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The Florists^ Review 



Sbptembbb 2. 1920 



source. Discontinue it at once and be- 

 gin fumigating or sgraying with a 

 nicotine solution. Use the nicotine for 

 aphis and thrips. If your plants are in- 



fested with red spider, spray with salt 

 water. If you have leaf-spot disease, 

 use Bordeaux mixture, but leave off the 

 sulphur. A. F. J. B. 



isfotion and 



Leg^ Decision! 



EFTEOT or IMMIGRATION LAWS. 



On Hiring Canadian Help. 



Florists who negotiate with residents 

 of Canada, or any other foreign coun- 

 try, as prospective employers, should 

 remember that Uncle Sam has laid down 

 some immigration laws which contain 

 drastic provisions against certain means 

 of inducing aliens to come to the United 

 States. Following is the text of ex- 

 tracts from these statutes, as found in 

 Barnes' Federal Code: 



Section 3702.— It shall be unlawful for any 

 person, company, partnership or corporation to 

 prepay the transportation or in any way to in- 

 duce, assist, encourage or solicit or attempt to 

 induce, assist, encourage or solicit the importa- 

 tion or migration of any contract laborer into the 

 United States, unless such contract laborer or con- 

 tract laborers are exempted under the fifth pro- 

 tIso of section three of this act, or have been 

 imported with the permission of the Secretary 

 of L,abor in accordance with the fourth proviso. 

 [The penalty for violating the statute is a fine 

 of $1,000, or imprisonment for not less than six 

 months or more than two years.] 



Section 3703.— It shall be unlawful to induce, 

 or attempt to induce, any alien to come into 

 the United States by promise of employment 

 through advertisements printed, published, or 

 distributed in any foreign country. 



Section 3704. — All contracts which may here- 

 after be made to perform labor or service by any 

 person in the United States, its territories, or 

 the District of Columbia previous to the migra- 

 tion or importation of the person or persons 

 whose labor or service is contracted for into the 

 United States shall be utterly void and of no 

 effect. . ,, 



Section 3700. — The following classes of aliens 

 shall be excluded from admission to the United 

 States: Persons hereinafter called contract la- 

 borers, who have been induced to migrate to this 

 country by offers or promises of employment to 

 perform labor in this country of any kind, sliilled 

 or unskilled; persons wlio have come in conse- 

 quence of advertisements for laborers printed, 

 published, or distributed in a foreign country. 

 Provided further, that skilled labor, if otherwise 

 admissible, may be Imported if labor of like kind 

 unemployed cannot be found in this country, and 

 the question of the necessity of Importing such 

 skilled labor in any particular instance may be 

 determined by the Secretary of Labor upon the 

 application of any person interested. Provided 

 further, that the provisions of this law appli- 

 cable to contract labor shall not be held to ex- 

 clude professional actors, artists, lecturers, sing- 

 ers, nurses, ministers, professors, persons be- 

 longing to any recognized learned profession, or 

 persons employed as domestic servants. 



The last cited section also excepts 

 employees coming to the country tem- 

 porarily in connection with exhibits at 

 a fair or exposition. 



Hits More Than Evils. 



Unquestionably, the provisions of the 

 law are broader than the evils that 

 brought about its enactment. As said 

 by a federal judge: 



"The motives and history of the act 

 are matters of common knowledge. It 

 had become the practice for large cap- 

 italists of this country to contract with 

 their agents abroad for the shipment of 

 great numbers of an ignorant and serv- 

 ile class of foreign laborers, under con- 

 tracts, by which the employer agreed, 

 upon one hand, to prepay their passage, 

 while, upon the other hand, the laborers 

 agreed to work after their arrival for 

 a certain time at a low rate of wages. 

 The effect of this was to break down 

 the labor market and to reduce other 

 laborers engaged in like occupations to 



the level of the assisted immigrant. The 

 evil finally became so flagrant that an 

 appeal was made to Congress for relief 

 by the passage of the act in question, 

 the design of which was to raise the 

 standard of foreign immigrants and to 

 discountenance the migration of those 

 who had not sufficient means in their 

 own hands, or those of their friends, to 

 pay their passage." 



Doubts as to Application. 



A reading of the statutes will show 

 that they are not free from doubt as to 

 whether certain classes of florists' em- 

 ployees are covered by them. On one 

 hand it seems likely that the law would 

 be construed as applying to the ordi- 

 nary employee, since reference is made 

 to "labor or service" and to "labor 

 of any kind, skilled or unskilled. ' ' The 

 law has been held to apply to farm 

 laborers, lace makers, milliners, expert 



accountants, dairymen and others. But 

 we believe that it would be held that 

 an expert botanist might be possessed 

 of such scientific knowledge and so em- 

 ployed as to be excepted under the 

 proviso exempting members of leatned 

 professions. This belief is founded on 

 the fact that the United States Supreme 

 court has decided that a chemist em- 

 ployed as such on a sugar plantation 

 was exempted oh that ground. 



In case of doubt as to whether the 

 provisions of the law are apt to be vio- 

 lated by a given course of negotiation 

 for the employment of an alien residing 

 abroad, it is strongly advisable to ask 

 information from the Secretary of 

 Labor. 



As illustrating how the act may be 

 violated, there is a federal decision 

 holding that there was a violation 

 where an American textile mill adver- 

 tised in an English newspaper, stating 

 that "first-class weavers could earn 

 35 shillings to two pounds per week." 



Colorado Springs, Colo. — Mrs. W. H. 

 Evans, president of the Pikes Peak 

 Floral Co., announced August 19 that 

 the controlling interest in the corpo- 

 ration had been sold to John L. Nichols, 

 the sale including the retail store at 

 104 North Tejon street and the range 

 on East Columbia street. Mr. Nichols 

 said at the same time that, while he 

 will devote a large part of his time to 

 the firm's business, there will be no 

 change in personnel. 



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TATE'S TIPS 



PRODUCTION or LILY BULBS. 



Plants In Development. 



One evening last winter I listened 

 with a great deal of interest to a lecture 

 by Dr. David GriflSths, of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, at Washington, 

 on the subject of the commercial pro- 

 duction of lily bulbs in this country. 

 Dr. GriflSths not only had lantern slides 

 to illustrate his lecture, but showed 

 actual plants in all stages of develop- 

 ment, from the seedling to the finished 

 plant. As I looked at these and mar- 

 veled, a friend who was with me, Fred 

 G. Bauer, known as one of the best 

 all-around growers in Maryland, said 

 he had been experimenting along these 

 lines for the last ten years and now 

 produced all of the lily bulbs he used. 

 Considering that no finer lilies than 

 Mr. Bauer 's come to the Baltimore mar- 

 ket and that there is no man of whom 

 I know who has a more exact knowledge 

 of the cost of production of anything 

 he grows, when he says that from an 

 economic standpoint it is possible, 

 there is no doubt in my mind that it can 

 be done. 



But I can hear many of my readers 

 say, ' ' Why should I take all this trouble 

 when I can purchase good flowering 

 bulbs in the fall and have no trouble 

 except to flower themf" To such I 

 would recall the old proverb, "In time 

 of peace prepare for war." All of us 

 can remember when a great part of the 

 lily bulbs used in this country came 

 from Bermuda; how many come from 

 there now? Is it not possible that 



Japan's supply may be a repetition of 

 Bermuda's? Just last year we heard of 

 crop failures in Japan. 



Learn How to Produce. 



Only a few years ago who would have 

 thought we should have gone through a 

 Christmas without azaleas? There is 

 no doubt in my mind that American 

 brains will solve this problem, that the 

 time will come when azaleas will again 

 be on the market, but why not, in fu- 

 ture, solve these problems before the 

 catastrophe comes? Think of what loss 

 the lack of azaleas has brought to flo- 

 rists and then think of the greater loss 

 the absence of lilies would bring. Would 

 it not be well to know at least how to 

 produce your own bulbs, if such an 

 emergency were to arise? Why not pro- 

 duce a few each year, note carefully on 

 these every cent they cost to produce 

 and compare this with what your bought 

 bulbs cost you? Then, like Mr. Bauer, 

 you may prefer to produce your own 

 bulbs. 



Good growers say it is a simple propo- 

 sition, that it is quite possible to pro- 

 duce lily bulbs in this country more 

 cheaply than they can be imported. But 

 we are not going into this phase of the 

 question at this time; the object of this 

 article is to warn the growers to be 

 prepared. With this object in view, I 

 recently visited Mr. Bauer's range and 

 had him explain to me the cultural meth- 

 ods he used, in order that I might pass 

 them on to the readers of The Review. 

 The process is so simple that anyone 

 should be successful. Mr. Bauer saves 

 his own seed; for this purpose he saves 



