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and fellow member, Mr. Franklin Sherman, Jr., of North Carolina, 

 that the certificates which we issue should mean exactly what they say. 

 The business should be so managed that the certificate should be a 

 guarantee in fact as well as in opinion. 



The official horticultural inspector c' early owes a service to the 

 nurseryman, for he is an absolutely necessary factor. The inspector 

 should so clean up the nurseries and their environs in his charge that 

 clean stock from clean starts can be produced. He should make such 

 arrangements that his nurserymen can obtain clean scions, buds, etc., 

 from tested sources. Having made the production of clean stock possi- 

 ble, he should then see that every nurseryman produces that kind of 

 stock. 



The horticultural inspection service should see to it that the dealer 

 in nursery stock handles only that which comes from clean sources 

 and that the same regulation is enforced where the importer is con- 

 cerned. 



This past year has brought the enactment of a national inspection 

 law, and some have this, the first year of its operation, found that it 

 permitted them to protect their states better than has hitherto been 

 possible. 



The interrelation between the national and state arms of the inspec- 

 tion service should be one of courteous cooperation. The present 

 method adopted by the Federal Horticultural Board of having inspec- 

 tions within the limits of the states made by state inspectors, is one to 

 be commended and one that should be continued. A little more of 

 personal contact between the administrators of the national and state 

 laws would lead to better understanding of plans and aims, and is 

 highly desirable. 



The horticultural inspection service now needs to initiate a cam- 

 paign of education on the danger of carrying plants in trunks, bags, 

 or bundles in hand from one locality to another. This form of dis- 

 tribution we appear at present to have no other method of meeting. 



There are many mooted questions concerning the importance of 

 this or that insect and of this or that plant disease. This association 

 should make some provision, as by means of a standing committee, for 

 an annual summarizing of the status of information with regard to the 

 importance of each of these insects and diseases to horticulture in the 

 various states of this country. The first duty of such a committee 

 would be to obtain by inquiry a concensus of opinion of the service on 

 just what are the insects and diseases feared in the different sections 

 of this country. The second duty would be to summarize and present 

 the evidence on the dangerous nature of the doubtful forms, their 

 present distribution, and the means of preventing their spread. 



