Mabch 18, 1915. 



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35 



A Pair of Genistas— Good Sellers Dressed in Golden Yellow Easter Suits. 



4-inch pots ready for planting by June 

 1. Besides, though some of the older, 

 more common varieties may come large- 

 ly true from seeds, the easier and more 

 certain method of propagation is by 

 division of the roots and this is the 

 process invariably used with the finer 

 sorts of cannas. The old stools, which 

 have been stored during the winter, 

 may be divided about the middle or end 

 of March and placed in flats, in three or 

 four inches of sand and old hotbed 

 manure,, and the flats may be placed 

 oyer pipes where the heat is not too 

 violent. Some of the larger growers 

 spread the divided clumps on a vacant 

 bench in a warm house, with about two 

 inches of sphagnum moss or cocoanut 

 fiber under the roots and a sprinkling 

 of the same material over them. If a 

 division or piece of root is three or four 

 inches long, with one good bud or eye, 

 it is large enough to make a good plant. 



MUST MARK PLANT PACKAGES. 



As noted in the February 25 issue of 

 The Review, in the passage of the agri- 

 i^ultural appropriation bill the Senate 

 added a provision for the further en- 

 forcement of the plant quarantine act. 

 This provision takes effect immediately. 



The intricacies of legislative lan- 

 guage have proved too much for some 

 readers who have tried to get the gist 

 of this provision, and a word of ex- 

 planation in regard to it will not be 

 amiss. To be on the safe side, the 



easiest course for the sender of plants 

 is to plainly mark each package on the 

 outside, so that the contents may be 

 ascertained at a glance by the postmas- 

 ter. The fine referred to in the provi- 

 sion is only for not marking packages 

 addressed to places in states that main- 

 tain plant inspection. To avoid any 

 mistake, however, it is best to mark 

 all packages sent by mail, indicating 

 whether the contents are strawberry 

 plants, rosebushes, or some other plants. 

 Though the sender of plants has done 

 his duty when he has marked the pack- 

 ages, he may want to know what is to 

 happen to them. The law provides that 

 the officials of a state maintaining 

 plant inspection shall submit to the 

 Secretary of Agriculture a list of plants 

 and plant products which these officials 

 believe should be inspected in order to 

 prevent the introduction of injurious 

 pests, together with a list of the pests 

 likely to be transmitted by such plants. 

 The Postmaster General is to be notified 

 of the plants on the list which are ap- 

 proved .by the Secretary of Agriculture. 

 Thereafter, if the officials of Illinois, 

 for instance, and the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture believe that strawberry plants 

 sent by mail should be inspected, aJl 

 the postmasters of Illinois will, when 

 they receive packages of strawberry 

 plants from other postoffices, send them 

 to the nearest inspection station. If 

 the plants are found to be clean, or, if 

 infected, can be and are disinfected by 

 the inspector, they are to be returned 



to the postmaster for delivery. If the 

 plants are not capable of satisfactory 

 disinfection, the sender is notified, and 

 the plants are returned to him at his 

 expense or destroyed at the station. 



Upon one point the law is vague. It 

 states that the package of plants shall 

 be sent by the postmaster to the in- 

 spection station and returned to him 

 "upon payment of postage therefor," 

 but fails to state whether the sender, 

 the consignee, the inspection station, 

 the Department of Agriculture, or some 

 one else is to pay the postage. Prob- 

 ably this point will be cleared up by 

 the "needful rules and regulations" 

 which the Postmaster General is au- 

 thorized and directed to make to carry 

 out the purposes of the law. 



Those who send plants, however, need 

 only to mark the packages with the 

 contents on the outside, to complj' fully 

 with the requirements of the law. 

 Those desirous of reading the exact 

 words of the provision will find it on 

 page 86 of the February 2.5 issue of 

 The Review. 



Springfield, O. — Samuel B. Mcllhenny 

 has obtained a permit for the erection 

 of a "concrete greenhouse" at 226 East 

 Northern avenue, at a cost of $200. 



St. Paul, Minn. — Plans are being 

 made for the next meeting of the Min- 

 nesota State Florists' Association, to be 

 held herfe April 13. Afternoon and 

 evening sessions will be held. 



