. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Dbciubbr 9, 1916. The Florists^ Review. Art of Arrangement and a Gift for Color Combination Supplemented by an Appreciation of Form. There still is a good supply of copies of the preliminary schedule on hand. Anyone interested, not in possession of a copy, should make application to the undersigned at 53 West Twenty-eighth street; New York. John Young, Sec'y. BESUBBEOnON PLAITT DUTY. The Board of Customs Appraisers has decided that resurrection plants, or moss, imported from Mexico, are ad- missible free of duty. Henry S. Beach imported some moss a
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. Dbciubbr 9, 1916. The Florists^ Review. Art of Arrangement and a Gift for Color Combination Supplemented by an Appreciation of Form. There still is a good supply of copies of the preliminary schedule on hand. Anyone interested, not in possession of a copy, should make application to the undersigned at 53 West Twenty-eighth street; New York. John Young, Sec'y. BESUBBEOnON PLAITT DUTY. The Board of Customs Appraisers has decided that resurrection plants, or moss, imported from Mexico, are ad- missible free of duty. Henry S. Beach imported some moss at El Paso, Tex., and was assessed for duty by the cus- toms collector at fifteen per cent ad valorem. He made a protest and the board sustained him in the following decision by Appraiser Waite: **The merchandise under considera- tion here is described in the invoice as sixteen bales of 'musgo,' which we understand to be the Spanish word for moss. It was imported from Mexico City into the port of El Paso. It was assessed for duty at fifteen per cent ad valorem under paragraph 211, tariff act of 1913, the last part of which para- graph provides for ' stocks, cuttings, 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 pro- vided for in this section.* The collec- tor-reports as follows: '' ' This article is regarded as a plant and classified for duty under the latter provision of paragraph 211, tariff act of 1913, following the practice of the port heretofore in classifying this article under the tariff acts of 1909 and 1897, the provision referred to being the same in the several tariff acts.' "It is claimed to be free of duty under paragraph 552 as a moss. "Mr. Sharp, the examiner of the port of El Paso, was called, identified the sample which is before us, and stated that this article had been classified as here classified for th
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