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Gardeners and Florists’ Annual for 1918 
No quarantine or other radical action is likely to be taken without 
proper consultation with the nursery interests. “ 
The fight in regard to the Western quarantine law on White Pine 
blister rust was reported as disappointing, but there was a hope that it 
may be amended. It was tliought possible before next shipping season 
to remove some of the existing State quarantine orders. 
The transportation committee reported the increase of 15 per cent, 
advance demanded by carriers or shippers; said advance on top of the 
5 per cent., and the change in the classification (about 17 per cent.), 
making a total of 37 per cent., strikes the nurserymen, especially those 
in official classification territory, as being more than they can stand. 
The carriers claim that nursery stock is a perishable product and not 
entitled to the low rate that prevailed prior to the change in the classifi- 
cation. Should the 15 per cent, be allowed we will state that the rate 
on a minimum car of nursery stock from New York to the Mississippi 
River, about 1000 miles, will be $80, and from St. Louis to Texas points, 
average about 1000 miles, it will be $128.80. 
The committee mentioned that the Southern railroads are endeavor- 
ing to substitute the Southern classification for the larger classification, 
which would increase the rates from 50 per cent, to 240 per cent. Some 
Western nurserymen desired the railroads to allow Strawberry plants 
to be shipped in the same boxes or bundles with trees. It was thought 
this was not practicable. 
American Carnation Society 
The twenty-sixth annual convention and exhibition was held in the 
Claypool Hotel, Indianapolis, Ind., on Wednesday, Jan. 31, and Thurs- 
day, Feb. 1, 1917, President J. F. Ammann presiding. 
The officers elected for 1918 were: President, W. J. Vesey, Jr., 
Fort Wayne, Ind.; vice-president, Chas. S. Strout, Biddeford, Me.; 
secretary, A. F. J. Baur, Indianapolis; treasurer, F. E. Dorner, La 
Fayette, Ind. Boston was chosen as the next place of meeting. 
The convention was very largely attended by growers from Chi- 
cago and further west, St. Louis, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, 
Buffalo, Boston, New York and other places. The show was a good one. 
Among the chief prize winners were Cottage Gardens Co., Queens, 
L. L; F. Dorner & Sons Co., La Fayette, Ind.; J. D. Thompson Carna- 
tion Co., Joliet, 111.; Baur & Steinkamp, Indianapolis; Bassett & Wash- 
burn, Chicago; S. J. Goddard, Framingham, Mass.; W. Frank & Sons; 
Portland, Ind.; Chas. Strout, Biddeford, Me.; Gullett & Sons, Lincoln, 
Neb.; Hartje & Elder, Indianapolis. 
Baur & Steinkamp won a silver medal for the best vase of 100 
blooms of any variety with their Mehky Christmas, scarlet; and Cot- 
tage Gardens Co. won the bronze medal with Cottage Maid. There were 
no awards made' for undisseininated varieties of American origin. The 
Dorner Co. won the Dorner Memorial Medal with Laddie, light pink. 
In the competition for the Dorner medal for 1918, Baur & Stein- 
kamp were awarded a preliminary certificate for Seedling 414, rich 
pink; and to Nic Zweifel with Edna, scarlet. Certificate of merit was 
awarded to W. D. Howard, Milford, Conn., for Bernice, crimson, scor- 
ing 85 points, and to Nic Zweifel with Edna, scoring 86 points. 
