August, ’24] 
HORTICULTURAL INSPECTORS, PROCEEDINGS 
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Statement of the Purpose, the Origin and the Work of a Special Committee 
from the Section of Horticultural Inspection of the American 
Association of Economic Entomologists on the Unification 
of Nursery Inspection in the United States 
Purpose 
During the Boston meeting, held in 1922-1923, before the section of the American 
Association of Economic Entomologists devoted to Horticultural Inspection, Mr. 
F. F. Rockwell read a paper on the subject of “Bugs, Bugologists, Bugaboos and 
Nurserymen” in which he entered a strong plea from the nurserymen’s standpoint 
for uniform inspection and certification (particularly the latter) of nursery stock. 
During the same meeting Dr. Leonard Haseman, State Entomologist of Missouri, 
presented a paper entitled “Inspecting Nursery Stock at Digging Time,” Jour. Ec. 
Ent. Vol. 16, on pages 143-144 of which he brought out, from the official inspector’s 
standpoint, the necessity of uniform inspection and certification of nursery stock. 
The chairman of the section, Mr. E. N. Cory, was empowered by a motion to 
appoint a special committee, the business of which should be to see what could be 
done toward working out the unification, of which the nursery business, according 
to Mr. Rockwell, stood so greatly in need. 
The committee on resolutions of the American Association of Economic Ento¬ 
mologists, in submitting its report after this action had been taken in the section of 
Horticultural Inspection, included the following statement, which was duly passed 
by the Association:— 
“ Resolved , That it is the sense of this association that a uniform United States 
tag should be required to permit interstate movement of nursery stock and that 
the machinery necessary to the qualifying inspection should be worked out co¬ 
operatively between the United States Department of Agriculture and the 
authorities of the various states.” 
ORIGIN 
Mr. E. N. Cory appointed the following committee:—Thomas J. Headlee, New 
Jersey, Chairman, F. M. O’Byrne, Florida, G. M. Bentley, Tennessee, E. C. Cotton, 
Ohio and E. R. Sasscer, Washington, D. C. After much correspondence it was found 
by Mr. Cory that Mr. E. C. Cotton could not serve and Leonard Haseman of Missouri 
was appointed in his stead. 
WORK OF THE COMMITTEE 
This committee was not able to hold any meeting until the Cincinnati assembly 
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, although a considerable 
amount of correspondence was carried on among the members. At the meeting of 
the committee held in Cincinnati, it was decided to present a report to the Section of 
Horticultural Inspection of the American Association of Economic Entomologists in 
which was laid down a tentative plan for the creation of a strong organization ade¬ 
quately financed to carry on the necessary inspection work of the country and to 
carry out that work along the lines of certain general principles, which, it was decided, 
to include also in this tentative report. It was also decided to ask either the discharge 
of the present committee or its continuation with power of enlarging its personnel as 
it saw fit. The nature of the plan included in this report follows herewith:— 
