National Educational and Legal Interests. 



the fruit, when grown on certain kinds of land, to rot early, 

 taking^tudies. answered only after long and pains 



Besides the foregoing, it is proposed, in time, to take up 

 such studies as will throw light upon the effect of stock on 

 cion ; the best stocks for the various lands, the advantages 

 of different methods of cultivation, pruning, irrigating, plant- 

 ing, fertilizing and shipping. The improvement of varieties is 

 another important subject that it is hoped may be considered. 

 This field is practically unexplored, and there is no reason to 

 doubt that the harvest awaiting the patient investigator is 

 rich. The work at present is in charge of W. T. Swingle 

 and H. J. Webber, two special agents of the Division. 

 These men are already on the ground, and are being ably 



Bill to Y Regulate Shipment of Nursery Stock. The nursery 



introduction of a bill In to Congress by Mr. Caminettfto sub- 

 ject all nursery stock going into California to rigid inspection 

 for insects and diseases. The bill was clumsily drawn, and 

 could not have been executed had it become a law, but the 

 nurserymen of the east saw in it an attempt on the part of 

 California nurserymen to control their market, and they op- 

 posed it with great vigor. Although the bill did not pass, it 

 is nevertheless worthy of insertion here as the first attempt 

 towards national control of insects and diseases attacking 

 plants: 



nVre^f^and ^fining the^uties 



ted by the Senate and House of 



