Mabcu C, 1919 



The Florists^ Review 



15 



is possible to watch these stocks and 

 tmard against posts and diseases being 

 distributed by them, why does this same 

 rule not also hold good on flio fruit tree 

 which has been budded or grafted ,' We 

 have a right to know why tluy |iermit 

 the introduction of one and exi ludo the 

 other. According to the department's 

 records during the fiscal year ending 

 June 30, 1918, which was an off year, no 

 loss than 3,515,765 fruit trees were irn 

 ported into the United States. They 

 were required in our orchards last year 

 ,iiid many more will be required this 

 v-ear, next year and in many more years. 

 N'ow, if these stocks can be brought in 

 >iifely, why must every other deciduous 

 >hrub and tree be excluded? All of 

 these, the stock for budding or grafting 



■ipon; 



the fruit tree itself as well as the 



.irnamental tree or shrub, are all im- 

 jHirted in a dormant state, without 

 loliage, and the rciols arc free (»f soil. 

 What pest or disease aft'ei-ts the deutzia. 

 rorsythia, hydrangea, honeysuckle, mag- 

 nolia, mock orange, lilac, smoke-tree, 

 -pinea, weigela, snouhall and hundreds 

 of other beautiful shrubs which now 

 adorn our gardens? Wo seek enlighten 

 inent from the board. We want to know 

 ivhere the difference oxists between 

 these and the fruit stocks which also 

 .ire shrubs? When' is tli(> danger in the 

 ine and not in the other.' 



Rose Plants. 



Fourth — Item 3 in Quarantine Act 

 No. 37 permits the importation of rose 

 stocks for ]iroi>agation, including Man- 

 iMIi, multitlora, briar rose and Rosa 

 rugosa. These new regulations, while 

 permitting the import of rose stocks for 

 ^rafting and budding, prohibit the im- 

 portation of named varieties; this in 

 ■;pite of the fact that the possibility of 

 introducing or not introducing insects 

 '>r diseases is the same on one as it is 

 111 the other. 



According to the department's rec- 

 • irds, there were imported during the off 

 vcar ending June 30, 1918, 1,056,000 

 named roses and 3,500,000 rose stocks. 

 Phese were probably sent to every state 

 111 the Union and we cannot find a single 

 record where a shipment of these plants 

 was held up for quarantine by any in 

 -•jiector, which shows that this stock was 

 ipparently clean and safe to distribute. 

 We contend that when the Federal 

 Horticultural Board makes a rule on 

 roses, this ruling must be the same on 

 'he stock as on the finished product, as 

 ■me is precisidy a counterpart of thf 

 itlici. and the board has no right to dis 

 ■iiij^uish between them. 



To protect itself legally, the board 



^ill no doubt contend that it projioscs 



' h't the rose (as well as the fruit 



-I'uks referred to in Item No. 2) come 



1 only as an essential to American hor 



"ulture. They are essential and must 



unc in. But, when it says that only 



M- stocks can come, it is class legisla- 



■ on for the benefit of a comparative 



w, not only injuring the business of 



<ry florist who sells plants but also 



t'bing thousands of amateurs of the 



ssibility of enjoying the new intro- 



ctions of the European specialists. 



Hoses have been coming to our couii- 



*' from foreign shores ever since the 



' Igrims landed, and up until 1912. with 



it even being inspected. In all that 



no they have not been guilty of bring- 



■Jl in any kind of trouble or disaster. 



d they are just as untainted now as 



WHO'S WHO ML AND WHY 



CHARLES WILLIAMSON McKELLAR. 



FROM Maine to California there are florists who will receive wirh regret the 

 news that "Charlie" McKeliar has (|uit the business. He has spent 32 years 

 in the trade in Chicago and enjoys an acquaintance as broad as the continent. In 

 the early days, when the tlorists' business was a less serious matter than it is now. 

 Mr. McKeliar was one of the leaders of the element which helped everybody to 

 have a good time as we went along aTnl he made friends everywhere. He was 

 liorn July 17, 18(59, at Chillicothe, O. Coining to Chicago, at the age of 19 he 

 entered the employment of Vaughan's Seed Store, going later to K. H. Hunt and 

 starting on his own account as a wholesale florist in 1894. For a time he was a 

 member of Vaughan, McKtdlar & Winterson, later McKeliar & Wiiiterson, whicli 

 dissolved in 1904, the partners since continuing individually. Mr. McKeliar sold 

 out March 1 to A. C. Spencer and will devote his time f<)r the present to Mr«. 

 McKeliar, who is not in the best of health. 



they were then, and since 1912 they 

 have run the gantlet of careful state 

 inspection. Where is the justice of ex- 

 cluding them now? 



At a recent meeting of the New Jer- 

 sey State Nurserymen's Association, 

 the state inspector of New Jersey, 

 Harry B. Weiss, who has filled this im- 

 portant position since 1911, and througli 

 whose hands possibly fifty per cent of 

 the roses imported into the United 

 States pass, made the statement that 

 he has never found a rose or rose stock 

 that was infested with a dangerous pest. 



Soil for Packing. 



Upward of 10,000,000 lily bulbs or 

 45,000 ca.ses are imported from Japan 

 each season, but it is impossible to ini- 



|i<irt them "frer from sand, soil or 

 earth." Owing to the distance from 

 • lajian and the time of year when they 

 arrive, soil is necessary as a packing 

 material to keep the bulbs from dryin;: 

 out and to absorb the frost when the 

 Imlbs become frozen in transit. After 

 years of experiment we are convinced 

 that no other packing material but soil 

 will enable these lily bulbs to arrive in 

 good condition from Japan, but the ma- 

 terial used m'lst be ^ dry clay dust. It 

 is not the soil in which the bulbs are 

 grown. 



ill fh.' prejiaration of the lily of the 

 \ alley pijis for export, a small amount 

 of sand is used to absorb excess mois- 

 ture. While this is shaken out when 

 the pipv .'ir.- bcinj) tied in omall bundles 



