THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
183 
Xlhc tariff 
DRAFT OF PROPOSED TARIFF BILL NOW BEFORE 
CONGRESS AS IT AFFECTS HORTICULTURAL 
PRODUCTS 
Schedule G Section 219 reads: “Orchids, palms, azaleas, 
and all other decorative or greenhouse plants and cut 
flowers, preserved or fresh, 25 per centum advalorum; lily 
of the valley pips, tulips, narcissus, bignonia and gloxinia 
bulbs, $i per thousand; hyacinth, astilbe, dielytra and 
lily of the valley clumps, $2.50 per thousand; lily bulbs 
and calla bulbs, $5 per thousand; paeony. Iris Ka:mpferi or 
Germanica, canna, dahlia, and 
amaryllis bulbs, Sio per thous¬ 
and; all other bulbs, bulbous 
roots or corms which are culti¬ 
vated for their flowers or foliage, 
50 cents per thousand.” 
Schedule G, Section220reads: 
“Stocks, cuttings or seedlings 
of Myrobolan plum, Mahaleb or 
Mazzard cherry, Manetti, Mul¬ 
tiflora and briar rose, three years 
old or less, $i per thousand 
plants; stocks, cuttings or seed¬ 
lings of pear, apple, quince and 
the Saint Julien plum, three 
years old or less, $i per thous¬ 
and plants; rose plants, budded 
grafted or grown on their own 
roots, 4 cents each; stocks, cut¬ 
tings and seedlings of all fruit 
and ornamental trees, deciduous 
and evergreen shrubs and vines, 
and all trees, shrubs, plants and 
vines commonly known as nursery or greenhouse stock, not 
specially provided for in this section 15 per centum adva- 
lonun.” 
Schedule G, Section 221 reads: “Seeds: Castor beans 
or seeds, 20 cents per bushel of fifty pounds, flaxseed or lin¬ 
seed and other oil seeds not specially provided for in this 
section, 20 cents per bushel of fifty-six pounds, poppy seed, 
15 cents per bushel of forty-seven pounds, mushroom spawns 
and spinach seed, i cent per poimd, canary seed }4 cent per 
pound; caraway seed, i cent per pound; anise seed, 2 cent, 
per pound; beet (except sugar beet), carrot, com salad, 
parsley, parsnip, radish, turnip, and mtabaga seed, 3 cents 
per pound, cabbage, collard, kale, and kohl-rabi seed, 6 cents 
per pound, egg plant and pepper seed, 10 cents per pound; 
seeds of all kinds not specially provided for in this section, 
15 per centum advalorum. Provided, that no allowance shall 
be made for dirt or other impurities in seeds provided for in 
this paragraph. 
Section 561 reads: ‘ ‘Myrobolans, ’ ’ 
FREE LIST 
Section 602 reads: “Seeds, Cardamon, cauliflower, 
celery, coriander, cotton, cummin, fennel, fenugreek, hemp. 
hoarhound, mangelwurzel, mustard, rape. Saint John’s 
bread or bean, sorghum, sugar beet, and sugar cane for 
seed, bulbs and bulbous roots, not edible and not other¬ 
wise provided for in this section, all flower and grass seeds; 
evergreen seedlings; all the foregoing not specially pro¬ 
vided for in this section. 
Editor National Nurseryman: 
You probably have read the draft of the proposed new 
Tariff which, in general, embodies the wishes of the Horticul¬ 
tural trade; you will see though that it contains practically 
the same mistakes in classification as the Payne-Aldrich Tariff 
which took three years and more to rectify. Whatever duty 
_ is assessed, we want it to be 
definite and the same to all 
importers. 
I enclose copy of letter I am 
mailing today to the Ways and 
Means Committee and if it voices 
your views, I .suggest that you 
give it the fullest publicity you 
can with the object of having 
the new Tariff clear and specific 
and not an incentive to fraud 
and litigation. 
Yours truly, 
fj. McHutchison. 
By courtesy of 
Philadelphia Record 
Agricullural 
By D** M*r 
Nursery Stock” on the Free List 
Hon. Oscar W. Underwood, 
Chairman of Ways and Means 
Committee, 
Washington, D. C. 
Dear Sir: 
Sections 219 and 220 of 
Schedule G in the new Tariff bill covers horticultural pro¬ 
ducts such as bulbs, plants and trees. In these articles 
accuracy of classification and definition^is of vastly more 
importance than the rate of duty, because the rate of duty 
depends altogether upon the definition of the items. 
The last Tariff contained many mistakes, which involved 
much expense to the importers in having the Board of 
Appraisers pass upon disputed points. Unless some changes 
are made in the wording of the two paragraphs mentioned 
above, we will have the same trouble over again, as the new 
Tariff makes exactly the same mistakes. 
In the new Tariff the same items carry different rates of 
duty, items are classified incorrectly, we refer in particular to 
the following: 
Section 219 rates “Orchids, Palms, Azaleas and all other 
decorative or greenhouse plants 25% advalorum.” Section 
220 rates “all Fruit or Ornamental trees, deciduous and ever¬ 
green shrubs and vines commonly known as Nursery or 
greenhouse stock 15% advalorum.” This makes the same 
items 15% and 27% advalorum. Greenhouse plants and 
greenhouse stock are the same. 
The word “Azaleas” is too vague, probably Azalea Indica 
is intended but it is grown in greenhouses in winter only, all 
