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2. All nurseries must be equipped for fumigating or dipping. 
Both good, if I were planting an apple orchard would prefer and want the trees 
dipped. For several years we have dipped our apple scions in soluble oil before 
grafting with good results. 
6. On receiving and filing our signed duplicate certificate of inspection, giving us the 
right to ship nursery stock to any state where we conform to their laws, what 
more should be necessary? 
There is just one point I want you gentlemen to. seriously consider when your in¬ 
spector visits the various nurseries in their respective states. Provide him with a 
blank report to file with all state officials giving condition of stock, if any cutback 
seedling peaches or nut trees, seedlings in yearling blocks of trees. In this way each 
state would have a report of all nurseries and a little watchful waiting I believe would 
clear up what is said to be some bad nursery practices. 
10. The group of citrus states will have their separate regulations in addition to the 
uniform law. 
13. License Fees. 
Works hardship on all nurseries having sometimes only one order to a state. Puts 
the little fellow out of business. We have quite a lot of requests for catalogues from 
states adjoining the South Atlantic group, but on account of the laws all we can do is 
to write them a letter and tell them on account of prevailing state laws, we can’t 
ship to their state. The nursery interests will help you get more revenue from other 
sources as outlined in article No. 14. 
Numbered Tags 
While sent here by the entire Southern Association it is the retail nurserymen who 
are specially interested. For the wholesale nurserymen whose shipments consist of 
bulk cars and several boxes for each individual order, numbered tags have no worry. 
It is humiliating and rather embarrassing to be brutally frank in regard to a group 
of nurserymen in one of our southern states, which is the cause of laws in the states 
of South Carolina and Mississippi that a numbered tag shall be on each package, box 
or bale and copy of order filed in few days with the state officials. Now if this law is 
necessary in the states of South Carolina and Mississippi, why isn’t it necessary in all 
states? 
Returning to the states of South Carolina and Mississippi—there is only one nurs¬ 
ery in South Carolina and I don’t know of any in Mississippi doing a retail business. 
Most certainly the officials in charge should protect the people, when practically all 
trees come from other states. The only way of knowing in what districts certain 
nurserymen are working is by the copy of each order required on day of shipment. 
Now, gentlemen, please don’t get the impression that I am arguing against your 
laws, for I approve of all but one of them. I will try to show you why the Southern 
Nurserymen belonging to the Southern Association do not like numbered tags. 
I will take my firm and endeavor to show our methods of filling an order. Our 
orders come in during the summer before we have a certificate and are tagged as fol¬ 
lows: All fruit trees on one tag that goes to that department. If shrubs are ordered 
the same number is used but different tag. Different departments handle the grape, 
roses and strawberries, and are shipped from one of our branch nurseries eighty miles 
away. Pecans are tagged separately and shipped direct from Florida. We usually 
ship several thousand orders and have only 30 days to do the work. We were forced 
to put on extra help to take care of the tag end of the business. Along would come a 
countermand, and perhaps the customer had purchased only nut trees and his number 
was in Florida, or if only roses and berries, at our branch nursery. Quite a lot of red 
tape and very costly in time during the fall shipping season. 
