Broad Street. There were present the Chairman, Mr. J. Horace 
McFarland, Mr. Henry W. De Forest, Mr, Albert Burrage repre- 
senting the Massachusetts Horticultural Society; Mr. T. A. Have- 
meyer. President New York Horticultural Society; Mr. John Wister, 
President American Iris Society; Dr. George Moore, Director 
Missouri Botanical Gardens; Mrs. Francis King and myself. 
I am happy to report that Mr. De Forest has volunteered to act as 
counsel for the Committee and take the case and the evidence before 
the Federal Horticultural Board. There are twelve points, on which 
the Committee was agreed at this meeting, to bring forward to the 
Federal Board as working hardships on the flower lovers of the country, 
the modifications of which would in no way weaken the wall of plant 
protection which the act was designed to build up. The actual Hst of 
points is too long to include in this report but, broadly, the regula- 
tions will be criticised and modifications asked, on the grounds that 
plants should be admitted unless they are known to be diseased or 
infected, or in the case of plants with soil about their roots unless it 
was shown to be impossible to properly sterilize the soil; that the 
question of a quarantine be disentangled from that of an embargo: 
that is that the exclusion of plants to protect from the danger of 
insects and diseases be not mixed up with the exclusion because they 
are already in the country or to protect home industry — which is 
quite another question of embargo, or tariff, or politics. 
Further ports of entry will be asked for and greater promptness 
in issuing permits. 
I have further to report that the appeal made by your Committee 
to members of the Garden Club of America for subscriptions to the 
fund which is to be our contribution to the Horticultural Quarantine 
Committee has met with the most splendid and encouraging response. 
We have received to date nearly $1,300. 
I have just received a letter from Mr. Burrage in Boston telling me 
that ''Professor Charles S. Sargent had been most disturbed at a 
report which he had received that at a recent meeting of the Garden 
Club of America, when the question arose as to a contribution 
being made, a prominent lady objected, saying that she understood 
the Quarantine Committee was dominated by commercial interests 
and did not represent the private growers of this country." 
I am in a position to know that this is not a fact — that quite the 
contrary is the case. It gives me pleasure to be able to refute it here in 
the unfortunate case that any other lady might hold such an opinion. 
Finance Mrs. Henry R. Rea, Chairman of the Finance Committee, in 
Committee supplementing her report of the morning session, stated that the 
report of the Executive Secretary had doubtless convinced the 
members that an office is a necessity, and that the Treasurer's report 
had explained the present financial standing of the Garden Club of 
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