SaPTBMBIB 18, 1917.' 



The Florists' Review 



15 



PLANT AND BULB IMPORTS FOB FIBST THBEE QUABTEBS OF FISCAL YEAB. 



Tke following are the imports of plants, bulbs, trees, shrubs and vines, with the duties collected thereon, for the first three 

 quarters of the government's fiscal year, beginning July 1, 1916, as reported by the U. S. Department of Commerce: 



Articles 



Plants, bulbs, trees, shrubs and vines: 

 ^bs, mature mother flowering, imported ezclumTely for 



Vi>ropaKating purposes 



|Vuit plants, tropical and semitropical, for the purpose of 



/ propagation or cultivation 



Hop roots for cultivation 



Hyacinth bulbs, astilbe, dielytra and lily of the valley clumps. 



Lily bulbs and calla bulbs or corms 



Lily of the valley pips, tulips, narcissus, begonia and gloxinia 



bulbs 



Orchids, palms and Azalea indica 



Do. (reciprocity treaty with Cuba) 



Do. (from Phibppine Islands) _. 



Peony, herbaceous. Iris Kaemfheri or germanica, canna, 



dahlia and amarylli^ bulbs 



Plants, trees, shrubs, roots, seed cane and seeds, imported by 



the Department of Agriculture or the United States Botanic 



Garden ._ 



Rose plants, budded, grafted or grown on their own roots. . . 

 Stocks, cuttings and seedlings: 

 Fruit and ornamental trees, deciduous and evergreen shrubs 



andvines.and all trees, shrubs, plants and vines commonly 



known as nursery or greenhouse stock, a. s. p. f 



Do. (reciprocity treaty with Cuba) ._ 



Myrobolan plum, Mahaleb or Mazzard cherry, Manetti 



muldflora and brier rose, Rosa rugosa, 3 years old or less. . 

 Pear, apple, quince and the 8t. Julien plum,3 years old or leas. 



Tea plants ,- 



All other bulbs, roots, root stocks, corms and tubers which are 



cultivated for t^eir flowers or foliage 



Total 



Rates 

 of Duty 



Free. 



Free 



Free 



S2.50M.. 

 95.00 M.. 



$1.00 M.. 



25% 



.25%-20% 

 Free 



$10.00M. 



Free.... 

 4c. each. 



15% 



15%-20% 



$1.00 M.. 

 $1.00 M.. 

 Free 



50c. M.. 



/Free 



I Dutiable. 



July 1 to Sept. 30, 1916 



Quantity Value 



365,000 



14,732,000 

 3,307,000 



99,360,000 



18,000 



16,244,000 



$ 2,261 

 100 



300,469 

 80,380 



771,961 



21,824 



583 



793 



960 



2,267 

 414 



76,846 



$ 3,321 

 $1.255,537 



Duty 



$36,830.00 

 16,535.00 



99,360.00 



5,456.00 



116.60 



180.00 



Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 1916 



Jan. 1 to Mar. 31, 1917 



Quantity 



1,554,000 



18,416,000 

 13,952,000 



88,040,000 



768,000 



1,250,947 



340.05 

 49.68 



8,122.00 



166,989.33 



1,341,000 

 1,000 



28,049,000 



Value 



$ 8,137 

 59 



275,284 

 316,098 



740,713 



310,863 



250 



5,025 



54,446 



3,642 

 91,670 



227,012 

 332 



8,115 

 228 



137,539 



$ 16,863 

 $2,162,550 



Duty \ Quantity 



$46,040.00 

 69,760.00 



88,040.00 



77,715.75 



50.00 



7,680.00 



50,037.88 



34,051.80 

 39.84 



1,341.00 

 1.00 



14,024.50 



388,781.7 7 



143,801 



411 

 525 



4,746 



242 



399,226 



11,424 

 6,805 



3,225 



Value 



$ 1,235 

 156 



9,326 

 18,325 



36,282 

 2,303 



220 

 10,393 



55 



28.788 



96,290 



59,704 

 36,340 



31,337 



$ 1,666 

 $ 329,088 



Duty 



$1,027.60- 

 2,625.00 



4,746.0a 

 575.75 



2,420.0a 



15,969.04 



14,443.50 



11,424.00 

 6,805.00 



1,612.50' 



$61.648.29 



the Camp Grant cantonment at Rock- 

 ford, 111. Mr. Johnson left September 

 7. Although he had been married two 

 years, Mr. Johnson did not claim ex- 

 emption. He had been assistant in the 

 office and on the grounds at Mount 

 Greenwood cemetery for some time. 



Samuelson of the Seventh. 



Arthur Samuelson, a nephew of 

 Charles A. Samuelson, and employed in 

 that gentleman's well known Chicago 

 store, is a member of the Seventh regi- 

 ment I. N. G., which has been taken 

 into the army of the United States. He 

 was on the Mexican frontier assisting 

 Mr. Wilson in catching Villa in 1916 

 and the regiment expects to go to Hous- 

 ton, Tex., this week for training for 

 France. Edward Samuelson, another 

 nephew of C. A. Samuelson, has been 

 drafted and is training at Camp Grant, 

 Ropkford, 111. 



Blbbon Men Volunteer. 



Among the New York ribbon houses 

 that of Wertheimer Bros, has the dis- 

 tinction of furnishing an especially 

 large quota of volunteer enlistments for 

 the United States army and navy. 

 Among those who enlisted prior to the 

 draft and who are now in service are: 

 Samuel Haberman, 22d Engineers; 

 Philip Metzner, in the Transport Serv- 

 ice, U. S. navy; Monroe E. Frankl, 8th 

 Coast Defense Artillery; Louis Laufer, 

 1st Field Artillery; Walter E. Harris, 

 U. S. Naval Reserve. Their positions 

 will remain open awaiting their return. 



ally appears and destroys large batches 

 of cyclamens. I have found that spray- 

 ing with nicotine extract helps to check 

 the mite, if applications are given as 

 soon as any trouble appears, and are 

 persisted in. Also, allow some of the 

 spray to soak all around the bulb. A 

 few growers find that applications of 

 tobacco dust help in some measure. If 

 all your plants are in the same condi- 



tion as the sample, it would be the best 

 policy to destroy them. G. W. 



Allegany, N. Y. — Elmer Rawlings has 

 purchased twelve acres of ground ad- 

 joining his establishment. Mr. Raw- 

 lings said that while he does not need 

 the land now, he will soon, and bought 

 it before it was secured by a cemetery 

 company that was bidding for it. 



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o^e OBS15RVATION- CA^ip 



CYCLAMEN MITE. 



I am sending you one of my cyclamen 

 plants and should like to know what is 

 causing the leaves to curl. I cannot 

 find any insects on the plants. Would 

 it be a good idea to fumigate with to- 

 bacco or put tobacco dust between the 

 plants? G. C. H.— 111. 



The plant forwarded was infested by 

 the cyclamen mite. I do not know of 

 any real remedy for this pest. It annu- 



Any member of the Pacific Coast 

 Horticultural Society, San Francisco, 

 who goes to war will have "smokes" 

 and comfort kits supplied him at the 

 organization's expense. Fred Bertrand 

 started the fund for fighters at last 

 week 's meeting of the society. 



Fifty-five energetic members of the 

 Milwaukee trade held a mass meeting 

 last week at which it was decided to 

 form an organization through which co- 

 operative advertising could be planned 

 and placed. Definite plans will be ready 

 in a week or two. 



Seventy years young may be old, but 

 it describes E. Gurney Hill, who became 

 a septuagenarian September 11. He 

 was born in England, but his parents 

 came to America when the rosarian, 

 now as famous in England as in Amer- 

 ica, was only 3 years old. 



With the prospect of paying from $3 

 to $3.50 per day for labor before long, 

 members of the Portland, Ore., Floral 

 Society recently took concerted action 

 toward establishing higher retail prices. 

 Cooperation among tradesmen is the 

 essential thing in "passing it on to the 

 public." 



It is believed that importations of 

 baskets and other supplies from Japan 

 this fall and early winter will be greatly 

 retarded, or even stopped. The demand 

 for vessels on the Atlantic seaboard 

 ior the sake of the military establish- 

 ment has seen a transfer of many of 

 the Pacific liners to war service. 



While S. D. McMillen, of Braddock,. 

 Pa., was sleeping the sleep of the just 

 on the night of September 5, somebody 

 climbed in through the window and 

 made away with the sleeper's trousers. 

 In the morning Mr, McMillen found 

 them on the front porch, but he could 

 not find $75 in currency which had been 

 in one of the pockets. 



As indicative of the progress made 

 by the S. A. F., Secretary Young points 

 out that in the course of five years the 

 membership of the society has almost 

 doubled. January 1, 1912, there were 

 1,275 members; August 10 of this year 

 there were 2,215, of whom 1,694 were 

 annual, 496 life and 25 pioneer mem- 

 bers. Yet Mr. Young says the member- 

 ship is only ten per cent of the total 

 number of florists in this country and 

 Canada. 



