AMONG OUR GARDEN NEIGHBORS 
EVERY GARDEN MEASES A HOME 
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T HE ACTUAL working out of the order of the Federal 
Horticultural Board, familiarly known among gar- 
deners as Quarantine No. 37, is having its effects 
on our gardens generally. Many a plant hitherto 
popular and quite familiar has not been available in 
quantity this season, and the practical impossibility of getting 
many of these things in the ordinary channel of commerce, 
either now or in the immediate future, has brought home to 
many who were more or less indifferent the far reaching influ- 
ence of this order. The real sufferer is the true amateur who 
grows plants for their intrinsic interest and beauty; and the 
effect of Quarantine No. 37 in excluding so many of these garden 
favorites has brought a rude awakening to a great many people. 
Unfortunately the experience of the present season is only a 
taste of what may be yet to come, unless some better and 
more practical interpretation of the measure be brought into 
operation. But the present is not the time to split hairs over a 
discussion as to why the Scilla is excluded and the Hyacinth 
admitted, notwithstanding that the botanists may not be fully 
decided, in the case of a few individuals, as to what is one and 
what is the other. Nor must personal feeling and personal gain 
be allowed to intrude into the discussion and consideration of 
the future application of the order. Rather must we look on 
the question broadly and with a view to the interest of the 
horticulture of the entire United States. 
On June 15th there met in the Museum of Natural History, 
New York, a group of delegates from various horticultural or- 
ganizations, some fifty in all, representing ornamental horti- 
culture, trade societies, the leading amateur horticultural or- 
ganizations, garden clubs, private individuals and so on, for the 
purpose of calmly discussing the effects of the Quarantine as 
now interpreted and administered by the responsible authorities; 
and to consider in as broad a way as possible the real intent and 
proper application of the act under which it exists. 
The conference was originally conceived by the Horticultural 
Societies of Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania, and 
with Mr. T. A. Havemeyer as temporary chairman, New York 
Horticultural Society, and W. P. Rich as Secretary, Massa- 
chusetts Horticultural Society, the proceedings were opened. 
Mr. J. Horace McFarland was elected as permanent Chairman 
and the organization was completed by the formation of a per- 
manent committee as follows: 
E. C. Vick, representing American Dahlia Society. 
I. S. Hendrickson, representing the American Gladiolus 
Society. 
S. S. Pennock, American Rose Society. 
F. R. Newbold, Garden Club of America. 
Mrs. Thomas Newhall, Garden Club of Philadelphia. 
J. K. M. L. Farquhar, Gardeners’ and Florists’ Club of Boston. 
T. A. Havemeyer, Horticultural Society of New York. 
Wm. C. Endicott, Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 
Martin C. Ebel, National Gardeners’ Association. 
Miss Hoyt, New Canaan (Conn.) Garden Club. 
Fred. A. Dawson, representing Olmsted Bros., Boston. 
F. R. Pierson, New York Federation of Horticultural Socie- 
ties and Floral Clubs, and also the Society of American 
Florists. 
J. A. Manda, New York Florists’ Club. 
F. K. Thomas, Rhode Island Horticultural Society. 
Frederick Cranefield, Wisconsin Horticultural Society. 
Mrs. Francis King, Women’s National Farm and Garden 
Association. 
F. W. Kelsey, American Forestry Association. 
Mrs. Peckham, New Rochelle (N. Y.) Garden Club. 
Richard Vincent, Jr., Baltimore Florists’ Club. 
Miss Bell, Flushing (N. Y.) Garden Club. 
Leonard H. Vaughan, Horticultural Society of Chicago. 
Mrs. Pendleton, Cincinnati Garden Club. 
Mr. Vaniseck, Newport Horticultural Society. 
John C. Wister, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. 
Mr. Olmsted, American Society of Landscape Architects. 
J. Edward Moon, American Association of Nurserymen. 
Leonard Barron, Garden Magazine, New York. 
A. T. De LaMare, The Florists’ Exchange, New York. 
I N THE course of the proceedings Mr. A. C. Burrage (Mass.) 
spoke and an address was read from Prof. C. S. Sargent, 
Arnold Arboretum. The latter pointed out that after the 40 years 
of work of the Arboretum in carrying on explorations and impor- 
tations of new plants from all parts of the world, the effect of 
Quarantine No. 37 was absolutely to call a halt to any future 
explorations and work of that institution in introducing new 
plants notwithstanding the increasing knowledge of available 
plant material for cultivation in this country. 
It is worth noting in passing that, in all this time and in hand- 
ling a greater amount of new material from unknown places than 
any other individual or organization in the country, the Arbor- 
etum has never in one single instance been accused, or even sus- 
pected, of introducing an injurious insect or a destructive disease! 
The feeling of the conference was plainly that such steps as 
may be necessary to exclude injurious insects and destructive 
diseases be supported; but it was urged that a system of in- 
spection at various ports of entry could be maintained to ac- 
complish this, and that the present method of shipping every- 
thing to Washington and thence to its destination was imprac- 
tical and destructive of the business. Mr. John C. Wister, 
speaking on behalf of the Pennsylvania Society, presented in 
concise form five grounds on which that organization finds fault 
with the present conditions; and these are here given as a gen- 
eral summary of the feeling of the delegates in attendance. 
First it can find no proof of the necessity for a general quar- 
antine; second, it resents the assumption that plant pests do not 
reach this country on other materials than horticultural prod- 
ucts, which materials should, therefore logically be barred; 
third, it objects to the arbitrary, inconsistent rulings of the 
F. H. B. in carrying out Qu. 37 regulations; 4th, it favors an 
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