NOVEMBEB 18, 1920 



The Florists^ Review 



27 



Weiss-Meyer Co.t Maywood, III. 



cars at the i)lacc where the shipment 

 originates. This case is known as Mayo 

 vs. J. L. I'ricc Brokerage ('o., 21S Soiith- 

 wesfcru Keporter, 9'Ml. 



The court also aligns itself with other 

 judicial authorities by reatliriiiing the 

 rule of law that damages assessed for 

 nondelivery of gootls contracted to be 

 sold are to be measured by the excess 

 of the market value of the goods at the 

 contract time and place for delivery 

 above the contract i)rice. S. 



COMMITTEE ON QUARANTINE. 



Makes Preliminary Report. 



The executive committee appointed at 

 the conference of re]>resentatives of hor- 

 ticultural societies held June \~>, 11*20, 

 at the American ^Museum of Natural 

 History, New York, to consider the situ- 

 ation in regard to Quarantine No. H7, 

 has made its ))reliminary report in the 

 form of a leallet entitled, "An Aiii)eal 

 to Evcrv Friend of American Horticul- 

 ture." 



After citing the various steps lead- 

 ing u]) to the issuing of Quarantine No. 

 37, the report ]>uts the situation brielly 

 as follows: ''Designed for the admir- 

 able jiurjiose of protecting the United 

 States against the ailmission of addi- 

 tional insects and diseases injurious to 

 plant life, the regulations prcimulgated 

 from time to time under the quarantine 

 have in efl'ect acted as an embargo, 



preventing the importation of any jilanis 

 or see<ls excejjt those permitted by nar- 

 row and seemingly arbitrary rulings. 

 Furtlier, permits to import under these 

 regulations have been granted or re- 

 fused in such fashion as to make the 

 Federal Horticultural Board the con- 

 troller of horticultural research and 

 commerce in a way hard to square with 

 the necessities of an adequate quaran- 

 tine." 



Examples of Obstacles. 



The report illustrates this as follows: 



I'liiliT these recul.'itiniis .ill imporlii tioiis of 

 pliiiit material, uliether n'ceived at Hostmi or 

 New Orleans or New York or Sail KrMinisio. 

 must I'lrst K" to WasliiriKloii for exainiiiatioii ami 

 fiiniii,'alloii. Ijeiii^' llieii forwarileil lo tlie con- 

 sicnee al his expense, ami the drliiys incident 

 Ik this procedure and tlie treatineiit to wliicli 

 tiie plaiilK are siiltjected hiwv in some cases in 

 .|iire<l tlieni and in some cases completely killed 

 them. 



While it ia true that the Federal Horticultural 

 Hoard theoretically will issue a permit to anyone 

 for the iniiiortation of plants he may desire, it is 

 also sadly true that in certain cases either such 

 I>erniits have lieeii arbitrarily ileiiieil or so loui; 

 delayed that the opportunity has passed. It is 

 .■ilso a fact that the rciiuiremeiit of a hond to 

 follow the importations fc.r two years oper.ites 

 as an effective embari;o to plant iiniiortatioii liy 

 amateurs. 



The ortlcini aotinK for the Federal Ilortioiiltiiral 

 Hoard determines (lie quality of any plant which 

 in his wisdom it is proper to admit for propaca 

 tion imrposes, and there seems to 1k' no lo^'ii'al 

 hasis for liis determination. 



The report states that "few realize 

 that the present quarantine was issued 

 after the bureau of jtlant industry, 

 February 26, 1918, had submitted to 

 the Department of Agriculture a rejiort 

 in which it was stated that in order to 



jiroteot the country against dangerous 

 jdant pests and diseases the time seemed 

 to be iit hand for the inauguration of 

 a policy that would gradually result in 

 the exclusion of all foreign nursery and 

 tlorists ' stock." 



Sentiment of Conference. 



The report jioints out that, individual 

 attemjits to correct the faults of the 

 quarantine having failed, the coiU'ereiK'c 

 referred to at the beginning of this 

 article was called, at which forty-tivo 

 societies were rcqiresented, including 

 jiractically all those interested in hor- 

 ticultural advancement. The commit- 

 tee says: 



The Keiieral sentiment of the meetiiii; was In 

 favor of an adecpiate .mil reasonalile cpiaraiitine, 

 but stfint'ly opposed to iiieipiiialile regulations, 

 and to the practical impo^iiion of an embargo 

 ai-'ainsl plants from aliroad. The discussion 

 showed great respect for the prcd)ity of the 

 Kcileral llorlicultural Hoard, but it was b.dieved 

 that tliis board did not aileipialely realizi' either 

 the ultimate result of the <iu.irantine as en- 

 forced or tie" fact that the (juarantine was in 

 etTect an embargo rather than a ipiarantino. 



The outcome of tliis meeting was the appoint- 

 nieni of a geuer.-il coininittei'. consisting largely 

 "f priv.ate individu;ils interestfd only as amateur 

 hcirliculturists. whiidi aiipoinled a small executive 

 ionimittei> to coiisiiler the situation ami to for- 

 mulate a report and a detinite plan of action. 



America Needs Foreign Plants. 



The committee takes the stand that 

 "it is important to prevent the impor- 

 tation into his country of insects and 

 diseases injurious to vegetation." It 

 believes that "necessary .and reasonable 

 regiil.'itions will lie obeyed and supported 



Batavia Greenhouse Co., Batavia, III. 



