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ciation of Nurserymen, and the Association of Economic Entomologists. 

 This joint committee adopted a series of resolutions the following 

 year, calling for national legislation very similar to that recommended 

 by the original convention of 1897, namely, providing for inspection 

 and regulation of foreign importations, and also the national super- 

 vision and inspection of home-gro\vn nursery stock entering interstate 

 commerce, and further providing for the extermination or control of 

 imported insects or plant diseases which have only become locally 

 established in the United States. While this program of legislation 

 was adopted by the joint committee and was afterwards approved by 

 the Association of Official Horticultural Inspectors, it was rejected by 

 the Association of Nurser\'men at their meeting of 1908, very largely 

 on the ground of their objection to national legislation covering home- 

 grown stock. The Nurserymen's Association, however, indorsed the 

 movement for proper national legislation to prevent the importation 

 of new insect pests on foreign-growai nursery stock. In the same year 

 (February 3, 1908) the Wadsworth Bill of 1899 was again introduced 

 in the Senate, this time by Mr. Flint (S. 4857), and was referred to the 

 Committee on Finance, where it died. 



It will be seen from this resume of the efforts to secure national legis- 

 lation up to the end of 1908 that the chief objects aimed at had been 

 two, namely, (1) to provide for the inspection and control of imported 

 nursery stock, and (2) to have national supervision and inspection of 

 home-grown stock wherever such was to become subject to interstate 

 shipment, and the objection on the part of the nurserymen and others 

 had always been aimed chiefly at the second of these objects. There 

 had been at no time any serious objection to the general proposition 

 of protecting this country from foreign insect pests which might be 

 accidentally introduced on nursery stock. 



Following the action of the Association of Nurserj-men in 1908, in 

 refusing to entertain any further consideration of a national inspection 

 law, the subject of a national bill was dropped by all the interests here- 

 tofore concerned in such a measure. 



THE IMMEDIATE DANGER LEADING TO THE PRESENT EFFORT TO SECURE 



LEGISLATION 



The recent effort to obtain a national quarantine law resulted from 

 the discovery, early in 1909, that brown-tail moth nests, filled with 

 hundreds of small hibernating larvae, were being introduced into this 

 country in great numbers and distributed to many states on imported 

 European nursery stock, chiefly from northern France. 



This state of affairs was repeated during the importing season of 

 1910. Time will not be taken to give the details of the shipments and 



