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The Florists^ Review 



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ready, as soon as the June festivities 

 are over, to put the store in its summer 

 make-up. A woodland scene will be 

 displayed in the window. 



William Lubliner, Milwaukee, reports 

 a steady increase in transient patrons. 

 Business is in keeping with the times, 

 aeemingly getting better. 



Currie Bros. Co., Milwaukee, has been 

 working eighteen hours a day getting 



out seed orders. "From the number of 

 orders, it seems that everyone intends 

 to spend the summer gardening," re- 

 marked the busy Roy Currie. 



The Flower Shop, a new establish- 

 ment at Bacine, Wis., is an addition to 

 the beautiful retail flower stores of the 

 country and ranks with the best. The 

 destinies of this business are in the 

 hands of the junior member of Behle & 



Benz. Mr. Benz is still a young man, 

 who some day will be one of the4eading 

 retail florists. In speaking of] busi- 

 ness, Mr. Benz remarked that since the 

 opening of the store it has increased 

 over fifty per cent. 



The Eacine Floral Co., Racine, has 

 been busy with many wedding orders. 

 Plans to redecorate during the summer 

 months have been made. W. T. U. 



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QUABANTINE CONFEBENOE. 



Organizes Opposition. 



The conference called by the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society and the 

 New York Horticultural Society in re- 

 gard to Quarantine No. 37 and the ac- 

 tions of the Federal Horticultural 

 Board met in New York city June 15 

 and chose an executive committee to 

 direct a campaign of opposition to the 

 present mode of enforcing the quaran- 

 tine. 



The conference opened in the lecture 

 hall of the American Museum of Natu- 

 ral History at 10 o'clock, with an at- 

 tendance of nearly 100, most of whom 

 represented liorticultural organizations, 

 the rest business interests. Among 

 them were I. S. Hendrickson, Flower- 

 field, N. Y., representing the American 

 Gladiolus Society; E. .C. Vick, New 

 York, American Dahlia Society; S. S. 

 Pennock, Philadelphia, American Rose 

 Society; F. C. Newbold, New York, Gar- 

 den Clubs of America; S. Newhall, Gar- 

 den Clubs of Philadelphia; J. K. M. L. 

 Farquhar, Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club of Boston; T. A. Havemcver, Hor- 

 ticultural Society of New York; W. C. 

 Endicott, Massachusetts Florists' So- 

 ciety; M. C. Ebel, National Association 

 of Gardeners; J. H. Fiesser, New York 

 and New Jersey Association of Plant 

 Growers; Frank R, Pierson, Society of 

 American Florists; J. A. Manda, New 

 York Florists' Club; F. Cranefield, Wis- 

 consin State Horticultural Society; 

 Richard Vincent, Baltimore Gardeners' 

 •ind Florists' Club; Mrs. Francis King, 

 Garden Clubs of America; Leonard H. 

 Vaughan, Chicago Horticultural So- 

 "••ety; J. C. Wister, Pennsylvania Hor- 

 'ipultural Society; J. Edward Moon, 

 American Association of Nurserymen. 

 i here were several others, representing 

 various garden clubs, many of them 

 '■'dies. T. A. Havemeyer acted as tem- 

 l">rary chairman and Wm. B. Rich, Bos- 

 ■'^"1, acted as secretary. After the read- 

 '-'K of the call and a long list of signa- 

 ''"•ies, J. H. McFarland, Harrisburg, 

 ''•1-, was elected permanent chairman 

 •Tid presided throughout. 



Objects of Conference. 



E. P. Burridge, Beverly, Mass., read 

 •' i^tatement ]irepared by the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society covering the 

 ' Jjects of the conference. It was ex- 

 •■'amed that it was not the purpose of 

 ; 'le meeting to condemn the quarantine, 

 ■'ut merely to protest against the dras- 

 tic manner in which it was being en- 

 ■^''ced, a manner wasteful, ineflScicnt 

 ;^d unsound. It was asked that the 

 ^Jnited States government, with all its 



power and wealth, should handle the 

 business part of the subject in a busi- 

 ness way. It was declared that the 

 place to inspect and fumigate was at 

 the port of entry and that it was wrong 

 to have plants arriving, say, in Califor- 

 nia sent to Washington, 3,000 miles 

 away, for inspection and treatment, 

 and. then sent back again, a course 

 deemed both wasteful and ill-advised. 

 It was also declared that inspection 

 should be made by experienced ofl&cers 

 of the government and not by mere 

 students. Evasion or violation of the 

 law was not favored, but it was urged 

 that unsound or diseased plants be re- 

 jected at the port of entry and sound, 

 clean plants be allowed to come to one 

 of the larger ports and there treated, 

 accepted or rejected. It was asked that 

 the government establish suitable in- 

 spection service at two. ports in the 

 west, one in the south and two in the 

 east, and that the final decision on 

 plants be made at those ports, where 

 they may be desiroyed or released, as 

 found necessary. It was further asked 

 that the regulations be revised in a 

 business way and made safe for all con- 

 cerned. If it was a fact that the loss 

 to this country by plant disease was 

 over a million dollars per day, then 

 surely the federal government could 

 afford to pay the small amount neces- 

 sary to establish and maintain the in- 

 spection service at these ports. 



Stifling Horticulture. 



Mr. Burridge also read a letter from 

 Prof. C. S. Sargent, of the Arnold Ar- 

 boretum, in which it was said that, ow- 

 ing to quarantine restrictions, it was 

 decided there to give up receiving any 

 foreign plants until there was modifica- 

 tion in the rules of the quarantine 

 board, and it was quite believed that 

 the requirements of the board could be 

 modified and approved. Inspection sta- 

 tions could be established at ports of 

 entry and changes in the classification 

 of the plants quarantined made. In 

 the letter it was also urged that co- 

 operation with the Department of Agri- 

 culture was necessary in an attempt to 

 obtain changes in the rulings regarding 

 plants, on which the future of Amer- 

 ican horticulture depended. 



Judge Noitt, of Nashua, N. H., read 

 a statement he had prepared as a mem- 

 ber of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society's committee, in which he stated 

 that complaint against the quarantine 

 was in regard to its so-called drastic 

 features, which should be modified sub- 

 stantially. It had been said that the 

 restrictions called for in this quaran- 

 tine were unnecessary, and there was 

 general agreement on that point. As 



E. H. Wilson had said, no man had any 

 desire to introduce plant pests, but all 

 were absolutely opposed to plant exclu- 

 sion and to dictation as to what might 

 or might not be planted in gardens. 

 The object and purpose of the quaran- 

 tine was good and had a semblance of 

 virtue. It was^not the desire of the 

 people, however, to be cut off from the 

 best trees, shrubs, flowers and fruits 

 because they might bring in injurious 

 pests. 



Voices Objections. 



J. C. Wister, president of the Penn- 

 sylvania Horticultural Society, said he 

 was not opposed to quarantines and 

 would rather go on record as favoring 

 them. He voiced, however, the opinions 

 of his organization in the following ob- 

 jections: No proof had been given as 

 to the necessity of a general quaran- 

 tine. The assumption is that plant 

 pests do not enter on other bodies. We 

 do not like the arbitrary rulings. We 

 ask for inspection at different ports. 

 We do not like the way the Federal 

 Horticultural Board acts as a jury on 

 pests. Pests come in with other things, 

 not necessarily on plants, and it is un- 

 just to keep cut plants on that account. 

 We object to the inconsistent rulings 

 under the quarantine. Finished roses 

 are not allowed to come in, while un- 

 finished stock is, thus protecting the 

 business of rose growers. 



The speakers against the quarantine 

 were many and a number of instances 

 of injustice in the rulings of the F. H. 

 B. were quoted. Principal among these 

 speakers were F. W. Kelsey, of the 

 American Association of Nurserymen; 

 J. E. Lager, I. S. Hendrickson, J. K. M, 

 L. Farquhar, M. C. Ebel, S. S. Pennock, 

 J. Edward Moon and F. R. Pierson. 



Some of the ladies representing gar- 

 den clubs said that the embargo against 

 plant introductions eliminated the 

 aesthetic feature in gardens generally. 



Committee Elected. 

 The discussion finally took con- 

 structive ferm, and on the motion of 

 Judge Noitt it was resolved that a gen- 

 eral committee be formed, to consist 

 of one representative of each organiza- 

 tion oflacially represented at the con- 

 ference, with the permanent chairman 

 acting as chairman ex-officio, this com- 

 mittee to elect an executive committee 

 with power to formulate plans for 

 effective opposition to the quarantine 

 as now put in force and to collect funds 

 in support of such opposition. The com- 

 mittee met later and elected as the 

 executive committee E. P. Burridge, 

 Mrs. Francis King, E. C. Vick, J. c! 

 Wister and F. Cranefield, with W. B. 

 Rich as secretary and treasurer and 



