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The Florists' Review 



April 30, 1914. 



Our Motto: Tho BEST tho Markot Affords. 



PLACE YOUR MPORT ORDERS NOW TOR TALL DELIVERY 1914 



CHAS. 8CHWAKE & CO., inc. 



Horticultural Importors and Exporters 

 90-92 WEST BROADWAY, NEW YORK 



Mention The Bevlew when yog write 



Lil. Gigantsum and Multiflorum, 

 HOHMANN'S LILY OF THE VALLEY, 

 Paper Wkita Narcissus and Roman Hyacinths, 

 Dutch Bulbs, English Golden Spur, 

 Azaleas, Palms, Roses, etc. 



WRITE FOR PRICES 



MR. WILSON IS BUSY. 



Apparently the President is busy; 

 either that or he is applying his policy 

 of watchful waiting to the matter of 

 the postage on seeds and plants. At 

 any rate no word had come April 28 

 with regard to the signing of the act 

 of Congress which will restore the seed 

 trade's old flat rate of 1 cent for each 

 two ounces on parcels weighing not 

 over eight ounces. The President may 

 have his pen in hand at the moment, 

 but the seed and plant trades still are 

 using up postage stamps at the rate 

 of a cent for each ounce up to four, 

 and paying pound rates on anything 

 above that. 



The inquiry division of the Chicago 

 postoffice reports daily inquiries from 

 seedsmen who want to know if the 

 new rates have yet gone into effect. 



IT IS TO LAUGH. 



When the bill to reduce the postage 

 on light parcels of seeds and jtlants was 

 up in the House, April 20, the following 

 was part of the debate, according to 

 the Congressional Record: 



"Mr. Payne. Seedsmen have taken 

 their orders this year for ninety per 

 cent of the seeds and bulbs that go out, 

 relying on the lower rate of postage. 

 When Congress, without notice to them, 

 adopted this amendment of the Senate 

 to the postoffice appropriation bill, 

 these men found themselves in this po- 

 sition: If they fulfill their contracts 

 on these small weights, they have to 

 pay double, and in some cases four 

 times, the postage they would have 

 paid under the former rate, and if they 

 do not get relief by this bill they lose 

 a great deal of money. The course of 

 business will be interrupted. Of course 

 everybody realizes how important it is 

 that these seeds and bulbs be sent out 

 to the farmers throughout the country 

 at a low rate of postage. I think for 

 this season especially it is important 

 that this low rate be adopted, and then 

 the postoffice committee, when it comes 

 to study the question in regard to tho 

 future, can amend it and the gentle- 

 man's idea about pound-postage rates, 

 and 80 forth, can be adopted; but just 

 now it is important that the low rate 

 be established on these low weights of 

 seeds and packages of that kind, ninety 

 per cent the whole trade of which is 

 in these lower-weight packages. 



"Mr. Stafford. Mr. Speaker, until 

 the gentleman stated that the spring 

 seed had not been sent out, and that 

 ninety per cent was withheld, I was 

 under the impression that the spring 

 distribution had taken place. 



"Mr. Allen. No; it has not. 



' ' Mr. Stafford. And being under that 

 impression, I was inclined to ask unani- 

 mous consent to have this bill go over 

 for two weeks, but in view of the fact 

 that the seed houses are withholding 

 ninety per cent of the spring seeding, 

 I would not wish to levy that great 

 burden upon them." 



No wonder the bill passed I 



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 Special prices now ready. 



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 AND PLANTS 



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ST. REMY-DE.PROVENCE. FRANCE 



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DANISH SEEDS 



Cabbage, Cauliflower, 

 Carrot, Mangel, Swede, 

 Turnip, etc. 



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 rRENCH BULBS and SEEDS 



155 West 33d Street, NEW lORK 



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