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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN. 
STATE LEGISLATION. 
Washington Convention Calls upon Every 
State to Pass San Jose Scale Laws 
Operating against the Nurserymen. 
At the national convention of horticulturists and entomolo¬ 
gists at Washington on March 5th and 6th the committee on 
legislation recommended the following propositions to be em¬ 
bodied in state legislation as against the introduction or 
spread of dangerously injurious insect or plant diseases : 
ist, That each state should provide for the proper inspection 
of nurseries and other premises for the detection of the pres¬ 
ence of the San Jose scale, or other dangerously injurious in¬ 
sects or plant diseases. 
2d. That each state should provide for the proper and 
timely application of the most approved remedial or preven¬ 
tive treatment when found necessary. 
3d. That should a package of nursery stock, etc., be shipped 
into a state contrary to law, i. e., without proper inspection 
certificates attached, it ought to be so handled as to receive 
proper inspection and not be destroyed unless condemned by 
proper and competent authority. 
4th. That each state should co-operate in securing the pas¬ 
sage and enforcement of a national law, providing against the 
introduction and dissemination of San Jose scale and other 
dangerously injurious insects and plant diseases by means of 
imports or through inter-state commerce. 
The chairman of the committee on legislation stated that it 
appeared hardly possible to agree upon the exact verbiage of a 
bill to be recommended to the several states, but that the 
propositions reported embraced the essentials of fair and re¬ 
ciprocal state enactments. That the propositions as to na¬ 
tional legislation embraced two distinct ideas, first to provide 
against importation into this country of dangerous pests and 
second, to prevent their dissemination from state to state 
through the medium of inter-state commerce. Also that this 
latter feature of the proposed congressional enactment was 
framed in a very liberal spirit so as to permit each state to 
wholly deal with the question if it would, or even the individ¬ 
ual, firm or corporation might meet the requirements, by em¬ 
ploying their own expert. It was felt that nothing less should 
be required than that this whole subject, however the work 
may be performed, should be placed under government control 
so as to insure equal and uniform enforcement of its provis¬ 
ions. 
The committee report was carefully considered by the con¬ 
vention and unanimously adopted with some light recommend¬ 
ations which have been incorporated in the copy as it appears 
in this issue. 
The convention was permanently organized and provided an 
executive committee empowered to act for it as will appear 
from the full proceedings shortly to be published Further, it 
was voted that membership fee should be fixed at one dollar 
and that the funds received from this source should be used by 
the executive committee for printing and further promoting 
legislation as recommended by it. 
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS. 
The U. S. treasury department announces the following 
statistics regarding exports and imports of nursery stock dur¬ 
ing i8g6 : 
The value of plants, trees and shrubs exported was $i 33 , 735 > 
the customs districts forwarding the greatest quantities and 
the values sent from each being : Bangor, Me, $3,023 ; 
Boston and Charlestown, Mass,, $5,035 ; Newport News, Va.; 
$860 ; New York, ^42,446 ; Passamaquoddy, Me., 688 ; Brazos 
de Santiago, Tex., $615 ; Paso del Norte, Tex., ^2,106 ; 
Saluria, Tex., $1,107 > Puget Sound, Wash., $1,692 ; Buffalo 
Creek, N. Y., $4,118 ; Cape Vincent, N Y., $502 ; Champlain, 
N. Y., $4,721 ; Detroit. Mich., $4,678 ; Niagara, N. Y., $50,857; 
North and South Dskota, $1,839 ; Oswegatchie, N. Y., $1,053; 
Vermont, $7,196. 
The countries to which the largest supplies were sent were : 
Germany, $10,463 ; Netherlands, $566 ; United Kingdom of 
Great Britain, $12,712 ; Dominion of Canada,—Nova Scotia, 
New Brunswick, etc., $8,577 ; Quebec, Ontario, etc., $75,199 ; 
British Columbia, $1,806 ; Guatemala, $4,519 ; Mexico, $7,686 ; 
British West Indies, $1,148 ; Hayti, $1,934 ; Santa Domingo, 
$2,335 ; Puerto Rico, $1,970 - Argentina, $965 ; Uruguay, $500. 
The total value of plants, trees, shrubs and vines, known as 
nursery stock, dutiable, imported, was$265,854. Of this, the 
following customs districts receiving the largest values were : 
Baltimore, Md., $471 ; Boston and Charlestown, Mass., $11,561; 
Georgetown, D. C., $725 ; New York, N Y., $215,318; Phila¬ 
delphia, Pa., $20,611; San Francisco, Cal., $1,489; Buffalo 
Creek, N. Y., $926 ; Chicago, III, $6,020 ; Cuyahoga, Ohio, 
$972 ; Detroit, Mich., $399 ; Genesee, N. Y., $926 ; Milwaukee, 
Wis., $659; Minneapolis, Minn.,$509; Niagara, N. Y., $1,353; 
Cincinnati, Ohio, $1,738 ; Indianapolis, Ind., $976. 
The countries sending us the largest values were : Belgium, 
$131,768 ; France, $9,046 ; Germany, $58,877 ; Netherlands, 
$27,684 ; United Kingdom of Great Britain, $27,164 ; Quebec, 
Ontario, etc., $1,480; Mexico, $1,850; British West Indies, 
$1,886 ; Brazil, $427 ; Colombia, $1,553 ; Japan, $3,006. 
The total values of plants and flowers imported, duty free, 
was $689,453. 
Of this the districts receiving the largest supplies were : 
Boston and Charlestown, Mass., $22,869 ; New York., 
$508,761; Philadelphia, Pa., $48,204; St. Augustine, Fla., 
$2,397 ; San Francisco, Cal, $6,257 Buffalo Creek, N. Y., 
$4,970; Chicago, III, $16,454; Cuahoga, Ohio, $18,092; 
Detroit, Mich., $5,847 ; Genesee, N. Y., $14,853 ; Huron, 
Mich., $6,544 ; Milwaukee, Wis., $6,768’; Minnesota, Minn., 
$549 ; Niagara, N. Y., $7,239; Vermont, $2,118; Albany, N. 
Y., $913 ; Cincinnati, Ohio, $4,826; Columbus, Ohio, $1,372 ; 
Indianapolis, Ind., $5,291 ; Louisville, Ky., $614 ; Pittsburgh, 
$ 5^5 ; St. Louis, Mo., $588 ; Springfield, Mass., $295. 
The countries from which the largest quantities were im¬ 
ported were: Austria-Hungary, $2,435 ; Belgium, $11,263; 
France, $169,519 ; Germany, $18,806 ; Italy, $3,466 ; Nether¬ 
lands, $279,678 ; United Kingdom of Great Britain, $40,115 ; 
Bermuda, $105,682 ; Quebec, Ontario, etc., $22,644 I Mexico, 
$1,426; British West Indies, $2,766; China, $5,215; Hong 
Kong, $953; Japan, $19,898; Hawaiian Islands, $1,129; 
British Africa, $3,580. 
