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HORTICULTURE 



February 21, 1920 



Growers of (.iodfrey calla will be In- 

 terested to know of the success Mr. 

 James Wheeler of Natick has made 

 In handling this calla in a slightly dif- 

 ferent way than is common. Instead 

 of growing them in pots, he has 

 planted them right Into the soil on the 

 ground, and contrary to predictions by 

 some who have had good experience in 

 growing callas, he has succeeded in 

 getting excellent production and 

 blooms of remarkable size, especially 

 for the Godfrey calla. 



CORN BORER QUARANTINE. 



Massachusetts Horticultural Interests 

 Vote to Send a Delegation to 

 Washington. 

 A largely attended meeting called by 

 Chairman Farquhar of the Legislative 

 Committee of the New England Nurs- 

 erymen's Association was held at the 

 State House on Wednesday, Feb. 18th, 

 for the purpose of considering the 

 quarantine which the Federal Horti- 

 cultural Board proposes to put upon all 

 the New England States, New York 

 and Pennsylvania on account of the 

 European Corn Borer. 



Dr. Gilbert, Commissioner of Agri- 

 culture, presided, and Mr. Farquhar 

 urged that the Commissioner be sent 

 to Washington to act for the State. It 

 was finally decided, however, to send a 

 delegation consisting of Commissioner 

 Gilbert, Mr. Farquhar and President 

 Adams of the New England Nursery- 

 men's Association, Mr. Moore and Mr. 

 Wyman of the Market Gardeners' As- 

 sociation, Mr. Thomas Roland and Mr. 

 "W. H. Elliott and Mr. McCarthy, flor- 

 ists, and W. N. Craig, secretary of the 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club repre- 

 senting the growers, to attend the 

 hearing to be given Tuesday, Feb. 

 24th, by the Federal Horticultural 

 Board on that date. At the sugges- 

 tion of Mr. Thommen it was also voted 

 to notify all the difterent horticul- 

 tural societies so that they might also 

 send delegations if they so chose. 



Pres. J. Edward Moon of the Ameri- 

 can Association of Nurserymen was 

 present and made a rousing speech in 

 which he said that the hearing should 

 be subject to the rules and regulations 

 formulated to control such hearings, 

 but about which little or nothing has 

 been heard. He also called attention 

 to the fact that the call for the hearing 

 was not signed as it should have been. 

 He then read from a report of the P. 

 H. B. dated Oct. 19, 1919, in which it 

 ■was stated that the European Corn 

 Borer was a single brooded insect out- 

 side of the Atlantic Coast, and as such 

 was not a very dangerous pest. He 

 wondered why the Board had changed 

 its opinion in this short time. Mr. 



.\loun urged that the local interests 

 should not be stampeded, and should 

 use good judgment at the hearing so 

 as not to invite unnecessary antagon- 

 ism. He said that Mr. John Watson, 

 Secretary of the American Association 

 of Nurserymen, would be present at 

 the hearing. 



Mr. Farquhar in his talk briefly re- 

 viewed the general situation and spoke 

 of the great loss from the necessity of 

 having plants imported by permission 

 of the Federal Horticultural Board first 

 sent to Washington. He said that Mr. 

 Albert Burrage of Beverly recently im- 

 ported a large number of very valu- 

 able orchids, bringing them in by way 

 of San Francisco. He was ordered to 

 have them first sent to Washington, 

 and chose the Southern route to avoid 

 danger of freezing. When the plants 

 reached Washington, however, they 

 were allowed to freeze there, and so 

 were utterly ruined. He urged exami- 

 nation at the port entry and said that 

 Chairman Marlatt of the F. H. B. had 

 admitted the inadvisability of this plan 

 and said to him recently that he pro- 

 posed to ask Congress for $100,000 to 

 be used for this purpose. 



Comm. Gilbert stated that he would 

 immediately get in touch with the 

 other states interested so that a co- 

 ordinated effort to prevent the quaran- 

 tine might be made. The desire is to 

 have the affected states themselves 

 deal with the situation. Mr. Farquhar 

 pointed out that with the Horticultural 

 Board in charge, not only might the 

 eight states mentioned be quarantined 

 as a whole, but that also one state 

 might be quarantined against another 

 and one section of a state against an- 

 other section, which would make an ex- 

 tremely difficult situation. 



MOON AND BARRON SPEAK. 

 Talk to American Society of Land- 

 scape Architects at a Meeting 

 In Boston. 

 J. Edward .Moon, president of the 

 -American Association of Nurserymen, 

 and Leonard Barron, Editor of the 

 Garden Magcizine, were the two speak- 

 ers at a meeting of the American So- 

 ciety of Landscape Architects held at 

 the St. Botolph Club, Boston, on Tues- 

 day night. The attendance was large 

 and much interest was shown in the 

 remarks of Mr. Moon in regard to 

 Quarantine 37 and other quarantine 

 measures which are interfering greatly 

 with the development of the landscape 

 business. Mr. Moon had much to say 

 about the efforts which are being made 

 to secure a modification of these dras- 

 tic measures. He also spoke about the 

 necessity of devising some means of 

 obtaining protection for plant novel- 



ties, anotlier matter in which the land- 

 scape architects were much interested. 

 Mr. Barron talked about the garden 

 magazines and the difterent trade pa- 

 pers, their relation to the horticultural 

 interests of the country and the ne- 

 cessity of giving them adequate sup- 

 port. He had with him several differ- 

 ent publications by which to prove that 

 in the horticultural trade less support 

 is given the trade papers than in cer- 

 tain other lines of industry. 



DAHLIA AND GLADIOLUS 

 GROWERS. 



They are to Hold an important Meet- 

 ing in Boston February 28. 



A call has been sent out for a very 

 important meeting of all the dahlia 

 and gladiolus growers in New Eng- 

 land. This meeting is to be held in 

 Room 136, State House, Boston, at 

 10 o'clock, Saturday morning, Febru- 

 arj- 28. 



The meeting is called especially to 

 consider the Illinois Quarantine which 

 is working a great injustice upon the 

 growers of New England. Mr. J. K. 

 Alexander of East Bridgewater, and 

 Mr. B. Hammond Tracy of Wenham, 

 say that they are constantly receiv- 

 ing orders for shipments of bulbs to 

 Illinois, but are debarred from send- 

 ing them. This is largely the retail 

 trade, the result of advertising in the 

 magazines. Apparently the people of 

 the State of Illinois have not yet 

 awakened to the fact that it is im- 

 possible for them to buy dahlia and 

 gladiolus bulbs from outside sources. 



ANOTHER GREENHOUSE COL- 

 LAPSES. 



According to a newspaper report 

 one of the Jones Bros. Greenhouses 

 at Wappinger Falls, N. Y., collapsed 

 under Uie heavy snow, causing the 

 firm quite a heavy loss. Only a por- 

 tion of the house gave way, but this 

 destroyed a number of growing plants 

 and the loss will probably reach a con- 

 siderable amount. The other part of 

 the house was hastily braced up and 

 care was taken so that the other 

 houses would not be similarly af- 

 fected. 



NEW ENGLAND. 



J. Edward Moon, president of the 

 American Nurserymen's Association, 

 was in Boston a part of two days the 

 past week. He stated that Mrs. Moon 

 was quite ill, for which reason he was 

 eager to get back home. 



Washington P. Gaw of the Elwell 

 Conservatories at Kennebunk, Me., has 

 been confined to the house by illness. 



