Peeps Into Other People's Gardens 



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""Surely no one should be without flowers, be the space large or small," says Mrs. Greenleaf Clarke, Mass., in submitting these pictures 



of her own garden 



This fairy-bloom consists of an Ageratum border with blue Salvia farinacea and Gaura in t he 

 centre. It is a charming combination, and for those who desire the unusual one that will be in- 

 teresting to try. The pictures cannot possibly do justice to these plantings 



Three packets of seeds produced this lovely profusion of August and September bloom and an 

 exquisite blending of color makes the garden a joy to passers-by. The border is made up of salmon 

 Pink, buff Drummond's Phlox, and blue Verbena — one of the loveliest summer borders ever seen 



More Opinions About Quarantine No. 37 



Quarantine No 37. — As originators and in- 

 troducers of new Iris we should perhaps consider 

 this ruling of advantage and in regard to the 

 necessity for some such restriction there is no 

 doubt in our minds; but in detail it seems unnec- 

 essarily prohibitive from one point of view and 

 from the other not sufficiently strict. Importa- 

 tion of novelties through the government bureau 

 is possible but with the remembrance of past 

 occasions (the Wilson Cherries for example) 

 attended with a great risk of delay or even com- 

 plete loss. In time, the nurserymen of the 

 United States will undoubtedly be able to make 

 up all deficiencies, but particularly after the 

 disastrous business conditions due to the war 

 it will prove "some" job and very likely fatal 

 to many small interests and it should be remem- 

 bered that in a great many lines of horticultural 

 development we are far behind our friends 

 abroad — a fact we should take advantage of 

 rather than put completely to one side. I was 

 pleased to note that the English government is 

 collecting data in regard to their exportations 

 and is apparently planning to protest our pro- 

 posed restrictions. In all, our protest is not 

 based on the fact of a large amount of restric- 

 tion but on the inequalities of the present form 

 of the proposed regulation, that in many points 

 does not seem to secure the desired results. As 

 an example take the case of the destructive corn 

 borer which has been said to have been intro- 

 duced in a shipment of hemp. — R. S. Sturtevant, 

 Glen Roads Iris Gardens. 



' We are very much interested in the discussion 

 of Quarantine No. 37. One of our trade papers 

 advises that while the members of the Fedeial 

 Horticultural Board are much exercised over 

 bringing in a little soil with plants from other 

 countries, they forget that ships are ballasted 

 with soil which is freely dumped on this side 

 without any inspection. We wonder how it 

 comes that we dare bring in bananas, pineapples, 

 Malaga grapes, etc. We wonder how any one 

 dares to pack anything in moss for shipment 

 here. And how about cocoanuts? May they 

 not be fruitful source of trouble? We have a 



vivid remembrance that the last case of foot and 

 mouth disease among cattle came past the fed- 

 eral government inspectors on imported hides, 

 and the spread of the disease cost stockmen 

 millions of dollars' loss. Maybe the government 

 can not trust its own inspectors. 



It seems to us that the theory advanced in your 

 columns that this quarantine is an exclusion act, 

 taking the place of a tariff, is very well founded. 

 We think also that the entire act is pro-German, 

 because it admits Lily-of-the-valley (which 

 comes, we believe, principally from Germany), 

 and Dutch bulbs (which come from Holland 

 — a country that certainly was not violently 

 anti-German during the war) while flatly refus- 

 ing to admit exactly similar bulbs and plants 

 which would ordinarily come from France, 

 England, and Belgium. It happens that we 

 handle Gladiolus, Dahlias, Peonies and Iris 

 very much more extensively than we do Dutch 

 bulbs. We purchase the four plants named in 

 car lots, while we handle the Dutch bulbs more 

 in wheelbarrow loads. We are not unaware 

 that America produces many very beautiful 

 varieties in all of these roots and bulbs, but 

 we are also thoroughly aware of the fact that 

 France and England have been indispensable 

 in hybridizing and introducing very wonderful 

 new things along these lines. The quarantine 

 now says to us that we must discontinue com- 

 mercially bringing in the rare new things we 

 need, while some of our competitors who han- 

 dle the Dutch bulbs more extensively are per- 

 mitted to proceed without interruption. — Chas. 

 B. Wing, President Wing Seed Co., Mechanics- 

 burg, Ohio. 



I have made quite a study of Quarantine No. 

 37 and while I have not talked personally with 

 the Federal Horticultural Board, I think I have 

 their viewpoint. Like most rulings of the kind, 

 there are good and bad points in this quarantine, 

 but I consider the ruling much too drastic. I 

 believe in taking the utmost precaution to pre- 

 vent the introduction of insect pests and fungous 

 diseases. I believe, however, that Quarantine 

 No. 37 does not do this, for the past has shown 



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that our worst pests have come in otherwise 

 than on ornamental plant material. I favor a 

 very strict inspection of material in Europe and 

 again in the United States, but it seems to me to 

 be a mistake to debar any plants which cannot 

 be produced in America or cannot be grown 

 as economically here as abroad. 



One large grower of Astilbe japonica told me 

 recently that he feared last fall he could not 

 get shipments for forcing so he took up clumps 

 he had grown in the nursery. Later he got an 

 importation of clumps, and was going to throw 

 out all the plants he had grown here during 

 summer, for they were sending out very few 

 flower spikes in comparison with the imported 

 plants. It is my opinion that Araucarias, 

 Azaleas, Bay trees, Boxwood, and Orchids cer- 

 tainly should be admitted under strict inspec- 

 tion. I do not worry as much over the importa- 

 tions of Roses so long as Rose stocks and a 

 limited number of novelties are admitted, for 

 I have confidence that our American nursery- 

 men can handle the problem; but the buying 

 public cannot expect in the future to buy two- 

 year-old plants for thirty-five or fifty cents as 

 they have in the past. 



I need not go into a lengthy discussion of the 

 quarantine, for so much has been printed that 

 repetition of thought is useless and little now 

 remains to be said. The Plant Industry Con- 

 ference at Cornell University held a long dis- 

 cussion of the subject on March 4th, and the 

 plant pathologists, entomologists, as well as 

 members of the Departments of Floriculture and 

 Landscape Art and practically all departments 

 in the College of Agriculture working with plants, 

 were of the opinion that the enforcement of 

 Quarantine No. 37 would be very detrimental 

 to American horticulture. I have written 

 Secretary Houston and members of the Federal 

 Horticultural Board that I personally believed 

 it should be modified, and have expressed the 

 same opinion for the American Rose Society 

 and the New York Federation of Horticultural 

 Societies and Floral Clubs, of which organiza- 

 tions I am secretary. — E. A. White, Cornell 

 University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



