THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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ENDORSEMENT OF The Federal Horticultural Board 
QUARANTINE 37 has distributed a record of the 
Endorsement of Quarantine 37. 
The record consists of 42 typewritten pages quoting 
endorsement hy States and State Officials. 
Societies and associations or officials thereof, individ¬ 
ual nurserymen, florists and others and report of special 
jury appointed hy the Secretary of Agricultural in re¬ 
lation to the Conference of May 15th. 
The Federal Horticultural Board presents a pretty 
strong case. 
Unless those opposed to the Quarantine are much 
more numerous and better coordinated than has so far 
been in evidence, the Board is due to have its powers in¬ 
creased rather than restricted. 
REPORT OF THE STAND- It would be difficult to 
ARDIZATION COMMITTEE name an effort of the 
American Association of 
Nurserymen that means more for the good of the nur¬ 
sery trade than the publishing of the Preliminary Re¬ 
port of Committee on Standardization of Horticultural 
Trade Practice. 
It has crystalized the efforts, opinions and customs 
of the trade into definite concrete statements in a form 
fo be acted upon. 
The personnel of this committee, Harlan P. Kelsey, 
Chairman; John Dayton, John Fraser, Charles J. Malory 
and E. S. Welch is a guarantee that its resolutions are 
practical and very much needed. 
It is our suggestion that every nurseryman should 
keep one of these “Pink Reports” upon his desk, noting 
in it from time to time constructive suggestions that 
come to him when running his business, so as to be 
ready to act on the work of this committee when the 
time comes. 
The work of this committee calls for the fullest co¬ 
operation so as to get those measures that have been so 
long talked about in active operation. 
Standardization will save so much in time, money and 
effort. 
We all growl when tinkering our tliver, because nuts, 
bolts, etc., are not standardized and can plainly see the 
immense saving to all concerned if they were. 
The lack of it in our own business is just as great and 
calls loudly for action. 
AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL PROGRESS 
The Florist Exchange will not allow us to be just 
ripe. We must be either green or rotten, according to its 
issue of July 22. 
To prove their stand they quote the old story about the 
had egg. Rather a poor illustration and not very con¬ 
vincing, whether applied to Quarantine 37, the Federal 
Horticultural Board, the National Nurseryman or the par¬ 
ticular opinion we attempted to express. 
Any or all of the above could be bad in spots without 
being bad all through, like the egg, if we could only find 
the infallible evidence to prove it. 
American horticultural progress according to the Ex¬ 
change depends entirely on the elimination of Quaran¬ 
tine 37 and incidentally the Federal Horticultural Board. 
If the Florists’ Exchange had left off the word Ameri¬ 
can and merely written Horticultural Progress, we could 
better understand its contentions. 
We agree with the Exchange that Quarantine 37 is 
likely to retard horticultural progress when we look on 
horticulture as something apart from national boundary 
lines. 
But as regards American horticultural progress, well, 
we have an open mind as to whether Quarantine 37 will 
foster it or otherwise. 
We feel very humble after reading the figures quoted 
by the Exchange from the 14th census, showing the 
total year’s receipts of the nursery trade were only $20,- 
434,389 as compared with those of the florists’ trade, 
which had a total of $61,892,352, over three times as 
much. 
That the nursery trade is the basic industry of the fruit 
industry and others with their huge totals was evidently 
overlooked. 
It is not wise, however, to quote figures because the 
Federal Horticultural Board has some “humdingers” on 
file to use on poor defenceless horticulturists. It will 
show where one single naughty little bug out of the many 
introduced from foreign countries on nursery or perhaps 
florists’ stock, does more damage and annually causes a 
financial loss to the country many times greater than 
the total receipts of the florists’ trade. 
In our humble opinion protests against Quarantine 37 
from commercial horticulturists can hardly fail, but have 
the appearance of a selfish bias and the Federal Horti¬ 
cultural Board does not fail to try and show it up. 
The protest which rang true at the Plant Conference 
was that made by Mr. J. Horace McFarlane on behalf 
of the Garden Club of America and other plant lovers, 
the balance clinked like dollars. 
Even Mr. W. G. Lobjoit, Great Britain Controller of 
Horticulture, intimated the quarantine might result in a 
loss of trade brought about by retaliatory public senti¬ 
ment. 
His was a masterly presentation of the whole subject 
both from a pathalogical and economic point of view, but 
we have not the least doubt that he had British horticul¬ 
ture in mind and was thinking of the effect Quarantine 
37 would have on that, rather than American horticul¬ 
ture ,or even horticultural progress, without it being con¬ 
nected with any particular country. 
We have gotten over our irritation at failing to express 
ourselves on the Plant Conference to the satisfaction of 
the Florists’ Exchange, but the tears won’t come when 
trying to weep over the lack of progress in American 
Horticulture, for even though appearances are against 
us, we have American horticultural progress at heart. 
A duty of one cent per pound has been proposed on 
jute in the pending tariff hill. 
This, of course, will be added to the cost of the burlap 
which is made of it. 
Burlap is likely to be higher in price. 
