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The Florists^ Review 



Sbptembeb 9, 1920 



for an hour and one could have readily 

 listened to him considerably longer. His 

 wit and humor kept the crowd in a joy- 

 ous mood and his subjectj "The Master 

 Key," made a big hit. 



Most of the visitors stayed over Satur- 

 day, visiting the state fair and the flo- 

 rists' establishments. P. 



JAPANESE BEETLE SPREADING. 



Notice has been given by the Federal 

 Horticultural Board of a hearing Sep- 

 tember 10, at 10 a. m., on the extension 

 of the quarantine against the Japanese 

 beetle. Following a hearing that at- 

 tracted much attention, a quarantine 

 was laid April 1, 1920, against several 

 townships in southwestern New Jersey. 

 Included were the townships of Delran, 

 Chester, Cinnaminson, Palmyra, Mount 

 Laurel and Riverside and the borough 

 of Eiverton, in the county of Burling- 

 ton, and the townships of Pensauken 

 and Delaware and the borough of Mer- 

 chantville, in the county of Camden, 

 N. J. Now it is proposed to quarantine 

 the entire states of Pennsylvania and 

 New Jersey. It is stated, however, that 

 in case this is done, restrictions will be 

 limited to shipments from the areas 

 actually infested. 



The notice issued by the board reads 

 as follows: 



The Secrotiiry of Agriculture has Information 

 tliat a (laii);en>us insect, namely, the Japanese 

 beetle (Popillia japonica Newm.), not hereto- 

 fore widely prevalent or distributed within and 

 throughout the United States and which has been 

 known to occur in restricted iwrtions of New 

 Jersey for several years, occurs also in southeast- 

 ern I'ennsylvania. 



It appears necessary, therefore, to consider the 

 advisability of quarantining the states of New 

 Jersey and Pennsylvania in accordance with tlie 

 plant quarantine act of August 20, 1912 (.S7 

 Stat., 315), as amended bv the act of Congress 

 approved March 4, 1917 (39 Stat., 1134, 116.5), 

 !ind to place such restrictions on the movement 

 from those states of (1) farm, garden and 

 orchard products of all kinds, including fresh or 

 perisliable crops, such as green corn, tomatoes, 

 beans, peas, cantnloiipos. watermelons, grapes, 

 raspberries, blackt)erries, cherries. peaclies. 

 apples and all other fresh fruits and vegetables: 

 (2) grain and forage crops of all kinds; (3) 

 nursery, ornamental and greenhouse stock, and 

 all other plants, including l.ulbs and cut flowers; 

 and (4) soil, compost and manure other than 

 fresh manure, as shall be deemed necessnr.v to 

 prevent the spread through such products of the 

 Japanese beetle into other states. 



if it is found advisable to (piaranline the en- 

 tire states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the 

 restrictions imiiosed by such quarantine on the 

 movement of the materials listed above will be 

 limited substantially to the areas actually deter- 

 mined as infested by the Japanese beetle. 



Notice is therefore hereby given that a public 

 hearing will be held at the Department of Agri- 

 culture, Washington. T). C. room 11. Federal 

 Horticultural Roard. at 10 o'clock a. m.. Sep- 

 tember 10. 1920, in order that any person inter 

 ested in the proposed qu;irantine nia.v appear and 

 be heard either in person or by attorney. 



D. C. SHIPPING REGULATIONS. 



T'pon the recommendation of the Fed- 

 eral Horticultural Board, E. T. Mere- 

 dith, secretary of agriculture, issued 

 August 26 various regulations govern- 

 ing the movement of plants and plant 

 ])roducts into and out of the District of 

 Cohimbin; these regulations became ef- 

 fective Se]>tenil)er 1. Seeds, exce])t 

 those addressed to the Department of 

 Agriculture aii<l those affected by some 

 particular regulations, are admitted 

 without n^stiiction. Plants and jilant 

 jirodiicts which are admitted and are 

 not addres.sed to the Dejiartment of 

 Agriculture mu.st comjily with the fol- 

 lowing requirements: A certificate of 

 inspection, signed by a state inspector, 

 must accompany each package, indicat- 

 ing that the nursery from which it 

 came has been inspected within the 

 previous twelve months; the package 

 must be marked with the word ' ' plants ' ' 



and the name and address of both con- 

 signor and consignee, and its delivery 

 to the consignee is dependent upon au- 

 thorization by an inspector of the Fed- 

 eral Horticultural Board. All plants 

 and plant products addressed to the De- 

 partment of Agriculture must be deliv- 

 ered at the inspection house of the Fed- 

 eral Horticultural Board. 



The regulations also repeat the em- 

 bargoes already established against cer- 

 tain kinds of shipments from New Eng- 

 land, New York and parts of New Jer- 

 sey by Quarantine No. 26, affecting 

 five-leaved pine and black currant 

 plants, and by the gipsy moth and 

 brown-tailed moth quarantine, the Jap- 

 anese beetle quarantine and the Euro- 

 pean corn borer quarantine. 



The regulations affecting the exporta- 

 tion of plants and plant products from 

 the District of Columbia have to do 

 with inspection and certification. 



BALTIMORE, MD. 



The Market. 



The market last week was in much 

 better shape than it has been for some 

 time. Aside from gladioli, everyone 

 who has good stock to offer is getting 



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Richard Haeat^e. 



(New President of Wisconsin Association,) 



a fair return for it. It looks now as 

 though there will not he much of a 

 late crop, the growing conditions hav- 

 ing been so favorable this summer 

 that it has been a difficult matter to 

 time crops; some that were figured for 

 the middle of September are now over. 

 Asters are more normal and some fine 

 ones are now on the market. As with 

 gladioli, it would seem that everyone 

 went in this year for a better quality 

 of stock, but the season was too fa- 

 vorable, they all came in about the 

 same time and the market was over- 

 supplied. Roses have picked up won- 

 derfully well; white varieties are still 

 on the short side, but they are much 

 better than they have been for some 

 time. On the best grades of stock the 

 prices hold good and more might be 

 handled if they could be had. Some 

 dahlias are to he seen, hut not enough 



at this writing to talk about. There i;, 

 the usual supply of miscellaneous out- 

 door stock; sometimes this sells well, 

 but it is an uncertain proposition. 



Advertising Campaign. 



The advertising committee has been 

 rather quiet for the last two months, 

 but the members have not been asleeji 

 by any means. Joseph S. Merritt and 

 the rest of the committee have been 

 working up plans for a most active cam- 

 paign during the coming winter; they 

 have a number of new stunts all ready 

 to spring. Their object is to make 

 "Say It with Flowers" a household 

 word in this city. I have heard of sev- 

 eral who were not in on this campaigji 

 on the percentage plan, but are now 

 ready to come in; they are big enough 

 and broad enough to acknowledge their 

 error and say that it is only square 

 dealing for a man to pay for his share 

 of the campaign on the basis of the 

 amount of business he does. The com- 

 mittee is going ahead this winter with 

 a live campaign; the members want 

 everyone to be a part of the Associated 

 Florists. Most of the Baltimore florists 

 are now members. 



Various Notes. 



Charles E. Smith & Co. are now well 

 established in their new location at 

 Charles street and North avenue. This 

 location has become a flower center. 

 Within a square of this corner there are 

 now four good, progressive florists — the 

 Parkway Flower Shop, J. A. Bitter- & 

 Sons, the Chateau Flower Shop and 

 Charles E. Smith & Co. This is one of 

 the busiest neighborhoods in the city. 



William F. Ekas is putting in some 

 hard work with the Baltimore Wholesale 

 Florist & Supply Co. The entire build- 

 ing is being renovated from cellar to 

 roof and the offices on the first floor are 

 being moved to give the cut flower de- 

 partment more room. Mr. Ekas' ob- 

 ject is to have the entire first floor 

 without any obstructions for the 

 handling of cut flowers. Mr. Ekas is 

 of the opinion that stock is not going 

 to be much more plentiful this season 

 than it was last. Tate. 



DULUTH, MINN. 



The Market. 



Business last Aveek was good and all 

 kinds of stock moved fast. The week 

 was a quite busy one with weddings 

 and funerals. Stock is plentiful, with 

 outdoor flowers quite abundant. Asters 

 are exceptionally fine and good gladioli 

 are being cut. Roses are plentiful and 

 good. Carnations are nil. Easter lilies 

 and ruhrums are also selling well. 



Various Notes. 



The largest event of last week was 

 the Marr wedding. It was a home wed- 

 ding and took place in the hall, where 

 an altar was arranged with southern 

 smilax, Easter lilies and cathedral can- 

 dles. The mantelpiece was decorated 

 with gladioli, sweet peas, rubrum lilies 

 and asters, with a shower effect. On 

 the dinner table was a large center- 

 piece of Columbia roses and pink 

 candles and small vases of blue corn- 

 flowers. The bride 's bouquet was com- 

 po.sed of white sweet peas and the 

 bridesmaids' of various shades of pink 

 sweet peas. The Duluth Floral Co. 

 had charge of the decorations and made 

 the bouquets. J. E. S. 



