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much as those whifli are specific aud comprehensive in their declarations and, 

 furthermore, are above criticism on the charge of misrepresentation in any respect. 



The following noteworthy suggestions have been received by the committee in 

 connection with the questioii sheets sent out for information : 



Mr. H. M. Williamson, secretary of the State Board of Horticulture of Oregon, 

 recommends as a solution of the problems concerning interstate shipments of 

 plants, that all such shipments should be inspected by agents of the Federal 

 Government. Dr. E. W. Berger of Florida suggests that the Federal Horticultural 

 Board be given power to regulate interstate shipments of plants, especially with 

 the view to providing for complete information concerning the pests found in each 

 nursery making interstate shijjments, such information to be placed in the hands 

 of the inspection official in charge in each state. Professor Summers of Iowa 

 and Professor O'Kane of New Hampshire express the sentiment that the matter 

 of uniformity of wording is of comparative little importance, that it is the stand- 

 ardization of meaning and of value which is needed. Professor Sanders of Wis- 

 consin recommends the license system used in his state as of value incidentally 

 in eliminating dishonest dealers and he recommends the plan of including the 

 acreage in each case as a part of the license, stating that this prevents much 

 misrepresentation. The inspection officials of Montana, Idaho, Maryland and 

 Arizona endorse the plan of inspecting everything at the time the stock is dug or 

 packed for shipment. Professor Symons of Maryland calls attention to the fact 

 that San Jose scale is not nearly as bad a pest from the average commercial 

 orchardist 's standpoint as is crown gall, yet the former is nuich more carefully 

 guarded against by our state inspection work. Professor Haseman of Missouri 

 suggests that each state inspector draw up a list of insects ' ' which he considers 

 of sufficient importance in his particular state to justify' the quarantining of 

 nursery stock infested with them, ' ' such lists to be published, or exchanged with 

 other state inspectors. 



The following states inspect incoming shipments of nursery stock after their 

 arrival in the state: — Arizona, California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Montana, 

 Idaho, New York, Oregon, Washington, Utah aud Texas. In this connection the 

 following comments by Mr. T. O. Morrison, deputy commissioner of Horticulture 

 in Oregon are of interest : "I would like to see a uniform method or system of 

 inspecting nursery trees throughout the United States. Many of the shipments 

 that come to our state bearing a printed certificate of inspection from a state 

 entomologist in the Middle West or East show that the stock of a nursery con- 

 sisting of several hundreds of acres was inspected on a certain day in August, 

 etc. Such a certificate is absolutely worthless and moreover is misleading. We 

 accept such a certificate as meaning that the inspector casually walked through 

 such and such a nursery on a summer day. I say this because we find any amount 

 of infection under such a certificate. A uniform system of inspection it seems 

 would make the inspection certificate of more dependable value." 



After careful consideration of the large amount of information ami suggestions 

 furnished by the state inspection officials and of the available information and 

 data in published reports concerning the inspection of nursery stock shipments at 

 destination, all bearing upon the actual value of inspection certificates, we beg to 

 offer the following recommendations : 



1. We recommend that the section of Horticultural Inspectors officially endorse 

 the system of each state providing for the inspection of all nursery stock shipments 

 from the states after its arrival within the state to which it is consigned. 



2. Since it will undoubtedly be many years before such a system will be adopted 



