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HORTICULTURE 



February 21, 1920 



FUTTERMAN BROS. 



Wholesale FlorietB, 102W. 28th St. New York 



The Right People to Deal with PhOM Watkins 976M59 Consignments BOliclted. 



HARD TO ANSWER 



B. A. SNYDER CO. ^J.f."'* 

 Hardy Cut Evergreens, Cut Flowers and Florists Supplies 



21-25 Otis Street, BOSTON, MASS. 



Telephone Fort Hill 1083-1084-1085 



William F. Kasting Co. 



\A/holosailo F-|< 



56a.S70 WASHINGTON STREET 



>rls-fcs 



BUFFALO, N. Y. 



Would like to handle consignments from growers of good 

 Snapdragon and novelties. 



HERMAN WEISS, Wholesale Florist 



55 West 26th Street, New York City 



Boston Floral Supply Co. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



DEALERS IN Q^^ Flowcrs and Evcrgrcens 



We manufacture our own Wax FIowcts, Baskets, Wire Frames, and 

 preserve our own Cycas and Foliage right in our own factory. 

 OFFICE, SALESROOMS, SHIPPING DEFT. 



15 OTIS STREET 



UDkcown castomers kindly ^ve 

 reference or cash with order 



Telephones 

 BIAIN 2S74-S525 



96 Arch Street 



BOSTON, MASS. 



Roses 

 Carnations 



Cailas 

 Sweet Peas 



CHARLES E. MEEHAN 



WHOLESALE FLORIST 



5 S. MOLE STREET 

 PHILADELPHIA,! PA. 



Plumosa 



Strings and 



Bunches 



Adiantum 



and a full line 



of all other 



Greens 



New England Florist Supply Co. 



276 Devonshire Street, 



BOSTON, MASS. 



Telephones, Fort Hill, 3469 and 3135 



Advertise your wants 

 in Horticulture 



Important Questions Put to Horticul- 

 tural Board by W. A. Manda. 



Mr. W. A. Manda of South Orange, 

 N. .1., is making a vigorous effort to 

 Iiave the quarantine on orchids modi- 

 fied. He recently sent a carefully pre- 

 pared communication to the Federal 

 Horticultural Board at Washington 

 which embodied some very stiff ques- 

 tions. In part this communication was 

 as follows: 

 Gentlemen: 



I hereby enter a protest against the 

 exclusion of importation of orchids 

 and trust that your honorable body 

 will take the following into considera- 

 tion and so modify and arrange Quar- 

 antine No. 37 so that we could import 

 orchids from their native habitat 

 which furnishes us what may be called 

 the raw material, fundamentally neces- 

 sary for orchid culture in America. 



Orchids in cultivation have only the 

 following enemies: 



1 — Cattleya Fly which attacks only 

 few and not all of the species of Cat- 

 tleya and does not attack any other 

 orchids and never other plants. 



2 — Other insects like spider, thrips, 

 green fly, scales, mealy-bug, snail, 

 cockroaches are common to all green- 

 house plants and is due to lack of 

 cleanliness and proper ventilation and 

 occurs out of doors just as well In 

 the summer months due to unusual 

 climatic conditions, neither being dan- 

 gerous to vegetation and easily eradi- 

 cated. Orchids have only one disease 

 that of Black Spot due to too much 

 moisture in cultivation and this does 

 not exist, only in native state nor does 

 it spread to other plants. 



Questions. 



1— Has there to the knowledge of 

 this honorable board ever been a dan- 

 gerous insect or disease imported with 

 orchids? 



2 — Are there any insects or diseases 

 peculiar to orchids that would feed 

 or establish on other plants especially 

 those used in agriculture? 



3 — How are orchids more dangerous 

 than banana, timber and such without 

 any Inspection whatsoever? 



4 — How is this board going to guard 

 the Frontiers of the United States 

 along either the Mexican or Canadian 

 borders from spread of insects or dis- 

 eases if such should exist in these ad- 

 joining countries? 



5 — Are not birds, animals, heavy 

 rainstorms, hurricane winds over 

 which this board cannot assume any 

 control, more liable to bring Insects 

 and diseases into the United States 

 than could be ever done by the most 



