THIRTY-FOrRTH FRUIT-GROWERS ' CONVENTION. 



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MR. ROEDIXG. I really believe that it would be far better for 

 t!ie horticultural interests of this State if our State quarantine officers 

 re^'ulated the districts which would be quarantined. I think all the 

 liorticultural commissioners fully realize that it is very difficult, indeed, 

 TO draw an imaginary line between counties. In quite a number of 

 counties in Southern California no ^irapevines are permitted to come 

 from certain places. If the commissioner from Fresno County makes 

 the report that the vines which had been raised from cuttings had 

 been j^rown in a district where phylloxera is not Icnown to exist, those 

 vines are allowed to come into this county. San Bernardino County 

 nnder no consideration allows vines to come from a district north of 

 the line of San Luis Obispo and Kern counties. The counties north 

 of the line mentioned are permitted to ship vines into Los Angeles 

 County, with the proviso that they notify the horticultural connnis- 

 sioner. and also that they can only ship these rooted vines to a grower. 

 They are not permitted to ship them to a nurseryman to distribute 

 them in small lots where it is impossible for the horticultural commis- 

 sioner to keep them under his observation, ["nder these regulations 

 we have been shipping vines to Los Angeles and San Bernardino 

 counties. It is not at all unlikely that if those vines are infested with 

 phylloxera, that that insect will get over the imaginary line between 

 Riverside and San Bernardino counties. So. it seems to me, the best 

 interests of this State demand a uniform horticultural ordinance, so 

 that where a dangerous insect pest is known to exist, the State 

 Commissioner can use his judgment as to whether a shipment shall 

 be made from one county to another. I don't want to expose trade 

 secrets, but I might say that I can ship vines to San Bernardino 

 County if I want to, ancl there is no way to follow it up. If my vines 

 should come from ]->akersfield. tlie commissioner would not pay any 

 attention to them unless he happened to know they wci-e from me. and 

 that I did not do business at Bakersfield. I will say that I have no 

 intention of running any game of this kind on the people of San 

 Bernardino County. It merely illustrates how easy it is to put these 

 things in. 



]\IR. HART^IAN. I don't believe that there is any physician in the 

 State that is capable of looking into my face and telling whether I 

 have ever been exposed to scarlet fever, or anything else, but if he 

 knows that I come from an infested district, that is enough. Mr. 

 Roeding does a great business, and of course has to trust to employes 

 to do part of it. How do we know what his employes will do? 



I\IR. KING. ^lany of the conditions are brought about through 

 ignorance. While the discussion was on with relation to bringing in 

 plants to California, my mind went back to my advent to California 

 three years ago, my wife having come here two years previous to that 

 to look after our interests here. At one time my wife and another 

 woman thought it wise to send to Florida for some plants. They had 

 no idea that they were violating any law. The plants came in, and I 

 believe they were perfectly healthy, but they ran the same risk as 

 everybody else does. Now, I feel that it might be wise to have our rep- 



