Exposition of his ap- 

 pointment as Superintendent of Flori- 

 culture, Department of Horticulture, of 

 the Exposition and entered upon his 

 duties Friday, May 1. He Is now call- 

 ing upon growers and dealers with a 

 view to securing representative exhib- 

 its from New York. Boston, Philadel- 

 phia and neighboring points. Other 

 territory will be taken up in sequence. 



THE ANTI-TRUST BILL. 



Washington— The Clayton bill em- 

 bodying the Administration's program 

 of anti-trust legislation has beei^ re- 

 ported by the House Committee on Ju- 

 diciary. Plans will be perfected early 

 next w'eek to pass the measure. 



It is the purpose of the House lead- 

 ers to put the bill through without de- 

 lay. The Administration is anxious 

 that the Clayton bill, which will be 

 used as a basis for legislation further 

 regulating the operations of interests 

 of interstate corporations, shall be 

 transferred to the Senate at the ear- 

 liest practicable date. 



The committee stood pat on section 

 7 of the bill relating to labor unions 

 and voluntary associations of farmers. 

 These organizations are not exempted 

 from prosecution as demanded by 

 labor leaders. Section 7 merely de- 

 clares that labor unions and agricul- 

 tural associations are legal entities 

 and that the law does not prohibit 

 them "from carrying out the legiti- 

 mate ob.iects thereof." 



This interesting picture gives some 

 idea of the extent to which orchid im- 

 porting to this country is being car- 

 ried on. This shipment was received 

 by MacRorie and McLaren of San 

 Francisco. It contained 10,000 phalse- 

 nopsis plants which arrived on the 

 steamer "China" on April 11th The 

 shipment comprised Phalsenopsis 

 amabilis. Schilleriana and Sanderiana 

 from the Philippine Islands. Among 



the plants are specimens containing 

 leaves from IS to 24 inches in length. 

 This is said to be the biggest ship- 

 ment ever made to America, and rep- 

 resents many years of collecting. A 

 Filipino native of the islands was 

 l)rought in with the goods to insure 

 their proper care on the trip and also 

 to look after the plants after arrival. 

 Useful notes on the culture ot 

 phaltienopses will be found in Mr. Far- 

 rell's notes in this issue. 



Here is the text of section 7: 



That nothing contained in the 

 anti-trust laws shall be con- 

 strued to forbid the existence 

 and operation of fraternal labor, 

 consumers, agricultural or horti- 

 cultural organizations, orders or 

 associations instituted for the pur- 

 pose of mutual help and not hav- 

 ing capital stock or conducted for 

 profit, or to forbid or restrain in- 

 dividual members of such organi- 

 zations, orders or associations 

 from carrying out the legitimate 

 objects thereof. 



Section S of the bill, prohibiting a 

 corporation from acquiring control of 

 another corporation, originally pro- 

 vided that such merger should be un- 

 lawful if the effect was to eliminate or 

 "substantially" lessen competition. 



THE GARDENER QUESTION. 



Editor HoBTictrLTURE: 



Your Philadelphia correspondent is 

 putting the question up to me so 

 squarely — "How long has M. C. E. been 

 in the business," that it is entitled to 

 a frank reply. My answer is — Long 

 enough to realize that there are still 

 too many in it who do not yet recog- 

 nize the fact that the entire business 

 is undergoing a transformation, and 

 that conditions that prevailed even a 

 few years ago do not avail today. 



As to my qualifications to pass an 

 opinion on the subject which has pro- 

 voked this question, I submit to him 



as my credentials, an editorial endorse- 

 ment, which appeared in Horticultuke, 

 Oct. 18, 1914, an authority which he 

 will not question; and from which I 

 quote as follows — "We wish to put on 

 record a word of commendation, for 

 the sentiment and tone of the excel- 

 lent paper on the gardener and his 

 field which Mr. Ebel read before the 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Bos 

 ton " 



In alluding to your P. C, as he terms 

 himself, as an "outsider," he knows 

 that it referred only to his published 

 criticism following his visit to a meet- 

 ing of an association on the affairs ot 

 which he was but slightly informea, 

 and that it in no wise refiected on his 

 able business ability: for, is it not true 

 that whenever I visit "the city of 

 brotherly love," whether for work or 

 play, my first act always is to seek 

 George C. as my guiding star. 



As to the burning issue, my position 

 on the question of proper compensa- 

 tion to the gardener is already so well 

 established that it stands in no danger 

 of being misunderstood through any 

 misconstruction that may be placed on 

 it. And I am perfectly willing that all 

 credit of promulgating the fallacy, that 

 those who may require the services of 

 gardeners can be educated that the 

 gardeners' minimum wage scale must 

 be $100 shall go to them that foster it. 



Friend Watson, do you know of any 

 profession that has ever been success- 

 fully unionized? M. C. Ebel. 



