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1st. All inspection certificates in the United States should expire on 

 the same date, probably September 30th. 



2d. License fees, for nurseries both within and without the State, 

 should be eliminated. License fees greatly increase the 

 number of clandestine and illegal nurseries. To charge a 

 higher fee to ex-state nurseries than to state nurseries is 

 unjust and discriminatory. 



3d. Fumigation requirements as to plants required to be fumigated, 

 dosage, and time of exposure should be the same in all states. 



4th. The question should be settled as to whether anything less than 

 an inspection of every plant in a nursery will suffice for the 

 issuance of a certificate. (We think it should not.) 



5th. A list of plants that must be dipped should be agreed upon by 

 all states, and the strength of the dip and the manner of 

 dipping should be specified. 



6th. All states should require a valid and unaltered certificate of 

 inspection of uniform size and appearance attached conspicu- 

 ously to the outside of each box or other container of nursery 

 stock. To have such certificates uniform in size and appear- 

 ance will enable the transportation agents to co-operate. 

 Certificates of all sizes and wording, etc., make easy the 

 counterfeiting of certificates. The Florida tag has proved 

 satisfactory. It is printed on a No. 8 raw hide tag with a 

 brass eyelet. The certificate is at the top ; the space for the 

 address is in the middle and the return address and shipping 

 instructions of the nurseryman are at the bottom. Writing 

 the name of the addressee or consignee on the tag is required. 

 This cancels the tag and prevents its illegal re-use. We 

 believe that the writing of the consignee's name on the 

 certificate tag should be a uniform requirement. 



7th. If any other marking is required on the package it should be the 

 same throughout the states. 



8th. Each state should make the same requirements of out of state 

 nurseries that wish to do business within the state. It doesn't 

 matter so much to the nurserym_an what he has to do, pro- 

 vided the requirements are the same in all states. 



9th. Quarantines should be standardized and should follow as closely 

 as practicable those of the Federal Horticultural Board. 



10th. Nurserymen should be required to purchase their certificate tags 

 from their State Nursery Inspector. Each tag should bear 

 a different number and the nurserymen should be required to 

 account for each tag received by filing with the Inspector a 



