202 MEETINGS. OF HORTICULTURAL INSPECTORS. 
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 
inethods, 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. * * * JT 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 were 
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. 
“Tt should be the policy 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 
