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The CODE AY 9 the Dominion of Canada to the Uni 
States, and the sequent greater danger of infection with 
which it is HDI E has le d to the pining of a law by the 
Mong Parliament prohibiting the entry of all nursery stock 
m the States. It regards an effective inspection of such stock 
as s HU DOBÁLDIS. Hence the prohibition is absolute as in the case of 
iermany. 
The following correspondence, communicated to Kew by the 
Secretary of State for the Colonies, indicates the strong position 
taken up by the Dominion Government in endeavouring to deal 
with the subject :— 
COLONIAL OFFICE to ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
Downing Street, 
May 6, 1898. 
SIR, 
1 AM directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to 
transmit to you, for your information, a copy of a despatch 
which has been received from the Governor-General of Canada 
with its enclosures, on the subject of the don law prohibiting 
the importation of ve stock from the United States entitled 
the “San Jose Scale Act 
I am, &c., 
(Signed) EDWARD WINGFIELD, 
The Director 
oyal Gardens, Kew, 
LORD ABERDEEN to SIR JULIAN PAUNCEFOTE, 
Ottawa, 
April 9, 1898, 
SIR 
TH reference to Your Excellency’ d ASDA, No. 5 of 
the 28th "ulii on the subject of an Act recently passed by the 
Parliament of Canada, prohibiting the url of a 
herewith copy of an approved minute of the Privy Council 
explaining the considerations which led to the enactment of this 
measure and representing that propc circumstances do not admit 
of any modification of its provision 
I have, &c., 
Signed) ABERDEEN. 
His Excellency Sir Julian Pauncefote, G.C.B., 
&c., &c. 
(ENCLOSURE.) : 
EXTRACT from a report of the Committee of the Honourable 
the Privy Council, approved by His Excelleney on the 7th April, 
1898. 
"The Committee of the Privy Council, have had under con- 
sideration a paraphrase of a despatch Secret of March 28, 1898, 
d a despatch dated March 28, 1898, from Sir Julian Pauncefote, 
"Majesty's Ambassador to the United States, intimating that 
some modification in the oent We prohibiting nursery stock 
