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April 1, 1920 



The Florists^ Review 



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Herrington and Thomas Allan spoke tpi 

 the managements of the New York and 

 Boston shows, respectively. Herman H. 

 Bartsch and Frank W. Dunlop re- 

 sponded for exhibitors; W. N. Craig 

 and Edwin Jenkins for professional 

 gardeners, and S. J. Goddard and Joseph 

 Manda for the judges. Leonard Barron 

 replied for the horticultural press, 

 Robert Kift for the trade press, Fred- 

 erick L. Olmsted and Percival Galla- 

 gher for the landscape architects, P. 

 Welch for wholesale florists and Henry 

 Penn for retailers. The occasion was 

 an exceedingly pleasant one and much 

 enjoyed. 



Friday, March 26, William C. Endi- 

 cott, president of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society, entertained about 

 100 ladies and gentlemen at luncheon in 

 the directors' room of Horticultural 

 hall, a good number of visitors from a 

 distance, prominent exhibitors and 

 members of the trustee board being in- 

 cluded. 



Various Show Notes. 



The thousands of orchid flowers in 

 the magnificent display of Albert C. 

 Burrage, embracing thousands of cat- 

 tleyas and hundreds of magnificent 

 spikes of cymbidiums, phalsenopsis, 

 oncidiums, odontoglossums, etc., were 

 cut and distributed to the hospitals 

 March 29. Mr. Burrage refuses to al- 

 low any flowers to be sold and habit- 

 ually sends large surplus supplies of his 



choice flowers to various charitable in- 

 stitutions. 



Miss Low, daughter of Stuart Low, 

 of Enfield, England, arrived just in time 

 for the Boston show and was greatly 

 charmed with it; two of the daily papers 

 published her impressions. 



At the first orchid show, in 1910, 

 which set a high-water mark for orchid 

 shows in America, all the largest ex- 

 hibits came from New Jersey; on the 

 present occasion nine-tenths of them 

 came from Massachusetts. 



The Federal Horticultural Board got 

 many hard knocks during the lectures 

 and discussions and the general public 

 failed to understand how such beautiful 

 plants from tropical lands can bring 

 dangerous pests to devastate a temper- 

 ate country like ours. 



Boston's show was really more "in- 

 ternational" than New York^, since 

 there were visitors from En^lapd, Can- 

 ada, China and Japan and^^furt^§iBa<Hre. 

 there were grand displays of cut cyi 

 bidiums, odontiodas and other orchids 

 from England, as well as roses from 

 Canada, not to mention the wonderful 

 Japanese azaleas. 



Kewites in America held a reunion 

 March 26. An excellent dinner at the 

 Cafe Minerva was followed by a busi- 

 ness and social meeting and W. H. Judd, 

 of the Arnold Arboretum, was chosen 

 permanent secretary-treasurer. The 

 members voted also to establish local 



branches in several horticultural cen- 

 ters. 



Tlie Visitors. 



Visitors were more numerous than 

 ever before at a show here, excepting 

 the S. A. F. national show. A few of 

 those noted were: F. R. Pierson, Tarry- 

 town, N. Y.; A. Herrington, Madison, 

 N. J.; F. R. Newbold, T. A. Havemeyer, 

 W. E. Cahill, F. Sealy, Barney B. 

 Jacobs, New York; A. E. Miles, Somer- 

 ville, N. J.; Clement Moore, Haeken- 

 sack, N. J.; Joseph Manda, East Orange, 

 N. J.; W. A. Manda, South Orange, N. 

 J.; John E. Lager, Summit, N. J.; Oliver 

 Lines, Edward Smith, Pittsfield, Mass.; 

 Walter Mott, Beacon, N. Y.; C. Robert- 

 son, Newport, R. I.; David Lumsden, 

 Ithaca, N. Y.; Louis Burke, Philadel- 

 phia; Edward Roehrs, Rutherford, N. 

 J.; P. W. Popp, George E. Baldwin, 

 Harry Baldwin, Mamaroneck, N. Y.; 

 William McKay, Andrew Meikle, James 

 Brown, Newport, R. L; F. C. Green, 

 William Hay, Providence, R. I.; John 

 De Buck, Secaucus, N. J.; F. W. Dun- 

 lop, Toronto, Can.; Miss Low, Enfield, 

 England; H. Suzuki, of Yokohama Nurs- 

 ery Co., Japan; A. N. Pierson, Cromwell, 

 Conn.; A. J. Loveless, Edward Norman, 

 R. Carlquist, Edwin Jenkins, Lenox, 

 Mass.; Robert Kift, Philadelphia; Will- 

 iam Young, Madison, N. J.; Henry 

 Hicks, Westbury, L. I.; R. T. Brown, 

 Queens, L. I.; Paul V. Fortmiller, 

 Newark, N. J. W. N. C. 



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ORCHIDS STIU. BABREP. 



No Change in Quarantine. 



The Department of Agriculture has 

 issued a statement of the Federal Hor- 

 ticultural Board's decision to make no 

 change in Quarantine 37 as a result of 

 the orchid hearing. The reasons of the 

 board in this determination are set 

 forth in the statement as follows: 



"The Federal Horticultural Board 

 has decided that no modification of 

 Quarantine No. 37 with regard to orchid 

 importation is warranted at this time. 

 As a result of a general discussion of 

 the. orchid situation in connection with 

 the Detroit meeting of the Society of 

 American Florists in August, 1919, it 

 was suggested by the chairman of the 

 Federal Horticultural Board that if 

 those interested in orchids in the United 

 States, as importers and as orchid 

 growers or propagators, would endeavor 

 to harmonize their interests, which 

 seemed to be more or less conflicting, 

 and present the board with a program 

 which these interests had agreed upon 

 as most desirable and necessary for the 

 development of orchid production in this 

 country, the board would be glad to 

 consider their recommendations, and if 

 such recommendations seemed to be 

 reasonable and well founded, to put 

 them into operation so far as might be 

 practicable. An effort was made on the 

 part of these interests to meet this re- 

 quirement, but without much success. 

 It seemed, nevertheless, desirable to 

 give an opportunity for a full discussion 

 of the. subject and, therefore, a confer- 



ence was held at the Department of Ag- 

 riculture, February 10, 1920. 



"This conference brought together 

 the principal orchid importers and or- 

 chid growers of the United States, and 

 the needs of this industry from the pro- 

 duction and other standpoints were 

 fully discussed. 



"As a basis for this discussion the 

 principle which governed in the draft- 

 ing and promulgation of Quarantine No. 

 37 was pointed out by the board, name- 

 ly, that inasmuch as any importation 

 of plants carries some risk of bringing 

 in new and probably dangerous plant 

 diseases and insects, such importations 

 should be limited to those classes of 

 nursery stock and other plants for prop- 

 agation which are determined to be 

 absolutely necessary to the horticul- 

 tural, floricultural and forestry needs 

 of the United States, and that on this 

 principle the question of orchid impor- 

 tations would have to be decided on the 

 determination of this factor of neces- 

 sity. 



Conflicting Interests. 



"The discussion which followed de- 

 veloped the cleavage already indicated, 

 nor were these two conflicting interests 

 able to come to any agreement. The 

 orchid producers contended that the re- 

 strictions on the importation of orchids 

 under Quarantine No. 37 were necessary 

 and desirable and were not hurtful in 

 any way to the development of the or- 

 chid industry in this ^country, but, on 

 the other hand, would be distinctly 

 helpful to such development, and, fur- 

 ther, that the needs of the country could 

 be met by home production from exist- 



ing stocks and by importations already 

 provided for in Quarantine No. 37 of the 

 necessary propagating material not now 

 available. On the other hand, the or- 

 chid importers, who have hitherto been 

 bringing in wild orchids in considerable 

 quantities from South America, the 

 Philippines and elsewhere, objected 

 strenuously to the restrictions on their 

 business and the elimination of this 

 source of profit and contended that such 

 importations were necessary at the pres- 

 ent time for the maintenance and de- 

 velopment of orchid production in 

 America. No new and specific reasons 

 for this contention, however, were ad- 

 vanced, and in the end there was a 

 general agreement on the part of prac- 

 tically all of the persons who partici- 

 pated in the discussion that the produc- 

 tion of orchids from seed, either of 

 species or by hybridization, was en- 

 tirely feasible and practicable, the 

 group of importers, however, still con- 

 tending that the importation of orchids 

 should be continued pending adequate 

 development of such home production. 

 "It appeared, therefore, that the only 

 thing to be considered by the board 

 was the time factor, and from the in- 

 formation presented it did not appeal 

 to the board that this factor was of 

 vital importance in view of the showing 

 of large available stocks now in this 

 country, together with the progress 

 which had already been made in the 

 growing of orchids from seed. It was 

 believed that the future needs of the 

 industry, therefore, could be met under 

 existing conditions and under the pro- 

 visions of Quarantine No. 37 for the 



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