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The Florists' Review 



June 26, 1913. 



will attend the convention at Cleveland 

 this week. 



The auctions are over for the season. 

 Both houses declare this to have been 

 their most profitable year. 



The new store and offices of the F. E. 

 Pierson Co., at Tarrytown, are approach- 

 ing completion. The firm should be 

 comfortably settled in them by Septem- 

 ber 1. 



Scott Br^j^of ElmsfgEd, N. Y., have 

 added a i 

 veniences. 



William Sheehan, formerly with 

 Thomas Young in his wholesale enter- 

 prise, is now in the employ of W. P. 

 Ford. 



C. C. Trepel has been seriously ill. 



Wadley & Smythe, A. T. Bunyard and 

 Ralph Armstrong have opened their 

 branch stores at Newport, R. I. 



%. J. Austin Shaw. 



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INDIANAFOUS, IND. 



The Market. 



Trade was quiet last week. The 

 weather has been extremely hot for this 

 time of the year and vacations are in 

 order a little earlier than usual. 



Good stock is not available in large 

 quantities. Roses . and carnations are 

 showing the effects of the hot weather. 

 Lilies are scarce; Shasta daisies are ar- 

 riving in quantities and find a ready 

 market. Orchids and valley have not 

 much call. Sweet peas are not abundant 

 enough to meet the demand. 



Wedding decorations are not so plen- 

 tiful as heretofore. Competition is so 

 keen that one of the leading florists 

 agrees to do the work for ten per cent 

 less than his nearest competitor. 



Various Notes. 



Harry Balsley, of the Detroit Flower 

 Pot Co., spent a couple of days with the 

 trade last week. 



The Smith & Young Co. will refinish 

 the interior of the store soon. Herman 

 Junge says that the yellow pine, which 

 was put in last spring, will be replaced 

 with golden oak. It seems a shame to 

 cast aside such fine fixtures, but such is 

 prosperity. 



Sidney Smith is getting his place 

 cleaned up so that it will not be long 

 before he can forget the worries of a 

 florist. 



John Bubach, of Schloss Bros., New 

 York, called on the trade one day last 

 ■week. 



The A. Wiegand's Sons Co. has a 

 show window which is attracting much 

 attention. While in Florida last win- 

 ter, George Wiegand conceived the idea 

 that a fountain in the window for some 

 live alligators would be interesting. The 

 number of people daily attracted to the 

 window shows he was right. 



Alfred Brandt had a narrow escape 

 with his delivery auto recently when he 

 skidded into the curbstone, just miss- 

 ing a telegraph pole. The damage to 

 the car was slight. H. L. W. 



CHIPPEWA FALLS, WIS. 



Frank Weigand, the 21-year-old son 

 of F. S. Weigand, was drowned June 23 

 in Dead Lake near Durand. With sev- 

 eral other graduates of St. Charles 

 school who were on a week's outing at 

 the lake, he went in swimming. When 

 a younger member of the party ven- 

 tured out farther than the rest and 

 disappeared, Frank Weigand and a com- 

 panion went to his rescue and they, too. 



The Senate's Tariff Rates 



TTHE REVIEW is able to give herewith the trade's paragraphs of the new tariff 

 * bill as agreed upon by the Democratic majority of the Senate committee on finance. 

 The bill, after being in the hands of the committee for several weeks, now is in the 

 hands of a caucus, but will be reported to the Senate within a few days. While the 

 caucus no doubt will make more or less changes in the parts of the bill that have 

 importance politically, it is thought that the paragraphs covering bulbs, seeds, green- 

 house and nursery stock will not be further changed. There is every indication that 

 the paragraphs as printed below will be the law as it finally gets onto the statute 

 books. 



The Senate changes correct the errors that crept in when the bill was amended 

 on the floor of the House, as reported in The Review. Greenhouse plant^re removed 

 from paragraph 215 at twenty-five per cent and included with nursery ^c^ at fifteen 

 per cent in paragraph 210, making all plants not specially provided for pay the same 

 rate of duty and obviating the conflicts which would have been sure to result under 

 the House bill. 



Of 6iMH^ interest to nurserymen is the addition of the words "4 years old or 

 I ^Juifying coniferous evergreen seedlings, which are to be admitted free. 



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There are two important changes in the paragraphs covering seeds. Peas are 

 reduced to 10 cents per bushel, as against 40 cents in the present law and 15 cents in 

 the House bill. Also the specific principle is retained as applying to all seeds, as 

 seeds not specially provided for are dutiable under the Senate amendment at 5 cents 

 per pound. In the present law it is 10 cents per pound, and in the House bill ten 

 per cent ad valorem. 



The following are the paragraphs as they appeared in the bill passed by the 

 House May 8, showing the Senate amendments. The words omitted are surrounded 

 by brackets and the words added are printed in black-face type: 



214. Peas, green or dried, in bulk or 

 in barrels, sacks, or similar packages, 

 [15] 10 cents per bushel of sixty 

 pounds; split peas, [25] 20 cents per 

 busliel of sixty pounds; peas in cartons, 

 papers, or other similar packages, in- 

 cluding the weight of the immediate 

 covering, [Vj] Vs cent per pound. 



215. Orchids, palms, azalea indica, 

 and [all other decorative greenhouse 

 plants and] cut flowers, preserved or 

 fresh, 25 per centum ad valorem; lily 

 of the valley pips, tulips, narcissus, be- 

 gonia, and gloxinia bulbs, $1 per thou- 

 sand; hyacinth bulbs, astilbe, dielytra, 

 and lily of the valley clumps, $2.50 per 

 thousand; lily bulbs and calla bulbs or 

 corms, $5 per thousand; herbaceous 

 peony. Iris Kaempferri or Germanica, 

 canna, dahlia, and amaryllis bulbs, $10 

 per thousand; all other bulbs, roots, root 

 stocks, corms, and tubers, which are cul- 

 tivated for their flowers or foliage, 50 

 cents per thousand. 



216. Stocks, cuttings, or seedlings of 

 Myrobolan plum, Mahaleb or Mazzard 

 cherry, Manetti multiflora and briar 

 rose, Rosa Rugosa, three years old or 

 less, $1 per thousand plants; stocks, cut- 

 tings, or seedlings of pear, apple, quince, 

 and the Saint Julien plum, three years 

 old or less, $1 per thousand plants; rose 

 plants, budded, grafted, or grown on 

 their own roots, 4 cents each; stocks, 

 cuttings, and seedlings, of all fruit and 

 ornamental trees, deciduous and ever- 

 green shrubs and vines, and all trees, 

 shrubs, plants, and vines commonly 

 known as nursery or greenhouse stock. 



not specially provided for in this sec- 

 tion, 15 per centum ad valorem. 



217. Seeds: Castor beans or seeds, 

 15 cents per bushel of fifty pounds; 

 flaxseed or linseed and other oil seeds 

 not specially provided for in this sec- 

 tion, [20] 15 cents per bushel of fifty-six 

 pounds; poppy seed, 15 cents per bushel 

 of forty-seven pounds; mushroom spawn, 

 and spinach see^, 1 cent per pound; 

 canary seed, ^^ cent per pound; cara- 

 way seed, 1 cent per pound; anise seed, 

 2 cents per pound; beet (except sugar 

 beet), carrot, corn salad, parsley, 

 parsnip, radish, turnip, and rutabaga 

 seed, 3 cents per pound; cabbage, cbl- 

 lard, kale, and kohl-rabi seed, 6 cents 

 per pound; egg plant and pepper seed, 

 10 cents per pound; seeds of all kinds 

 not specially provided for in this sec- 

 tion, [10 per centum ad valorem] 5 

 cents per pound: Provided, That no 

 allowance shall be made for dirt or 

 other impurities in seeds provided for 

 in this paragraph. 



FREE LIST. 



599. Seeds: Cardamom, cauliflower, 

 celery, coriander, cotton, cummin, fen- 

 nel, fenugreek, hemp, hoarhound, man- 

 gelwurzel, mustard, rape. Saint John's 

 bread or bean, sorghum, sugar beet, and 

 sugar cane for seed; bulbs and bulbous 

 roots, not edible and not otherwise pro- 

 vided for in this section; all flower and 

 grass seeds; coniferous evergreen seed- 

 lings four years old or less; all the fore- 

 going not specially provided for in this 

 section. 



disappeared. The bodies of all three 

 were recovered the following day. 

 Frank Weigand had been assisting his 

 father, who is the proprietor of the 

 Chippewa Falls Greenhouses. 



NATIONAL QABDENEBS. 



Owing to the change of date of the 

 annual show of the American Sweet 

 Pea Society, which will occur in Boston 

 on July ]2 and 13, the summer meeting 

 of the National Association of Gardeners 



has been postponed from July 5 to 

 July 12 and will be held in Horticul- 

 tural hall on that day at 2 p. m. A 

 meeting of trustees and directors of 

 the association will take place at 1:30 

 p. m. 



Members attending the meeting going 

 by way of New York, will leave over 

 the outside line of the Metropolitan 

 Steamship Co., Pier 19, North River, at 

 5 p. m. Friday, July 11. This is the 

 all water route direct to Boston. 



M. C. Ebel, Sec '7 



