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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



FIDBBUABZ 8» 1912. 



Nursery Stock For Florists' TVadc 



Large General Assortment for Spring Planting 



WRXTB VOB TRADE LIST 



W. & T. SMITH COMPANY, GeneTH, N. Y. 



800 ACRK8 



-es TSARS 



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NURSERY NEWS. 



A3CEBICAN ASSOCIATION OF mmSEBYMEN. 

 Offlcera for 1011-12: Pres., J. H. Dayton. 

 FalnesTlIle, O.; Vlce-pres., W. H. Wyman, North 

 Ablngton, Mass.; Sec'y. John Hall. Rochester, 

 N. Y.; Treas., C. L. Yates, Rochester, N. Y. 

 Thirty-seventh annnal meeting, Boston, Jane 1912. 



A NEW frost-proof storage and pack- 

 ing cellar is in use this season by the 

 Farmer Seed & Nursery Co., Faribault, 

 Minn. It cost $5,000. 



KoCHESTER is proud of the EUwanger 

 & Barry establishment and the Post-Ex- 

 press of that city devoted a full column 

 of its issue of January 29 to a review of 

 the firm's 1912 catalogue. 



Earl M. Wilson, for the last four 

 years advertising manager of Stark Bros. 

 Nurseries & Orchards Co., Louisiana, Mo., 

 has resigned to accept a position on the 

 advertising staff of the Curtis Publishing 

 Co., of Philadelphia. His headquarters 

 will be in Chicago. 



At E. S. Welch 's Mount Arbor nursery 

 a carrier system is being installed in 

 their big storage plant, which will be a 

 valuable addition to the equipment. By 

 the use of the carrier system trees and 

 boxes- can be transported from one part 

 of the plant to another, and transferred 

 to the cars. The system is being in- 

 stalled by the Richards-Wilcox Mfg. Co., 

 Aurora, 111. 



A NURSERY company with a paid up 

 capital of $5S,000 is to be established im- 

 mediately at Willow, Cal. The chief 

 promoters and stockholders are L. C. Rice 

 & Son, nurserymen of Los Angeles, and 

 W. R. Chesley and F. H. Gnswold, of 

 Willows, The company is to incorporate 

 with a capital stock of $100,000, and 

 with headquarters in Willow. A site has 

 been secured four miles from town. 



At the meeting of the Tennessee State 

 Nurserymen's Association, at Nashville, 

 January 26, the full program of which 

 appeared in this column last week, the 

 following officers were elected: President, 

 E. W. Chatten, Winchester; vice-presi- 

 dent, W. W. Twitty, Taft; secretary- 

 treasurer. Prof. G. M. Bentley, Ejiox- 

 ville; sectional vice-presidents, Charles 

 Pennington, Rutherford, west Tennessee; 

 Joe Webb, Smithville, middle Tennessee; 

 A. I. Smith, Knoxville, east Tennessee. 



THE PLANT QUARANTINE BILI.. 



January 15 Representative Simmons 

 introduced in the House of Representa- 

 tives the bill prepared by Prof. S. J. 

 Hunter at the request of and approved 

 by the nurserymen's organizations to 

 cover the subject of federal inspection 

 and plant quarantine. The bill is as 

 follows: 



▲ BILL 

 To regulate the Importation and Interstate 

 transpiortatlon of nursery stock, to enable the 



B. & A. SPECIALTIES 



PALMS, BAY TREES, BOXWOOD AND HARDY HERBACEOUS 



PLANTS, EVERGREENS, ROSES, RHODODENDRONS, 



VINES AND CLIMBERS, AUTUMN BULBS 



AND ROOTS, CONIFERS, PINES. 



FloristB are always welcome visitors to our nurseries. We are only a few 

 minutes from New York City. Carlton Hill Station is the second stop on 

 Main Line of Erie Railroad. 



BOBBINK & ATKINS, '^ISSffiSSo'SS.Tjr' 



PEONIES 



We have one of the finest stocks anywhere in the 

 country and should be very glad to flffure with 

 you on your list of wants. « 



PETERSON NURSERY, 



stock KzolianKe Bulldlnc, CHXCACKl 



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HARDY CHOICB 



ORNAMENTALS 



Aak for Prices 



Hiram T. Jones 



Usioa CauRtv Nurseries, Bizabeth. N. 1, 



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Secretary of Agriculture to appoint a Federal 

 Horticultural Commission and to define the powers 

 of this commission In establishing and maintain- 

 ing quarantine districts for plant diseases and 

 Insect pests, to permit and regulate the movement 

 of fruits, plants, and vegetables therefrom, and 

 for other purposes. 



Be It enacted by the Senate and House of 

 Representatives of the United States of America 

 In Congress assembled. That the Federal Horticul- 

 tural Commission shall be established with the 

 powers and for the purposes hereinafter defined. 



Sec. 2. That this Federal Horticultural Com- 

 mission shall consist of the Solicitor of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture, two members from the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, and two members from 

 the Bureau of Entomology. This Commission 

 shall be appointed by th-.' Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture. The Solicitor of the Department of Agri- 

 culture shall be Chairman, and a Secretary shall 

 be elected annually from the commission. 



Sec. 3. That It shall he unlawful for any per- 

 son, firm, or corporation to Import or offer for 

 entry Into the United States from any foreign 

 country any nursery stock unless and until a 

 permit shall have been Issued therefor by the 

 Federal Horticultural Commission, under such 

 conditions and regulations as the said Commission 

 may prescribe, and unless such nursery stocli 

 shall be accompanied by a certificate of Inspection 

 In manner and form as required by the aforesaid 

 commission from the proper oSiclal of the country 

 from which the Importation Is made to the effect 

 that the stock has been Inspected and found free 

 from Injurious plant diseases and Insect pests; 

 Provided, That the Horticultural Commission 

 shall issue the permit for any particular im- 

 portation of nursery stock when the conditions 

 and regulations as prescribed In this section shall 

 have been complied with: Provided further, 

 That this section shall not be construed as apply- 

 ing to plants or plant products solely Intended 

 for and adapted to use as food, bnt to nursery 

 stock or other plants or plant products for propa- 

 gation; Provided further, that nursery stock may 

 be Imported for experimental or scientific pur- 

 poses, without the certificate of Inspection or the 

 permit of the Horticultural Commission herein- 

 before required, upon such conditions and under 

 such regulations as the said commission may pre- 

 scribe; and provided further, That nursery stock 



The United States Nursery Ca 



Roseaeres, Coahoma Co., BUSS* 



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LARGE TREES 



AMD MAPLKS, PINI8 

 AND HEMLOCKS 



ANDORRA NURSERIES 



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Imported from countries where no official system 

 of Inspection for such stock Is maintained, may 

 be admitted upon such conditions and under sucli 

 regulations as the Horticultural Commission may 

 prescrlbe. 



Sec. 4. That It shall be the duty of the Secre- 

 tary of the Treasury promptly to notify the 

 Federal Horticultural Commission of the arrival 

 of any nursery stock at ports of entry; that the 

 person, firm, or corporation receiving such stock 

 at port of entry shall, immediately upon entry 

 and before such stock is delivered for shipment 

 or removed from the port of entry, advise the 

 Federal Horticultural Commission, or the proper 

 State or Territorial Official In the State or Terri- 

 tory to which such nursery stock Is destined, of 

 the name and address of the consignee, the nature 

 and quantity of stock it is proposed to ship and 

 the district and country where grown; that no 

 person, firm, or corporation shall ship or offer for 

 shipment to any common carrier, nor shall any 

 common carrier transport or receive for trans- 

 portation, any nursery stock Imported Into the 

 United States from one State or Territory or the 

 District of Columbia, Into another State or Terri- 

 tory or the District of Columbia without notify- 

 ing the Federal Horticultural Commission, or the 

 proper State or Territory Official in the State or 

 Territory to which such nursery stock is destined. 

 Immediately upon the delivery of the said stock 

 for shipment and before transportation Is begun, 

 of the name and address of the consignee, of the 

 nature and quantity of stock It Is proposed to 

 ship, and the country and district where the same 

 was grown. 



Sec. 5. That no person, firm, or corporation 



