VOL. LV.— No. 3,057. 



SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1912. 



NOTE OF THE WEEK. 



4- 



Legislation in Connection with tivities of nurserymen and seed 



lative enactments that have been made 

 within recent years by Colonial and foreign 

 countries in various parts of the world are 

 such as to seriously interfere with the ac- 



. whose 



Plant Diseases. 



The two conferences held in connection 



trade extends l>eyond the boundaries of the 

 United Kingdom. How great must be their 



is found in the eomprehensive summary of 

 regulations relating to the importation of 

 plants, weeds, and insects from Creat 

 Britain into other ooun tries, which has 

 been prepare<l by the Board of Agriculture, 

 and was placed at the disposal of the 

 members of the conference. 

 Mr. Sutton noij 



It may, as 



ted out. be neoessary 



with the Roval International Horticultural interference with the trade in seeds, plants, , • , , r 



Exhibition at Chelsea were so highly sue- tubers, etc., was well shown in the excellent the interest of cultivators, and, indeed, ot 



or 



cessful in every way as to rank high among 

 previous gatherings of a similar character 

 associated with horticulture, and to reflect 

 much credit upon the Science and Educa- 

 tion Committee, by 

 whom the pro- 

 gramme wa& pre- 

 pared and the de- 

 tails carried out . 

 Both conferences 



dealt with matters 

 of far-reaching im- 

 portance to the 

 horticulturists 

 this country, they 

 were largely at- 

 tended by those 



inter- 

 ested in the ques- 

 tions arranged for 

 consideration, the 

 papers were of an 

 exceptionally high 

 order of merit, 

 and the discussion 

 that followed at- 

 tained to a much 



higher level than 

 IS customary on 

 such occasions. As 

 shown in our re- 



statement which had been prepared by Mr. 

 Arthur W. Sutton, V.M.H., F.L.S., for the 

 information of the conference ; and still 

 more conclusive evidence upon this point 



specially 



port, which ap- 

 pears elsewhere in 

 the present issue, 

 the first conference 



oted 



of 



and 



consideration 

 horticultural edu- 

 <5ation and the 

 s^ond to legisla- 

 tion in connection 

 ^ith insect pests 



fungoid 

 diseases of plants. 

 The two questions 

 ai^e of so high a 

 degree of impor- 

 tance as to render 

 |t unnecessary or 

 mdee^l desirable, 

 ^ attempt to dif- 

 ferentiate }>etween 

 ^-hem, and if we 

 ^ake special refer- 

 ence to the second 

 the two, it is 

 because the legis- 



strictive measures to prevent the export of 

 seeds, plants, etc., from d'sease^infected or 

 insect-infested areas, but the regulations 



that are now in 

 force are not well 

 devised for the ex- 

 clusion of the 

 en em i e s of plant 

 life from countries 



that 



free 



are 

 from 



wholly 

 them . 



In some casee, only 

 one of two classes 

 of plants have to 

 be examined at 

 the port of arrival, 

 and the regula- 

 tions are of the 

 simplest, while in 

 other countries a 

 considerable num- 

 ber have to be sub- 

 jecte<l to examina- 

 tion under regula- 

 tions of the most 

 elaborate, and it 

 may be, vexatious, 

 character. It was 

 contended with 



some force that if 



the elaborate pre- 

 cautions that had 

 been taken l>v 

 some cx>un tries are 



really 

 then 



necessarv, 

 the other 



SIR HARRY J. VEITCH, V.M.H., F.L.S., ETC 



countries have not 

 done sufficient to 

 protect cultivators 

 from the various 

 enemies of plant 

 life from which 

 their gardens and 

 fields are free. 

 Professor llitzema 

 Bos, who is one of 

 the highest of the 

 European authori- 

 ties on insect pe^ts 

 and fungoid 

 diseases, and read 

 the first paper at 

 the conference, ex- 

 pressed in no un- 

 certa-n manner his 

 opinion that tho 



