other commodities. This would be true if we could produce it better 
and more cheaply than we can obtain it from abroad but since con- 
ditions, wages, training, climate and customs forbid this we do our- 
selves a commercial and economic injury in attempting to create 
artificially a new American industry. No country can afiford to be 
self-contained, least of all one that has much to sell and hopes to 
increase its foreign trade. 
The issue will not be confused by giving a mass of detail but it 
may be interesting to know that the cotton boll weevil mentioned 
as a striking illustration of damage by foreign pests simply migrated 
across the border from Mexico. 
Can we believe that countries like Holland who, commercially, 
are largely dependent upon nursery products would not do every- 
thing in their power to keep their products free from pests and in- 
fection? French and English growers are notoriously painstaking in 
this particular and all European countries that have not quarantines 
deemed adequate by the F. H. B. would undoubtedly comply with 
any suggested precautions. 
Will Garden Club members consider the points here set forth, 
inform themselves upon others and be ready at the next meetings to 
take formal action? 
Finally Quarantine 37 is not a Quarantine at all but an em- 
bargo. America once had a Tea Party. Is it getting ready for a 
Garden Party? 
Plant The Federal Horticultural Board issues the following specific 
Importa- statement as to just what kind of "personal use" certain plants may, 
tions under special permits, be imported for. 
^^^ In the recent explanation of Regulation 14 of the regulations as 
Personal amended under Quarantine 37 it is stated that "in exceptional cases 
^® the importation of novelties (i. e., new varieties) may be made for 
personal use, but not for sale." This is intended to provide for the 
importation of such new varieties by directors of botanical gardens, 
collectors and growers of special collections of plants of recognized 
standing, but was not intended to apply to importations which may 
be desired for personal use other than as indicated or for the adorn- 
ment of private estates. In case such public gardens, collectors or 
growers of special collections are not known to the experts of this 
department, they may be required to furnish evidence of their status. 
Quarantine I daresay that Quarantine 37 prevented many of these wonders 
37 Through (a remarkable collection of orchids recently sold in England) from 
English migrating across the water. I could not but smile at Chairman 
Eyes Marlatt's guile in assuming U. S. growers might raise and flower 
orchids of value in five years. Presumably he has never seen the 
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