October 30, 1913. 



The Florists' Review 



73 



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 THE LEGAL SITUATION. 



In his address before the Portland 

 convention on "Horticultural Laws," 

 that momentous issue confronting all 

 nurserymen, George C, Koeding, of 

 Fresno, Cal., pointed out the crux of 

 the situation and the necessary steps 

 for betterment. 



"It is quite evident, ' ' he said, ' ' that 

 if the nurserymen desire to have their 

 interests taken care of, it will be Jiec- 

 essary to present their side of the case 

 and cooperate with the authorities and 

 the legislative part of the government 

 to see that the laws which are enacted 

 protect and do justice to all interests 

 concerned along lines of equity. If we 

 scrutinize even casually these numerous 

 and diverse interests, we soon learn 

 that the subject is fraught with per- 

 plexing problems of a legal as well as 

 of a practical nature. This is illustrated 

 in California, where a change in con- 

 trol will be more difficult to bring about 

 than in any other state of the Union. 



"There each county has the power 

 to enact its own legislation to protect 

 its individual interests, and the conse- 

 quence of this is that we have as great 

 a variety of horticultural laws as there 

 are counties in the state. All of this 

 keeps the nursery business in an at- 

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 respect to all inter-county shipments; 

 for to keep in touch with all these 

 local ordinances is no small job and re- 

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 serious misunderstanding in the making 

 of shipments. Efforts have been made 

 repeatedly to have this complicated 

 condition of affairs corrected by plac- 

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 tural laws in the hands of the state 

 authorities. 



"The state law as it exists today 

 affords all the necessary protection for 

 the fruit growers and nurserymen, and 

 there is no complaint against it, but 

 the mere fact that our board of super- 

 visors has legislative powers places the 

 members in the position to enact laws 

 of their own, to protect the fruit in- 

 terests of their respective counties. In 

 many instances these ordinances are 

 extremely drastic in their application. 



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 adjoining county, even if the stock is 

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 just law and actually jeopardizes the 

 business of nurserymen and causes, in 

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 only means to prevent the counties 

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 shipments of nursery stock is a state 

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 counties to exercise any authority in 

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terly impossible to have such a law 

 enacted. 



"The same conditions prevail in 

 state legislation. The laws of no two 

 states are quite alike, so there is the 

 same trouble, not only in their legal 

 phases, but also from a utilitarian 

 point of view. These -conditions are 

 not only a reflection on the law-making 

 power of counties and states, an exas- 

 peration to the development of the 

 business, but an indication that, with 

 modern methods of distribution and 



