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Inspection of Nursery Stock. — At a late meeting' of the leg-is- 

 lative committee of this society, the foUowine;- resolutions were 

 unanimously adopted: 



Resolved, That we recommend to the people of our respective 

 states that in purchasing- stock from other than home nurseries 

 they require a certificate of inspection from such nursery specifj'- 

 ing that such stock has been inspected by an official inspector or 

 has been grown on grounds dulj^ inspected, and specifying the re- 

 sult of such inspection. 



Resolved, That we endorse the call of the Ohio State Horticultural 

 Society for a convention to consider and recommend the most ap- 

 propriate federal and state legislation for preventing the introduc- 

 tion and diffusion of noxious insects and fungi in the United States. 



In view of the threatened invasion of the north-west by the justly 

 dreaded San Jose scale, the force of these resolutions ia apparent. 



Shall Farmer's Daughters be Educated at the Agricul- 

 tural School? — A bill has been presented to the legislature appro- 

 priating $25,000 to pay for the construction of a suitable building to 

 accomodate the gentler sex at the University Farm School. The}'- 

 are knocking for admission, and none in these days of a "truer" 

 chivalry are so ungallant as to turn them away. It is certainly of 

 importance that the inothers of the next generation should be 

 equally as well as the fathers fitted to impress and develop the 

 plastic inind of childhood with which they come much more closely 

 in contact. A dwarfed and undeveloped motherhood means unde- 

 niably the retardation of the human race. Horticulture especially 

 is interested in the fullest education of the fanner's daughters, for 

 to them, rather than the sons, must it look for the practice of those 

 especial features of its art which so much beautify the world we see 

 and in its highest sense ennoble life. By all means, give thein the 

 fullest opportunities. 



Status of the Forest Reserve Area Legislation.— The pro- 

 posed law relating to the subject as published in the January num- 

 ber of the Horticulturist was introduced into the house by Hon. 

 H. G. Hicks and referred to the committee on forestry, before which 

 the friends of the measure appeared and explained the purposes of 

 the legislation asked for. The law was amended in the committee 

 by changes in Sec. 10 providing that two-thirds of the proceeds from 

 the sale of timber, etc., from this area should go to some public ed- 

 ucational institution and none of it to the heirs of the donor, and in 

 this form the bill was reported back to the house and recommended 

 for passage. On its appearance before the house ver}'^ lately, March 

 1st, the bill was opposed by Hon. I. Donnelly on the ground that it 

 gives the heirs of donors of land a perpetual right to any mining or 

 similar interest that may ever develop on the property, and it was 

 referred back to the committee for examination in this respect and 

 further amendment if thought best. This is the present status of 

 this important measure. Its friends will find it necessary to give it 

 close attention, or it may fail of final passage in the tide of public 

 and private legislation which is absorbing the thoughts of our law 

 makers. In the pressure of present interests, the needs of the dis- 

 tant future are too likely to receive only slight attention. 



