The manner of the book is as delightful as the matter is noteworthy; 
there is not a dry or technical paragraph, yet the information 
is the fruit of real knowledge and rare insight. It is a book 
for beginners in the sense that it is not technical or difficult to 
understand but in no sense is it for beginners only. It is a book 
to own and refer to. 
In the American Florist, dsLte of September 13, igiQjis the report of 
a meeting held at Detroit on August 21st by the Society of American 
Florists at which Dr. C. L. Marlatt, Chairman of the Federal Horti- 
cultural Board, made an address on the subject of Plant Quarantine 
Ruling No. 37 — Dr. Marlatt gives as the intention of the Quarantine 
Act, the prevention of the introduction of new plant enemies into the 
United States. The application of Quarantine RuUng No. 37 which 
has to do with the exclusion of nursery stock, orchids and certain bulbs 
and roots has resulted in great hardship to the importers and nursery 
men, and will mean for the amateur gardener the loss of much of the 
material which has made our gardens beautiful. 
Congressman M. L. Davey, speaking before the National Associa- 
tion of Gardeners at Cleveland outHned a practical way to secure a 
modification of the plant exclusion ruHng. His suggestion may be read 
in full in Horticulture, date of September 20th. It is briefly, that 
Horticulturists attempt to secure a full hearing before the Agricul- 
tural Committee of the House and that each one write to his Congress- 
man insisting upon a hearing and asking him to use his influence to 
that end, — the point being that any recommendation which the 
Agricultural Committee might see fit to make would undoubtedly 
be carried out by the Federal Horticultural Board. 
The French Point oe View 
The Horticultiirists, notably those of France and England, are pro- 
foundly disturbed to learn that after June i, 1919, the United States 
intends for sanitary reasons to forbid the importation of all vegetable 
products. Such a step, if it is taken, will be infinitely prejudicial to 
legitimate interests, will set at naught long and patient effort and 
will entail disorganization and enforced idleness. 
It cannot be otherwise between nations allied and friendly, or 
truly the League of Nations would be an empty word. It is necessary 
that friendly relations be established in relatively unimportant ques- 
tions as well as in matters of the first importance. Also, there is room 
to hope that the "Conference agricole interaUiee" which meets 
periodically at Paris, under the excellent initiative of M. V. Boret will 
discuss this interesting subject. 
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