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68 



The Florists' Review 



FSBBUABT 11, 1915. 



test on the same entry, but the re- 

 quest was denied by the board. 



The plants in this case consisted of 

 thirty cases of living plants, each case 

 containing forty plants valued at 25 

 cents per plant. The appraiser re- 

 ported them as orchid plants and re- 

 turned them for duty as orchids at 

 twenty-five per cent ad valorem. Pro- 

 testants claimed free entry. The tes- 

 timony showed that the plants were 

 imported for propagating purposes ex- 

 clusively. The board says: 



"The pseudo-bulb is in no sense a 

 mother bulb, as we understand a 

 mother bulb to be a bulb from which 

 young bulbs spring, thus reproducing 

 the mother plant. 



"The importations in question liei> 

 are sold as plants. We learn also that 

 they are described in commerce as 

 plants containing so many bulbs, hav- 

 ing reference to the pseudo-bulbs. 

 These pseudo-bulbs, or stalks, may be 

 entirely severed, and many of them are 

 when the plant is set out for propa- 

 gation. It seems they are called bulbs 

 and so referred to in the commercial 

 world for the purpose of describing the 

 size of the plant, as we learn that the 

 plants are sold by the hundred, each 

 plant containing two, four, or more 

 of these stalks, spikes, or pseudo-bulbs, 

 thus describing more definitely the size 

 of the plants in question. 



"We are satisfied that the orchid is 

 not a bulb botanically. Some of the 

 witnesses were men of eminence in the 

 botanical world, and their testimony is 

 to that effect. Neither have these 

 plants the appearance of a bulb or 

 bulbous root. 



"The importers claim that even 

 though these importations are not 

 found to be bulbs, they are still bulbs 

 by reason of their commercial designa- 

 tion. Two witnesses swore that the 

 trade so understood them and treated 

 them as such in buying and selling 

 and describing them. We are satisfied, 

 however, that this was simply a mat- 

 ter of description; that these orchid 

 roots are plants; and if the part 

 spoken of jis a i)SCiulo-bnll), the onl;. 

 thing that characterizes them as bulbs, 

 had been entirely severed from the 

 plant there is nothing to show that 

 they would be treated in the commer- 

 cial world as bulbs. Much less are we 

 inclined to hold that they are shown 

 to be mature mother flowering bulbs. 

 Tt is true they belong to a species of 

 flowering plants, plants which as im- 

 ported are in a condition to send forth 

 shoots which will produce flowers, but 

 they send forth nothing which in its 

 inception or beginning can be termed 

 a balb; and from our understanding 

 of ihfc testimony', what subsequently 

 appears and may be termed a false or 

 pseudo-bulb can not be so designated, 

 as it springs from the root of the plant. 



"We are therefore of the opinion 

 that the testimony has not shown that 

 thesfi plants, either commercially or ac- 

 tually, should be classified as bulbs. 

 We do not think Congress intended to 

 include this class of roots or plants 

 when it used the language, 'mature 

 mother flowering bulbs.' Wo there- 

 fore overrule the protest, sustaining 

 the classification made by the col- 

 lector." 



Montezuma, N. Y. — The Montezuma 

 Garden Co. has been incorporated by 

 John and Norman D. Steve. The capi- 

 tal stock is fix;ed at $15,000. 



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Grimsby, Ont.— R. N. Wolfenden com- 

 plains that tlie forcing of tomatoes has 

 ))een without profit this season, re- 

 turns having fallen to 12io cents a 

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 per pound has been obtainable. He 

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