July 1, 1900. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



27 



C. W. McKELLAR 



Lonar Distance Pbone, Central 8598 



51 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



Large Daily Shipments Now Received of 



Cattleya Gigas and 

 Mendellii 



$6.00 to $7.60 per dosen 



Beauties, Fancy Teas, Carnations, 



PEONIES, GARDENIAS, 



Valley, Sweet Peas and all Fancy Flowers, Farleyense and all 

 Fancy Greens and Decorative Stock, Ribbons and Giiffons. 



Send for complete Price list. 



GALAX 



TANCY FERNS 



Mention The Review when vou wnrp 



KENNICOn BROS. CO. 



Dandles All Stock in Season 



At Chicago Market Rate 



48-50 Wabash Avenue, 



CHICAGO 



JX>NQ DISTANCS PHOHK, CKNTRAI. 400. 



The business will be continued by Sam- 

 uel F. Lilley. 



Charles E. Meehan and family moved 

 to their cottage at Ocean City, N. J., 

 June 25. 



F. T. Way & Bro., of Kennett Square, 

 will add two houses, about 30x200 each, 

 Lord & Burnham material, this season. 



The Robert Craig Co. has had the larg- 

 est June business in the history of the 

 establishment. Lorraine begonias at the 

 Forty-ninth and Market street place are 

 wonderfully fine. Their houses at Nor- 

 wood are nearly ready for planting pot 

 grown carnations. 



Monday, July 5, will be generally ob- 

 served as a holiday in this city. Some of 

 the wholesale houses will be open early in 

 the morning, just long enough to receive 

 and send out stock. The seed and sup- 

 ply houses will be closed all day. 



S. S. Pennock took his family to Ocean 

 City, N. J., June 30, to spend the sum- 

 mer. 



Wm. J. Baker has been enjoying a 

 brief vacation, the first in a long time. 



Sporting Extra. 



The baseball team of the Robert Craig 

 Co. will be happy to meet all comers on 

 the diamond, be they amateurs or semi- 

 professionals, on any Saturday afternoon 

 in July or August. Address Robert A. 

 Craig, Forty-ninth and Market streets, 

 West Philadelphia. Phil. 



THE BAYEESDORFER DECISION. 



Several weeks ago the Review re- 

 ported the conclusion of a test case 

 brought by Bayersdorfer & Co. against 

 the United States government to deter- 

 mine the legal rate of duty on certain 

 florists' supplies which Bayersdorfer and 

 others are importing. The Treasury De- 

 partment has now got around to pub- 

 lishing the decision for the information 

 and guidance of customs officers. Judge 

 Holland said: 



"This is an appeal by the importers 

 from a decision of the Board of General 

 Appraisers affirming the classification of 

 the collector in respect to a large and 

 varied assortment of imported orna- 

 mental florists' supplies, as follows: 

 Ruscus grun, areca blatter, cycas leaves, 

 magnolia wreath, ilex wreath, ruscus 

 cross, tull leaf, adiantum fern, ruscus 

 wreath, phcenix leaves, leaves in form of 

 cross, palm-leaf wreath. ^ 



"The appraiser at the port of Phila- 

 delphia returned these importations as 

 'ornamental leaves,' and the coUector 

 classified them as such and assessed a 

 duty on each one of fifty per cent ad 

 valorem, under paragraph 425 of the 

 tariff act, following the decision of 

 Judge Hazel, in Kreshower v. United 

 States (152 Fed. Rep., 485; T. D. 

 27826), and this classification and assess- 



ment was affirmed by the Board of Gen- 

 eral Appraisers. For the reasons stated 

 by the latter, the decision of the Board 

 is affirmed. 



"The same importer has appealed 

 from the decision of the Board of Gen- 

 eral Appraisers in its affirmance of the 

 collector in classifying statice wreaths 

 under paragraph 251 of the tariff act as 

 ' natural flowers * » * preserved or 

 fresh,' and assessing a duty of twenty- 

 five per cent ad valorem in accordance 

 with the provision of this paragraph. 

 This exhibit has all the appearance of 

 'natural flowers * » « preserved,' 

 and we think that the classification and 

 assessment of the Board should be 

 affirmed, and it is so ordered. 



"The classification of the grasses of 

 the same importer under paragraph 425 

 of the tariff act and an assessment of 

 fifty per cent ad valorem thereunder by 

 the collector, which was affirmed by the 

 Board of General Appraisers, we have 

 concluded is erroneous. An inspection 

 of this importation convinces us that 

 they are more properly classified as 

 manufactures of grasses, dutiable at 

 thirty per cent ad valorem under para- 

 graph 449. The language in paragraph 

 425, levying a duty on 'artificial grains, 

 leaves or flowers,' does not as specificallj 

 describe this article as the terms re- 



