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The Florists^ Review 



JUNI 28, 1921 



FERNS— exclusively— FERNS 



Our efforts are devoted exclusively to the growing of Ferns, whicn insures the trade who purchase our stock the highest 

 quality Ferns. We would appreciate your orders and can make prompt shipment in the following varieties: 



100 1000 



ii ■4-ln $e.oo $S5.00 



BOSTON 



ROOSEVKLT 



TEDDY. JR 



WHITMCANII 



WHITBIANII COMP. 



ASP. PLUMOSUS, »>«-ln ff.OO 45.00 



ASP. SPRKNGKRI. »H>-ln 4.60 40.00 



Trade references or cash with order. 



The Sprinsffield Floral and Fern Co. 



BOSTON 



ROOSEVEI-T f 100 1000 



TEDDY. JR >3-ln $1S.00 $140.00 



WHITMANII 



WHITHANII COMP... 



ASP. PLUMOSVS. 3-in... 0.00 80.00 



ASP. SPRENGERI. 3-in 8.00 70.00 





Sprinsrfield, Ohio 



should continue in every possiblt? way 

 to give the vigilance committee your 

 unanimous support. 



Executive Committee Meetings. 



Your executive committee this year, 

 and heretofore, has not been able to 

 serve you as well as it might because, 

 due to the geographic restrictions laid 

 down in our constitution, a meeting of 

 yotir executive committee at the present 

 time involves a great amount of travel- 

 ing expense and loss of time to the mem- 

 bers. 



At the present time your constitution 

 provides that special meetings of the 

 executive committee may be called by 

 the president, and that the expenses of 

 the committee incident thereto may be 

 paid out of the treasury. Heretofore, 

 because of the burdensome expense and 

 loss of time in connection therewith, 

 these meetings have not been held as 

 often as they should have been and the 

 association's affairs have seriously suf- 

 fered in consequence. I, therefore, 

 make this further recommendation, that 

 by vote or otherwise, you direct that 

 your executive committee shall hold at 

 least three special meetings annually, 

 one in the early fall, one winter meet- 

 ing and one late spring meeting, and 

 that at the same time you specifically au- 

 thorize the payment of the expenses in 

 connection therewith. 



Trafllc Bates Up. 



Within the year the members of this 

 association, in spite of the hard fight 

 put up by our traffic manager, have 

 found themselves face to face with 

 great, and what we believe to be, un- 

 fair increases in express charges on 

 shipments of nursery stock. For your 

 information, I will quote a few average 

 examples from the Mississippi river to 

 various points in the United States: 



01(1 rate New rate 



Town State per 100 lbs. per 100 lbs. 



Itoston, Mass $-'.r)f. $4.10 



Pittsburgh, Pa 1.8(1 3.12 



Uichmond, Va 2.44 4.08 



Cape Girarden\i, Mo 1.24 2.0S 



Winchester, Tenn l.Sii .1.11 



Diirant, Okla 2.tW< 4.,")0 



Dea Moines, la 1.2(» 2.14 



Denver, Colo 3. IS .j.33 



Phoenix, Ariz (i.l') 10.42 



Los AnKCles. Cal 7.23 12.12 



Our traffic manager appeared at the 

 hearing of the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission and made every effort to 

 hold the old second-class classification 

 on nursery stock. In spite of every- 

 thing he could do, the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission decided rather arbi- 

 trarily, we think, that nursery stock 

 should be classified as first-class, which 

 meant a tremendous increase in the cost 

 of trees to the American tree-planting 

 public. This increase, gentlemen, was 

 on top of all the ordinary rate increases 



JULIUS ROEHRS CO. 



RUTHERFORD, N. J. 



ORCHIDS, PALMS 



and plant! of every variisty. 



Asparafus Plamosus mi loo looo 



Sprenieri, 2J^-inch $ 5.00 $ 48 00 



Asparafus >prengeri.3H-iuch 10.50 100.00 



AttemMtiif ras. 2k'- inch 2.50 25.00 



Salvias. 2K-inch ;150 30.00 



Write for prices on other slock 



ALONZO J. BRYAN. Wholesale Florist 



Washington, New Jersey 



that the express companies have ef- 

 fected since before the war. During 

 this time the express charges on nurs- 

 ery stock have nearly doubled, so that 

 we now have an express burden on the 

 shoulders of the farmer, orchardist and 

 nurseryman that is almost unbearable. 



Nomenclature Work. 



The chairman of our association's 

 nomenclature committee, who was ap- 

 pointed to represent us on the Amer- 

 ican joint committee on horticultural 

 nomenclature, which was appointed by 

 the various allied associations and socie- 

 ties to revise and classify American 

 plant names, has about completed his 

 work. This committee has not received 

 the help from our association that it 

 should receive. It is now face to face 

 with the problem of publishing its 

 official catalogue of plant names, which 

 is the combined result of several years' 

 hard work. I would recommend that 

 the association assist in the underwrit- 

 ing of this publication to the extent of 

 $1,000, with the understanding that this 

 money may be paid back into the treas- 

 ury as fast as the volumes are sold. 



Eecently this committee decided that 

 it would be a valuable thing in addition 

 to the catalogue of plant names of or- 

 namentals, etc., to include also a sec- 

 tion devoted to fruit nomenclature. 



Mr. Kelsey, in connection with Pro- 

 fessor Lake and others of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, has 

 already done a great deal of work on 

 this nomenclature section. However, 

 your present and executive committee 

 deem it unwise to issue a catalogue of 

 fruit names and synonyms that has not 

 the official sanction of a fruit nomencla- 

 ture committee recently appointed for 

 that purpose, and if the time before 

 publication of the official catalogue of 

 plant names is not sufficient to enable 

 our fruit committee to have several 

 months in which to bring the fruit list 

 up to date, it is deemed unwise to in- 

 clude the fruit section in this volume. 



In selecting the membership of the 



CROTONS 



24. inch Pots 



$25.00 per 100 



Also larger sizes 



HUGH N. NATHESON 



418 S. W. Second Ayenne 

 MIAMI FLORIDA 



Chrysanthemums and Roses 



OUR SPECIALTY 



Write ns about anythins you want 

 in this iine. 



CHAS.H.TOnYCO.,«^^»Ss^ 



fruit nomenclature committee your 

 president endeavored to select men who 

 were not only familiar with the scien- 

 tific names, but men who are practical 

 orchardists and nurserymen as well. On 

 this committee were included" two men 

 from the east, two from the central sec- 

 tion and one from the Pacific coast, 

 with Robert Simpson, of Vincennes, 

 Ind., as chairman of the deciduous fruit 

 section and Harold Hume, of Glen St. 

 Mary, Fla., chairman of the tropical and 

 subtropical section. Every nurseryman 

 is urged to assist these committees ^s 

 far as possible. 



STANDARD LIST BEADY. 



Now in Printer's Hands. 



Your chairman is secretary of the 

 American Joint Committee on Horticul- 

 tural Nomenclature and a member of 

 the subcommittee doing the actual work 

 of preparing the new official catalogue 

 of standardized plant names; the other 

 members of this subcommittee are Dr. 

 Frederick V. Coville, United States 

 botanist, and Frederick Law Olmsted. 

 The chairman of the joint commit- 

 tee, J. Horace McFarland, has been 

 in constant consultation with this sub- 

 committee. 



The subcommittee has finished its la- 

 bors as far as preparing the initial copy 

 for the forthcoming edition is concerned, 

 and now follows the job of printing 

 and distributing. This subcommittee 

 has spent literally months in a most 



Ucport of Harlan P. Kelsey, of Salem, Mass.. 

 olinlrmnn of the committee on nomenclature, be- 

 fore the annual meeting of the A. A. N. at 

 C'liicngo tills week. 



