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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
NEW NURSERY EIRM 
The McBeth Nursery Co. was incorporated at Spring- 
field, Ohio on January 10, 1922, for the purpose of pro¬ 
pagating and growing a general line of ornamental nur¬ 
sery stock. Mr. Thomas A. McBeth is president of the 
new firm. 
Heretofore Mr. McBeth has propagated and sold root¬ 
ed cuttings. It is the intention of The McBeth Nursery 
Go. to produce lining out stock and finished plants. 
Floyd If. Mick, who is a landscape architect of prom¬ 
inence in Springfield, Ohio, is vice-president. James C. 
Netts, a rose grower also of Springfield, is secretary and 
treasurer. 
The company’s office and propagating houses are lo¬ 
cated at 2678 E. High St., Springfield. Ohio. 
MAIL ENTRY OF IMPORTS UNDER REGULATION 
14, QUARANTINE 37, HEREAFTER PERMITTED. 
The importation by mail of plants and seeds for pro¬ 
pagation, except field, vegetable and flower seeds, and 
importations made by the Department of Agriculture, is 
prohibited. (See U S. Official Postal Guide, July, 1921, 
page 138. Section 180.) Inasmuch as importations made 
by special permit under Regulation 14, Quarantine 37, 
must necessarily be addressed to the Federal Horticul¬ 
tural Board either at Washington, D. C., or at the Ferry 
Building, San Francisco, Calif., and pass through the 
inspection offices of the Board at these points and be in¬ 
spected and safeguarded by the agents of the Board, it 
is believed to be safe and desirable to extend the priv¬ 
ilege of importation through the mails to such ship¬ 
ments. 
In accordance with this decision, permission for the 
importation through the mails of special permit material 
under Regulation 14 will hereafter be authorized on re¬ 
quest, when warranted by the nature and amount of the 
proposed shipment. Such authority, if approved, will be 
indicated on the permit, and tags for such mail ship¬ 
ments will be furnished. These tags will be addressed 
to the United States Department of Agriculture, Federal 
Horticultural Board, either Washington, D. C., or Ferry 
Building, San Francisco, Calif., and will carry the per¬ 
mit number and name and address of the importer, and 
when attached to the package will authorize the foreign 
postmaster to accept it for shipment. By special arrange¬ 
ment with the United States Post Office Department, 
such mail shipments, after inspection, may be forward¬ 
ed to the importer without payment of additional post¬ 
age. The entry requirements in the case of mail ship¬ 
ments are somewhat simplified. By arrangement with 
the customs service such shipments are permitted to 
come in bond directly to the Department of Agriculture 
either at the Washington or San Francisco offices of the 
Board, obviating any brokerage service for forwarding 
from port of first arrival. The importer will have to pro¬ 
vide merely for customs clearance either at Washington 
or San Francisco. 
It should be distinctly understood that mail shipment 
of plants and seeds for propagation is strictly limited to 
special permit material under Regulation 14, and to 
field, vegetable and flower seeds under Regulation 2. 
and is prohibited as to commercial or other entry under 
Regulations 3 and 15 of Quarantine 37. 
C. L. MARLATT, 
Chairman of Board. 
MASSACHUSETTS NURSERYMEN’S ASSOCIATION 
The annual meeting of the Nurserymen’s Association 
was held January 17, in Horticultural Hall, at Boston. 
Among the things discussed was daylight saving, of 
which opinion was evenly divided for and against. 
Freight and express rates were also discussed and agi¬ 
tation looking to the reduction of express rates was 
strongly endorsed. 
Christian Van der Voet, superintendent of the Arnold 
Arboretum, treated the subject of “Pruning” from a 
practical, scientific and economic standpoint. He cov¬ 
ered all the phases and operations connected with the 
pruning of nursery stock. The lecturer demonstrated 
the points and principles which he wanted to bring out 
with the aid of suitable material from the nursery, field, 
garden and orchard. 
A Plant Committee was appointed to report to the asso¬ 
ciation any new and meritorious plants deserving of 
recognition. An Equity and a Legislative Committee 
were also appointed. 
The committee on the Nursery College Course reported 
the progress that had been made in establishing the ten 
weeks’ course at Amherst College. 
The following officers were elected: President, S. A. 
Robinson; vice president, R. M. Wyman; secretary and 
treasurer, Winthrop II. Thurlow. 
QUESTION AND ANSWER COLUMN 
Will you please give us some information on Rose 
Japonica multiflora, color, time of blooming, etc. It will 
be very much appreciated. 
R. F. G. 
Rosa multiflora is a natve of China and Japan. It is 
a vigorous growing plant, making long climbing or re¬ 
curving branches. The leaflets are usually nine in num¬ 
ber. The flowers are single and white and produced in 
large corymbs or panicles. The hips or fruit of course 
comes in clusters, the individual hips being globular in 
shape. 
It is used quite freely as an ornamental plant by land¬ 
scape gardeners but its chief interest and value to the 
nurseryman is its value as a stock, some rose growers 
using it very freely for grafting and budding upon. It 
has also been of great interest to the hybridizers. 
Kindly inform us if you can. where we can secure 
graft wrapping machine. Seems as though firms manu¬ 
facturing nursery tools do not believe in advertising. 
Thanking you, we remain, 
Yours truly, 
T. N. 
Will some reader kindly advise where such machines 
can be procured so that we may advise our correspond¬ 
ent? — Editor. 
