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The Rorists^ Review 



Apuil 6. 1922 



and pot plants. As a proof that they are 

 thoroughly versed in the methods of 

 growing the fornuT plant, one needs only 

 to peruse the article by B. B. Spanabel, 

 which appeared in the issue of The Be- 

 view for December 120, 1921, on "Profit 

 in riuniosus Grown Under Glass." 



On page 54 is shown the range of 

 J. N. Spanabel & Sons as it appears to- 

 day. Now that construction costs have 

 dropped, it is planned to add five houses 

 soon. On page 55 are portraits of the 



members of the firm, J. N. Spanabel and 

 his sons, B. B. Spanabel and E. E. Spana- 

 bel. The company today is capitalized 

 at $50,000 and the officers are as fol- 

 lows: President, J. N. Spanabel; vice- 

 president and secretary, E. E. Spanabel; 

 treasurer and general manager, B. B. 

 Spanabel. The directors, in addition to 

 the officers, are B. H. Vaughn, of Colum- 

 biana, O., and H. L. Darner, of Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa. 



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SENATE'S APPROPRIATIONS. 



Chajiges in AgriculturaJ Bill. 



Making a number of corrections in 

 the measure as passed by the House of 

 Eepresentatives March 13, the Senate 

 committee on appropriations April 3 re- 

 ported the agricultural appropriation 

 bill for 1923 to the Senate. Probably 

 the most important change, from the 

 viewpoint of the trade, was the deletion 

 of the fund of $360,000 provided by the 

 House for the annual distribution of 

 free seeds. It is not likely, however, ^ 

 that this item is out permanently, since 

 for the last few years the Senate has 

 taken similar action only to have the 

 appropriation restored at the insistence 

 of the lower body. 



Most of the changes made by the Sen- 

 ate committee were in the nature of in- 

 creases, and the bill as reported to the 

 Senate, despite the elimination of the 

 free seed fund, carries $116,300 more 

 than the measure passed by the House. 

 Briefly, the most important changes in 

 those sections of interest to the trade 

 are as follows: 



The fund for the use of the bureau of 

 l)lant industry for the investigation, 

 testing and improvement of plants 

 yielding drugs, spices, poisons, oils and 

 related products and by-products is in- 

 creased from $39,820 to $45,820. 



The appropriation for the investiga- 

 tion and improvement of cereals, in- 

 cluding barberry eradication, and for 

 the investigation of the cultivation and 

 lireeding of flax for seed purposes, is in- 

 creased from $379,705 to $432,505, and 

 of this the amount to be sot aside for 

 the location and destruction of bar- 

 berrv bushes is increased from $147,200 

 to $200,000. 



Much for Study. 



An increase of $5,000 is made to the 

 $20,000 fund provided by the House 

 for the investigation, improvement, en- 

 couragement and determination of the 

 adaptability to different soils and cli- 

 matic conditions of nuts, and the appro- 

 priation of $114,200 for the investiga- 

 tion and improvement of fruits and 

 methods of fruit-growing is increased 

 to $121,700, and this appropriation is 

 further amended so as to provide for 

 studies of the physiological and related 

 changes of vegetables as well as of 

 fruits. 



As a result of these changes and of 

 the elimination of the free seed item, 

 the appropriations for the bureau of 

 plant industrv are reduced from $3,287,- 

 (ilO to $2,998,910. 



An increase of $10,000. bringing the 



total to $178,500, is made in the appro- 

 priation under which the bureau" of en- 

 tomology is to investigate insects affect- 

 ing deciduous fruits, orchards, vine- 

 yards and nuts. The appropriation for 

 investigations of insects affecting 

 citrous and other tropical and sub- 

 tropical plants, and for investigations 

 and control of the Mediterranean and 

 other fruit flies, in cooperation with the 

 federal horticultural board, is increased 

 from $64,000 to $71,500, of which 

 $10,000 is to be immediately available 

 for investigations of the camphor scale. 



The committee made a decrease of 

 $75,000 in the fund provided to enable 

 the Secretary of Agriculture to meet 

 the emergency caused by the spread 

 of the European corn borer, and only 

 $200,000 is carried for that purpose in 

 the bill now before the Senate. 



Total appropriations for the Agricul- 

 tural department, under the Senate 

 changes in the bill, are $35,808,533. 



CHANGES IN FORDNEY BILL. 



Material changes have been made by 

 the Senate finance committee in the pro- 

 visions of the Fordney tariff bill, as ap- 

 plying to commodities dealt in by flo- 

 rists, according to a statement issued to 

 the trade by William F. Gude, ciipital 

 representative of the S. A. F. The com- 

 mittee is now sitting in executive ses- 

 sion, but Mr. Gude, who has been keep- 

 ing in touch with the legislation, reports 

 that the following was adopted April 4: 



Paragraph 753 — Tariff on spedlings and cut- 

 tings of Manetti, multlflora, brier, riigosa and 

 other rose stocks more than 3 years old, $1.' 

 per thousand ; rose plants budded, grafted or 

 grown on their own roots, 4 cents each; cuttings, 

 seedlings and grafted or budded plants of other 

 deciduous or evergreen ornamental trees, shrubs 

 or vines and greenhouse stock not especially pro- 

 vided for, thirty per cent ad valorem. 



raragiaph 753 — Seedlings, layers and cuttings 

 of apple, cherry, pear, plum, quince and other 

 fruit stocks, ,«2 per thousand; grafted or budded 

 fruit trees, cuttings and seedlings of grapes, 

 gooseberries or other fruit vines, plants or bushes, 

 thirty per cent ad valorem. 



Paragraph 701 — Orass seeds: Alfalfa, 4 cents 

 Iier pound; alsike clover, 4 cents per pound: crim- 

 son clover, 1 cent per pound; red clover, 4 cents 

 per pound; wliite clover, 3 cents per pound; clo- 

 ver not especially provided for, 2 cents per 

 pound; millet, 1 cent per pound; timothy, 2 cents 

 jier pound; hairy vetch, 1 cent per pound, and 

 all other grass seeds not especially provided for, 

 2 cents per poimd. 



Paragraph 762 — Other garden and field seeds: 

 Sugar beet, 1 cent per pound; other beet, 4 cents 

 per |)Ound; cabbage, 12 cents per pound; canary, 

 1 cent per pound; carrot, 4 cents per pound; 

 cauliflower. 25 cents per pound; celery, 2 cents 

 per pound; kale, 6 cents per pound; kohlrabi, 8 

 cents per pound; mangelwurzel. 4 cents per 

 I><)und; onion, 20 cents per pound; parsley, 2 

 cents per pound; parsnip, 4 cents per pound; 

 pepper, 15 cents per pound: radish, 4 cents per 

 pound; rutabaga, 4 cents per pound. All other 

 garden and field seeds not especially provided for, 

 twenty per cent ad valorem, provided that the 

 provisions for seeds In this title shall include 

 such seeds whether used for planting or other 

 purposes. 



In regard to the above Mr. Gude made 



the following statement: "It will be 

 noted that there are a number of 

 changes in the verbiage in the provi- 

 sions dealing with these commodities, 

 as compared with the provisions of the 

 tariff bill as it passed the House of Eep- 

 resentatives. Some of the rates have 

 been increased. This is true of alfalfa 

 seeds, which are dutiable at 2 cents per 

 pound, and alsike and red clover, which 

 are dutiable at 3 cents per pound, under 

 the House bill. The ad valorem rates 

 have been increased considerably over 

 the rates that were provided by the 

 House, but this only in figures, as the 

 House ad valorem rates are based on 

 the so-called American valuation plan, 

 while the Senate rates are based on the 

 foreign valuation plan now in opera- 

 tion, which is much lower in actual 

 money to be paid to the government on 

 imports. It is expected that the bill 

 will be completed by the committee and 

 presented to the Senate the latter part 

 of this week or the first part of the 

 coming week. I do not believe it will 

 be a law, however, before the middle of 

 August." A. E. G. 



HANDLING HOLIDAY BUSINESS. 



(ConcUuled from page 46.) 

 charge of a man who knows his business 

 thoroughly, for no matter how careful 

 you have been with everything else, if 

 the delivery falls down, the rest means 

 nothing, and you will receive a black 

 eye that will take a long time to cure. 

 There should be enough boys and auto- 

 mobiles provided to handle deliveries in 

 quick order, and your corsages should 

 all be delivered Sunday morning before 

 the church bells begin to ring. My ad- 

 vice is to start with the corsages first 

 and follow with the plants and cut 

 flowers. 



Now, some of you may say that it 

 can't be done, but it can. If you try 

 hard enough, you can find plant men at 

 some of the greenhouses, whose rush is 

 over before yours begins, who will be 

 glad to earn a little extra money by 

 coming in and packing your plants. So 

 with the other help — you can always 

 find someone. 



Another important thing, that I al- 

 most forgot, is keeping a check on what 

 is sold. The man in charge of the order 

 department should have a list of what 

 cut flowers are ordered and check them 

 as they are sold, so that you do not 

 oversell on any item and have to sub- 

 stitute, for if there is anything that 

 hurts the business, in my estimation, it 

 is substitution. 



Wenham, Mass. — B. Hammond Tracy, 

 the Cedar Acres gladiolus man, is in 

 Indiana on a business trip. 



Louisiana, Mo. — Lloyd M. Seibert 

 has bought the business and greenhouses 

 for a long time conducted by Mrs. M. S. 

 Foreman. 



London, Ont.— J. Gammage & Sons, 

 Ltd., has opened a branch store at 

 Windsor, Ont., which is just across the 

 river from Detroit. 



Okolona, Miss.— Mrs. S. C. Jones is 

 entering the trade and will make a 

 specialty of chrysanthemums. Mrs. 

 Jones will build one greenhouse at the 

 outset. 



Atlanta, Ga. — A store will be opened 

 in approximately two weeks, in the Ar- 

 cade building, by the Joy Floral Co. 

 This firm also has a store at 548 Peach- 

 tree street. 



