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Means for Informing Shippers of Plants Concerning State 



Requirements 



In this connection, the writer proposes that this Association pro- 

 vide for an annually revised circular of information containing, in as 

 concise form as practicable, the exact requirements of each state, which 

 are of interest to shippers of plants, and agricultural and horticultural 

 products. The information should include the restrictions imposed 

 by state quarantine orders and for each state should be prepared for 

 inclusion in the circular suggested, by the official in charge of the plant 

 inspection service. Such a circular might appear as a revision of cir- 

 cular No. — of the Bureau of Entomology, providing arrangements for 

 cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture can be 

 made. In this case, the restrictions upon interstate and international 

 shipments of plants by the National Plant Quarantine Act and by the 

 Quarantine Orders issued by the Federal Horticultural Board might 

 perhaps with advantage be included in the same publication. 



It is essential, the writer believes, that such a circular, to serve its 

 greatest usefulness, be revised annually and be issued with regularity 

 on or about October first of each year. The issuance of such a circular 

 would not, however, in itself, fulfill the desired object of placing the 

 information in the hands of those principally concerned. A mailing 

 list for the distribution of the circular should be maintained under the 

 supervision of the secretary of this organization, made up of lists of 

 nurserymen and florists doing an interestate business to be furnished 

 by the officials in charge of the plant inspection matters in the various 

 states. Such a mailing list would, of course, need annual revision. 



Need and Means for Better Coordination of Efforts of State 

 Plant Inspection Officials- 



Practically all of the state horticultural laws require a certificate of 

 inspection from the shipper's home state as a condition for the accept- 

 ance of nursery stock importations. Experience in those states where 

 inspections of the shipments are made at destination shows that as 

 a measure of protection this requirement fails utterly to accomplish 

 the desired object. Under present conditions it is even harmful in 

 one respect — it hinders and delays the spread of the system of inspec- 

 tion at destination which has been adopted by only a few states, but 

 which is destined to become general. The additional requirement of 

 some states of fumigation of nursery stock as a condition of entry is, 

 in the writer's opinion and experience, of very little value as far as 

 stock admittedly infested in any degree is concerned. 



Arizona, with its insufficient supply of home grown nursery stock 



