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The Florists* Review 



JUNB 26, 1918. 



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NEWS OF THE NURSERY TRADE 



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Henry B. Cbase, Vice-President. J. B. Pllklpston, President. Peter Yo^nflrer8, Treasurer. 



New Officers of the American Asiodation of Nuncrymen Elected at the Portland G>aventfon. 



The Interstate Commerce Commission 

 has denied the application of E. H. Hin- 

 ton, railroad agent, on the ground that 

 not sufficient reason was shown, to estab- 

 lish a rate of 30 cents per hundred 

 pounds on carload shipments of nursery 

 stock, valued at not to exceed 3 cents per 

 pound, from Chase and Huntsville, Ala., 

 to points in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and 

 Illinois. 



-■ ^BmoENT regulations intended to 

 prevent the spread of gypsy and brown- 

 tail moths were adopted at the annual 

 meeting of the State Board of Agricul- 

 ture of Bhode Island a few days ago. 

 The regulations authorize the state ento- 

 mologist to prevent the shipment of lum- 

 ber, trees or nursery products from af- 

 fected sections of the state into unaf- 

 fected sections, and permit him, if in 

 his judgment it appears necessary, to or- 

 der a quarantine of the affected locali- 

 ties. The state entomologist also was 

 authorized to revoke the license of any 

 nurseryman whenever he deemed it neces- 

 sary for the prevention of the spread of 

 the pests, 



EVUROBEENS IN DEMAND. 



D. Hill is enthusiastic over the busi- 

 ness in evergreens, in marked contrast 

 to the nurserymen who specialize in 

 fruit trees, and especially apples. Mr. 

 Hill's business at Dundee, 111., was 

 established in 1855 and was incorpo- 

 rated in 1910. In view of his fifty-eight 

 years in the line and the fact that the 

 company claims to be the largest grower 

 of evergreens in America, Mr. Hill's 

 optimism is infectious. 



"The season just past has been a 

 most satisfactory one in every respect, ' ' 

 he said to The Review June 3; "sales 

 have been pleasing and planting condi- 

 tions favorable. 



"Prospects look good for fall trade. 



We are getting ready for a big florists ' 

 trade on evergreens for window-box 

 purposes this fall. We find the demand 

 along these lines is increasing, espe- 

 cially for the staple standard varieties 

 of evergreens, such as blue spruce, 

 pines, arbor-vitsBS, hemlocks and firs." 



NUESEBYMEN'S CONVENTION. 



[For a comprehensive account of the proceed- 

 ings of the first days, committee reports, papers 

 read, election of the Pacific Coast Association, 

 etc., see full report published exclusively in last 

 week's issue of The Review.] 



Officers Elected. 



At the closing session of the thirty- 

 eighth annual convention of the Ameri- 

 can Association of Nurserymen, held at 

 the Hotel Multnomah, Portland, Ore., 

 June 20, the following officers were 

 elected: 



President, J. B. Pilkington, Portland, 

 Ore.; vice-president, Henry B. Chase, 

 Huntsville, Ala.; secretary, John Hall, 

 Rochester, N. Y.; treasurer, Peter 

 Youngers, Geneva, Neb.; executive com- 

 mittee, Thomas B. Meehan, Dresher, 

 Pa.; J. H. Dayton, Painesville, O.; P. A. 

 Dix, Roy, Utah. 



Location of 1914 meeting, Cleveland, 

 Ohio. 



Date of 1914 meeting, June 24 to 26. 



Denounce Free Stock. 



The free distribution of seeds and 

 seedlings by the U. S. forest service, 

 Congress and the state experiment sta- 

 tions has reached a point where it has 

 aroused the nursery trade in opposition. 

 It was denounced by many speakers at 

 the convention and President Meehan, 

 in his annual address, said: "We still 

 have the activities of the national nur- 

 series to consider and contend with. 

 These nurseries advertise to ship for 

 cost. This is to the detriment of our 



business, and it seems that there should 

 be no more reason for such competition 

 in our lines than in any other business 

 or industry." 



The Laws the Theme. 



The principal subject of discussion 

 this year was the laws which are so 

 hampering the trade. The law in one 

 form or another was the subject of 

 more than half the papers, addresses 

 and reports. For years the trade has 

 been suffering from the multiplicity of 

 laws, and from unwise interpretation, 

 but of late it has become so much worse 

 as to be the one thing the nurserymen 

 think and talk about. 



The federal quarantine law came in 

 for condemnation as an unnecessary 

 burden on the nursery trade and as of 

 no compensatory value to any other in- 

 terest. J. McHutchison presented an 

 exhaustive paper, in addition to the re- 

 port of the legislative committee, in 

 which he showed where several of the 

 provisions of the act, which had been 

 modified in many particulars through 

 the united efforts of the nurserymen 

 andJ^orists, were almost ruinous to the 

 industry. He showed where, under the 

 act, the trade in this country suffered, 

 but that it also hit the growers, and 

 exporters abroad, that in quite a num- 

 ber of instances the law, through its 

 drastic quarantine provisions had 

 greatly increased the cost of imported 

 stock, all of which fell on the ultimate 

 consumer. He called attention to the 

 fact that the growers and nurserymen 

 abroad were a unit, almost, in declaring 

 the law was of little or no value as a 

 protective measure, because of the rigid 

 inspection laws of the foreign coun- 

 tries. 



Mr. McHutchison told how the orig- 

 inal regulations had been modified, five 



