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The Garden Magazine, April, 1920 



FOR BETTER 

 GARDEN CROPS 



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TRAINED INSPECTORS 

 NEEDED 



A STATEMENT OF POLICY CONCERNING 

 QUARANTINE NO. 37 



[Editor's Note: — This statement, adopted by 

 the Advisory Committee of the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society, outlines the position of the Society 

 in regard to the Plant Quarantine Order No. 37, 

 and offers constructive suggestions for remedying the 

 present lamentable situation.] 



THE Trustees of the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society realize the importance of 

 excluding from the United States insects and dis- 

 eases injurious to plants. They believe that for 

 the good of the nation this work of exclusion 

 should be carried on with intelligence and energy; 

 they do not believe in the methods now adopted 

 by the Department of Agriculture of the United 

 States for the accomplishment of this purpose. 

 They believe that the addition to the Federal 

 Board of Horticulture of a man familiar with 

 plants will add to its efficiency. They believe 

 that with a few exceptions like the White Pine 

 it is not now necessary to exclude plants from this 

 country in order to secure the exclusion of dan- 

 gerous insects and plant diseases, and that it is 

 safe to import in large quantities for commercial 

 purposes and in small quantities for the use of 

 amateurs, nearly all plants that can be imported 

 more advantageously than they can be grown 

 in this country, if a better system of inspection by 

 men properly trained for the work is adopted. 

 It is known to the Trustees of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society that, under the existing 

 regulations of the Federal Horticultural Board, 

 certain Lily and other bulbs, Rose stocks and fruit 

 tree stocks can be imported without being sent 

 to Washington for inspection but that permits 

 to import even a small number of plants, not 

 already in this country, for scientific study and 

 experiment can be obtained only after trouble- 

 some formalities have been complied with, and 

 that under the present ruling plants thus im- 

 ported must be sent to Washington for inspec- 

 tion. This means that plants brought to this 

 country by ships landing their cargoes at Gal- 

 veston, San Francisco, Seattle, New York, or 

 Boston must be sent to Washington at the ex- 

 pense of the importer and from Washington must 

 be returned to the importer also at his expense. 

 It is too much to expect that in Washington 

 plants will be carefully unpacked and repacked, 

 that there will not be long delays in the one 

 office in which all the plants imported into this 

 country are inspected, and that they will not be 

 injured in the hands of men who are not specially 

 trained for this work. 



This Board, therefore, after a careful study of 

 the subject believes that with the exclusion of a 

 few plants to be named from time to time as 

 necessity for their exclusion is shown, all restric- 

 tions on the importation of plants, bulbs, and 

 other roots, and on seeds should be removed, 

 with the exception of that of rigid inspection with 

 the right to destroy affected plants. It realizes 

 that the inspection which is needed to protect the 

 country can only be secured by the employment 

 of intelligent and honest men familiar with plants 

 as well as insects and fungi as inspectors, and by 

 the establishment of additional Inspection sta- 

 tions at Boston, New York, New Orleans or 

 Galveston, San Francisco or Seattle. This 

 Board believes that if such a plan is adopted im- 

 porters, in return for prompt and safe delivery, 

 will be only too glad to pay inspection charges 

 large enough to reimburse, in part at least, the 

 government for this additional expenditure. 



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