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The Florists^ Review 



Ji .\B 1, 1922 



flower at tlic tiiiio of tlic visit; many 

 had pasm'd, and otlicr.s were yet to 

 hlooiii. Xotelxioks were kept busy until 

 a sliower din|ierse(l all but tlie most 

 ardent iris enthusiasts. 



Those Winning. 



Tlie exhibition was held in the mu- 

 seum buibliny, and, under the circum- 

 stances, was hifjhly credital>le. 



The exhibition date had been 

 chanjred from .June li to May 27, and, 

 even witli this advaueement, many 

 varieties Jiad ])assed, and a considera- 

 ble number of the exhibits stood up but 

 jiooriy, and c(diections were cut down. 

 The showiiij; made by commercial ex- 

 hibitors was not larjie, but indeed com- 

 mendable. The John Scheejters Co., 

 New ^'ork, iiad a splendid exhibit on 

 the bro.'id landiu}; of a stairway, but it 

 was for exhibition only and not for 

 competition. In the exhibit was the 

 new variety, Asia, which everybody 

 wanted to see. In the exhibit also were 

 several stalks of eremurus. 



John Lewis ("hilds, Inc., Flowerfield, 

 X. Y., won the society's silver medal 

 for the most coni]ir(diensivi' dis])lay, 

 an<l also the piize for a s]iecial dis[)lay 

 to cover 100 s(juare feet. 



R. H. Farr, Wyoniissinj;, I'a., took 

 first for a \ariety with blended tones; 

 first for a lollect'oii of fifty distinct va- 

 rietii's, an<l seconds for collections of 



twelve and six, John licwis Childs, Inc., 

 takintj; the firsts. 



The (iarden (Mub of .\'ew Kochelle 

 was the winner in the class for a dis- 

 play of at least ten varieties to cover 

 fifteen square feet, with or without 

 other hardy flowers and foliajje. 



Among the exhibits was noticed the 

 variety Ambassador, V'ilniorin 's, Paris, 

 192(1, introduction; the varieties Asia 

 and Prospero, introduced l>y Wallace, 

 of England, and the new variety. 

 Mother of I'earl, by K. S. Stuitevant, of 

 Wellesley Farms, Mass. 



Election of Officers. 



Flection of otticers resulte(l in the 

 reelection of all otticeholders, as fol- 

 lows: President, John (". Wister, Phila- 

 iltdphia; vice-]iresiiient , William A. L'e- 

 terson, Chicago; secretaiy, \i. S. Stur- 

 tevant, Wellesley Farms, Mass.; treas- 

 urer, Frank H. Presby, Montdair, N^. J.; 

 directors, to serve thi'ce years, James 

 Boyd, llaverford. Pa., ami Uertrand 11. 

 I'"'arr, Wyomissing, I'a.; regional vice- 

 presidents, eastern district, 1. S. Hen- 

 drickson, Flowerfield, N. Y.; central dis- 

 trict, Mrs. Samuel II. Taft, Cincinnati; 

 northwestern district, T. A. Kenning, 

 Minneapolis, Minn.; southern district, 

 C. P. Connell, Nashville, Tenn.; Pacific 

 district, Sydney B. Mitchtdl, Berkeley, 

 Cal., and Canadian district, W. E. Saun- 

 ders, London, Out. J. II. P. 



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QUARANTINE 37 



CHANGES IN QUARANTINE. 



It will ])robably be July 1 before flu 

 federal horticultural board announces 

 any changes in regulations ',) of (piar- 

 antine ;^7, as .-i result of the conference 

 held May l.'. ami Ki. The si)ecial ad 

 visory committee ajipointed by Secre- 

 tary- Wallace to attend the conference 

 and mak<' a report on the ch.anges pro- 

 posed has not yet submitted its recom- 

 mendations, nor have the various com- 

 mittees |)ut their suggestions Ix'fori' the 

 <lepartment formally. 



Oflici.ils of the board hold out no 

 jiromises of .'iny great change in the 

 regulations. They adhere to their 

 former attitude that no cli;ince must be 

 given for the introduction of new pests 

 and diseases and that America must 

 make provision to su]i])ly all horticul- 

 tural needs from within herself, rather 

 than from Enrojie. 



This last w;is sliongly im]iressed upon 

 the horticultural delegates from Eng- 

 land, Holland and Belgium who at- 

 tended the conference and later had a 

 dicussion with Chairman M.ai'latt and 

 other officials of the board, during 

 which they took up the international 

 question. Intimations that retaliatory 

 orders might be issued by foreign coun- 

 tries made 710 ini]iression upon the 

 board, which ])ointed out th.at the 

 I'nited States makes no m:iterial ]dant 

 ex])ortat ions, but, on the <-oiitrary, has 

 always been a big importer. There will 

 be no change in the regulations so as to 

 l)ermit the free iinjiortation of plant 

 jirodiicts, the f'lrei'.'iiers were told, the 

 original ])laiit (piar.'int ine act making 

 such an as'reement impossible, even 

 if the board were i)iclined to favor it. 



.\n\' (-h.-MiLies in;icl;' in regulations 'A 



will be slight, it is indicated at the 

 Dejiartment of Agriculture, and caleu- 

 lateil more to define (d(>arly what is and 

 what is not jiermissilde Jnatter than to 

 relax the restrictions. The bulk list 

 will be clarified somewhat, it is under- 

 stood, and other minor changes will be 

 made for the purpose of making impor- 

 tations of permissible stock easier than 

 they have beeii in the past. T. N. S. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Vaughan's Quarantine Resolution. 



.1. C. \'angli;in, n.ational councilor for 

 till' S. A. F. in the Chamber of Com- 

 merce of the Uniteil States, presented 

 the following resolution to the cham 

 ber May L'H, with this message: ''On 

 behalf of the Society of American Flo- 

 rists, a trade organization having ten 

 votes in the Chamber of (*oninierce, I 

 (Miclose a statement and ])ro)iosed reso- 

 lution for action by your body. I ho|)e 

 for an early accejitance of the same.'' 



.r. ('. Viiiit'liiin. cciiiiii'iliif ri'ipn'Sfiniiii.' thi' Sm- 

 ricty iif .\ini'iii'iiii Kliirists. wishes In liiU In the 

 roiiiicirs ^itii'iitioii .1 iiKist siTiniis iiiiMivaliim in 

 liiiri';Mirr:ilic <oiitriil iif I'liiiiiiiTrc iiiiiliT wiiicli, 

 in Ilir Kuisc of :i (|n:inintini-, :in iilisoliitt" |>ri)lii- 

 liitiiin lias been ost.ililislii'il au.iinsi iniixirts iif 

 liiMltliy plants and hnlhs cxii'iit ,1 icrlain fen 

 s|]i'rilii'il varii'tics .'ind rxi-cpr in sncli rasrs as 

 s|M'cial iifi-niils ina.v lie L'r.iatrd fur iiniinrta licin 

 nf tlic i'\rlnd('(l niatciial at tin' pli'asiiri' of tlic 

 federal lii>rticnUnral Imard. 



'I'liis order, knnwii as iinaraiitine .ST. put in 

 elTeet .Iiiiie 1, llllil. lias deslriiyed an extensive 

 iDinnierce wliicli lia<l been in I'xislenee fur 100 

 years and it is nnw prnpnseil tn exteml it fnrtlier 

 liy an arbitrary exeiiiiive aetinn witlimit \v^\s- 

 lative eeiisidei-.i tien nr an iip|i irlmiity fnr the iii- 

 lei'ests affected til be In-ard beftire an iiii|>artinl 

 tr'.lHiinil. 



'I'ImmikIi defended .'is a nieis'ire In prevent the 

 inipiirliitiun (if insei-ts and diseases, this (piaran- 

 tiiie reverses the iiiethiiil id' all iilher ipiai'an 

 lines and instead nf specif viiii; insei'ts and dis 

 eases nr plants snbicct In ihciii wh'cli ;i'-e barred 

 frni imp rt. it prnhitiiis all inip irta tiniis even 

 I f plants fr-ec fruni disease and i)i^ei Is cxii pi ilic 



f<'\v siiecificd (dasses which lire allnwcd. Power 

 is retained by the federal liurticiiltiiral liuard to 

 issue siie<ial perniits to tiriim or individuals to 

 import materials otherwise excluded. This setH 

 ii|> a syKtem of speihil favors tn lie ({ranted or 

 withheld at the whim of a bniean otlicial for 

 reaHons good or bad, honest or dishoncHt. witli- 

 out imbllo record or the pretense of jndiidal liear- 

 iiiK. This places coucerus engaged in the busi- 

 n<'ss of imiiorting horticultural mtiterial at the 

 mercy of the federal horticultural board and 

 destroys the principle of equality before the law. 

 The commercial effect of this alleged (luarantine. 

 which is really a wall erected against all im- 

 ports, whether healthy or diseased, has been to 

 afford certain special producing interests pro- 

 tection far ill excess of any conceivable tariff 

 protection, insomuch that in discussions of tlii- 

 qiiarantine and in its defense by the chairman 

 of the federal horticultural board It is now coii- 

 si<lered, not as ii protection against disease, but 

 as a protection against foreign conii>etition, thus 

 presenting the spectacle of a federal liorticul 

 tnral board usurping the functions of a tariff 

 board. 



Though as yet applied only to plants and 

 bulbs, the reasoning which is behind quarantine 

 :!7, if allowed to prevail and to be extended, 

 would Justify the exclusion of fruits and other 

 fiMid products, indeed of all materials of vege- 

 table or animal origin which an executive lioard 

 might profess to believe harbored insect life or 

 disease germs and de(dde to shut out of this 

 iniiiitry except when impnrted under special per- 

 mits issued liy themselves. In view of the iiu- 

 pnrlance of tliis novel and radical application of 

 the (piarantine to conimerce in general and the 

 il.inger of its indelinite extension by doctrinaires 

 should its present use be contirmed and ainpli- 

 lied, I move the adoption of the following res- 

 iilul i4ui : 



Itesolved: That the directors of the taiited 

 Slates Chamber of Coninierce bo and they are 

 hereby reiniested to investigate the legalit.\ o( 

 iinarantine ;17 as established b.v the federal linr- 

 ticiiltur.il Iwiard, the f.nrness nf its eiiforcement 

 and the possibility of the application of its 

 principle for restraint of commerce in gener.il 

 and tliat if such investigatinn indicates cause. ;i 

 cnngressinual investigalicm of the federal Imr 

 ticultiiral iHiard and lis ai-tion in promiilgatiiii; 

 and enforcing (piarantine 'Al shall be reipiesti u 

 in the name «( the luited States Chaniber nf 

 t'ninmerce, 



John Young, Sec 'y. 



PAY FOR PARTNERS. 



For some reason or other, few eni- 

 [iloyi'es in the greenhouse business ae- 

 ipiire enough in the way of ctisli ca])ital 

 to embark in business for themselves 

 without outside itssistance. So it is 

 freipiently the case that a partnership 

 is formed between a man experienced 

 in greenhouse work but with little or 

 no cajiital and a jierson iinac((u;iintcd 

 with the flower business whose contri- 

 liiition to the firm is enough money to 

 make a start. In jiartnerships of this 

 type the (luestion fre(|uently arises how 

 the profits are to be divided so that 

 eaidi of those interested will have an 

 eipiitable share. Xo hard and fast rule 

 can be laid down governing such cases, 

 but a few suggestions as to ways which 

 have been successful in actual practice 

 may assist those who find this question 

 .1 puzzling one. 



To take first an extreme case, let us 

 siip|iose that a grower with no money 

 forms a jiartiiership with a man who iii- 

 \ests severjil thousand dollars, but 

 knows nothing about flowers and takes 

 no active jiart in the business. The 

 grower wishes to be more than an em- 

 ployee or manager for the person wlio 

 furnishes the capital; he wishes to be 

 on a basis so that he will liavc a real 

 investment in the concern's business 

 and will be entitleil to a certain share 

 of the profits. First of all, the grower 

 is entitled to jiay for his services, in 

 ]iroiiortion to the resiionsibility which 

 devolves upon the manager of the en- 

 terprise. After such salary is jiaid, the 

 grower may feel that he is entitleil to a 

 share of the, remaining jirofits, but the 

 proportion of his share and that of 

 ins inactive jiartner may be ;i loatter 

 of considerable argumiMit. One wav to 

 establish a basis that will not be ques- 

 tioned is for the grower to ]i;iy into the 

 business out of his s.alary. in install- 

 luelifs. a siiiii equal fo fhiit si;]ipl'.i'(l \iv 



