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BOSTON FLORAL SUPPLY & SNYDER CO. 



15 Otis- 96 Arch St. 



Wholesale Florists 



BOSTON, MASS. 



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Largest distributors of flowers in the East. 

 Manufacturers of artificial flowers, baskets, wire frames, etc. 



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aG8-S70 WASHINGTON STREET • BiiFFAU>, N. Y. 



THIS SEASON'S NEW ROSES 



PILGRIM CRUSADER PREMIER RUSSELL HADLEY 



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tlieiii tacu seasun. Apijarenlly there 

 is a renewal of interest in the holly- 

 liock. In any event, it has been planted 

 with great freedom this year, and it de- 

 serves all the popularity it is likely to 

 attain, because it is one of the most 

 nsefiil as well as among the hand- 

 somest of all garden subjects. 



One of the English papers speaks 

 about the enormously increased cost 

 (.1 getting exhibits to and from the 

 shows. The same conditions obtain in 

 lliis country, and are likely to have a 

 certain effect upon the number of ex- 

 hibits made. It would seem as though 

 it might become necessary to increase 

 the value of the prizes offered in order 

 to keep up the interest, especially for 

 shows where exhibits have to be 

 shipped a long distance. 



In his paper at the Conference in 

 New York to discuss the quarantine 

 .Mr. Albert C. Burrage of Boston said 

 some things I liked, among them 

 these; 



The govemnient, people, horticul- 

 turists and horticultural societies of 

 Massachusetts recognize the fact that 

 the United States government, the 

 United States Congress, the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture and the Federal 

 Horticultural Hoard are seeking to 

 fo.«ter and advance the horticulture 

 and agriculture of the whole country, 

 and that they are not trying to help 

 any one interest at the expense of 

 other interests. 



We do not protest against the law 

 or the quarantine. Still less do we 



que.stion the motives or intentions cf 

 those who framed the law or the quar- 

 antine of those who are enforcini; 

 them. 



We do earnestly protest against 

 what the Federal Horticultural Boani. 

 itself, calls its drastic provision, some 

 of which we maintain are wasteful, in- 

 efficient, unsound and dangerous. 



We do ask that the regulations of 

 the quarantine and their enforcement 

 shall be reasonable, effective and hu- 

 mane. We do ask that quarantine 

 regulations of the government, acting 

 for the benefit of the whole people, 

 shall be conducted in the right way. 

 We ask that the United States Gov- 

 ernment, with all its power and 

 wealth, shall handle the business part 

 of this subject in a business way, the 

 sanitary part in a scientific way, and 

 the human part in a humane way. 



Massachusetts, with limited area 

 and a very large and dense population. 

 has a negligible amount of agriculture, 

 almost wholly confined to the tobaccD 

 of the plains of the Connecticut Val- 

 ley, the cranberry bogs of the sandy 

 Cape district, the apple orchards of 

 the hillsides, and the scattered hay 

 meadows. 



The wealth of Massachusetts lies in 

 her people, in her institutions of learn- 

 ing, and in the manufacturing indus- 

 tries which she maintains in spite of 

 her remoteness from coal fields arvi 

 raw materials and the limited water 

 power within her borders. She is en- 

 abled to keep her people and her in- 

 dustries here because of the unusually 

 irregular topography of the state and 

 its attractiveness tor homes. The 



li. ,iiiiy of .Massuc lHl^;etts is in her tree- 

 overed, rocky and sandy hills. Massa- 

 i husetts does want to protect her hor- 

 ticulture and she believes in quaran- 

 tining against injurious diseases and 

 insects; but she. long ago. found tt 

 necessary to act for the improvement 

 iif her horticulture and particularly to 

 cibtain trees, shrubs and other plants, 

 which would advance and extend her 

 horticulture and beautify her ground,. 

 making still more attractive her cities 

 and towns. 



Ninety years ago she established 

 the -Massachusetts Horticultural so- 

 ciety, which consists of over a thou- 

 sand members and which is believed 

 to be tnily representative of the horti- 

 cultural interests of the state. 



Nearly 50 years ago, within her bor- 

 ders, was established the Arnold Ar- 

 boretum, the botanical department of 

 Harvard College; and here a vast 

 amnint has been done for the horti- 

 culture of the whole country. 



AnA Massachusetts, during a long 

 period, has enacted many laws, seek- 

 ing not only to Improve agriculture, 

 but also to protect and carry forward 

 the science of horticulture in the 

 broadest way. 



We want protection against future 

 danger to our horticulture and agricul- 

 ture and to that of the whole country, 

 but we do not want to be prevented 

 from safely importing those trees, 

 shrubs and plants which do not carry 

 dangerous diseases or insects and 

 which will give assistance, comfort, 

 and pleasure to our people. 



In this state, if we find a person 

 who may possibly have smallpox com- 

 ing into the port of Boston from a for- 

 eign shore, we do not send him 

 through the streets of Boston in a 

 crowded street-car, and then in a 

 crowded railroad car to a contagious- 

 disease building in the Iterkshire Hills, 

 a hundred miles away, in order to de- 

 termine whether or not he has small- 

 pox, and if he has. to keep him there 

 until he is fumigated and recover.?d 

 from the disease. We believe that 

 the place to quarantine against dan- 

 gei-ous disease is at the threshold, 

 that is. at the port of entry, and we 

 do it here and not in the Berkshire 

 Hills. 



