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The Florists' Review 



April 9, 1914. 



LilyofiheValley 



QUALITY BRAND 



2500 to case, $17.00 per 1000 



St Ms Seed Co. 



ST. LOUIS. MO. 



M>»ntlon The Review when yoo write. ' 



parcels. The trade was taken by sur- 

 prise when the expected legislation was 

 presented in the form of an amend- 

 ment to the postoffice appropriation 

 bill; it was put through so quickly that 

 the full significance of the amend- 

 ment was not appreciated and, there- 

 fore, before protest could be made in 

 eflfective form. W, F, Therkildson, 

 chairman of the postal laws committee 

 of the American Seed Trade Associa- 

 tion, has been and is a busy man, with 

 a matter of such large importance com- 

 ing up, and staying up through the 

 widespread demand for reconsideration, 

 and is closer in touch with all phases 

 of the subject than is any other one 

 in the trade. In describing the results 

 to date, and the present situation, April 

 3, he said in part; 



"At this time I cannot refrain from 

 saying, *I told you so!' The action of 

 the Senate postoffice committee in mak- 

 ing this provision was the result of 

 the independent action of the various 

 small dealers throughout the country, 

 backed by their farmer friends. They 

 had expected a few champions of the 

 flat rate to be able to retain for them 

 all the good things to be had in the 

 parcel post and allow them to secure for 

 themselves the things that particularly 

 fitted their business. 



"At the time this ruling went into 

 eflfect, I was in the oflSce of the Storrs 

 & Harrison Co., Painesville, O., and 

 that concern had had no notice prior 

 to telephone instructions from the local 

 postmaster. 



"It is absolutely impossible for one 

 or two men, or a few firms, to have 

 withstood tlie insistent demand of not 

 only the dealers outside of the associa- 

 tion but, in fact, a good many mem- 

 bers of the association, who bombarded 

 their senators and representatives with 

 the demand that seeds, plants, etc., be 

 admitted to parcel post, 



"In consultation with Mr. Stokes, 

 Mr, Dungan and Mr. Burpee, we ar- 

 rived at the conclusion that it was use- 

 less for the postal laws committee to 

 attempt to work along our own ideas 

 in the matter any longer. 



"As you are aware, there are several 

 bills in the House, also several in the 

 Senate, covering this same situation, 

 and it is the writer's opinion that in 

 order to obviate the routine of reading 

 and discussion that would necessarily 

 arise with the handling of these sev- 

 eral bills, the Senate committee added 

 the four lines to the postoffice appro- 

 priation bill which has resulted in the 

 'OuchI' expressed in your publica- 

 tion of March 19. 



"There has been a wide division of 

 opinion as to the desirability or unde- 

 sirability of the parcel post. I have 



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PAINESVILLE. 

 OHIO 



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never changed my point of view, re- 

 gardless of the many letters to the 

 contrary received by myself and pub- 

 lished in the various papers — that is, 

 the advantage of the flat rate — and 

 must say that we would have been per- 

 fectly satisfied to have gone into the 

 parcel post providing that we could 



Tuberous Rooted 

 Begonias 



Separate colors, $20.00 per 1000 



Gladiolus America 



Mammoth sizes, $15.00 per 1000 



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Prince Bay, N. Y. 



