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Second Session 



The second session of this Section was called to order in Teachers' 

 College, at 2.15 p. m., Friday, by Dr. W. E. Britton, who was elected 

 chairman -pro tern., in the absence of Prof. W. J. Schoene. After a 

 short business session Prof. G. M. Bentley, Knoxville, Tenn., was 

 elected chairman for 1917, and Prof. J. G. Sanders, Harrisburg, Pa., 

 was reelected secretary. By official action the name of the body was 

 changed from the original title— ''The American Association of Official 

 Horticultural Inspectors"; and the title, "Section of Horticultural 

 Inspection" of the American Association of Economic Entomologists 

 was adopted for future use. 



Third Session 



The third session of this Section was held in the American Museum 

 of Natural History on Friday, December 29, at 8 p. m. This meeting 

 was a radical departure from anything previously held, in that it was 

 turned over to the representatives of the National Nurserymen's 

 Association present at the meeting, 



Mr. William Pitkin, of Rochester, N. Y., opened the meeting with 

 a short resume of the remarkable and happy advances which have 

 been made in horticultural legislation, and in the better mutual under- 

 standing of the problems of the nurserymen and the inspectors. During 

 the last five or six years, he said, through several conferences and 

 official meetings many knotty problems had been threshed out, per- 

 taining to nursery inspection and the handling of nursery stock. He 

 spoke in a very happy vein of the more candid relationship which 

 had been generated in the nurserymen and inspectors by these occa- 

 sional meetings, and hoped that the future would bring about even 

 more satisfactory results. Mr. Pitkin thanked the inspectors on behalf 

 of the Nurserymen's Association for the invitations and privileges 

 which have been extended to them. 



At this point Mr. Pitkin gave way to Mr. Curtis Nye Smith, secre- 

 tary and counsel of the American Association of Nurserymen, who 

 opened the discussion on "Some Existing State Horticultural Inspec- 

 tion Laws" from a standpoint of legality and constitutionality. Mr. 

 Smith's clear and concise statements and explanations concerning the 

 legal phases of horticultural inspection laws were indeed educational, 

 and served to clarify a number of rather intricate legal problems in 

 horticultural inspection. 



Hearty discussions were engendered, and much information was 

 brought forth regarding the requirements of certain states in their 

 horticultural laws, which from a legal standpoint seemed to be uncon- 

 stitutional and confiscatory in nature. 



