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The National Nurse 
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FOR GROWERS AND DEALERS IN NURSERY STOuK. 
Copyright, 1898 by the National Nurseryman Publishing Co, 
VOL. VI. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., FEBRUARY, 1898. 
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No. 1. 
BILL IIS CONGRESS. 
Joint Committee of Nurserymen, Entomologists and Horticul¬ 
turists Agrees Upon a Measure to Regulate Importation of 
Stock and Shipment Between States—Before the House. 
A bill for the regulation of the shipment of nursery stock 
and fruit into this country, and the shipment of nursery stock 
between the states, has been introduced in the House of Rep¬ 
resentatives at Washington, and in all probability will become 
a law. 
On January 18 the following gentlemen met by appoint¬ 
ment in Washington : C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la. ; Silas 
Wilson, Atlantic, la. ; N. H. Albaugh, Tadmor, O., and 
Irving Rouse, Rochester, N Y., comprising the committee on 
legislation of the American Association of Nurserymen ; Pro¬ 
fessor William B. Alwood, state entomologist of Virginia; 
Professor W. G. Johnson, state entomologist of Maryland ; 
E. M. Wardall, Los Angeles, Cal., of the State Board of Horti¬ 
culture. The object of the meeting was the drafting of a bill, 
upon which all could agree, for the regulation of the San Jose 
scale. After some discussion the bill drafted and approved 
by the American Association of Nurserymen wss taken as a 
basis for operation. In a comparatively short time an agree¬ 
ment was reached. Mr. Wardall was anxious that fruit 
shipped into this country should be subject to inspection, and 
sections 1 and 2 of the bill were worded so as to provide for 
such inspection. Sections 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of the bill drafted 
at St. Louis last June were not altered, except to provide in 
section 3 that the inspection .shall be made by a qualified 
entomologist. The bill is as follows : 
A BILL 
To provide rules and regulations governing the importation of trees, 
plants, shrubs, vines, grafts, cuttings, and buds, commonly known as 
nursery stock, and fruits into the United States; and rules and regula¬ 
tions for the inspection of trees, plants, shrubs, vines, grafts, cuttings, 
and buds, commonly known as nursery stock, grown within the United 
States, which become subjects of interstate commerce or exportation. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be unlawful for 
any transportation company, after October first, eighteen hundred and 
ninety-eight, to offer for entry at any part in the United States any 
trees, plants, shrubs, vines, grafts, cuttings, and buds, commonly 
known as nursery stock, unless accompanied by a certificate of inspec¬ 
tion by a government official of the government from which the 
exportation was made, which certificate shall be made in the manner 
and form prescribed by the secretary of agriculture, certifying that 
the contents have been examined and found apparently free from all 
insect and fungous diseases dangerously injurious to nursery stock. In 
case any nursery goods are offered for entry without said certificate, it 
shall be the duty of the collector to refuse to accept them for entry, 
and shall not allow them to pass within the jurisdiction of the United 
States. And after the aforesaid date, October first, eighteen hundred 
and ninety-eight, all nursery stock imported in accordance with the 
aforesaid regulations shall be free from all inspection, quarantine, or 
restrictions in interstate commerce. 
Sec. 2. That whenever it shall appear to the secretary of agriculture 
that any variety of fruit, grown outside of the United States or District 
of Columbia, is being, or is about to be, imported into the United 
States or the District of Columbia, and such variety of fruit is infested 
by any seriously injurious insect or disease, and which insect or disease 
is liable to become established in the United States and seriously affect 
any variety of fruit grown therein, he shall have authority to quaran¬ 
tine against any such variety of fruit and prevent the importation of 
the same until such time as it may appear to him that any such insect 
or disease has become exterminated in the country whence such fruit 
is being, or about to be, imported, when he may withdraw the quaran¬ 
tine; and this shall operate to relieve such fruit from further quaran¬ 
tine or restriction, so long as the condition of freedom from seriously 
injurious insect or disease shall continue. 
Sec. 3. That all trees, plants, shrubs, vines and buds, commonly 
known as nursery stock, grown within the United States, may become 
subjects of interstate commerce under the rules and regulations as 
hereinafter provided. The secretary of agriculture shall cause to be 
inspected by a qualified entomologist all trees, plants, shrubs, vines, 
and bpds, known as nursery stock, which are subjects of interstate 
commerce, and which are about to be transported from one state or 
territory or the District of Columbia into another state or territory or 
the District of Columbia. This examination shall be made prior to 
September first of each year, in the manner provided for and prescribed 
by the secretary of agriculture; and if such nursery stock is found to 
be apparently free from dangerously injurious insects or dieases, the 
certificate of the officer making such examination and finding shall be 
issued to the owner or ownei|| of such nursery stock, a copy of which 
certificate shall be attached to and accompany each carload, box, bale, 
or package, and when so attached and accompanying shall operate to 
release all such nursery stock from further inspection, quarantine, or 
restrictions in interstate commerce. 
Sec. 4. That it shall be unlawful for any person, persons, or corpo¬ 
ration to deliver to any other person, persons, or corporation, or to the 
postal service of the United States (except for scientific purposes or by 
permission of the secretary of agriculture), for transportation from one 
state or territory or the District of Columbia to any other state or terri¬ 
tory or the District of Columbia, or for exportation to any foreign 
country, any trees, plants, shrubs, vines, or other nursery stock which 
have not been examined in accordance with the provisions of section 
three of this act, or which on said examination have been declared by 
the inspector to be dangerously infested with injurious insects or dis¬ 
eases. Any person, persons, firm, or corporation who shall forge, 
counterfeit, or knowingly alter, deface, or destroy any certificate or 
copy thereof as provided for in this act and in the regulations of the 
secretary of agriculture, or shall in any way violate the, provisions of 
this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and <jm a conviction 
thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars 
nor less than two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment tot to exceed 
one year, or both, at the discretion of the court. 
Sec. 5. That the rules and regulations herein provided for shall be 
promulgated on or before the first .day of July of each yea". 
Sec. 6. That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, or so much 
thereof as rpay be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys 
in the treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, to 
carry into effect the provisions of this act. 
Sec. 7. That this act shall take effect on and after the thirtieth day 
of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. 
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