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A PROTEST AGAINST THE HORTICULTURAL IMPORT 



PROHIBITION 



A recent ruling of the Federal Horticultural Board at Wash- 

 ington prohibits, after June 1, 1919, the importation of all plants 

 and bulbs in which the owner of every flower garden is interested, 

 excepting the following few items: Lily bulbs, Lily of the Valley, 

 Hyacinths, Tulips, Narcissus and Crocus — absolutely nothing else 

 in the line of bulbs may come in from any foreign country. 



Fruit-tree stocks, seedlings, cuttings and scions of fruit trees 

 we may import, and Manetti, Multiflora and Rugosa Rose stocks 

 for budding or grafting but absolutely nothing else in the way of 

 plants 



Do you realize how radical and far-reaching this embargo is, 

 and how seriously it will affect the beauty of our gardens? 



There will be no Azaleas, Rhododendrons, Spireas, Araucar- 

 ias, Dracaenas or Boxwoods. Orchids will be only a memory, 

 and there will be missing from our gardens, hundreds of other 

 varieties of plants and flowers for which, heretofore, we have de- 

 pended upon European sources. 



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