Notes 
The Committee on Horticultural Quarantine has decided that 
for the present it is useless to continue any active work. 
The question of the legality of the attitude of the Federal Quarantine 
Horticultural Board in their enforcement of Quarantine 37 has Committee 
been decided in favor of the Board by the Solicitor of the De- 
partment. 
The only encouraging features of the situation are : that 
there has been a modification of the requirements which permit 
now the importation of certain Rhododendron and Azalea stocks, 
though these are rendered practically useless by the stupid 
insistence that they must come with all the soil washed from their 
roots. There has also been permission established for the 
importation of certain plants by mail. It is almost certain that 
material modifications in the bulb exclusions will occur. 
Let us hope that in time we will have still more good news 
to give out. 
For once the Treasurer has a good piece of news to give to Treasurer's 
the readers of the Bulletin. The response to the appeal made Report 
by the Finance Committee to cover the budget for the coming 
year has been most generous, and we need have no fear about 
being able to pay our rent or carry on our work as it should be 
done. I have received $7,271.50 up to elate. In this amount 
forty-nine Clubs are represented. The following list may be 
interesting as indicating the popularity of the $10 subscriptions : 
22 $100 contributions. 
18 $ 50 contributions. 
68 $ 25 contributions. 
116 $ 10 contributions. 
89 $ 5 contributions. 
3 $ 1 contributions. 
1 $ 30 contribution. 
1 $ 20 contribution. 
1 $500 Club Contribution. 
2 $100 Club Contributions 
1 : $113.50 Club Contribution. 
322 
$7,271.50 
Rosalie C. Rand, Treasurer. 
Mrs. Charles H. Stout has completed arrangements with 
Stewart and Fisher, 40 Elmhurst Avenue, Trenton, N. J., where- 
by they have taken over all her Dahlias for next spring's sales 
and delivery, and also her new introductions for 1924, — White 
Sister and Maida, — both medalists. The proceeds from the sale 
of her Dahlias goes to the Clarke School at Northampton, Mass. 
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Mrs. Stout 
Dahlias 
