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OCTOBEB 2, 1918. 



can be fed with top-dressings give you 

 more fruit than such as have a more" 

 liberal border to grow in. C. W. 



TARIFF AND QLASS MARKET. 



The tarifif bill that is becoming law 

 this week reduces the duty on green- 

 house glass 70 cents per box of fifty 

 feet. Under the old law the duty has 

 been 1% cents per pound and under the 

 new law it is cut to 1 cent per pound. 

 In the administration of the law dou- 

 ble-thick glass such as is used in green- 

 houses is figured at eighty pounds, 

 net, per box of fifty square feet. The 

 duty therefore has been $1.50 per box 

 and will hereafter be 80 cents. 



In spite of the gloomy predictions 

 which have been indulged in by leading 

 members of the glass trade, it now ap- 

 pears that they are taking a new point 

 of view. Kepresentatives of the glass 

 industry told members of Congress dur- 

 ing the discussion of the tariff that the 

 reduction would be absolutely disas- 

 trous, and it was testified by them dur- 

 ing the lobby in-quiry that they had 

 paid $17,500 to a New York lawyer to 

 have him work against the proposed 

 revision of the schedule. Nevertheless, 

 the trade in window glass is now ex- 

 tremely optimistic and is indicating 

 this optimism in a variety of ways. As 

 to window glass prospects, letters re- 

 cently sent out by the Johnston Brok- 

 erage Co., of Pittsburgh, a concern 

 which represents the joint interests of 

 the hand manufacturers, to members of 

 the trade show what the feeling is. A 

 recent letter reads in part as follows: 



About forty per cent more glass was sold by 

 hand factories in July. 1913, than in the same 

 month in 1912. August sales will equal, if not 

 exceed, those of July. Popular sizes are becom- 

 ing scarce. "A" quality, single and double, like- 

 wise. Up to this time there has been no change 

 in price, and there is every reason to think that 

 discounts will be advanced on popular sizes and 

 on "A" quality at an early date. The workers 

 are talking about higher wages for next year, 

 which will undoubtedly provoke a contest with 

 their employers and possibly delay a start. This 

 demand for higher wages is rather a surprise, 

 as a great many manufacturers felt that workers 

 would be willing to make some concession, antic- 

 ipating the effect of the new tarlfT bill. Prices 

 abroad are still high, and if the foreign discounts 

 continue on the present basis, no glass can be 

 brought into this market in competition with the 

 American product at present selling price. Be- 

 fore we need have any fears, even on coast 

 IJoints. of foreign competition, their prices would 

 have to be greatly reduced, and it is doubtful If 

 we will have competition under any circum- 

 stances at interior points. It will stand the 

 .iobbers and sash houses in hand to send In their 

 orders promptly, as later on they will likely piiy 

 a higher price for goods and it is a question 

 whether they can have their wants 8U|ii)lii'd 

 promptly and completely. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



It is the effort of the American Kose 

 Society to obtain a complete and ac- 

 curate list of all the varieties of 

 roses which have been originated on 

 the American continent, as far as it 

 is possible to obtain them. This let- 

 ter is addressed to rosarians with the 

 hope of obtaining the fullest assist- 

 ance in this direction. It is the in- 

 tent to publish in the annual bulletin 

 of the American Eose Society the list, 

 as fast as it can be properly com- 

 piled, for authentic record. 



Will you please give us this informa- 

 tion: What roses have you originated? 

 In what year? At what place? Pedi- 

 gree of the same. 



If you have not personally done 



this work, but have any information 



bearing upon the subject, will you 



kindly give what assistance you cant 



Benjamin Hammond, Sec'y. 



THE NEW TARIFF RATES 



IN FORCE THIS WEEK 



The Conference committee reported the tariff bill back to the House September 

 29, and the bill was immediately adopted. The Senate will take similar action at 

 once, and the bill is expected to go into force with signing by the President before 

 the end of this week. 



The rates on trade commodities are as published in The Eeview for June 26; the 

 only change is the elimination of the words "4 years old or less" after "conifer- 

 ous evergreen seedlings," which are in the free list. The effect is to continue to 

 admit coniferous evergreen seedlings of any age, as in the past, free of duty, 

 instead of putting a limit at 4 years of age and making coniferous evergreens of 

 greater age pay fifteen per cent, as the trade wanted. 



The paragraphs covering seeds, bulbs, plants, nursery stock, etc., are as follows: 



quince and the Saint Julien plum, three 

 years old or less, $1 per thousand 

 plants; rose plants, budded, grafted or 

 grown on their own roots, 4 cents each; 

 stocks, cuttings and seedlings of all 

 fruit and ornamental trees, deciduous 

 and evergreen shrubs and vines, and 

 all trees, shrubs, plants and vines com- 

 monly known as nursery or greenhouse 

 stock, not specially provided for in this 

 section, 15 per centum ad valorem. 



217; Seeds: Castor beans or seeds, 

 15 cents per bushel of fifty pounds; 

 flaxseed or linseed and other oil seeds 

 not specially provided for in this sec- 

 tion, 20 cents per bushel of fifty-six 

 pounds; poppy seed, 15 cents per bushel 

 of forty-seven pounds; mushroom spawn 

 and spinach seed, 1 cent per pound; 

 canary seed, % cent per pound; cara- 

 way seed, 1 cent per pound; anise seed, 



2 cents per pound; beet (except sugar 

 beet), carrot, corn salad, parsley, pars- 

 nip, radish, turnip and rutabaga seed, 



3 cents per pound; cabbage, coUard, 

 kale and kohl-rabi seed, 6 cents per 

 pound; egg plant and pepper seed, 10 

 cents per pound; seeds of all kinds not 

 specially provided for in this sec- 

 tion, 5 cents per pound; Provided, That 

 no allowance shall be made for dirt or 

 other impurities in seeds provided for 

 in this paragraph. 



214. Peas, green or dried, in bulk 

 or in barrels, sacks or similar packages, 

 10 cents per bushel of sixty pounds; 

 split peas, 20 cents per bushel of sixty 

 pounds; peas in cartons, papers or other 

 similar packages, including the weight 

 of the immediate covering, % cent per 

 pound. 



215. Orchids, palms, azalea indica 

 and cut flowers, preserved or fresh, 25 

 per centum ad_ valorem; lily of the val- 

 ley pips, tulips, narcissus, begonia and 

 gloxinia bulbs, $1 per thousand; hya- 

 cinth bulbs, astilKe, dielytra and lily 

 of the valley clumps, $2.50 per thou- 

 sand; lily bulbs and calla bulbs or 

 corms, $5 per thousand; herbaceous 

 peony. Iris liaempferri or Germanica, 

 canna, dahlia and amaryllis bulbs, $10 

 per thousand; all other bulbs, roots, 

 root stocks, corms and tubers which 

 are cultivated for their flowers or fo- 

 liage, 50 cents per thousand; Provided, 

 That all mature mother flowering bulbs 

 imported exclusively for propagating 

 purposes shall be admitted free of duty. 



216. Stocks, cuttings or seedlings of 

 Myrobolan plum, Mahaleb or Mazzard 

 cherry, Manetti multiflora and briar 

 rose, Kosa Rugosa, three years old or 

 less, $1 per thousand plants; stocks, 

 cuttings or seedlings of pear, apple. 



DISEASES OF THE VIOLET. 



The Root Rot Disease. 



In the earlier parts of this discus- 

 sion, by Dr. Donald Eeddick, of Ithaca, 

 N. Y., the character and extent of the 

 violet root rot disease, thielavia, were 

 described. At Cornell a number of ex- 

 periments have been conducted to as- 

 certain the conditions which lead to 

 the disease and to find, if possible, 

 means of holding it in control. Among 

 the conclusions reached are the fol- 

 lowing: 



Spraying and Watering. 



It would be desirable to prevent in- 

 fections on the runners if there were 



any practical way of effecting it. Any 

 of the common fungicides, used as a 

 spray, would probably be effective, pro- 

 viding the spray could be applied thor- 

 oughly. Those who have sprayed vio- 

 let foliage, however, advise against it 

 on account of injury. Furthermore, it 

 would be nearly impossible to cover the 

 runners on the underside with the spray. 

 New roots, too, issuing from the run- 

 ners at frequent intervals, permit of 

 carrying infection from spores in the 

 soil to the runners without the possi- 

 bility of intervention by a fungicide. 



Many growers think there is a close 

 relation between the method of water- 

 ing, particularly the quantity of water 

 used, and the occurrence of thielavia 

 root rot. Eecent experiments in Eng- 

 land by Chittenden seem to bear out 

 this belief. It was found there, as 

 well as in other places, that infection 

 does not occur readily on the roots of 

 plants except when they are grown in 

 soggy or water-logged soil. The writer 

 has lately been attempting to infect 

 the roots of tobacco and sweet peas 

 with the thielavia fungus. Considerable 

 difficulty has been experienced. A good 

 many plants have developed typical 

 lesions of the disease, but the amount 

 of disease has not been great. The soil 

 used in these experiments has been a 



