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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



May 10, 1906. 



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SYLVANIA. OHIO. 



Philadelphia, Now York and other near- 

 by cities will endeavor to show why the 

 Senate should cut out the appropriation 

 for the seed distribution. It will help 

 to have those not able to be present send 

 a telegram. It may be addressed to Sen- 

 ator Proctor at the capitol or to Wm. 

 W. Smith, 301 Munsey building, Wash- 

 ington repre.sentative of the Wholesale 

 Seedsmen's League, who will pre-sent it 

 to the committee. 



WHO'S WHO? 



A leading seedsman writes: "We note 

 that the House of Representatives at 

 Washington has amended the agricul- 

 tural ai)piopriation bill to again provide 

 for the free seed distribution, and we 

 \vish, when it comes up in the House for 

 final i)assago, that you would publish for 

 future reference the members' votes on 

 the bill in order that we may know where 

 they stand. If they stand against it 

 after the tremendous amount of agita- 

 tion, we shall know exactly what it 

 means. ' ' 



The Review regrets that its esteemed 

 contemi)orary, tlie Congressional Record, 

 has scored a beat on us in the matter of 

 publishing this information. As the 

 table showing the vote would occupy 

 nearly a page of the Review we nuist re- 

 fer any seedsman who wishes to make it 

 a personal matter Avith his congressman 

 to the pages of the Record. If you do 

 not care to ask your congressman for a 

 copy, send 8 cents (not ])ostage stamps) 

 to Chas. A, Stillings, Public Printer, 

 AVashington. for the Congressional Rec- 

 ord of May 2. Tlie \()te is set fortli on 

 pages 6344 and H34."). 



The members Avere ])ut on record by 

 Congressman .1. W. Wadsworth, of New 

 York. Avho de;nande<l a separate vote on 

 the paragraph ])roviding for free seeds. 

 It stood: Yeas, ].")3; nays, S3; answer- 

 ing "pre.sent, " 10; not voting. 13i5; 

 pairetl, 304, .")2 for and ry2 against. To 

 be of value the ]>ublication of the entire 

 matter would be necessary. 



MONUMENTAL. 



W. Atlee Bur})ee and the otlier Phila- 

 ilelphia seedsmen have many friends in 

 the newspaper ofltices of that town ; in no 

 other city has so much notice been taken 

 of the action of Congress in the matter 

 of free seeds. The Pul)lic Ledger de- 

 votes an editorial column to the reasons 

 why Congress should have acted differ- 

 ently, concluding as follows: 



"The decision to retain the old plan 

 •was hailed with joy by many clerks 

 strongly attached to their salaries, by 

 tradesmen furnishing the paper bags, 



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 Cattleya Schroederae 



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VALLEY OUR SPECIALTY ''a^lVy^^^a 



by the experts who won 't let a pea go 

 forth unless it has the symmetry fitting 

 it to be used in little Johnny's blow- 

 gun, and by the congressmen who want 

 to keep in touch with the folks at home. 

 It was also a victory for the eloquent 

 John Wesley Gaines, already immortal- 

 ized in the lines beginning: 



.John Wfsley Oniiies. ,I(»liii Wesley Caliies, 

 Tliou iiKMiuiiieiitiil pile of brains. 



and ending when the bard got tired. 



' ' Tlie mere fact that the money ex- 

 pended for seed distribution is an abso- 

 lute waste might be considered, but econ- 

 omy is a detail, and this is a day of big 

 tnings. ' ' 



ItrMihM tnni 



CALIFORNIA SEED CROPS. 



('has. i'. Braslau, of the Braslan Seed 

 (irowers' Co.. San Jose, (.'al., writes: 



' * Tlie seed <-rops were uninjured l>y 

 the earthquake. The (mtlook for a seed 

 crop is better than it has been for two 

 or three years i)ast. The only crop that 

 is suffering is that of the onion: it has 

 some mildew on it at the present time. 

 How serious this will prove we cannot 

 tell at this writing. None of the seed 

 growers was injured in the recent dis- 

 aster. All the seed houses which were 

 burned out in San Francisco are making 

 rapid progress and re-establishing their 

 business in that dear old city." 



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I Need Begonia Balbs 



Well, if so. you must order at once as they 

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C. H. Allen, Floral Park, N. Y., 

 when iie received his package of con- 

 gressional free seeds returned them to 

 the Department of Agriculture with a 

 note of declination to the congressman 

 wlio sent them. 



OUR VIEW. 



Upon receipt of information that the 

 Senate Committee on Agriculture would 

 grant a hearing on the appropriation for 

 free seeds the following letter was ad- 

 dressed to the chairman, Senator Redfield 

 Proctor : 



Dear Sir: — We nre Oeeply Interested in the 

 subject (if (■((iigroMsldiinl free seeds. You are 

 fainilinr with the niHiiy arguments against the 

 seed dlstrllmtlon. We believe the only argu- 

 ment In Its favor Is the necessity for the re- 

 iKilr of the fences of the bucolic statesmen. 

 If this forever iinist be done at public expense, 

 we snlunit tliiit It is time some other article 



