202 MEETIKGS OF HOETICtJLTUEAL INSPECTOES. 



The following resolutions were adopted at this meeting : 



''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 specifying that such stock has been inspected 

 by an official inspector or has been grown on grounds duly inspected, and speci- 

 fying the result of such inspection. 



''Resolved, That we indorse the call of the Ohio State Horticultural Society 

 for a national convention to consider and recommend the most appropriate Fed- 

 eral and State legislation for preventing the introduction and spread of noxious 

 insects and fungi in the United States." 



April 3, 1899, the following circular letter was issued to the proper officers 

 in the States of Michigan, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa : 



" The recent passage by the State legislatures of Indiana and Illinois of laws 

 requiring inspection of nursery stock with reference to injurious insects and 

 fungous diseases leads me to suggest the desirability of a conference among 

 inspectors of a number of adjacent States with a view to establishing common 

 methods, discussing objects of inspection, forms of certificates, and other mat- 

 ters of common interest on which it would be well to have an exact understand- 

 ing. * * * I think we could probably bring about a meeting in Chicago of 

 representatives of these States, since a similar meeting held two years ago 

 seems to have had a good deal of influence in securing common and intelligent 

 action leading to the establishment of inspection laws in these States. 

 " Very truly yours, 



" S. A. Forbes." 



Replies being generally favorable, a meeting was called to be held in Chicago 

 April 29. At this conference the States of Wisconsin, Iowa. Indiana, Ohio, and 

 Illinois were represented by their State entomologists or others charged with 

 the duty of horticultural inspection. The following general conclusions \Aere 

 unanimously agreed upon : 



"An inspector's certificate to nurserymen must usually be based upon a gen- 

 eral inspection of trees still standing in the nursery rows, and this fact should 

 be shown in the certificate. Where injurious insects or fungous disease are 

 found sufficient to make a certificate inadmissible, but are capable of being 

 suppressed by fumigation or other procedure, the certificate should be withheld 

 until such steps have been taken as to satisfy the inspector that no further 

 danger exists. For example, if dangerous insects are found upon the roots of 

 nursery stock, no certificate should be issued until the plants have been fumi- 

 gated. If adjacent grounds are infested with dangerous insects or plant dis- 

 ease so near the nursery premises as to make them especially subject to invasion 

 from without, fumigation of all specially exposed nursery stock should be 

 required as a condition of the issuance of a certificate, even though the premises 

 themselves may not be found infested at the time of inspection. The word 

 ' dangerous ' used in connection with insects and plant diseases is understood 

 to mean, in this connection, dangerous to the property- of customers — likely to 

 be transported with nursery stock to the injury of customers. 



" It should be the policj- of departments of inspection to encourage and 

 stimulate the thorough practice of fumigation as a substitute for inspection 

 whenever practicable, with a view to hastening the time when a general 

 requirement may be established for the fumigation of all nursery stock before 

 sale and delivery. 



" Inspections should be made between August 1 and November 1, and certifi- 

 cates should expire the first of the following June. If nurserymen desire to 



