THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK 



Newport (R. I.) Horticultural Society 



New Y'ork Federation of Horticultural Societies and Floral Clubs 



North Shore Horticultural Society (Lake Forest, 111.) 



Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 



Rhode Island Horticultural Society 



Texas State Horticultural Society 



Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University 



Baltimore Florists' Club 



Garden Club of America 



Garden Club of Cincinnati, O. 



Garden Club of Flushing, N. Y. 



Garden Club of Philadelphia 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston 



National Association of Gardeners 



New Canaan (Conn.) Garden Club 



New Rochelle (N. Y.) Garden Club 



New York and New Jersey Association of Plant Growers 



New York Florists' Club 



Society of American Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists 



W'omens' National Farm and Garden Association 



Tlic Florists' Exchange (trade paper) 



llic Garden Magazine (a journal of amateur horticultural interests) 



Julius Roehrs Co. 



New England Nurserymen's Association 



The meeting was organized to study and, if deemed necessary, 

 to act upon the situation brought about by less than one year of the 

 administration of Quarantine Order No. 37 — a regulation formu- 

 lated by the Federal Horticultural Board and promulgated by the 

 Secretary of Agriculture imder the Plant Quarantine Act of 191 2. 



After the presentation of critical papers submitted by the 

 Mas.sachusetts Horticultural Society and the Arnold Arboretum 

 and a general and lengthy discussion by the majority of those 

 present — a discussion of which the tenor was that, as being inter- 

 preted and administered, the Quarantine was arbitrary, inequit- 

 able, unwarrantably severe and an unjustifiable obstacle in the 

 path of American horticultural progress — a General Committee 

 was formed including one delegate from each of the organizations, 

 etc., represented. From this an Executive Committee was selected 

 with J. Horace McFarland of Harrisburg, Pa., as Chairman. The 

 other members being: 



Albert C. Burrage, Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



James Boyd, Pennsylvania Horticulture Society. 



Frederick Cranefield, Wisconsin State Horticultural Society. 



Henry F. duPont. 



Mrs. Francis King, Woman's National Farm and Garden Association. 



Dr. George T. Moore, Director, Missouri Botanical Garden. 



Frederic R. Newbold, Horticultural Society of New York. 



Mrs. Percy Turnure, Garden Club of America. 



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