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tory from Massachusetts, and orders were prepared which 

 would prevent Massachusetts nurserymen from selling any 

 stock there. This was a very serious matter, and, if carried 

 into effect, the result would have been the entire loss of a 

 business amounting each year to more than a million dollars, 

 for as soon as one State would issue such an order all the 

 others would immediately follow the same policy. 



iVs there was no organization of nurserymen in the State, 

 information of the probable debarring of Massachusetts stock 

 was sent to the State Nursery Inspector as the only person in 

 touch with the nurserymen, and he at once urged a further 

 consideration of the matter, and that at least an extension of 

 time be allowed before these orders should take effect. He 

 also assumed the authority to call a meeting of those nursery- 

 men of the State who were most vitally concerned, to take 

 the subject under consideration. This meeting was held at 

 the office of the secretary of the Board of Agriculture, in 

 May, and at that meeting the Massachusetts Nurserymen's 

 Association was organized, and a committee appointed to 

 meet the inspectors of the other States concerned, in the hope 

 of finding some way by which the proposed discrimination 

 against Massachusetts stock could be avoided. Such a meet- 

 ing was arranged for and was held, June 11, at New York 

 City. At that time the entire problem of providing such an 

 examination and supervision of Massachusetts stock as would 

 satisfy the other States was thoroughly discussed. Those in 

 charge of the work in the other States finally consented to 

 withhold the discriminating orders on condition that each 

 shipment of stock from a Massachusetts nursery into the other 

 States concerned should be immediately reported to the 

 nursery inspector of the State to which the stock should go, 

 giving date of shipment and name and address of the con- 

 signee. A second condition was that nurseries within the 

 territory occupied by the gypsy moth ' or brown-tail moth 

 should be inspected after September 15 by the State Nursery 

 Inspector or his deputies, and stock shipped after that date 

 from such nurseries not so inspected would not be admitted 

 to the States concerned. 



While this action was far more favorable than that which 



