The Executive Committee wishes it to be clearly understood 
that it approves of a Quarantine which will protect the horticulture 
and agriculture of this country quite apart from any questions of 
individual interests or commercial profit. It protests only against 
certain provisions which seem unnecessarily harsh, and, sometimes, 
unfair. 
For instance, the hardship of having importations inspected in 
Washington only is especially irksome. To criticism of this point, 
the Federal Horticultural Board has replied that it has not at present 
the funds necessary to maintain inspection at the ports of entry. As 
soon as adequate inspection at desirable ports of entry can be ob- 
tained, one of the most annoying features of the Quarantine will be 
removed. The Committee hopes that it may assist in securing 
adequate appropriations. 
The Committee feels that there are a number of other points on 
which the Federal Horticultural Board could unbend and assist the 
gardeners of this country while still fulfilling its purpose of excluding 
diseased and infested stock. 
At the request of Mr. McFarland, the Chairman of the Com- 
mittee, your representative on the Executive Committee has offered 
the following suggestions towards mitigating the hardships of the 
Quarantine. 
While we believe that the Government should protect the hor- 
ticulture and agriculture of the nation as far as it is practicable 
from the introduction of dangerous plant diseases and pests, we be- 
lieve that the present regulations under Quarantine 37 are so burden- 
some as to be in efifect an embargo and a great blow to .the develop- 
On the ment of American gardens. 
Constitu- 
tion OF THE That the Secretary of Agriculture appoint to the Federal Horti- 
Federal cultural Board not more than two entomologists, the others to be 
•RTicuLTURAL horticulturists. 
Board 
I ^ P That restrictions be put only upon those importations that can, 
by careful analysis of all phases of the question, be proved to be the . 
cause of the importation or presence in this country of dangerous pests 
or diseases. 
That there be a reasonable and logical basis formulated for the 
admission or exclusion of garden materials as, for instance, rectifica- 
tion of the present irregularities in the regulations for bulbs and roses. 
That no commercial reasons — i. e., amount of nurserymen's stock 
in this country, the profit or loss to nurserymen affected by importa- 
tions, be allowed to enter into the consideration of restrictions. In 
other words, that the restrictions be placed entirely upon a patholog- 
ical and not commercial basis. 
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