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the efforts of the horticultural inspector were directed primarily toward 

 the salvation of horticulture. With dangerous pests threatening, the 

 old days of a discordant attitude on the part of the nurser5anen, we are 

 glad to say, has in most instances changed to a satisfactory cooperation, 

 and even in the instance of the more advanced type of nurserymen, a 

 ready welcome, and even an invitation to visit the nursery stands at all 

 times. 



It is to the everlasting honor and credit of the American Association 

 of Nurser^tnen that definite and organized steps are being taken by that 

 body to purge itself of those nurserymen who have proven unworthy of 

 membership in that body. If the activities of their vigilance committee 

 can be judged as a criterion of their endeavors, the future holds forth 

 bright promise of a distinctly elevated group of horticulturists in this 

 national body. How desirable would have been such action a decade 

 ago, but as Tennyson once said, "Science moves on slowly from point 

 to point," so it seems that only by gradual degrees are we able to advance 

 to better things. We should not be deceived, however, that all nursery- 

 men have had a change of heart with respect to the inspection service of 

 the states and Federal Government, because we may expect, as in any 

 other line of effort the personal equation of mediocrity to appear nnd to 

 offset a certain portion of the good intentions of the higher minded. 



State Cooperation 



The horticultural inspection service at large deals with a problem 

 which extends beyond the inspector's own realm, and his work at once 

 becomes either a help or a hindrance to another in this line. It seems 

 that at no time in our horticultural history is there greater need than at 

 the present, for a closer cooperation of effort on the part of state officials 

 among themselves, and with the Federal Governm_ent, for the protection 

 of horticulture and agriculture. Agitation in various lines of inspec- 

 tion service toward closer uniformity in state laws governing materials 

 which must pass eventually into interstate commerce, is becoming more 

 and more general and mandatory, in order to insure the optimimi 

 conditions for interstate movement of such materials. This applies 

 to the inspection of seeds, feeding stuffs and fertilizers, insecticides and 

 fungicides, and materials of other types used for agricultural purposes, 

 and produced by agriculture. 



Several years ago a bill was drafted, covering practically all the phases 

 of horticultural inspection which might be concerned in state inspections. 

 This bill was approved by the National Association of Nurserymen, and 

 by this organization, with the hope that the bill might be used as a model, 

 and adopted wholly, or in part, in so far as local conditions permitted. 



