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The Florists^ Review 



AtousT as, 1919. 



for no one knows what congeniality 

 really is. We know that certain varie- 

 ties and species unite easily and make 

 permanent unions; such plants we say 

 are congenial. We know, too, that cer- 

 tain plants work together with diffi- 

 culty, that only a small percentage take 

 or that the unions are not good; the 

 plants do not thrive and are as a rule 

 short-lived. Such sorts are not con- 

 genial. In every region where adapta- 

 bility problems require the use of stocks 

 other than their own roots in order to 

 render plants of value, there goes hand 

 in hand with the adaptability this ques- 

 tion of congeniality. 



Borne day our nursery books will con- 

 tain such entries as this: 



stocks for Vlnifpra Orapea — Phylloxera re- 

 sistant stock, Hupestris St. George. 



Phyllozcra resistants adapted to alkali soils, 

 adobe soils, sandy soils. 



This together with a list of varieties 



carrying the names of the stocks with 



which they are congenial, as Muscat of 



Alexandria — congenial with Rupestris 



St. George, Lenoir, etc. 



Sou AdaptabUity. 



If one has adobe soil and wishes to 

 grow Muscat of Alexandria on a re- 

 sistant root, it will be possible for him 

 to determine that he must contract with 

 his nurseryman to grow for him the de- 

 sired number of plants in the proper 

 combination of root and scion; that is, a 

 stock congenial with Muscat of Alexan- 

 dria and, at the same time, adapted to 

 adobe soil. Now that information in 

 regard to such details as I have enumer- 

 ated is being rapidly gathered, the prac- 

 tices of the trade should be modified to 

 make plants carrying the combined good 

 features available to the trade. This 

 does not mean producing such material 

 on a chance or speculation basis, but 

 rather an order specifying the condi- 

 tions to be met filed in advance so the 

 plants can be grown to order. To a 

 degree such business methods are an 

 innovation in the plant trade, but I be- 

 lieve the time is not far distant when 

 the nurserymen and plaatsmen who de- 

 sire to be of greatest) xer.rifie to the in- 

 dustries will undertake te s»ow plants 

 of a special character of OMftbination on 

 a contract basis. 



I have said we have ^rawm eur plant 

 propagators chiefly tikmi abroad. This 

 is a natural result of the failure of the 

 apprentice system in this country ano 

 the tardy development of vocational in- 

 stitutions. Our colleges giving instruc- 

 tion in agriculture and botany should 

 make it a point to train teachers for 

 the vocational schools, which in turn 

 will instruct the growing generation in 

 the rudiments of the art of plant propa- 

 gation. We should go one step further 

 and request, as the nurserymen did, that 

 these instructors give special courses in 

 plant propagation. Such a request made 

 in good faith by so representative a body 

 of plantsmen as the membership of the 

 S. A, F. cannot help but produce an 

 effect even greater than the offering of 

 courses of instruction. It will, I am 

 sure, stimulate investigation in this 

 field. 



The members of this association can 

 be of great assistance to investigators 

 in this field by putting up to them the 

 problems that are of greatest interest 

 and most pressing. The states, I am 

 sure, will respond as far as their facil- 

 ities permit in handling local problems 

 and the Department of Agriculture will 

 give aid in the solution of regional and 



interstate problems for which it has 

 facilities. 



Society Can Help. 



The society can help in the solution of 

 many of the problems of plant adapta- 

 tion by encouraging reports on new 

 sorts from members and by a committee 

 to assemble and present such reports. 

 There is a great mass of information in 

 the possession of the membership of this 

 society and an effort should be made 

 to assemble this information for the 

 benefit of the industry, now that this 

 country must depend more upon its own 

 resources than ever before. A man pos- 

 sessing information which will be of 

 value to the trade, but which because of 

 his environment the possessor can not 

 put. into practice for the advantage of 

 the trade, should give such information 

 to the press or to educational or inves- 

 tigational institutions, in order that we 

 may offer to the American trade even a 

 greater variety of plant material of 

 equal or better grade than it has here- 

 tofore had offered. 



The opportunities in the field of plant 

 propagation open to this society, briefly 

 stated, are: 



This society can act as a clearing 

 house for the exchange of information 

 on plant propagation among its mem- 

 bers. 



This society can assemble and publish 

 information relating to the adaptability 

 of plants to various regions and soil 

 types. 



This society can through its publicity 

 agents do much to popularize native or- 

 namentals worthy of Introduction. 



This society can, through cooperation 

 with the educational and investigational 

 institutions of the country, do much to- 

 wards popularizing the work of instruc- 

 tion as well as shaping the character of 

 investigation in the field of floriculture. 



We believe that tl^is is an opportune 

 time for the society to assume a lead- 

 ing roll in such matters, not only be- 

 cause of the advantages that will come 

 to the industry, but because of the sat- 

 isfaction that will cOme to the public 

 in general from more and better orna- 

 mentals. 



The great field is among the owners 

 of small and modest homes, both in the 

 town and in the country, and now is the 

 accepted time. Our motto should be 

 "Eight forward into line — March." 



TRADE GETS SURPRISE. 



First Effect of Quarantine Order. 



Within the last few days the trade has 

 felt the first effects of the working of 

 the new general quarantine. No. 37. 

 Although the order went into effect 

 June 1 and shut off practically all plant 

 imports, it was about the end of the 

 season and the workings of the new 

 regulations are getting their first test on 

 the arrival of Paper Whites from 

 France. 



During the last week hundreds of flo- 

 rists have received notice from their 

 state autiiorities that they must notify 

 these authorities -of the arrival of bulb 

 shipments and hold the cases unopened 

 pending inspection or release. Bulbs 

 have not heretofore been inspected on 

 arrival and the notices have caused 

 much surprise among those who have not 

 studied Quarantine 37 and the regula- 

 tions for its enforcement. 



What the Law Requires. 



The rules and regulations supple- 

 mental to Quarantine 37 require that 

 all bulbs (included under the term 

 "nursery stock") admitted under per- 

 mit shall carry the certificate of the 

 recognized inspection authorities of the 

 country of origin. The regulations fur- 

 ther provide: 



Beffulation 11. Notice of shipment by per- 

 mittee. 



After entry of tlie nursery stock and other 

 plants and seeds and before removal from the 

 port of entry for each seporate siiipment or con- 

 slcnment tliereof the permittee sliall notify the 

 Secretary of AfrricuUnre in dtipHcate. on forms 

 provided for that ,~"rpose. statinp tho number of 

 the permit, the date of entry, the port of entry, 

 the customs entry number, name and address of 

 the consignee to whom it Is proposed to forward 

 the shipment, the general nature and quantity 

 of the nnrser.v stock and other plants and seeds, 

 the number of cases or other containers Incliided 

 in the shipment, and the case or container niim- 

 hent nnd marks, t^^ether with the probable date 

 of delivery for and route of transportation. A 



separate report is required for each alttmate con- 

 signee. 



At the same time a copy of the notice to the 

 Secretary of Agriculture shall be sent by the 

 permittee to the duly authorized Inspector or 

 other officer of the state, territory or district 

 to which the nursery stock and other plants and 

 seeds are to be shipped. A list of such inspec- 

 tors and officers is appended. 



Should a consignee named In such a notice 

 ship or deliver for shipment to any other state, 

 territory or district snek •mnety •twA and Atlier 

 plants or me»A» h(C*f» tlier iMrrs W t» m I w s w ep tod 

 by a duly avtltorlMd atet*. JaRMsvtel ar Strict 

 inspector or sAeer. be '■haM.in>isr'te-«Beh ship- 

 ment, ffive.Uke ■ a tto e s ,>S'<lirfc iiBtoiy «< A»rt- 

 cultura aad te ttia ^wir i— thsst^iJ t—psrlsr «r 

 other oScev of .tte- atatet <tanMsf7 tfr J l st Hct to 

 'Which Mm n i i f e fi i stoefc aa4 other plants and 

 seeds mw t» be whi pp e d. 



Nursery stock and other vlaats mad seeds which 

 have been -once -inspected and paaaed by a duly 

 authorised state, terrttwiaJ or disMct inspector 

 or other officer, will be allMred to more inter- 

 state wittient re s trietioBS other than those im- 

 posed on the teterstate more m ent of domestic 

 nursery stock. 



Serulation U. Xarkiar a ooadition of Inter- 

 stats shipment of nursery stoek and other plants 

 and seeds not lnsi>eoted. 



No person shall ship or deliver for shipment 

 from one state, territory or district of the United 

 States into any other state, territory or district 

 any imported nursery stock nnd other plants and 

 seeds, the cane, box, package, crate, bale or 

 bundle whereof is not plainly marked so as to 

 show the general nature and quantity of the con- 

 tents, the name and address of the consignee, 

 and the country and locality where grown, un- 

 less and until such ImiMirted nursery stock and 

 other plants and seeds have been inspected and 

 passed by the proper official of a state, territory 

 or district of the United States. 



This appears to necessitate the in- 

 spection of all bulbs which are to be re- 

 shipped by the original consignee and 

 to leave it up to the various state in- 

 spection authorities as to what they will 

 do in the matter of inspecting bulbs 

 that have arrived at the establishment 

 of the man who will plant them. 



What the States Will Do. 



When the state authorities received 

 their notices that the Paper Whites had 

 been forwarded from New York most of 

 them sent the consignees notice to re- 

 port arrival and await further instruc- 

 tions. 



P. A. Glenn, chief inspector for Illi- 

 nois, was at Chicago August 25 to direct 



