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The Garden Magazine, April , 1920 
FOR BETTER 
GARDEN CROPS 
Of course you will have a “thrift gar- 
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“So Pretty, Yet 
Remarkably Easy to Grow” 
That’s what one of my customers said, after 
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the most interesting new varieties. Their beauty is, in 
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otherwise They bloom readily, need very little attention 
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Full Cultural Directions 
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in whi/h also are catalogued many rare and beautiful varie- 
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of the water lily. Many of tho-e sort‘d have received gold 
and silver medals because of their beauty and novelty. You 
can get a copy of this booklet by wri ing now to my address 
— as the edition is limited, it is best not to delay. 
WILLIAM TRICKER 
Box E Arlington, New Jersey 
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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.] 
T HE 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. 
