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The Florists^ Review 



January 30, 1913. 



upon the prices of the bulbs. You take 

 a bulb which you can purchase on the 

 other side, say at $2 a thousand; the 

 net price here would be $2.50 per thou- 

 sand. 



Mr. Harrison. We have all those fig- 

 ures worked out by the Treasury De- 

 Ijartment, and they give us an average. 

 The average ad valorem equivalent to 

 that rate, if your products are to be 

 left in this basket clause, would be to 

 only give them a five per cent duty. 



Mr. Cowee. What we ask for is 

 twenty-five per cent on blooming size 

 bulbs, and to allow all bulbs below the 

 blooming size to come in duty free the 

 same as seed. One of the principal 

 points I wish to impress upon your 

 minds is that the extensive growing of 

 gladioli was and is today a truly Amer- 

 ican industry. The rate of wages paid 

 by us is from $9 to $15 per week for 

 ten hours per day, while foreign grow- 

 ers are able to secure equally skilled 

 labor for from $4.50 to $7.50 per week 

 for twelve hours per day. Now, in or- 

 der to conserve American labor and 

 encourage the further development of 

 this industry by Americans, the major- 

 ity of the growers of the United States, 

 whose signatures I have, believe we are 

 entitled to and petition for a protective 

 <luty of twenty-five per cent ad valorem 

 upon regular merchantable size bulbs. 



Mr. Cowee filed the following peti- 

 tion, signed, he said, by owners of nine- 

 ty per cent of the gladiolus acreage in 

 America: 



Honorable Sirs: We, the undersigned 

 growers of gladiolus bulbs in the United 

 States, realizing the Inroads made in our 

 business by foreign growers, on account of 

 the change in custom duty from twenty-five 

 per cent ad valorem to 50 cents per thou- 

 sand bulbs specific duty, and realizing that 

 many of our standard varieties originating 

 with us are taken abroad, grown by cheap 

 labor and returned to the United .States at 

 unprofitable prices for American growers, 

 would respectfully petition Congress to re- 

 vise the tariff upon gladiolus bulbs eo that 

 blooming bulbs of any variety or mixture 

 above five-eighths inch In diameter shall de- 

 mand a custom duty of twenty-five per cent 

 ad valorem and that bulblets, hard or soft, 

 flvp-eighths Inch in diameter and less shall 

 bo admitted duty free. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



H. .7. Weber & Sons Nursery Co., 

 Nursery, Mo., general nursery stock; 

 Texas Seed k Floral Co., Dallas, Tex., 

 seeds, bulbs, plants and supplies; Fot- 

 tler, Fiske, Eawson Co., Boston, Mass., 

 seed and plant list for market garden- 

 ers and florists; Oriental Seed Co., San 

 Francisco, Cal., Japanese seeds, plants 

 and lily bulbs, M. J. Yopp Seed Co., 

 Paducah, Ky., garden and field seeds; 

 Storrs & Harrison Co., Painesville, O., 

 general nursery stock; Colorado Seed 

 & Nursery Co., Denver, Colo., general 

 catalogue; G. H. Hunkel Co., Milwaukee, 

 Wis., seeds, bulbs and roots; J. W. Jung 

 Seed Co., Randolph, Wis., general and 

 wholesale lists; Rudy-Patrick Seed Co., 

 Kansas City, Mo., general list of farm 

 and garden seeds; Charles H. Totty, 

 Madison, N. J., chrysanthemums, carna- 

 tions and roses. 



Chambersburg, Pa.— Charles a Byer, 

 of Byer Bros., departed recently, in 

 company with his wife and two daugh- 

 ters, for a month 's trip to Florida. 



Wheeling, W. Va.— Frank C. Seibert 

 has completed one new greenhouse and 

 contemplates Jauilding two more in the 

 coming spring. His trade this winter, 

 especially at Christmas, has been the 

 best in his experience, with a heavy 

 demand for potted stoBk.' 



JUNG'S SELECT 

 ASTER SEED 



You will be satisfied 

 with Jung's Aster 

 Seed. The growing 

 and selecting of our 

 Aster Seed is under 

 the care of an expert, 

 and our stocks are 

 highly developed. 



CREGO as grown 

 and improved at Fair- 

 field Farm. 



Send today for 1913 

 contract prices, also 

 surplus list. 



J. W. JUNG SEED CO., Aster Specialists, Randolph, Wis. 



Mention The KeTlewwben yoii write. 



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Aster Book now ready. 



Indispensable 

 for commercial growers 



Send for copy today. 



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ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



Mentliiii 'lb I* Kevlew wbPD you writ*. 



BEGONIAS 



.single separate colors and choice mixture, 

 40c per dozen ; $2.50 per 100. 



Double separate colors and choicemixture. 

 60c per dozen ; $1.00 per 100. 



GLOXINIAS 



.Separate colors and choice mixture, 50c 

 per dozen : $1.50 per 100 



A. HENDERSON & CO. 



352 North Michigan Avenue. CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when you write. 



BURNETT BROS. 



0SSDS :: BULBS u PLAlITt 

 n CortUndt St.. NKW TO^K CITT 



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Koerner's 1913 Novelties 



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 and Standard Varieties in 



GLADIOLI and DAHLIAS 



A larce assortment of extra fine varieties- 

 Specialist in hybridlzini; and hModjnf? high 

 trradc stock only. -•fciLi.- 



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