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The Florists' Review 



Septembeb 18, 1910. 



Miles W. Beyant, of the firm of Ar- 

 thur Bryant & Son, Princeton, 111., was 

 married August 30 to Ruth Amanda Karr. 

 The couple departed after the ceremony 

 on a trip to Philadelphia and other eastern 

 cities. Russell V. Black, of Hightstown, 

 N. J., was a guest at the wedding. 



The secretary of the French Federation 

 of Nurserymen, Mons. Turbat, has stated 

 that they have not yet given up hope of 

 doing something to modify the extreme 

 attitude taken up by the American gov- 

 ernment with regard to horticultural im- 

 ports,, and are still working with the 

 allies to that end. 



i FRUIT AND JIOSE STOCKS. 



A correspondent in a British trade 

 journal writes on French fruit and rose 

 stocks from observations gathered from 

 a recent visit to some of the principal 

 producing districts: 



"Notwithstanding the dry season 

 which has been experienced in France, 

 stocks, on the whole, look well, clean 

 and healthy — thanks to the plentiful 

 and convenient supply of water, which, 

 nevertheless, entails a considerable 

 •tmount of labor. 



"It can be well understood that 

 though France is the chief producing 

 country in the world for this class of 

 goods, the area devoted to the culture 

 of fruit and rose stocks is much smaller 

 than in pre-war times, and now that we 

 are again enjoying peace, and the world 

 is returning to its former peaceful pur- 

 suits, there is a great demand for these 

 stocks; and this demand, coupled with 

 the greater amount of labor required to 

 bring young stuff successfully througli 

 a trying summer and the higher wages 

 paid to workmen, has helped to increase 

 the cost of production and so raise 

 prices, which, unfortunately, give some 

 reason for complaint. 



"Apart from what France requires 

 for herself and what Great Britain 

 wants, demands come from Belgium, 

 Italy, Holland, Spain and other parts of 

 Europe, and America requires some mil- 

 lions. As it is quite impossible to sup- 

 ply all that are wanted, the French as- 

 sociation appears to have given a pref- 

 erence to Britain and Belgium, then to 

 America. The neutral countries come 

 afterwards; but any stock supplied to 

 them is at a considerably higher price, 

 and enemy countries would be charged 

 double. So that while complaints may 

 be made against high prices, they are 

 not so bad as to other countries, and it 

 looks as if, this year, we ought to count 



ourselves fortunate to get a supply 

 at all. 



' ' Considering the shortage, many of 

 the American requests for supplies are 

 accompanied with offers of prepayment, 

 and in view of this fact, which was dis- 

 covered from more than one of the large 

 growers, surely we cannot blame the 

 Frenchman if he asks of us the same 

 conditions which accompany the or- 

 ders of our friends across the Atlantic, 

 but which have to be refused in order 

 to let us have a reasonable quantity 

 of the stocks required. 



"It has been said that this year's 

 prices are out of proportion to previous 

 years. Well, while there may be some 

 truth in* this, it is questionable if this 

 is the only basis on which to fix prices. 

 What about the losses in the other de- 

 partments of the nurserj'? What 'is 

 going to make up for the piles of over- 

 grown trees and shrubs which have to 

 be burned in order to clear them out of 

 the way? Is it not justifiable to try 

 to obtain better prices for something 

 else of which there is a stock, for whicli 

 there is a demand, and for which the 

 money can be paid, so long as the goods 

 can be supplied? If this were not so, 



then it is to be feared the balance sheet 

 at the end of the season's stock taking 

 would be rather discouraging; or should 

 we say encouraging, inasmuch as there 

 would soon be no income tax to pay! 

 "Then again, it may not be quite 

 realized how hard some parts of the in- 

 dustries of France have been hit by the 

 war. In one of the producing districts 

 visited, it was mentioned that out of 

 2;j0 men who went to the front from 

 that particular village, 153 were killed 

 and ])racti('ally all of the remainder 

 wounded. ' ' , 



OPPOSING THE QUARANTINE. 



Practical Procedure Proposed. 



In his address before the convention 

 of the National Association of Garden- 

 ers at Cleveland, Congressman M. L. 

 Davey, of Kent, O., from the fullness 

 of his legislative experience, outlined a 

 practical plan of securing action in 

 amending Quarantine No. 37. He said: 



"My suggestion is that you proceed 

 to get a full hearing of this matter be- 

 fore the agricultural committee of the 

 House. You can get such a hearing if 



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