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ment was also recommended with respect to the scurfy scale, particularly in 

 those States where it is not now generally and uniformly distributed. It was 

 held at present to be unwise to require the destruction of trees exposed to in- 

 fection with crown-gall, but not visibly so infected. Trees actually bearing this 

 gall, either at the crown or on the roots, were regarded as unmerchantable. 



" 7. After full discussion it was voted unanimously to organize as a society 

 of official horticultural inspectors, membership to be open to those officially 

 connected with the work of horticultural inspection in the various States of the 

 Union and in Canada. Prof. S. A, Forbes, of Illinois, was elected president 

 for one year and until the next regular meeting thereafter. It was further 

 voted that the first meeting of the new society should be held in connection with 

 the annual convention of the Association of Colleges and Experiment Stations, 

 to which time the society adjourned." 



Following upon this last of the series of Chicago meetings, a call was issued 

 October 28, 1901, for a more general meeting, as follows : 



"At a meeting of official horticultural inspectors of several States, held in 

 Chicago, January 4, 1901, a permanent organization was effected and steps were 

 taken preliminary to a general conference of such inspectors for the United 

 States and Canada, to be held in Washington in connection with the meeting 

 of the American Association of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. 



" The undersigned, as chairman of the Chicago conference, was directed to 

 announce this meeting in due time and to act as an executive committee in 

 making arrangements for it. A preliminary statement to the above effect was 

 issued January 24, and I have now to add that a meeting of the Society of 

 Official Horticultural Inspectors will be held at the Bbbitt House, in Wash- 

 ington, D. C, commencing at 7.30 p. m., Monday, November 11. All official 

 inspectors of nurseries and other horticultural property and all other officers 

 responsible for nursery and orchard inspection are eligible to membership in 

 this society and are cordially invited to attend this conference, 



" The meeting will be devoted to a discussion of matters of general interest 

 relating to the inspection of nurseries and orchards and to the control of dan- 

 gerous fungous and insect pests, including, of course, the San Jose scale. No 

 formal programme will be prepared in advance, and any member of the con- 

 ference should feel at liberty to propose for discussion any subject within 

 these very general limits. Certain topics are, however, of such general and 

 considerable importance that it will be well to come prepared to discuss them, 

 and I take the liberty of suggesting, consequently, the following list as per- 

 tinent to the conference proposed : 



" 1. Within what limits of time may nurseries properly be inspected, and 

 what period should the annual certificate be made to cover? 



"2. What should be the usual form of the certificate? 



" 3. What should be the procedure, or form of certificate, in case some part 

 of a nursery is affected by a dangerous fungous or insect pest not of a kind to 

 involve other parts not so affected — if crown-gall, for example, occurs on cer- 

 tain peach stock, no other varieties of trees in the nursery being so diseased? 



" 4. What should be the common policy of State inspectors with reference to 

 stock officially inspected and certified in other States? 



"5. How wide an application should be given to the term 'nursery stock?' 

 Should it include herbaceous plants grown out of doors? Should it ever cover 

 greenhouse stock? 



" 6. What nursery pests should be regarded as dangerous enough to influence 

 or prevent the granting of a certificate? 



"7. May provision be made for the publication of a practical article on the 



