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districts as they can. They seek the very best land in such places with 

 no other purpose than to grow the best of stock and satisfy tlie demands 

 of their own conscience and their customers, to supply high grade stock. 



These are facts which can not be controverted. Why is it then that 

 a nurseryman's stock is held up and whole carloads condemned because 

 a few trees may be found to be diseased ? Travel from one end of this 

 State to the other and there is not a single locality in which fruit grow- 

 ing is carried on in which pests and diseases will not be found. I do 

 not think any horticultural commissioner wilfully wants to ruin the 

 business of any nurseryman, but this is what he does when he gives 

 ncM^spaper publicity to the fact that he has found certain pests on a 

 shipment of nursery stock, and even goes so far as to prohibit the ship- 

 ment of other classes of stock which have never been known to be 

 attacked by this pest. 



The horticultural commissioners and nurserymen should Avork in 

 harmony to hold pests in check, for it is only by following some such 

 plan as this that the nurseries of California can continue to remain in 

 business. There is not a nursery of any consequence that has not pests 

 and diseases to contend with, and if every intelligent effort is being 

 made to hold these diseases in check, drastic ordinances aimed prin- 

 cipally at the nurser}'- interests should not be enforced without very 

 careful consideration. A continuance of the course which is noAv being 

 followed throughout the State will result ultimately in the extermina- 

 tion of the nursery business entirely, which to-day bears a very impor- 

 tant part in the upbuilding of our horticultural interests. 



A few words relative to interstate shipments : California is fencing 

 herself in against the shipment of all classes of nursery stock from a 

 group of the southern states on account of the white fly, and now 

 Arizona takes a step in the same direction by prohibiting entry of citrus 

 trees and grapevines from California except from certain counties and 

 districts which are supposedly free from the pests mentioned in the 

 quarantine order. Apparently no thought is given to the nurserymen 

 who may have stock growing in these districts. With the stroke of a 

 pen, they are peremptorily prevented from carrying on their business, 

 hecause their nurseries happen to be within the restricted area. 



Why should we be singled out? Why does not the State Commis- 

 sioner of Arizona prohibit the shipment of California fruit into Arizona 

 except from the favored counties, giving as one of his reasons for this 

 drastic and unreasonable law that Arizona had sufficieiit frnit of its 

 own to meet its demands and did not need the California product? 

 This is the argument he uses against our citrus nursery stock. Why 

 does our State Commissioner of Horticulture make this law so sweeping 

 in its effect against all classas of nursery stock which the white fly does 

 not attack, when there is just as much possibility of the white fly being 

 introduced in some other articles of commerce as there is on certain 

 classes of nursery stock which the white fly does not attack ? 



Is it any wonder that nurserymen are driven to exasperation and are 



