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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Junk 2, 1910. 



CABBILLO & BALDWIN'S PLACE. 



After having been four years in tlie 

 business at Secaucus, N. J., Carrillo & 

 Baldwin this spring removed to a new 

 location at Mamaroneck, N. Y., where 

 their facilities are admirable and capa- 

 ble of indefinite expansion. The accom- 

 panying illustrations show the plant as 

 it appeared a few weeks ago. There 

 now are three greenhouses of modern 

 type and another, 50x125 feet, is being 

 erected. The property consists of fif- 

 teen acres, lying on the hills that over- 

 look the sound and a glorious stretch of 

 suburban country. The land is devoted 

 to summer crops of various kinds and 

 one of the side lines is poultry farm- 



General Appraiser McClelland, in over- 

 ruling the importers' claim, stated: 



"That willow is wood according to 

 the common understanding of the word 

 there is no question, and in the absence 

 of the provision for manufactures of 

 osier or willow, baskets made of wil- 

 low would, beyond doubt, be subject 

 to duty under the provision for bas- 

 kets of wood. Neither may it be gain- 

 said that a provision for 'baskets of 

 osier or willow' would be narrower 

 and more specific than one for 'mami- 

 factures of osier or willow,' and it fol- 

 lows that the provision for baskets of 

 wood is more specific than that for 

 manufactures of wood, but we think 

 that as between the existing provisions 



New Establishment of Carrillo & Baldwin, Mamaroneck, N. Y. 



ing, tiierc being model chicken houses, 

 with over a thousand chicks of various 

 ages and double that number on their 

 incubator way. There are horses, cows 

 and everything a country gentleman 

 needs to make life worth living. 



The importation of South American 

 orchids is, of course, the main issue 

 with the firm, and L. F. Carrillo is now 

 in South America collecting cattleyas. 

 He has already this season shipped 

 home over 1,000 cases. In Brazil the 

 firm also has a force of hunters send- 

 ing home labiata. Mr. Carrillo is a 

 native of Colombia. George E. Bald- 

 win, who attends to the receiving and 

 selling end, hails from Yorkshire, Eng- 

 land. In addition to the business in 

 freshly imported orchids, a large stock 

 of established plants is carried and in 

 the greenhouses there are many things 

 of striking interest to an orchid enthu- 

 siast. 



DUTY ON WILLOW BASKETS. 



Under a decision handed down May 

 25, by the Board of General Appraisers, 

 dealers in florists' supplies who im- 

 port willow baskets will be compelled 

 to pay duty on their importations at 

 the rate of forty-five per cent ad valorem, 

 as manufacturers of willow under the 

 provision of paragraph 212 of the Tariff 

 Act of 1909. Several alternative claims 

 were made for lower rates of duty, but 

 in a brief filed by counsel for pro- 

 testants, the only claim relied upon was 

 that made for duty at the rate of thir- 

 ty-five per cent ad valorem under para- 

 graph 214 of said act as baskets of 

 wood. 



for 'manufactures of osier or willow' 

 and 'baskets of wood,' when consid- 

 ered in the light of Congressional ac- 

 tion in respect thereof, as we have be- 

 fore stated it, the purpose is shown to 

 eliminate from every general or blan- 

 ket provision for wood or manufac- 

 tures thereof, one particular kind of 

 wood, to wit: osier or willow and all 

 articles made thereof. In other words. 

 Congress has said that for tariff pur- 

 poses willow is not wood. The lan- 

 guage of paragraph 212 applying to 

 osier or willow and manufactures 

 thereof is so specific that it could not 



be applied to any other kind of wood 

 or articles made of any other kind of 

 wood. To uphold the view of protes 

 tants would, in large measure, destrov 

 its meaning." 



POWDER PASTES. 



In The Eeview of May 19 I notice.I 

 the inquiry of C. F. C, with referenc' 

 to a powder which, he said, was use. I 

 as a paste for attaching labels to boxes 

 and was called Paste Substitute. Ho 

 said he had formerly used it and had 

 found it the best preparation for thi' 

 purpose he had ever seen, but that he 

 had lost the address of the manufac 

 turers. I also noticed, in The Review 

 of May 26, a reply to this inquiry. The 

 reply was signed A. W. L. and was sub 

 stantially as follows: "Though I can 

 not give any information about that 

 particular sort of paste, there is an 

 other brand of powder paste which J 

 can recommend. It is used by my firm, 

 by the Henry A. Dreer Corporation and 

 other florists, and also by the Adams 

 I^xpress Co. It is called Dextrine and 

 is manufactured by the Steele & At 

 wood Co., of Chicago. I think it is the 

 best paste that can be had for attach 

 ing labels." 



Now, T have been considering the 

 use of this kind of paste and am glad to 

 learn from these correspondents that it 

 is a good thing. Like A. W. L., I am 

 unable to give to the inquirer the name 

 of the firm that makes the powder 

 called Paste Substitute, but I can tell 

 him about another article of the same 

 sort, a small sample of which was re 

 cently sent to me by the makers. It is 

 called the Instanter Cold Water Powder 

 and is for sole by Binney & Smith Co., 

 SI and 83 Fulton street. New York city. 

 This is another of the "add water and 

 serve" preparations and any florist 

 who does a shipping trade will appre 

 ciate how much more convenient it is 

 to handle than are the old liquid pastes. 

 Geo. P. Merrifield. 



Houghton, Mich.— Alfred W. York, of 

 the Lakeside Floral Co., says that the 

 business in cut flowers and plants in 

 the northern peninsula of Michigan is 

 increasing phenomenally, the sales of 

 his own concern jumping twenty-five tc 

 forty per cent every year. 



New Establishment of Carrillo & Baldwin, Mamaroneck, N. Y, 



