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the Federal Board was present, but the nurserymen and florists were 
not represented at the sessions. 
Program 
January 1, 1918, 1.30 p. m., Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Address of Chairman 
Important Insect Pests Collected on Im¬ 
ported Nursery Stock in 1917 
Important Diseases Collected on Im¬ 
ported Nursery Stock in 1917 
Devastation by Imported Plant Pests 
Shows the Need of Quarantines against 
Foreign Plant Introduction (Illus¬ 
trated) 
Discussion 
G. M. Bentley, Knoxville, Tenn. 
E. R. Sasscer, Washington, D. C. 
R. Kent Beattie, Washington, D. C. 
J. G. Sanders, Harrisburg, Pa. 
January 1, 1918, 8.00 p. m. 
Election of officers 
The Control of Imported Pests Recently 
Found in New Jersey 
The European Poplar Canker in the 
Vicinity of Philadelphia 
The Work of the Missouri Inspection 
Service 
Moving Pictures of Gipsy Moth Work in 
New England 
H. B. Weiss, New Brunswick, N. J. 
J. K. Primm, Philadelphia, Pa. 
L. Haseman, Columbia, Mo. 
A. F. Burgess, Melrose Highlands, Mass. 
Professor Bentley spoke briefly along two distinct lines of horti¬ 
cultural police work, outlining first those methods successfully em¬ 
ployed to improve nursery conditions in Tennessee, referring espe¬ 
cially to the use of improved fumigating apparatus and chemicals. 
The second part of this talk referred to the extreme importance of 
strict quarantine on imported nursery stock. 
At the close of the afternoon’s program, which consisted largely of 
discussions of the desirability of an embargo on imported nursery 
stock, a special committee was appointed by the Chairman to draft 
resolutions pertaining to imported plants, these resolutions to be pre¬ 
sented at the evening session. 
Evening Session, 8.00 p. m. 
The special committee on plant importation submitted the following 
resolution, which was unanimously adopted: 
Report of Special Committee Appointed to Formulate the Attitude of the 
Section on Horticultural Inspection on the Question of Prohibiting 
the Importation of Nursery Stock from Foreign Countries 
Whereas our country is now and has for many years suffered serious financial loss 
from the depredations of insects and plant diseases that have come to us from abroad, 
—the annual damage by a single insect in some cases being greater than the total 
value of all nursery stock imported in the course of a year; and 
