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First Pfiotograph of the New Range of Greenhouses in Course of Construction for the A. F. Amling Co., Maywood, III. 



its grammatical construction are such 

 as to conflict with the spirit or context 

 of the paragraph, are absurd, unjust, or 

 presumably not intended. Under the 

 earlier paragraph tulip bulbs fell within 

 the second clause; under the latter they 

 are relegated to the sixth clause and pay 

 one-half the duty formerly assessed 

 thereon and one-half the duty now as- 

 sessed upon articles within the second 

 clause. Congress may well have thought 

 it a wise policy to change the classifi- 

 cation of tulip bulbs in this manner and 

 as to the wisdom of such policy we have 

 no power to inquire. The context of 

 the paragraph is adapted as well to the 

 one as to the other construction, and it 

 is also consistent therewith to impose 

 upon tulips the rate of duty that was 

 formerly assessed upon tulip bulbs. 



Congteaa Had a Parpoae? 



"The whole issue and its determina- 

 tion may be summed up as follows: 

 Congress has apparently deliberately 

 substituted 'tulips,' the noun, for 'tu- 

 lip,' the adjective, is presumed to have 

 intended to do so, and no sufficient legal 

 reason exists to justify the court in 

 saying such was not the intent. No 

 strained construction should be indulged 

 unless clearly necessary to accomplish 

 the execution of a congressional pur- 

 pose, and where two constructions are 

 equally probable that one should not 

 be adopted which results in the imposi- 

 tion of the higher tax. 



"In Breck v. United States, 2 Ct. 

 Cust. Appeals 26 (T. D. 31576), an 

 analogous question was considered, cases 

 were examined and, quoting from End- 

 lich on the Interpretation of the Stat- 

 utes, it was said, 'It is a well settled 

 rule of construction that the gram- 

 matical sense must be adopted unless 

 there are within the statutes cogent rea- 

 sons indicating a contrary intent upon 

 the part of the lawmakers.* 



"The judgment of the Board of 

 United States General Appraisers is re- 

 versed. ' ' 



Refunds Now in Order. 



The effect of this decision by the 

 court of last resort in such cases is to 

 fix the duty on tulip bulbs hereafter 

 imported during the life of the law at 

 50 cents per thousand. 



A large number of protests have been 

 filed and are pending awaiting this de- 

 cision and it is to be presumed the 

 Board of General Appraisers now will 

 act on these protests in the light of the 

 judgment of the court. This will open 

 the way to claims for refund in each 

 case in which a protest was filed before 

 the date of the decision, but in no other. 



NO BUDS ON BOUVARDIA. 



have a bed of bouvardias, from 



which I had a good cut at Christmas, 

 but about OQe-half of the shoots are 

 growing up to three feet in height and 

 do not seem to set buds. Any informa- 

 tion on this would be appreciated. 



A. T. F.— R. I. 



It not infrequently happens that bou- 

 vardias are left outdoors a little too 

 late and that the embryo flower buds 

 are destroyed in the ends of the shoots. 

 It is not necessary for the temperature 

 to fall as low as the freezing point to 

 do this damage. Have you . practiced 

 reducing the number of shoots on your 

 plants? If not, try it another year. 

 Cut away all the weak shoots and you 

 will be surprised how small a propor- 

 tion of them fail to flower. C. W. 



TIMING LILIES AND HYACINTHS. 



What heat should we nlaintain at 

 night for a new crop of giganteum 

 lilies, after they have budded and have 

 been placed on the bench, to bring them 

 in for Easter? We have 10,000 hya- 

 cinths in pots. How long will it take 

 them to flower from the time they are 

 taken out of the ground, well rooted? 

 What heat should be maintained at 

 night? G. G.— S. C. 



In South Carolina, Lilium giganteum 

 wanted for Easter should now be in a 

 night temperature of 60 degrees. This 

 heat probably will bring them about 

 right, although much depends on the 

 weather from now on. If you can see 

 the buds five weeks before Easter, a 

 night temperature of 65 to 70 degrees 

 will bring them on time and allow 

 a few days to harden them off. If you 

 can see the buds by March 1, 60 degrees 

 at night will bring them on and they 



probably can be run much cooler the 

 last two weeks. 



Hyacinths, well rooted and brought 

 into a night temperature of 60 degrees 

 the first week of February — which is 

 quite early enough for the first batch 

 — will flower in twenty-one days. As 

 the season advances they will take less 

 time and less heat. To have them for 

 Easter, allow them two weeks in a 

 coldframe. Raise the sash one foot 

 back and front and shade with hay to 

 keep the plants cool. L. 



THE AMUNG PICTURES. 



On this page are reproduced the first 

 photographs of the new range of the 

 A. F. Amling Co., Maywood, 111. This 

 is the largest building project thus far 

 reported this season. There are nine 

 steel frame connected houses each 44x 

 550, nine feet to the gutters and twenty 

 feet to the ridge. Material is being 

 supplied and erection done by the 

 Ameri in- Greenhouse Mfg. Co., which 

 booke the contract November 22 and 

 exper . to turn over the completed 

 rang , ready for planting, early in 

 Ma h. 



( le of the illustrations is a bird's- 

 e" view of the job after the posts had 

 I en set and while the steel was going 

 p. At the left in this picture can 

 be seen the end of one of the buildings 

 erected to house the workmen employed 

 on the job. The other view shows the 

 detail of the framing. 



Roseburg, Ore. — Last September Mrs. 

 F. D. Owen opened a flower store in 

 connection with a confectionery, but 

 since the opening day business has been 

 so good that Mrs. Owen has been 

 obliged to move to larger quarters. 



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Showing Details of the Steel Frame of the Amling Houses. 



